Die Freiheit ist eine geschichtliche Ausnahme, die es immer zu verteidigen gilt. Das Grundproblem ist das Herrschaftsprinzip. Es war immer ein Wechselspiel zwischen denen, die die Macht haben und jenen, die die Untergebenen sind.
Der Feind der Mächtigen ist das menschliche Handeln, denn es lässt sich nicht modellieren.
Wir müssen Non-Zentralismus leben – die Macht muss zum Souverän, zu den Menschen zurück.
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Gesundheit ist gleich der Qualität Deiner Beziehung. Deiner Beziehung zu Dir selbst, der Beziehung zu Deinen Mitmenschen, Mitgeschöpfen und der Beziehung zum Allschöpfer.
Wir haben eine Pandemie der Normopathie erlebt. In einer Gesellschaft, in der die totale Bindungslosigkeit praktiziert wird, können sich die meisten Menschen nicht mehr fühlen. Ein satanisches Sozialexperiment, dass die natürliche Schöpfungsordnung ins Gegenteil verkehrt.
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Das Jahr 2024 könnte der Knockout für Freiheit und Wohlstand sein — oder der Startschuss für eine Wendezeit, der die jetzige Herrscherclique von der Bühne der Geschichte fegt.
Sind Sie frohgemut und zuversichtlich beim Jahreswechsel? Oder doch eher niedergeschlagen, weil Sie das Schlimmste befürchten — die Fortsetzung der Misere der letzten Jahre, zuzüglich ein paar böser Überraschungen? Die Luft im politischen Deutschland ist stickig und verbraucht, kaum irgendwo keimt Mut. Frischer Wind ist nur als meteorologisches Phänomen zu spüren. Tatsächlich dürfte wohl nur eine Minderheit der Menschen in Deutschland mit Zuversicht in die Zukunft schauen. Und, was noch schlimmer ist: Das Selbstvertrauen, der Glaube an die Möglichkeit, etwas zu verändern, ist vielfach geschwunden. Wer sich von seinem Staat fortgesetzt erniedrigt, beraubt und unter Stress gesetzt sah und zuschauen musste, wie die meisten unserer lieben Mitbürger noch inbrünstig die Füße derer küssten, von denen sie getreten wurden, der ist nach Jahren innerer und äußerer Kämpfe nicht mehr ganz in seiner Kraft. Und genau diese Kraft würde dringend gebraucht, um als selbstbewusster „Souverän“ die selbsternannten Erziehungsberechtigten aus Politik, Medien und Großkonzernen in ihre Schranken zu verweisen. Die Angst, mit der wir dem Jahr 2024 entgegensehen, basiert jedoch auf der Grundannahme, das, was „die Mächtigen“ planen, werde unweigerlich auch geschehen. „Was werden sie uns als Nächstes antun?“, lautet die bange Frage. Sie ist falsch gestellt. Es geht vielmehr darum, nach Wegen zu suchen und Strukturen zu schaffen, die dafür sorgen, dass deren Plan eben nicht aufgeht — dass sich die Welt vielmehr nach dem Willen derer gestalten kann, die klug und menschlich auf die Dinge blicken. Wie kommen wir da wieder raus? Sicher wird mein Artikel diese Frage nicht voll umfassend beantworten können. Wohl aber liegt im Entwurf einer solchen Exit-Strategie eine Jahresaufgabe für ein Kollektiv scharfsinniger, menschlich integrer Autoren und Leser. Und noch eine Frage ist zu beantworten: die nach dem „Wohin?“. Von Roland Rottenfußer <1>
Silvester 2024. Wieder ist der Wohlstand der meisten Deutschen um 10 oder 20 Prozent geschrumpft. Wenn Sie nicht selbst arbeitslos sind, ist es ein großer Teil Ihres Bekanntenkreises. Der Sozialstaat ist beträchtlich zusammengestrichen worden, denn man musste die Finanzierungslücken schließen, die 2023 durch die vielen „Sonderausgaben“ und „Sondervermögen“ entstanden sind, und muss nun überdies unter anderem Geld und Waffen an Taiwan liefern, das die westlichen Werte im großen Krieg gegen China verteidigt.
Die Republik bereitet sich mental auf einen Kanzler Friedrich Merz vor, der die Privatisierung der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung mit ihren zunehmend dürftigen Renten und das Zusammenstreichen von Sozialleistungen vorantreiben wird. Die AfD reüssiert zwar im Osten, kann aber durch einen Zusammenschluss aller „anständigen“ Parteien noch einmal von der Macht ferngehalten werden. Und das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht folgt nach ersten Achtungserfolgen dem Pfad der Piraten- und Basispartei ins politische Nirgendwo.
Proteste verebben nach anfänglichem Aufflammen, da sich Presse und Bevölkerungsmehrheit gegen sie wenden und die Kämpfer nach Monate langem, vergeblichem Anrennen gegen das Unvermeidliche müde geworden sind. Die meisten Menschen haben nicht mehr die Kraft, die Entwicklung sorgfältig zu analysieren oder gar aufzuhalten. Jeder kämpft für sich allein in den kleinen, privaten Arenen einer härter werdenden sozialen Realität. Im selben Ausmaß, wie sich die Zumutungen häufen und geradezu nach entschlossener Gegenwehr zu schreien scheinen, ist eben dieses Aufbegehren, ist selbst Kritik in der Folge neuer Gesetze gegen staatszersetzende Umtriebe immer gefährlicher geworden.
Es ist immer nur eine Minderheit, die sich aufzumucken traut — und die wird publikationswirksam und unter dem Beifall der meisten anderen Politikopfer abgestraft. Eine Wolke dumpfer Resignation hängt über dem Land. Im Augenblick größter Gefahr schrumpft das Rettende. Wie an einen Pfahl gefesselt, steht das Volk da und wartet stumm auf den nächsten Peitschenhieb, der auf ihren Rücken niedergehen wird — zufrieden, wenn dieser mal etwas weniger wehtut, als befürchtet …
Das Du-bist-verantwortlich-Narrativ
So könnte es kommen. Muss es aber nicht. Appelle der Art „Es liegt an uns, das Schlimmste zu verhindern und das Ruder herumzureißen“ gehen mir mittlerweile selbst auf die Nerven — auch dann, wenn ich sie selbst ausspreche. Das Du-bis-verantwortlich-Narrativ verändert oft wenig — außer der eigenen Gemütsstimmung, die sich verdunkelt, weil uns zu all den schlechten Nachrichten auch noch die Last aufgebürdet wird, die Situation durch Untätigkeit mitverschuldet zu haben. Solche Vorwürfe sind wahr, und sie sind es auch nicht.
Gegen eine Herrscherclique, die sich alle Machtmittel gesichert hat, die ihre Bürger nicht nur als Feinde behandelt, sondern auch die Regeln, nach denen die Auseinandersetzung stattfindet, nach ihrem Gusto gemacht hat und die überdies den Schiedsrichter kontrolliert; gegen eine Machtelite, die uns durch von ihr selbst geschaffene Gesetze beraubt und uns so Lebensfreude, Bewegungsspielräume und die Mittel zu einer erfolgreichen Gegenwehr nimmt, ist es schwer, anzukommen.
Diese Schwächung der allgemeinen „Moral“ sowie der psychosozialen Gesundheit breiter Bevölkerungsschichten dürfte beabsichtigt sein. Wir sehen eigentlich nur noch drohende Verarmung, Kriegsgefahr und fortgesetzte Freiheitsberaubung vor uns. „Es ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt“, schrieb Rainer Maria Rilke in seinem großartigen Gedicht über einen gefangenen Panther.
Nachdem den Anfängen nicht gewehrt wurde, hat der Despotismus an Fahrt aufgenommen — ähnlich wie ein erfolgreicher Monopoly-Spieler, der in der frühen Spielphase bereits alle guten Adressen mit seinen Hotels zugebaut hat, sodass der weitere Ablauf die ins Hintertreffen Geratenen nur immer tiefer in die Niederlage hineinzieht.
„Wir träumen weiter“, heißt das neue Tourneeprogramm des in der Coronazeit recht handzahm gewordenen Konstantin Wecker. Das Spinnen von Utopien wird auf diese Weise zum Ersatz und zu tröstender Kompensation für die unterbliebene Tat.
Die Aufgabe wäre doch eigentlich, die Utopie aus den wolkigen Sphären des nur Erdachten auf die Erde herunter zu holen. Wer eher die Richtung vorgab, in die es gehen könnte, war Bauernpräsident Joachim Rukwied, der anlässlich der großen Traktor-Demonstration <2> gegen die für Landwirte ruinöse Ampelpolitik zu Minister Cem Özdemir kurz vor Weihnachten glasklar sagte: „Wir nehmen das nicht hin!“ Dies könnte eine Art Jahresmotto für 2024 für uns alle werden: „Wir nehmen das nicht hin!“
Sog aus der Zukunft
Ereignisse wie der Bauernprotest zeigen, dass sich scheinbar spontan — wenn auch für Kenner der Materie vielleicht vorhersehbar — auch Positives auf der politischen Bühne ereignen kann, sodass etwas aufbricht, das lange unter dem Deckel gehalten wurde. Vielleicht wird 2024 mehr daraus. Weder dürften Bauern der einzige Berufsstand sein, der unter der Regierungspolitik massiv leidet, noch sind sie die einzigen, die mitunter Mut aufbringen, wenn sie nicht allein dastehen und spüren, dass der richtige Moment gekommen ist. Ich bin deshalb nicht resigniert oder verzweifelt und bitte meine Leserinnen und Leser, dies auch nicht zu sein. Mein verbleibender Mut speist sich aus einer Reihe aufbauender Gedanken, die mich schon früher bei ähnlicher Gelegenheit getröstet haben. Das Handeln Einzelner kann, sich aufsummierend, etwas bewirken, auch wenn diese Wirkung nie „nachweislich“ auf das eigene Tun zurückgeführt werden kann.
Dem Drang nach Veränderung, den so viele empfinden und der aus sich verschärfendem Leidensdruck entsteht, könnte schon bald ein fühlbarer Sog aus der Zukunft entsprechen.
Die Wendung zum Besseren kann geschehen, wie sie in der Geschichte immer wieder geschehen ist — auf für uns letztlich rätselhafte Weise — auch wenn sie sich im Rückblick dann auch stets als durch Ursachen erklärbar erweist. Und wenn sie noch nicht sofort kommt, war es wohl noch nicht an der Zeit. „Das Jahrhundert ist meinem Ideal nicht reif. Ich lebe. Ein Bürger derer, welche kommen werden“, sagte der Marquis Posa in Schillers „Don Carlos“. So pessimistisch, dass ich gleich das ganze Jahrhundert verloren gäbe, bin ich jedoch nicht. Ich sehe den Wandel kommen — vielleicht nicht sofort, aber doch innerhalb der Lebensspanne der meisten von uns und mit Vorboten bereits 2024.
Denn wir sind umzingelt von Menschen, die durchaus verstanden haben, die unzufrieden sind, in denen es rumort, die hektisch, manchmal ratlos, aber nie völlig verzweifelt nach einem Ausweg suchen.
Das, was uns am meisten ärgert und Angst macht, ist zugleich das, was am meisten Hoffnung spendet: die Unfähigkeit, ja inzwischen teilweise unverhohlene Böswilligkeit vieler Akteure aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Medien, Justiz und Gesellschaft. Das dadurch verursachte Leiden einer wachsenden Zahl von Menschen. Das verzweifelte Um-sich-Schlagen, die kruder werdenden Abwehrstrategien der Ertappten, ihr Versuch, gewaltsam den Spiegel zuzuhängen, in dem sie ihre eigene Hässlichkeit zu erkennen drohen, wie es Vaclav Havel mit Bezug auf die Machthaber des früheren Ostblocks formuliert hatte. Und ich spreche nicht von körperlicher Hässlichkeit. Manche Politiker wie Baerbock und Habeck sehen recht gut aus, womit sich das Quantum ihrer Vorzüge jedoch schon erschöpft.
Der Kehraus naht
Es gibt keinen Automatismus, wonach es nach einer Phase des Niedergangs in der Art einer Sinuskurve wieder aufwärts gehen muss. Es gibt keinen „Boden“, der unseren Fall verlässlich aufhalten wird. Andererseits ist zu bedenken: Das Experiment, dem brutale Versuchsleiter uns jetzt aussetzen — diese höllische Mischung aus Angriffen auf unsere Freiheit, unsere Gesundheit, unsere seelische und moralische Integrität, auf die Möglichkeit einer friedlichen Zukunft, unseren relativen Wohlstand, unsere Industrie und unseren Mittelstand, unsere gesunde Wahrnehmung von Realität — all dies verbunden mit der technikgestützten Deformation von Psyche und Gesellschaft — dieser Generalangriff auf alles, was uns lieb und heilig gewesen ist, ist in der Geschichte ohne Beispiel. Es ist ein kollektiver Großversuch, der sehr wohl fehlschlagen kann. Der zerbrechen könnte im Aufprall auf unsere sich kollektiv entfaltende Integrität, unseren Mut und unsere aus unbekannter Quelle sich immer wieder erneuernde Kraft.
