Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (30 page)
A number of events in America during the first part of the twenty-first century eerily paralleled the National Socialist takeover of Germany in the 1930s. In both nations, an attack on a prominent building led to rushed legislation reducing civil liberties, followed by the gradual erosion of civil law, the militarization of the police, torture, indefinite detention, and war. In Berlin, the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, was set ablaze in early 1933. A half-wit named Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested and, after torture, confessed to setting the fire alone. After the disaster, the German president von Hindenberg blamed the communists for a conspiracy and declared many key civil liberties of German citizens nullified. The legislature then passed the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler in his role as chancellor to consolidate all of the country’s legislative powers in his hands, effectively making Germany’s constitution moot. Hitler also consolidated all of Germany’s police agencies under the pretext of fatherland security. Similarly, in the United States in the first years of the twenty-first century, the World Trade Center towers were destroyed, blame was placed on terrorists—this time they were Middle Eastern fanatics—and the PATRIOT Act was passed by Congress, effectively limiting civil liberties in the United States and allowing the government greater license to monitor its citizens. This was followed by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
In the aftermath of World War II, the banking elite returned to their original plan of pitting the socialist East against the capitalist West. It was called the Cold War, and it was built on secrecy. Leaders on both sides, most unaware of the machinations in play, did not know the capabilities or the intentions of their adversary.
The Cold War created an arms race between the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union. Naturally, banks prospered during this time, especially during actual conflict, such as the “police action” known as the Korean War, which took place between 1950 and 1953 and cost almost thirty-four thousand American and about four million Korean lives. Even here can be seen hidden manipulation from the top level of control. Never a declared war, the Korean conflict was run by the United Nations, a supranational organization created during the distraction of world war in October 1944. The UN was merely a replacement for the old League of Nations, a failed attempt at world government instigated by Woodrow Wilson and members of the Round Table secret society, which created the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921.
American Korean War veterans would be flabbergasted to learn that the Russians were running both sides of the conflict. During the war, the Soviets were supplying the North Koreans with military hardware, technology, and advisers. Soviet military officers were largely in control of the war on the North Korean side. Author Ralph Epperson cited a Pentagon press release that identified two Soviet officers as being in charge of movements across the 38th parallel, the action that precipitated the fighting. One officer, General Stefan Vasilev, actually was overheard giving the order to launch the attack against the south.
General Vasilev’s chain of command reached from Korea to Moscow to the UN undersecretary general for political and Security Council affairs. At this same time, Allied general Douglas MacArthur’s chain of command went through President Truman and thence also to the UN undersecretary general for political and Security Council affairs, an office held at that time by Russian general Constantine Zinchenko. This meant that the Soviet officers overseeing the North Korean war strategy were reporting to a fellow Soviet officer in the UN who was coordinating the Allied war effort.
But the money changers were not satisfied with the Cold War, even though the war in Vietnam made defense contractors billions while costing fifty-eight thousand American and at least five million Southeast Asian lives. The bankers failed to fully profit from the Cold War due to the fact that historically Russia had disdained the formation of a privately owned central bank. Neither the czars nor the communists had allowed the private management of the Russian economy.
This all changed with the collapse of communism, usually marked by the destruction of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. The end of the Cold War came about due to economic strains on the Russian economy, causing widespread discontent, but also perhaps due to the loss of all secrecy, thanks to psychic remote viewing by both sides, as mentioned previously.
On July 13, 1990, less than a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the international bankers were gratified by the creation of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Like the Federal Reserve System, this bank is an independent entity that controls the Russian economy through the exclusive right to issue coins and banknotes.
With the economies of the two world superpowers now within their hands and with the creation of the European Union, the money changers were able to concentrate on the last remaining major obstacle to their quest for one-world control—freedom within the United States.
As far back as 1865, the international banking elite recognized the danger represented by a free and prosperous United States. An editorial that year in
The Times
of London, which, according to many, speaks for the British establishment, warned, “If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic [debt-free money] should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”
Since the
Times
article was published, events in the United States have certainly followed a course of destruction for individual freedom and liberty as well as for the economy. And anyone who tried to obstruct this plan to destroy the economic strength and social cohesion of the American people was demoted, fired, blackmailed, ridiculed as a “conspiracy theorist” and “paranoid,” or as a last resort, especially if he or she held some important office or commanded a public platform, simply eliminated.
Intimidation in business was a last resort, the first being mergers and forced consolidation. Which is further intensified by interlocking directorships.
President John F. Kennedy, like Lincoln, attempted to curtail the bankers by diminishing the power of the Federal Reserve. In June 1963, he issued $4.2 billion in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the Federal Reserve System and also took steps to shift power away from the wealthy corporate elite. According to University of Pittsburgh professor Donald Gibson in his well-researched 1994 book
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency
, these steps included: tax proposals to redirect the foreign investments of U.S. companies, making distinctions in tax reform between productive and nonproductive investment, eliminating the tax privileges of U.S-based global investment companies, cracking down on foreign tax havens, rejecting proposals to eliminate tax privileges for the wealthy, proposing increased taxes for large oil and mineral companies, and revising the investment tax credit.
