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The Ultimate History Lesson

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John Taylor Gatto

Richard Grove of Tragedy and Hope interviews John Taylor Gatto in the ‘The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto’

Uploaded on Jan 1, 2012

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NOTE: Gatto starts 17 minutes into Hour 1 … enjoy!

1) The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Intro + Hour 1 of 5)

HOUR 2 OUTLINE:

1. The Ominous Continuity. Fichte, Spinoza, Calvin and Plato. “The Republic” and “The Laws.” The danger of ordinary people. Charles Darwin and “The Descent of Man”, “On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of the Favored Races” “The hopeless Irish.” The influence of Thomas Malthus. “The Book of Common Prayer” and the “Homily of Obedience”. Wedgewood Pottery. (00:25-8:57)

2. Francis Galton and the “Galton Clubs.” The so-called “Menace” to the human race and the way to render them harmless. Eugenics, Population control and the breeding of the “biologically advanced.” The Emergence of the majority of Private Schools post “Descent of Man”. “Fitter Family Competitions” and the reinforcement of Darwinian and earlier philosophies. “Natures Work or the Lords Work” (8:57-14:15)

3. Wilhelm Wundt and the Prussian Ph.D. University of Berlin and Leipzig. Edward Everett as the first American Ph.D. Clout and the ticket to intellectual management. The Japanese “Prussian” Constitution. (14:15-16:45)

4. The “domination of ideas” and connecting the dots. “Not a good way to get tenure.” The lineage of insights. (16:46-18:19)

5. Irrationality and the Utopian ideals. Adam Smith and the “Wealth of Nations.” William Playfair and the so-called destruction of the social order if everyone knew they were capable of intellectual development. “Liberal” is not a dirty word. (18:20-22:50)

6. Adolf Hitler and “Mein Kampf.” Ivy Lee, Bernays and Propaganda. (22:50-23:48)

7. Teaching 5 classes the same material. Discarding the assigned curriculum and exercising your “mental muscles.” Equality across social classes. Predestination, Moby Dick and Gregory Smith’s lesson for the teacher. Active mentalities behind the street idiom. Taking kids seriously. Jamal Watson and doing comic books right. (23:49- 32:49)

8. The nationally known Assassination’s expert that flunked out of Cornell. “Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth” and “The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion. ” DeBeers Diamond Mines and “worthless” diamonds. “News from Nowhere: Television and the News”. (33:38-36:25)

9. Shaking beliefs, the known universe and seeing the destructive disconnected narratives. The moral and ethical break. Medicine and Nutrition. The closed universe of education and “one hand washing the other.” Shakespeare for 8th Graders. The myth of the “dumb class.” Experts inventing problems. (36:25-40:40)

10. Innate, infinite potential. Apprenticeship, skill building and biological imitation leading to selection. Richard Branson finds his way home and drops out of high school. Independent livelihood. The rationale of corporations and political control. GM and the fast track of finance. (40:40-46:19)

11. Walkabout as a rite of passage. Fragmenting and compartmentalizing education. Striking out so history won’t repeat itself. “The bad things done in school have been intellectually justified.” The definition of marketing as “overcoming sales resistance.” (46:19-49:57)

12. Leveraging the opinion makers. Andrew Carnegie (the Atheist) and Organ donations. Carnegie and Rockefeller Pensions for Teachers. Carnegie Credit Systems. The Religion of Leverage and planning the future of Cities and Nations. The Chautauqua and the leveraging travelling Christian Ministers. Harpers Methodists and Rockefeller Baptists. The forty kinds of Baptist “one small fragment of Baptists that is like Episcopalian.” The Quaker transformation from pious, humble people to the most powerful small sect in the country.” 100,000 Quakers and two American Presidents. (49:58-54:31)

13. You can’t think clearly without the data. “How to spin a local authority into your scheme and let him do the work.” The paycheck dependent managers and those that listen to the tom-toms. Schools in 1905 vs. today. (54:32- 56:54)

14. Frederick Gates, Rockefeller Labor disputes and the idea Philanthropic “altruism.” Private corporate foundations and American schooling. Congressional investigation of Walsh and Reece and how the foundations use leverage to control the curriculum, the testing systems and the public perception. Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford dividing responsibility. The White House conferences that homogenize public opinion. Ford and the Psychological output of schooling. Carnegie and Rockefeller and Globalization of ideas. Advertising, marketing and media. (56:54-100:50)
END TAPE — “The Mechanics of how it’s done.” (100:50-101:24)

2) The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 2 of 5)

HOUR 3 OUTLINE:

1. Corporate and Foundation funding of Education. The Reece Committee, Norman Dodd and the Carnegie minutes. (1:09-2:43)

2. Metaphysical Club, William James, John Dewey, Wilhelm Wundt and the shapers of 20th Century institutions. Charles S. Peirce and Pragmatic Philosophy. The Old Norse Religion. Truth and Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Judicial System. (3:15-6:51)