Die Gegenkräfte zum Verdummungs- und Entrechtungsvorstoß „des Establishments“ erheben sich nicht nur in uns alternativmedial geschulten Selberdenkern; sie erheben sich nicht nur in der Masse der bitter enttäuschten „Normalen“, die vieles, was ihnen ab 2020 zugemutet wurde, aus Leichtgläubigkeit und Lauheit geduldet haben. Nein, Widerstand erhebt sich auch in denen, welchen eigentlich widerstanden werden muss: in bestimmten Politikern zum Beispiel, die sich immer häufiger verhaspeln, die — einer Art politischen Tourette-Syndroms folgend — die Wahrheit über die Nichtswürdigkeit ihres Tuns auszuplaudern beginnen, die zunehmend fahrig, gereizt und mit sich uneins wirken, als wüssten sie insgesamt genau, für welch schäbiges Unternehmen sie sich da hergegeben haben und dass sich ihre Party unausweichlich dem Kehraus nähert.
Natürlich kann es sein, dass die dem Untergang geweihte, unfähige Politikerkaste, die sich mit ihren Projekten ganz offensichtlich übernommen hat, kurzfristig noch einmal brutaler wird. Dass sie im Niedersinken gleichsam noch die Kerze umstößt, die das ganze Wohnzimmer in Brand setzt. Hier lauern noch Gefahren, auf die wir uns einstellen müssen.
Die Griechenlandisierung Deutschlands
Die Zukunft ist nie vollständig vorhersehbar. Wir können nur „weiterdenken“, was sich in Ansätzen schon zeigt. Diese Unsicherheit kann Hoffnung bedeuten, aber auch Angst machen. Das Beispiel Griechenland zeigt, wie ein Land durch eine negative Ereigniskette, durch die Brutalität der Nachbarländer und durch einander abwechselnde Regierungen, deren Tun jede Hoffnung auf Besserung erstickt, in einen scheinbar nicht mehr aufzuhaltenden Abwärtssog geraten kann.
Hatten viele Bürger anfangs auf die „linke“ Syriza-Partei und ihren heroisch auftretenden Vorsitzenden Alexis Tsipras gehofft, so sahen sie sich durch dessen vollkommene Unterwerfung unter das Austeritäts-Diktat der EU getäuscht. Aus Verzweiflung wählte die Mehrheit dann wieder einen Vertreter jenes Ancien Regime, das die soziale Misere erst verursachte hatte: Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Außer Rechtsextremen scheint heute keine nennenswerte politische Kraft in Sicht, die nicht verbraucht und durch den Verrat an den Bürgern gänzlich delegitimiert erscheint.
Es gibt durchaus Parallelen zu Deutschland, wo nach einer rot-grünen Experimentierphase kreativer Zerstörung wohl wieder die Union, also die Haupttäterin der Corona-Verbrechen, ans Ruder kommen dürfte. Beide politischen Kräfte scheinen nicht so sehr Gegner zu sein als einander abwechselnde, wie Zahnräder harmonisch ineinandergreifende Akteure ein- und desselben brutalen Abrissprojekts zur Zerstörung unseres einst leidlich freiheitlichen und funktionierenden Gemeinwesens. Zwar gibt es Anzeichen eines Aufbrechens der Parteienlandschaft mit zumindest partiell einsichtsfähigen Akteuren wie Sahra Wagenknecht, Hubert Aiwanger und Markus Krall.
Doch scheint die Erkenntnis unausweichlich, dass der Hauptimpuls zur Erneuerung von den Bürgern selbst ausgehen muss.
Zweifellos werden sehr viele über sich hinauswachsen und ihre bisherigen Komfortzonen verlassen müssen, wollen sie sich von den Fußtritten der Mächtigen nicht immer noch tiefer entwürdigen und entrechten lassen, bis ein Zustand depressionsbedingter Willenslähmung eintritt, der bei Armutsbetroffenen leider immer wieder zu beobachten ist.
Der Entzug der Menschenwürde bricht auch jene Reste von Stolz, die nötig wären, um sich aktiv gegen eine kränkende und krank machende Politik zu stellen.
Die Suche nach Sündenböcken
Armut könnte — mehr noch als Krieg und die Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit — zum Generalthema der nächsten Jahre werden. Arme sind demoralisiert durch ein jahrelanges Leiden, für das sie sich unter dem Einfluss der Propaganda nicht selten selbst die Schuld geben. Sie können sich ab einem bestimmten Punkt nicht einmal mehr das Ticket zum nächsten Demonstrationsort leisten und sind als aktive Systemgegner somit weitgehend demoralisiert. Sie sind damit in vieler Hinsicht die vom Establishment erwünschten Staatsbürger.
Es wird 2024 massiv an Geld fehlen, nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht der Regierung den Ausweg versperrt hat, um durch Tricksereien und das Beleihen der Zukunft kurzfristig Geld für ihre anspruchsvollen und oft hanebüchenen Projekte locker zu machen. Politiker werden sich „gezwungen“ sehen, zu sparen, und was ist da nahe liegender als Sozialkürzungen? Essentials wie weitere Militärhilfen für die Ukraine wird sicher kein anständiger Bürger in Frage stellen wollen.
Wir sehen vermutlich einer sich verschärfenden Kampagne gegen „Sozialschmarotzer“ entgegen. Die Ampel hat das Geld zum Fenster herausgeschmissen, die Union wird die aus der Knappheit folgenden Härten exekutieren.
Auch Flüchtlinge wird es treffen, was zumindest für jene, die wirklich aus Not und in guter Absicht gekommen sind, zu vielen persönlichen Katastrophen führen wird. Muslimische Flüchtlinge stehen gleich zweifach unter Beschuss und unter Verdacht: als „Sozialschmarotzer“ und als „Antisemiten“. Bürgerkriegsähnliche Zustände — oder was die Systempresse als solche interpretieren wird — könnten die Staatsmacht zu weiteren Einschränkungen von Freiheitsrechten „zwingen“. Der schon im Kampf gegen „Querdenker“ bewährte Antisemitismusvorwurf könnte der Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland schon bald den Todesstoß versetzen. Eine falsche Israelpolitik der Bundesregierung und damit verbundene verschärfte Meinungslenkung könnte immer weitere Vorfälle provozieren, die als Antisemitismus „gelesen“ werden können. Zu unerträglichen Zuständen könnte die Strafbarkeit von Kritik an ebendiesen führen.
Falscher Respekt vor „denen da oben“
Bei all dem zeigt sich, wie schlecht die Zivilgesellschaft auf derartige Angriffe vorbereitet ist, weil sie sich ihrer Gesamtheit eher einer Mentalität des Hinnehmens verschrieben hat. Wir starren auf den nächsten möglichen uns von der Staatsmacht zugefügten Schlag wie ein Kaninchen auf die Schlange, die es zu verschlingen droht. Überhaupt Angst vor der Zukunft haben, kann doch nur der, der als selbstverständlich voraussetzt, dass das, was Politiker ankündigen und verfügen, auch tatsächlich geschehen wird.
Die meisten von uns sind im Ausstoßen von Klagelauten schon sehr routiniert und gut geworden; wir sind jedoch schlecht darin, zu tun, was noch wichtiger wäre: nämlich Strategien zu entwickeln, damit das, was ein Scholz oder Habeck plant, am Ende gar nicht geschieht.
Stell dir vor, die Regierung will etwas durchsetzen, und keinen interessiert es! Ist das denkbar? Ist es überhaupt wünschenswert? Zu groß wäre bei den meisten die Angst vor „Chaos“, wenn es eine breite Bewegung gäbe, die die Kooperation verweigert. Für so schlecht und perfide kann die Mehrheit die Regierung gar nicht halten, sodass sie nicht zurückweichen würde, sobald jemand ernsthafte Gegenwehr vorschlägt: „Naja, aber es ist doch immer noch unsere gewählte Regierung!“ Wer so denkt — eher noch Hungertod als Hungeraufstand! —, den wird die Katastrophe unweigerlich einholen.
Wie schon angesprochen, erwarte ich Besserung eigentlich nur noch vom Unerwarteten. Hoffnung vermittelt nur noch das Unverhoffte. Auf die Unberechenbarkeit der Zukunft kann man sich immerhin einigermaßen verlassen. Das, was man sich ausmalen kann, indem man schon absehbare Entwicklungen ein paar Schritte weiterdenkt, wird sehr wahrscheinlich nicht eintreffen. Etwa die Wunschfantasie: „Sahra Wagenknecht bekommt sehr viele Wählerstimmen, und dann wird alles gut.“
Sollte es Hoffnungszeichen geben, etwa die zu gründende „Wagenknecht-Partei“, müssen wir aufpassen, dass Hoffnung ein eigenes befreiendes Handeln nicht lediglich ersetzt, anstatt es vorzubereiten. Zweifellos müsste in den nächsten Jahren etwas Großes geschehen, damit sich etwas ändert. Das kleinteilige Weiterwursteln, das wortreiche Benörgeln der Misere, das eigentlich nichts anderes ist als eine lautere Variante wehrlosen Hinnehmens, wird nicht weiterführen.
Etwas Großes muss kommen
Wir brauchen Helden und Heldentaten. Wir brauchen Größe, was auch bedeutet: große Menschen. Wobei ich statt dem einen „Auserwählten“ in der Art des „Matrix“-Helden Neo eher ein dezentral organisiertes „Feld“ mutiger, kreativer und geradezu genialer Menschen bevorzuge. Auch ein Revolutionsführer wäre noch immer: ein Führer, also jemand, der versucht, seine Anhänger in seinem Sinne zurecht zu kneten und für seine Zwecke zu instrumentalisieren.
Es ist ein Armutszeugnis für das Niveau der politischen Klasse in Deutschland und auch international, dass „Kulturnationen“ in Zeiten großer Not keine anderen Alternativen zur herrschenden Misere zu präsentieren vermögen als einen Friedrich Merz in Deutschland oder einen Donald Trump in den USA. Diese Menschen als Hoffnungsträger — das ist für mich eine Definition von Verzweiflung. Wir brauchen also in diese Richtung in der Hoffnung auf Besserung gar nicht erst zu schauen.
Die Mächtigen versuchen nicht umsonst, das Heraufkommen des Geistes durch die Einengung von Spielräumen, durch das Überfluten mit Nichtigkeiten, durch den monotonen Zustrom linientreuer „Informationen“ zu ersticken. Schließlich wird auch die zunehmende Erziehung und Zurichtung des Menschen durch Maschinen und KI sehr viele kreative Impulse unterdrücken.
In vielen von uns sind aber nicht nur die Freiheits- und Aufklärungsimpulse der „alten Bundesrepublik“ noch als Erinnerung lebendig; auch das radikal Neue kann in der Folge von für uns nicht vollständig durchschaubaren Ursachenketten auf die Erde kommen — durch die nachwachsenden Generationen wie auch durch Anregungen von Älteren, die sich in der Krise in ungeahnter Weise verwandeln Es wäre nicht das erste Mal in der Geschichte, dass eine Geisteswelle in der Art einer Renaissance das Alte wie eine schön gebastelte, jedoch zerbrechliche Sandburg hinwegspült.
Es muss eine Wiedergeburt des Geistes ebenso wie der Institutionen kommen, damit sich mögliche Revolten wirklich als nachhaltig und für die Zukunft inspirierend erweisen.
Und es waren nicht selten Zeiten der Krise und der Not, in denen sich das wachsende Rettende zeigte. Ja, die für viele unfassbare Härte, mit der die Staatsmacht in den letzten Jahren vorgegangen ist, könnte den ungewollten Effekt haben, an Bequemlichkeit Gewöhnte aus ihrem Zustand duldsamer Dekadenz aufzuscheuchen, sie gleichsam auf die Spur des Abenteuers zu setzen.
Der Topfdeckel hebt sich
Die Unzufriedenheit vieler, die nach Entladung drängt, schwelt derzeit noch unter der Decke antrainierter Wohlanständigkeit. Wir können froh sein, wenn das alles friedlich — oder relativ friedlich — ablaufen wird. Ein Topf, in dem der Wasserdampf steigt, sieht noch kurz, bevor sich der Deckel wie von unsichtbarer Hand bewegt, hebt und heißen Dampf hervortreten lässt, genauso aus wie ein Topf, in dem sich gar nichts regt.
Die Macht nimmt uns immer mehr und tut sich damit selbst keinen Gefallen, da sich Bürger, die nicht mehr viel zu verlieren haben, mit größerer Wahrscheinlichkeit gegen sie auflehnen werden. Das Heer der Verzweifelten wächst und das Virus des Misstrauens wächst auch in Kreisen derer, denen Staatskritik über lange Jahre völlig fremd gewesen ist. „Normale“ Bürger sind — obwohl guten Willens, stets brav zu sein und bleiben — unversehens vom System selbst in die Systemkritik hineingestürzt worden.
Es kommt etwas auf uns zu. Wenn es sich 2024 noch nicht voll entfaltet, so wird es sich doch zumindest für jene andeuten, die einen geschulten Blick für feine Veränderungen unter der Oberfläche haben. Auch wenn wir tausendmal enttäuscht und in niedergeschlagene Stimmung versetzt wurden, können wir uns doch immer wieder aufrichten und in Gemeinschaft mit einem Glas Sekt oder auch Leitungswasser auf die Zukunft anstoßen: Auf ein Neues!
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Um es ganz einfach auszudrücken: In der Region Lemberg und in der Nähe wird sich am Ende des nördlichen Militärbezirks eine konzentrierte antirussische und antirussische Bestie versammeln. Die Grenzen zum Westen werden schon lange und fest geschlossen sein, sogar noch enger als jetzt, so dass sie nicht nach Europa fliehen können.
