<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480</id><updated>2011-07-07T15:07:43.578-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Political truths</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-5854752665640232762</id><published>2009-10-28T11:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T11:24:08.740-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Deutschland, du bist zur übelsten Schande verkommen</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Die „BRD“ wird heute 60 Jahre alt&lt;br /&gt;Deutschland, du bist zur übelsten Schande verkommen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von Dream-soldier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liebes Deutschland,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;soweit ist es nun gekommen. Einst, vor 60 Jahren, gab es mutige Frauen, die unser schönes Land Stein auf Stein wieder aufbauten. Sie hatten eine Idee: „Nie wieder deutsche Politik, die zu Krieg führt!“ und sie warteten noch auf ihre Männer, die zurückkommen sollten. Viele kamen nicht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der Anfang war vielversprechend, eine Gesellschaft aufzubauen, die frei von Zwang, Unterdrückung und Kriegshetze ist. Er wollte den Bürger in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Sie setzten sich zusammen und erschufen das Grundgesetz, das eigentlich eine gute und demokratische Verfassung darstellen sollte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von da an jedoch begann deine Schande, liebes Deutschland, denn du hattest vergessen, das der Bürger im Mittelpunkt stehen sollte. Statt dessen erlaubtest du Parteien, die sich an die Vorkriegszeit anlehnten. Sie sollten dann, und nur sie, den Bürger vertreten. Verkauft haben sie diese Mogelpackung z.B. mit dem Ahlener Programm (CDU), das mit folgendem Wortlaut beginnt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;„Das kapitalistische Wirtschaftssystem ist den staatlichen und sozialen Lebensinteressen des deutschen Volkes nicht gerecht geworden. (…) Inhalt und Ziel (einer) sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Neuordnung kann nicht mehr das kapitalistische Gewinn- und Machtstreben, sondern nur das Wohlergehen unseres Volkes sein. Durch eine gemeinschaftliche Ordnung soll das deutsche Volk eine Wirtschafts- und Sozialverfassung erhalten, die dem Recht und der Würde des Menschen entspricht, dem geistigen und materiellen Aufbau unseres Volkes dient und den inneren und äußeren Frieden sichert.“&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deine Bürger haben dir das abgenommen, obwohl sie auch andere Interessensgruppen, als politische Parteien, im Parlament haben wollten. Das hast du aber mit der 5 % Hürde verhindert. Und das Grundgesetz als Verfassung anzuerkennen, hast du auch verhindert, weil du meintest, soetwas müsse für ganz Deutschland gelten und Deutschland ist geteilt. Du wolltest es aber nachholen, wenn Deutschland wieder vereinigt ist. (Einschließlich einer 2/3 Mehrheit einer Volksabstimmung)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du hast dem deutschen Bürger auch seine Grundrechte verweigert, Bürger qua Gesetz zu sein. Du nanntest den Bürger „Staatsangehörige“, statt „Staatsbürger“.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dann bist du ganz von „innerem und äußerem Frieden“ abgewichen und gründetest dann eine Kriegsmaschine namens Bundeswehr und bist der NATO beigetreten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du wolltest eine soziale und wirtschaftliche Neuordnung, ohne kapitalistisches Gewinn- und Machtstreben, hast jedoch weiterhin den Zins zugelassen (un-christlich !), der dazu führte, das Banken und Versicherungen sich neu orientieren konnten. Entschuldigt hast du das von je her mit dem Argument, Arbeitsplätze zu schaffen und der (unwissende) Bürger hat dir leider vertraut, weil er nach dem Krieg wieder Geld in der Tasche hatte und das war dein Trick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von da ab galt für dich nur noch das Argument, nur Wirtschaftswachstum fördere Arbeitsplätze und schaffe Vollbeschäftigung. Nicht der Bürger, sondern Neoliberalismus nach Friedman, Euken und von Hayek wurde zu deine Politik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weiter hast du es versäumt, deine Altlast zu entsorgen und deine Vergangenheit aufzuarbeiten. Stattdessen hast du alte Nazigrößen in Amt und Würden belassen, die weiterhin in Politik und Recht sprachen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mit der Gründung und dem Beitritt in die EWG 1957 hast du dann die Bürgerinteressen völlig vernachlässigt, weil hier rein ökonomische Gesichtspunkte im Mittelpunkt standen, auf die der Bürger keinen Anspruch mehr hatte, mitzuentscheiden. Später dann gabst du durch den Lissabon-Vertrag fast alle deine eigenen Rechte ab, denn fast kein deutscher Abgeordneter hat ihn komplett studiert/verstanden und trotzdem für ihn gestimmt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du hörtest nur wenig auf die 68er Generation, die damals viele dieser Dinge bereits angeprangert haben. Stattdessen schufst du die Notstandsgesetze, um ja das Volk in die Schranken weisen zu können, damit du deine verfehlte und egoistische Politik weiter verfolgen konntest. Denn du hattest damals wirklich Angst vor dem Volk. Du hast ein Beispiel in Frankreich gesehen, als der Generalstreik ausgerufen wurde. Davor hattest du auch in Deutschland Angst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als dann das zweite Deutschland (DDR) kaputt war, hattest du eine weitere Chance gehabt, vernünftige Dinge von dort zu übernehmen. Stattdessen betrogst du jene, die von der DDR-Regierung enteignet wurden und ihr Eigentum verloren, was du dann einfach in deinen Säckel stecktest und den ehemaligen Eigentümern keine Entschädigung zahltest. Hierunter waren viele mittelständische Unternehmen, die erneut Arbeitsplätze hätten schaffen können.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Kosten der Vereinigung hast du auch absolut ungerecht auf die übertragen, die in Arbeit stehen, tagein, tagaus. Ihnen wurde von ihrem Gehalt ein sogenannter „Soli“ abgezogen. Hättest du für alle Deutschen hierfür eine Steuer erhoben, wäre es viel gerechter gewesen, weil die Kosten auf alle Bürger übertragen worden wären. Und jeder einzelne hätten viel weniger bezahlen müssen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deine Politik führte dazu, die Reichen immer reicher und die Kleinverdiener immer ärmer werden zu lassen. Deine Sozialdemokraten (wer hat uns verraten, ...?) legten ihre Agenda 2010 auf und gossen sie in Gesetze. NWO-Politik ! Du belügst den Bürger, weil du Arbeitslosen-Statistiken schön schreibst. Du beklaust den Bürger und gibst das Geld den Banken, die darauf hin ihr Einkommen erhöhen, jedoch weiterhin darauf verzichten, dem Mittelstand Kredite zu gewähren, weil sie ihr Geld „besser“ und in gleicher Weise, wie vor der Finanzkrise, anlegen können. Und weil du nicht gegen die Macht der Banken kämpfen kannst, überlegst du dir heute, nachdem du bereits sehr viel Geld dort reingesteckt hast, den Unternehmungen in Deutschland mit sogenannten Kreditabsicherungen unter die Arme zu greifen, wenn das schief geht, auf Kosten der Steuerzahler. Ein Job, den die Banken sonst übernehmen. Wie verrucht bist du eigentlich ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du unterstütztest die Gleichschaltung der Medien, damit kaum noch kritisch über dich berichtet werden konnte. Kritische Journalisten verloren ihre Jobs. Wovor du wieder Angst hast, ist das Internet. Dort besteht ein Raum, der für dich sehr schwer zugänglich und zu reglementieren ist, obwohl du es versuchst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du bist heute der drittgrößte Waffenexporteur der Welt nach USA und Russland. Du belieferst Israel fast kostenlos mit U-Booten, die Atomwaffen abschießen können, obwohl du weisst, das der Nahe Osten ein Krisengebiet ist. Allein von 1999 bis 2005 lieferte die Bundesrepublik Waffen im Wert von mehr als einer Milliarde Dollar nach Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das aller schlimmste, liebes Deutschland, ist das, was die Frauen damals vor 60 Jahren wirklich nicht mehr wollten, ist, das du wieder Krieg führst, zuerst im Balkan und jetzt in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und das unverzeihlichste für deutsche Intelligenz ist, dass das auf Grund einer amerikanischen Politik von sogenannten „Neocons“ entstanden ist, die besagt, das islamistische Terroristen 9/11 ausgelöst haben, die von ihnen selbst ausgebildet (CIA) wurden und wir deshalb Deutschlands Sicherheit in Afghanistan schützen müssen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das du, Deutschland, dich auch noch an dem Programm der NWO beteiligst, 80 – 90% der Menschheit durch Massenimpfung auszulöschen, haben die Nazis nicht mal geschafft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deutsche Bürger, aufwachen und reagieren. Neue bürgernahe Projekte fördern. Parteien ablösen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deutschland, du bist in den letzten 60 Jahren zur übelsten Schande verkommen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-5854752665640232762?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/5854752665640232762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=5854752665640232762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/5854752665640232762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/5854752665640232762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2009/10/deutschland-du-bist-zur-ubelsten.html' title='Deutschland, du bist zur übelsten Schande verkommen'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-2951310730570415752</id><published>2009-08-26T16:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T16:56:26.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Amerika, du bist eine gottverdammte Schande.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;verfasst von prinz_eisenherz, 25.08.2009, 21:29&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frühling 2002&lt;br /&gt;Leserbrief in der The Washington Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liebes Amerika,&lt;br /&gt;soweit ist es nun gekommen. Deine einst große Nation wurde vom Wahnsinn heimgesucht, die Massen, die unter Verleugnung leiden, jagen Millionen außerhalb deiner Grenzen Schauer über den Rücken. Eure Nation ist krank. Aber die meisten von euch machen weiter, als ob nichts geschehen sei.&lt;br /&gt;Dunkle, üble Machenschaften wuchern in den geheimen Winkeln eurer Regierungsinstitutionen. Eine illegal errichtete Regierung führt überall auf der Erde Kriege nach eigenem Gutdünken, diskutiert Möglichkeiten für Nukleareinsätze, die zu Pointen des fröhlichen Geplauders beim Mittagessen werden. Eure Militär- und Geheimdienstbehörden bedienen sich rund um den Erdball terroristischer Taktiken und bestehen gleichzeitig darauf, solche Taktiken seien nötig, um gegen den Terrorismus zu kämpfen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du bist eine Nation von Monstern geworden, Amerika. Heuchler. Mörder. Dummköpfe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eure Verfassung ist dank nationaler Sicherheitsmassnahmen ein heilloses Durcheinander, ein Resultat aus möglicherweise U.S.-Regierungs-gesponserten Terroristen-Attacken in New York City und Washington D.C., verdeckte Provokationen, um eine böswillige, vergiftete, auf Öl beruhende Militärwirtschaft zu rechtfertigen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kümmer' dich bloß nicht darum, dass es bereits umweltfreundliche Technologien gibt, die die Abhängigkeit von Öl-, Kohle- und Kernenergie, von Einrichtungen und Konzernen, die nicht kontrollierbar sind, ein für alle Mal beenden könnten. Du würdest dich lieber dumm und dämlich zahlen für deine unsichere Bequemlichkeit, nicht wahr Amerika?, und andere mit ihrem Blut zahlen lassen.&lt;br /&gt;Gleichzeitig stehst du bereit als Israels weltliche Zionisten - die du mit Waffen und Geld versorgst - die ungezählte Unschuldige in der West Bank abschlachten und dann die Palästinenser beschuldigen, dass sie ihnen Terrorismus bringen. Es ist wahr, es gibt schreckliche arabische Selbstmordbomber mitten in Israel. Aber werden sie nicht zu dem Wahnsinn und der Verzweiflung getrieben durch eure teuflische Unterstützung internationaler Terrorismus-Politik?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Während ich diese Worte niederschreibe, unterstützt du eine Nation, die von einem überführten Mörder angeführt wird, der ungestraft Kriegsverbrechen verübt, die so grausam und so furchtbar sind wie die irgendeines sadistischen Tyrannen in der Geschichte. Und du sagst - mit unsäglichem Zynismus -, wann endlich werden die Palästinenser diesen Krieg beenden?&lt;br /&gt;Du führst auch an anderen Fronten rücksichtslose Kriege. Dein Drogenkrieg zuhause ist eine verheerende 30 Jahre andauernde Torheit - ein gigantischer Schwindel zum Vorteil tödlicher Kartelle, korrupter Politiker und bedrohlicher Geheimdienste rund um den Erdball.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In der Zwischenzeit sprühen militärische Tankflugzeuge ohne Einwilligung euerer Bevölkerung Massen von unbekannten Chemikalien in den Himmel über euren Städten und die meisten von euch haben nicht einmal die nötigen Mittel, um hoch zu schauen. Diejenigen, die es tun und ihren Unmut äußern, bekommen nur ein betäubendes Schweigen von euerm Kongress und von den aus Steuern finanzierten Gesundheitsbehörden zu hören. Manche Amerikaner haben auch eine blühende Phantasie, stimmt's? Behandelt sie am besten mit rezeptpflichtigen Pillen, die den Verstand lähmen und versucht, nicht an die Tausenden von Nebenwirkungen zu denken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In der Tat, jene, die eure Regierung einsetzt, um über eure Sicherheit zu wachen, lachen euch ins Gesicht. Mit der Unterstützung eurer Regierung kaufen miese Multis wie Monsanto die Trinkwasserversorgung der Welt auf und nehmen die Vegetation der Welt mit einer Frankenstein-Technologie in Besitz, von der bereits bekannt ist, dass sie Krankheiten verursacht.&lt;br /&gt;Kümmert sich die FDA darum? Zur Hölle nein. Es stand schon lange fest, den Versuchskaninchen des Landes genetisch veränderte Nahrungsmittel unterzujubeln - einschließlich jedem Mann, jeder Frau, jedem Kind auf Amerikas zunehmend vergiftetem Boden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ihr seid eine Nation von Trotteln, Amerika, ihr werdet ausgeblutet von euerm hart verdienten Geld durch skandalöse Tricks der Banken, Wall Street Räubereien und getürkten Eingriffen in den Etat der Regierung. Euer Pentagon kann den Verlust von Billionen von Dollars nicht nachweisen. Stört euch das? Nicht im Geringsten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eure gesamte Wirtschaft wird von etwas kontrolliert, was zum größten Teil gewaltige, internationale Bankinteressen in der Art der Federal Reserve sind, die euch mit Einwilligung euerer Regierung den Weg hinunter in untilgbare Schulden und den sicheren finanziellen Ruin führen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lohnt es sich darüber nachzudenken? Wann geht das Fußballspiel an?&lt;br /&gt;Genau dieselben Geldleute sind es, die durch nicht überwachte und nicht repräsentative Weltkomitees Länder wie Argentinien in hoffnungslose Schulden und sozialen Aufruhr treiben. Diese gierigen Oberbonzen schaffen Konflikte und Leiden in einer Nation nach der anderen in einem Ausmaß und einer Tragik, die nicht in Worte zu fassen ist. Schau bloß mal nach Afrika.&lt;br /&gt;Jetzt haben sie ihre Standorte auch in Amerika, zerbrechen die wirtschaftliche Stabilität durch so genannte Freihandelsinitiativen und Provisionen für besondere Gefälligkeiten und dem endlosen Fluss von Cash in monströse Korporationen wie Enron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eure Repräsentanten im Kongress sind zum größten Teil Schweine, die sich um die Tröge der Korporationen scharen. Euer Präsident ist ein Schleimer und ein Schläger, ein Heuchler, der in seinen Taten Krieg, Unterdrückung und Gier zelebriert, während er gleichzeitig sogar Lippenbekenntnisse für Frieden, Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit abliefert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George W. Bush legt euch täglich herein, dieser Feigling, der sich hinter einem verlogenen Patriotismus versteckt. Er ist ein Enron-Kumpel, ein verwöhntes Kind, das das Blaue vom Himmel herunterlügt über seine vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Taten. Macht er sich Sorgen um dich, Amerika? Kaum. Außerhalb eurer Grenzen ist das allen völlig klar, die die Welt um sich herum politisch bewusst und aufmerksam betrachten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du hast dich auch niemals für die unwürdigen Praktiken von Georges rücksichtlosem Vater interessiert, ein Bin-Laden Mitstreiter und Freund von Kriminellen und Mördern in globalen Drogen-, Öl- und Terrorismus-Unternehmen. Iran. Vietnam. El Salvador. Chile. Guatemala. Irak. Und so weiter, und so weiter. Eine endlose Rabaukenstory von Blut, Waffen, Drogen und Geld.&lt;br /&gt;Ist irgendwas davon von Bedeutung? Nicht wirklich. Geh und stopf dir deinen zehnmilliardsten Burger rein, Amerika. Mästet eure bereits fetten Ärsche mit Bakterien-und-Hormonen verseuchtem Fleisch und rührt euch nicht, wenn ihr dumpf vor euren verblödenden Glotzen hockt und die nächste Episode trauriger Familien, die gedemütigt werden, anseht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wenige unter euch sind überhaupt daran interessiert, dass keine wirkliche Untersuchung über den 11.9. stattgefunden hat, dass keine ernsthafte Untersuchung über die Anthrax-Angriffe vorankommt, dass keine echte Untersuchung über Enron oder dem Mord an einem ihrer Topmanager in Arbeit ist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie viele von euch haben sich auch nur einen Deut um die totalitären Maßnahmen gekümmert, die eure Regierung unternimmt, um ihre geheimen Versammlungen, schmuddligen Akten und verräterischen Taten vor euren Augen zu verbergen? Ihr schaut weg, wenn sich eure eigenen ehrlichen Bürger gegen jene in eurer Nation erheben, die unschuldige Kinder in Wako vergasten, Beweise über das TWA 800 Luftunglück verbargen und mit ausländischen Terroristen in Oklahoma City kungelten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wann hast du aufgehört aufzupassen, Amerika?&lt;br /&gt;War es, nachdem euer eigener CIA und das FBI den Mord an Präsident John. F. Kennedy eingefädelt hatte? Oder ist das bloß die totale Verrücktheit der Verschwörungsspinnerei? Was sagt euch euer Bauch, Amerika? Fehlt da nicht ein bisschen was? Vergiss es. Nimm ein paar Pepto-Bismal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute geht deine eigene Regierung nutzlos gegen sich selber vor Gericht wegen Informationen, zu denen du per Gesetz berechtigt bist. Aber das wird kaum als lebenswichtige Neuigkeit betrachtet in der Gemeinde. Es ist ein flüchtiger Hinweis im elektronischen Meer bedeutungslosen Geplänkels. Zum Beweis sieh nur auf all die rückgratlosen Huren, die eure Mainstream-Nachrichtenmedien bilden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute überschüttet ihr die tapferen und ehrlichen unter euch mit vernichtender Kritik, macht sie lächerlich und ächtet sie. Eure am besten recherchierenden Journalisten werden aus ihren Jobs gefeuert und ignoriert. Die wenigen mutigen Seelen im Kongress werden ausgelacht und fallen gelassen. Der ehrlichste und gewissenhafteste politische Führer des Landes, Ralph Nader, ist eine machtlose, kaum sichtbare Kuriosität, die von angeheuerten Schlägern leicht in Schach gehalten wird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amerika, du bist eine gottverdammte Schande.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was zählt das Gesetz eigentlich noch in deinem verachtenswerten Staat? Was die Gerechtigkeit? Was die Wahrheit? Wann wirst du aufwachen? Wenn du alle beisammen hättest, würdest du genau jetzt all deinen Mut zusammennehmen, auf die Strasse gehen und mit Millionen nach Washington D.C. marschieren. Aber ich weiß, ihr werdet das nicht tun. Die große Mehrheit von euch ist geistig, emotional und vom Verstand her tot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ihr konsumiert. Ihr esst. Ihr scheißt. Und das war's dann aber auch.&lt;br /&gt;Während ich diese Worte im Frühling 2002 schreibe, kann ich mir nur vorstellen, welche weiteren Schrecken eure Schattenregierung sich ausdenken könnte, womit sie sicher versuchen wird, Militarismus und Totalitarismus in weltweitem Umfang zu rechtfertigen. Vielleicht eine Kernwaffenexplosion in einer eurer Städte? Ein massiver bio-chemischer Angriff?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vielleicht wird es aber auch irgendein arabischer Terrorist sein, der die große und schreckliche Tat vollbringt und in seinen letzten Atemzügen an die Versprechen denkt, die ihr ihm gemacht habt, bevor ihr seine Familie tötet.&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;Robert McDougall&lt;br /&gt;A Canadian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dasgelbeforum.de.org/forum_entry.php?id=121023"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Englische Version:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Open Letter To America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Robert McDougall - Canadian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bob0516@hotmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5-12-02&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To The Washington Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear America:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so it has come to this. Your once great nation has fallen into madness, an affliction of mass denial that brings shivers up the spines of millions outside your borders. Yours is a sick nation. But most of you carry on as though nothing at all is the matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dark, evil operations run rampant in the secret corners of your government institutions. An illegally constituted government pursues war at will anywhere on earth, discussing nuclear options that become points for cheerful chatter over lunch. Your military and intelligence agencies employ terrorist tactics around the globe even as they insist that such tactics are necessary in the fight against terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have become a nation of monsters, America. Hypocrites. Murderers. Fools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your constitution is a shambles thanks to national security measures resulting from what might well be U.S.-government-sponsored terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., covert provocations designed to justify a malevolent, poisonous, oil-based military economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind that earth-friendly technology already exists to once and for all end dependence on oil, coal and nuclear energy from huge, out-of-control utilities and corporations. You would rather pay through the nose for your insecure comforts, wouldn't you America ? and make others pay with their blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, you stand by as the Israel's secular Zionists ? whom you support through the supply of arms and money -- slaughter untold numbers of innocents in the West Bank, then blame the Palestinians for bringing the terror upon them selves. True, there are terrible Arab suicide bombers in Israel's midst. But are they not driven to madness and desperation by your infernal support of international terrorist politics?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I write these words, you support a nation run by a convicted murderer who with impunity is carrying out war crimes as cruel and horrendous as those of other sadistic tyrants in history. And you say, in your utter cynicism, when will these Palestinians bring this war to an end?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You recklessly wage combat on other fronts, too. At home, your War on Drugs is a disastrous 30-year folly -- a gigantic con game designed to benefit lethal cartels, corrupt politicians and menacing intelligence agencies across the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, military tanker jets daily spray massive quantities of unknown chemicals into the skies above your cities without your population's consent, and most of you do not even have the wherewithal to look up. Those who do and who voice their outrage hear only a deafening silence from your congress and your tax-supported health agencies. Some Americans have too active imaginations, yes? Best treat them with mind-numbing prescription drugs, and try to forget that the awful side effects number in the thousands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, those who your government appoints to oversee your safety and security laugh in your faces. With your government's support, crooked multinationals like Monsanto buy up the world's water supplies, and take possession of the world's vegetation through Frankenstein technology already known to cause illness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does the FDA care about any of this? Hell no. It's long been on the bandwagon to foist genetically altered food on the Guinea Pigs of the country -- including every man, woman and child on America’s increasingly toxic soil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are a nation of suckers, America, to be bled dry of your hard-earned pay through outrageous bank schemes, Wall Street rip offs and fake government budget grabs. Your Pentagon cannot account for trillions in lost dollars. Does this bother you? Not in the least.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your whole economy is controlled by what is for the most part ravenous, international private banking interests in the form of The Federal Reserve, which with your governments consent leads you down the garden path to irrecoverable debt and certain financial ruin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this worth thinking about? When's the football game on? These very same moneymen are the ones who, through unmonitored and unrepresentative world committees, are driving countries like Argentina into hopeless debt and social upheaval. These greedy overlords are creating strife and suffering on a scale too tragic for words in nation after nation. Just look at Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They've got their sites on America, now, too; disrupting economic stability through so-called free trade initiatives and provisions for special favors and the endless flow of cash to corporate monstrosities like Enron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the most part, your congressional representatives are nothing but swine gathering at the corporate troughs. Your president is a creep and a thug, a hypocrite who through his actions celebrates war, repression and greed even as he gives lip service to peace, freedom and justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George W. Bush hoodwinks you daily, the coward hiding behind a phony patriotism. He is an Enron buddy boy, a spoiled child lying in his teeth about his past and current dirty deeds. Does he care about you America? Hardly. This is altogether obvious to those outside your borders who are politically aware and awake to the world around them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You were never concerned about the disgraceful practices of George's ruthless father, either, a Bin-Laden cohort and friend to criminals and killers in global drug, oil and terrorist enterprises. Iran. Vietnam. El Salvador. Chile. Guatemala. Iraq. And on and on. The never-ending bully-boy story of blood, guns, drugs and money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does any of this matter? Not really. Go get your ten-billionth burger America. Fatten your already fat asses with bacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit stupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting the next episode of sad families being humiliated on Cops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few among you are the least bit concerned that no real investigation of 911 has taken place, that no serious investigation of the anthrax attacks is moving forward, that no authentic investigation of Enron, or the murder of one of its top executives, is underway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you give the slightest damn about the totalitarian measures your government is taking to keep its secret meetings, grubby files and treasonous activities from your eyes? You look the other way as your own honest citizens rise up against those within your nation who gassed innocent children to death at Wako, hid evidence in the TWA 800 air disaster and rubbed elbows with foreign terrorists in Oklahoma City.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When did you stop caring America? Was it after your own CIA and FBI plotted the murder of President John F. Kennedy? Or is this just the raving lunacy of the conspiracy nut? What does your gut tell you America? Is something a little amiss here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forget about it. Have some Pepto-Bismal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, in futility, your own government goes to court against itself for information you are entitled to by law. But this is hardly deemed vital news in the community. It is a fleeting reference in an electronic sea of meaningless banter. For proof, just look to all the spineless whores who constitute your mainstream news media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, you excoriate, ridicule and ostracize the brave and true among you. Your best investigative journalists are fired from their jobs and ignored. Congress's few courageous souls are laughed at and dismissed out of hand. The most honest and conscientious political leader in the country, Ralph Nader, is a powerless, near invisible curiosity easily side-lined by hired goons. America, you are a goddamn shame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What law matters now in your despicable state? What justice? What truth? When will you wake up? If you had your druthers, you would right now gather your courage, take to the streets and march on Washington D.C. in the millions. But I know you will do no such thing. The vast majority of you are spiritually, emotionally and intellectually dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You consume. You eat. You shit. And that's just about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I write these words in Spring of 2002, I can only imagine what additional horrors your shadow government might be planning in what will surely be an attempt to justify militarism and totalitarianism on a universal scale. A nuclear explosion in one of your cities perhaps? A massive bio-chemical attack?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or perhaps it will be some Arab terrorist who does the great and terrible deed, his last thought before death being the promises you made to him before killing his family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert McDougall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Canadian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/LegalEthics/Corruption/&lt;br /&gt;AnOpenLetterToAmerica.htm"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-2951310730570415752?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/2951310730570415752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=2951310730570415752' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/2951310730570415752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/2951310730570415752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2009/08/amerika-du-bist-eine-gottverdammte.html' title=''/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-982837520205007224</id><published>2009-05-31T08:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T09:22:47.006-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Ich wollte Amerika nicht helfen, Unschuldige zu ermorden"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://pix.sueddeutsche.de/politik/792/449521/180x180_5tVVRBn4dw.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 180px;" src="http://pix.sueddeutsche.de/politik/792/449521/180x180_5tVVRBn4dw.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"Ich wollte Amerika nicht helfen, Unschuldige zu ermorden"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Beitrag bereits im Dez. 2008 erschienen, habe ihn aber erst jetzt gefunden)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Er ist der erste desertierte US-Soldat, der in Deutschland politisches Asyl beantragt hat: André Shepherd will nicht noch einmal im Irak kämpfen. Er hält den Krieg für völkerrechtswidrig - im SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Interview spricht er über seine Motive, Hoffnungen und die Angst vor der Militärpolizei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPIEGEL ONLINE: Herr Shepherd, Sie leben jetzt in einem deutschen Asylbewerberheim. Wie geht es Ihnen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd: Ich bin sehr erleichtert. Mein Leben steckte vor dem Asylantrag so lange in einer schier unerträglichen Warteschleife - jetzt hat sich endlich etwas bewegt. Hier in der Unterkunft bin ich zusammen mit Flüchtlingen aus Ländern wie dem Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, und wir kommen sehr gut miteinander klar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPIEGEL ONLINE: Warum sind Sie aus der US-Armee desertiert?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd: Wohl aus ähnlichem Grund wie die rund 25.000 Kameraden, die seit dem Beginn des Irak-Krieges desertiert sind. Ich war als Mechaniker bei der Army zuständig für die Instandhaltung von Ah-64A-Apache-Helikoptern und bereits von September 2004 bis Februar 2005 in Camp Speicher stationiert, einem Stützpunkt nahe Tikrit. Später habe ich kapiert, dass dieser Krieg ein Aggressionskrieg ist, der ganz klar gegen die Charta der Vereinten Nationen verstößt und damit völkerrechtswidrig ist. Als ich im April 2007 den zweiten Einsatzbefehl für den Irak bekam, gab es für mich keine andere Möglichkeit mehr, als den Dienst in diesem Krieg zu verweigern. Ich wollte Amerika nicht noch einmal dabei helfen, unschuldige Menschen zu ermorden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPIEGEL ONLINE: Wie haben Sie es geschafft, 19 Monate lang in Süddeutschland unterzutauchen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd: Dabei haben mir vor allem meine deutschen Freunde geholfen, die mir schnell ein Zimmer in einem alten Bauernhaus besorgt haben. Sie haben mich durchgefüttert, auch wenn ich zwischendurch immer wieder versucht habe, zum Beispiel mit Gartenarbeit ein wenig Geld zu verdienen. Aber das war natürlich schwierig. Später haben mich die Leute vom Military Counseling Network, die in Deutschland stationierte US-Soldaten und Kriegsdienstverweigerer beraten, mit juristischem Rat unterstützt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPIEGEL ONLINE: Sind sie denn nie in eine Polizeikontrolle geraten?