3. Kant and the removal of cause and effect. (Rationalizing irrationality) The Critique of Pure Reason. Pragmatism meets Justified Sinning and the ends justify the means. (6:51-8:23)

4. Bertrand Russell’s “The Impact of Science on Society”, Fichte, cybernetics and influence of Utopia. Psychology and Pragmatism and vehicle of education. (8:24-9:39)

5. Literacy in the Colonies, Coopers’ “The Last of the Mohicans”, and “Common Sense.” Thomas Paine and the Printing Press. The Complexity of Ideas. Teaching the “criminal” active literacy’s and elite boarding schools. Obama, Bill Clinton. Populism and the Science of Speech. (9:40-17:11)
6. Yale and the British Class Tradition. Harvard and the Unitarians. The Massachusetts School Committee. Fabian Socialism and the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. Beatrice Webb, the niece of Herbert Spencer. “Root Hog, of Die!” “Kill them with kindness. Vs. kill the brutes.” (17:11- 21:12)

7. The London School of Economics, Arthur Balfour and the Society for Psychical Research. William T. Stead, Cecil John Rhodes. The Avengers, James Bond the License to Kill (21:13-22:43)

8. The Natural Instinct and the Arch of Life. Congregationalists. Martin Luther. “Every Man his Own Priest.” Dissenting independent Religions in the new world. No continuous governments vs. the preservation of hierarchy (22:43-27:04)

9. Intellectual self defense. Oscar Callaway, J.P. Morgan interests and media control. Harry Truman calls out Rockefeller. “Virtual Global Society”, World War II and the inability to replace German losses. War Profiteering and Foreclosing the Freedom of Speech. (27:04-30:47)
10. Carroll Quigley and the Council on Foreign Relations. “Tragedy and Hope” and the “story not as delivered.” The printing controversy, Quigley’s mastery of prose and his admission of agreement. “The Anglo-American Establishment” (30:47-39:35)

11. Revisiting Charles Darwin’s “Descent of Man.” Francis Galton and the institutionalizing the anti-educational nature. (39:54-42:49)

12. The Cato Institute. Adam Smith and the “Theory of Moral Sentiments.” The religion of Libertarian Capitalism (42:11-42:50)

13. Ben Franklin as the “ultimate pragmatist.” The Printing Press, the Postal Service, and the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin and the German Pietist groups. (42:50-50:06)

14. Thomas Edison goes west and “The Grand Trunk Herald.” (50:07-53:30)

15. Documented history as birthright. The colossal crime, Thomas Malthus and “climbing the mountain.” (53:30-55:20)

16. Lippmann, Bernays and Spinoza. “Tractatus Theologico-Politicos.” Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia.” The secular religion and the Church of England. (55:20-57:46)

17. “Machiavelli as a fountain of utility for the Borgias.” Hobbes “Leviathan” How to maintain power over “the great unwashed.” (57:46-100:39)
End of Tape/ Hour 3 — The contradiction of national policy and the Trilateral Commission. “The Crisis of Democracy”. Power is never where it seems to be. The Great Books. End.

3) The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 3 of 5)

HOUR 4 OUTLINE:
1. BEFORE Slate: Book signing. Bionomics and attempts to control evolution. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University and was President of Indiana University. He hired Elwood P. Cubberley at Stanford. “Managers of Virtue” and Cubberley’s unifying of hiring. The “Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede.” (00:00- 25:00)

2. “Metalogicon” A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Trivium” by John of Salisbury book presentation. WYBM introduction promo(25:10-26:45)

3. Who is R. Gordon Wasson? Soma and the Magic Mushroom and Wall St. heavy hitters. “Soma: The Divine Mushroom of Immortality, (Ethno-Mycological Studies)” by R. Gordon Wasson (1968)
Council on Foreign Relations meetings. (26:45-27:54)

4. Who is Antony C. Sutton? Brief correspondence. “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution” (1974), “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler” (1976) Adding up reality. Ramsey Clark marginalization. Lysander Spooner, Frederic Bastiat. “The Daughters of the Barons of Runnymede” and discovery of continuity. (27:54-30:29)

5. Who was Ignatius Loyola? Penetrating the Reformation and the Army of Jesus. Luther’s “Every man his own Priest”, “Wild Declaration of Radicalism” Getting rid of the Priesthood and the middle men. (30:30-32:

6. The influence of the Illuminati on the Education System? Powers behind the scenes. Standardized testing dismissed in most universities. Johann Pestalozzi, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and the “Leipzig Connection.” Militaristic strategies. The artificial extension of childhood. “The Story of Civilization” by Will and Ariel Durant. Beginning the productive life early. David Farragut, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. The effects of marginalizing the young. Alexander the Great. (32:22-40:11)

