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Leaving the Illusion – Book Review

ClearNFO Rating: 5 / 5 Stars
Leaving the Illusion by Joseph Plummer
Paperback: 190 pages
Joseph Plummer’s first Novel
Available at Amazon and other book resellers

Joseph Plummer’s wonderful Novel called ‘Leaving the Illusion’ reveals the reality behind the illusion most of us can never see. Using a clever mechanism of a debate between a brilliant elite named ‘Howard’ (who has a hidden agenda) and ‘Alex’ (who is living the illusion), Howard brings Alex into a frightening but all too real understanding of the dominant class in the hope that he can teach and train Alex to willingly become one of the chosen few. The tools, techniques, sources and methods Howard reveals are spot-on and shows that Plummer has done his homework. Howard’s cold logic is the best argument I can imagine to promote the elite’s agenda. The debate that emerges between Howard and Alex is brilliant and reaches into the deep core set of beliefs and assumptions that most of us share. Great read. I also recommend Tragedy and Hope 101 by Plummer.

NOTE: I’ll be conducting an interview with Mr. Joseph Plummer in the near future. Stay tuned.

The Walled-Garden of History and Politics

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | November 17, 2014

Walled Garden

Now Rush Limbaugh is a brilliant political analyst, whom I have always admired; and Mark Levin –also known as the ‘Great one’—is a brilliant legal mind. Both of these gentlemen are great American patriots and very studied on the much agreed upon version of history promulgated by academia. The point I would like to make here, is that no matter how brilliant these two gentlemen and others in their league are, or how studied they are, they have unwittingly confined their studies to the domain of generally accepted facts which have been promulgated and funded by the very power structure they either cannot see or have chosen to ignore. This means that no matter how brilliant their analysis is, their conclusions are necessarily limited to rehashing generally accepted fact-claims of history which may or may not be correct. All logic –after all– has its origin in the fundamental assumptions upon which it is based; so, if the assumptions are in error or incomplete, the resultant conclusions must therefore, by necessity, be suspect or at a minimum deserve a fresh analysis based on new evidence grounded on source documentation, not on generally promulgated truth-claims originating from establishment-fed institutions including Academia.

The power of accepting these officially promulgated assumptions is that it places everyone who accepts these assumptions within the confines of a walled-garden in which debate can officially be conducted. There is money and fame to be found here and legitimacy by consensus. If you happen to go outside the walls that protect the garden, your reputation can be destroyed and thus you lose your certification to debate within the garden of acceptable discourse. Within the walled-garden, you can have spirited disagreements and you can have people who don’t know the facts (collective truth-claims) and you can have people who know the fact-claims inside and out and you can find people who press their own agendas despite the given fact-claims, but all discourse is necessarily limited to the garden provided, surrounded by the wall of permissible historical assumptions. And these are the rules of the game.

Now some of us doubt the validity of the assumptions, but up until recently had no access to evidence they were invalid. We did notice that that many things within the walled-garden did not make sense, so we suspected that there was more to learn. We could see the effects of those things out side of the garden, but could not see the things themselves; thus we had no direct proof and were therefore marginalized by the establishment. Now the source evidence we seek has been here for some time, but the access to the evidence has been difficult or impossible to discover by design. With the advent of the internet more access to more information has been forthcoming and many of us have stumbled upon the documented evidence outside the walled garden which shows the walls to be a farcical creation of the predominant power structures.

Many of us start out slowly. We discover that the Federal Reserves for example is not Federal and has no Reserves. We discover that the second Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened. And we discover many covert operations and illegal experimentations by our government which have never been well-publicized, yet we still do not have the complete picture. Are these all isolated events or is there more to this? Well, there is much more than just these isolated pieces and most of us will never understand the glue that binds until we avail ourselves the time to read Carroll Quigley’s book entitled ‘The Anglo-American Establishment’ where the source documentation is provided in irrefutable detail. Now Quigley is no outsider, he is an establishment historian with impeccable credentials who even agrees with the current template we have been provided by the predominant power structure that he calls the ‘Network’. Because of this, he was selected to document some of the history we never knew. He spent some 20 years working on this followed by two years of unlimited access to the archives at the CFR. And despite his painstaking documentation, yet even he was unwilling to disclose all he knew. But for the first time we are able to see that which casts its shadow into the wall-garden and that which created the walls we use to limit our understanding.

