Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (29 page)
“[The] expansion of the British and other European empires to all parts of the world exported the bloodlines to every continent, including, most importantly today, North America,” commented David Icke.
The advent of the printing press led to the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment and thus the decline of the Roman Church, as it also allowed for the printing of the Bible, as well as paper money. Before printed paper money, gold, silver, and copper coins, beads, shells, and even sticks of wood were used as currency. After the invention of printing, paper money began to replace religion as the primary control mechanism of the elite.
During the reign of England’s King Henry I, people used tally sticks, notches carved into wood or bone, to represent numbers or quantities. Wooden tally sticks were split in half. The piece that bore the notches was kept by the king as protection against counterfeiting; the other half circulated as money. Talley sticks were accepted in payment for taxes, and not only were they used by the public, but they were in great demand.
The tally system worked well for 726 years, but any currency aside from silver and gold is only as good as the faith people place in it. Today no one remembers the stick system. When the Bank of England was formed in 1694, its shareholders, the money changers of their day, whose names were kept secret, realized that tally sticks represented money outside their power, which is exactly what King Henry had intended.
Unbelievable as it sounds, these shareholders bought stock in the bank with the notched pieces of wood, then proceeded to slowly eliminate that system in favor of Bank of England notes. The use of tally sticks continued until 1826. In 1834, the remaining sticks were ordered burned. Ironically, the stove used to burn the sticks in the Houses of Parliament went out of control, gutting the Palace of Westminster. It was the largest blaze in London since the Great Fire of 1666.
Thanks to fractional-reserve banking, the shareholders of the bank lent out much more money than they had on hand, and by backing wars and revolutions, such as Oliver Cromwell’s overthrow of King Charles, they became so wealthy that they took over a square mile of property still known as the City of London. The City (as opposed to London proper), Wall Street in New York City, and Zurich remain the three dominant financial centers of the world today.
One example of manipulating a money system, which paralleled the recent economic scandals in the United States yet predated the founding of the nation, was known as the Great South Sea Bubble of 1721. The South Sea Company, a British joint stock company founded in 1711, was granted a monopoly to trade with Spain’s South American colonies. Speculators ran up the price of stock from about £100 to more than £1,000 per share. The government encouraged such speculation by eliminating taxes on dividends and allowing women to own stock, one of the few forms of property that women could possess in their own right.
In 1719, the company proposed to purchase half the public debt of Britain with the promise to lower the interest rate. It was said that everyone would benefit. Speculation led to a gigantic economic bubble that finally burst in 1721, ruining most investors and crashing the company’s stock. In the ensuing investigation, fraud by the company’s directors was found, as well as corruption within the British cabinet.
Despite popular myth, the American colonial revolt against England occurred more over concern for its own currency than a small tax on tea. During a visit to Britain in 1763, Benjamin Franklin was asked about the prosperity of the American colonists by officials of the Bank of England. Franklin explained, “That is simple. In the colonies, we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip.We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one.”
Franklin later stated, “The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War.” The American revolutionists knew that to gain true freedom, they had to break the power of the Rothschild-dominated Bank of England, which had outlawed their money—colonial script based on goods and services—in favor of interest-bearing Bank of England notes.
By the mid-1800s, the bankers of Europe had gone worldwide, despite their setback in North America due to the American Revolution. But they didn’t give up in their attempts to regain control of the United States and may in fact have been instrumental in influencing the course of events leading to the Civil War.
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck once stated, “The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed. … Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.”
For some years, the Rothschilds financed major projects in the United States on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Nathan Rothschild, who owned a large Manchester textile plant, bought his cotton from Southern interests and financed the importation of Southern cotton prior to the war. At the same time, wrote Rothschild biographer Wilson, “He had made loans to various states of the Union, and had been, for a time, the official European banker for the US government and was a pledged supporter of the Bank of the United States.”
The War Between the States was more over economics than slavery, despite how modern political correctness aims to convince otherwise. And it was encouraged through secret societies, especially the Knights of the Gold Circle, of which John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was a member.
Abraham Lincoln was more concerned with preserving the federal union than freeing slaves. In late 1862, he proclaimed, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union. …”
Lincoln understood that the true reason for sectional friction in the United States was not slavery, but the fact that the South desired to buy less-costly imported European products even though the powerful Northern manufacturers had imposed stiff import tariffs. These tariffs were raised even higher after Southern congressmen left Washington in 1861. The industrial North, filling rapidly with immigrants willing to work for a pittance, had no need for slaves, while the major planters of the agrarian South were totally dependent on human labor. Although antislavery advocates in both North and South realized that technological advances meant the demise of slavery was only a matter of time, extremists on both sides, encouraged by agents of the European financiers, continually fanned the fires of discontent, and war became inevitable. Many of the famous American wealthy families enriched themselves from Lincoln’s Great War.