7. The value of Hemp. Jefferson and Washington and the role of hemp in American history. The Hearst Family and wood pulp for newspapers. Reefer Madness. The quality of books then and now. (40:11-41:42:070

8. The necessity of reading the old books vs. reading the digests and abstracts. Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” “Nothing you can buy is worth having and no one you can order around is worth associating with.” Reading Aurelius in 6th Grade in Western Pennsylvania. Julius Caesar. Pitting classes against each other. Division by meaningless competition. What do we learn that is enhanced by competition? Keeping track of ideas. Maintaining the social and economic order through education. How to manage a society that wouldn’t require managing? (42:08-48:48)

9. The Trivium and Quadrivium. 3rd Grade Jesuit Boarding School and the intellectual diet. “The causes of the first World War.” Reality testing. Dorothy Sayers and “The Lost Tools of Learning.” The division caused by subject learning and measuring memory vs. actual performance. Making informed decisions. “Know yourself.” Personal adaptations of the Trivium. (48:49-55:47)

10. “The 12 Secrets of the Boarding School Curriculum of Power”, Groton/FDR, St. Paul’s/John Kerry, Andover/Bush, Choate/Kennedy, and Episcopal in Virginia/ John McCain. Schools grounded on Religion as well as Anglican and Quaker traditions. Passive and Active literacies. Having a strong competency in the active literacies is at the core of the elite private boarding schools. Insights into institutional forms. Theories of human nature. Mastery of the social forms. (55:48-100:25)

11. Artificial extension of childhood as a secret of crowd control. Political idioms and rhetoric, units of meeting and iambic pentameters. Building models, exercises and immediate results. (1:10:28-1:16:16)

4) The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 4 of 5)

HOUR 5 OUTLINE:

1. Is there an easy way to learn? Understanding yourself + raw experience. Allowing kids to follow their own instincts. Group projects with tangible goals. “Principia Mathematica” Alfred North Whitehead and statistical sampling prediction. “Aims of Education and Other Essays”. (10:14-15:25)

2. Training fleas before you break their will. “Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus.” Breaking autonomy and “taking the lid off”. Imposing your will. “Hired as the lid on the container.” (15:26-18:53)

3. Wilhelm Wundt and Laboratory schooling. The Roman Collegia and 5th Century crowd control. (18:54-20:11)

4. Connections between Calvin and modern theocratic states? The impulsion of certainty, rules, and algorithms. Experimenting with humanity and enlarging its boundaries. Human ingenuity was seeing as a risk for capital formulation. Using financial crisis. “Overproduction” and “Overcapacity”, “hyper-democracy” and the inability to suppress the people. The Trilateral Commission and “The Crisis of Democracy”. Hyperinflation and warfare. (20:09-27:35)

5. The role of curiosity as “the lever that produces invention and forces you in a fun way to think for yourself.” How schools destroy curiosity. Admiral Perry and Japan. (28:41- 31:10)

6. When did the American Dream become one of lifelong servitude and debt slavery? Lincoln @the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. “The American dream was Liberty, Freedom, and personal Sovereignty.” “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” and IT technology. Discoveries by “non-experts.” New ways to treat cancerous tumors by John Kanzius. Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. How to deal with ambiguity. (31:10-40:57)

7. “The Principles of Psychology” by William James (1890) “Habit as the enormous flywheel of society…” The world is much bigger than you believe it is, because of conditioning. (40:57-43:43)

8. “The Six Important Functions of Secondary Education”. Alexander James Inglis and “The Principles of Secondary Education”; Adjustive functions, Integrative (conformist) Functions, Directive Function, Differentiating Function, Selective Function, and the Propaedeutic Function. (1918) Getting the Inglis lecture from Harvard. (43:44-56:43)

9. Cutting out the middle man. Why can’t students just read books? Strawberry Fields Monument, “Pizza Palace Sued,” paying the way to Paris. Hampshire College. (56:43-109:36)

10. Something that would “echo through time.” “Sensible children do not wish to be incomplete human beings.” Stage theories of human development, tormenting and limiting possibilities. Don’t be your kids enemy, be a partner and enlarge the opportunity.” “No homework please!”(109:36-1:10:41)

END TAPE 5 — What does a college education really get you in the 21st Century? The last hoop to jump through that doesn’t deliver much along a prescribed plan. Cornell, Columbia and Reed College experience. No bang for the buck, unless you commit. The value of persistence and the learning process and those that demonstrate merit. George W. Bush and the Iraq War. What was the role of UNESCO in Education? Pestalozzi and “killing them with kindness”, Fabian Socialism, and “fundamental principles of human physics.” “The Imperial Cruise” and “Perfectibilists” (1:10:41-1:27:20)

5) The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 5 + Closing and Credits)

THE END

Patrick Wood: Technocracy Rising Interview

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Patrick Wood

Patrick Wood

Author Patrick Wood discusses his recent book “Technocracy Rising”, in a 3-part interview. (Summary of parts, below)  Technocracy Rising

Patrick Wood is an author and lecturer who has studied elite globalization policies since the late 1970’s, when he partnered with the late Antony C. Sutton to coauthor Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II. He remains a leading expert on the elitist Trilateral Commission, their policies and achievements in creating their self-proclaimed “New International Economic Order.”