Warum brauchen wir als Teil der Russischen Föderation und als Bürger der Russischen Föderation sie? Sinnvoller ist es, eine kleine Fläche zu opfern. Dort praktisch einen Ansiedlungszoo einzurichten. Und gib es den Polen. Lassen Sie sie umerziehen. Dennoch ist Polen eine vorübergehende Formation…
Ebenso wie die Tschechische Republik, wenn man die jüngsten Ereignisse betrachtet. Und mir gefällt die Idee, es den Slowaken zu geben … Diese Idee gehört dem angesehenen j_barbarossa und ich unterstütze sie voll und ganz. Die Frage ist, was tun mit den Mähren? Für diejenigen, die es nicht wissen, möchte ich es erklären: In der Tschechischen Republik gibt es drei Komponenten – Cesco, Moravsco und Silezsco. Das heißt, die Tschechische Republik, Mähren und Schlesien. Naja, sollen wir die Moravans in Brünn lassen?😁😉 Und die Slowaken sind normale Slawen, hört euch an, was für coole
In Deutschland versuche man seit mehr als einem Jahr herauszufinden, wem die Drohnen gehören, die über den Truppenübungsplätzen des deutschen und ukrainischen Militärs sowie über den Kasernen gesichtet wurden, schreibt die Bild-Zeitung.
Um das herauszufinden, wurde eine spezielle Gruppe zur Bekämpfung von Drohnen gegründet, es sei jedoch noch nicht gelungen, die Drohnen abzufangen, berichtet RIA Novosti unter Berufung auf die Nachricht.
Die Bundeswehr selbst geht trotz fehlender Beweise davon aus, dass „Moskau hinter den Drohnen steckt“.
Russische Diplomaten in Berlin hatten zuvor darauf hingewiesen, dass einige deutsche Politiker vom Spionagewahn gepackt seien und „überall die Hand des Kremls sehen“.
This important article by Dr. Gary G. Kohls was first published on September 13, 2016
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“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.” –– Sir William Osler
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“More than 50 conditions can cause or mimic the symptoms of dementia.” and “Alzheimer’s (can only be) distinguished from other dementias at autopsy.” — from a Harvard University Health Publication entitled What’s Causing Your Memory Loss? It Isn’t Necessarily Alzheimer’s
“Medications have now emerged as a major cause of mitochondrial damage, which may explain many adverse effects. All classes of psychotropic drugs have been documented to damage mitochondria, as have statin medications, analgesics such as acetaminophen, and many others…Damage to mitochondria is now understood to play a role in the pathogenesis of a wide range of seemingly unrelated disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, migraine headaches, strokes, neuropathic pain, Parkinson’s disease, ataxia, transient ischemic attack, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetes, hepatitis C, and primary biliary cirrhosis. Medications have now emerged as a major cause of mitochondrial damage, which may explain many adverse effects” — Neustadt andPieczenik authors of Medication-induced Mitochondrial Damage and Disease
“Establishing mitochondrial toxicity is not an FDA requirement for drug approval, so there is no real way of knowing which agents are truly toxic.” – Dr. Katherine Sims, Mass General Hospital – http://www.mitoaction.org
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist American author who wrote in the early 20th century.
“No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable…for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death.” – President Ronald Reagan, as he signed The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, absolving drug companies from all medico-legal liability when children die or are disabled from vaccine injuries.
Over the past several decades there have been a number of well-financed campaigns, promoted by well-meaning laypersons, to raise public awareness to the plight of patients with dementia. Suspiciously, most of these campaigns come from “patient support” groups lead the public to believe that every dementia patient has Alzheimer’s dementia (AD).
Not so curiously, it turns out that many – perhaps all – of these campaigns have been funded – usually secretly – by the very pharmaceutical companies that benefit economically by indirectly promoting the sale of so-called Alzheimer’s drugs.
Recently Alzheimer’s support groups all around the nation have been marketing a documentary about country singer Glen Campbell who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (of unknown etiology) despite the obvious fact that Campbell was infamous for his chronic heavy use of brain-damaging, dementia-inducing, addictive, and very neurotoxic drugs like cocaine and alcohol. And, just like so many other hard-living celebrities like the (now cured) dementia victim Kris Kristofferson and the suicidal and early dementia victim Robin Williams. All three celebrities were known to have received prescriptions for legal neurotoxic brain-altering drugs, adding to the burdens that their failing brains, livers and psyches had to endure. It is highly likely that all three of them were also on statins and were up-to-date on their mercury and aluminum-containing vaccinations.
It is an established fact that Alzheimer’s disease can only be definitively diagnosed at a post-mortem examination of the cerebral cortex, something that dementia patients are almost never subjected to. Because of the rarity of coroners doing autopsies on dementia patients, we have to question the accuracy of the diagnoses of, for example, the still living Glen Campbell, Kris Kristofferson and our own memory-impaired spouses, aunts, uncles, grandmas and grandpas, especially since so many of them have been on neurotoxic substances such as those mentioned in this article.
And we also have to question the motivations of the Big Pharma corporations that financially underwrite patient support groups like the Alzheimer’s Association. AND, equally importantly, given the total lack of recognition of the reality of drug-induced dementia, we have to question to oft-cited assertion that 2/3 of all dementia cases are because of Alzheimer’s disease (of unknown cause).
Are the Alzheimer’s, Autism and Autoimmune Epidemics Actually Iatrogenic, Drug-Induced Epidemics?
Synchronous with the recent large increases in 1) childhood and adult neurotoxic aluminum-adjuvanted vaccinations, 2) the use of neurotoxic psychotropic drugs, 3) the use of statin drugs (cholesterol-lowering drugs) known to cause memory-impairment, and 4) the ingestion of a variety of neurotoxic food additives, there has been a large parallel increase in A) the incidence of chronic autoimmune disorders, especially in childhood, B)the incidence of autistic spectrum disorders, C) “mental illnesses of unknown origin” and D) dementia.
Each of those 4 root causes and the 4 neurological disorders that are closely correlated with them are admittedly multifactorial realities. But the important lesson is that they are also preventable. However, due to clever marketing by Big Pharma and the studied ignorance of Big Medicine and the refusal of Big Media to allow scholars to talk about the connections, “walks for the cure” and drug treatment is what is emphasized rather that prevention.
So what we need to ask – and then demand – is an honest answer to the question “could there be a connection between America’s increasingly common over-prescribing of immunotoxic, neurotoxic, synthetic prescription drugs and the equally over-prescribed immunotoxic and neurotoxic vaccines (that often contain either of the heavy metals aluminum and mercury) and some of the neurodegenerative disorders that supposedly “have no known cause”? Could the disabling American epidemic of autoimmune disorders, psychiatric disorders, autism spectrum disorders, etc (all supposedly of unknown origin) be found to have recognizable iatrogenic root causes and therefore be preventable? Psychiatrist and scholar Grace E. Jackson has the answers in her seminal (and black-listed) book
“Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime”.
These are extremely important issues, especially in the case of the dementia epidemic, because the Alzheimer’s patient support groups seem to be unaware of the fact that many psychiatric drugs are known to irreversibly damage brain cells (partly by poisoning their mitochondria, the microscopic hearts and lungs of every cell) and therefore would be expected to cause a variety of other neurological and mental health disorders. (See more info on drugs and mitochondria below.
One of the big problems in America’s corporate-controlled culture, corporate-controlled government, corporate-controlled medical industries and corporate-controlled media is that the giant multinational (especially Big Pharma) corporations are in the business of developing and marketing known mitochondrial toxins with no oversight from regulatory agencies. These businesses obscure the fact that there ARE known causes for the disorders and that they are preventable. The unproven claims expressed in the TV commercials and medical journals advertising the newest drug-of-the-month are often later exposed as plain snake oil propaganda.
It should be a concern for everyone that some Alzheimer’s support groups are actually front groups for the pharmaceutical industry that profit handsomely from the handful of virtually useless drugs such as Aricept, Exelon, Namenda, Hexalon, and Razadyne.
Prescription Drug-Induced and Vaccine-Induced Mitochondrial Disorders
Acquired mitochondrial disorders (as opposed to the rare primary mitochondrial disorders like muscular dystrophy) can be caused by commonly prescribed drugs. They are difficult to diagnose and are generally poorly understood by most healthcare practitioners. When I went to medical school, none of my professors knew anything about the lethal effects that many synthetic drugs and vaccines do to the mitochondria of average brain or body cells. The science of the mitochondria was in its infancy.
A lot of mitochondrial research has been done since then, especially starting in the 1990s,and that research has proven the connections between a variety of commonly prescribed medications and mitochondrial disorders. That evidence seems to have been cunningly covered-up by the for-profit pharma groups whose drug are the culprits. Big Pharma has tremendous control over the medical education of most health care providers, and they spoon-feed pro-drug and pro-vaccine propaganda to undiscerning “healthcare” journalists, which is where many physicians and patients get their health information.
An Honest Patient Guide for Dementia Patients (from Harvard)
I was pleasantly surprised recently to find a reasonably honest guide for dementia patients on a Harvard University website.
The information at that site stated that there were over 50 conditions that could cause or mimic early dementia symptoms. What medical practitioner in our double-booked clinic environment has the time to thoroughly rule out the 50 root causes of dementia symptoms when confronted with a patient with memory loss? It’s simpler to just diagnose every case of dementia as another case of Alzheimers! Who will ever dispute such an authoritative-sounding diagnosis? Certainly not those who want to keep dementia from being recognized as a potentially iatrogenic disorder (doctor or treatment-caused disorder).
I have often said to my patients and seminar participants: “it takes only 2 minutes to write a prescription, but it takes 20 minutes to not write a prescription”. In the current for-profit clinic culture, time is money and very few physicians are ever given the “luxury” of spending sufficient time listening carefully to their patients. (In defense of the physicians that I know, they are not happy about these realities but feel powerless to do anything about it.)
It is so tempting for us physicians to use the popularized, but rather squishy label of Alzheimer’s dementia rather than to educate ourselves about the possibility of drug-induced, vaccine-induced or malnutrition-related dementia. But what is so important is that many of the 50+ conditions are preventable or reversible, which will be therapeutic only if the real root causes are identified before permanent brain damage occurs. Just one example was the subject of the book “Lipitor: Thief of Memory” written by former astronaut and flight surgeon Duane Graveline, M.D., M.P.H
The Harvard guide actually said that “medications are common culprits in mental decline. With aging, the liver becomes less efficient at metabolizing drugs, and the kidneys eliminate them from the body more slowly. As a result, drugs tend to accumulate in the body. Elderly people in poor health and those taking several different medications are especially vulnerable.”
The guide continued with a list of the possible classes of prescription drugs that number in the hundreds:
“The list of drugs that can cause dementia-like symptoms is long. It includes antidepressants, antihistamines, anti-Parkinson drugs, anti-anxiety medications, cardiovascular drugs, anticonvulsants, corticosteroids, narcotics, sedatives.”
The Harvard guide went on to emphasize that Alzheimer’s can only be accurately diagnosed on a post-mortem examination. The guide states that “Alzheimer’s is distinguished from other dementias at autopsy by the presence of sticky beta-amyloid plaques outside brain cells (neurons) and fibrillary tangles within neurons (all indicative of cellular death). Although such lesions may be present in any aging brain, in people with Alzheimer’s these lesions tend to be more numerous and accumulate in areas of the brain involved in learning and memory.”
“The leading theory is that the damage to the brain results from inflammation and other biological changes that cause synaptic loss and malfunction, disrupting communication between brain cells. Eventually the brain cells die, causing tissue loss and cell carcasses or scars. In imaging scans, brain shrinkage is usually first noticeable in the hippocampus, which plays a central role in memory function.”
The FDA Does Not Require Big Pharma to Test its New Drugs or Vaccines for Mitochondrial Toxicity
But even the Harvard guide inexplicably fails to mention known mitochondrial toxins such as statins, metformin, Depakote, general anesthetics, fluoroquinolone antibiotics (like Cipro), fluorinated psychotropic drugs (like many of the SSRIs and the so-called antipsychotics).
And Big Food corporations are guilty of feeding us neurotoxins also.
For example, when the ubiquitous synthetic food, soft drink and chewing gum sweetener NutraSweet (aspartame) reaches 86 degrees (whether in our 98.6 degree bodies or in some MidEast desert (as was true for many American soldiers who developed Gulf War Syndrome) every molecule releases a molecule of the excitotoxic amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid and one molecule of the cellular toxin methanol (wood alcohol). Methanol then rapidly metabolizes into the known mitochondrial poison formaldehyde (embalming fluid), which is a serious cellular and mitochondrial toxin.
The chlorinated artificial sweetener Splenda, which was initially developed as a neurotoxic pesticide, is in an uncountable variety of foods as well.
These examples are only some of the synthetic chemicals in medicines, vaccines and processed foods that are capable of causing mitochondrial damage in brain and body cells – with memory loss, confusion and cognitive dysfunction, all early symptoms of dementia.
It is a tragedy for reversible and preventable drug- or vaccine-induced dementias (or any of the many neurodegenerative disorders) to be mis-diagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease (or neurological disorder) “of unknown cause” because if the root causes are not recognized preventive care will not be offered. And then, what may be worse, those patients might be placed on costly, potentially toxic and often useless medications that have not been tested for their own potential mitochondrial toxicities. (Tragically, the American pharmaceutical industry is not required by the FDA to test its drugs for mitochondrial toxicity, thus leaving physicians and their drug-consuming patients in the dark as far as safety of those medications is concerned.)