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd: Ich war sehr vorsichtig, denn ich hatte große Angst, dass mich die deutsche Polizei an die US-Militärpolizei ausliefern würde. Dann wäre ich erst einmal für viele Monate im Gefängnis gelandet. Trotzdem wurde ich in den 19 Monaten zweimal kontrolliert - bin aber jedes Mal mit dem Schrecken davongekommen. Die Polizisten dachten, ich sei ein illegaler Tellerwäscher aus Afrika. Als ich ihnen meinen Army-Ausweis zeigte, haben sie mich einfach durchgewinkt. Trotzdem lebt man natürlich in permanenter Angst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPIEGEL ONLINE: Die meisten US-Deserteure flüchten nach Kanada. Wieso haben Sie ausgerechnet in Deutschland politisches Asyl beantragt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd: Ich war die vergangenen Jahre in Deutschland stationiert, in der Katterbach-Kaserne in der Nähe von Nürnberg. Fast alle US-Soldaten fliegen ja über Deutschland in den Irak oder nach Afghanistan. In Deutschland leben meine wichtigsten Freunde, hier sehe ich meine Zukunft, fühle ich mich zu Hause. Außerdem wurde hierzulande in den Nürnberger Prozessen deutlich gemacht: Nur Befehle zu befolgen, ist keine Entschuldigung. Jeder, auch ein Soldat, ist für seine Taten verantwortlich. Daher denke ich: Wenn ich in diesem Land nicht Zuflucht und Verständnis für mein Handeln finden kann, wo dann?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPIEGEL ONLINE: Als Asylbewerber stehen Sie unter dem Schutz der Genfer Flüchtlingskommission. Fühlen Sie sich nun sicher?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd: Zumindest sicherer als zuvor. Aber den ständigen ängstlichen Blick über die Schulter, das Leben im Schatten, gewöhnt man sich nur langsam ab. Ich weiß nicht wirklich, was wirklich passieren würde, wenn ich einer Streife der US-Militärpolizei in die Arme laufen würde. Daher bin ich immer noch sehr vorsichtig. Aber es gibt für mich keine Alternative: Ich hätte mich strafbar gemacht, wäre ich noch einmal in diesen völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg gezogen. Nicht ich bin der Kriminelle. Die Verantwortlichen sitzen in Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Interview führte Simone Kaiser &lt;br /&gt;http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,593835,00.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-982837520205007224?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/982837520205007224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=982837520205007224' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/982837520205007224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/982837520205007224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2009/05/ich-wollte-amerika-nicht-helfen.html' title='&quot;Ich wollte Amerika nicht helfen, Unschuldige zu ermorden&quot;'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-3037785367662807165</id><published>2009-05-08T16:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-08T19:15:21.792-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Von Amerika  nach Deutschland</title><content type='html'>Von Amerika  nach Deutschland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ursprünglich hatte ich diesen Blog für amerikanische Leser vorgesehen. Nun, nachdem ich selbst eine Website habe (http://beyondmainstream.de.tl/Home.htm), möchte ich gern mehr hier mit diesem Blog in Deutschland arbeiten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Er sollte genutzt werden von meinen treuen Lesern meiner Website, um hier ihre Kommentare über bestimmte Beiträge oder andere Kritiken darzustellen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von 800 bis 1000 Besuchern täglich auf meiner Seite soll ich unterstellen, dass es viele gibt, die gerne etwas sagen möchten, den Weg über Gästebuch oder Kontatformular meiden. Auch mein Forum ist bisher nicht in Gang gekommen, obwohl einige sich angemeldet haben. Kann ich verstehen. Hier können &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;alle&lt;/span&gt; mitlesen und das ist gut so !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bleibt im Umgang fair und freundlich und lasst andere Meinung stehen. Untereinander haben alle Menschen einen unterschiedlichen Horizont.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, nun dürft Ihr !&lt;br /&gt;Dream-soldier&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-3037785367662807165?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/3037785367662807165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=3037785367662807165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/3037785367662807165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/3037785367662807165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2009/05/von-amerika-nach-deutschland.html' title='Von Amerika  nach Deutschland'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-2221628886919303077</id><published>2007-10-20T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T06:25:46.314-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rügen</title><content type='html'>&lt;object style='width:430px;height:380px;' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' data='http://www.myvideo.de/movie/1574843'&gt; &lt;param name='movie' value='http://www.myvideo.de/movie/1574843'/&gt; &lt;param name='FlashVars' value='DESTSERVER=http://www.myvideo.de&amp;LINKTEXT=MyVideo'/&gt; &lt;param name='AllowFullscreen' value='true' /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1574843' title='Video von der Insel R&amp;uuml;gen - MyVideo'&gt;Video von der Insel R&amp;uuml;gen - MyVideo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-2221628886919303077?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/2221628886919303077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=2221628886919303077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/2221628886919303077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/2221628886919303077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2007/10/rgen.html' title='Rügen'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-3930700170777357537</id><published>2007-06-23T07:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-23T07:31:16.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GEAB N°16 is available! Global systemic crisis / Summer 2007 : Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This second quarter's fundamental event about to shove most players' anticipations over the coming months, is certainly the final and simultaneous failure of the two key-strategies defined by US leaders, i.e.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. in the economic, financial and monetary fields, the Fed' policy initiated a year ago when M3 publishing was abandoned and aimed at substituting a financial and stock bubble to the bursting housing bubble in order to maintain US growth (and capital attractiveness) has now patently failed, thus entailing a historical loss of the Fed's control on US interest rates (for the first time since 1918, except in times of war or social/economic depression)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. in the military, strategic and diplomatic fields, the stability plan for Iraq is a complete failure taking place in the framework of Washington's growing political paralysis (which LEAP/E2020 plans to describe in GEAB N°17 - on subscription).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spring 2007 indeed appears as the tipping point of the global systemic crisis: the US economy went into recession, US interest rates were restored, the bond market is in crisis, the subprime crisis begins to hit large US financial institutions such as Bear Stearns (1), Goldman Sachs (2) and Freddie Mac (3), the US housing crisis is speeding up (4), the paralysis of Washington's political power grows (5), the isolation of the US on the international arena increases, the security plan for Iraq proves to be a complete failure, the US is powerless against Iran, the relaunch of the Israelo-Arab peace process aborts, trade tensions between China and the US rise, a growing number of countries (Kuwait, Syria,…) flee from the US dollar, etc…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, according to LEAP/E2020 researchers, it is undeniably this Fed's and White House's (Pentagon's) double simultaneous failure which affects most the unfolding of the global systemic crisis for the months to come, as it precipitates China and the EU into the « vacuum » thus created and thrusts the US into « recessflation ».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.leap2020.eu/photo/660066-806161.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.leap2020.eu/photo/660066-806161.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rest of the world holdings of US financial assets / Source US Federal Reserve - PrudentBear&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In this public announcement&lt;/span&gt;, LEAP/E2020 wishes to share publicly some of GEAB N°16 excerpts (on &lt;a class="liens" href="http://www.europe2020.org/spip.php?article25&amp;lang=en" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;"&gt;subscription&lt;/a&gt;) about the consequences of this failed attempt of economic relaunch conducted by Ben Bernanke and the Fed's loss of control over US interest rates, of historical dimension (6).&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;Today, the Fed's official stance pretends that the US economy will grow again in the coming months and reduces to a mere anecdote the collapse of US growth in the first quarter (down to 0.6 percent only), anticipating a 2.5 see 3 percent growth altogether in 2007 (7), knowing that recent economic previsions published by the UN place US growth around 0.5 percent in 2008 (8). As early as March 2007, LEAP/E2020 anticipated a growth below 1 percent in the third quarter of 2007 (in consideration of the first terms 0.6 percent, annual growth is very likely indeed to be at best below 2 percent, more likely negative in the end).&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless this official stance is contradicted by most available objective indicators (corporate performance, employment,...), even if it seems supported by a whole range of other indicators, either indicators carefully ‘cooked' by the Federal government or subjective indicators reflecting for instance the impact of official statements on public opinion. LEAP/E2020 already described in 2006 how opinion manipulations work; and in GEAB N°16 (on &lt;a class="liens" href="http://www.europe2020.org/spip.php?article25&amp;lang=en" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;"&gt;subscription&lt;/a&gt;), our team of researchers details a number of objective indicators that can help to anticipate precisely US economic trends in the next quarters (in particular: hidden unemployment rise, « phantom-GDP » mechanism of US growth overrating, or increasingly devastating impact of the housing and subprime crises).&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;A great lack of transparency reigned over the Fed's actions in terms of monetary mass and global assets in USD (such as the end of M3 publication at the end of March 2006) (9). Well this strategy proved to be a complete failure. The attempt to substitute a financial/stock bubble instead of the housing bubble, like Greenspan did when he turned the internet bubble into a housing bubble, in order to maintain US growth did not succeed. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke can always flood the US economy with liquidities. The only result will be in increasing US inflation and the fleeing from US dollar and US dollar-denominated assets. Just like the US troops are stuck in an endless conflict in Iraq, the US consumer is exhausted and insolvent, as illustrated by the close correlation between retail sales and the fast growing consumer delinquency rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.leap2020.eu/photo/660066-806171.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.leap2020.eu/photo/660066-806171.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compared retail sales &amp;amp; consumer delinquency rates in the US on one year - Source Moody's&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result, the Fed will experience a central bank's absolute nightmare: stagflation, or more precisely « recessflation » (10). The crisis currently agitating financial markets, with interest rates' « natural » curve being restored and long-term rates back above short-term rates, clearly proves that the US debt and US Treasury bonds no longer find buyers (11).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If T-Bond yields rise today, it is not by fear of inflation but because nobody wants to buy them anymore (12) (a situation anticipated by LEAP/E2020 a year ago already). As a matter of fact, foreign investors (only 11 percent of the last T-Bond sell-off (13)) are now those who fix the rate, and the Fed can only follow the trend in long-term international interest rates. Simultaneously, the Fed will have to increase its repurchasing of the US debt, operating for instance via figureheads such as those large associated investment banks, as LEAP/E2020 described many times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is new in the current situation is that the Fed is being deprived from its last remaining instrument. The rest of world now determines US rates. Simultaneously systemic uncertainty is back on financial markets. Investors suddenly realise that in the medium- and long-term, they no longer have any guarantee on global system's trends (while only a few months ago, they were convinced that the current system was sustainable). This situation highlights the fact that it is outside the US that the country's future economically and financially speaking is being played, as illustrated on three occasions in the last six months by the impact on US markets of Chinese decisions (dollar and stocks). This is a totally new situation for the US ever since the end of WWI which clearly suggests that the world order created after 1945 has come to an end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This double simultaneous failure creates a new situation, radically modifying everyone's perception of the future, and deeply affecting the dominant trends of the beginning of the phase of impact of the global systemic crisis (such as for instance the US capacity of action militarily and diplomatically speaking) while significantly reinforcing other trends (such as China and the EU being sucked into the systemic crisis as a result of the accelerating evolution in their respective status of emerging pillars of the new global system, a crisis-bearer phenomenon for both China and the EU).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, in this Summer 2007 issue of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (on subscription), LEAP/E2020 consider it useful to anticipate the four following trends that they consider will shape this year's second semester in terms of economy, finance and international policies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Finance – Investor's shift away from US Treasury bonds, the Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Fed's loss of control over US interest rates and the great return of market volatility&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. US economy – The « phantom-GDP » invented by US statistics, aggravation of the US housing crisis and rise in real unemployment: the « 2007 Very Great Depression » is shaping&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. International trade – Fallout of US economic recession on the United States and China: enhanced trade conflict and Chinese financial system in crisis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Euroland – Eurozone in crisis with a bursting housing bubble in Spain and speculative currency bubbles in Eastern Europe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As LEAP/E2020 describes in GEAB N°16 (on subscription), during the summer 2007, these heavy trends will get organised to shape the rest of the year, taking from the rear the last three months' mainstream opinion. In this issue of GEAB, our team provides some advice for investors to avoid this coming summer's main risks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------&lt;br /&gt;Notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) Bear Stearns opens the bal with second-quarter profits dropping by 10 percent, in relation to the subprime crisis. But this second quarter is probably the first of a long series to experience the full effect of a crisis that is only beginning (described in the previous issues of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin). Recent declarations by Bear Stearns leaders provide a clear picture of what large US investment banks outght to be expecting : after the subprime loans, Alt-A loans (less risky) are beginning to provoke corporate losses and hedge-funds liquidations for 4 billion worth of mortgage-backed bonds. Source : Bloomberg, 06/14/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) Source : MarketWatch/DowJones, 06/14/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) Source : MarketWatch/DowJones, 06/14/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(4) In June 2007, Harvard University released the yearly « Joint Center for Housing Studies » on housing trends in the US. The study clearly suggests that the housing crisis is only beginning as « prices only begin to fall, riskiest loans are only about to enter refinancing period, and credit restrictions only started ». The impact on the financial sphere, consumption and employment is still ahead and will materialize more and more roughly from this summer onward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(5) President G.W. Bush's approval rating fell to 29 percent, with 66 percent of respondents disapproving of him (his lowest result ever). In the same Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, reported by MarketWatch/Dow Jones 06/13/2007, 68 percent of Americans consider that their country is headed in the wrong direction. 23 percent approve the performance of the 1-year long Democrat-controlled Congress. Iraq and the economy being key-factors of US public opinion today, the gap between the « official » figures and the optimistic statements we hear today on the US economy on the one hand, and the American opinion on the state of their country on the other hand, is clearly abyssal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(6) The military and strategic aspects will be described in GEAB N°17 (on subscription).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(7) Source : GlobalInsight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(8) Source : Rob Vos, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN, 05/30/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(9) In the second issue of GEAB (February 2006), LEAP/E2020 announced the discontinuance of M3 publication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(10) Recent UN economic revised forecasts anticipate a 0.5 percent US growth in 2008, far from the 2 to 3 percent announced by the US authorities and largest banks and financial media. Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN, 05/30/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(11) Source : MarketWatch/DowJones, 06/12/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(12) Source : Financial Times, 06/12/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(13) Source : MsnMoneyCentral / Financial Times, 06/12/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOURCE :http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-16-is-available!-Global-systemic-crisis-Summer-2007-Fed-looses-control-on-US-interest-rates-and-crisis-reaches_a713.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-3930700170777357537?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/3930700170777357537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=3930700170777357537' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/3930700170777357537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/3930700170777357537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2007/06/fed-looses-control-on-us-interest-rates.html' title='Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-895773173741397366</id><published>2007-06-17T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-17T06:13:48.081-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Putin’s Censored Press Conference:</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.harrywalker.com/photos/Buchanan_Pat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.harrywalker.com/photos/Buchanan_Pat.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The transcript      you weren’t supposed to see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;By Mike Whitney&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;     06/10/07 "&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ICH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;"      --- - O&lt;/b&gt;n Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an      hour and a half-long press conference which was attended by many      members of the world media. The contents of that meeting---in      which Putin answered all questions concerning nuclear      proliferation, human rights, Kosovo, democracy and the present      confrontation with the United States over missile defense in      Europe---have been completely censored by the press. Apart from      one brief excerpt which appeared in a Washington Post editorial,      (and which was used to criticize Putin) the press conference has      been scrubbed from the public record. It never happened. (Read      the entire press conference archived&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17855.htm"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17855.htm"&gt;http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17855.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Putin’s performance was a tour de force. He fielded all of the      questions however misleading or insulting. He was candid and      statesmanlike and demonstrated a good understanding of all the      main issues.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    The meeting gave Putin a chance to give his side of the story in      the growing debate over missile defense in Eastern Europe. He      offered a brief account of the deteriorating state of US-Russian      relations since the end of the Cold War, and particularly from      9-11 to present. Since September 11, the Bush administration has      carried out an aggressive strategy to surround Russia with      military bases, install missiles on its borders, topple allied      regimes in Central Asia, and incite political upheaval in Moscow      through US-backed “pro-democracy” groups. These openly hostile      actions have convinced many Russian hard-liners that the      administration is going forward with the neocon plan for “regime      change” in Moscow and fragmentation of the Russian Federation.      Putin’s testimony suggests that the hardliners are probably      right.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    The Bush administration’s belligerent foreign policy has backed      the Kremlin into a corner and forced Putin to take retaliatory      measures. He has no other choice.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    If we want to understand why relations between Russia are      quickly reaching the boiling-point; we only need to review the      main developments since the end of the Cold War. Political      analyst Pat Buchanan gives a good rundown of these in his      article “&lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070212_putin.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;Doesn’t      Putin Have a Point?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070212_putin.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070212_putin.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buchanan says:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “Though the Red Army had picked up and gone home from Eastern      Europe voluntarily, and Moscow felt it had an understanding we      would not move NATO eastward, we exploited our moment. Not only      did we bring Poland into NATO, we brought in Latvia, Lithuania,      and Estonia, and virtually the whole Warsaw Pact, planting NATO      right on Mother Russia's front porch. Now, there is a scheme      afoot to bring in Ukraine and Georgia in the Caucasus, the      birthplace of Stalin.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Second, America backed a pipeline to deliver Caspian Sea oil      from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey, to bypass Russia.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Third, though Putin gave us a green light to use bases in the      old Soviet republics for the liberation of Afghanistan, we now      seem hell-bent on making those bases in Central Asia permanent.     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Fourth, though Bush sold missile defense as directed at rogue      states like North Korea, we now learn we are going to put      anti-missile systems into Eastern Europe. And against whom are      they directed?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Fifth, through the National Endowment for Democracy, its GOP and      Democratic auxiliaries, and tax-exempt think tanks, foundations,      and "human rights" institutes such as Freedom House, headed by      ex-CIA director James Woolsey, we have been fomenting regime      change in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics, and      Russia herself.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    U.S.-backed revolutions have succeeded in Serbia, Ukraine, and      Georgia, but failed in Belarus. Moscow has now legislated      restrictions on the foreign agencies that it sees, not without      justification, as subversive of pro-Moscow regimes.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Sixth, America conducted 78 days of bombing of Serbia for the      crime of fighting to hold on to her rebellious province, Kosovo,      and for refusing to grant NATO marching rights through her      territory to take over that province. Mother Russia has always      had a maternal interest in the Orthodox states of the Balkans.     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    These are Putin's grievances. Does he not have a small point?”     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Yes--as Buchanan opines---Putin does have a point, which is why      his press conference was suppressed. The media would rather      demonize Putin, than allow him to make his case to the public.      (The same is true of other world leaders who choose to use their      vast resources to improve the lives of their own citizens rather      that hand them over to the transnational oil giants; such as,      Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez) Even so, NATO has not yet      endorsed the neocon missile defense plan and, according to      recent surveys, public opinion in Poland and the Czech Republic      is overwhelmingly against it.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Unsurprisingly, the Bush administration is going ahead      regardless of the controversy.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin cannot allow the United States to deploy its missile      defense system to Eastern Europe. The system poses a direct      threat to Russia’s national security. If Putin planned to deploy      a similar system in Cuba or Mexico, the Bush administration      would immediately invoke the Monroe Doctrine and threaten to      remove it by force. No one doubts this. And no one should doubt      that Putin is equally determined to protect his own country’s      interests in the same way. We can expect that Russia will now      aim its missiles at European targets and rework its foreign      policy in a way that compels the US to abandon its current      plans.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    The media has tried to minimize the dangers of the proposed      system. The Washington Post even characterized it as “a small      missile defense system” which has set off “waves of paranoia      about domestic and foreign opponents”.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Nonsense. Nothing could be further from the truth.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    As Putin said at the press conference, “Once the missile defense      system is put in place IT WILL WORK AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE      ENTIRE NUCLEAR CAPABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES. It will be an      integral part of the US nuclear capability.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “For the first time in history---and I want to emphasize      this---there are elements of the US nuclear capability on the      European continent. It simply changes the whole configuration of      international security…..Of course, we have to respond to that.”     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin is right. The “so-called” defense system is actually an      expansion (and integration) of America’s existing nuclear      weapons system which will now function as one unit. The dangers      of this should be obvious.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    The Bush administration is maneuvering in a way that will allow      it to achieve what Nuclear weapons specialist, Francis A. Boyle,      calls the “longstanding US policy of nuclear first-strike      against Russia”.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    In Boyle’s article “US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to      First Strike Threat” he states:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear      forces would be taken out. Namely, the United States Government      believes that with the deployment of a facially successful first      strike capability, they can move beyond deterrence and into "compellence."…      This has been analyzed ad nauseam in the professional      literature. But especially by one of Harvard's premier      warmongers in chief, Thomas Schelling --winner of the Nobel      Prize in Economics granted by the Bank of Sweden-- who developed      the term "compellence" and distinguished it from "deterrence."      …The USG is breaking out of a "deterrence" posture and moving      into a "compellence" posture. (Global Research 6-6-07)&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    That’s right. The real goal is to force Moscow to conform to      Washington’s “diktats” or face the prospect of “first-strike”      annihilation. That’s why Putin has expressed growing concern      over the administration’s dropping out of the ABM Treaty and the      development of a new regime of low yield, bunker-busting nuclear      weapons. The “hawks” who surround Bush have abandoned the      “deterrence” policy of the past, and now believe that a nuclear      war can be “won” by the United States. This is madness and it      needs to be taken seriously.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    The Bush administration sees itself as a main player in Central      Asia and the Middle East---controlling vital resources and      pipeline corridors throughout the region. That means Russia’s      influence will have to be diminished. Boris Yeltsin was the      perfect leader for the neoconservative master-plan (which is why      the right-wingers Praised him when he died) Russia disintegrated      under Yeltsin. He oversaw the dismantling of the state, the      plundering of its resources and state-owned assets, and the      restructuring of its economy according to the tenets of      neoliberalism.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    No wonder the neocons loved him.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Under Putin, Russia has regained its economic footing, its      regional influence and its international prestige. The economy      is booming, the ruble has stabilized, the standard of living has      risen, and Moscow has strengthened alliances with its neighbors.      This new-found Russian prosperity poses a real challenge to      Bush’s plans.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Two actions in particular have changed the Russian-US      relationship from tepid to openly hostile. The first was when      Putin announced that Russia’s four largest oil fields would not      be open to foreign development. (Russia has been consolidating      its oil wealth under state-run Gazprom) And, second, when the      Russian Treasury began to convert Russia’s dollar reserves into      gold and rubles. Both of these are regarded as high-crimes by US      corporate chieftains and western elites. Their response was      swift.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    John Edwards and Jack Kemp were appointed to lead a Council on      Foreign Relations (CFR) task force which concocted the basic      pretext for an all-out assault on the Putin. This is where the      idea that Putin is “rolling back democracy” began; it’s a feeble      excuse for political antagonism. In their article “Russia’s      Wrong Direction”, Edwards and Kemp state that a “strategic      partnership” with Russia is no longer possible. They note that      the government has become increasingly “authoritarian” and that      the society is growing less “open and pluralistic”. Blah, blah,      blah. No one in the Washington really cares about democracy.      (Just look at our “good friends” in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan,      Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) What they’re afraid of is Putin      ditching the dollar and controlling his own oil. That’s what      counts. Bush also wants Putin to support sanctions against Iran      and rubber stamp a Security Council resolution to separate      Kosovo form Serbia. (Since when does the UN have the right to      redraw national borders? Was the creation of Israel such a      stunning success that the Security Council wants to try its luck      again?)&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin does not accept the “unipolar” world model. As he said in      Munich, the unipolar world refers to “a world in which there is      one master, one sovereign---- one centre of authority, one      centre of force, one centre of decision-making. At the end of      the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this      system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys      itself from within.… What is even more important is that the      model itself is flawed because at its basis there is and can be      no moral foundations for modern civilization.”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    He added:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “Unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions have not      resolved any problems. Moreover, they have caused new human      tragedies and created new centers of tension. Judge for      yourselves---wars as well as local and regional conflicts have      not diminished. More are dying than before. Significantly more,      significantly more!&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force      – military force – in international relations, force that is      plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    We are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic      principles of international law. And independent legal norms      are, as a matter of fact, coming increasingly closer to one      state’s legal system. One state and, of course, first and      foremost the United States, has overstepped its national borders      in every way. This is visible in the economic, political,      cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations.      Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    In international relations we increasingly see the desire to      resolve a given question according to so-called issues of      political expediency, based on the current political climate.      And of course this is extremely dangerous. It results in the      fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasise this – no one      feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is      like a stone wall that will protect them. Of course such a      policy stimulates an arms race.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we      must seriously think about the architecture of global security.”     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    How can anyone dispute Putin’s analysis?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “Unilateral and illegitimate military actions”, the “uncontained      hyper-use of force”, the “disdain for the basic principles of      international law”, and most importantly; “No one feels safe!”     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    These are the irrefutable facts. Putin has simply summarized the      Bush Doctrine better than anyone else.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    The Bush administration has increased its frontline American      bases to five thousand men on Russia’s perimeter. Is this      conduct of a “trustworthy ally”?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Also, NATO has deployed forces on Russia’s borders even while      Putin has continued to fulfill his treaty obligations and move      troops and military equipment hundreds of miles away.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    As Putin said on Tuesday: “We have removed all of our heavy      weapons from the European part of Russia and put them behind the      Urals” and “reduced our Armed Forces by 300,000. We have taken      several other steps required by the Adapted Conventional Armed      Forces Treaty in Europe (ACAF). But what have we seen in      response? Eastern Europe is receiving new weapons, two new      military bases are being set up in Romania and in Bulgaria, and      there are two new missile launch areas -- a radar in Czech      republic and missile systems in Poland. And we are asking      ourselves the question: what is going on? Russia is disarming      unilaterally. But if we disarm unilaterally then we would like      to see our partners be willing to do the same thing in Europe.      On the contrary, Europe is being pumped full of new weapons      systems. And of course we cannot help but be concerned.”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    (This is why Putin’s comments did not appear in the western      media! They would have been too damaging to the Bush      administration and their expansionist plans)&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Who Destroyed the ABM?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin said:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “We did not initiate the withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic      Missile Treaty. But what response did we give when we discussed      this issue with our American partners? We said that we do not      have the resources and desire to establish such a system. But as      professionals we both understand that a missile defense system      for one side and no such a system for the other creates an      illusion of security and increases the possibility of a nuclear      conflict. The defense system WILL DESTROY THE STRATEGIC      EQUILIBRIUM IN THE WORLD. In order to restore that balance      without setting up a missile defense system we will have to      create a system to overcome missile defense, which is what we      are doing now.”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin: “AN ARMS RACE IS UNFOLDING. Was it we who withdrew from      the ABM Treaty? We must react to what our partners do. We      already told them two years ago, “don’t do this, you don’t need      to do this. What are you doing? YOU ARE DESTROYING THE SYSTEM OF      INTERNATIONAL SECURITY. You must understand that you are forcing      us to take retaliatory steps.” …we warned them. No, they did not      listen to us. Then we heard about them developing low-yield      nuclear weapons and they are continuing to develop these      weapons.” We told them that “it would be better to look for      other ways to fight terrorism than create low-yield nuclear      weapons and lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons, and      thereby put humankind on the brink of nuclear catastrophe. But      they don’t listen to us. They are not looking for compromise.      Their entire point of view can be summed-up in one sentence:      ‘Whoever is not with us is against us.’”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin asks, “So what should we do?” The present predicament has      brought us “the brink of disaster”.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin: “Some people have the illusion that you can do everything      just as you want, regardless of the interests of other people.      Of course it is for precisely this reason that the international      situation gets worse and eventually results in an arms race as      you pointed out. But we are not the instigators. We do not want      it. Why would we want to divert resources to this? And we are      not jeopardizing our relations with anyone. But we must respond.     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Name even one step that we have taken or one action of ours      designed to worsen the situation. There are none. We are not      interested in that. We are interested in having a good      atmosphere, environment and energy dialogue around Russia”.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    So, what should Putin do? And how else can he meet his      responsibilities to the Russian people without taking defensive      “retaliatory” action to Bush’s act of war. By expanding its      nuclear capability to Europe, all of Russia is in imminent      danger, and so, Putin must decide “precisely which means will be      used to destroy the installations that our experts believe      represent a potential threat for the Russian Federation”. (Note      that Putin NEVER THREATENS TO AIM HIS MISSILES AT EUROPEAN      CITIES AS WAS REPORTED IN THE WESTERN MEDIA)&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin has made great strides in improving life for the Russian      people. That is why his public approval rating is soaring at      75%. The Russian economy has been growing by 7% a year. He’s      lowered the number of people living beneath the poverty-line by      more than half and will bring it down to European levels by      2010. Real incomes are growing by an astonishing 12% per year.      As Putin says, “Combating poverty is one of our top priorities      and we still have to do a lot to improve our pension system too      because the correlation between pensions and the average wage is      still lower here than in Europe.”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    If only that was true in America!&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Russia now has the ninth largest economy in the world and has      amassed enormous gold and currency reserves--the third largest      in the world. It is also one of the leading players in      international energy policy with a daily-oil output which now      exceeds Saudi Arabia. It is also the largest producer of natural      gas in the world. Russia will only get stronger as we get deeper      into the century and energy resources become scarcer.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin strongly objects to the idea that he is not committed to      human rights or is “rolling back democracy”. He points out how      truncheon-wielding police in Europe routinely use tear gas,      electric-shock devices and water cannons to disperse      demonstrators. Is that how the West honors human rights and      civil liberties?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    As for the Bush administration---Putin produced a copy of      Amnesty International’s yearly report condemning the United      States conduct in the war on terror. “I have a copy of Amnesty      International’s report here, which includes a section on the      United States,” he said. “The organization has concluded that      the United States IS NOW THE PRINCIPLE VIOLATOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS      AND FREEDOMS WORLDWIDE.”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    He added, “We have a proverb in Russian, ‘Don’t blame the mirror      if your face is crooked.’”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Putin is fiercely nationalistic. He has helped to restore      Russia’s self-confidence and rebuild the economy. He’s      demonstrated a willingness to compromise with the Bush      administration on every substantive issue, but he has been      repeatedly rebuffed. The last thing he wants is a nuclear      standoff with the United States. But he will do what he must to      defend his people from the threat of foreign attack. The      deployment of the missile defense system will require that      Russia develop its own new weapons systems and change its      thinking about trusting the United States. Friendship is not      possible in the present climate.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    As for “democracy”; Putin said it best himself:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    “Am I a ‘pure democrat’? (laughs) Of course I am, absolutely.      The problem is that I’m all alone---the only one of my kind in      the whole wide world. Just look at what’s happening in North      America, it’s simply awful---torture, homeless people,      Guantanamo, people detained without trial and investigation.      Just look at what’s happening in Europe---harsh treatment of      demonstrators, rubber bullets and tear gas used first in one      capital then in another, demonstrators killed on the streets…..      I have no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.”&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    Well said, Vladimir.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17856.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17856.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-895773173741397366?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/895773173741397366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=895773173741397366' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/895773173741397366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/895773173741397366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2007/06/putins-censored-press-conference.html' title='Putin’s Censored Press Conference:'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-117198468352310774</id><published>2007-02-20T07:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T07:18:03.550-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Security for all  Vladimir Putin on the "43. Munich conference for security politics "</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.jungewelt.de/serveImage.php?id=5095&amp;type=o"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.jungewelt.de/serveImage.php?id=5095&amp;type=o" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="western" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Security for all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h2 style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Documented. The speech of Russian president Vladimir Putin on 10 February on the "43. Munich conference for security politics "for the role of its country in the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I am very grateful for the invitation to this representative conference, which meets politicians, military, entrepreneur and expert from more than 40 countries. The structure of this conference gives me the possibility of avoiding "excessive politeness" and the necessity to speak in describing, nice, but empty diplomatic empty phrases. The structure of this conference permits to say, what I actually think of the problems of international security. And if my discussions our colleagues excessively polarize-mix, exaggerated or inaccurate appear, I ask, not to be annoyed at me - finally this is only one conference. And I hope that Mr. Teltschik does not switch on the "red light" there in two to three minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Thus. It is well-known that the problem of international security is many broader than the questions of military-political stability. In addition belong the firmness of the world economy, the overcoming of the poverty, economic security and development of the dialogue between the cultures. This universal, indivisible character of security comes in the fundamental principle "security for everyone is security for all" to the expression. Or like Franklin D Roosevelt in the first days of the Second World War beginning said: "one breaks somewhere if the peace, is the peace of all countries everywhere in danger." These words remained current. Occupies e.g. also the topic of our conference, which stands here written: "global crises - global responsibility".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only two decades ago the world was ideologically and economically split, and their security was ensured by the enormous strategic potential of the two superpowers. The global confrontation pushed the most burning economic and social questions to the edge of the international relations and their agenda. And like each war the "cold war" left "not-ignited ammunition" to us - figurativy spoken. I refer to ideological stereotyped ones, double standards and other templates of the block thinking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Unipolar model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The unipolar world suggested after the "cold war" did not develop. The history of mankind knows naturally periods of a unipolar condition and striving for world-wide supremacy. What didn't happen in the history of mankind? However which is a unipolar world? If someone described this term, he would have to come inevitably to only one result: That means only one center of power, only one force center, only one decision center. That is the world of only one Mr., only one sovereign. And that is dangerous in the long run not only for all, which are within this system, but also for the sovereign, because that destroys it from the inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that has to do naturally nothing with democracy. Because: Democracy is, like you knows, the power of the majority, whereby the interest and the opinions of the minority are considered. Clearly spoken: We, Russia, are instructed continuously over democracy. But those, which instruct us, do not want to learn even particularly much. I believe that for the present world the unipolar model is not only unacceptable, but at all not possibly. And not only because with single leader shank in the present - and particularly in the present world - neither the military-political nor economic resources are sufficient. Which is still more important - the model appears nonfunctioning, because it offers and also offer cannot no moral-moral basis in its basis for the present civilization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition comes: Which happens in the today's world - and we begin straight only to discuss -, that is the consequences of the attempt to introduce evenly this conception to the international relations - the conception of a unipolar world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Hypertrophierte force&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;And with which result? One-sided, often not legitimized actions did not solve only one problem. More than that, it caused new human tragedies and created new sources of tension. Judge: The number of the wars, the local and regional conflicts did not become smaller. Mr. Teltschik mentioned this in very gentle way. And not less humans die in these conflicts, but even more than in former times. Importantly more - importantly more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we observe one nearly by nothing restrained, hypertrophierte use of force in the international relations - military force -, a force, which pushes the world into an abyss of successive conflicts. In the result the strength is not enough for the complex solution of only one of them. It will also impossible to find a political solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We see more and more an excess of fundamental principles of international law. More still - i.e. naturally exceeded and becomes individual standards, in addition, the entire juridical system of an individual state, the USA, the national borders in all spheres - in economics and politics as well as within the humanitarian range - other countries forced upon. Whom could please? Whom does that please? In the international relations we encounter ever more frequently striving to solve these or that question due to so-called political experience justified on the current political economic situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is naturally extremely dangerous. And it leads to the fact that nobody feels more safe already. I would like to underline that - nobody feels in security! Because nobody can rely on the international right as on a schutzmauer. Such a policy is naturally catalyst of an arms race. The dominance of the force factor encourages inevitably a set from countries to the acquisition of massenvernichtungswaffen. More than - new in principle threats developed, which admits also in former times was, but today, such receive a global character like the terrorism. I am convinced that we concerned on a crucial moment, in which we seriously the entire architecture of global security consider must. And here it is necessary to continue with the search for a reasonable reconciliation between the interests of all subjects of the international community. All the more, as the "international landscape" changes so variously and so fast at present - changes in the light of the dynamic development of a whole set of states and regions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Bundeskanzlerin already mentioned this. Like that the sum of the gross national product of India and China is already larger in kaufkraftparitaet than that of the United States. And a computation of the gross national product of the BRIC Laendergruppe - Brazil, Russia, India and China - exceeds the accumulated gross national product of the European Union. According to opinion of experts in historical perspective this gap will still grow. It is idle to doubt that the economic potential of the new world centers of growth changes inevitably to political influence and will strengthen the multi-polarity. In connection with it the role multipole arene diplomacy grows importantly. Openness, transparency and predictability in the policy are alternativeless and the use of force must actually an extraordinary measure remain, like that as the application of the death penalty in the juridical systems of some states. Today we observe however turned around the situation that countries, which forbid the death penalty even for murderers and other criminals - dangerous criminals - that regardless of its such countries participate very easily in military operations, which one can call heavily legitimate. But in these conflicts humans die - hundreds, thousands of peaceful humans!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time the question develops: Are we to look participateless and indifferently on different internal conflicts in certain countries, in actually authoritarian Regimen, tyrannies, on the spreading of massenvernichtungswaffen? That was the basis the nature after also the question, which our dear colleague Mr. Liebermann of the Bundeskanzlerin asked. Did I understand your question correctly (itself turning at dear man)? And naturally this question is serious! Can we look participateless on, which happens? I try to also answer to your question. Naturally, we may not watch participateless. Naturally not. But we have the means, in order to resist these threats? Naturally, we have them. It is sufficient to remind of recent history. What happened with the peaceful transition in our country? It took place a peaceful transformation of the Soviet regime - a peaceful transformation! And which regime! With which number at weapons, including the nuclear weapons! Why has to be gebombt and shot now with each erdenklichen opportunity? Is it missing to us when being missing the threat of a mutual destruction at political culture, at the respect for democratic values and for the right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am convinced that the only mechanism for decisions is over the use of military force as last way out the Charter of the UN. And in connection with it I did not understand, what our colleague said recently, the Secretary of Defense of Italy, or whether he expressed himself inaccurately. In each case I understood that use of force can be regarded only in the case as legitimate, if the decision of NATO or of the European Union or from the UN pleases became. If he means that actual, then we have different opinions in addition. Or I did not hear it correctly. Legitimate one can consider the use of force only if the decision pleases in the context of the UN became. And it does not have necessary to replace the UN by NATO or the European Union. If the UN in the reality unites the forces of the international community, which can actually react to events in individual countries, if we leave the excess of the international right behind us, then the situation can change. In the opposite case the situation in a dead end will end, and those number of heavy errors is multiplied. One must secure that international law keeps a universal character both the view after as well as with the application of its standards. And one may not forget that the democratic sample for actions in the policy requires necessarily discussions and an exact treatment of the decisions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Nuclear disarmament&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The potential danger of a destabilization of the international relations is connected with the obvious stagnation in the area of the disarmament. Russia occurs for the renewal of the dialogue in this extremely important question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is important to ensure the firmness of the international-law foundation of the disarmament too received and the durability of the process of the reduction of nuclear weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We agreed upon the reduction of our nuclear potential on strategic carriers with the United States of America contractually on 1700 to 2200 atomic sprengkoepfe up to the 31.Dezember 2012. Russia is decided to fulfill the obligations strictly which it took over. We hope that also our partners will act likewise transparency and not for all cases, for a "black day", some remaining hundred nuclear sprengkoepfe aside put. And if today the new Secretary of Defense of the United States us here avowedly that the United States do not store these surplus weapons, "unterm pillows" and "under the blanket" will not hide, do not strike I everything forwards to rise and that standing welcome. That would be a very important explanation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia keeps strictly the contract over the nichtweiterverbreitung of nuclear weapons and intends to keep it also in the future just as the multilateral control regime for rocket technologies. The principles, which are laid down in these documents, carry a universal character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this connection I would like to remind gladly of the fact that the USSR and the United States signed a contract in the 80's over the removal of a whole class of rockets of middle and small range, but no universal character was lent to this document. Today a whole set of countries possesses such rockets: The Korean people-democratic Republic of, the Republic of Korea, India, Iran, Pakistan, Israel. Many other states of the world work on such systems and plan to take up it to its armament. Only the United States and Russia have obligations to create no weapon systems of this kind. It is clear that we are forced under these conditions to think about the guarantee of our own security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time emerging of new destabilizing high-technological kinds of weapon may not become certified. I do not speak already at all about measures for the prevention of new confrontation spheres, in particular in the universe. The "war of the stars" is as well known no fantasy, but reality. In the middle of the 80's of the past century were already our American partners in a the position to intercept their own satellite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The militarization of the universe can provoke unforeseeable consequences for the world community according to opinion of Russia - not smaller than at the beginning of the nuclear era. And we stepped out not only once with initiatives, a whose goal was it to prevent the use of weapons in the cosmos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I would like to inform you about the fact that we prepared a draft agreement for the prevention of the spreading of weapons in the cosmic area. In the next time it will be sent to our partners as official suggestion. Let us on it together work. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;New confrontation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Likewise plans must worry us for the development of elements of the antirocket defense systems. Who has the next step of an arms race inevitable in this case necessarily? I doubt deeply that these are the Europeans. Missiles, which actually threaten Europe, with a range of action of 5000 to 8000 kilometers, exist in to the not one so-called problem states. And in the visible future - and the visible perspective - they will not emerge and are not foreseeable even. A hypothetical start e.g. North Korea niches a rocket in the direction of the territory of the USA over Western Europe away contradicts obviously the laws of the ballistics. As one says with us in Russia, just as, as if one is "with the right hand the left ear affected".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I am in Germany, I do not know to mention the crisis of the contract over conventionally armed armed forces in Europe. The adapted contract of over conventionally armed armed forces in Europe was signed 1999. It considered the new geopolitical reality - the dissolution Warsaw block. Since then seven years passed, and only four states ratified, included this document the Russian federation. The countries of NATO explained openly that they will not ratify the contract, including the definitions over delimitations of the flanks, over the distribution of a certain number of armed forces at the flanks, up to that time, since Russia withdraws its bases from Georgien and Moldavia. Led back from Georgien our troops, even after an accelerated timetable. We solved these problems with our Georgian colleagues, and everything is well-known. In Moldavia remains a grouping of 1500 military members, who fulfill peace-receiving functions and guard ammunition camps, which originate from USSR times. And we constantly discuss this question with Mr. Solana; it knows our position. We are ready to continue to work also in this direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But which happens at the same time? In this same time so-called light American advanced bases with up to 5000 men develop in each case in Bulgaria and Romania. It turns out that NATO shifts its foremost forces to our state borders, but we, since we fulfill the contract strictly, in no way on these actions react. I think, it am obvious - the process of the NATO expansion stands in no relationship with the modernization of the alliance or with strengthening security in Europe. In the opposite, that is a seriously provoking factor, which lowers the level of the mutual confidence. And we have the indisputable right to ask openly: Against whom is this extension directed? And which happened with the explanations, which delivered the western partners after the decay Warsaw Treaty? Where are these explanations now? It possibly someone does not even remember. But I take the liberty to remind before this auditory of it what was said. I would like to quote gladly from a speech of NATO Secretary-General Woerner in Brussels from 17 May 1990. He said at that time: "the fact that we are ready to station no NATO troops beyond the borders of the territory of the Federal Republic gives firm security guarantees to the Soviet Union." Where are these warranties?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stones and concrete blocks of the citizens of Berlin wall are already long distributed as souvenirs. But one may not forget that their case became possible also owing to a historical choice also our people - the people of Russia -, a choice for democracy and liberty, for openness and genuine partnership with all members of the large European family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today one tries to force upon to us new dividing lines and walls - they may be virtual, but they separate nevertheless, cut our entire continent. Do we need again long years and decades, the change of some politician generations "to tear off" over these new walls and "dismantle"? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Nuclear weapon check contract&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;We occur without reservation for the stabilization of the regime of the nicht-Weiterverbreitung. The existing international-law basis makes it possible to create technologies for the treatment of nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes. And many countries want to produce nuclear energy for good reasons themselves - as basis for energetic independence. We understand to receive also that these technologies can be transformed fast, in order nuclear weapon materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That causes serious international tensions. A clear example is the situation around the Iranian nuclear program. If the international community for this clash of interest does not find a reasonable solution, the world will experience also in the future similar destabilizing crises, because it gives more developing countries than Iran, and we all together know that. We will fight steadily against the threat of the further spread further of massenvernichtungswaffen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past year Russia seized the initiative for the creation of multilateral centers for uranium enrichment. We are open for it that such centers are formed not only in Russia, but also in other countries, where peaceful nuclear energy on legal basis exists. States, which would like to develop atomic energy, it could be guaranteed that they receive fuel by the direct participation in the work of these centers, naturally under strict control of the IAEA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the Russian suggestions also the last initiatives of the president of the United States of America George Bush agree. I think that Russia and the USA are interested to their acquisition objectively and on same stage in the stabilization that regime for the nicht-Weiterverbreitung by massenvernichtungswaffen and the means. In particular our countries, which are prominent in their nuclear and rocket-technical potentials, must become also prominent during the elaboration of new, more exact measures in the sphere of the nicht-Weiterverbreitung. Russia is ready for this work. We stand in consultations with our American friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Altogether it must concern to stimuli, according to which states would not be interested in it the creation of a whole system of political incentives and economic stimuli -, to create own abilities for the nuclear fuel cycle but the possibility would have of developing the atomic energy and its energetic potential of strengthening. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Co-operation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In connection with it I would like to talk somewhat more in detail about international energy co-operation. Mrs. Bundeskanzlerin spoke already briefly about it, mentioned, affected this topic. In the energy sector Russia orients itself at the creation of uniform market principles and transparent conditions. It is obvious that the price must be intended for sources of energy by the market and the subject of political speculations, economic pressure or extortion are not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are open for co-operation. Foreign societies participate in our most important energy projects. According to different estimates come to foreign capital up to 26 per cent of the oil production in Russia - consider you please this number -, up to 26 per cent of the oil production in Russia. If you try, try, to call me an example of a similarly broad participation of Russian enterprises at schluesselsektoren of the economy of western countries. There are not such examples! There are not such examples!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remind also of the relationship between investments, which are transacted in Russia, and those, which go out of Russia into other countries in the world. The relationship amounts to fifteen to one. There they have a clear example of openness and stability of the Russian economy. Economic security is a sphere, in which to all uniform principles must apply. We are ready to compete fair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this reason there are more and more possibilities in the Russian economy. Experts and our foreign partners evaluate this dynamics objectively. Thus the Rating Russia in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro was recently increased: From the fourth group of risks ascended our country into third. I would like to use gladly the opportunity to thank here today in Munich our German colleagues for the assistance with the acceptance of this decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further. As you know, the process of the entry of Russia to the World Trade Organization stepped into its final stage. I mark the fact that we in the process of long, not simple negotiations not only once words over the liberty of the word, over which, over same possibilities heard liberty of the trade but exclusively for any reason with reference to ours, the Russian market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And still another important topic, which affects directly global security. Today many speak about the fight against poverty. What here actually happens? On the side for aid programmes for the poorest countries financial resources are sufficient - and sometimes considerable financial resources. But is connected to be over honest - and many know here also -, with the Geberlaenden with "its" societies. At the same time, on the other side, in the developed countries the farm subsidies are maintained, limited the entrance to the high technology for other countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us the things with the name call: It presents itself in such a way that with the hand "barmherzige assistance" is distributed, but with the other not only economic backwardness is conserved and also still profit is driven. The increasing social tension in such depressive regions causes inevitably growing radicalism and extremism, feeds terrorism and local of conflicts. And if all in, we say, in the Near East happen with its course-sharpened perception of the external world as unfair, then the risk of a global destabilization develops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is obvious that the prominent countries in the world should to have to recognize this threat and accordingly a more democratic, fairer system of the economic relations carry out - a system, which offers all the chance and the possibility for the development. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Interference&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In a speech to a conference for security, my admired ladies and gentlemen, the activity of the organization for security and co-operation in Europe may not be gone around and concealed. As admits it was created, in order to observe all - I underline - all, all aspects of security: military-political, economical, humanitarian and particularly their interrelations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do we see today in practice? We see that this balance was clearly destroyed. One tries to make the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro into a vulgaeres instrument the penetration of the interests with regard to foreign policy of an individual country or a group of countries in the relations with other countries. And for this task one "tailors" the bureaucratic apparatus of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro, absolutely with the founder states in no way is connected to which. One "tailors" for this task of decision procedures and the use of so-called "non-government organizations". , formally, they are independent, but they are financed and are called purposeful - they are controlled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accordance with the fundamental documents the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro is called to help the member states on their requirement with the attention of international standards in the area of the human rights. That is an important task. We support that. But that means interference into internal affairs of other countries, and above all not to prescribe for these states how they are to live and develop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is obvious that such interference is not under any circumstances suitable to carry the development of really democratic states. In the opposite, it makes dependent and in the Konsquenz unstable on political and economical level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We expect that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro is led by its direct tasks and relations with sovereigns states on the basis of respect, confidence and transparency arranges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the conclusion I would like to notice the following. We hear frequently, I personally hear very often appeals of our partners, under it also the European partners to play at Russia, a importantly more active role in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this relationship I take the liberty a small note. It is hardly necessary to encourage us for it. Russia is a country with one more than 1000jaehrigen history and had practically always the privilege to be able to operate an independent foreign policy. We do not intend to change today this tradition. We see good at the same time, like the world changed, we evaluate realistically our own possibilities and our own potential. And naturally we would like to have to do a prospering with responsible persons and independent partners, with whom together we can work on the building of a fair and democratic world order, in we security to ensure and not for chosen one, but for all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank for the attention. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-14/012.php"&gt;http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-14/012.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-117198468352310774?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/117198468352310774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=117198468352310774' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/117198468352310774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/117198468352310774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2007/02/security-for-all-vladimir-putin-on-43.html' title='Security for all  Vladimir Putin on the &quot;43. 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LOSES TRILLIONS IN NAKED SHORT MELTDOWN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;HIGH-LEVEL CRIMINALS CREATE IMMINENT CATASTROPHE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thursday 7 December 2006 14:39&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRILLIONS LOST IN ARTIFICIAL NAKED SHORT AGAINST USD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCAMSTERS LOSE THEIR SHIRTS TRYING TO AVOID PAYING WANTA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./aboutus"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Christopher Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; FRSA, Editor and Publisher, &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./worldreports"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;World Reports Limited&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, London and New York: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org%20./"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;www.worldreports.org .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  Press the ARCHIVE Button on the Home Page for Wanta Crisis reports since June 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRELIMINARY NOTE:&lt;br /&gt;Our 3rd December posting was severely truncated at about 11.00pm UK time on 5th December&lt;br /&gt;by NSA/CIA/Department of Homeland Security. The text of the ‘diary’ section from November 20th onwards was removed. The Editor restored the text in the middle of the night, and then added appropriately critical comments. Please revisit the posting dated 3rd December as it is directly relevant to what follows. In addition to interfering with our posting dated 3rd December, the above parties REMOVED the entire text of our posting dated 2nd September 2006 entitled: ‘NEW: HUGE GLOBAL BENEFITS OF THE WANTA PLAN’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This posting contained predictions of the ‘win-win’ benefits of the Wanta Plan, as well as a summary of the extremely adverse consequences if it were not to be implemented (because of the corrupt operations described in successive postings on this website).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE REASON THAT OUR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DATED 2ND SEPTEMBER – WHICH WAS APPENDED TO THE POSTING OF 3RD DECEMBER – WAS DELETED, WAS BECAUSE ITS PREDICTIONS HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE ACCURATE. They describe exactly what is happening RIGHT NOW. The Editor has restored both postings, but we urge you to review the 2nd September posting again because a number of appropriately barbed comments have been added there as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN READING WHAT FOLLOWS, NOTE THE FOLLOWING EQUATION:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Without the Iraq War, which started as a bank raid, there is no way they can continue hiding the illegal money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Without the $4.5 trillion payment to Ambassador Leo Wanta/his Virginia-based AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc. [see coordinates at foot of article], there is no way they can make use of the illegal monies they have ‘earned’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHY SR WAS SEEN WEEPING ON TV: HE’D JUST LOST TRILLIONS:&lt;br /&gt;HIS EMPIRE HAD JUST BEEN DESTROYED BY A NAKED SHORT OP.&lt;br /&gt;We are now in a position to provide the international financial community with a summary of some of the key developments in the dollar crisis, which are not being report in the ‘mainstream’ media. The crisis, which is now almost certain to become the biggest financial catastrophe in human history, has arisen specifically and solely because the criminal operatives holding past and present high office in the United States thought they could continue their off-balance sheet fiat money scamming operations as though it is ‘Business as Usual’, and avoid remitting Ambassador Leo Wanta and his Virginia-based AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc., the $4.5 trillion tagged and earmarked in their names, and illegally retained at Goldman Sachs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from the $1.0 trillion worth of US currency held by the Chinese in their foreign exchange reserves, and lesser amounts held as official reserves with other key central banks, the Ambassador’s $4.5 trillion are the ‘only’ hard dollars cash available. Because of the impact of our last report [3rd December 2006], and in the context of the horrifying developments reported below, and other horrendous developments not reported here, the Chinese cannot even change these dollars into other convertible currencies on the scale that they need to do, if they are not to lose almost the entire value of them, when the US dollar collapses, as is about to happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT THESE RECKLESS CRIMINALS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN DOING&lt;br /&gt;Here is what has taken place in recent days. Using the money stolen via the deceitful, fraudulent Treasury ‘data burst’ of 17th November 2006 as explained in our posting on this website on 3rd December [see ARCHIVE], plus funds that the official US criminal operatives have been siphoning offshore through their fraudulent trading operations, the criminal operatives (who are named below) ALSO borrowed against CREDIT DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS, creating a pool of funds with which to buy US dollars and sell the EU Collective Currency, with a view to taking the profits (usually ranging between 10% and 15%) between the values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resulting profit pool was being run by Deutsche Bank in Berlin, Geneva and Frankfurt and was being used to drive down the overall valuations of UBS, Credit Suisse and key French banks – the objective being to create such profound economic and financial problems for these banks that their valuations would be reduced to such a marked extent that Deutsche Bank, in particular, could then buy them up cheaply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This confirms our own suspicions, which have become clearer in recent months, that the Swiss institutions, have understood the geopolitical objectives of Deutsche Bank, which is allegedly the primary institution used by Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), Dachau, in craven pursuit of its Nazi Continuum global hegemony strategy. The Pan-German Nazis appear to have become rather disillusioned with the Swiss instinct for eternal independence, and the Swiss institutions have become aware of long-range German strategic intentions with respect to Switzerland’s prized and ancient political independence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARTIFICIAL NAKED SHORT POSITION AGAINST THE U.S. DOLLAR&lt;br /&gt;A very senior European banker, well known to Ambassador Wanta and to Michael C. Cottrell, the Treasurer of AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, strenuously warned the criminal operatives concerned (see below) not to create AN ARTIFICIAL NAKED SHORT AGAINST THE US DOLLAR by using borrowed money for the purpose – i.e., naked gambling the integrity of the dollar: but these madmen went ahead with this scheme anyway. The European banks, being no fools, figured out what they were up to; and when Ambassador Wanta was again NOT PAID the $4.5 trillion on 20th November 2006, the European banks took immediate action to dump their dollars on a large scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a gambler undertakes a NAKED SHORT, he loses BOTH the money contributed for the gamble AND the money borrowed as well. In other words, a NAKED SHORT gambler LOSES TWICE HIS MONEY, or far more than that, depending on whatever leveraging input he was using.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is what happened, following dissemination worldwide of our posting dated 3rd December 2006. So when George Herbert Walker Bush Sr. was televised weeping at a podium in Florida, guess why he was weeping?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BECAUSE HE HAD JUST LOST A GOODLY PROPORTION OF THE FIAT 370 TRILLION DOLLARS THAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY CONTROLLED, DUE TO THE RECKLESS NAKED SHORT TRANSACTION.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OFFICIAL U.S. CRIMINAL OPERATIVES WITH RED FACES&lt;br /&gt;The perpetrators (culprits) who perpetrated this historically unprecedented coup AND LOST THEIR SHIRTS, leaving the wretched United States and the whole world vulnerable to an imminent meltdown, include the following conspirators:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• President George W. Bush Jr.&lt;br /&gt;• Former President H. W. Bush Sr.&lt;br /&gt;• Former President W J Clinton.&lt;br /&gt;• Senator Hillary Clinton&lt;br /&gt;• John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence&lt;br /&gt;• General Michael Heyden, Director of Central Intelligence&lt;br /&gt;• Secretary of the Treasury Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson&lt;br /&gt;• Federal Reserve Board Chairman Dr Ben S. Bernanke, and key Board Members&lt;br /&gt;• Wachovia Bank/First Union Bank, New York&lt;br /&gt;• Bank of America, Los Angeles&lt;br /&gt;• HSBC, United Kingdom&lt;br /&gt;• The Bank of England&lt;br /&gt;• Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Berlin and Geneva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conspirators got caught in mid-play, and lost their shirts and trillions upon trillions of dollars, as a direct consequence of our authorised posting dated 3rd December 2006 [see ARCHIVE]. Their NAKED SHORT transaction failed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WACHOVIA, B of A NOW SAID TO BE TECHNICALLY BANKRUPT&lt;br /&gt;While former President George H. W. Bush Sr. wept for himself and on behalf of the DVD, of which he is allegedly the head, before the television cameras, one of the key investigators working with the Ambassador brought in the CIA (under USA Patriot Act etc legislation) to undertake certain measures to stave off the bankruptcy of Wachovia Bank and Bank of America (which is in fact the CIA’s main banking arm).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At midnight European time on 5th-6th December, the Bank of Spain and Santander Bank agreed to get their representatives together in Geneva, with representatives of the Federal Reserve and, it is believed, the Treasury. The purpose of the gathering was to be to ‘work out’ means of enabling the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and key US institutions to ‘stay solvent’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 6th December, the Boards of Directors of Wachovia Bank and Bank of America met to plan a merger, but essentially only agreed to agree to come to a decision. They may have no time even to prepare the relevant documents before their respective roofs fall in. Tiles were already crashing to the ground all day on the 6th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OFF-BALANCE SHEET FUNDS MATERIALISE AT SANTANDER BANK&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, ALL OF A SUDDEN, funds appeared from OFF THE BOOKS (please make a note of this, in view of what follows) at Santander Bank, which were available to collateralise a transaction through Union Bank of Switzerland and Credit Suisse ostensibly to facilitate payment of the $4.5 trillion to Ambassador Leo Wanta, via a syndication of large banks consisting of Bank of America, Wachovia Bank and J. P. Morgan, to be arranged by Banco de Espana (Central Bank of Spain). This crazy bank syndication is being put together ‘as we speak’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to European bankers who are in a position to gauge the situation accurately, the reverberations of the NAKED SHORT catastrophe will hit the United States this Friday, 8th December 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The syndication arrangement is being put together in extremis and under duress by the conspirators, in order to save their backsides and all other parts of their anatomies. They choose to overlook the fact that the Ambassador/AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, are the only parties on the stage owning legitimate money. All other parties are dealing in illegitimate fiat ‘funny’ money which is derivatives-based, collateralised, and hypothecated out to infinity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DERIVATIVES OVERHANG ESTIMATED AT $1,140 TRILLION&lt;br /&gt;While it is complacently alleged by some that the volume of derivatives contracts outstanding is worth anything from $370 trillion (the volume putatively owned before the NAKED SHORT fiasco by George Bush Sr. (DVD)), and other estimates put the derivatives overhang at around $770 trillion, the actual volume of the overhang is estimated by the Ambassador and Mr Cottrell as being of the order of $1,140 trillion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However since these transactions are untaxed and handled off-balance sheet, there is no way to prove the aggregate amount outstanding. The entire derivatives ‘Ponzi Game’ pyramid is now at risk, and in any case, only those in at the base of the pyramid have a melting icicle’s chance in hell of ever getting paid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And hell is where we are all now headed, thanks to the rampant, uncontrolled criminality of the perpetrators listed above, their criminalised intermediary associates, and the corrupt banks which thought the music would never stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS DEAL?&lt;br /&gt;IT’S A TRAP AND ANOTHER SCAM, NATURLICH: SO IT AIN’T GONNA GO NO PLACE&lt;br /&gt;Let us briefly review what is ‘wrong’ with the ‘deal’ that the perpetrators intend to ‘impose’ upon the Ambassador as a ‘fait accompli’:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• NUMBER ONE: This is a scam built to implode BECAUSE IT STARTS OFF WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET FUNDS AND VIOLATES ‘SOURCES OF FUNDS’, SO THAT IT WILL BE STOPPED AT THE FIRST TRANCHE.&lt;br /&gt;The ‘source of funds’ is illegitimate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• NUMBER TWO: When the first tranche is duly stopped, the criminal operatives will say: ‘OH, GEE, WE PAID YOU. WHAT A PITY YOU DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY’. That is the intention, and the purpose of this posting is to make it quite clear to the international financial community that the Ambassador and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., will have NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS DESPERATE SCAM WHATSOEVER. If asked, Mr Cottrell will advise the conspirators where to put it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• NUMBER THREE: The transaction is not intended to be paid into the Leo Wanta/AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc.'s securities account with Morgan Stanley, New York, but rather to the custody of a bank: and neither of the Principals will deal with defrauding bankers. The history of their recent behaviour speaks for itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By way of an interjection here, on 1st December 2006, President George W. Bush Jr. demanded that certain foreign Ambassadors to the United States be recalled to their home capitals. The foreign powers concerned responded, in unison, that they would not adhere to this demand. In other words, the President was given a ‘flea in his ear’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ambassadors that George Bush II wanted out of the way were – SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE – the Ambassadors who have been talking to Leo Wanta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHINESE STAND TO LOSE VALUE OF THEIR REAL $1.0 TRILLION&lt;br /&gt;Having been notified of this latest Bush II Administration payment scam, AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, has asked to speak directly to the relevant Chinese official parties. The Chinese now face the severe risk that the value of their $1.0 trillion, which they cannot dump anywhere in any quantity, will be reduced to a paltry amount in the near future, as a direct consequence of this rolling criminal financial crisis. Mr Paulson, who has signature authority over the REAL HARD CASH $4.5 TRILLION THAT IS OWNED, TAGGED AND EARMARKED FOR Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta and his AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, is continuing, like an automaton, to drive the dollar downwards, hoping to stitch up some kind of deal next week in Beijing. The Ambassador and his Treasurer, Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., await the Chinese parties’ response. If they are to hang on to the value of their $1.0 trillion, they will need to avoid the familiar temptation to countenance any delay. Otherwise they, like the rest of us, will be crucified.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The approach to the Chinese parties was made on 4th December, when AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc. submitted a formal request for assistance to the People’s Republic of China, in the mutual interest, so as to ensure that both the United States and China do not suffer the same fate in the immediate future. The formal request contains the following statement, which the Editor of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is authorised to cite verbatim:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Our efforts since June 2006 to secure this economic receipt via the Department of the US Treasury have proven to have been futile’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCAMS AIMED AT NON-PERFORMANCE OF WANTA SETTLEMENT –&lt;br /&gt;SO THAT GOLDMAN SACHS (ISRAEL) KEEPS THE $4.5 TRILLION&lt;br /&gt;This latest scam, together will all the earlier scams, and the naked short operation, are and have been associated with the perpetrators’ continuing intention not to pay the Ambassador the $4.5 trillion formally agreed on 12th December 2005, and signed off by President Bush Jr. himself, by&lt;br /&gt;the US Treasury Secretary du jour, by the Federal Reserve Chairman du jour, by Supreme Court Justices, and by leading US legislators. The signatures of all these people have turned out to be WORTHLESS AND FRAUDULENT, as all are in breach of the formal agreement in question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By reneging on their formal, signed undertakings, these officials and legislators have jointly and severally destroyed the ‘Full Faith and Credit of the United States’. No-one can trust anything that US Treasury Secretary Paulson says or does any more, not least since he presides over the most outrageous and culpable conflict of interest in world financial history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, he holds signatory power over the Ambassador’s tagged&lt;br /&gt;and earmarked $4.5 trillion, and has chosen to enable his former institution to hold on to the money. This is a criminal act, and implies that the State of Israel, along with Germany (because of the reckless agenda of DVD, Dachau), are the United States’ real, unrecognised enemies. Perhaps this crisis will force Americans to understand this reality at last, and to take the necessary steps to bring the de facto enmity of these two powers to a peremptory end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Editor, of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who has always been favourably disposed towards Israel, points out that if the American people get to understand the above reality, there will be a violent anti-Jewish backlash – something that Goldman Sachs appears to have overlooked in its greed to hold on to the Ambassador’s real $4.5 trillion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PREVARICATION BY CHINA, OR FAILURE BY PAULSON&lt;br /&gt;TO ORDER THE $4.5 TRILLION TO BE CREDITED TO WANTA, WILL BE FATAL&lt;br /&gt;Most informed observers ‘on the inside track’, tell us that if, for instance, the Chinese stall in their response to the Ambassador until next week - or Paulson does not release the $4.5 trillion which he and Goldman Sachs have effectively stolen, by next week - there will be an almighty Day of Reckoning beginning on the foreign exchange markets, triggering the dreaded global derivatives overhang implosion, and rocking stock markets all around the world. It is never possible to be&lt;br /&gt;sure when such developments happen, but what is usually the case is that one or a combination&lt;br /&gt;of events triggers a systemic cascading effect, which is what is now expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that the ‘mainstream’ media are not covering this millennial crisis is not interesting. Whether financial journalists other than poor Bill Plante, of CBS News (see 3rd December posting) are being intimidated by the Bush Administration’s thugs, is not known. What the events since June 2006 demonstrate in our context is that the ‘mainstream’ media is completely irrelevant. It has missed the boat and, like the rest of us, will be left to pick up the pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its editors will want to know why this crisis has been ignored by their brainwashed writers, and will get no coherent answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BANKERS FLY TO CORRUPT SPANISH LAST CHANCE SALOON&lt;br /&gt;It is understood that representatives from Wachovia Bank, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase, are flying urgently to Spain, to stitch this latest scam together with the Bank of Spain and Santander Bank. This posting puts all parties on notice that the scam will not ‘fly’ and that the Ambassador and his Treasurer will not be parties to it. It cannot be imposed upon them without their consent, and this consent is withheld.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SUBSIDIARY AND PARALLEL POINTS OF RELEVANCE:&lt;br /&gt;• US intelligence operatives admitted on 6th December that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been systematically attacking and shutting down the computers of Ambassador Leo Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S.. In fact the Editor is aware that the NSA has been attacking Mr Cottrell’s computers non-stop since April, this year, if not much earlier. The way this is done, and the use of NSA computer-targeting ops to steal business, are described in the recently published double issue of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which has exposed a great deal of the illegal activity which is now on its last legs. It’s too bad these criminals didn’t clean up their act sooner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Our posting dated 3rd December, which stated the facts then known accurately,&lt;br /&gt;is directly responsible for triggering these latest ramifications. It must therefore be sharply pointed out that the chaos which is now ensuing or imminent is directly and exclusively the consequence of criminal financial operations conducted inter alia by the perpetrators named above. We are merely observers and reporters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, is visiting Washington ‘as we speak’. He&lt;br /&gt;is reported to be aware of the situation, but is not equipped to have a clue what to&lt;br /&gt;do about it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s staff failed to communicate with the Editor of this service last week, as reported in our posting dated 3rd December. This was a grave error on their part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• US television viewers were denied, on 5th-6th December, grim scenes that were broadcast on Britain’s ITN Seven O’clock News on 5th December. Specifically, Jon Snow, the anchor, appeared in Baghdad, where he was televised under the ‘crossed swords monument’, among a very large column of stationery US military vehicles. American troops were pictured lolling against their vehicles, chewing gum and picking at their teeth with toothpicks. Jon Snow explained that the column could not risk travelling along the airport road in the daytime, and so was sitting there immobilised until very late at night, when travelling to the airport would be safer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• If this is the situation now, in two weeks’ time, the armoured vehicles and troops will ironically be stuck, immobilised beneath Saddam’s ‘crossed swords monument’, where of course they are a sitting target. It follows that the various documents being generated in Washington to yank the President off the hook on which he has impaled himself, and to salvage this catastrophic situation, are a complete waste of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• The catastrophic failure of American power in Iraq coincides with the catastrophic failure of the Bush II Administration to order payment of Leo Wanta’s REAL HARD CASH $4.5 trillion , which will be used to provide the basis for a REFUNDING of the United States’ financially decadent (because debt-funded) economy. The awful combination of these two extreme crises, and their coincidence, spells the end of US military power and threatens to inflict a massive and very rapid decline in the standard of living of most Americans – which could have revolutionary consequences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• The attack on Iraq was a bank raid. Among its key objectives were (a) to seize control of the Central Bank of Iraq and to seize its gold. We were informed two years or so ago that about 100 special operatives involved in this operation were killed when they were deliberately left ‘in harm’s way’ by the US military; but we now understand that this figure was much higher. These people were sacrificed so that they would not survive to report what happened. Knowledge of this assault, giga-theft and atrocity exists because the events were recorded by several Iraqi sources. The second objective (b) was to obtain control over Saddam Hussein’s ‘personal’ bank, Rafidain Bank, so that the General Management could be changed and then instructed to grant access to what we were told amounted to $17 trillion of assets, but which we now understand is a far higher figure. These assets are reported to be held at the London branch, and may have been frozen or stolen by the British authorities, who appear to be heavily involved in these scams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• The Rest of the World, led by China, will go down the toilet with the United States as a direct consequence of these criminals’ behaviour. The EU Collective Currency will be unable to handle the pressure, and will itself implode, after an appreciation against the degraded US dollar which will blow the European Union Collective apart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[url=mylink]http://abundanthope.net/pages/article_152.shtml[/url]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28993480-116620559843529450?l=dream-soldier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/feeds/116620559843529450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28993480&amp;postID=116620559843529450' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/116620559843529450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28993480/posts/default/116620559843529450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dream-soldier.blogspot.com/2006/12/2-leo-wanta-update.html' title='#2 Leo Wanta Update'/><author><name>dream-soldier</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01301676390751393543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.fotothing.com/photos/7f3/7f3b78af7c8ee59a1ea13daae2c13862.