An economist by education, a financial analyst and writer by profession and an American Constitutionalist by choice, Wood maintains a Biblical world view and has deep historical insights into the modern attacks on sovereignty, property rights and personal freedom. Such attacks are epitomized by the implementation of U.N. policies such as Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Smart Growth and in education, the widespread adoption of Common Core.

Wood is a frequent speaker and guest on radio shows around the nation. His current research builds on Trilateral Commission hegemony, focusing on Transhumanism, Technocracy and scientism, and how these are co-opting economics, politics and religion around the world.

Technocracy, Trilaterals & TPP: An Interview with Patrick Wood

Published on Sep 11, 2015 by Richard Grove with Tragedy and Hope

Patrick Wood: Technocracy Rising Interview (Part 1 of 3) Length – 1:13:53
Part 1: Energy based Currency, Columbia University origins of Technocracy, Eugenics, Population Control, and Agenda 21, origins of Positivism and Scientism;

Patrick Wood: Technocracy Rising Interview (Part 2 of 3) Length –  56:40
Part 2: Trilaterals, CFR, Rockefellers, U.N., 1992 Rio Conference, Agenda 21 and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP);

Patrick Wood: Technocracy Rising Interview (Part 3 of 3) Length – 57:21
Part 3: Wood’s work with Antony C. Sutton, the Origins of the Trilateral Commission, Trilaterals and Larry King, and how the Trilateral Commission influenced the U.S. Govt. since 1973 to present day. Thanks to Ernie & Donna Hancock at FreedomsPhoenix.com for the use of their studio, and to Rick Malchow for his assistance in bringing you this interview.

Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation Paperback – December 29, 2014 by Patrick M. Wood (Author)

Technocracy Rising by Patrick Wood

Technocracy Rising by Patrick Wood

The History You Never Knew

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Observe, while these two fine gentlemen discuss the history that created the world we live in today. Enjoy!

Kevin Cole on Carroll Quigley, Cecil Rhodes and the Reconquest of America

Published on Aug 24, 2015

Show Notes from Tragedy and Hope: Our Interesting Times: Carroll Quigley, Cecil Rhodes, and the Reconquest of America (through the creation of an International Polity)

“Kevin Cole joins the “Our Interesting Times” podcast with Timothy Kelly to discuss his paper “Carroll Quigley and the Article that Said Too Little: Reclaiming History from Omission and Partisan Straw Men” and the historical importance of Quigley’s magnum opus Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In Our Time. We also talk about Cecil Rhodes and how his plan to reclaim America for the British Empire was largely achieved in the 20th century via the creation of an elite international polity.

Kevin is a historian, writer and researcher. He has also assisted in the production of several documentaries including State of Mind: The Psychology of Control and The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto.”

(Recorded 8.23.2015)

PDF: “Professor Carroll Quigley and the Article that Said Too Little: Reclaiming History from Omission and Partisan Straw Men”

http://www.academia.edu/9167996/Professor_Carroll_Quigley_and_the_Article_that_Said_Too_Little_Reclaiming_History_from_Omission_and_Partisan_Straw_Men

Also discussed: Western Civilization, Trivium, History of the Trivium Method, Liberal Arts, Education, Isocrates, Cybernetics, Anglo-Saxon Prussianism, Neoliberalism, The Round Table Group, The Pilgrims Society, The Reece Committee, Imperialism, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, International Relations History, Andrew Carnegie, Rhodes Scholarships, The English-Speaking People, The Anglosphere, Internationalism, World Bank, IMF, United Nations, NATO, Tax-Free Foundations, Rothschild, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Institute for International Peace, 5-Eyes, Intelligence, William Binney, John Taylor Gatto, Compulsory Education

http://www.unityofthepolis.com

http://www.tragedyandhope.com

“Our Interesting Times Podcast” w/Timothy Kelly

http://tkelly6785757.podomatic.com/entry/2015-08-24T20_10_08-07_00

Want to Know More?