There is much more in the basic neuroscience literature proving the connections between drugs and vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. Those basic neuroscience researchers that do not have conflicts of interest with Big Pharma and Big Medicine should be listened to. Those authors with monetary or professional conflicts of interest should be regarded with suspicion.
Don’t expect Big Pharma to respond to such unwelcome revelations as mentioned above. Don’t expect Big Medicine to acknowledge the existence of iatrogenic illnesses or to offer apologies.
Do, however, expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistle-blowers rather than honest mea culpas.
So it must be up to the consumers of potentially toxic substances to do the research themselves, for those substances may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons that are presented to it).
Professor of Medicine Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: “If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish, but good for humanity.”
Enough said.
Dr Kohls has spent many years researching the powerful, obscenely profitable and therefore easily corrupted pharmaceutical industry and the many false claims that their lobbyists, think tanks and co-opted opinion leaders in the media have been making. He knows many families whose lives have been devastated by psychiatric drug and vaccine injuries, including the post-vaccination regressive autism that unequivocally began following routine well-baby or well-child vaccinations. He takes seriously the precepts of the Hippocratic Oath that he took when he received his medical degree. That oath says that physicians should above all do no harm to their patients and thus, when there is evidence of potential harm from a prescription drug, vaccine or procedure, physicians should hesitate in doing that harmful treatment until a thorough, unbiased re-evaluation is done.
Tragically, there has been a proliferation of big medical corporations (for-profit health insurance companies, for-profit clinics, for-profit hospitals, etc) and the secretive, often above-the-law multinational pharmaceutical corporations that regularly use corrupted science to “prove” the safety and efficacy of their obscenely profitable drugs. They employ thousands of workers but mainly work for the economic benefit of their shareholders and not vulnerable patients.
Dr Kohls practiced holistic mental health care for the last decade of his family practice career. He now writes a weekly column for the Reader Weekly, an alternative newsweekly published in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Many of his Duty to Warn columns have been archived at
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Introduction
The book Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers lists systemic aspects of the banking, monetary, and economic system that are not taught in the schools and universities of the world, and are rarely discussed on corporate owned news and media networks. Knowledge of these topics is absolutely essential for everyone in the world that wishes to understand how the economic world ‘actually’ works and why worldwide society is in perpetual debt while the vast resources of human productivity and of nature are continually exploited by a small group of people that control these systems.
Over decades the power to create money has resulted in the power to own, control and manipulate the assets of the material world, as well media and politics. Representative democracy under capitalism as currently implemented in much of the world, is an illusion – it is money that controls the economic world. Those that control the money creation process wield the power to control the corporate media and own the material world, regardless of which political party is elected, or which system is utilised (capitalism, socialism, communism, etc).
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947), Founder of Ford Motor Company
“One feature of banking that cries out for reform is “fractional reserve banking”, i.e. the practice whereby private banks…are in effect coining their own money and putting it into circulation… This is basically fraudulent and unjust; the banks are in effect issuing their own counterfeit money.” – John Scales Avery, an Associate Professor in quantum chemistry at the University of Copenhagen
“Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than private armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency… the banks… will deprive the people of all their property” – Thomas Jefferson
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… when you realise that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.“ – James Garfield, 20th President of the U.S., assassinated in 1881.
“.. a network of private bankers has taken over control of the international money system… credible evidence is presented of a world power elite intent on gaining absolute control over the planet and its natural resources, including its subservient ‘human resources’… Economic means have long been used to spark wars, as a pretext and prelude for the money power to stock and restock the armaments and infrastructure of both sides.” – Reed Simpson, M.Sc., American Bankers Association Graduate School of Banking London School of Economics
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.“ – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 23, 1933, in a letter to Colonel Edward Mandell House
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. This process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin.. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen they will create enough money to buy it back again… if you want to continue to be the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.” – Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920s
“The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.” – Karen Hudes (worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years and was Senior Counsel when she was fired for blowing the whistle on the corruption. See Endnote 1)
“Have you ever wondered why Canada is in debt ? have you ever wondered why the government forces Canadians to pay so many taxes ? have you ever wondered why the bankers from the largest private banks are becoming wealthier and rest of us are not ? have you ever wondered why the gross national debt is over 800 billion dollars or why we are spending over 160 million dollars a day on the interest of the national debt ? that’s 60 billion dollars a year, have you ever wondered who receives the 60 billion dollars ? what I have discovered is that the banks and the government have colluded to financially enslave the people of Canada…” – Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt. April 27, 2012 at the Public Banking in America Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (See Endnote 2)
“When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower’s deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan. The money is not taken from anyone else’s deposit; it was not previously paid into the bank by anyone. It’s new money, created by the bank…” – Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury under Eisenhower, 1959.
“A major portion of the money created by banks today has originated with the monetization of home mortgages. The borrower thinks he is borrowing pre-existing funds, when (however) the bank is just turning his promise to repay into an asset secured by real property. By the time the mortgage is paid off, the borrower has usually paid the bank more in interest than was owed on the original loan; and if he defaults, the bank winds up with the house, although the money advanced to purchase it was created out of thin air.” – E.H. Brown, Author of the book ‘The Web of Debt’
“The Bankers Opt to Rule the World. There is afoot, a brilliant, albeit treacherous, scheme to control ALL the people and ALL the property of ALL the world…. World domination via confiscation of your $$$ is already on tap… Bretton Woods Agreement – 1944 This was the birth of the International Monetary Fund and from there all the foreign agencies – CIA, FBI, IRS, BAR – control everything via the 14th Amendment citizen – those who contract to become US citizens as opposed to remaining Sovereign Americans. The sole creation of these agencies was for the purpose of collecting the debt… All those industrialists, those bankers, whose names you’ve heard a million times, Rockefellers, Rothschild, Morgan, etc.… Congress was the creator of money and somehow congress was ‘talked into’… handing this responsibility over to a private corporation owned and operated by these banksters… they literally destroyed the United States of America and every country which fell like dominoes thereafter once the corporation called USA was founded.” – Author, Mary Elizabeth Croft (listed with kind permission)
“One feature of banking that cries out for reform is “fractional reserve banking”, i.e. the practice whereby private banks…are in effect coining their own money and putting it into circulation, a prerogative that ought to be reserved for governments. Under the system of fractional reserve banking, profits from any expansion of the money supply go to private banks rather than being used by the government to provide social services. This is basically fraudulent and unjust; the banks are in effect issuing their own counterfeit money. When the economy contracts instead of expanding, the effect of fractional reserve banking is still worse.” – John Scales Avery, an Associate Professor in quantum chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, and a member of the group that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 (See Endnote 3)
“The … bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone.” – Henry Makow, Author
“Governments everywhere are in debt, who are they in debt to? The answer is that they are in debt to private banks. The ‘cruel hoax’ is that governments are in debt for money created on a computer screen, money they could have created themselves.” – E.H. Brown, Author the book ‘The Web of Debt’
“Powerful industrialists and bankers essentially bribed the politicians in almost every country of the world into giving up their Constitutionally-protected right to print notes for the Treasury. They handed that power over to a private corporation which issued notes called Federal Reserve Notes… they are ‘debt notes’… What we think of as ‘money’ does not exist; it is borrowed into existence. It is not a substance, or a commodity, or anything which simply exists, for example, as water exists. It does not exist until someone creates a debt…. There is no money. There was, once upon a time – for example, Colonial Script, gold and silver, Lincoln’s Greenbacks… Did you notice that both those presidents were assassinated for creating notes which were not based upon debt? The banksters didn’t like this. They had a monopoly on the currency and weren’t about to let anyone cheat them out of their con game.” – Mary Elizabeth Croft, Author (listed with kind permission)
The Privately Owned Banking System Bleeds the Productive Capacity/Profit of Nations
The worldwide privately owned banking system bleeds a significant portion of the capacity/profit of nations. This occurs via the governments of the world paying vast amounts of interest to international banks on debt-money loans and other mechanisms. For example, Ireland has been paying between €6 to 10 billion per annum in interest payments on the national debt. As a trading entity the country was making a profit of around €40 billion per annum, i.e., up to 25% of the nations’ profits have been going directly to the privately owned international finance institutions as interest on debt-money that was originally created from nothing. The cruel hoax is that governments could create that money themselves.
Some authors and independent researchers (See Endnote 5) have estimated that the Rothschilds banking family alone is worth over $100 trillion, a sum which vastly surpasses the fortunes of the corporate billionaires on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It is very difficult to verify such estimates. The banking families are not included on the ‘richest people’ lists you see in magazines since according to Bloomberg “the wealth of many families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers is too diversified and diffuse to value. Bloomberg said that some dynasties whose fortunes are closely intertwined with government, like the House of Saud, are also too difficult to calculate.”, see Endnote 4.
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!” – attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Banker.
As this debt money system and drive for GDP growth continues unabated the Earth’s natural resources are plundered and taken essentially, ‘for free’, by the huge corporate and governmental entities of this flawed economic system. i.e. contemporary economics does not factor in the cost of resource depletion.
“When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower’s deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan. The money is not taken from anyone else’s deposit; it was not previously paid into the bank by anyone. It’s new money, created by the bank…” – Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury under Eisenhower, 1959.
“The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity.” – President Abraham Lincoln
“The Wall Street dominated New World Order (NWO) Empire is being built by colonizing other countries with foreign loans or investments. When the fish is firmly on the hook, the NWO financial terrorists pull the plug, leaving the unsuspecting victim high and dry. And begging to be rescued. In comes the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Its bailout recipes – privatization, trade, liberalization and other austerity reforms – amount to seizing the target countries’ natural resources, and turning them over to the NWO elites – just as surely as the British Empire did by using cruder methods.” – Bob Djurdjevic, Chronicles Journal, see Endnote 6
The Central Banking System Exerts Vast Control Over the World Economy
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland is the central bank of central banks and is virtually immune to the laws of all national governments. Even Wikipedia admits that it is not accountable to any single national government, see Endnote 7. There are 58 global central banks belonging to the BIS, and it has far more power over the economies of the world economy than any politician does. The central bankers of the world gather for meetings at BIS and make decisions that affect every person in the world, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on. According to Author Michael Snyder:
“The Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system…. [T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole… see Endnote 8.”
How the US Fell into the Hands of the International Usurocracy During the Civil War After 1863
In a number of popular pamphlets, first published in 1944, Italian author Ezra Pound, described how the US fell into the hands of the international usurocracy during the civil war after 1863; the suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750; and that these historical events should be considered in relation to World War II. In the pamphlet, America, Roosevelt and the causes of the present war, he states:
“This war is part of the secular war between usurers and peasants, between the usurocracy and whomever does an honest day’s work with his own brain or hands… Schoolbooks do not disclose the inner workings of banks. The mystery of economics has been more jealously guarded than were ever the mysteries of Eleusis… The basic fact of the history of the U.S.A. is the suppression (aforementioned) of the colonial paper-money, fifty-six years after the foundation of the (private) Bank “of England” (so-called)… the usurers’ cunning marked by the foundation of the above-mentioned bank was clearly registered in Paterson’s prospectus : “the bank hath benefit of the interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing…
Wars are provoked in succession, deliberately, by the great usurers, in order to create debts, to create scarcity, so that they can extort the interest on these debts, so that they can raise the price of money (i.e., the price of the various monetary units controlled by, or in the possession of, the same usurocrats), altering the prices of the various monetary units when it suits them, raising and lowering the prices of the various foodstuffs when it suits them, completely indifferent to the human victim, to the accumulated treasures of civilization, to the cultural heritage…”
Lincoln was assassinated after he made the statement given above…The fact remains that Lincoln had assumed a position in clear opposition to the usurocracy…
The meaning of the phrase “It will not do to allow the greenback … to circulate” is this: private individuals, without any responsibility before the American nation, were able to get control of the nation’s money, forcing the people to pay non-official fines and taxes for the sole benefit of this hidden power, the usurocracy. After Lincoln’s death the real power in the United States passed from the hands of the official government into those of the Rothschilds and others of their evil combine. The democratic system perished. From that time on it has been useless to speak of the United States as an autonomous entity…
As for the system which allowed the national money of the U.S.A. to be controlled by “finance,” namely the usurocracy which was then established in London, it is summed up in a letter, dated 25 June, 1863, from the Rothschild firm in London to the firm of Ikleheimer, Morton & Van der Gould in New York, containing the following words : “Very few people “will understand this. Those who do will be occupied “getting profits. The general public will probably not “see it’s against their interest.”…
Wars are made to create debts.
War is the highest form of sabotage, the most atrocious form of sabotage.