Lincoln may have failed to recall that the first assassination attempt on an American president was against Andrew Jackson, who incurred the wrath of the international bankers by abolishing the country’s central bank. In need of money to fund the war effort, Lincoln turned from those lenders and, instead of borrowing from the European banks as expected, in 1862 issued about $450 million in currency printed with green ink and thus called greenbacks. This paper money, legalized by an act of Congress with nothing to back it, was debt-free fiat money. Lincoln saw the debt-free creation of money as government’s greatest creative opportunity. But he also found that it was fatal to cross the international bankers. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, and died the next morning.
The money changers of Europe gained even greater power during World War I, when many of Europe’s royal houses lost their leadership positions. Their greatest fear came with the rise of communism in Russia. Although the Bolsheviks were aided in their revolution against the czar by Western bankers, the bankers’ control slipped when Stalin ascended to dictatorial power following Lenin’s death in 1924. With the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, wealthy and titled Russians fled to Western nations, warning of the dangers to capitalism from international communism. Great fear was engendered among the wealthy. The cry of “Workers of the world, unite!” reverberated within Communist parties from Berlin and Paris to London and New York.
It may well have been the post–World War I plan of the banker elite to create a socialist East and pit it against the capitalist West, but the fear of the spread of communism caused a change in plans. Something had to be done to halt the spread of communist socialism, and Germany was in a central position to act as a barrier.
However, something first had to be done with the democratic Weimar Republic in Germany. One solution was to combine American capitalism with German corporations in the 1920s under the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan, which ostensibly were plans to help Germany repay its debt after World War I. These plans used American loans to create and consolidate the German steel and chemical giants, Vereinigte Stahlwerke and IG Farben, both major supporters of the fledgling Nazi Party. Both plans were described by historian Carroll Quigley as “largely a J.P. Morgan production.”
The final solution was to finance an Austrian Army corporal who was drawing pay as an undercover agent for his military superiors after his failed attempts as an artist. This, of course, was Adolf Hitler, who gained power through the backing of both the occult Thule Society, composed of German aristocrats and wealthy industrialists, as well as Western banking interests. Over the course of several years, the former corporal brought his National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazis) from a handful of members to a national organization of millions.
In early 1933, Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. In 1934, with the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler consolidated his office with that of president and assumed the title of führer, or leader of the entire nation.
But then Hitler made a fatal error—the same one that may have cost the life of Lincoln. He failed to follow the wishes of the moneyed elite to borrow money from the international bankers. Instead, he issued his own debt-free money, reichsmarks, and put the Germans back to work on public projects such as the autobahn highway system and the production of war materials.
In early Nazi meetings, Hitler had listened to the views of German economist Gottfried Feder, who advocated monetary control through a nationalized central bank rather than private banks and believed that financial interests had enslaved the population by controlling the money supply. One of the platforms of the Nazi Party was the breaking of “debt-slavery”—in other words, interest payments.
“When listening to Gottfried Feder’s first lecture about the ‘Breaking of the Tyranny of Interest,’ I knew immediately that the question involved was a theoretical truth which would reach enormous importance for the German people’s future,” wrote Hitler in
Mein Kampf
. “ … Germany’s development already stood before my eyes too clearly for me not to know that the hardest battle had to be fought, not against hostile nations, but rather against international capital. … The fight against international finance and loan capital has become the most important point in the program of the German nation’s fight for its independence and freedom.” Unfortunately, Hitler’s view narrowed from all international finance to only internal Jewish finance.
In 1933, Germany, like America, was in the depths of the Great Depression. A large segment of the population was out of work, and the money hyperinflated. Many recall the stories of Germans needing a wheelbarrow loaded with paper money to buy a single loaf of bread. By the time of the 1936 Berlin Olympics—a mere three years later—Germany had become an economic powerhouse, with nearly full employment and stable money, thanks to its freedom from the international bankers. However, the wealthy elite, whose secrets came from ancient Sumer, could not afford to have the rest of the world see the benefits of the interest-free money sought by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and many others throughout history.
Winston Churchill, a member of the aristocratic and wealthy elite, summed up their reaction to Hitler’s actions during World War II when he stated, “You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism but against the [economic] strength of the German people, which must be smashed once and for all, regardless whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.”
One may ask, if Lincoln was assassinated for bypassing the international bankers, weren’t there assassination attempts on Hitler, who did the same? Only about two dozen. But unlike Lincoln, Hitler was surrounded by loyalists who kept him protected even from his own generals. It took the strength of more than two dozen nations combined in a world war to stop Hitler and his plans for a thousand-year Reich.
The Germans lost the war, but the wealthy elite, who had funded Hitler and the Nazis, did not. In fact, in many ways, they won. The Nazis experimented with new technology in nuclear science, energy manipulation, psychiatric drugs, and innovative techniques of propaganda and mind control, all of which helped the elite. They learned the best ways to overthrow nations, dumb down populations with fluoride and other chemical agents, and how to insinuate fear, torture, and assassination into a civilized society. They brought all this, along with thousands of unrepentant Nazis, to America under a variety of programs, including Operation Paperclip, which recruited former Nazi scientists and brought them to the United States. All of this helped them create their new police state.