“History… The Last Will of Cecil Rhodes and the Anglo-American Establishment”

https://youtu.be/pwwYuW2tzUo

Tragedy and Hope: “Professor Carroll Quigley and the “Article that Said Too Little” by Kevin Cole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLd0ypQfsGM

 

This Sea of Ignorance

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | September 10, 2015

David Brown

David Brown

Sometimes it is a bit frustrating to debate people who have not taken the time to read Quigley’s  ‘Anglo-American Establishment’  or the many historical accounts of Antony C Sutton; but I must take the world as I find it.  Most of these people are smart and well-intentioned but lack key information.      Faced with similar frustrations, Joe Plummer would give away Quigley’s books in the hope someone would read them, only to find out the challenge was too great.   Rather than give up, however, Joe decided to write his own slimmed-down, easier to understand and updated book on Quigley called appropriately Tragedy and Hope 101.    In this sea of ignorance, how can we have an intelligent or sane conversation without 1) key information on the real players; 2) fundamental knowledge of methods and procedures and 3) the proven historical backdrop provided by Quigley and other researchers?   That is the question.   Without the historical context and an understanding of the genealogy and pedigree of the current batch of oligarchs, how can we advance our mutual understanding and how can we engage in an effective contest for our freedom as the collective noose is tightened around our collective necks?

We are encouraged by the rapid spread of information through the internet; and we are encouraged to understand, historically, the information wars can be won by as few as 5% of the populations.    I am also encouraged by the many people who have not read Quigley, yet by the sheer force of their own intellectual skills and keen observations, can impute without the direct information provided by Quigley.   Without Quigley, they point to inconsistencies in the official historical record and the official stories of finance, geopolitics and social engineering that deserve a complete accounting and then demand an explanation.   The interview below with Paul Craig Roberts is a very good example of the brilliant intellect of PCR who struggles without the benefit of Quigley.

Paul Craig Roberts Interviewed by John B. Wells, Caravan To Midnight

Another good example of brilliance overcoming ignorance without the benefit of Quigley can be seen in the excellent interview of NSA Whistleblower William Binney by Richard Grove here.
Obviously, Mr. Grove is well versed in Quigley, but the question must be asked:  How much more effective would Binney or PCR be if they had the benefit of Quigley’s and Sutton’s documented evidence?

I’ve often said …

“There are two kinds of people: Those who have read Quigley and those who have not; and it is very easy to tell the difference.” 

I didn’t say this to be offensive or elitist or to prove I’m smarter than anyone else. I said it simply because it is true. Once the truth of what Quigley said hits you, you can never go home again, you can never see the world the same way again. Your innocence is lost.   Your naive belief in the goodness of so many institutions is forever shattered by documented fact. You see with clear eyes and so you are more difficult to fool by those who build the walled-gardens of propaganda where most of your fellows live out their intellectual lives; never questioning the construction of these walls, built of ‘well-established’ assumptions which are in fact lies.

But even with the revelations provided by Quigley, Sutton and others, the picture is never complete and of course changes over time.   The old guards die, providing room for the new oligarchs and their attendant power structures; but these changes are mostly traceable and predictable. The footprints of the past are seen everywhere in the present. Today, we have a new generation of brave, brilliant investigators and heroes who have continued –sometimes at great personal sacrifice– to peel back the curtain so that we can observe those who seek to enslave the rest of us for their own selfish purposes. See the Julian Assange interview below.

Assange on ‘US Empire,’ Assad govt overthrow plans & new book ‘The WikiLeaks Files’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Published on Sep 9, 2015

Afshin Rattansi goes underground with the world’s most wanted publisher – the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. He has just co-authored a book – the WikiLeaks Files, and it paints a picture of systemic US torture and killing as well as the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of billions of people right around the world.

There are many examples of our Superstars who have read and understand Quigley and Sutton:

The history you never knew …

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What you will never learn from the U.S. Public School System:

Rothschild Funding World War II – Dr Antony C Sutton Interview

Published on Nov 11, 2013

Antony C Sutton gave an interview back in 1980 discussing his research on the funding of World War II, when American and European financiers were funding both the Nazi party and the communists.

Sutton was an economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973.

In 1973, Sutton published a popularized, condensed version of the three volumes called National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union and was thereby forced out of the Hoover Institution. His conclusion from his research on the issue was that the conflicts of the Cold War were “not fought to restrain communism”, since the United States, through financing the Soviet Union “directly or indirectly armed both sides in at least Korea and Vietnam”; rather, these wars were organised in order “to generate multibillion-dollar armaments contracts”

For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton’s Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that ‘Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid’ (p.283), and that ‘at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.’ (p. 348).

Sutton died June 17, 2002 at the age of 77.

More from Sutton:

Update JFK

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2015 Unfortunate Truth JFK, 9/11, and Beyond – The World We Live in.

Published on Feb 18, 2015: Length 4:37:51

The Real History – of the world from an historical perspective to the present day. This video explains the Facts of who, how & why of the JFK assassination and 9/11 complete with names and motives.

Meet Lee Harvey Oswald, Sheep-Dipped Patsy from James Corbett – short and to the point.

Peace Revolution episode 080: JFK 50 Years Later / QUI BONO?  Richard Grove’s excellent 20 hr podcast from his Tragedy and Hope web site.  Enjoy!

