As a financially weak and corrupt U.S. –having wasted its treasure on pointless wars, gluttonous foreign bankers and crony pals– foolishly tries to bully Russia and China, this duo will have none of it. China and Russia are now moving further and further away from a possible compromise with the old mono-polar world of the ‘Anglo-American Establishment’ represented today by the US, EU & NATO. Everywhere you look these two old adversaries (China and Russia) are forging new agreements with each other ($400bn Gazprom deal) and other nations (BRICS, Africa, Argentina, etc.); at the same time, Russia and China are preparing for war … investing heavily in their military to counter the rabid U.S. foreign policy intent on encircling both Russia and China with double-dealing NATO and their legions of murderous proxy forces; both are preparing for an unnecessary war fomented for unknown reasons by the U.S.; while the U.S.’s vassal states are pulled along in the wake of the once great and mighty U.S. Ship, powering full-speed ahead over an unknown and unknowable abyss unaware of the jagged rocks below.
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Is the U.S. a force for good or evil?
by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Sep 10, 2014
Why do so many find it so difficult to believe the documented evidence that the U.S. Government has become the greatest force for evil in the world today?
We all come to the ‘truth-table’ with different life experiences so when a set of claims are put on the table for consideration, our past experiences are brought forward to help us determine the validity or the plausibility of these fact-claims. If these statements are outliers or too far outside of our normal dataset of agreed-to facts, these statements become suspicious. So the question arises, should we give these new fact-claims additional consideration to attempt to validate or should we summarily toss them off the table as being irrational or unimportant?
Since all of us come to the table with limited life experiences, how can we broaden our scope of understanding?
As a child, my news was limited to ABC, CBS and NBC. Even as a child, it seemed suspicious that there was almost 100% agreement amongst these three networks in terms of what was selected as important topics and the particular interpretation of the fact-claims they presented. My only other source early on was from the history usually taught by the football coach in public state-run schools. My recollection was that the history was dry, boring and supported a singular point of view; that being that the USA was good and did good things even if they didn’t always turn out good, America’s heart was good.
At about the age of 12, I had access to the local college library and here I sought other view points from the CFR publication entitled ‘Foreign Affairs’, ‘Scientific American’, ‘Newsweek’, ‘Wall Street Journal’, ‘Psychology Today’ and others. I absorbed all the data I could; still not realizing the context of this data, or who paid to have this data published or why. One day I ventured over into the philosophy section where I began my long quest for a deeper understanding of self. My first few books were all on Existentialism by Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche and Sartre. I thought, how refreshing that these existentialists were willing to go outside the bounds of societies’ normative considerations of what is allowable to discover a deeper truth. I saw these fellows as warriors for truth who were willing to gore their most sacred belief assumptions in the search for perfect truth. They all seemed willing to go where their logic would take them no matter how scary or disruptive to long-held beliefs; and without fear of harsh judgments from others.
As I matured, I started to learn not just data and collections of fact-claims, I started to learn context. I also learned the importance of finding the source of the data since much of what I had been taught was not ‘source-data’ but data about data in other words I was learning expert’s opinions about what they wanted me to know. This was not satisfactory, since I discovered that everyone seemed to have an opinion or an agenda; and so would justify their assumptions and opinions with the facts that they discovered and collected and then present these opinions as fact. I found many examples of incorrect data. After studying psychology in the University and in periodicals, I had the occasion of reading Sigmund Freud’s actual lab notes and discovered that I had been completely misled about Freud. About this time, I discovered that my bank –whom I had always trusted– misled me about the interest rate on my first car loan. They told me that it was 6.25% but in fact it was well over 11% APR. They were able to get away with this deception by calculating the interest rate using a different formula; still it was a deception. I learned upstairs at the bank’s commercial department they only quoted APR since they assumed that businessmen wouldn’t fall for this cheap trick. This trick was reserved for the consumer installment loans and the ignorant like me. I learned that my government had lied to an entire generation about the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Incident’ in Vietnam which cost the lives of 58,209 young men in the war in Vietnam. Though I was too young to be drafted, many of these people were my friends.
I learned that the details of the assassination of president JFK were kept hidden from the public. I always asked why our government would classify this information unless they had something to hide. I learned in 1999 about a court decision that U.S. “Government Agencies” were Found Guilty in Martin Luther King’s Assassination.