A nation that will not get itself into debt drives the usurers to fury
The details of the Italian and German opposition to the usurocratic conspiracy (prior to WWII) are available…
It’s so much waste of time to speak of this or that “democracy.” The real government was, and is, to be found behind the scenes. The “democratic” system works as follows. Two or more parties, all under orders from the usurocracy, appear before the public. As a matter of form, and to reassure the simpletons, some honest men and one or two independent idealists are allowed to do a little clean work as long as they don’t touch the various rackets. The biggest rackets are those of finance and monopolization, including the monopolization of money itself, both within the nation and in combination with the various foreign currencies. When there is a danger of abundance of any, or almost all, commodities, then the usurocracy unleashes a war in order to diminish purchasing-power…”
In the pamphlet An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States, Ezra Pound states:
“Towards the end of the Eighteenth Century the settlers, driven by the desire for Freedom of Conscience, hardened by privations, favoured and betrayed, reached a certain degree of prosperity, thanks to their own hard work and to a sane system of using paper money as a means of exchange that freed them, temporarily, from the pincers of the Bank of England… The Bank of England was based on the discovery that instead of loaning money, the Bank’s paper could be put out on loan (with interest)…
Usury spoiled the Republic. Usury has been defined as too high an interest on money… Usury however is a cancer, Finance a disease…The usurers act through fraud, falsification, superstitions, habits and, when these methods do not function, they let loose a war. Everything hinges on monopoly, and the particular monopolies hinge round the great illusionistic monetary monopoly… 1834-5: (President) Jackson eliminates the national debt. The United States was left with no debt whatever.“
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 – A Private Banking Coup
“The FED is an independent agency, that means basically that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take – what relations are (between Chairman of FED and President of the USA) don’t frankly matter.” – Alan Greenspan (former FED Chairman)
In 1913 the then U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation by bankers J.P. Morgan, John D Rockefeller, and Paul Warburg, which handed over the power of printing money from the U.S. government into the hands of these private interests. It was enacted on the 23rd Dec 1913 and became known as the Federal Reserve Act. This was a major coup for the international bankers… The government had been under the false impression that the right of government to issue money was not being surrendered to the banks. The establishment of ‘the FED’ had been sold to government on the basis that government would retain control of the process, but in reality, they did not. The act had been hurriedly signed without proper scrutiny by members of government. According to author, E.H. Brown, it was thought that the right of government to issue money was not being surrendered to the banks, however:
“The bill was so obscurely worded that no one really understood its provisions… but while the national money supply would be printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it would be issued as an obligation or debt of the government, a debt owed back to the private Federal Reserve with interest…President Wilson is reported to have said before he died “I have unwittingly ruined my country”. – (See Endnote 9)
“President Abraham Lincoln returned to the colonial system of government issued money during the Civil War; but he was assassinated; and the bankers reclaimed control of the money machine. The silent coup of the Wall Street faction culminated with the passage of the Federal Reserve act in 1913, something they achieved by misleading .. wary congressman into thinking the Federal Reserve was actually federal…. Today the debate over who should create the money supply is rarely heard.. few people even realise it is an issue… The puppeteers working the money machine were more visible in the 1890s than they are today, largely because they had not yet succeeded in buying up the media and cornering public opinion.” – E.H. Brown, Author the book ‘The Web of Debt’.
“The FED is an independent agency, that means basically that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take – what relations are (between Chairman of FED and President of the USA) don’t frankly matter.” – Alan Greenspan (former FED Chairman)
“”The powerful grip of these gentlemen is on the throttle that controls the wheels of credit and on their signal those wheels will turn or stop.” The Report (of the Pujo Commission on the Money Trust), goes to show how, through “the vast ramifications of this group” of financiers in the U.S.A. and in foreign countries, the financing of enterprises not approved by the group can be prevented. “Therein, said the Commission, lies the peril of this money power to our progress, far greater than the combined danger of all existing combinations.” This group of International Financiers through their control of the Federal Reserve Board and their worldwide ramifications in industry, can and do exert a tremendous influence upon world affairs.” – Lieut.-Col. A. H. Lane, author of the 1934 book The Alien Menace A Statement of the Case
“Never in the history of the World has so much power been vested in a small body of men as in the Federal Reserve Board. These men have the welfare of the world in their hands and they could upset the rest of us either deliberately or by some unconscious action.” – Sir Josiah Stamp in an interview with the New York Evening Post
“the Federal Reserve Act let powerful bankers usurp the money creation authority in violation of the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, giving only Congress the power to “coin Money (and) regulate the Value thereof”. Thereafter, powerful bankers used their control over money, credit and debt for private self-enrichment, bankrolling and colluding with Congress and administrations to implement laws favouring them. As a result, decades of deregulation, outsourcing, economic financialization, and casino capitalism followed, producing asset bubbles, record budget and national debt levels, and depression-sized unemployment…” – Stephen Lendman, Author of ‘How Wall St Fleeces America’
“When you or I write a cheque there must be sufficient funds in our account to write the cheque, but when the Federal Reserve writes a cheque there is no bank deposit on which that cheque is drawn. When the Federal Reserve writes a cheque it is creating money.” – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
The Federal Reserve Is an Independent, Privately-owned Corporation
The Federal Reserve central bank (known as simply “The FED”) is owned by private commercial banks, the largest of which are Citibank and JPMorgan Chase company. These two banks are part of the empires built by JPMorgan and John D. Rockefeller, who orchestrated the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. The ‘Federal Reserve’ is actually an independent, privately owned corporation. It consists of twelve regional Federal Reserve banks owned by commercial member banks. Privately-owned banks own the shares of the Federal Reserve. This astounding fact that privately-owned banks own the shares of the Federal Reserve was proven, evidenced and upheld by a US federal circuit court in the case of Lewis v. United States in 1982, see Endnote 10, where the court said:
“Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds of each Bank’s nine-member board of directors.”
Also note the comments of Congressman Charles McFadden, Chairman, House Banking and Currency Committee, June 10, 1932:
“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are U.S. governments institutions. They are not… they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the U.S. for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders… These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American Institutions… The sack of the United States by the FED is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the FED to conceal its powers, but the truth is the FED has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.” – Congressman Charles McFadden.
E.H. Brown, chair of the Public Banking Institute in the U.S. makes the assertion that:
“The FED is owned by a consortium of private banks, the biggest of which are Citibank and JPMorgan Chase company. These two mega-banks are the financial cornerstones of the empires built by JPMorgan and John D. Rockefeller, the ‘Robber Barons’ who orchestrated the Federal Reserve Act in 1913… ” – E.H. Brown, Author the book ‘The Web of Debt’.
The Trick of Usury and Inflation Further Explained
“The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity.” – President Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln issued government money, but was later assassinated).
“The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 gave the bankers complete control of the money-and thereby the control of the economy. They issue and own all the money in the nation. This private banking cartel creates money for the cost of the printing…
When the government borrows one billion dollars, it turns over to the bankers an interest-bearing, tax-free government bond and receives that amount in credit. As our banking laws require only a 20 percent reserve, the bankers can create an additional $4 billion in credit and lend it at interest to states, municipalities, businesses, and individuals. All this created “debt money” is LENT into circulation and draws interest until it is paid back to the money changers who got it in the first place for just the cost of printing. Every dollar in currency that you have is a dollar of DEBT, and you are paying interest on it. One billion dollars at 7% pays the bankers $70 million each year and removes that much from circulation. Multiply this by the billions of debt in this country, and you can see the enormity of the crime that is being committed against the nation every year.
The only way the interest gets back into circulation is by more and more borrowing from the bankers; otherwise there would soon be NO MONEY in circulation. The debt and the interest go higher just to keep the same amount of money in circulation. This is the sole reason why we have the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty and why poverty becomes more widespread day by day. All usury (interest) is finally paid by the individual consumer in increased prices and taxes. TH IS IS INFLATION. Inflation is part and parcel of the debt-usury money system; the system cannot operate without a constant increase in the debt, usury, and INFLATION. These are the seeds of destruction inherent in the Federal Reserve banking system…
The Divine law does not permit a debt build-up to be inherited by the next generation, for all debts must be liquidated or cancelled every seventh year. (See Deut. 15:1-4.) Consider our present plight, which is a result of disobeying God’s law. How many generations are mortgaged by our national debt?” – Dr. Franklin Snook, Author of America Needs the Divine Law
“Bank profits from this source alone [usury] in the USA, UK, Eurozone and Japan are about $140 billion per year in year (in 2003). It is quite outrageous that the banks should have this power
…. That the governments of Western ‘democracies’ permit the banks to continue to enjoy this massive subsidy, and for this extraordinary privilege to be off the agenda of public debate, is a tribute to the power of the ‘elite consensus’.” ” – Extract from ‘The Global Monetocracy’ by Roy Madron and John Joplin (See Endnote 11)
“What is usury? If your answer is interest, then you are experiencing cognitive-dyslexia. Usury is the pure exploitation of another’s necessity, and its most substantive and significant manifestation in credit and finance is everything that is not the interest…
It is not like racketeering. It is racketeering. The private-international-nominal-banking-system is a massively-efficient harvester of civilization-level-wealth because it is constructed from and comprised of, crossleveraged-double-counting double-whammy devices. It is in fact two different but parallel businesses working in tandem. Nominal banking is credit-reinsurance-in-fact, piggy-backing (or vice versa) on a de facto separate business of charging and then further trafficking in 100%-plus application-fees / tribute-payments for access…” – Usury as Cognitive-Dyslexia by Timothy Paul Madden, forensic-financial-economist, and historian of equity, law, and policy
The Debt-Money System Has Detrimental Consequences
“In industrial countries, between 18% (Sweden) and 26% (Japan) of each year’s total output is ploughed back into investment projects. If in any year this figure falters, the economy risks entering a downward spiral… Consider what happens if growth slows or stops… the possibility of a downward spiral is a prospect that terrifies governments. That is why – whatever their political colour – governments try to work closely with the business sector. In this way they can ensure that, regardless of any social or environmental damage, the economy continues to grow. The debt-money system thus forces governments to put the imperative for short-term growth above long-term considerations, such as the widening inequalities gap or humanity’s relationship with Gaia.” – Gaian Democracies – Redefining Globalisation and People-power’ by Roy Madron and John Jopling (See Endnote 8)
“It is obvious that on a finite Earth… economic growth cannot continue indefinitely… Today, as economic growth falters, the defects and injustices of our banking system have come sharply into focus, and light has also been thrown onto the much-too-cosy relationship between banking and government…. “ – John Scales Avery, an Associate Professor in quantum chemistry at the University of Copenhagen
Virtually Every National Government of the World Owes Vast Amounts of Debt
Virtually every national government of the world owes vast amounts of debt to the privately owned banking system totalling many trillions of dollars. Canada pays around $60 billion Canadian per annum interest on the national debt; and all countries in the world appear to be in debt (See Endnote 18), except perhaps five countries (See Endnote 12).
On June 10, 2020, the national debt in the U.S. exceeded $26 trillion and the interest on the national debt is $378 billion (See Endnote 13). In the U.S. student debt is around 1.2 trillion dollars, about the same as the military budget; personal debt (loans plus credit cards plus mortgages) comes in over 13 trillion. As on 31 December 2019, India’s external debt stock totalled US$563.9 billion (See Endnote 14). The national debt of Brazil in 2020 is $1,686 billion (See Endnote 15).
World Bank statistics (See Endnote 16) show that virtually every national government of the world owes vast amounts of debt and, are, therefore in debt servitude to the international banking system. The amount of interest monies received on worldwide debt over decades is obviously staggeringly vast. The massive total debt incurred by governments of the world cannot ever be fully repaid as there is always more debt in the system than ability to repay (money in circulation). The total amount of debt is possibly quadrillions (thousands of trillions) according to some if the financial instruments known as derivatives are included.
The system is designed so the total debt can never be repaid. The total debt in the worldwide financial system is always greater than the amount of money in circulation and can never be fully repaid.
“All money is borrowed into existence – it doesn’t exist until someone borrows it. It is debt-based money hence it is not really money since real money is based upon substance – gold, silver etc. If money is borrowed into existence, then that is all that exists…so where is the interest? It doesn’t exist. How can it possibly be paid? It can’t be (fully) paid because it is not part of what is created. It simply does not exist. The currency we use is based upon our future labour which the Feds have promised to the bankers. It also does not exist yet. Future generations are already enslaved to pay a debt which does not exist.” – Mary Elizabeth Croft (See Endnote 96), listed with kind permission.
The Illusion of “Owning the World”
Ultimately, those souls that think they own and control the material world, and believe they are the lord over it, are living in illusion. The word ‘dominion’ in the Bible [Genesis 1:26] appears to have been misinterpreted by some Judeo-Christians to mean that God gave man ownership and the right to exploit the world, nature and the animals at his disposal. However, in traditional biblical use, the original meaning appears to be a type of stewardship in which we are instructed to care for the world, for nature, not exploit it.
Regardless of this, any perceived ownership is temporary, and is a manifestation of ignorance, for everything is owned and controlled by God. Time waits for no man or woman. When death comes each of us will be judged, and we will not be able to take even one coin with us, what to mention a billionaire bank account – we take nothing with us except our ‘spiritual bank account’. Ancient scriptures confirm that the body and material wealth is temporary, but the soul is eternal, and cannot be destroyed by any sword or hardship.
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul…” – Christian Bible [Matthew 10:28]
“one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.” – Christian Bible [Ephesians 4:6]
“The sun overhead in the sky is full of light, but when the sun is not in the visible sky, all is in darkness. Similarly, when one is face to face with the Supreme Lord, he is freed from all illusions, and one who is not so is in the darkness of illusory maya.” – Srimad Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 9 Text 3. Purport.]
“… if by practicing remembering God, even at the time of death you continue to remember God, then your life is successful… So if at the time of death we can remember God, then our life is successful. Therefore, before death we shall mold our life in such a way that always thinking of God.” – HDG Srila Prabhupada in a conversation, June 5, 1974, Geneva.