 

Remembering Vietnam

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | June 15, 2015

‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns to place he took this iconic image of the Vietnam War exactly 43 years later

Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut's iconic photo of South Vietnamese forces following behind terrified children, including nine-year-old Kim Phuc, centre, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack. Photo: AP

Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut’s iconic photo of South Vietnamese forces following behind terrified children, including nine-year-old Kim Phuc, centre, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack. Photo: AP

Your U.S. tax dollars at work, and for what benefit?  Did the U.S. spread democracy to Vietnam? Nope. You can’t spread what you don’t have.  BTW, the war in Vietnam was based on a U.S. lie (as requested by LBJ) of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which never, ever happened.   After 1.5 to 3.6 million innocent men, women and children were brutally murdered by the United States of America and 58,209 young Americans lost their lives, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later admitted the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened. Oops. So sorry. Who benefited? Not you, not me and not the Vietnamese. The banksters and the defense contractors did pretty darned well. Yachts and multiple homes, fat bank accounts and the appearance of legitimacy for all. War is good business. Had JFK not been assassinated, would he have been obliged to create such a lie as LBJ? Doubtful, but we will never know. This one instance should give anyone with an I.Q. above a stalk of broccoli a taste of who the psychopathic mobsters are who actually run this country.  See Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Ukraine for more examples of the same.  All based on lies supported by the existing power structure and their bought and paid for mainstream media talking heads. Get a clue.

The false flag Gulf of Tonkin Incident Vietnam

Robert McNamara admits Gulf of Tonkin attack did not happen

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The Big Picture

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 1, 2015

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Having read the Antony Sutton books James Corbett references in his excellent podcast (below), certainly helps provide for a much better historical context; and helps to fill in the gaps in any story this big.  As usual, this is a well-researched video/podcast that will provide a deeper understanding of the ruling oligarchies, and also an understanding of the way James vets and conducts his research. Many hours/years put into this short piece.   If you are familiar with Antony C. Sutton’s and Carroll Quigley’s work, all of this will make much more sense.   In any event, Hope you enjoy and benefit.

James Corbett: “Military tensions, cyber espionage accusations, a brewing currency war; with every passing day, the headlines paint a convincing portrait of an emerging cold war between China and the West. But is this surface level reality the whole picture, or is there a deeper level to this conflict? Is China an opponent to the New World Order global governmental system or a witting collaborator with it? Join us in this in-depth edition of The Corbett Report podcast as we explore China’s position in the New World Order.”

China and the New World Order…

A final thought: So what is the Big Picture?  First off, the state does not equal the oligarch. One oligarch will play, maneuver and influence one or more states into a particular configuration to his liking to influence relatively current events. More often one or more oligarchs will combine their efforts for a particular goal. See the specific techniques used by Cecil Rhodes and Lord Milner of the Milner group. For the longer-term strategies, they use the outer rings of the kindergarten, along with the media, prestigious Universities rewriting history if necessary by cultivating and seducing those bright minds it discovers and supports financially for doing the right thing. Remember, they are the establishment.  All other opinions are suspect.  Quigley gives specific, documented examples of how this is constructed and how it is accomplished in the real world. Joe Plummer does an excellent job making some of these techniques up-close, personal and real in his novel ‘Leaving the Illusion’. It is important to remember that despite the position of the state and the people within the state, the oligarchs have much more in common with each other than they do with their respective citizens. The state represents pieces on the chessboard and they are not generally emotionally vested in a state the same way commoners are. Many in Lord Milner’s day did, however, believe that the British culture was superior; today’s oligarchs are less inclusive and represent a ‘break-away’ civilization. Most of these people show all the love and care and remorse of your typical psychopath and LITERALLY see most of their fellow citizens as bugs to be squished beneath their feet. To most of these folks, we are worthless breeders and eaters consuming their resources.  –David Brown

Postscript and additional clarification: Let’s see if I can deconstruct my comments above just a bit: My first comment was that the state does not equal the Oligarch. What this means is that to a certain extent, the state and those who support and believe in the state do not necessarily have parallel agendas with the real power centers. For example, within the state, you have true believers of the state’s authority and legitimacy in the general population, in universities, authorities, politicians, bureaucrats and the trained technocrats (who BTW work for the oligarchy without realizing it); and of course, certain elements in the defense apparatus. So this collection of folks in say China or Russia can have disagreements with their analogues in say the USA, etc. But what none of these folks are aware of, is the real power which controls the overall vector (direction and force). These folks can be seen as looking at just part of the elephant without ever seeing the entire beast and thus the beast is not recognized for what it is. This is what Quigley calls rings within rings.

The Quigley Formula – G. Edward Griffin lecture

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At least 18 of the Immortals’ descendants own or run entities linked to companies registered offshore, including the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, as well as Liberia and other jurisdictions that offer secrecy, the reporting showed.