After building this short dossier on our government and on authorities in other areas, I developed a healthy skepticism about what was generally accepted fact. I renamed facts in my brain as ‘fact-claims’ to remind me that a fact-claim is not necessarily a fact.
After studying the Federal Reserve, I learned that my public schooling had deceived me about the origin and purpose of the private cabal of bankers who deceptively took control the US Economy in 1913. After studying the attacks on the City of Oklahoma, I discovered that our government had deceived me and the nation. After studying the attacks on 9/11, I discovered that my government’s account of this national tragedy was an impossible fairytale.
I knew that I was being lied to by the U.S. Government, but I did not understand why until I took the time to read the real history of the ‘Anglo-American Establishment’ by Professor Carroll Quigley who himself was an insider. This was my first understanding of what was really going on and why. This book and others would tie all these lies and deceptions together into a believable narrative which showed actual methods, names dates, etc. and revealed the names of the true power brokers who most people have never ever heard of; and certainly none of these people were ever mentioned in the news or in our history classes.
I then read Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ‘The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives’ and amazingly I possessed the magical power to predict geopolitical skirmishes around the globe since they fit within the template outlined in this book. While the public was lied to and deceived, I knew what was going on behind the scenes and suddenly it all started to make sense. Real politics and the resultant wars are just a grand chess game to the powers that shouldn’t be …
So, if you’d like to begin your journey to discover the truth of history, banking, geopolitics and who the men are behind the curtain, I can recommend other important books –listed below– that will provide clarity about where we are today and where the predominant power structure seeks to lead all of us.
Short Reading List:
- Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley (Jun 1, 1975)
- Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy by Joseph Plummer, Introduction by G. Edward Griffin (Apr 24, 2014)
- None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen (December 1, 1971)
- The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice – March 25, 2008 by Paul Craig Roberts
- How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the police/Warfare State by Paul Craig Roberts
- Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir by Sibel D Edmonds (Mar 9, 2012)
- The Rockefeller File, Secret by Gary Allen (1976)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin unfinished record of his own life from 1771 to 1790
- Great Books of the Western World by Mortimer J. Adler, Clifton Fadiman and Philip W. Goetz
- Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State by Gary Allen (Jun 1981)
- Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the… by Anthony C. Sutton (Jan 1, 2012)
- America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft and David Ignatius (Sep 1, 2009)
- The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin (Sep 11, 2010)
- The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley (Aug 1, 1979)
- Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf (Mar 3, 2009)
- The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Council… by Benn Steil (Mar 23, 2014)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man — December 27, 2005 by John Perkins
- America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C. Sutton
- Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House by Gary Aldrich
Anglo-American Establishment
by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Sep 02, 2014
Anglo-American Establishment
by Carroll Quigley (June 1, 1981) Paperback: 354 pages
One of the most important books I have ever read. There is no review that can do justice to the sheer magnitude and gravitas of this book. It unashamedly and unabashedly builds fact upon fact, detail upon detail in a raw presentation of the names, dates, relationships, methods, sources, strategies and tactics of the predominant powers who were behind the scenes creating the world we live in today. If geopolitics appears confusing to you today, many of the missing pieces of the puzzle will fall nicely into place after a reading of this book. You may not have known or heard of many of the people in this book, but these were the men pulling the strings behind the historical personalities historians prattle about and study today. Moving continents, people and resources like pieces on a chess board; controlling heads of state; starting wars or making peace when convenient; making deals with Hitler, Stalin and others … these methods, organizations, societies and minds are the foundation of today’s world. Within this book you will discover the importance of Cecil Rhodes and the Rhodes Scholarship and what it means today. You will discover the origins of the CFR and its older sister the RIIA and much, much more.
This amazing book by historian and insider Carroll Quigley provides an eye-opening front-row seat to the secret machinations of power. Quigley is such a through, detailed researcher providing excellent documentation, that he has a reputation of having few claims or statements of fact disputed. After reading this book, what historian would dare put in the detail or the effort to challenge such precise accounting? What an amazing trip through the many relationships of the very secret inner circle of the Milner Group and the Cecil Bloc with their many levers of power and propaganda and their interrelationships: Oxford Colleges of Balliol College; All Souls College; New College and others; the second ring, the Kindergarten, Cecil Rhodes, the Round Table, the Times, RIIA (Royal Institute of International Affairs) which is the British version of the CFR, the CFR, Rhodes Scholarship, Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan, Lord Rothschild, the Rhodes Trust, the Beit Trust, the Carnegie Trust, etc, etc, etc ….