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[2] A quote from a speech by Victoria Grant in which she explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt. April 27, 2012 at the Public Banking in America Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Available online, for example, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5Sc3vWefE&t=3s
which states “the Eight Families who own majority stock in every private central bank in the world — Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman, Goldman Sachs, Warburg, Lazard and Israel Moses Seif. As cited in my Big Oil & Their Bankers… book and by others, the Eight Families own 52% of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, far and away the most powerful Fed Bank. Their ownership is disguised under names like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley… with the Rothschilds being the most powerful. Their net worth alone is estimated at well over $100 trillion.”
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Of relevance to the current crisis, this carefully researched article was first published by Global Research more than ten years ago on June 1, 2011.
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 and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.[1]
So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?
This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on “national security” grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.
One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley. [2]
J. W. McCallister, an oil industry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in The Grim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited 80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank- by far the most powerful Fed branch- by just eight families, four of which reside in the US. They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
CPA Thomas D. Schauf corroborates McCallister’s claims, adding that ten banks control all twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches.
He names N.M. Rothschild of London, Rothschild Bank of Berlin, Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Warburg Bank of Amsterdam, Lehman Brothers of New York, Lazard Brothers of Paris, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York, Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy, Goldman Sachs of New York and JP Morgan Chase Bank of New York.
Schauf lists William Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and James Stillman as individuals who own large shares of the Fed. [3]
The Schiffs are insiders at Kuhn Loeb. The Stillmans are Citigroup insiders, who married into the Rockefeller clan at the turn of the century.
Eustace Mullins came to the same conclusions in his book The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, in which he displays charts connecting the Fed and its member banks to the families of Rothschild, Warburg, Rockefeller and the others. [4]
The control that these banking families exert over the global economy cannot be overstated and is quite intentionally shrouded in secrecy. Their corporate media arm is quick to discredit any information exposing this private central banking cartel as “conspiracy theory”. Yet the facts remain.
The House of Morgan
The Federal Reserve Bank was born in 1913, the same year US banking scion J. Pierpont Morgan died and the Rockefeller Foundation was formed. The House of Morgan presided over American finance from the corner of Wall Street and Broad, acting as quasi-US central bank since 1838, when George Peabody founded it in London.
Peabody was a business associate of the Rothschilds. In 1952 Fed researcher Eustace Mullins put forth the supposition that the Morgans were nothing more than Rothschild agents. Mullins wrote that the Rothschilds, “…preferred to operate anonymously in the US behind the facade of J.P. Morgan & Company”. [5]
Author Gabriel Kolko stated, “Morgan’s activities in 1895-1896 in selling US gold bonds in Europe were based on an alliance with the House of Rothschild.” [6]
The Morgan financial octopus wrapped its tentacles quickly around the globe. Morgan Grenfell operated in London. Morgan et Ce ruled Paris. The Rothschild’s Lambert cousins set up Drexel & Company in Philadelphia.
The House of Morgan catered to the Astors, DuPonts, Guggenheims, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. It financed the launch of AT&T, General Motors, General Electric and DuPont. Like the London-based Rothschild and Barings banks, Morgan became part of the power structure in many countries.
By 1890 the House of Morgan was lending to Egypt’s central bank, financing Russian railroads, floating Brazilian provincial government bonds and funding Argentine public works projects. A recession in 1893 enhanced Morgan’s power. That year Morgan saved the US government from a bank panic, forming a syndicate to prop up government reserves with a shipment of $62 million worth of Rothschild gold. [7]
Morgan was the driving force behind Western expansion in the US, financing and controlling West-bound railroads through voting trusts. In 1879 Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Morgan-financed New York Central Railroad gave preferential shipping rates to John D. Rockefeller’s budding Standard Oil monopoly, cementing the Rockefeller/Morgan relationship.
The House of Morgan now fell under Rothschild and Rockefeller family control. A New York Herald headline read, “Railroad Kings Form Gigantic Trust”. J. Pierpont Morgan, who once stated, “Competition is a sin”, now opined gleefully, “Think of it. All competing railroad traffic west of St. Louis placed in the control of about thirty men.”[8]
Morgan and Edward Harriman’s banker Kuhn Loeb held a monopoly over the railroads, while banking dynasties Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Lazard joined the Rockefellers in controlling the US industrial base. [9]
In 1903 Banker’s Trust was set up by the Eight Families. Benjamin Strong of Banker’s Trust was the first Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The 1913 creation of the Fed fused the power of the Eight Families to the military and diplomatic might of the US government. If their overseas loans went unpaid, the oligarchs could now deploy US Marines to collect the debts. Morgan, Chase and Citibank formed an international lending syndicate.
The House of Morgan was cozy with the British House of Windsor and the Italian House of Savoy. The Kuhn Loebs, Warburgs, Lehmans, Lazards, Israel Moses Seifs and Goldman Sachs also had close ties to European royalty. By 1895 Morgan controlled the flow of gold in and out of the US. The first American wave of mergers was in its infancy and was being promoted by the bankers. In 1897 there were sixty-nine industrial mergers. By 1899 there were twelve-hundred. In 1904 John Moody – founder of Moody’s Investor Services – said it was impossible to talk of Rockefeller and Morgan interests as separate. [10]
Public distrust of the combine spread. Many considered them traitors working for European old money. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Andrew Carnegie’s US Steel and Edward Harriman’s railroads were all financed by banker Jacob Schiff at Kuhn Loeb, who worked closely with the European Rothschilds.
Several Western states banned the bankers. Populist preacher William Jennings Bryan was thrice the Democratic nominee for President from 1896 -1908. The central theme of his anti-imperialist campaign was that America was falling into a trap of “financial servitude to British capital”. Teddy Roosevelt defeated Bryan in 1908, but was forced by this spreading populist wildfire to enact the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. He then went after the Standard Oil Trust.
In 1912 the Pujo hearings were held, addressing concentration of power on Wall Street. That same year Mrs. Edward Harriman sold her substantial shares in New York’s Guaranty Trust Bank to J.P. Morgan, creating Morgan Guaranty Trust. Judge Louis Brandeis convinced President Woodrow Wilson to call for an end to interlocking board directorates. In 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed.
Jack Morgan – J. Pierpont’s son and successor – responded by calling on Morgan clients Remington and Winchester to increase arms production. He argued that the US needed to enter WWI. Goaded by the Carnegie Foundation and other oligarchy fronts, Wilson accommodated. As Charles Tansill wrote in America Goes to War, “Even before the clash of arms, the French firm of Rothschild Freres cabled to Morgan & Company in New York suggesting the flotation of a loan of $100 million, a substantial part of which was to be left in the US to pay for French purchases of American goods.”
The House of Morgan financed half the US war effort, while receiving commissions for lining up contractors like GE, Du Pont, US Steel, Kennecott and ASARCO. All were Morgan clients. Morgan also financed the British Boer War in South Africa and the Franco-Prussian War. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference was presided over by Morgan, which led both German and Allied reconstruction efforts. [11]
In the 1930’s populism resurfaced in America after Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bank and others profited from the Crash of 1929. [12] House Banking Committee Chairman Louis McFadden (D-NY) said of the Great Depression, “It was no accident. It was a carefully contrived occurrence…The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all”.
Sen. Gerald Nye (D-ND) chaired a munitions investigation in 1936. Nye concluded that the House of Morgan had plunged the US into WWI to protect loans and create a booming arms industry. Nye later produced a document titled The Next War, which cynically referred to “the old goddess of democracy trick”, through which Japan could be used to lure the US into WWII.
In 1937 Interior Secretary Harold Ickes warned of the influence of “America’s 60 Families”. Historian Ferdinand Lundberg later penned a book of the exact same title. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas decried, “Morgan influence…the most pernicious one in industry and finance today.”
Jack Morgan responded by nudging the US towards WWII. Morgan had close relations with the Iwasaki and Dan families – Japan’s two wealthiest clans – who have owned Mitsubishi and Mitsui, respectively, since the companies emerged from 17th Century shogunates. When Japan invaded Manchuria, slaughtering Chinese peasants at Nanking, Morgan downplayed the incident. Morgan also had close relations with Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, while German Nazi Dr. Hjalmer Schacht was a Morgan Bank liaison during WWII. After the war Morgan representatives met with Schacht at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. [13]
The House of Rockefeller
BIS is the most powerful bank in the world, a global central bank for the Eight Families who control the private central banks of almost all Western and developing nations. The first President of BIS was Rockefeller banker Gates McGarrah- an official at Chase Manhattan and the Federal Reserve. McGarrah was the grandfather of former CIA director Richard Helms. The Rockefellers- like the Morgans- had close ties to London. David Icke writes in Children of the Matrix, that the Rockefellers and Morgans were just “gofers” for the European Rothschilds. [14]
BIS is owned by the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Bank of Italy, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank, Nederlandsche Bank, Bundesbank and Bank of France.
Historian Carroll Quigley wrote in his epic book Tragedy and Hope that BIS was part of a plan,
“to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements.”
The US government had a historical distrust of BIS, lobbying unsuccessfully for its demise at the 1944 post-WWII Bretton Woods Conference. Instead the Eight Families’ power was exacerbated, with the Bretton Woods creation of the IMF and the World Bank. The US Federal Reserve only took shares in BIS in September 1994. [15]
BIS holds at least 10% of monetary reserves for at least 80 of the world’s central banks, the IMF and other multilateral institutions. It serves as financial agent for international agreements, collects information on the global economy and serves as lender of last resort to prevent global financial collapse.
BIS promotes an agenda of monopoly capitalist fascism. It gave a bridge loan to Hungary in the 1990’s to ensure privatization of that country’s economy. It served as conduit for Eight Families funding of Adolf Hitler- led by the Warburg’s J. Henry Schroeder and Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam. Many researchers assert that BIS is at the nadir of global drug money laundering. [16]
It is no coincidence that BIS is headquartered in Switzerland, favorite hiding place for the wealth of the global aristocracy and headquarters for the P-2 Italian Freemason’s Alpina Lodge and Nazi International. Other institutions which the Eight Families control include the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Conference and the World Trade Organization.
Bretton Woods was a boon to the Eight Families. The IMF and World Bank were central to this “new world order”. In 1944 the first World Bank bonds were floated by Morgan Stanley and First Boston. The French Lazard family became more involved in House of Morgan interests. Lazard Freres- France’s biggest investment bank- is owned by the Lazard and David-Weill families- old Genoese banking scions represented by Michelle Davive. A recent Chairman and CEO of Citigroup was Sanford Weill.
In 1968 Morgan Guaranty launched Euro-Clear, a Brussels-based bank clearing system for Eurodollar securities. It was the first such automated endeavor. Some took to calling Euro-Clear “The Beast”. Brussels serves as headquarters for the new European Central Bank and for NATO. In 1973 Morgan officials met secretly in Bermuda to illegally resurrect the old House of Morgan, twenty years before Glass Steagal Act was repealed. Morgan and the Rockefellers provided the financial backing for Merrill Lynch, boosting it into the Big 5 of US investment banking. Merrill is now part of Bank of America.
John D. Rockefeller used his oil wealth to acquire Equitable Trust, which had gobbled up several large banks and corporations by the 1920’s. The Great Depression helped consolidate Rockefeller’s power. His Chase Bank merged with Kuhn Loeb’s Manhattan Bank to form Chase Manhattan, cementing a long-time family relationship. The Kuhn-Loeb’s had financed – along with Rothschilds – Rockefeller’s quest to become king of the oil patch. National City Bank of Cleveland provided John D. with the money needed to embark upon his monopolization of the US oil industry. The bank was identified in Congressional hearings as being one of three Rothschild-owned banks in the US during the 1870’s, when Rockefeller first incorporated as Standard Oil of Ohio. [17]
One Rockefeller Standard Oil partner was Edward Harkness, whose family came to control Chemical Bank. Another was James Stillman, whose family controlled Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Both banks have merged under the JP Morgan Chase umbrella. Two of James Stillman’s daughters married two of William Rockefeller’s sons. The two families control a big chunk of Citigroup as well. [18]
In the insurance business, the Rockefellers control Metropolitan Life, Equitable Life, Prudential and New York Life. Rockefeller banks control 25% of all assets of the 50 largest US commercial banks and 30% of all assets of the 50 largest insurance companies. [19] Insurance companies- the first in the US was launched by Freemasons through their Woodman’s of America- play a key role in the Bermuda drug money shuffle.
Companies under Rockefeller control include Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco, Marathon Oil, Freeport McMoran, Quaker Oats, ASARCO, United, Delta, Northwest, ITT, International Harvester, Xerox, Boeing, Westinghouse, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, International Paper, Pfizer, Motorola, Monsanto, Union Carbide and General Foods.
The Rockefeller Foundation has close financial ties to both Ford and Carnegie Foundations. Other family philanthropic endeavors include Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, General Education Board, Rockefeller University and the University of Chicago- which churns out a steady stream of far right economists as apologists for international capital, including Milton Friedman.
The family owns 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where the national Christmas tree is lighted every year, and Rockefeller Center. David Rockefeller was instrumental in the construction of the World Trade Center towers. The main Rockefeller family home is a hulking complex in upstate New York known as Pocantico Hills. They also own a 32-room 5th Avenue duplex in Manhattan, a mansion in Washington, DC, Monte Sacro Ranch in Venezuela, coffee plantations in Ecuador, several farms in Brazil, an estate at Seal Harbor, Maine and resorts in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. [20]
The Dulles and Rockefeller families are cousins. Allen Dulles created the CIA, assisted the Nazis, covered up the Kennedy hit from his Warren Commission perch and struck a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood to create mind-controlled assassins. [21]
Brother John Foster Dulles presided over the phony Goldman Sachs trusts before the 1929 stock market crash and helped his brother overthrow governments in Iran and Guatemala. Both were Skull & Bones, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) insiders and 33rd Degree Masons. [22]
The Rockefellers were instrumental in forming the depopulation-oriented Club of Rome at their family estate in Bellagio, Italy. Their Pocantico Hills estate gave birth to the Trilateral Commission. The family is a major funder of the eugenics movement which spawned Hitler, human cloning and the current DNA obsession in US scientific circles.