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28993480.post-116542524837368275</id><published>2006-12-06T09:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T09:14:08.426-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest Leo Wanta Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="general_text"&gt;&lt;span class="article_text"&gt;This is a long read. Some of you may have not followed the Leo Wanta story, but I am placing this latest update here on the front site, so that it is understood why we have had such a long wait. The Leo Wanta story is important to global NESARA process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="general_text"&gt;&lt;span class="article_text"&gt;The DHS and the CIA attempted to remove this December 3 article by Christopher Story in Global Analysis on December 5 UK time. They discovered the illegal removal and restored the article with an update today. The article describes in diary form the steps Secretary Paulson has taken to prevent the Leo Wanta money from being paid to the US. The global fiscal catastrophe has started and it is clearly the Bush administration who has caused this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="general_text"&gt;&lt;span class="article_text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;http://www.worldreports.org/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;'CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST' PAULSON GOES FOR BROKE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;AS WE PREDICTED ON 2 SEPTEMBER, $ HEADS INTO FREE FALL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sunday 3 December 2006 20:38&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOP-LEVEL U.S. CROOKS STEALING, SETALING, STEALING, STEALING, STEALING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DIARY OF U.S. OFFICIAL SCAMMING AND OBFUSCATION IN NOVEMBER 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IMPORTANT UPDATE: ON 5TH DECEMBER, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE CIA ATTACKED THIS WEBSITE, WHICH IS ILLEGAL. SPECIFICALLY, THEY TRUNCATED ALL THE TEXT IN THE 'DAIRY' SECTION BELOW, FROM 20 NOVEMBER ONWARDS. THE EDITOR DISCOVERED THIS AT ABOUT 11.00 PM UK TIME ON 5TH DECEMBER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE TEXT HAS BEEN RESTORED*.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ON CHECKING WITH MICHAEL C. COTTRELL, M.S., AT AROUND MIDNIGHT, IT WAS CONFIRMED THAT THE EDITOR'S SUSPICION [SEE BELOW] THAT THE U.S. TREASURY'S 'DATA BURST' INSTRUCTIONS TO SETTLE THE LEO WANTA $4.5 TRILLION PAYMENT, DATED THE 17TH NOVEMBER 2006, WERE INDEED DIVERSIONARY AND FALSE, WAS 100% CORRECT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FUNDS WERE BEING STOLEN IN 'REAL TIME'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHILE THE U.S. TREASURY ADOPTED THE POSITION THAT IT HAD FULFILLED ITS DUTY TO SETTLE WANTA'S $4.5 TRILLION, IN REALITY THE TREASURY 'DATA BURST' INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED FOR THE DIVERSION AND STEALING OF THE FUNDS. THEREFORE, THE EDITOR'S SUSPICION THAT THE U.S. AUTHORITIES, DIRECTED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH JR., MR JAMES WILKINSON, AND MR HENRY ('CONFLICT OF INTEREST') M. PAULSON, HAVE BEEN ORCHESTRATING THE STEALING OF THE FUNDS, TURNS OUT, WE REPEAT, TO BE 100% ACCURATE. SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS AN EXCEEDINGLY GRAVE MATTER WHICH COULD LEAD TO AN UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL AND U.S. DOMESTIC CRISIS. THESE FOOLS CANNOT STOP STEALING FUNDS, AND THEY HAVE AGAIN BEEN CAUGHT IN THE ACT, IMPERVIOUS TO THE CONSEQUENCES. THE NATURE OF THESE CONSEQUENCES WILL NOW BE DRUMMED INTO THEIR THICK, ARROGANT, CLEPTOMANIAC AND MENDACIOUS SKULLS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MR COTTRELL HAS ALSO CONFIRMED THAT ALL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN DIARY FORMAT BELOW, HAS TURNED OUT TO BE ACCURATE, AS WE KNEW WAS THE CASE. THEREFORE, WE ARE WITNESSING THE GRAVEST FINANCIAL CRISIS IN WORLD HISTORY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ALSO, THE AUTHORITIES COMMITTED TWO VERY STUPID MISTAKES: FIRST, BY SENDING SECRET SERVICE AGENTS TO THE RESIDENCE OF A COMPLIANCE OFFICER IN ORDER TO PRESSURISE HIM NOT TO REVEAL THE CONTENTS OF THE PAULSON TREASURY'S 'DATA BURST' INSTRUCTIONS WHICH PURPORTED TO CONTAIN THE LEO WANTA PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS BUT IN FACT (AS WE SUSPECTED) GAVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DIVERSION OF THE FUNDS, THEY 'BLEW THEIR COVER' – SINCE, IT WAS QUITE OBVIOUS THAT THEY WERE HIDING SOMETHING, AND WHAT THEY WERE HIDING WAS ITSELF OBVIOUS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE CRIMINAL MENTALITY NEVER KNOWS WHEN TO STOP, AND TO 'GO STRAIGHT'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SECONDLY, BY ILLEGALLY ATTACKING THIS WEBSITE, THEY HAVE REVEALED THAT THEY ARE IN A STATE OF BLIND PANIC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SO HERE IS SOME BASIC, ELEMENTARY ADVICE FOR THE DHS AND THE CIA, WHO ARE TRYING TO PROTECT THE EXPOSED BACKSIDES OF THE WRETCHED CREATURES PERPETRATING THESE SCAMS, MENTIONED ABOVE, AND THE TOP-LEVEL PERPETRATORS THEMSELVES:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GET REAL, STOP LYING, STOP SCAMMING, BREAK THE HABIT, PAY OUT THE WANTA SETTLEMENT IMMEDIATELY, AND AVOID THE VERY WORST POSSIBLE OUTCOME OF ALL, WHICH IS THAT ALL THE FIAT 'PONZI GAME' FUNNY MONEY THAT YOU SO ADORE, WHICH IS YOUR IDOLATRY, WILL SOON BE WORTHLESS – ABSENT THE WANTA SETTLEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU FOOLS, YOU HAVE BROUGHT THIS PENDING CATASTROPHE ON YOUR OWN HEADS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHETHER YOU CAN SAVE YOUR SKINS IS DOUBTFUL: BUT WHAT IS CERTAIN IS THAT IF YOU DON'T SETTLE THE WANTA $4.5 TRILLION, YOU WILL BE BURNT TOAST, HISTORY AND VERY PROBABLY STRUNG UP FROM SOME OF GEORGE H.W. BUSH SR'S LAMP POSTS. NOT EVEN YOUR WORST ENEMIES WANT THAT OUTCOME, BUT AS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHEN TO STOP, YOU MAY WELL BRING IT ON YOURSELVES. WE HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE STUPID. NOW THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMBASSADOR WANTA WAS IMPRISONED AND HELD UNDER HOUSE ARREST FOR AN INTENDED 22 YEARS ON A TRUMPED-UP CHARGE WHICH WE HAVE CONCLUSIVELY DEMONSTRATED TO BE FALSE. THE MERCILESS, CRUEL AND HEARTLESS BEHAVIOUR OF THE CLINTON AND BUSH WHITE HOUSE SUGGESTS THAT THE THIEVES WHO ARE ORCHESTRATING THE STEALING OF WANTA'S TAGGED AND EARMARKED $4.5 TRILLION SHOULD SERVE A MILLENNIUM IN JAIL. LEO WANTA WAS ILLEGALLY SLAMMED FOR NOT PAYING $14,129 WHICH HE NEVER OWED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT STEALING (AT LEAST) THE $4.5 TRILLION THAT THE EDITOR KNOWS ABOUT. THEREFORE, ON A 'FAIRNESS' SCALE, YOU SHOULD ALL SPEND 1,000 YEARS IN JAIL – INSTEAD OF ENJOYING YOUR THOUSAND-YEAR REICH WHICH THE TRAITOROUS GERMAN-CIA FIFTH COLUMN WANTS TO BUILD ON THE RUINS OF THE UNITED STATES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND A THOUSAND YEARS IN JAIL WOULD BE NOTHING LIKE ENOUGH FOR YOU, IN THE LIGHT OF THE LIES, ATROCITIES AND ABOMINATIONS YOU HAVE COMMITTED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[*If you see any peculiar characters on this site – one of which may be &amp;Bull – please be advised that these aberrations are inserted by creeps working for DHS and CIA, which is of course totally illegal, and that when we spot any of their nasty little tricks, we will make corrections asap. Also, if you see any of our posted text 'snipped' and deleted, please email &lt;a href="mailto:cstory@worldreports.org"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;cstory@worldreports.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and we will restore the missing copy if possible. Note to the CIA/DHS: This NOT a U.S. website. Please CEASE AND DESIST. WHEN YOU INTERFERE, YOU 'BLOW YOUR COVER'. HOW STUPID IS THAT?].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The posting dated 4th December, restored at midnight London time on the 5th, begins here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/aboutus"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;Christopher Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; FRSA, Editor and Publisher, &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;World Reports Limited&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, London and New York: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;www.worldreports.org.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Press the ARCHIVE Button on the Home Page for Wanta Crisis reports since June 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Henry M. Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, is well on the way towards earning a reputation as the most dangerously complacent operative ever to have occupied his high position. His reckless and obtuse behaviour with respect to the Wanta Settlement, which he has hijacked, has wrecked any prospect of 'business as usual', and has virtually ensured that he and his co-conspirators will, in the course of time, find themselves arraigned for corruption, conspiracy to steal the funds of others, and as accessories to the fact of multiple felonies, listed in our earlier postings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COLLAPSE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFIDENCE, AS PREDICTED&lt;br /&gt;The factor that he and his bewildered and frightened colleagues appear to have overlooked is the small problem of INTERNATIONAL CONFIDENCE. Given the deep penetration of our postings on the Leo Wanta crisis internationally since last June, all who matter in worldwide positions of power, have had to watch speechless as the US authorities have played fast and loose with the $4.5 trillion tagged and earmarked for Ambassador Leo Wanta and his Virginia-based corporation, AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc., corruptly maximising these REAL US dollars for self-enrichment and 'hole-plugging' purposes – as the financial world awaits in horror the impending maturities in the ‘Ponzi Game’ derivatives sector, which is now believed to aggregate in the quadrillions of dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Significant maturities are imminent THIS MONTH, on top of the defaults registered in London and other European centres by early November, which were then reported as amounting to some $4.275 trillion. This figure is now believed to be much higher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEW LIE: PAULSON IS ‘MANAGING’ THE DOLLAR’S DEPRECIATION&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, in the past two weeks or so, a new deception has crept into the picture. Specifically, ill-informed media pundits have latched on to the depreciating dollar as indicative of a grandiose and subtle strategy being executed by Hank M. (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson in the interests of diminishing the US trade deficit, which now roughly equates, in a single year, to the $1.0 trillion value of China's reported foreign exchange reserves. According to this perception, Hank ‘Conflict-of-Interest’ Paulson is engaged in a currency realignment engineering exercise on the basis of a measured plan that will benefit everyone, including the Man in the Moon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, a review of international economic analyses by newspaper pundits on both sides of the Atlantic over the past month reveals that these people often have NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE WRITING ABOUT. The language they use is locked into outdated concepts of inflation, interest rate policy, money supply, housing market data, labour market indicators, and 'the latest numbers' which are variously said to please or to alarm Wall Street, depending on the time of day – thereby in some unexplained manner influencing the price of the dollar on the foreign exchanges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EXCU..U...U...U...SE US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US dollar's cascading depreciation is NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THE USUAL CLAPTRAP WRITTEN IN A HURRY TO MEET PRESS DEADLINES BY ECONOMIC ANALYSTS IN THE MEDIA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the contrary, it is 100% the consequence of the cack-handed, corrupt, devious, irregular and culpable mishandling, since last June, of the Wanta Settlement. In accordance with the agreement signed off on 12th December 2005 by the President, the Vice-President, the Treasury Secretary du jour, the Supremes, and key American legislators, it should have been implemented with effect from the beginning of July 2006 but was hijacked first by President George W. Bush while en route to the St Petersburg Summit Meeting, and later, in a series of devious and deceitful manoeuvres, by Mr Conflict-of-Interest himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all know that a certain type of American never looks beyond the borders of the United States: but the fact, like it or not, is that THE REST OF THE WORLD IS BEYOND DISGUSTED AT THE LIES, SCAMS, SHENANIGANS, DECEITFUL MANOEUVRES AND CHICAGO-STYLE BANDITRY THAT THE PRESENT BUNCH OF BANK ROBBERS HOLDING OFFICE IN WASHINGTON HAS PERPETRATED SINCE THE SUMMER MONTHS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a consequence, the Rest of the World – which, in case some Americans have not yet realised it, IS MUCH BIGGER THAN THE UNITED STATES ALONE AND IS UNDER NO CONTINUING OBLIGATION TO USE AMERICA’S DEGRADING CURRENCY AS THE WORLD'S INTERVENTION AND OIL/GAS EXPORT DENOMINATION UNIT – has realised that the crooks in charge can never be trusted again and has therefore decided to ditch its dollar holdings as quickly as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OUR 2nd SEPTEMBER PREDICTIONS ARE THUS BEING FULFILLED&lt;br /&gt;This is precisely as we predicted in our posting dated 2nd September 2006*. And believe it or not, those responsible for this state of affairs have read all our reports almost immediately they have been posted. WE WARNED THEM WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY DIDN'T FINALISE THE LEO WANTA SETTLEMENT: AND THESE IDIOTS TOOK NO NOTICE. They stupidly thought they could continue their corrupt 'business as usual', and FORGOT ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFIDENCE FACTOR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAKING THE CURRENT SITUATION FAR, FAR WORSE, IS THE GHASTLY FACT THAT THE OVERHANG OF ‘PONZI GAME’ DERIVATIVES, NOW BELIEVED TO BE IN THE QUADRILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS, IS FACING A BULGE OF MATURITIES THIS MONTH. There is accordingly some suspicion that certain forces in Washington have been prepared to deploy their manipulation of the Wanta Settlement crisis as a means of baiting the international financial community to dump the dollar, so that the derivatives Day of Reckoning, which is imminent, will somehow be less devastating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If true, this is a policy of extreme desperation which invites the prospect of the worst possible outcome – that the US dollar cascade will overshoot, driving sterling way beyond $2.0, towards $3.0, which will destroy the British economy, and will push the European Collective Currency – which is underpinned by NOTHING, since NO SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT CONTROLS IT, whatever the aggressive Germans may believe – to a level which will tear the Eurozone apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover the Bank of England is engaged in reckless transactions, using multiple hypothecation techniques resulting in the off-balance sheet accumulation of American dollars, which have been depreciating faster than it can accumulate them. When the black dust settles, if it ever does, this institution will need to be investigated – since it appears to be a co-conspirator, within the closed central banking system, with the official financial operatives in Washington who are systematically destabilising the international financial system for personal, untaxed gain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the Rest of the World is dumping dollars because it has lost confidence in the 'Full Faith and Credit of the United States' as it has watched the White House, the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve play cynical games with Ambassador Wanta’s hard dollar cash, it is instructive to review, for example, what shenanigans transpired in the single month of November 2006, adding to the global disquiet. Detailed notesd are taken and retained of every development in this crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DIARY OF U.S. OFFICIAL SCAMMING OPS. DURING NOVEMBER 2006&lt;br /&gt;Bear in mind in all this that the Chinese parties have been lied to on several occasions by Mr Henry ‘Conflict-of-Interest’ Paulson, whose former institution, of which he was CEO, is sitting on Ambassador Wanta’s $4.5 trillion and is make use of it irregularly and without the Ambassador's permission for self-enrichment and 'hole-filling', or 'backfilling' purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following diary, which is published by permission of the Ambassador and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., the Treasurer of AmeriTrust Groupe Inc., illustrates how the corrupt US bank robbers misled the Chinese authorities, the Vatican and the Ambassador and Mr Cottrell during the month of November and early December:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 01 November 2006: Donald L Kohn (Federal Reserve and Bank for International Settlements official) and Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson actively prevent the distribution of Ambassador Wanta’s $4.5 trillion, whereas Federal Reserve Chairman Dr Ben S. Bernanke and a Mr McCurdy,&lt;br /&gt;of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, have jointly signed off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 02 November: Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta is notified by a Mr Frazier of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue that he owes $43,304.42 of State tax, which is not true. The computation even displays a sum of illegally charged State tax amounting to $14,129 which was paid twice in 1992 under protest, even though Mr Wanta had been non-resident and working abroad on US Government intelligence work on the direct instructions of President Reagan since 1985.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On hearing of this latest abomination, the Editor of this service downed tools and produced a special 24-page Supplement entitled ‘WISCONSIN TAXATION GESTAPO FRAUD’ which definitively demonstrates how the Wisconsin tax authorities have perpetrated a conspiratorial fraud against Leo Wanta since 1992, under instructions originally from the Clinton White House (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Supplement displays the relevant tax documents and shows how this fraud was perpetrated. Its purpose was to provide the pretext for Wanta’s ‘takedown’, so that the ‘Box Gang’ (Clinton criminals + Bush criminals) could steal, divert, misappropriate, collateralise, and hypothecate,&lt;br /&gt;with their corrupt banking and trading intermediary co-conspirators and accessories to the fact of innumerable felonies – while the CIA lied systematically that the Ambassador was long since DEAD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he ceased to be dead in 2005, the crooks panicked and negotiated the Wanta Settlement (with the US Government signatories evidently signing in bad faith, but nevertheless responsible for having approved the Settlement). See note (1) below, and the 24-page Wisconsin Supplement which was distributed worldwide along with &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 31, 3-4, on 22nd November (2), (3).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 02 November: The US Treasury is notified of discrepancies in the new electronic trading system which – SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, AND YET AGAIN, SURPRISE – allows funds to be diverted off-balance sheet. In other words, the means of perpetrating officially sanctioned criminal financial operations is purposely integrated into the brand new American electronic trading system, shortly to be implemented. This will enable the financial criminalists to continue their untaxed off-balance sheet carousel ad infinitum (they had hoped),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 04 November: The Chinese parties notify the Ambassador and his colleague, Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., that they will have received the official authority to proceed with their decision to pay the $4.5 trillion to the Ambassador/AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc., by 6th November 2006. It will be recalled that the Chinese parties had earlier informed the American authorities that if they did not fulfil their clear obligations to Ambassador Wanta/AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, they reserved the right to do so instead of the Americans. Their motivations include the fact that the only two Americans they trust are the Ambassador (whom they trust because of his impeccable record in fulfilling his obligations towards them many years ago), and their extreme concern that the amoral and disreputable behaviour of the US authorities will lead to a world catastrophe, in which the Chinese economy, like that of the Rest of the World, will be smashed. These fears are well grounded, and reflect inter alia our posted warnings dated 2nd September 2006*, also published in &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 05 November: The respected journalist Bill Plante, of CBS News, who is investigating the crisis surrounding the US Treasury’s non-performance on the Wanta Settlement, and who is staying in Washington DC, is approached and threatened by US Government security thugs, and told to ‘get out of town’. This, by the way, is the first-ever reported information concerning an attempt by the ‘mainstream’ media to catch up with this service, and to start reporting the truth about this&lt;br /&gt;high-level corruption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 09 November: Enforcement authorities at the Vatican inform Michael C. Cottrell, M.S. that Settlement of the Wanta $4.5 trillion will take place immediately. This suggests either than the Vatican has hard information, or else that it has been taught by the Bush Sr. operatives how to deploy their favourite little nasty trick, of indicating that all is well – promising the earth in bad&lt;br /&gt;faith, with no intention of performing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 09 November: One of the associates of Ambassador Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., who has been helping with this Settlement, has his personal, joint and corporate bank accounts frozen by the US Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security (a.k.a. the US Ministry of State Security), on the ground that he had been professionally helping the Ambassador and AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc. This thuggish, Soviet-style behaviour shows to what extreme lengths the criminals in power in Washington will go to protect their interests, stolen assets and backsides. Unfortunately for all the perpetrators concerned, the worm has turned and their reprobate financial scamming operations, which they thought would never be found out, let alone publicised, are being exposed BIG TIME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 10 November: Ambassador Leo Wanta is informed that all the large international banks that are not engaged in nefarious carousel transactions are extremely annoyed and upset at the continuing reprobate and illegal non-performance of the US Treasury on the Wanta Settlement. This has been known for some time, but now the matter is made formally known to the Ambassador.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 11 November: Investigators associated with the Ambassador and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., advise that the following officials are seeking to prevent payment of the Wanta Settlement (and associated payments):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Lawrence Stevens, a US Treasury official.&lt;br /&gt;• Donald L. Kohn, the Federal Reserve and Bank for International Settlements official.&lt;br /&gt;• Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson, US Treasury Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;• Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also seeking to prevent the Settlement are Wachovia, New York, &amp;amp; First Union Bankers, New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the above were specifically identified as seeking by all means possible to prevent the Wanta Settlement. By contrast, investigators revealed that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board,&lt;br /&gt;Dr Bernanke, now (as above) wants it completed without further ado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 13 November: The new electronic trading system, complete with its built-in facility to enable funds to be diverted off-balance sheet so that the crooks can continue to benefit from the carousel, goes operational (United States to London and/or Berlin).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 14 November: Someone tries to hack in to the US Treasury’s computer system, as a result of which the system is completely shut down (how convenient: see below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 14 November: The Vatican pressurises the White House and the US Treasury to perform on the Wanta Settlement. It is reported that Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson finally agrees to complete the Wanta Settlement. As will be shown, this ‘transformation’ turns out to be false, deceptive, devious, reprobate and illegal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 15 November: By authorisation, an associate of the Ambassador and of Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., submits a written communication to Senator Schumer of New York, in an attempt to establish communication with the US Treasury, which, like sulking school children, has steadfastly refused to communicate with the Ambassador and with Mr Cottrell – for the simple reason that they know they are in the wrong and they cannot face being given Grievous Bodily Harm of the Earhole by Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., who should himself be US Treasury Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• The only known response from Hank Conflict is the previously reported torrent of arrogant verbal oppression: ‘I control the show, I decide when and how to release the funds, if I decide to pay…’. This arrogance reflects inter alia the fact that President George W. Bush Jr,. whose motto is ‘You boys decide’, has delegated all his powers to Mr Conflict – making him not only Treasury Secretary, but the Chief Economic Adviser as well. It is foolish in the extreme for the holder of real power to delegate any of it. The only possible consequence is invariably that the recipient usurps the power of the donor – which is precisely what has happened, as this man continues along his path of destroying the international financial system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 16 November: Investigators notify Leo Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Wachovia Bank (New York) has defied three Federal Reserve Directives and one Federal Reserve Order to make the Wanta payment (and seven other payments).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 16 November: Auditors appear at the doors of Wachovia Bank, New York, at 8.30 am and prevent it opening. The auditors examine the books from 8.30 am to 11.00 am, when the bank opens its doors, indicating that it has no money to make the payments. This is because [see below] the funds have been illegally diverted, in collusion with the Treasury, ensuring on behalf of Mr Conflict-of-Interest, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, that Goldman hangs on illegally to the real dollar cash $4.5 trillion owned by and tagged in the names of Ambassador Wanta and his Commonwealth of Virginia-based corporation, AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 16 November: Senator Schumer’s office personnel provide ‘cover-up services’ on behalf of the White House and the Treasury, stating that ‘no-one knows anything about’ the situation regarding the letter submitted to his office dated 15th November. Note: If Goldman Sachs is acting for the Government of Israel in an operation to retain the $4.5 trillion, then it would follow that Senator Schumer might be part of this conspiracy. Unfortunately for all perpetrators, it is not going to be possible for any of them to wriggle out of the trap they have built for themselves. Indeed, if these scams continue, every single perpetrator of financial crimes that can be identified, will be systematically exposed, as the scandal spreads wider and wider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 16 November: David ‘Wayne’ Smith, reportedly a close friend of Vice President Richard Cheney, attempts to ‘quieten down’ the situation. Too late! The network of official and co-conspiratorial corruption is being exposed in ‘real time’, much to the surprise and anger of all concerned – who have yet to learn the commonsense virtues of straightforwardness, transparency, honesty and good faith which are the globally acknowledged attributes and standards of Leo Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 16 November: A Vatican source declares that the Wanta Settlement payment will be effected on 17th November. This raises [see below] the important question as to whether the Vatican is now part of the conspiracy. If its high officials have made the grave mistake of entering into a further pact with the Devil, they will discover in the course of time (if not very shortly) that the people they are dealing with are snakes and are liable to turn on them, or to perpetrate serial frauds against them. So the Cardinals had better do some quick thinking before they find out the worst. In this connection, they should be extremely cautious of the blandishments of Dr Henry Kissinger, who is allegedly acting as an emissary for George H. W. Bush Sr. – who allegedly succeeded him as Grand Capo of Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), Dachau, the secret ‘Black’ Nazi Continuum which is the primary source of all the disturbances wracking the world today, and which formulates its global Pan-German strategy on the basis of the Madrid German Geopolitical Centre’s dictum that ‘For us, the war never ended’ [‘Fur uns ist der Krieg niemals vorbei’].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 17 November: The US Treasury sends a Data Transmittal (‘Data Burst’) for the transfer and delivery of the $4.5 trillion +++ payments: US TREASURY – FEDERAL RESERVE – BANK OF AMERICA (Los Angeles) – WACHOVIA BANK (New York) – ALL ACCOUNTS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 17 November: WACHOVIA BANK DIRECTS THE PAYMENTS TO HSBC (Birmingham, United Kingdom), and Deutsche Bank, Berlin, via MR ROBERT ARMENTA (so-called ‘Compliance Officer’, Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and MR DONALD TRUSLOW (Wachovia, New York). This information was provided by a US Treasury Compliance Officer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 17 November: Chinese parties advise associates of Ambassador Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson had approached the Chinese authorities and the Elders with a proposal that they should accept a joint trading venture between China, the US Treasury and AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, Leo Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The Chinese parties, reflecting their acutely intelligent understanding of the overall situation, responded that this might be possible ONLY if Ambassador Wanta and Mr Cottrell were to agree.