The immense power of the Milner group started by Toynbee and Milner lasted from 1875 to 1945 and is still in existence today but lost most of its political power after some very bad decisions in India and their ill-fated support of Hitler in the run up to WWII. Nonetheless, there are real gems in this reading that can be had nowhere else like a true accounting of Hitler’s real power leading to WWII or the lies and deception used to terrorize the British public. I think the best information for me is an understanding of the roots of today’s power centers which gained their start with the Milner group and that they have yet to give up the dream of a one world government. Other benefits include the methods and techniques of how real power is wielded in private behind closed doors. The politicians we see in the media are there for show and to communicate what has already been decided by those who have the real power and know how to use it.
More on this topic here:
History… Connected: Cecil Rhodes and the Anglo American Establishment redux
See also:
Book Review: Tragedy and Hope 101
Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy by Joseph Plummer, Introduction by G. Edward Griffin (Apr 24, 2014)
CLEARNFO Rating: 5 / 5 Stars
203 Pages (Paperback)
Available at Amazon and other book re-sellers
Also available at no charge from Mr. Plumber’s web site HERE
Don’t have time to read 1,300 pages? Joseph Plummer’s ‘Tragedy & Hope 101’ is for you.
There is no question in my mind that one of the seminal books that authoritatively exposes the predominant power structure’s manipulation of world events is Carrol Quiqley’s ‘Tragedy & Hope’; but it is over 1,300 pages of incredible detail, which most of us don’t have time to read. This is why ‘Tragedy & Hope 101’ is such an important book.
Without an understanding of statecraft, it’s nearly impossible to make sense of the chaos in our world. Carroll Quiqley’s books are the on-ramp to this understanding.
To give you a taste of what you can expect from Plummer’s new book, here is a short excerpt from the Introduction to ‘Tragedy & Hope 101’ by G. Edward Griffin . . .
“Knowledge of who Carroll Quigley was and the deceptions that he revealed is essential for understanding the real world of today. His close relationship with the Network and his approval of its aims made it possible to provide an insider’s analysis of the minds and methods of the global elite. Without this knowledge, the actions of those who dominate the U.S. government and the Western world do not make sense. With it, everything falls into place.
Be forewarned. The journey you are about to begin is not for the faint hearted. If you are comfortable with the illusions that currently pass for political reality, this book is not for you because, once you discover how the deceivers perform their magic, the comfort of ignorance is no longer possible. Once the bell is rung, it cannot be unrung.
The bell starts ringing on the next page.”
ClearNFO gives ‘Tragedy & Hope 101’ 5 out of 5 stars for a well researched, written and organized book that does more than summarize Quigley’s ‘Tragedy and Hope’; it makes this important knowledge accessible to the average person. ClearNFO recommends this book as a primer for Quigley’s T&H and perhaps more importantly as a companion for Quigley’s ‘Ango-American Establishment’.
As a Bonus Mr. Plummer is offering a 90 percent reduced “excerpts” version of ‘The Anglo-American Establishment’ and ‘Tragedy and Hope’, where you can find a few hundred pages from the two books here: Tragedy & Hope 101 – Bonus Material
Additional Information on this topic:
The Quigley Formula – G. Edward Griffin lecture
From The Naked Capitalist, Skousen’s review of Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope:
“Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power… It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world.” “As I see it, the great contribution which Dr. Carroll Quigley unintentionally made[…]was to help the ordinary American people realize the utter contempt which the network leaders have for ordinary people. Human beings are treated en masse as helpless puppets on an international chess board where giants of economic and political power subject them to wars, revolution, civil strife, confiscation, subversion, indoctrination, manipulation and outright deception as it suits their fancy and their concocted schemes for world domination.”
MORE NFO: Excellent commentary and summary of Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy & Hope can be found at the link below. T&H is perhaps the most important book of the 20th Century. Don”t neglect Quigley’s ‘Anglo-American Establishment’. Excellent reading list below in the show notes including critical books by Antony C Sutton. An understanding of the contents of these books will make current national and geopolitics crystal clear. All these books are sourced and based on documented fact that today’s educational systems have been rigged to obfuscate.