While the Immortals vilified the “bourgeois individualism” of capitalist nations, almost half of their heirs lived, studied or worked abroad, some in Australia, England and France. The princelings were among the first to travel and study overseas, giving them an advantage not available to ordinary Chinese.

The U.S., which established diplomatic ties with Communist China in 1979, was the top destination: At least 23 of the Immortals’ descendants and their spouses studied there, including three at Harvard University and four at Stanford University, according to the Bloomberg data. At least 18 worked for U.S. entities, including American International Group Inc. and the law firm White & Case LLP, which hired one of Deng’s grandsons. Twelve owned property in the U.S.

There is no accepted measure for the degree of control the princelings exert on the economy. Academics who study China estimate that wealth and influence is concentrated in the hands of as few as 14 and as many as several hundred families.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-26/immortals-beget-china-capitalism-from-citic-to-godfather-of-golf

“MAO WAS A YALIE – Back in 1903, Yale Divinity School established a number of schools and hospitals throughout China that were collectively known as ‘Yale in China.’ It has since been shown that ‘Yale in China’ was an intelligence network whose purpose was to destroy the republican movement of Sun Yat-sen on behalf of the Anglo-American Establishment. The Anglo-American “Establishment” hated Sun, because he wanted to develop China. On the other hand, they loved the Chinese communists because they intended to keep China backward, and were committed to growing dope. One of ‘Yale in China’s’ most important students was Mao Zedong.

“During World War II, ‘Yale in China’ was a primary instrument used by the U.S. Establishment and its Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to install the Maoists into power. ‘Yale in China’ was run by OSS operative Reuben Holden, the husband of Bush’s cousin, and also a member of Skull and Bones.

“The Maoists made China into the world’s largest opium producer. “‘Yale in China’ was also closely associated with the New York-based Union Theological Seminary, which has been a center for U.S. subversion of Asia (literal wolves in sheep’s clothing – Branton). Every prominent radical leader operating in Korea today, for example, was trained at Union Theological. Union Theological was dominated for twenty years by Henry Sloane Coffin, a U.S. intelligence executive from the Sloane and Coffin families. He was a Skull and Bones member as were a dozen of his relatives.

“Nor should it be forgotten that Averell Harriman, the former Ambassador to Moscow who did so much to build up the Soviet Union, was a member of Skull and Bones. Harriman was also a business partner of Prescott Bush, Sr., the father of Maoist enthusiast George Bush.”
Note: This Skull and Bones – Communist connection is also confirmed by geopolitical and economicsresearchers such as Dr. Antony Sutton (Sutton’s books may be obtained through THE PATRIOT REVIEW., 33836 SE Kelso Rd. #6., P.O. Box 596., Boring, OR 97099; OR via THE MIDNIGHT MESSENGER., P.O. Box 472., Altadens, CA 91001). Not only did the Skull and Bones (Western Illuminati) help to build up the Communist movement in China, but they gave considerable financial aid to the Soviet Union communists as well. According to Sutton, this power cult has for centuries been playing a “two ends against the middle” type of game, attempting to control America (the thesis) and Russia (the anti-thesis) and other countries or movements, carefully pitting them against each other at the lower levels in order to keep the populations of the world in a state of confusion and despair, to the point that they will – hopefully – resign themselves into accepting the New World Order “synthesis” as the only alternative to solve the very “problems” which THEY, the New World Order initiators, created in the first place! One startling, though documented, claim which Mr. Sutton makes is that the Nazi Movement was largely financed by the Skull and Bones -Illuminati as well. This connection was recently described in a mailer describing Val Valerian’s book MATRIX III (c/o Leading Edge Research., P.O. Box 481-MU58., Yelm, WASH 98597). Part of this mailer states:
“Interspaced with the material comes a host of data, supplementary material, interviews, and revealing information. The ‘Final Scenario’ is discussed relative to the New World Order and the plans for total economic control, a one-world religion, and the electronic mind control objectives, schools of thought, and research. MATRIX III brings out in detail how various families in the United States and Europe are also involved in a scenario which has as its main tenet the suppression and elimination of human beings on many levels – a scenario which includes worldwide traffic of drugs, vast laundering of drug money by national banks of several countries, and assassination and murder. These are the people who arranged and supported all the wars. There is discussion of the Bush family, and how Prescott Bush assisted the finance and management of the Nazi empire – the so-called Hitler project…

http://transmissionsmedia.com/skull-bones-the-bushs-china-connection/

The membership list of the Trilateral Commission (Pacific Asian Group), the Rockefeller org similar to the Atlantic Bilderbergers is litered with Chinese names:

https://publicintelligence.net/trilateral-commission-..

Central Bank President, Zhao Xiaochuan, who is a member of the Group of 30, the Rockefeller-sponsored group of leading Central Bankers and academics.