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, this represented yet another device by the Paulson Treasury to erect a false front with a view to scamming the Ambassador. Note however that the Treasury included the Ambassador and Mr Cottrell in their proposal, even though, like school children who have stolen their friend’s dolly, they have refused to communicate directly with the Ambassador and Mr Cottrell, because they know they are in the wrong. That is daily becoming more and more of a gross understatement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 18 November: The Chinese authorities advise that if AmeriTrust/Leo Wanta are not paid by 12.00 Noon on Monday 20th November 2006, they will give their expert associates the full authority to make the $4.5 trillion payment directly to Ambassador Leo Wanta and contract. Underlying this stance are two crucial factors:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1: The only Americans they trust are Ambassador Wanta, with whom they had extensive dealings many years ago, and who they know to be a financial expert who can always be relied on to meet his obligations, as he always did in his past dealings with them, and his colleague Michael C. Cottrell, M.S.. By contrast, Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson has lied to them several times – something that Chinese never forget. You should never, ever, lie to a Chinese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2: The Chinese authorities are extremely concerned that the irresponsible and reckless behaviour of the Bush II authorities will lead to a universal financial and economic catastrophe, in the course of which their economy will be crucified. By making the payment direct to the Ambassador’s Securities Account with Morgan Stanley, New York, they will be assured that the taxed trading programmes which are ‘ready to go’ will generate the appropriate resources for global refunding and stability, preventing the catastrophe that is looming and may be only days or weeks away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 18 November: The so-called ‘Compliance Officer’ with Deutsche Bank, New York, admits that Las Vegas – where a sizeable group of criminalised intelligence operatives is based, given that in that city’s environment, they enjoy reliable cover as everyone there is a crook of some kind or another – is the ‘entry point’ for the money laundering of US dollars to ‘mirrored accounts’ at Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt and Berlin. Note: The 17th Floor of Deutsche Bank’s skyscraper in Frankfurt is an offshore centre, and therefore does not form part of the Federal Republic of Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This revelation throws the spotlight on the nefarious drug-related operations of the George Bush Sr. (DVD Chief) component of the ‘Box Gang’, and shows how fiat and drug-trafficking funds are funnelled into the coffers of Deutsche Bank, which is the DVD’s primary operating institution – implementing the DVD’s long-range Nazi Continuum Global Hegemony Strategy, driven by bribery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 20 November: Chinese source advises (corroborated by a second reliable source) that President George W. Bush had been sharply urged during the Vietnam Summit Meeting on 18th November by the Chinese Finance Minister to effect the Wanta payment without any further tricks, shenanigans or deceptions. President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who was present at the meeting, concurred. He is owed $30 billion under the Reagan Protocols, which Ambassador Leo Wanta must disburse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 20 November: The US Treasury now wheels out its pre-arranged alibi – which is that Wachovia is uniquely responsible for effecting the payment, since Wachovia had received, and then ‘lost’, the funds. However, the funds disbursed to Wachovia were NOT the hard cash dollar cash funds ($4.5 trillion) which remain tagged and held in the name of Ambassador Leo Wanta and his Commonwealth of Virginia-based AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc., but rather ‘shadow’ fiat funds generated by the illegal trading of Leo Wanta’s tagged $4.5 trillion. This deception was perpetrated under the watch and authority of Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson, who has signature authority over the $4.5 trillion illegally held and traded by Goldman Sachs, New York. Unfortunately for Mr Conflict and all perpetrating co-conspirators concerned, this deception was unmasked by us in real time, and the conspirators were caught IN FLAGRANTE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have been flailing around like terrified rats in a sack ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 22 November: The US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the White House are jointly and openly undermining the US dollar so that the EU Collective Currency and the pound sterling are artificially strengthened, collecting a large pool of US dollars offshore (in the United Kingdom, India and Malaysia), facilitating the generation of massive profits through undertaking trades that discount the value of the US dollar. Additionally:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* They are seeking to drag the United Kingdom and Switzerland into supporting the EU Collective Currency (which, because it is a collective currency controlled by no sovereign power, is actually backed by nothing), rather than the US dollar and/or their own currencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* This of course diminishes the value of the Chinese authorities’ $1.0 trillion reported pool of foreign exchange (dollar) reserves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* These transactions also highlight the idiocy of most financial/economic reporting on the dollar crisis to date by ‘mainstream’ media pundits, who (a) have neglected our reports on this subject since June, (b) are having to run fast to catch up, (c) have still failed to factor in the collapse of confidence generated by the US authorities’ criminal financial operations and manoeuvres to avoid paying out the real hard dollar cash $4.5 trillion tagged and earmarked in the name of Ambassador Wanta and his corporation, and (d) are being intimidated by US Government thugs from reporting this crisis. {However the Editor now has several European ‘mainstream’ journalists who are anxious to ‘break’ the story, and will do so if they, too, are not intimidated likewise].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 22 November: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Volume 31, Numbers 3 &amp; 4, with the 24-page Supplement on the Wisconsin Taxation Gestapo Fraud, is collected by the Royal Mail from our London premises. It takes several hours to load the very large transporter sent to us for the purpose. The double issue, which consists of 480 pages, is devoted exclusively to the background to the biggest criminal financial conspiracy in the world, which the aforementioned operatives are trying in vain to cover up. It has a picture of Ambassador Leo Wanta, whom the CIA told the international financial community was long since DEAD, on the front cover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Supplement makes it clear, inter alia, that the Wisconsin authorities, who have never returned Ambassador Leo Wanta’s sealed diplomatic briefcase, have stolen US Treasury instruments worth $18 billion from it. Facsimiles of banking transactions that involve all the banks listed in our recent posting, are displayed in the journal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 24 November: An attempt is made, by a representative seeking to facilitate transactions, to get AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc. to approve and participate in a US Treasury Buy/Sell ‘off-balance sheet’ transaction with SKS, a California corporation, via Bank of America. This approach was made to Mr Cottrell not once, but TWICE. Note: the perpetrators of these scams DO NOT, EVEN AT THIS LATE STAGE, SEEM TO HAVE COTTONED ON TO THE FACT THAT MR COTTRELL AND THE AMBASSADOR WILL NEVER COMPROMISE THEIR PRINCIPLES FOR SELF-ENRICHMENT PURPOSES. IF MR COTTRELL HAD BEEN PREPARED TO DO THIS, HE WOULD LONG SINCE HAVE BEEN A TRILLIONARE. WAKE UP, USEFUL IDIOTS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 25 November: Another incredible proposition is made by an Arab intermediary, who was no doubt associated with George Bush Sr., to be involved, would you believe, in a vast currency exchange transaction switching $300 trillion into Euro. This would of course destroy the US dollar and would implode the EU Collective Currencyitself, which as indicated above is underpinned by zilch. The brazen effrontery of this latest approach makes it clear that the DVD is fully intent upon inflicting its coup-de-grace on the Americans, as it clearly sees this situation as its last chance to achieve its objective (stated in documents captured by the Allies after World War II) of ‘Building the Thousand-Year Reich on the Ruins of the United States’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the intended global system, it would not, therefore, be the US dollar that acts as the genesis of the intended New World Order global currency, but rather a revived deutschemark, or World Mark. It is worth examining this element of the conspiracy in more detail:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The provider of US dollars under this gross transaction would be a front company operating for the Federal Reserve labelled ‘GESG’ [see: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.gesg.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;www.GESG.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;] via the CIA’s captive bank, Bank of America, Los Angeles, California. The banker involved is a certain Mr Marvic. This is a Black operation of the traitorous ‘German Fifth Column’ within the CIA which, come the revolution that these people seem to be laying the groundwork for, will experience the actual harsh reality of George W. W. Bush Sr.’s reported comment: ‘If the American people knew what we had done, they would string us all up on lamp posts’. The Editor has suggested in several reports that it might not, therefore, be a bad idea to invest in the shares of a street furniture manufacturer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Cottrell informed the Editor that when the Arab intermediary put this certifiably mad proposal&lt;br /&gt;to him, he responded: ‘If this suggestion comes from George Bush Sr., please inform him where&lt;br /&gt;he should put it’. [The language used was actually more graphic, but since this is a respectable site, we refrain from further information]. The Arab, having apparently acquired the mentality of&lt;br /&gt;his German mentor, responded: ‘Please come back to me when you are feeling better’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[We need hardly elaborate what colossal damage this abominably reckless Teutonic proposal,&lt;br /&gt;if implemented, would inflict. It would permanently destroy the US dollar and would enable the European criminalists to seize, temporarily, control of the world oil market as no-one would invoice their oil exports in dollars ever again. It shows what evil intentions DVD entertains, and why it will be necessary to ‘take out’ Dachau if this crisis is not resolved, according to British intelligence sources].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 26 November: Henry (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson is reported to remain unwilling to place any relevant transaction ‘on the books’; yet it is made clear to everyone that the non-participating international banking community has lost all confidence in President Bush and Mr Conflict-of-Interest – not that this comes as any surprise, given how far these nutcases have allowed the situation to deteriorate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 27 November: The Vatican, acting as some kind of powerful intermediary, informs AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc, that ‘Payment will be made by 1st December 2006’ – by the Chinese parties, equipped with official authority to transfer $4.5 trillion to Wanta’s Virginia-based corporation’s Securities Account at Morgan Stanley, New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 27 November: The Chinese fail to follow through with this alleged undertaking. Indeed, they&lt;br /&gt;stall all activity, as the US Treasury has informed them that it will effect payment by 1st December – THEIR WAY. Of course, this turns out to be nothing more than yet another stalling tactic, so the Chinese have been ‘shafted’ yet again – and lied to noch einmal by Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 27 November: European bankers concur with the Vatican that payment of the Wanta Settlement will be effected by 1st December, and that if there is another deception, and payment is not made, they will begin to dump the US dollar in earnest. Payment is not made, and the dollar starts its steep, disorderly depreciation, in precise accordance with our published warning dated 2nd September 2006*.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 28 November: Mr James R. Wilkinson, at the White House, advises associates of the Ambassador and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S., that ‘it is getting done’, with reference to the effecting of the payment. Note that this assertion is made by the White House notwithstanding the fact that Mr H. M. Conflict procured a week earlier that payment was made to Wachovia, which appears to have misdirected the funds on the basis of the pre-arranged plan coordinated by Mr Conflict-of-Interest. The rats in this rotting sack are thrashing around greedily devouring new holes in the sack and getting hemp all strung up round their throats. Specifically:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 28 November: Direct pressure is exerted on Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Board. But Wachovia Bank, which has alienated or ‘lost’ the ‘shadow’ $4.5 trillion +++, stalls, while the hard US dollar cash tagged and earmarked $4.5 trillion remains with Goldman Sachs. Notwithstanding this fiasco, the Federal Reserve Board again instructs Wachovia to make the payment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 28 November: The Chinese authorities formally advise the United States that it must settle the Wanta payment, or else China will promptly diversify its holdings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 28 November: It transpires that Prime Minister Tony Blair was informed of this situation via the United Nations Ambassador on 26th November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 29 November: By now, copies of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have thudded onto the desks&lt;br /&gt;of key personnel in the main Central Banks around the world, all the main international financial institutions, Treasuries, the European Central Bank, leading intelligence agencies and international investors globally. It has also landed with a thud on the desks of the following: The President of the United States, George W. Bush Jr.; Dr Alexandra Nogawa, Bank for International Settlements; The Republican National Committee; The Office of the Prime Minister of Israel; The Hon Gordon Brown, British Chancellor the Exchequer; Senator William H. Frist, Republican Presidential Task Force; The Hon John D. Rockefeller IV; The Hon Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson himself; Tom Henneghan, Venice, CA; Jay Timmons, Executive Director, Republican National Task Force; The Hon Pat Roberts; Gordon Thomas, UK intelligence adviser; The President of Austria; The Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Great Britain; Senator Richard C Shelby; Senator John Warner; Senator Harry Reid; His Excellency M. Jean-Paul Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States; Congressman Steny Hoyer; Senator John E. Sununu; Senator Paul S. Sarbanes; The Hon. Dr Condoleeza Rice, the US Secretary of State; His Excellency President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; First Lady Nancy Reagan; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California; The Hon Robert Gates, the Nominee Secretary of Defense; The Hon Roberto Gonzales, US Attorney General; The Hon Richard Cheney, Vice President of the United States; Senator Arlen Specter; Senator Herb Kohl; Senator Chuck Hagel; Senator Chuck Grassley; Senator Richard Durbin; Senator Charles E. Schumer; Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; Senator Carl Levin; Senator Joseph I. Lieberman; Thomas E Henry, Attorney-at-Law, Omaha; Steven Goodwin, Attorney-at-Law, Richmond, VA; and selected intelligence officials on both sides of the Atlantic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A further delivery of copies leaves our office in Central London this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 29 November: Following global delivery of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which exposes the entire conspiracy to ‘take down’ Ambassador Leo Wanta and to steal the $27.5 trillion of which he is Principal, a ‘cone of silence’ descends. The journal gives extensive details, in facsimile, of a large catalogue of massive geofinancial transactions for which Leo Emil Wanta was responsible before his ‘takedown’, thereby revealing which international banks have been illegally using the funds, now worth about $75 trillion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 29 November: Unreported in the somnolent ‘mainstream’ media, the Government of Iraq told President George W. Bush in Amman to ‘get out of Iraq’ within 90 days, that is to say, by the end&lt;br /&gt;of February 2007. Following this shock, the US delegation packed their bags and left early. All ‘mainstream’ reporting on this matter has been largely misleading. Note: This setback comes&lt;br /&gt;as an extreme blow to President Bush, since the Iraqi misadventure was a bank robbery – and the ‘black hole’ of Iraq has continued, as under Saddam Hussein, to be used to HIDE ILLEGALLY PROCURED AND UNTAXED FUNDS, WHICH WILL HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER HIDEY-HOLE WHEN THE AMERICANS LEAVE IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 30 November: Although it has been known that Dr Henry Kissinger, with his guttural German accent, has been ‘advising’ the Vatican for some time, this fact becomes ‘hard copy’ in late November, following its confirmation in a US Catholic newspaper. So here we have a DVD operative talking, perhaps, to another DVD operative. Has the Vatican made yet another pact with the Devil? As suggested above, the Cardinals need to think very quickly and very clearly about this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When George Bush Sr. was ordered out of Spain as a consequence of our earlier exposures –&lt;br /&gt;and told by the Bank of Spain to ‘get out and take your dirty money with you’ – George H. W. Bush Sr.’s ‘people’ appealed to the Vatican. They have to have reliable counterparties to ‘play with’,&lt;br /&gt;see. The Cardinals should ponder whether their new playmates can be trusted, or whether they are snakes that will turn round and bite them, having of course scammed them dry first. This is indeed what will happen: so the Vatican will be dragged into the vortex of calamity that is looming – due to its greed and willingness to ‘do business’ with these criminal gangs, as of old under ‘Bishop’ Marcinkus, the Chicago gangster dressed up in ecclesiastical garb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 30 November: The Editor of this service approaches the UK Treasury and asks for an interview with the Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Voices at the other end say ‘Yes Christopher, we’ll get back to you’. Nothing at all happens, even though Gordon Brown, an operative himself, knows Ambassador Leo Wanta of old. This implies that the United Kingdom is up to its own neck in this financial criminality, which is indeed known to be the case in certain quarters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 30 November: European banking sources confirm that their new electronic banking system (software and hardware) will be activated by 5th or 6th December, providing for transparency. By contrast, as indicated, the new US securities trading system is explicitly provided with the means&lt;br /&gt;to transfer funds off-balance-sheet. This is consistent, of course, with Mr Conflict-of-Interest’s new campaign to replace the existing (porous) ‘rules-based’ system, with a new so-called ‘principles-based’ system specifically designed to provide an India-rubber environment conducive to enabling these financial scamsters to avoid being indicted and locked up in jail for life. If Ambassador Wanta can be mercilessly slammed into jail for an intended 22 years on trumped-up, false tax charges for an illegally raised $14,129 that he arranged to be paid three times, and which was never credited&lt;br /&gt;by the Wisconsin tax authorities, no doubt the serial perpetrators of these financial crimes can reasonably expect to receive lifetime sentences, which is what they deserve. They are of course relying on the usual self-serving corruption among the judiciary to spare them that fate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 30 November: NO PAYMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 01 December: NO PAYMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* 03 December: In a conference call, Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S.,&lt;br /&gt;are informed that an investigator who possesses the documentation that is associated with the Treasury’s ‘data burst’ on 17th November [see above], which supposedly contains details of what was to happen to the purported payments, was suddenly visited by US Secret Service agents (operating for the Treasury), and was instructed not to release the documents to the Ambassador and Michael C. Cottrell, M.S. The instruction allegedly came from Mr James R. Wilkinson in the White House. Technically, the Secret Service has been merged into the Department of Homeland Security (a.k.a. the Soviet-style Ministry of State Security, which is something of a shambles), but Secret Service agents still, in practice, take their instructions from the White House. The rationale given for this clumsy intervention was that making the ‘data burst’ instructions available to the Treasurer of AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc., would be contrary to the national interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DID THE U.S. TREASURY’S INSTRUCTIONS ACTUALLY PROVIDE FOR THE WANTA PAYMENT TO BE MADE, OR DID THEY BY ANY CHANCE CORRUPTLY AUTHORISE ITS DIVERSION? [YES THEY DID!]&lt;br /&gt;In reality, fulfilment of the Wanta Settlement is so overwhelmingly in the US national interest, and in the interest of the whole world, that nothing else matters. The Secret Service agents’ intervention gives rise to the following considerations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Did the Treasury’s data burst instructions ACTUALLY contain instructions to pay the $4.5 trillion to AmeriTrust/Wanta’s Securities Account with Morgan Stanley in New York, OR did it contain deviant instructions for the ‘shadow’ fiat $4.5 trillion+++ (or whatever total was payable) to be disbursed and then alienated to other parties, WHICH IS WHY THE SECRET SERVICE HAS INTERVENED TO PREVENT THE DOCUMENTS BEING REVEALED TO THE AMBASSADOR AND MR COTTRELL?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. After all, if the ‘data burst’ instructions were indeed concerned with payment of the Settlement, what is preventing the Treasury releasing them, since they claimed that they had fulfilled their obligations towards the Ambassador?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Manifestly, if the Treasury’s ‘data burst’ instructions directed Wachovia Bank to pay the funds to OTHER PARTIES, the US Treasury has AGAIN been caught IN FLAGRANTE, lying to all concerned that official instructions were given to pay the Wanta Settlement while in fact making arrangements for the funds in question to be DIVERTED AND STOLEN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. If this turns out to be the case, we have a corruption crisis literally with no historical precedent, which could bring down the Bush Jr. Administration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Remember that this further fraud has taken place ‘within’ the outer fraud whereby Goldman Sachs retains custody of the hard dollar cash $4.5 trillion, in an apparent conspiracy with Henry (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson, who has signatory power over that account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT IS NOW PLAINLY THE DUTY OF THE U.S. TREASURY TO REFUTE THE ABOVE POSSIBILITY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF THE ‘DATA BURST’ INSTRUCTIONS REFERRED TO WANTA’S PAYMENT, LET IT NOW CONFIRM&lt;br /&gt;THIS BY AUTHORISING THE RELEASE OF THE RELEVANT ‘DATA BURST’ INFORMATION TO THE AMBASSADOR AND MICHAEL C. COTTRELL, M.S. , WITHOUT FURTHER OBFUSCATION OR DELAY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEAR IN MIND THAT THE TREASURY HAS ADOPTED THE STANCE THAT IT HAS FULFILLED ITS OBLIGATIONS CONCERNING THE WANTA SETTLEMENT AND THAT IT IS A MATTER FOR WACHOVIA&lt;br /&gt;TO ADDRESS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the event that the Treasury instructed Wachovia Bank to disburse the ‘shadow’ $4.5 trillion other than in accordance with its stance that it has fulfilled its obligations towards the Wanta Settlement, the Treasury has been caught in the following scams:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Conspiring to divert the ‘shadow’ $4.5 trillion illegally, WHILE:&lt;br /&gt;* Deceiving relevant parties into believing that it has fulfilled its obligations with regard to the Wanta Settlement, when this is not the case.&lt;br /&gt;* Employing its Secret Service to prevent exposure of its corrupt behaviour and lies, on the ground that conveying the ‘data burst’ instructions to the Ambassador and his treasurer would be against the national interest, WHEN:&lt;br /&gt;* The whole world and its dog knows that fulfilment of the Wanta Settlement and the ending of this crisis is not only in the US national interest, but in that of the whole of humanity.&lt;br /&gt;* Committing treason against the United States as well as breaking all the laws detailed in our earlier reports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Also: was the ‘computer glitch’ that was used as the pretext for the closure of the Treasury’s system shortly before this corrupt payout, actually a device to enable computer programmers to fiddle the payout instructions to perpetrate this fraud?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LET MR CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST EXPLAIN WHY IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THE SECRET SERVICE TO INTERVENE IN ORDER TO PREVENT MR MICHAEL C. COTTRELL, M.S., SEEING THE ‘DATA BURST’ INSTRUCTIONS, IF THESE INSTRUCTIONS IN FACT PROVIDED FOR THE WANTA SETTLEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF, HOWEVER, AS WE SUSPECT, THE ‘DATA BURST’ INSTRUCTIONS IN REALITY DIVERTED THE ‘SHADOW’ $4.5 TRILLION AND WERE NOT – CONTRARY TO THE STANCE OF THE TREASURY AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE – INTENDED TO EFFECT THE WANTA SETTLEMENT, LET HENRY M. (‘CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST’) PAULSON EXPLAIN TO THE WHOLE WORLD WHY THE TREASURY AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE LED PARTIES TO BELIEVE THAT THE ‘DATA BURST’ INSTRUCTIONS GAVE AUTHORITY FOR THE WANTA SETTLEMENT – WHEN IN FACT THE FUNDS WERE BEING DIVERTED, AS WAS REVEALED BY THE TREASURY’S OWN COMPLIANCE OFFICER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Henry M. (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson: Your job, your whole future, the survival of the Bush II Administration, and the tarnished reputation of the entire US Federal Government and the Federal Reserve, depend on you clarifying this situation without telling any more lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do confirm that the ‘data burst’ instructions were intended to implement the Wanta Settlement, what have you to hide? If it later turns out that you have again lied, no doubt you will receive the appropriate come-uppance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the ‘data burst’ instructions did indeed order the funds to be illegally diverted elsewhere, your best bet will be to ‘come clean’ NOW – before the situation careers completely beyond any hope of control, and the imminent worst case scenario of a hyperinflationary runaway global financial crisis sweeps Mr Bush II and his Administration into oblivion – and you, Mr Conflict-of-Interest, into jail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V.K. DURHAM WRITES TO BUSH SUPPORTING WANTA SETTLEMENT&lt;br /&gt;On 1st December, V. K. Durham, with deep US intelligence community connections, echoing complaints posted on this website, wrote as follows to President George W. Bush Jr., Henry M. Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury, US House Members and the Chairman of the US Senate Banking Committee, Charles E. Grassley:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding: Obstruction of Executive Order, i.e. President Ronald Reagan to Ambassador Leo Wanta and subsequent Order of the Court to release funds; Interference with said Order of the Court; Non-Compliance with Order of the Court; and: Regarding US Debt, unauthorised derivatives and current US banking, financing and economic loss of credibility and support among the world community:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr President: This nation has lost all credibility along with her international Good Faith and Credit, and is currently standing on the brink of banking, financing and economic collapse due to ongoing criminalities by those representing this nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Courts have ordered Ambassador Leo Wanta’s money to be released and paid immediately… Unfortunately, Mr President, Ambassador Wanta’s monies remain ‘hostage’ and ‘held up’, aside from being ‘non-paid’ in violation of said Court Order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Considering [that] James Banker III has been called back to ‘straighten’ out some of these irregularities, involving highly suspect, and unauthorised (by the owner-holder) banking, financing and economics ‘derivative’ transactions…, and Russia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany, France, and other ‘victim’ nations… have brought this to your attention recently: have you considered authorising the release of Ambassador Wanta’s monies… for the betterment of the nation and all concerned?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr President, as you are fully aware, I have supported the Constitutional Office of the President very strongly… and shall continue to do so in the future. However, Mr President, this nation is currently IN HARM’S WAY…, and, as the duly constituted outstanding, primary creditor of the United States of America and ALL debtor nations, might I suggest [that] you use your Powers of Office as the President of the United States… and ‘order’ the release of Ambassador Wanta’s funds?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In furtherance: You are aware of the amount [that] Ambassador Wanta has agreed to pay back to the Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service [the initial windfall tax amount of $1.6 trillion, which will be ON-BALANCE SHEET]. This will benefit the nation greatly, plus, it would benefit the international ‘opinion’ of this nation, and possibly go a long way in restoring the CREDIBILITY of the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is hopeful, Mr President, [that] you will see the wisdom behind allowing Ambassador Wanta’s monies [to be] freed up… to ‘inject’ legitimate money back to the Treasury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, Mr President: What happened to the $6.5 trillion dollar ‘U.S. and Latin American debt swap/debt conversion payment [remitted by] this Durham Holding Trust, Tias 12087, which was paid in GOLD COLLATERAL, paying the US and Latin American debts back in May 2003?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V.K. Durham, C.E.O (4).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•&lt;br /&gt;Notes:&lt;br /&gt;The article dated 2nd September warning of this crisis is appended below these notes. It may also be accessed via our ARCHIVE button on &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org./"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;www.worldreports.org.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1). The 24-page Supplement published with &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/worldreports/international_currency_review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;International Currency Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Volume 31, # 3-4, distributed worldwide on 22nd November, displays, in a step-by-step manner, and with the help of diagrammatic captions, the relevant tax documents proving the perpetration by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, of grossly oppressive, unjust, inaccurate, and arbitrary tax demands and tax collection practices against Ambassador Leo Wanta. To cite the most abominable of these malpractices, the Department issued a Delinquent Tax Warrant, which it subsequently divided into two, with the SAME DTW number, accepting certified Court Satisfaction of the (illegally charged) amount of $14,129, paid under protest in 1992, while at the same time, perpetuating the newly created component for the same amount. This represents just about the most abusive form of illegal tax oppression imaginable. Further, the illegally charged amount of $14,129 was PAID TWICE UNDER PROTEST from Singapore, where Leo Wanta was working at the time on sensitive US Government intelligence investigations, having worked abroad and being therefore non-resident in the State of Wisconsin, since 1985. In July 2005, the same amount, plus interest (representing the ‘continuation’ of the previously ‘satisfied’ amount, after the DTW had been divided in two, like an amoeba), was paid a third time, following which the Ambassador was released from all illegal restrictions with effect from 14th November 2006. On 2nd November 2006, Ambassador Wanta received a demand from the reprobate Wisconsin Department of Revenue demanding $43,304.42. In a breakdown accompanying this illegal demand, the figure of $14,129 was displayed – this being the same $14,129 that was paid in May 1992, June 1992, and July 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given that the CIA had spread the lie that Leo had been DEAD FOR MANY YEARS, one can imagine the shock that reverberated throughout the international banking and intelligence communities, when he suddenly ceased to be dead with effect from July 2005. In the wake of this huge shock, the US authorities negotiated a compromise Settlement with Wanta worth $4.5 trillion, given that, failing this payment, he remains Principal of the original $27.5 trillion (now worth around $75 trillion) raised from 200+ banks following his Financial Warfare operation to destabilise the Soviet Union, which he implemented from Vienna on President Reagan’s instructions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The compromise Settlement aimed to get the banks off the book, since the $27.5 trillion has been illegally collateralised, misdirected, hypothecated and misused without the Ambassador’s permission, since July 1992. Under the Wanta Settlement, a veil would be drawn over the fact that the banks have stolen these funds. Absent the Settlement, the entire $27.5 trillion (now $75 trillion), is callable by the Ambassador.