Peace Revolution episode 018: (Podcast)
A History of the World in Our Time / Origins of Tragedy and Hope (Duration: 1:09:40)
Financial Uncertainty & Tyranny
by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | August 30, 2014
Now I can prove to you that according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), the US is bankrupt: see link below. Of course technically, a country like the US whose currency is the world’s reserve can’t go bankrupt, we just print more money; but the seriousness of our financial condition is nonetheless just as critical and no one has a plan to fix it. We are in uncharted territory and we are numb with uncertainty. Our government and financial institutions continue to get what they can while they can before this whole charade collapses. No one knows when or how, but there is a general dread amongst most here in the US when the day of reckoning finally knocks on our front door. In the meantime, we scurry about trying to get as much socked away as possible with no long-term proactive plan to mitigate or fix what I would term the worst financial crisis in the history of the world. This feeling of dread beneath the celebration of the recent stock market highs insinuates itself into every sinew and tissue of our society; and the result, is a society who has forgotten its virtue and its values and has chosen rather to render for processing what cattle are left as soon as possible. I would postulate that this is the proximate cause of our willingness to tolerate the criminal activities of our Federal government and the endless wars it has started; thinking –of course– what matter does it make at this point anyway since it will all be falling down around our heads at some time uncertain. We will get the tyranny we tolerate.
What Capitalism is not
by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | August 22, 2014
Just a reminder … capitalism is NOT crony capitalism or corporatism. Crony capitalism and corporatism are in fact a form of fascism not capitalism. For capitalism to operate effectively, there must be free markets. When corporations cozy up to the government to get special favors or pass laws to limit their competition, you have a merger of corporations and the state which is fascism. Even though central banks are corporations and privately held, they have achieved the ultimate merger with the state. They have inserted a straw directly into the blood of their host and can drink freely engorging themselves while the body suffers.
The Federal Reserve & the 16th Amendment
1913 was a momentous year for the USA. We received the Federal Reserve and hired the IRS to make sure the bankers got paid. But who were the movers and shakers that caused all this to happen? Nelson Aldrich was a major player and deserves a little attention.
In 1906 Aldrich sold his interest in the Rhode Island street railway system to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, whose president was J. P. Morgan’s loyal ally, Charles Sanger Mellen. Also in 1906 Aldrich and other American financiers invested heavily in mines and rubber in the Belgian Congo. They supported Belgium’s King Leopold II, who had imposed slave labor conditions in the colony.
In 1907, J.P. Morgan published rumors that the Knickerbocker Trust Company was insolvent. Some later historians believe this was a deliberate act of market manipulation which precipitated the Panic of 1907, and consolidated the preeminence of the banks controlled by Morgan. The panic itself led to the passage of the Aldrich–Vreeland Act in 1908, which established the National Monetary Commission, sponsored and headed by Aldrich. After consulting with European central bankers and issuing a series of 30 reports, this commission drew up the Aldrich Plan, forming the basis for the Federal Reserve System. After passage of the Aldrich-Vreeland Act, Aldrich declared “I am going to have a central bank in this country.”
November 1910: A secret meeting on Jekyll Island in which Aldrich and other well connected financiers attended: Nelson W. Aldrich; Paul Warburg; Frank Vanderlip, president of National City Bank; Henry P. Davison, a J.P. Morgan partner; Benjamin Strong, vice president of Banker’s Trust Co.; and A. Piatt Andrew, former secretary of the National Monetary Commission and then assistant secretary of the Treasury. They even changed their names, traveled separately and told no one where they were going for this ultra-secret meeting to craft the new Federal Reserve and the federal income tax amendment.
What was the result of this secret meeting?
On February 3rd 1913: The 16th Amendment was ratified: Think IRS and Income Tax
December 23rd of 1913: Federal Reserve Act: gave a cabal of private bankers control of our monetary system.
A connoisseur and collector of paintings, Aldrich maintained a luxurious estate and consorted almost exclusively with the social and economic elite. His daughter Abby was the wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Aldrich died on April 16, 1915.
Woodrow Wilson after creating the Federal Reserve reportedly said:
“I am a most unhappy man*. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
~ Woodrow Wilson
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
~Woodrow Wilson – In The New Freedom (1913)
* There is controversy on the sourcing and context of the Wilson quotes above surrounding “I am a most unhappy man…” . You can read more on this here: Wikiquote Talk:Woodrow Wilson