John Rockefeller Jr. headed the Population Council until his death. [23] His namesake son is a Senator from West Virginia. Brother Winthrop Rockefeller was Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and remains the most powerful man in that state. In an October 1975 interview with Playboy magazine, Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller- who was also Governor of New York- articulated his family’s patronizing worldview, “I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.”
But of all the Rockefeller brothers, it is Trilateral Commission (TC) founder and Chase Manhattan Chairman David who has spearheaded the family’s fascist agenda on a global scale. He defended the Shah of Iran, the South African apartheid regime and the Chilean Pinochet junta. He was the biggest financier of the CFR, the TC and (during the Vietnam War) the Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia- a contract bonanza for those who made their living off the conflict.
Nixon asked him to be Secretary of Treasury, but Rockefeller declined the job, knowing his power was much greater at the helm of the Chase. Author Gary Allen writes in The Rockefeller File that in 1973, “David Rockefeller met with twenty-seven heads of state, including the rulers of Russia and Red China.”
Following the 1975 Nugan Hand Bank/CIA coup against Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his British Crown-appointed successor Malcolm Fraser sped to the US, where he met with President Gerald Ford after conferring with David Rockefeller. [24]
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Dean Henderson is the author of Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network and The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries. His Left Hook blog is at www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com
Notes
[1] 10K Filings of Fortune 500 Corporations to SEC. 3-91
[2] 10K Filing of US Trust Corporation to SEC. 6-28-95
[4] The Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Eustace Mullins. Bankers Research Institute. Staunton, VA. 1983. p.179
[5] Ibid. p.53
[6] The Triumph of Conservatism. Gabriel Kolko. MacMillan and Company New York. 1963. p.142
[7] Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. Jim Marrs. HarperCollins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.57
[8] The House of Morgan. Ron Chernow. Atlantic Monthly Press NewYork 1990
[9] Marrs. p.57
[10] Democracy for the Few. Michael Parenti. St. Martin’s Press. New York. 1977. p.178
[11] Chernow
[12] The Great Crash of 1929. John Kenneth Galbraith. Houghton, Mifflin Company. Boston. 1979. p.148
[13] Chernow
[14] Children of the Matrix. David Icke. Bridge of Love. Scottsdale, AZ. 2000
[15] The Confidence Game: How Un-Elected Central Bankers are Governing the Changed World Economy. Steven Solomon. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1995. p.112
[16] Marrs. p.180
[17] Ibid. p.45
[18] The Money Lenders: The People and Politics of the World Banking Crisis. Anthony Sampson. Penguin Books. New York. 1981
[19] The Rockefeller File. Gary Allen. ’76 Press. Seal Beach, CA. 1977
[20] Ibid
[21] Dope Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy. Editors of Executive Intelligence Review. Washington, DC. 1992
[22] Marrs.
[23] The Rockefeller Syndrome. Ferdinand Lundberg. Lyle Stuart Inc. Secaucus, NJ. 1975. p.296
[24] Marrs. p.53
Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network
Big Oil… pulls back the covers to expose a centuries-old cabal of global oligarchs, whose control over the global economy is based on hegemony over the planet’s three most valuable commodities: oil, guns and drugs- combined with ownership of the world’s central banks.Henderson implicates these oligarchs in the orchestration of a string of conspiracies from Pearl Harbor to the Kennedy Assassination to 911. He follows the trail of dirty money up the food chain to the interbred Eight Families who- from their City of London base- control the Four Horsemen of Oil, the global drug trade and the permanent war economy.”Big Oil… is an extraordinary expose of the powers and events that are exacting a heavy toll on us, the people”.- Nexus New Times Magazine. Australia.”Big Oil… is hair-raising and a masterpiece which deserves not less than the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. This book should be a requisite for every American to study.”- Dr. Carlos J. Canggiano, M.D., Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico.
This article was first published by Global Research in October 2008
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.” – The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
The Federal Reserve (or Fed) has assumed sweeping new powers in the last year. In an unprecedented move in March 2008, the New York Fed advanced the funds for JPMorgan Chase Bank to buy investment bank Bear Stearns for pennies on the dollar. The deal was particularly controversial because Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, sits on the board of the New York Fed and participated in the secret weekend negotiations.1 In September 2008, the Federal Reserve did something even more unprecedented, when it bought the world’s largest insurance company. The Fed announced on September 16 that it was giving an $85 billion loan to American International Group (AIG) for a nearly 80% stake in the mega-insurer. The Associated Press called it a “government takeover,” but this was no ordinary nationalization. Unlike the U.S. Treasury, which took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the week before, the Fed is not a government-owned agency. Also unprecedented was the way the deal was funded. The Associated Press reported:
“The Treasury Department, for the first time in its history, said it would begin selling bonds for the Federal Reserve in an effort to help the central bank deal with its unprecedented borrowing needs.”2
This is extraordinary. Why is the Treasury issuing U.S. government bonds (or debt) to fund the Fed, which is itself supposedly “the lender of last resort” created to fund the banks and the federal government? Yahoo Finance reported on September 17:
“The Treasury is setting up a temporary financing program at the Fed’s request. The program will auction Treasury bills to raise cash for the Fed’s use. The initiative aims to help the Fed manage its balance sheet following its efforts to enhance its liquidity facilities over the previous few quarters.”
Normally, the Fed swaps green pieces of paper called Federal Reserve Notes for pink pieces of paper called U.S. bonds (the federal government’s I.O.U.s), in order to provide Congress with the dollars it cannot raise through taxes. Now, it seems, the government is issuing bonds, not for its own use, but for the use of the Fed! Perhaps the plan is to swap them with the banks’ dodgy derivatives collateral directly, without actually putting them up for sale to outside buyers. According to Wikipedia (which translates Fedspeak into somewhat clearer terms than the Fed’s own website):
“The Term Securities Lending Facility is a 28-day facility that will offer Treasury general collateral to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s primary dealers in exchange for other program-eligible collateral. It is intended to promote liquidity in the financing markets for Treasury and other collateral and thus to foster the functioning of financial markets more generally. . . . The resource allows dealers to switch debt that is less liquid for U.S. government securities that are easily tradable.”
“To switch debt that is less liquid for U.S. government securities that are easily tradable” means that the government gets the banks’ toxic derivative debt, and the banks get the government’s triple-A securities. Unlike the risky derivative debt, federal securities are considered “risk-free” for purposes of determining capital requirements, allowing the banks to improve their capital position so they can make new loans. (See E. Brown, “Bailout Bedlam,” webofdebt.com/articles, October 2, 2008.)
In its latest power play, on October 3, 2008, the Fed acquired the ability to pay interest to its member banks on the reserves the banks maintain at the Fed. Reuters reported on October 3:
“The U.S. Federal Reserve gained a key tactical tool from the $700 billion financial rescue package signed into law on Friday that will help it channel funds into parched credit markets. Tucked into the 451-page bill is a provision that lets the Fed pay interest on the reserves banks are required to hold at the central bank.”3
If the Fed’s money comes ultimately from the taxpayers, that means we the taxpayers are paying interest to the banks on the banks’ own reserves – reserves maintained for their own private profit. These increasingly controversial encroachments on the public purse warrant a closer look at the central banking scheme itself. Who owns the Federal Reserve, who actually controls it, where does it get its money, and whose interests is it serving?
Not Private and Not for Profit?
The Fed’s website insists that it is not a private corporation, is not operated for profit, and is not funded by Congress. But is that true? The Federal Reserve was set up in 1913 as a “lender of last resort” to backstop bank runs, following a particularly bad bank panic in 1907. The Fed’s mandate was then and continues to be to keep the private banking system intact; and that means keeping intact the system’s most valuable asset, a monopoly on creating the national money supply. Except for coins, every dollar in circulation is now created privately as a debt to the Federal Reserve or the banking system it heads.4 The Fed’s website attempts to gloss over its role as chief defender and protector of this private banking club, but let’s take a closer look. The website states:
* “The twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by Congress as the operating arms of the nation’s central banking system, are organized much like private corporations – possibly leading to some confusion about “ownership.” For example, the Reserve Banks issue shares of stock to member banks. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. The stock may not be sold, traded, or pledged as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, 6 percent per year.”
* “[The Federal Reserve] is considered an independent central bank because its decisions do not have to be ratified by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branch of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.”
* “The Federal Reserve’s income is derived primarily from the interest on U.S. government securities that it has acquired through open market operations. . . . After paying its expenses, the Federal Reserve turns the rest of its earnings over to the U.S. Treasury.”5
So let’s review:
1. The Fed is privately owned.
Its shareholders are private banks. In fact, 100% of its shareholders are private banks. None of its stock is owned by the government.
2. The fact that the Fed does not get “appropriations” from Congress basically means that it gets its money from Congress without congressional approval, by engaging in “open market operations.”
Here is how it works: When the government is short of funds, the Treasury issues bonds and delivers them to bond dealers, which auction them off. When the Fed wants to “expand the money supply” (create money), it steps in and buys bonds from these dealers with newly-issued dollars acquired by the Fed for the cost of writing them into an account on a computer screen. These maneuvers are called “open market operations” because the Fed buys the bonds on the “open market” from the bond dealers. The bonds then become the “reserves” that the banking establishment uses to back its loans. In another bit of sleight of hand known as “fractional reserve” lending, the same reserves are lent many times over, further expanding the money supply, generating interest for the banks with each loan. It was this money-creating process that prompted Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1960s, to call the Federal Reserve “a total money-making machine.” He wrote:
“When the Federal Reserve writes a check for a government bond it does exactly what any bank does, it creates money, it created money purely and simply by writing a check.”
3. The Fed generates profits for its shareholders.
The interest on bonds acquired with its newly-issued Federal Reserve Notes pays the Fed’s operating expenses plus a guaranteed 6% return to its banker shareholders. A mere 6% a year may not be considered a profit in the world of Wall Street high finance, but most businesses that manage to cover all their expenses and give their shareholders a guaranteed 6% return are considered “for profit” corporations.
In addition to this guaranteed 6%, the banks will now be getting interest from the taxpayers on their “reserves.” The basic reserve requirement set by the Federal Reserve is 10%. The website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York explains that as money is redeposited and relent throughout the banking system, this 10% held in “reserve” can be fanned into ten times that sum in loans; that is, $10,000 in reserves becomes $100,000 in loans. Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.8 puts the total “loans and leases in bank credit” as of September 24, 2008 at $7,049 billion. Ten percent of that is $700 billion. That means we the taxpayers will be paying interest to the banks on at least $700 billion annually – this so that the banks can retain the reserves to accumulate interest on ten times that sum in loans.
The banks earn these returns from the taxpayers for the privilege of having the banks’ interests protected by an all-powerful independent private central bank, even when those interests may be opposed to the taxpayers’ — for example, when the banks use their special status as private money creators to fund speculative derivative schemes that threaten to collapse the U.S. economy. Among other special benefits, banks and other financial institutions (but not other corporations) can borrow at the low Fed funds rate of about 2%. They can then turn around and put this money into 30-year Treasury bonds at 4.5%, earning an immediate 2.5% from the taxpayers, just by virtue of their position as favored banks. A long list of banks (but not other corporations) is also now protected from the short selling that can crash the price of other stocks.
Time to Change the Statute?
According to the Fed’s website, the control Congress has over the Federal Reserve is limited to this:
“[T]he Federal Reserve is subject to oversight by Congress, which periodically reviews its activities and can alter its responsibilities by statute.”
As we know from watching the business news, “oversight” basically means that Congress gets to see the results when it’s over. The Fed periodically reports to Congress, but the Fed doesn’t ask; it tells. The only real leverage Congress has over the Fed is that it “can alter its responsibilities by statute.” It is time for Congress to exercise that leverage and make the Federal Reserve a truly federal agency, acting by and for the people through their elected representatives. If the Fed can demand AIG’s stock in return for an $85 billion loan to the mega-insurer, we can demand the Fed’s stock in return for the trillion-or-so dollars we’ll be advancing to bail out the private banking system from its follies.
If the Fed were actually a federal agency, the government could issue U.S. legal tender directly, avoiding an unnecessary interest-bearing debt to private middlemen who create the money out of thin air themselves. Among other benefits to the taxpayers. a truly “federal” Federal Reserve could lend the full faith and credit of the United States to state and local governments interest-free, cutting the cost of infrastructure in half, restoring the thriving local economies of earlier decades.
Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her eleven books include the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, and Forbidden Medicine. Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com .
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United World Federalists founder James Warburg’s father was Paul Warburg, who financed Hitler with help from Brown Brothers Harriman partner Prescott Bush. [1]
Colonel Ely Garrison was a close friend of both President Teddy Roosevelt and President Woodrow Wilson. Garrison wrote in Roosevelt, Wilson and the Federal Reserve, “Paul Warburg was the man who got the Federal Reserve Act together after the Aldrich Plan aroused such nationwide resentment and opposition. The mastermind of both plans was Baron Alfred Rothschild of London.”