For such attempts to equalize the economy, Kennedy was killed in a military-style ambush while riding in a motorcade through Dallas in November 1963 in circumstances still unsettled. Many conspiracy researchers do not believe it is sheer coincidence that Lincoln and Kennedy—the only two U.S. presidents to issue debt-free money—were both shot in the head in public.
The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.—still unresolved in the minds of most of the public—along with the drug revolution of the Sixties, with continuous escalation of the War on Drugs in reaction, heralded a continuing degradation of culture, civility, and common sense in America. The Great Depression, two world wars, and subsequent “brushfire” wars in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya have depleted public self-confidence as well as the U.S. Treasury.
James G. Watt, former interior secretary in the Reagan administration, saw the money manipulation of insiders firsthand. “For years I had been irritated by ‘right wingers’ who came to whisper about Council on Foreign Relationers and The Trilateral Commission. … Now, after sitting in the cabinet room of the White House in meeting after meeting listening to President Reagan’s advisors, I am of a different opinion,” Watt related.
“A most telling incident happened one morning in the spring of 1982. As President Reagan sat down with us cabinet officers, he announced that Don Regan (then treasury secretary) would share an economic report and that David Stockman (then budget director) would have some comments to make. Secretary Regan led off the cabinet meeting by reporting that several American banks were owed alarming sums of money by some third world countries. So destitute were these nations, he said, that not even the interest on these loans could be paid back to the Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, and others. Secretary Regan urged sending taxpayers’ dollars through the International Monetary Fund to these nations, enabling them to make interest payments to U.S. banks. … I asked if anyone believed these countries could ever pay back any of the principal. Silence! Did anyone believe these loans for the payment of interest would ever be paid back? When most of my colleagues just stared at the table, I pressed on. Then why, at our taxpayers’ expense, do we keep bailing out these countries? Annoyance erupted around the table: ‘Jim, these American banks will be in jeopardy if those loans are in default by lack of interest payments.’ I countered, ‘Does that mean American bank customers would lose money?’ ‘No,’ they hotly responded, ‘but investors might lose some dividends.’ Incredulous, I leaned back from the cabinet table and watched the president, seated only two chairs away. Absolutely nothing was going to stop those cabinet officers from bailing out a few powerful U.S. banks. President Reagan was given no other option.
“Was there a conspiracy by members of the trilats and CFR, first, to control the economies of other nations and now to ‘save their own hides’? No. I still don’t believe the liberals are capable of getting together to plan a conspiracy. Yet, that was the end result. How could it have happened? I believe there is a conspiracy of shared values, a commonality in the thoughts and objectives of these liberals. These internationalists don’t want to trust their economic fortunes to the free market. They want stronger government controls to secure their economic fortunes and political clout. …”
Watt still believed in the dichotomy of “liberal” versus “conservative” and did not realize that the power behind such un-American decisions was not due simply to “shared values” or “liberal ideals,” but rather to the power of the international money changers operating behind the scenes and who manage both major parties.
Another person who not only saw global financial manipulation but actively participated in it was John Perkins, author of the
New York Times
best-seller
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
In the book, Perkins describes the activities of economic hit men as “highly-paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign ‘aid’ organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.”
Perkins’s consulting firm sent him around the world. He said his job was “to enslave nations that had resources our corporations coveted by burdening them with debts they could never repay. We then demanded that they sell those resources cheap, without social or environmental regulations, to our corporations. It was an incredibly successful strategy. In essence it created the world’s first truly global empire and the first one that was not built primarily through military occupations. It also transformed geo-politics. The power of elected officials was usurped by those who sit at the top of the multinational corporations (the ‘corporatocracy’).” Perkins said the corporatocracy soon realized that similar strategies could be used in the United States to prevent the population from exercising democratic rights that might threaten its wars and other interests.
“By 1980, the [corporatocracy] understood that its most effective weapon to protect corporations against labor movements was debt. Borrowers were deceived into believing that they were paying low interest rates when in fact balloon payments, adjustable rate mortgages, and other technically complex packages resulted in higher overall rates that made it increasingly difficult to break the shackles of debt. This story continued. Regulations that protected our rights were demolished. New wars erupted. Family businesses were wiped out by the unfair practices of huge chains. The media was commandeered by a handful of giant conglomerates. Unemployment, poverty and foreclosures escalated. The upward trend line of a growing and prospering middle class plummeted.”
Perkins saw “a mutant, viral and extremely dangerous form of capitalism has thrived under the ever-increasing powers of Wall St., Big Business, and governments that support them. … The global economic crisis is a symptom and a messenger. It has exposed our darkest secrets. The most materialistic and wealthiest nation in the history of the world, the U.S., also has the highest rates of suicide, drug abuse, murder, incarcerations, and other negative social factors. Our economy is based on fighting wars—killing people and ravaging the planet—trading paper (mergers, derivatives, etc.), and selling each other things most of us don’t need. Meanwhile our planet is drowning in pollution, people are starving, our resources are dissipating, and our animals and plants are disappearing at shocking rates.”