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In April-June 2006, the $4.5 trillion of REAL CASH DOLLARS was brought across the exchanges, and was tagged and earmarked in the name of Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta and his Commonwealth of Virginia-based corporation, AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc.. While en route to the St Petersburg Summit in July, President George W. Bush ordered the funds not to be paid out, and they remain tagged and earmarked in an account with Goldman Sachs, New York, from where they have been traded and replicated illegally, without the owner’s permission, many times over. The Treasury Secretary, Hank M Paulson, is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, and has signature authority over the Ambassador’s real cash funds – representing the Grandfather of all Conflicts of Interest, which is why we call him Hank (‘Conflict-of-Interest’) Paulson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2). Astonishingly, there are still some people ‘out there’ who raise red herrings and irrelevant issues arising from the Ambassador’s confinement (which was originally intended as a 22-year jail sentence) in the State of Wisconsin. For instance, one commentator was advised by the Editor of this service to cease and desist from asserting that the Ambassador was released from jail in 2005. Leo was not: he was released from all restrictions and house arrest in November 2005, after the third illegal amount had been settled. Notwithstanding that the Editor of this service had to correct the commentator on this score, he nevertheless continued to repeat the disinformation that the Ambassador was released from jail in July 2005. Having been authoritatively informed of the truth, the disinformation became a typically abusive intelligence lie, when repeated after the point had been corrected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Likewise, there are still some ill-informed people who persist in developing polemical arguments around incomplete or inaccurate information on the Wisconsin dimension. As indicated, the Editor has produced a 24-page Supplement which comprehensively demolishes all lies and disinformation concerning the Wisconsin State tax authorities’ participation, on Clinton White House instructions, in the ‘takedown’ of Ambassador Wanta. Anyone who embarks on inaccurate arguments based upon false or deviant ‘information’ on this subject, is liable to make a fool of himself. Rather than risk this, you may purchase a copy of the special 24-page Supplement for US$50, which must be paid by Visa or Mastercard. We are a commercial organisation and so cannot distribute materials for free, with certain exceptions (not applicable to this offer).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find out the truth, rather than waste time barking up the wrong tree, please use the CONTACT US facility on our website &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldreports.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#810081;"&gt;www.worldreports.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, to provide us with the necessary information so that we can mail you a copy of this work. It demolishes all the CIA’s persistent and stale lies on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3). The Ambassador’s sealed diplomatic briefcase, which contained 18 high-value US Treasury instruments, and was subjected to a search in Wisconsin, has never been returned to him. A ‘Return of Search Warrant’ prepared and signed by a Dennis M. Mengelt, Special Agent, Division of Criminal Investigation, Wisconsin Department of ‘Justice’, and dated 11th March 1994, lists the contents of the briefcase but OMITS any reference to the 18 high-value US Treasury instruments, worth $18 billion. (It is illustrated on page one of the Supplement). The reason that the briefcase has never been returned to the Ambassador is that the Wisconsin authorities cannot do so without ensuring that the briefcase contains the 18 high-value US Treasury instruments, which have been stolen for collateralisation and hypothecation purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(4). The Editor is not briefed about the matter raised by V. K. Durham in her final paragraph. However he is reliably advised that her claims (unlike those of many renegade parties) are valid, and has respect for her inclusion of this matter here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta: Diplomatic Passport Numbers 04362 &amp; 12535 a.k.a. Frank B. Ingram [FBI] (Sector V) SA32NV; and a.k.a. Rick Reynolds, SA233MS. 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These are the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now the United States is completely under the control of those who run these two organizations (David Rockefeller in particular). It is therefore important to understand these organizations if we wish to understand what has been taking place in the United States since the early 1900’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resource material I am using that explains in depth what these two organizations are all about was written by Jack Newell and Devvy Kidd ("Why A Bankrupt America?", Project Liberty, P.O. Box 741075, Arvada, CO 80006-9075). Please allow me to share the main ideas with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edward Mandell House&lt;br /&gt;The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 by Edward Mandell House, who had been the chief advisor of President Woodrow Wilson. Actually, he was more than just a prominent aide of the President; he dominated the President. He was referred to as Wilson’s "alter ego" (other self), and was credited for being the most powerful individual in the United States during the Wilson Administration from 1913 until 1921.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House was a Marxist whose goal was to socialize the United States. In 1912, House wrote the book "Philip Dru: Administrator" in which he stated that he was working for "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." In this book, House laid out a plan for the conquest of America, telling how both the Democratic and Republican Parties would be controlled, and be used as instruments in the creation of a socialistic government. And he asked for the establishment of a state-controlled central bank, which were both proposed in "The Communist Manifesto". And it was in 1913, during the very first year of the House-dominated Wilson Administration, that both of these proposals became law. The Federal Reserve Act was passed, which brought into power a private central bank to create the money of the United States, taking this power away from the united States Congress. And the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the graduated income tax as proposed by Karl Marx, was also ratified.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Council on Foreign Relations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1921, House and his friends formed the Council on Foreign Relations whose purpose right from its conception was to destroy the freedom and independence of the United States, and to lead the country into a one-world government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right from its beginning, in 1921, the CFR began to attract men of power and influence. In the late 1920’s, important financing for the CFR came from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. In 1940, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, members of the CFR gained domination over the State Department, and they have maintained this domination ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its intentions&lt;br /&gt;The late Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton’s mentor), Professor of History at Georgetown University, member of the CFR, stated in his book,&lt;br /&gt;"Tragedy &amp; Hope":&lt;br /&gt;"The CFR is the American Branch of a society which originated in England, and which believes that national boundaries should be obliterated, and a one-world rule established."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rear Admiral Chester Ward, a former member of the Cfr for 16 years, warned the American people of the organization’s intentions:&lt;br /&gt;"The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common — they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereingty of the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Dan Smoot, a former member of the FBI Headquarters staff in Washington, D.C., summarized the organization’s purpose as follows:&lt;br /&gt;"The ultimate aim of the CFR is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it."&lt;br /&gt;In other words, the CFR’s activities are treasonous to the U.S. Constitution. Their goal is to put an end to the United States of America, and to make the country a part of their global government scheme.&lt;br /&gt;Its influence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1944 and in 1948, the Republican candidate for President, Thomas Dewey, was a CFR member. In later years, Republicans Eisenhower and Nixon were members of the CFR, as were Democrats Stevenson, Kennedy, Humphrey, and McGovern. (Note: We believe Kennedy became disloyal to the CFR prior to his assassination.") The American people think that they have a choice when they vote for a President, but the truth of the matter is , with few exceptions: Presidential candidates for decades have been CFR members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one of the CFR’s annual reports, published in 1978, it listed a membership of 1878 members. Eleven of its members at this time were United States Senators, with even more Congressmen belonging to the organization. 284 of its members listed in this report were United States Government officials. And the Chairman of the Board of this immensely powerful pyramid was stated as being none other than David Rockefeller himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CFR not only has its members in the United States Government, but its influence has also spead to other vital areas of American life. According to Newell: "Its members have run, or are running, NBC and CBS, ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Washington Post’, ‘The Des Moines Register’, and many other important newspapers. The leaders of ‘Time’, ‘Newsweek’, ‘Fortune’, ‘Business Week’, and numerous other publications are CFR members. The organization’s members also dominate the academic world, top corporations, the huge tax-exempt foundations, labor unions, the military, and just about every segment of American life."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barry Goldwater states in his book, "With No Apologies", on page 231:&lt;br /&gt;"Does it not seem strange to you that these men just happened to be CFR and just happened to be on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, that absolutely controls the money and interest rates of this great country without benefit of Congress? A privately owned organization, the Federal Reserve, which has absolutely nothing to do with the United States of America!"&lt;br /&gt;and Newell continues to write: "Not every member of the CFR is fully committed to carrying out Edward Mandell House’s conspiratorial plan. Many have been flattered by an invitation to join a study group, which is what the CFR calls itself. Others go along because of personal benefits, such as a nice job and a new importance. But all are used to promote the destruction of U.S. sovereignty."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All aspects of American life are dominated&lt;br /&gt;The members of the CFR dominate almost every aspect of American life, yet most Americans have never even heard of the Council on Foreign Relations. One reason for this is probably because there are over 170 journalists, correspondents, and communications executives who are members of the CFR, and who do not write about the organization. Also, it is an express condition of membership that no one is to disclose what goes on at CFR meetings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congressmen John R. Rarick had warned:&lt;br /&gt;"The CFR, dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax-exempt foundations, and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education, and mass communication-media, should be familiar to every American concerned with good government, and with preserving and defending the U.S. Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation’s right-to-know machinery, the news media, usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain conspicuously silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitution Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CFR now has its main headquarters at the corner of park Avenue and 68th Street in New York City, in a building given to the organization by the Rockefeller family in 1929. Its main goal is still to create a one-world government by destroying the freedom and independence of all nations, especially the United States. And David Rockefeller continues to be its Chairman of the Board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trilateral Commission&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, the Council on Foreign Relations is not the only group proposing an end to the sovereignty of the United States. In 1973, The Trilateral Commission was founded to work for the same goal: a one-world government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trilateral Commission's roots stem from the book, "Between Two Ages", written by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970. In this book, Brzezinski praised Marxism, thought of the United States as obsolete, and praised the formation of a one-world government. His thinking closely parallels that of CFR founder Edward Mandell house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marxism&lt;br /&gt;On page 72, Brzezinski writes: "Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On page 83, he states: "Marxism disseminated on the popular level in the form of Communism, represented a major advance in man's ability to conceptualize his relationship to his world."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On page 123, we find: "Marxism supplied the best available insight into contemporary reality."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Mr. Brzezinski fails to tell his readers is that approximately 100 million human beings have been murdered under Marxism "in the form of Communism" just in this Twentieth Century. It has enslaved a billion more, and has been responsible for those who live in Communist-dominated countries. There is nothing like being brainwashed!&lt;br /&gt;For world government&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Between Two Ages" was published in 1970 while he was a professor in New York City. David Rockefeller read the book and, in 1973, launched the new Trilateral Commission, whose purposes include linking North America, Western Europe, and Japan "in their economic relations, their political and defense relations, their relations with developing countries, and their relations with Communist countries."&lt;br /&gt;As Newell writes: "The original literature of The Trilateral Commission also states, exactly as Brzezinski's book had proposed, that the more advanced Communist States could become partners in the alliance leading to world government. In short, David Rockefeller implemented Brzezinski's proposal."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rockefeller appointed Zbigniew Brzezinski to be the Director of The Trilateral Commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jimmy Carter&lt;br /&gt;In 1973, Jimmy Carter became a student of Brzezinski, and a founding member of the Trilateral Commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On March 21, 1978, "The New York Times" featured an article about Zbigniew Brzezinski's close relationship with the President. In part, it reads: "The two men met for the first time four years ago when mr. Brzezinski was executive director of The Trilateral Commission… and had the foresight to ask the then obscure former Governor of Georgia to join its distinguished ranks. Their initial teacher-student relationship blossomed during the campaign, and appears to have grown closer still."&lt;br /&gt;To think that the teacher in this relationship praised Marxism, and wanted to form a one-world government. And the student was to become ghe President of the united States.&lt;br /&gt;During the 1976 political campaign, Carter repeatedly told the nation that he was going to get rid of the Establishment Insiders if he became president. But when he took office, he promptly filled his Administration with members of the Council on Foreign Relations (284 to be exact) and The Trilateral Commission, the two most prominent insider organizations in America. Included in this list of members of The Trilateral Commission were Walter Mondale and Dr. Henry Kissinger.&lt;br /&gt;Beginning with Jimmy Carter, all the recent presidents, including president Clinton, have promptly filled their administrations with members of the Council on Foreign relations and The Trilateral Commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The effects&lt;br /&gt;The common everyday American citizen does not need to be told that there is a controlled government running the United States. But when we understand exactly what the Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission are, and how its members hold key positions in the Government, it becomes all the more clear.&lt;br /&gt;As Newell writes: "The effects of the Council on Foreign Relation and The Trilateral Commission on the affaires of our nation is easy to see. Our own Government no longer acts in its own interest, we no longer win any wars we fight, and we constantly tie ourselves to international agreements, pacts, and conventions. And, our leaders have developed blatant preferences for Communist U.S.S.R., Communist Cuba, and Communist China, while they continue to work for world government, which has always been the goal of Communism…&lt;br /&gt;"The real goal of our own Government’s leaders is to make the United States into a carbon copy of a Communist state, and then to merge all nations into a one-world system run by a powerful few."&lt;br /&gt;Barry Goldwater once stated on this subject:&lt;br /&gt;"The Trilateral Commission is international, and it is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical."&lt;br /&gt;As with the CFR, not all the members of The Trilateral Commission are fully committed to the destruction of the United States. Some just go along for the ride, to obtain fame, comfortabel living, and constatn flattery. But some, of course, really do run things and some, of course, really do run things and work against the independence of the united States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion&lt;br /&gt;The American people may think that they live in a free country when, in reality, things could not be more controlled. The American public must be made aware of what is really taking place in the united States.&lt;br /&gt;The key to obtain our freedom, to have a true independence, is to free ourselves from the yoke of International Finance. How true it is to state that those who control the money of a country control everything in that country.&lt;br /&gt;The first step is prayer: to kneel down before Almighty God and to ask Him to save America, to shower His blessings on this great land.&lt;br /&gt;And second; to educate the population. Every citizen of the United States should become informed about these inside organizations, and make it a point not to vote nor to promote those, who are members for these organizations. And to demand a reform of the financial laws of the country, especially to repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and to implement the philosophy of Social Credit into the laws of the country.&lt;br /&gt;Make it a point to subscribe as many people as possible to the "Michael" Journal so they could become educated as to how the financial system of the United States could actually be corrected. Then the United States Government would no longer be under the control of the Bankers, but would become a servant of the American people.&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/cfr.html&lt;br /&gt;The Dirty Dozen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trilateral-Commission.net&lt;br /&gt;SecretSocieties.net&lt;br /&gt;CouncilOnForeignRelations.net&lt;br /&gt;eWTO.net&lt;br /&gt;Federal-Reserve.net&lt;br /&gt;BilderbergGroup.net&lt;br /&gt;CarlyleGroup.net&lt;br /&gt;OilCompanies.net&lt;br /&gt;Republicrat.net&lt;br /&gt;Corpocracy.net&lt;br /&gt;Henry-Kissinger.com&lt;br /&gt;Alan-Greenspan.com&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It all began at Yale. In 1832, General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft put together a super secret society for the elite children of the Anglo-American Wall Street banking establishment. William Huntington Russell's step-brother Samuel Russell ran "Russell &amp;amp; Co.", the world's largest OPIUM smuggling operation in the world at the time. Alphonso Taft is the Grandfather of our ex-president Howard Taft, the creator of the Forerunner to the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only 15 seniors are picked each year by the former graduating class. They are required as a part of their initiation ceremony to lie naked in a coffin and recite their sexual history. This method allows other members to control the individual by threatening to reveal their innermost secrets if they do not "go-along".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Bush's father as well as George Bush were and are members of Skull &amp; Bones. A major key figure in Skull &amp;amp; Bones was William Averall Harriman. Pamela Harriman supplied the funds to elect Bill Clinton to office. Harriman was THE major backer of the Democratic Party for over 50 years. Major players in Skull &amp; Bones have been linked to the financing of both world wars and the creation of many think-tanks and Universities in this country. Bush's father was a major contributor to the "Hitler Project" as well as the build-up of the Soviet Union. Thus, leading to the inevidable&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;World Wars and the eventual set-up of the United Nations in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I first learned about the workings of "Skull and Bones" in 1990-91 during the Gulf War.&lt;br /&gt;Craig Hulett, A.K.A. (K.C. de Pass) was in Los Angeles doing several lectures discussing the&lt;br /&gt;NEW WORLD ORDER. Here he revealed the work of ANTONY SUTTON author of a number of books including "Wall Street and the Bolshevic Revolution", "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler", "Wall Street and FDR", "Gold v. Paper", "Energy-The Created Crisis", "National Suicide : Military Aid to the Soviet Union", "Technological Treason", A massive 3-Volume Set titled "Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1917-1973", (While working as a fellow researcher at the Hoover Institute), then came "America's Secret Establishment : An Introduction to the Order of Skull &amp;amp; Bones", in 1984 and Finally "The Two Faces of George Bush", also about Skull &amp; Bones". "Secret Establishment" was a compilation of his previous materials with a new insight. You see, his previous works focused on the Wall Street Bankers and several organizations they had founded. But, what happened was that someone who was reading his books, said "Hey, look at this", the research you are doing on these clowns is great, but did you know about "Skull &amp;amp; Bones"? Antony had been doing the research on these particular individuals without knowing that they all belonged to the same "Secret Society" at Yale. The person who made him aware of this was a member of "Skull &amp; Bones" attempting to expose it for what it is. Shortly after, Sutton&lt;br /&gt;received a documents package containing the "Actual Membership List of Skull &amp;amp; Bones" and several other documents of the same nature. Sutton then realized that all the key figures of his research were actually part of this secret clan at Yale. That is when it all came together for him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America's Secret Establishment : An introduction to the Order of&lt;br /&gt;Skull and Bones : For a review of this book or to Order Click Here!&lt;br /&gt;This package of documents was sent to 3 people. Antony Sutton, Craig Hulett, and the FBI.&lt;br /&gt;The FBI didn't do anything with it. (I wonder why?), Craig Hulett researched it and Antony Sutton published the results of his own research.&lt;br /&gt;To Order a Copy of this entire Package of Materials :&lt;br /&gt;Send a postal money order for .00 to 484 Lake Park Ave # 81, Oakland, Ca. 94610&lt;br /&gt;Please leave the "Pay to" line blank, this enables us to pass it on without necessarily cashing it, thereby eliminating the need to borrow the federal reserve currency into circulation at interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Main Families in Skull &amp; Bones :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A) Whitney Family (1635, Watertown, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(B) Perkins Family (1631, Boston, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(C) Phelps Family (1630, Dorchester, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(D) Bundy Family (1635, Boston, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(E) Taft Family (1679, Braintree, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(F) Wadsworth Family (1632, Newton, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(G) Lord Family (1635, Cambridge, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(H) Gilman Family (1638, Hingham, Mass.)&lt;br /&gt;(I) Harriman Family (Railroads)&lt;br /&gt;(J) Rockefeller Family (Standard Oil)&lt;br /&gt;(K) Payne Family (Standard Oil)&lt;br /&gt;(L) Davison Family (J.P. Morgan)&lt;br /&gt;(M) Weyerhaeuser Family (Lumber)&lt;br /&gt;(N) Pillsbury Family (Flour Milling)&lt;br /&gt;(O) Sloane Family (Retail)&lt;br /&gt;(1) A Little About the Whitneys :&lt;br /&gt;Initiated Name Field&lt;br /&gt;(A) 1851 Emerson Cogswell Whitney Education: "Died Dec. 1, 1851"&lt;br /&gt;(B) 1854 Edward Payson Whitney Medicine: "Dissappeared in 1858"&lt;br /&gt;(C) 1856 James Lyman Whitney Library Work, Boston Public Library&lt;br /&gt;(D) 1863 William Collins Whitney Secretary of Navy (1885-9)&lt;br /&gt;Promoter &amp;amp; Financier&lt;br /&gt;(E) 1878 Edward Baldwin Whitney Law: Justice, New York Supreme Ct.&lt;br /&gt;(F) 1882 Joseph Ernest Whitney Education: "Died Feb. 25th, 1893"&lt;br /&gt;(G) 1894 Payne Whitney (Son of Finance: Knickerbocker Trust Co.&lt;br /&gt;William Collins Whitney&lt;br /&gt;(H) 1898 Harry Payne Whitney Finance: Guaranty Trust &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Son of W.C. Whitney Guggenheim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exploration Co.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) A Little About The Lords :&lt;br /&gt;(A) 1854 George de Forest Lord&lt;br /&gt;(B) 1898 Franklin Atkins Lord&lt;br /&gt;(C) 1922 William Galey Lord+Francis Norton=Son Charles Edwin Lord 2nd&lt;br /&gt;(D) 1926 Oswald Bates Lord+Mary Pillsbury (Of Pillsbury Flour family)=&lt;br /&gt;Son Winston Lord&lt;br /&gt;(E) 1949 Charles Edwin Lord 2nd&lt;br /&gt;(F) 1959 Winston Lord&lt;br /&gt;The Lords Today:&lt;br /&gt;(G) Charles Edwin Lord : Acting Comptroller of the Currency (1981)&lt;br /&gt;(H) Winston Lord : Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (1983)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Members of Skull &amp;amp; Bones In Guaranty Trust : (Date Initiated)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A) Harold Stanley (1908)&lt;br /&gt;(B) W. Murray Crane (1904)&lt;br /&gt;(C) Harry P. Whitney (1894)&lt;br /&gt;(D) W. Averall Harriman (1913)&lt;br /&gt;(E) Knight Wooley (1917)&lt;br /&gt;(F) Frank P. Shepard (1917)&lt;br /&gt;(G) Joseph R. Swan (1902)&lt;br /&gt;(H) Thomas Cochrane (1894)&lt;br /&gt;(I) Percy Rockefeller (1900)&lt;br /&gt;Post WWII Partners&lt;br /&gt;(J) George H. Chittenden (1939)&lt;br /&gt;(K) William Redmond Cross (1941)&lt;br /&gt;(L) Henry P. Davison Jr. (1920)&lt;br /&gt;(M) Thomas Rodd (1935)&lt;br /&gt;(N) Clement D. Gile (1939)&lt;br /&gt;(O) Daniel P. Davison (1949)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guaranty Trust was founded in 1864 in New York. Over the next 100 years the banking firm expanded rapidly by absorbing other banks and trust companies; in 1910 it merged Morton Trust Company, in 1912 the Standard Trust Company and in 1929, the National Bank of Commerce. The J.P. Morgan Firm has effectively controlled Guaranty Trust since 1912 when Mrs. Edward Harriman (Mother of Roland and Averell Harriman) sold her block of 8,000 shares of the total outstanding 20,000 shares to J.P. Morgan. By 1954 Guranty Trust had become the most important banking subsidiary of the J.P. Morgan Firm and since 1954 the merged firms have been known as Morgan Guaranty Company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Members of Skull &amp; Bones in Brown Bros., Harriman (Formerly W.A.Harriman)&lt;br /&gt;(A) W.A. Harriman (1913)&lt;br /&gt;(B) E. Roland Harriman (1917)&lt;br /&gt;(C) Ellery S. James (1917)&lt;br /&gt;(D) Ray Morris (1901)&lt;br /&gt;(E) Prescott Sheldon Bush (1917)&lt;br /&gt;(F) Knight Wooley (1917)&lt;br /&gt;(G) Mortimer Seabury (1909)&lt;br /&gt;(H) Robert A. Lovett (1918)&lt;br /&gt;Post WWII Partners&lt;br /&gt;(I) Eugene Wm. Stetson, Jr. (1934) (1937-1942)&lt;br /&gt;(J) Walter H. Brown (1945)&lt;br /&gt;(K) Stephen Y. Hord (1921)&lt;br /&gt;(L) John Beckwith Madden (1941)&lt;br /&gt;(M) Grange K. Costikyan (1929)&lt;br /&gt;Partner Not in the Skull &amp;amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;(N) Matthew C. Brush (32nd Degree Mason)&lt;br /&gt;Members of Skull and Bones &amp; Nazis in Union Banking Corp. : Directors in 1932&lt;br /&gt;(A) E. Roland Harriman (1917) Vice President of W.A. Harriman and Co., N.Y.&lt;br /&gt;(B) Knight Wooley (1917) Director of Guaranty Trust, N.Y. and Dir. of&lt;br /&gt;the Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y.&lt;br /&gt;(C) Ellery Sedgewick James (1917) Partner Brown Brothers and Co. N.Y.&lt;br /&gt;(D) Prescott Sheldon Bush (1917) Partner Brown Bros, Harriman, Father of&lt;br /&gt;Ex-President George Bush&lt;br /&gt;(E) H.J. Kouwenhoven (Nazi) Nazi banker, managing partner of August&lt;br /&gt;Thyssen Bank and Bank Voor Handel&lt;br /&gt;Scheepvaart N.V. (The transfer bank for&lt;br /&gt;Thyssen's funds)&lt;br /&gt;(F) Johann Groninger (Nazi) Director of Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart&lt;br /&gt;and Vereinigte Stahlwerke (Thyssen's Steel&lt;br /&gt;operations)&lt;br /&gt;The other two members were :&lt;br /&gt;(G) J.L. Guinter Director of Union Banking Corp.&lt;br /&gt;(H) Cornelius Lievense President, Union Banking Corp. and Director&lt;br /&gt;of Holland American Investment Corp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Established in 1924 as a unit of W.A. Harriman and Co. (A joint Walker, Thyssen, Harriman operation). The founding partners were George Herbert Walker, Co-founder &amp;amp; sponsor (Grandfather of George Herbert Walker Bush, Ex-President, on the Father's side. William Averill Harriman and Fritz Thyssen of the German Steel Trust. The office of Union Banking Corp. was the N.Y. office of the German Steel Trust.&lt;br /&gt;There you have it, The Financiers of Adolf Hitler &amp; The USSR!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Media&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) "The Nation" Magazine and New Republic on the "Left" were financed by Willard Straight, using Payne Whitney (Skull and Bones) Funds.&lt;br /&gt;(2) The "National Review" on the "Right" is published by William F. Buckley a member (wwww)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War &amp;amp; Revolution&lt;br /&gt;Medicine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) Daniel Coit Gilman, (1852) was 1st President of Johns Hopkins University. President of the University of California. President of the Carnegie Institution. Founded Russell Trust (Incorporated Skull and Bones at Yale in 1856). Studied at the University of Berlin between 1854 and 1855 under Karl Von Ritter and Friedrich Trendelenderg, both prominent "Right" Hegelians.&lt;br /&gt;(2) William H. Welch (1870) was President of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical research from 1910 to 1934.&lt;br /&gt;Education&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) Daniel Coit Gilman (See Above)&lt;br /&gt;(2) Andrew Dickson White (1853) was 1st President of Cornell University. First President of the&lt;br /&gt;American Historical Association. Studied at the University of Berlin between 1856-58.&lt;br /&gt;(3) Timothy Dwight (1849) was 12th President of Yale University. Studied at the Universitiers of&lt;br /&gt;Berlin and Bonn between 1856 and 1858.