So as I watch Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin prattle about trying their hardest to understand and explain to their listeners why the Republicans are so ineffectual against the tyranny of the current president –despite huge public support– I look forward to the day when they finally see that their debate is limited by artificial walls which have been constructed by the ‘network’ that has been so clearly documented in Carroll Quigley’s books.

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Wall Street and FDR

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Wall Street and FDR by Antony C. Sutton

Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great Depression and Second World War. Antony Sutton challenges this received wisdom, presenting a controversial but convincing analysis. Based on an extensive study of original documents, he concludes that: * FDR was an elitist who influenced public policy in order to benefit special interests, including his own. * FDR and his Wall Street colleagues were ‘corporate socialists’, who believed in making society work for their own benefit. * FDR believed in business but not free market economics. Sutton describes the genesis of ‘corporate socialism’ – acquiring monopolies by means of political influence – which he characterizes as ‘making society work for the few’. He traces the historical links of the Delano and Roosevelt families to Wall Street, as well as FDR’s own political networks developed during his early career as a financial speculator and bond dealer. The New Deal almost destroyed free enterprise in America, but didn’t adversely affect FDR’s circle of old friends ensconced in select financial institutions and federal regulatory agencies. Together with their corporate allies, this elite group profited from the decrees and programs generated by their old pal in the White House, whilst thousands of small businesses suffered and millions were unemployed. Wall Street and FDR is much more than a fascinating historical and political study. Many contemporary parallels can be drawn to Sutton’s powerful presentation given the recent banking crises and worldwide governments’ bolstering of private institutions via the public purse.

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Abortion

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | November 01, 2014

My college philosophy teacher was and probably still is an atheist, yet he was an amazingly brilliant teacher … one of my best. Despite his lack of faith or belief in things unseen or unproven by his deductive method, he was staunchly anti-abortion. He reasoned as did I that once you minimize or devalue life at one end of the spectrum (very young) what logically will prevent you from minimizing it at the other end (very old); and once so done, one’s foot is squarely placed on the proverbial slippery slope. And where does this slope lead? Well it leads to further adjustments at either or both ends. So if we have scarce resources—which we always do–the value of a person prior to being productive for society would be less than say a person of working age and likewise the value of an older person incapable of vigorous work would be less valuable. So at some point, this logic trip leads us to the conclusion of stratification of value based on age; such that a society would be more interested in investing and/or saving the life of someone between the age of 18 and 35 say. Outside this range, you are less valuable and therefore on your own or possibly a candidate for post-birth abortion. In fact this is already occurring. We have death panels with Obamacare and recent opinion polls on college campuses show a growing approval of post-birth abortion up to age five if it would save jobs. So there you have it. Ideas have power and they have consequences that on first blush you may not have even considered.

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Demographic Winter and Population Growth

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | October 24, 2014

It is important to understand two concepts when thinking about the world population. The fear mongers would have you believe that the growth rate is linear or exponential in an unstoppable upward trend until the masses of humanity consume all the world’s resources. This is just wrong-headed when you don’t consider fertility rates and the necessary lag time for women to reach child bearing age. The facts are that while population in total may be increasing at the present, the rate of growth is decreasing in most countries (see URL link below).

Just to keep a population at a zero growth rate you must constantly replace the people who are dying from old age, illness, accidents, wars, etc. This replacement rate is generally considered to be 2.1 for developed countries and 2.3 for underdeveloped countries.

So in developed states we need a fertility rate of about 2.1 children per woman and in less developed states we need about 2.3 children per woman just to stay at zero growth.

Now, babies don’t just pop out immediately so you have to wait until the woman is of child bearing age plus nine months. This is a lag of say 20 years. Additionally, if fertility rates are below the replacement rates of 2.1 or 2.3, the shrinkage of the population will not be noticed for many years but when it is noticed the drop is dramatic, sudden and can feed on itself for generations. The unintended consequences of low fertility rates: 1) not enough young people to support the elderly; 2) aging work force; 3) necessity to import more fertile immigrants; and 4) resultant changes to the culture and standard of living.

The current fertility rate for the USA and Australia is 1.9 and for the UK and France is 2.0; China is 1.7 and Canada is 1.6; all below the necessary 2.1 to maintain zero growth.

The average total fertility rate in the European Union (EU-27) has been calculated at 1.59.

Most fertility rates are down world-wide
Source of data: The World Bank Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
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Is the U.S. a force for good or evil?

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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

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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:

Tragedy and Hope 101 by Joseph Plummer

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