The Aldrich Plan was hatched at a secret 1910 meeting at JP Morgan’s private resort on Jekyl Island, SC between Rockefeller, lieutenant Nelson Aldrich and Paul Warburg of the German Warburg banking dynasty. Aldrich, a New York congressman, later married into the Rockefeller family. His son Winthrop Aldrich chaired Chase Manhattan Bank. While the bankers met, Colonel Edward House, another Rockefeller stooge and close confidant of President Woodrow Wilson, was busy convincing Wilson of the importance of a private central bank and the introduction of a national income tax. A member of House’s staff was British MI6 Permindex insider General Julius Klein. [2]
Wilson didn’t need much convincing, since he was beholden to copper magnate Cleveland Dodge, whose namesake Phelps Dodge became one of the biggest mining companies in the world. Dodge bankrolled Wilson’s political career. Wilson even wrote his inaugural speech on Dodge’s yacht. [3]
Wilson was a classmate of both Dodge and Cyrus McCormick at Princeton. Both were directors at Rockefeller’s National City Bank (now Citigroup). Wilson’s main focus was on overcoming public distrust of the bankers, which New York City Mayor John Hylan echoed in 1922 when he argued, “The real menace to our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as the international bankers”. [4]
But the Eight Families prevailed. In 1913 the Federal Reserve Bank was born, with Paul Warburg its first Governor. Four years later the US entered World War I, after a secret society known as the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his Hapsburg wife. The Archduke’s friend Count Czerin later said, “A year before the war he informed me that the Masons had resolved upon his death.”[5]
That same year, Bolsheviks overthrew the Hohehzollern monarchy in Russia with help from Max Warburg and Jacob Schiff, while the Balfour Declaration leading to the creation of Israel was penned to Zionist Second Lord Rothschild.
In the 1920’s Baron Edmund de Rothschild founded the Palestine Economics Commission, while Kuhn Loeb’s Manhattan offices helped Rothschild form a network to smuggle weapons to Zionist death squads bent on seizing Palestinian lands. General Julius Klein oversaw the operation and headed the US Army Counterintelligence Corps, which later produced Henry Kissinger. Klein diverted Marshall Plan aid to Europe to Zionist terror cells in Palestine after WWII, channeling the funds through the Sonneborn Institute, which was controlled by Baltimore chemical magnate Rudolph Sonneborn. His wife Dorothy Schiff is related to the Warburgs. [6]
The Kuhn Loebs came to Manhattan with the Warburgs. At the same time the Bronfmans came to Canada as part of the Moses Montefiore Jewish Colonization Committee. The Montefiores have carried out the dirty work of Genoese nobility since the 13th Century. The di Spadaforas served that function for the Italian House of Savoy, which was bankrolled by the Israel Moses Seif family for which Israel is named. Lord Harold Sebag Montefiore is current head of the Jerusalem Foundation, the Zionist wing of the Knights of St. John’s Jerusalem. The Bronfmans (the name means “liquorman” in Yiddish) tied up with Arnold Rothstein, a product of the Rothschild’s dry goods empire, to found organized crime in New York City. Rothstein was succeeded by Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Robert Vesco and Santos Trafficante. The Bronfmans are intermarried with the Rothschilds, Loebs and Lamberts. [7]
The year 1917 also saw the 16th Amendment added to the US Constitution, levying a national income tax, though it was ratified by only two of the required 36 states. The IRS is a private corporation registered in Delaware. [8] Four years earlier the Rockefeller Foundation was launched, to shield family wealth from the new income tax provisions, while steering public opinion through social engineering. One of its tentacles was the General Education Board.
In Occasional Letter #1 the Board states, “In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds and, unhampered by tradition, we will work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall try not to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science…of whom we have ample supply.”[9]
Though most Americans think of the Federal Reserve as a government institution, it is privately held by the Eight Families. The Secret Service is employed, not by the Executive Branch, but by the Federal Reserve. [10]
An exchange between Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Fed Chairman Paul Volcker at Senate hearings in 1982 is instructive. Kennedy must have thought of his older brother John when he told Volcker that if he were before the committee as a member of US Treasury things would be much different. Volcker, puffing on a cigar, responded cavalierly, “That’s probably true. But I believe it was intentionally designed this way”. [11] Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN) put it to Volcker that, “People realize that what that board of yours does has a very profound impact on their pocketbooks, and yet it is a group of people basically inaccessible to them and unaccountable to them.”
President Wilson spoke of, “a power so organized, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breaths when they speak in condemnation of it.” Rep. Charles Lindberg (D-NY) was more blunt, railing against Wilson’s Federal Reserve Act, which had cleverly been dubbed the “People’s Bill”. Lindberg declared that the Act would, “…establish the most gigantic trust on earth…When the president signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legitimized. The law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created. The invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation, will be legalized. The whole central bank concept was engineered by the very group it was supposed to strip of power”. [12]
The Fed is made up of most every bank in the US, but the New York Federal Reserve Bank controls the Fed by virtue of its enormous capital resources. The true center of power within the Fed is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), on which only the NY Fed President holds a permanent voting seat. The FOMC issues directives on monetary policy which are implemented from the 8th Floor of the NY Fed, a fortress modeled after the Bank of England. [13]
In the fifth sub-basement of the 14-story stone hulk lie 10,300 tons of mostly non-US gold, 1/3 of the world’s gold reserves and by far the largest gold stock in the world. [14]
The world of money is increasingly computerized. With the introduction by the Eight Families of complicated financial instruments like derivatives, options, puts and futures; the volume of inter-bank transactions took a quantum leap. To handle this the fed built a superhighway eerily known as CHIPS (Clearing Interbank Payment System), which is based in New York and modeled after Morgan’s Belgium-based Euro-Clear – also known as The Beast.
When the Fed was created five New York banks- Citibank, Chase, Chemical Bank, Manufacturers Hanover and Bankers Trust- held a 43% stake in the New York Fed. By 1983 these same five banks owned 53% of the NY Fed. By year 2000, the newly merged Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank combines owned even bigger chunks, as did the European faction of the Eight Families. Collectively they own majority stock in every Fortune 500 corporation and do the bulk of stock and bond trading. In 1955 the above five banks accounted for 15% of all stock trades. By 1985 they were involved in 85% of all stock transactions. [15]
Still more powerful are the investment banks which bear the names of many of the Eight Families. In 1982, while Morgan bankers presided over negotiations between Britain and Argentina after the Falklands War, President Reagan pushed through SEC Rule 415, which helped consolidate securities underwriting in the hands of six large investment houses owned by the Eight Families: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers, First Boston and Lehman Brothers. These banks further consolidated their power via the merger mania of 1980s and 1990s.
American Express swallowed up both Lehman Brothers-Kuhn Loeb – which had merged in 1977 – and Shearson Lehman-Rhoades. The Israel Moses Seif’s Banca de la Svizzera Italiana bought a 7% stake in Lehman Brothers. [16] Salomon Brothers nabbed Philbro from the South African Oppenheimer family, then bought Smith Barney. All three then became part of Traveler’s Group, headed by Sandy Weill of the David-Weill family, which controls Lazard Freres through senior partner Michel David-Weill. Citibank then bought Travelers to form Citigroup. S.G. Warburg, of which Oppenheimer’s Chartered Consolidated owns a 9% stake, joined the old money Banque Paribas- which merged into Merrill Lynch in 1984. Union Bank of Switzerland acquired Paine Webber, while Morgan Stanley ate up Dean Witter and purchased Discover credit card operations from Sears.
Kuhn Loeb-controlled First Boston merged with Credit Suisse, which had already absorbed White-Weld, to become CS First Boston- the major player in the dirty London Eurobond market. Merrill Lynch – merged into Bank of America in 2008 – is the major player on the US side of this trade. Swiss Banking Corporation merged with London’s biggest investment house S.G. Warburg to create SBC Warburg, while Warburg became more intertwined with Merrill Lynch through their 1998 Mercury Assets tie up. The Warburg’s formed another venture with Union Bank of Switzerland, creating powerhouse UBS Warburg. Deutsche Bank bought Banker’s Trust and Alex Brown to briefly become the world’s largest bank with $882 billion in assets. With repeal of Glass-Steagal, the line between investment, commercial and private banking disappeared.
This handful of investment banks 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 perceived economic void through the launching of initial public stock offerings (IPOs), underwriting all stocks, underwriting all corporate and government bond issuance, and pulling the bandwagon down the road of privatization and globalization of the world economy.
A recent president of the World Bank was James Wolfensohn of Salomon Smith Barney. Merrill Lynch had $435 billion in assets in 1994, before the merger frenzy had really even gotten under way. The biggest commercial bank at the time, Citibank, could claim only $249 billion in assets.
In 1991 Merrill Lynch handled 26.8% of all global bank mergers. Morgan Stanley did 16.8%, Goldman Sachs 16.3%, Lehman Brothers 16.1% and Credit Suisse First Boston 14.5%. Morgan Stanley did $60 billion in corporate mergers in 1989. By 2007, reflecting the repeal of Glass-Steagel, the top ten NMA advisers in order were: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, UBS Warburg, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Lazard. In the IPO stock underwriting field for 1991 the top four were Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and CS First Boston. In the arena of global privatization for years 1985-1995, Goldman Sachs led the way doing $13.3 billion worth of deals. UBS Warburg did $8.2 billion, BNP Paribas$6.8 billion, CS First Boston $4.9 billion and Paribas-owner Merrill Lynch $4.4 billion. [17]
In 2006 BNP Paribas bought the notorious Banca Nacionale de Lavoro (BNL), which led the charge in arming Saddam Hussein. According to Global Finance, it is now the world’s largest bank with nearly $3 trillion in assets.
The leading US debt underwriters for the first nine months of 1995 bore the same familiar names. Merrill Lynch underwrote $74.2 billion in the US debt markets, or 15.3% of the total. Lehman Brothers handled $52.5 billion, Morgan Stanley $47.4 billion, Salomon Smith Barney $45.6 billion. CS First Boston, Chase Manhattan and Goldman Sachs rounded out the top seven. The top three municipal debt underwriters that year were Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and UBS Paine Webber. In the euro-market the top four underwriters in 1995 were UBS Warburg, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. [18] Deutsche Bank’s Morgan Grenfell branch engineered the corporate takeover binge in Europe.
The dominant players in the oil futures markets at both the New York Mercantile Exchange and the London Petroleum Exchange are Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Goldman Sachs (through its J. Aron & Company subsidiary), Citigroup (through its Philbro unit) and Deutsche Bank (through its Banker’s Trust acquisition). In 2002 Enron Online was auctioned off by a bankruptcy court to UBS Warburg for $0. UBS was to share monopoly Enron Online profits with Lehman Brothers after the first two years of the deal. [19] With Lehman’s 2008 demise, its new owner Barclays will get their cut.
Following the Lehman Brothers fiasco and the ensuing financial meltdown of 2008, the Four Horsemen of Banking got even bigger. For pennies on the dollar, JP Morgan Chase was handed Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. Bank of America commandeered Merrill Lynch and Countrywide. And Wells Fargo seized control over the reeling #5 US bank Wachovia. Barclays got a sweetheart deal for the remains of Lehman Brothers.
Former House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman (D-TX), declared of Federal Reserve Eight Families owners, “The United States today has in effect two governments. We are the duly constituted government. Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution”. [20]
Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, US debt (mostly owed to the Eight Families) has skyrocketed from $1 billion to nearly $14 trillion today. This far surpasses the total of all Third World country debt combined, debt which is mostly owed to these same Eight Families, who own most all the world’s central banks.
As Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) pointed out, “International bankers make money by extending credit to governments. The greater the debt of the political state, the larger the interest returned to lenders. The national banks of Europe are (also) owned and controlled by private interests. We recognize in a hazy sort of way that the Rothschilds and the Warburgs of Europe and the houses of JP Morgan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Schiff, Lehman and Rockefeller possess and control vast wealth. How they acquire this vast financial power and employ it is a mystery to most of us.”[21]
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Dean Henderson is the author of Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network and The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries. His Left Hook blog is at www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com
Notes
[1] Behold a Pale Horse. William Cooper. Light Technology Press. Sedona, AZ. 1991. p.81
[2] Dope Inc.: The Book that Drove Kissinger Crazy. The Editors of Executive Intelligence Review. Washington, DC. 1992.
[3] Democracy for the Few. Michael Parenti. St. Martin’s Press. New York. 1977. p.67
[4] Descent into Slavery. Des Griffin. Emissary Publications. Pasadena 1991
[5] The Robot’s Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance. David Icke. Gateway Books. Bath, UK. 1994. p.158
[6] The Editors of Executive Intelligence Review. p.504
[7] Ibid
[8] Ibid
[9] Ibid. p.77
[10] “Secrets of the Federal Reserve”. Discovery Channel. January 2002
[11] The Confidence Game: How Un-Elected Central Bankers are Governing the Changed World Economy. Steven Solomon. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1995. p.26
[12] Icke. p.178
[13] Solomon. p.63
[14] Ibid. p.27
[15] The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness. A.V. Krebs. Essential Books. Washington, DC. 1992. p.166
[16] The Editors of Executive Intelligence Review. p.79
[17] “Playing the Middle”. Anita Raghavan and Bridget O’Brian. Wall Street Journal. 10-2-95
[18] Securities Data Corporation. 1995
[19] CNN Headline News. 1-11-02
[20] The Rockefeller File. Gary Allen. ’76 Press. Seal Beach, CA. 1977. p.156
[21] Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. Jim Marrs. HarperCollins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.77
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