Only countries NOT in the NWO are listed on the US State Department’s or IMF’s shit-list, and China isn’t one of them.

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Middle East Basics

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | April 4, 2015

David Brown

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It’s much more complicated than this but here are some basics…

  • Not all Muslims are evil and want to kill non-Muslims
  • As of 2010, over 1.6 billion or about 23.4% of the world population were Muslims. Not all of these folks are chopping heads off or strapping bombs to their children.
  • Many Muslims hate each other more than they do the West. Sunni and Shiite.
  • Much of the violence in the Middle East is a result of the unnatural division of the Ottoman Empire after WWI by the French and the British
  • The Treaty of Darin of 1915 between the United Kingdom and Abdul-Aziz Al Saud founded one of the most brutal dictatorships in the Middle East: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
  • Since that time the USA and its vassal states have sought to control these unnatural associations by overthrowing governments, killing many Muslims and putting in their own puppet dictators in charge throughout the Middle East.
  • Saudi Arabia is one of the most brutal dictatorships in the Middle East today. They teach and spread a violent form of Islam called Wahhabism. They are also a major partner with the USA.
  • In Iran, the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was replaced by the U.S. and UK-backed coup d’état and installed puppet Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) to bring back foreign oil firms. The Shah was one of the most brutal, murderous and feared dictators using his secret police called SAVAK to hunt down anyone including Iranian students studying in the US for murder and torture.
  • Since WWII, the USA and its vassal states have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Muslims in the Middle East. 500,000 children in Iraq alone. Madeline Albright (US Sec of State) said that it was worth it.

The short story, is that Briton and France divided up the Ottoman Empire into unnatural states that did not consider cultural or religious traditions. The effect was to turn Muslim against Muslim and to cause resentment against the West. Dictators were put in place to control the countries created out of the Ottoman Empire for the oil interests in the West. In the meantime millions of innocent Muslims have been slaughtered at the behest of the West.

Here are some maps that may help understand the Middle East a bit better.

40 maps that explain the Middle East

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The Walled-Garden Revisited

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | April 3, 2015

The Walled-Garden

The Walled-Garden

So … what is a walled-garden?  Well, it’s a garden with a wall around it, apparently to keep the bad things out and to keep certain things in. What sort of bad things? Well, things that could disrupt the peaceful enjoyment of the garden and to protect all those who live within the garden and all that they value and treasure. Within the walls of the garden magical things take place: like general agreements of where the walls are, what they look like and the cardinal rule that no one is to venture outside the walls that protect the peace and tranquility of the garden. For the Globalist or as I term Mr. Global’s purposes, the walls represent long-studied scientific control mechanisms implemented through the media and the learning institutions Mr. Global controls. For the people who live inside the garden, the walls represent generally held assumptions that are not to be questioned; because if you question these assumptions, the walls just might crumble and the garden would be vulnerable to all sorts of bad stuff and therefore ruined for everyone. This is why you can experience such vitriol if you dare question one of these sacred assumptions. These walls are in fact constructed of unexamined assumptions and ‘well-established facts‘ supported by the science of consensus and authority, not empirical evidence. These walls are maintained by the specialists who work for Mr. Global; and who after all, have the time and education to thoroughly examine and construct good, strong walls. Over time, these walls have become so complex, that only the best and brightest can truly understand and maintain their construction. This leaves the people more time to enjoy their garden and to work, study and pay taxes.

If we look at the chart above, we will see that Mr. Global’s domain is a super-set of the subset of the walled-garden, and lies outside of the wall. Mr. Global determines where the walls will be built and his hired help –or the technocrats– maintain the wall’s structure for him.  So how does Mr. Global go about creating these walls made of assumptions, and what are these assumptions anyway? We can learn about this through the history of man from the ancient Egyptians to current day.  Mr. Global creates these walls  through storytelling, through mythology and by stimulating the collective archetypes we all share.

One thing about Mr. Global, is that he has money …  and lots of it.  In fact, he can create money out of thin air and all the folks who can’t do that magic trick have no option but trade their time for this magic elixir called money. Mr. Global has solidified his monopoly and thus his power and control by keeping all normal and acceptable thought within the walls of his garden. To venture outside the walls is to lose your mind and your reputation and likely your job. Since Mr. Global owns most of the media including the news and entertainment and exerts incredible influence over what history is written and how history is taught in the education system, his ability to construct unexamined assumptions is considerable; not just for the past and current generations but for many generations to follow.

If you are interested in learning the real history and about the real control mechanisms that direct your thoughts and your life, I would recommend you start with Carroll Quigley’s ‘Anglo-American Establishment’. From there you can read about the real Bolshevik revolution, WWI, WWII and FDR from Antony C. Sutton’s many excellent books on these same topics. What you will learn will curl your toenails and straighten your hair but it will also make the walls of the garden disappear.

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