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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?

prison-370112_150We 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

Opus 003: Communism and the Tyranny of Good Intentions:

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | SEPTEMBER 06, 2012

Most of us are familiar with the story of Laissez-faire capitalism and the resulting abuses unleashed during Europe’s Industrial Revolution (1750 to 1850).  To correct these horrific insults to humanity, Karl Marx and his pal Friedrich Engels took it upon themselves to identify the problem and offer a solution…not realizing they would unleash a theoretical construct that would be used to murder, torture and  enslave most of humanity.   Their solution was Communism.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848.  Little did they know that these ideas (hatched in an arm chair in a library) would be used to enslave billions of people and responsible for hundreds of millions of agonizing deaths from starvation and cruelly at the hands of the masters it spawned.  The popular culture in today’s America cannot fathom this since they have not been educated to the evils contained in these well-intentioned ideals still proffered by our Progressive Democrats.

Unfortunately, Marx and most of our fellows today are caught up in labels and thus cannot discern the common elements in man’s inhumanity to man.  Bottom line is that if one man or group of men has unconstrained power over another, there will necessarily be abuse no matter what trendy label happens to suit your needs.

Mr. Marx believed that unconstrained capitalism was evil and it was and remains so today.  He described the class struggles between the haves and the have-nots (Bourgeois and Proletarians).  He also believed that the natural evolution dictates that democracy yields to socialism which in turn yields the final Utopian end state of Communism.  Democracy => Socialism => Communism. You can find this same theology in many of today’s progressives.

Mr. Marx also wrote another book called Das Kapital meant to expose the economic laws of capitalism and how it was the precursor to socialism.

If you’ve ever experienced the mental gymnastics and pain of reading Das Kapital you can appreciate the difficulty Mr. Marx had in explaining central planning of an economy and the socialist mode of production.  You should at least try to read a few chapters to get a sense of its morbid complexity.  What this book and Soviet Central Planning taught me is that central planning of an economy is a fool’s errand and that these decisions should be left in the hands of the individual whose work and toil created the value in the first place.  I think of it as a distribution of power model rather than a distribution of wealth model. When we remove the decision making from the individual who created the value, we create in its place malfeasance, abuse and inefficient allocation or resources not fair allocation as Marx would have us believe.  One example, I remember a friend going to a Russian shoe store to buy a pair of shoes only to find they had only left shoes…no right ones.  This would never happen in a free market, only by way of central control by a ridged, bloated bureaucracy.  Marx also missed the concept of individual motivation and how that impacts supply and demand.  Here again we can turn to our Soviet friends who had very cheap food prices as dictated by the authorities but when you went to the grocery store all the shelves were empty.

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)” is a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.

In the Marxist view, such an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist society will produce; the idea is that, with the full development of scientific socialism and unfettered productive forces, there will be enough to satisfy everyone’s needs. Sound familiar?

The old systems of Feudalism, Monarchies and the newer Laissez-faire capitalism were flawed and needed to be replaced with a well-thought out system to provide the most good for the most people.

Feudalism was a system for ordering society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor. Monarchies were based on hereditary and unconstrained capitalism– while demonstrably more efficient– did not protect the masses from the abuse of the powerful.

The world has never known a communist government to date. The Soviet Union was not Communist. It was a centrally controlled government run by the powerful few corporate officers. China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos are the same. The cheat of Communism is that it seduces the masses into the belief that they will get something for nothing. Once the idea of communism takes hold in the minds of the masses, it has been used by the few to seduce the uneducated into slavery. Hugo Chavez’s takeover of Venezuela’s democracy is a recent case in point.

Were Karl Marx and Fredrick Engles evil doods? Nah. They were just a couple of well-intentioned do-gooders out to save the world.

So what’s better than communism?  A free market economy regulated by a government whose power over the individual is constrained by a constitution which places value on individual rights and freedoms.  As Ben Franklin said…”It’s a republic, if you can keep it.”