&lt;br /&gt;Also at the University of Berlin at the time when all three of these influencial bonesmen were&lt;br /&gt;there, was Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology in Germany and later the source od dozens of American Ph.D.s who came back from Leipzig, Germany to start the modern American Education Movement.&lt;br /&gt;(4) Alfonso Taft (1832) Co-founder of Skull and Bones, was the most influential Trustee of Antioch College. In 1853 Taft appointed Horace Mann as President of Antioch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governmental Organizations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) McGeorge Bundy (1940) was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President's&lt;br /&gt;Kennedy and Johnson from 1961 to 1966.&lt;br /&gt;In 1966, Bundy appointed President of the Ford Foundation, where he stayed until 1979. While at Ford, Bundy brought in as Vice-President in charge of Education and Research Division another member of Skull and Bones. Harold Howe II ( )&lt;br /&gt;(2) Willaim Putnam Bundy (wwww)&lt;br /&gt;(3) Archibald MacLeish (1915) Helped write the Constitution for UNESCO.&lt;br /&gt;(4) Richard T. Ely (wwww) 1st Secretary of the American Economic Association.&lt;br /&gt;Firms With Links To Skull &amp; Bones at, or Near, 120 Broadway In 1917:&lt;br /&gt;(A) 120 Broadway Edward H. Harriman (Before his death)&lt;br /&gt;(B) 59 Broadway W.A. Harriman Company&lt;br /&gt;(C) 120 Broadway America International Corporation&lt;br /&gt;(D) 23 Wall J.P. Morgan Firm&lt;br /&gt;(E) 120 Broadway Federal Reserve Bank of New York&lt;br /&gt;(F) 120 Broadway Bankers Club (Top Floor)&lt;br /&gt;(E) 120 Broadway Thomas D. Thacher (of Simpson, Thacher &amp;amp; Bartlett)&lt;br /&gt;(F) 14 Wall William Boyce Thompson&lt;br /&gt;(G) 120 Broadway Guggenheim Exploration&lt;br /&gt;(H) 15 Wall Stetson, Jennings, &amp; Russell&lt;br /&gt;(I) 120 Broadway C.A.K. Martens of Weinberg &amp;amp; Posner (The 1st&lt;br /&gt;Soviet "ambassador")&lt;br /&gt;(J) 110 W. 40th St. Soviet Bureau&lt;br /&gt;(K) 60 Broadway Amos Pinchot's Office&lt;br /&gt;(L) 120 Broadway Stone &amp; Webster&lt;br /&gt;(M) 120 Broadway General Electric&lt;br /&gt;(N) 120 Broadway Sinclair Gulf Corp.&lt;br /&gt;(O) 120 Broadway Guaranty Securities&lt;br /&gt;(P) 140 Broadway Guaranty Trust Company&lt;br /&gt;(Q) 233 Broadway Anglo-Russian Chamber of Commerce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chart A: The Order of Skull &amp;amp; Bones in the Yale Faculty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Member Date Initiated Position At Yale&lt;br /&gt;Beebe, William 1873 Professor of English Literature (1882-1917)&lt;br /&gt;Beers, Henry A. 1869 Professor of English Literature (1874-1926)&lt;br /&gt;Bellinger, Alfred R. 1917 Professor of Greek (1926-&lt;br /&gt;Dahl, George 1908 Professor of Yale Divinity School (1914-1929)&lt;br /&gt;Darling, Arthur B. 1916 Professor of History (1925-1933)&lt;br /&gt;Day, Clive 1892 Professor of Economic History (1902-1938)&lt;br /&gt;Dexter, Franklin B. 1861 Secretary, Yale University&lt;br /&gt;Dwight, Timothy 1849 President of Yale University&lt;br /&gt;Farnam, Henry 1874 Professor of Economics (1880-1933)&lt;br /&gt;French, Robert D. 1910 Professor of English (1919-1950)&lt;br /&gt;Gilman, Daniel C. 1852&lt;br /&gt;Graves, Henry S. 1892 Dean, Yale School of Forestry (1900-1939)&lt;br /&gt;Gruener G. 1882 Professor of German (1892-1928)&lt;br /&gt;Hadley, Arthur T. 1876 President of Yale (1899-1921)&lt;br /&gt;Hilles, Frederick 1922 Professor of English (Professor of English 1921-&lt;br /&gt;Holden, Reuben A. 1940 Assistant to President (1947-&lt;br /&gt;Hoppin, James M. 1840 Professor of History of Art (1861-1899)&lt;br /&gt;Ingersoll, James W. 1892 Professor of Latin (1897-1921)&lt;br /&gt;Jones, Frederick S. 1884 Dean Yale College (1909-1926)&lt;br /&gt;Lewis, Charlton M. 1886 Professor of English (1898-1923)&lt;br /&gt;Lohman, Carl A. 1910 Secretary Yale University (1927-&lt;br /&gt;Lyman, Chester 1837 Professor of Mechanics (1859-1890)&lt;br /&gt;McLaughlin, Edward T. 1883 Professor of English (1890-1893)&lt;br /&gt;Northrop, Cyrus 1857 Professor of English (1863-1884)&lt;br /&gt;Packard, Lewis R. 1856 Professor of Greek (1863-1884)&lt;br /&gt;Peck, Tracy 1861 Professor of Latin (1889-1908)&lt;br /&gt;Perrin, Bernadotte 1869 Professor of Greek (1893-1909)&lt;br /&gt;Pierce, Frederick E. 1904 Professor of English (1910-1935)&lt;br /&gt;Root, Reginald D. 1926 Yale Football Coach (1933-1948)&lt;br /&gt;Schwab, John C. 1886 Professor of Political Economy (1893-1906)&lt;br /&gt;Seymour, Charles 1908 Prof. of History (1915-37), Pres. (1936-50)&lt;br /&gt;Seymour, Charles Jr. 1935 Professor of Art (1945-&lt;br /&gt;Silliman, Benjamin Jr. 1837 Professor of Chemistry (1846-1885)&lt;br /&gt;Stokes, Anson P. 1896 Secretary of Yale (1899-1921)&lt;br /&gt;Sumner, William G. 1863 Professor of Economics (1872-1909)&lt;br /&gt;Taft, William H. 1878 Professor of Law (1913)&lt;br /&gt;Tarbell, Frank B. 1873 Professor of Greek (1882-1887)&lt;br /&gt;Thacher, Thomas A. 1835 Professor of Latin (1842-1886)&lt;br /&gt;Thompson, John R. 1938 Professor of Law (1939-&lt;br /&gt;Walker, Charles R. 1916 Assistant Secretary (1943-1945)&lt;br /&gt;Woolsey, Theodore S. 1872 Professor of International Law (1878-1929)&lt;br /&gt;Wright, Henry B. 1898 Professor of History (1907-1911)&lt;br /&gt;Wright, Henry P. 1868 Professor of Latin (1871-1918), Dean Yale&lt;br /&gt;University (1884-1909)&lt;br /&gt;Chart B: Members of Skull and Bones in Education outside of Yale.&lt;br /&gt;Burtt, Edwin A. 1915 Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago&lt;br /&gt;(1924-31) and Cornell University (1931-60)&lt;br /&gt;Alexander, Eben 1873 Professor of Greek and Minister to Greece&lt;br /&gt;(1893-97)&lt;br /&gt;Blake, Eli Whitney 1857 Professor of Physics, Cornell (1868-70) and&lt;br /&gt;Brown University (1870-95)&lt;br /&gt;Chauvenet, William 1840 U.S. Navel Academy (1845-59) and&lt;br /&gt;Chancellor Washington University (1862-69)&lt;br /&gt;Cooke, Francis J. 1933 New England Conservatory of Music&lt;br /&gt;Cooper, Jacob 1852 Professor of Greek, Center College (1855-66)&lt;br /&gt;Rutgers University (1866-1904)&lt;br /&gt;Cutler, Carroll 1854 President Western Reserve University&lt;br /&gt;(1871-1886)&lt;br /&gt;Daniels, Joseph L. 1860 Professor of Greek, Olivert College, and&lt;br /&gt;President (1865-1904)&lt;br /&gt;Emerson, Joseph 1841 Professor of Greek, Beloit College (1848-8&lt;br /&gt;Estill, Joe G. 1891 Connecticut State Legislature (1932-1936)&lt;br /&gt;Evans, Evan W. 1851 Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University&lt;br /&gt;(1868-72)&lt;br /&gt;Ewell, John L. 1865 Professor of Church History, Howard&lt;br /&gt;University (1891-1910)&lt;br /&gt;Fisher, Irving 1888 Professor of Political Economy, Yale&lt;br /&gt;(1893-1935)&lt;br /&gt;Fisk, F.W. 1849 President, Chicago Theological Seminary&lt;br /&gt;(1887-1900)&lt;br /&gt;Green, James Payne 1857 Professor of Greek, Jefferson College&lt;br /&gt;(1857-59)&lt;br /&gt;Griggs, John C. 1889 Vassar College (1897-1927)&lt;br /&gt;Hall, Edward T. 1941 St. Marks School, Southborough, Mass.&lt;br /&gt;Harman, Archer 1913 St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.&lt;br /&gt;Harman, Archer Jr. 1945 St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.&lt;br /&gt;Hincks, John H. 1872 Professor of History, Atlanta University&lt;br /&gt;(1849-1894)&lt;br /&gt;Hine, Charles D. 1871 Secretary, Connecticut State Board of&lt;br /&gt;Education (1883-1920)&lt;br /&gt;Hoxton, Archibald R. 1939 Episcopal High School&lt;br /&gt;Hoyt, Joseph G. 1840 Chancellor Washington University (1858-1862)&lt;br /&gt;Ives, Chauncey B. 1928 Adirondack - Florida School&lt;br /&gt;Johnson, Charles F. 1855 Professor of Mathematics, U.S. Navel&lt;br /&gt;Academy (1865-70), Trinity College&lt;br /&gt;(1884-1906)&lt;br /&gt;Johnston, Henry Phelps 1862 Professor of History, N.Y. City College&lt;br /&gt;(1883-1916)}&lt;br /&gt;Johnston, William 1852 Professor of English Literature, Washington &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Lee (1867-77) and Louisiana State University&lt;br /&gt;(1883-89)&lt;br /&gt;Jones, Theodore S. 1933 Institute of Contemporary Art&lt;br /&gt;Kingsbury, Howard T. 1926 Westminster School&lt;br /&gt;Knapp, John M. 1936 Princeton University&lt;br /&gt;Learned, Dwight Whitney 1870 Professor of Church History, Doshiba College,&lt;br /&gt;Japan (1876-1928)&lt;br /&gt;McClintock, Norman 1891 Professor of Zoology, University of Pittsburg&lt;br /&gt;(1925-1930)&lt;br /&gt;Macleish, Archibald 1915 Library of Congress (1939-1944), UNESCO,&lt;br /&gt;State Dept. OWI, Howard University&lt;br /&gt;Moore, Eliakim H. 1883 Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago&lt;br /&gt;(1892-1931)&lt;br /&gt;Nichols, Alfred B. 1880 Professor of German, Simmons College&lt;br /&gt;(1903-1911)&lt;br /&gt;Norton, WIlliam B. 1925 Professor of History Boston University&lt;br /&gt;Owen, Edward T. 1872 Professor of French, University of Wisconsin&lt;br /&gt;(1879-1931)&lt;br /&gt;Parsons, Henry 1933 Columbia University&lt;br /&gt;Perry, David B. 1863 President, Douana College (1881-1912)&lt;br /&gt;Pomeroy, John 1887 Professor of Law, University of Illinois (1910-24)&lt;br /&gt;Potwin, Lemuel S. 1854 Professor, Western Reserve University&lt;br /&gt;Reed, Harry L. 1889 President, Auburn Theological Seminary&lt;br /&gt;Richardson, Rufus B. 1869 Director of American School of Classical&lt;br /&gt;Studies Athens (1893-1903)&lt;br /&gt;Russell, William H. 1833 Collegiate School, Hartford&lt;br /&gt;Seely, William W. 1862 Dean, Medical Faculty, University of Cincinnati&lt;br /&gt;(1881-1900)&lt;br /&gt;Southworth, George CS 1863 Bexley Theological Seminary (1888-1900)&lt;br /&gt;Stagg, Amos A. 1888 Dir. Physical Education, University of Chicago&lt;br /&gt;Stillman, George S. 1935 St. Pauls School&lt;br /&gt;Tighe, Lawrence G. 1916 Treasurer of Yale&lt;br /&gt;Twichell, Charles P. 1945 St. Louis Country Day School&lt;br /&gt;Tyler, Charles M. 1855 Professor of History, Cornell University&lt;br /&gt;(1891-1903)&lt;br /&gt;Tyler, Moses Coit 1857 Professor at Cornell (1867-1900)&lt;br /&gt;Watkins, Charles L. 1908 Director, Phillips Art School&lt;br /&gt;Yardley, Henry A. 1855 Berkeley Divinity School (1867-1882)&lt;br /&gt;Here are some related articles :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brand New!! Interview with Antony Sutton by "Sightings" - 3-19-00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp;amp; Bones Article from Esquire Magazine Sept. 1977 - Click Here!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Bush, Skull &amp; Bones and the New World Order - by Paul Goldstein &amp;amp; Jeffrey Steinberg - April 1991 - Click Here!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anthony Sutton On 'Skull&lt;br /&gt;&amp; Bones,' US Banks Financing&lt;br /&gt;Hitler, &amp;amp; 'Trance-Formation'&lt;br /&gt;3-19-00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antony Sutton, is the author of 26 books, many of which&lt;br /&gt;can be purchased on-line at Amazon or Barnes &amp; Noble.&lt;br /&gt;Liberty House Press at 1-800-343-6180 has copies of&lt;br /&gt;America's Secret Establishment and Best Enemy Money&lt;br /&gt;Can Buy for sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following interview with Mr. Sutton is dated July 6,&lt;br /&gt;1999&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antony C. Sutton, 74, has been persecuted but never&lt;br /&gt;prosecuted for his research and subsequent publishing of&lt;br /&gt;his findings. His mainstream career was shattered by his&lt;br /&gt;devotion towards uncovering the truth. In 1968, his&lt;br /&gt;Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development&lt;br /&gt;was published by The Hoover Institute at Stanford&lt;br /&gt;University. Sutton showed how the Soviet state's&lt;br /&gt;technological and manufacturing base, which was then&lt;br /&gt;engaged in supplying the North Vietnamese the&lt;br /&gt;armaments and supplies to kill and wound American&lt;br /&gt;soldiers, was built by US firms and mostly paid for by&lt;br /&gt;the US taxpayers. From their largest steel and iron plant,&lt;br /&gt;to automobile manufacturing equipment, to precision&lt;br /&gt;ball-bearings and computers, basically the majority of the&lt;br /&gt;Soviet's large industrial enterprises had been built with&lt;br /&gt;the United States help or technical assistance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Professor Richard Pipes, of Harvard, said in his book,&lt;br /&gt;Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's&lt;br /&gt;Future (Simon &amp;amp; Schuster;1984): "In his three-volume&lt;br /&gt;detailed account of Soviet Purchases of Western&lt;br /&gt;Equipment and Technology . . . [Antony] Sutton comes&lt;br /&gt;to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many&lt;br /&gt;businessmen and economists. For this reason his work&lt;br /&gt;tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or,&lt;br /&gt;more often, simply ignored."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report was too much and Sutton's career as a&lt;br /&gt;well-paid member of the academic establishment was&lt;br /&gt;under attack and he was told that he "would not survive".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His work led him to more questions than answers. "Why&lt;br /&gt;had the US built-up it's enemy? Why did the US build-up&lt;br /&gt;the Soviet Union, while we also transferred technology to&lt;br /&gt;Hitler's Germany? Why does Washington want to&lt;br /&gt;conceal these facts?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sutton, following his leads, proceeded to research and&lt;br /&gt;write his three outstanding books on Wall Street: and&lt;br /&gt;FDR; and the Rise of Hitler; and The Bolshevik&lt;br /&gt;Revolution. Then, someone sent Antony a membership&lt;br /&gt;list of Skull and Bones and--"a picture jumped out". And&lt;br /&gt;what a picture! A multigenerational foreign-based secret&lt;br /&gt;society with fingers in all kinds of pies and roots going&lt;br /&gt;back to 'Illuminati' influences in 1830's Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the full story, check-out Sutton's book America's&lt;br /&gt;Secret Establishment, in print for 14 years and available&lt;br /&gt;from Liberty House Press, 1-800-343-6180.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skull And Bones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, in a recent e-mail interview, are Antony Sutton's&lt;br /&gt;own reflections and answers to questions from myself&lt;br /&gt;and other researchers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pre-interview note from Antony Sutton: Remember all&lt;br /&gt;my papers on this are in deep storage 1000 miles away&lt;br /&gt;and cannot be accessed and I've not even thought about&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;B for 15 years. I had no idea that any interest had&lt;br /&gt;been aroused out there. I know the book is a steady seller&lt;br /&gt;from the royalty reports; but that is all. For the last 10&lt;br /&gt;years I have been in complete seclusion working on&lt;br /&gt;future technology...I'm more engineer than historian. The&lt;br /&gt;only visitors I've had or meetings have been with&lt;br /&gt;three-letter agency people, who arrive on the doorstep&lt;br /&gt;unannounced and complain I am hard to find. Big&lt;br /&gt;Brother has the ability apparently to find anyone. Nothing&lt;br /&gt;mysterious about this, I just dislike publicity and social&lt;br /&gt;interaction. . . . You will see from the Dutch TV episode&lt;br /&gt;that my work still upsets the "powers that be" so these&lt;br /&gt;are merely reasonable precautions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - Can you tell the story of how you learned of Skull&lt;br /&gt;&amp; Bones? And how you felt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - I knew nothing of S&amp;amp;B until I received a letter in&lt;br /&gt;the early 80's asking if I would like to look at a genuine&lt;br /&gt;membership list. For no real reason I said yes. It was&lt;br /&gt;agreed to send the package by Federal Express and I&lt;br /&gt;could keep it for 24 hours, it had to be returned to the&lt;br /&gt;safe. It was a "black bag" job by a family member&lt;br /&gt;disgusted with their activities. For the benefit of any S&amp;B&lt;br /&gt;members who may read and doubt the statement; the&lt;br /&gt;membership list is in two volumes, black leather bound.&lt;br /&gt;Living members and deceased members in separate&lt;br /&gt;volumes. Very handsome books. I spent all night in&lt;br /&gt;Kinko's, Santa Cruz , copied the entire volumes and&lt;br /&gt;returned within the 24 hour period. I have never released&lt;br /&gt;any copies or identified the source. I figured each copy&lt;br /&gt;could be coded and enable S&amp;B to trace the leak. How&lt;br /&gt;did I feel? I felt then (as I do now} that these&lt;br /&gt;"prominent" men are really immature juveniles at heart.&lt;br /&gt;The horrible reality is that these little boys have been&lt;br /&gt;dominant in their influence in world affairs. No wonder&lt;br /&gt;we have wars and violence. Skull and Bones is the&lt;br /&gt;symbol of terrorist violence, pirates, the SS Deaths Head&lt;br /&gt;Division in WW Two, labels on poison bottles and so on.&lt;br /&gt;I kept the stack of xerox sheets for quite a while before I&lt;br /&gt;looked at them--when I did look--a picture jumped out,&lt;br /&gt;THIS was a significant part of the so called&lt;br /&gt;establishment. No wonder the world has problems!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - What is the percentage of active members?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - I haven't checked for 15 years...it used to be about&lt;br /&gt;one quarter. With the rise of the Bush dynasty it will&lt;br /&gt;increase somewhat, as they climb on the bankwagon.&lt;br /&gt;The Demos had their turn with Harriman in the 40's and&lt;br /&gt;50's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - How many active members are there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Usually about 600 alive at any one time . . . recently&lt;br /&gt;more active.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM- What is your take on the grandfather clock that&lt;br /&gt;each member allegedly receives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - They do get a clock I've had that confirmed and&lt;br /&gt;you will see it in the photos in ASE (AMERICA'S&lt;br /&gt;SECRET ESTABLISHMENT). Might be symbolic,&lt;br /&gt;perhaps to state their organization goes on timelessly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - Has Skull and Bones lost its clout?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Well look at the recent fundraiser for George&lt;br /&gt;Bush...Republicans are stuffing money into his&lt;br /&gt;pockets...I suggest members recently got behind one of&lt;br /&gt;their own and decided to push George all out for&lt;br /&gt;president--and Democrats can't do a thing because&lt;br /&gt;Democrat Bones are not going to allow the Party to use&lt;br /&gt;the ultimate weapon--George's membership in a foreign&lt;br /&gt;secret society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - What do you know of George ' W.' Bush?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - He is a third generation Bonesman. My personal&lt;br /&gt;impression is that he doesn't have the drive of his father&lt;br /&gt;or the skills of his grandfather....--but I could be very&lt;br /&gt;wrong. He can beat anyone hands down--EXCEPT&lt;br /&gt;VENTURA. If Bush handlers allow a face to face debate&lt;br /&gt;between Bush and Ventura, Ventura will win. Remember&lt;br /&gt;Ventura has admitted to his so-called "sins". Bush has a&lt;br /&gt;closet full waiting to emerge. People are getting bored&lt;br /&gt;with cover ups and spin. 2000 may see the end of the&lt;br /&gt;Bones influence or--reality that these Bones people are&lt;br /&gt;powerful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - Is the 'name' of the German group known?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Almost certainly Illuminati.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - Some people say that there are other 'cells'; what&lt;br /&gt;do you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - There are many other secret societies. I've only&lt;br /&gt;looked at S&amp;B. Unfortunately no historian will keep his&lt;br /&gt;job if he tries to explore conspiracy...this is taboo for the&lt;br /&gt;American Historical Association. Sooner or later outsiders&lt;br /&gt;will take a look. I've long thought that S&amp;amp;B fits the legal&lt;br /&gt;definition of a conspiracy and needs to be officially&lt;br /&gt;investigated. Yes there should be other cells. No secret&lt;br /&gt;society worth anything is going to keep its inner actions&lt;br /&gt;written down on paper. If the gigantic electronic&lt;br /&gt;monitoring apparatus is for national security purposes;&lt;br /&gt;then it should be monitoring these people 24 hours a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - What are your thoughts on Wolf's Head? Scroll &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Key? And the other Senior societies at Yale?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Wolfs Head, Scroll and Key seem to be pale&lt;br /&gt;imitations of S&amp;amp;B, but they have the same objective of&lt;br /&gt;deliberately building discrimination into a society. I&lt;br /&gt;listened to Jesse Ventura last night and he made the point&lt;br /&gt;that the Founding Fathers intended for CITIZENS to&lt;br /&gt;represent the people. I agree, a trucker, a farmer, a&lt;br /&gt;teacher--represents the people not a bunch of&lt;br /&gt;professional pols or a secret society like S&amp;B. All these&lt;br /&gt;societies place their own members ahead of the pack and&lt;br /&gt;give preference to their own members--this is&lt;br /&gt;discrimination par excellence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - Have you read Cathy O'Brian's book&lt;br /&gt;Trance-Formation Of America? What do think of it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - The book does not contain one piece of hard&lt;br /&gt;physical evidence.. I think Cathy O'Brien BELIEVES&lt;br /&gt;SHE IS TELLING THE TRUTH . . . but remember that&lt;br /&gt;Mark Phillips is a skilled neuro-linguistic-programmer.&lt;br /&gt;Another point that really concerns me is this...where did&lt;br /&gt;this story originate? It originated in Communist Chinese&lt;br /&gt;Intelligence and Mark Phillips had a contractual&lt;br /&gt;relationship with the ChiComs. This could be an attempt&lt;br /&gt;to destabilize the US. No doubt these Washington pols&lt;br /&gt;are fully capable of these weird practices, just look at&lt;br /&gt;Bohemian Grove but that doesn't mean that the book is&lt;br /&gt;an accurate portrayal. If the book is credible I would&lt;br /&gt;think the police would have raided Bohemian Grove long&lt;br /&gt;ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My best guess is that the Chinese picked up whispers of&lt;br /&gt;Washington scandals and blew them out of proportion for&lt;br /&gt;their own purposes. This is a GUESS...I don't know.&lt;br /&gt;One thing that puzzled me, with all these sexual&lt;br /&gt;shenanigans how do Washington politicians find time to&lt;br /&gt;do anything else? According to the book this is a full time&lt;br /&gt;occupation for Senator Byrd and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - What did your study of elites, economics, secrecy&lt;br /&gt;and technology do for your career?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS-Depends what you mean by "career"? By&lt;br /&gt;conventional standards I am an abject failure. I've been&lt;br /&gt;thrown out of two major Universities (UCLA and&lt;br /&gt;Stanford), denied tenure at Cal State Los Angeles. Every&lt;br /&gt;time I write something, it appears to offend someone in&lt;br /&gt;the Establishment and they throw me to the wolves. On&lt;br /&gt;the other hand I've written 26 books, published a couple&lt;br /&gt;of newsletters and so on...even more important I've&lt;br /&gt;never compromised on the truth And I don't quit. In&lt;br /&gt;material terms...hopeless failure. In terms of discovery...I&lt;br /&gt;think I've been successful. Judge a man by his enemies.&lt;br /&gt;William Buckley called me a "jerk". Glenn Campbell,&lt;br /&gt;former Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford called&lt;br /&gt;me "a problem".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - Do you believe that there has been suppression of&lt;br /&gt;technology? Has it been major or minor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Yes there has been suppression but its going to be&lt;br /&gt;impossible to suppress the new emerging paradigm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - The Federal Reserve, the House of Morgan, House&lt;br /&gt;of Rothschild and Skull and Bones are they related?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Best source for this is a book by me THE&lt;br /&gt;FEDERAL RESERVE CONSPIRACY, 1995 CPA, PO&lt;br /&gt;Box 596, Boring OR 97007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM- On Skull and Bone's influencing John Dewey and&lt;br /&gt;Horace Mann; are there good source materials to follow&lt;br /&gt;that story?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Depends what you want to find. You could explore&lt;br /&gt;the 10(?) volume works of Dewey... outrageous&lt;br /&gt;Hegelianism, the state is supreme, the individual merely a&lt;br /&gt;pawn to be trained. This is the basis of our 'educational&lt;br /&gt;system"...or you could go and explore the members of&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;B who brought the system to the US. This trained&lt;br /&gt;"sausage mind" outlook has thoroughly permeated our&lt;br /&gt;universities--that's why we have the peer review&lt;br /&gt;system...we are all supposed to think alike and find the&lt;br /&gt;same answers. This political correctness garbage is&lt;br /&gt;another step to total thought control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AH - Did any of Hitler's economic policies threaten the&lt;br /&gt;interests of the international bankers, and if so did that&lt;br /&gt;play a role in his downfall?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Hitler's economic policies were OK'd by the&lt;br /&gt;bankers right through the war...ITT, Chase, Texaco and&lt;br /&gt;others were operating in Nazi-held France as late as&lt;br /&gt;1945. In fact Chase in Paris was trying to get Nazi&lt;br /&gt;accounts as late as 1944. When we got to Germany in&lt;br /&gt;May 1945, I remember seeing a (bombed-out)&lt;br /&gt;Woolworth store in Hamburg and thinking, "What's&lt;br /&gt;Woolworth doing in Nazi Germany?" While we were&lt;br /&gt;bombed and shelled it was "business as usual" for Big&lt;br /&gt;Business. Try the Alien Custodian Papers. See my BEST&lt;br /&gt;ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY for more information.&lt;br /&gt;Union Banking is very important. I made a documentary&lt;br /&gt;for Dutch National TV some years ago. It got all the way&lt;br /&gt;through the production process to the Dutch TV&lt;br /&gt;Guide...at the last minute it was pulled and another film&lt;br /&gt;substituted. This documentary has proof of Bush&lt;br /&gt;financing Hitler-- documents. Maybe my Dutch friends&lt;br /&gt;will still get it viewed, but the apparatus reaches into&lt;br /&gt;Holland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - What is the story that was going to be told on&lt;br /&gt;Dutch TV? And what is the story of it's censorship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Couple of years back, a Dutch TV production&lt;br /&gt;company from Amsterdam--under contract to Dutch&lt;br /&gt;National TV--came to US to make documentary on&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;amp;B. They went to the Bones Temple and other places&lt;br /&gt;and interviewed people on East Coast. On West Coast,&lt;br /&gt;they interviewed myself and one other person. I saw&lt;br /&gt;extracts from the original and it is a good professional&lt;br /&gt;job. They had documents linking Bush family and other&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;B members to financing Hitler through Union Banking&lt;br /&gt;of New York and its Dutch correspondent bank. More&lt;br /&gt;than I have in WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF&lt;br /&gt;HITLER. The first version was later upgraded into a two&lt;br /&gt;part documentary and scheduled for showing this last&lt;br /&gt;March. It was pulled at last minute and has never been&lt;br /&gt;shown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AH - Who has been financing Milosevic, and what role&lt;br /&gt;has the international banking community played in the&lt;br /&gt;Balkans?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - I haven't looked at this one. Of course the notorious&lt;br /&gt;Black Hand society is located in the Balkans. See WW&lt;br /&gt;One.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DG - What is the importance of your work on Skull and&lt;br /&gt;Bones?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - The potential is extraordinary. IF we find that secret&lt;br /&gt;societies are indeed significant the entire history of the&lt;br /&gt;last two centuries will have to be re-written. At this point&lt;br /&gt;in 1999, the potential has not been explored by others&lt;br /&gt;and I've moved back to my original interest--technology.&lt;br /&gt;Apparently people see some merit in the work. It is never&lt;br /&gt;advertised. It is an underground word of mouth&lt;br /&gt;distribution but has sold steadily from 1986 to date.&lt;br /&gt;Every month I get a royalty check, so I know it is selling.&lt;br /&gt;But my original enthusiastic statement has not been&lt;br /&gt;fulfilled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KM - What do you see for the future?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AS - Chaos, confusion and ultimately a battle between&lt;br /&gt;the individual and the State. The individual is the&lt;br /&gt;stronger; and will win. The state is a fiction sanctified by&lt;br /&gt;Hegel and his followers to CONTROL the individual.&lt;br /&gt;Sooner or later people will wake up. First we have to&lt;br /&gt;dump the trap of right and left, this is a Hegelian trap to&lt;br /&gt;divide and control. The battle is not between right and&lt;br /&gt;left; it is between us and them. The message is getting&lt;br /&gt;through. ASE has sold for 15 years, small but steady. No&lt;br /&gt;advertising. Its an underground work. But the breadth of&lt;br /&gt;interest is amazing. From Black Africa, to Russia (12,000&lt;br /&gt;copies), right, left...it cuts across all ethnic, political,&lt;br /&gt;social lines...The spirit of God is within us as individuals.&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp; Bones represents death. It has no life spirit and&lt;br /&gt;pretends that the State "is the march of God on earth".&lt;br /&gt;The thinking of immature juveniles, deadly and&lt;br /&gt;destructive and has almost totally infected Washington.&lt;br /&gt;What to do? Find yourself and then go to work.....tell&lt;br /&gt;your friends and put out the message. The answer is&lt;br /&gt;within you. _____ Antony Sutton, is the author of 26&lt;br /&gt;books, many of which can be purchased on-line at&lt;br /&gt;Amazon or Barnes &amp;amp; Noble. Liberty House Press at&lt;br /&gt;1-800-343-6180 has copies of America's Secret&lt;br /&gt;Establishment and Best Enemy Money Can Buy for sale.&lt;br /&gt;New York Editors . . . In talking to a magazine in New&lt;br /&gt;York that is working on a feature story on George ' W '&lt;br /&gt;Bush and was thinking of doing a piece on S&amp;B. I asked&lt;br /&gt;how about a sidebar on Antony Sutton? After getting&lt;br /&gt;responses peppered with phrases such as; "Someone is&lt;br /&gt;claiming he's a John Bircher" and; Here is what one&lt;br /&gt;editor (who shall remain nameless) had to say about&lt;br /&gt;Sutton:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Liberty House was/is a right wing publishing company&lt;br /&gt;located in Billings, Montana. Anthony Sutton was a&lt;br /&gt;research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Among&lt;br /&gt;many other claims, Sutton's book accuses Skull and&lt;br /&gt;Bones of funding and encouraging "the Maxist/Leftist&lt;br /&gt;'60s revolution"....and diverting attention by drawing&lt;br /&gt;students into disarmament and/or environmental groups&lt;br /&gt;and issues. Although there seems to be some real info in&lt;br /&gt;his book, it reads like a classic text of right-wing&lt;br /&gt;propaganda, filled with hyperbole and unsourced&lt;br /&gt;allegations" Antony Sutton's response:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's wrong with these editors? I was thrown out of the&lt;br /&gt;Hoover Institution by the CIA types....I am definitely&lt;br /&gt;persona non-grata. Director Glenn Campbell actually&lt;br /&gt;threatened me: "you will not survive."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some right winger!! I've never been a member of the&lt;br /&gt;Birch Society or any society come to that. I'd like to have&lt;br /&gt;that Editor say that to my face. They're sick! Get his&lt;br /&gt;comments on the above...and have him come up with&lt;br /&gt;some proof. What's the legal definition of slander...it has&lt;br /&gt;to be untrue and malicious. Do they have any money?&lt;br /&gt;When it comes right down to it the NY people didn't&lt;br /&gt;even read my book...else they would know that I see the&lt;br /&gt;right-left approach as a Hegelian trap...as for lack of&lt;br /&gt;evidence Ill leave that to the readers. On second thought&lt;br /&gt;they probably never heard of Hegel. When Lenin&lt;br /&gt;referred to 'useful idiots" he must have had these people&lt;br /&gt;in mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron Rosenbaum - Esquire Magazine - September, 1977&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at the hulking sepulcher over there. Small wonder they&lt;br /&gt;call it a tomb. It's the citadel of Skull and Bones, the most&lt;br /&gt;powerful of all secret societies in the strange Yale secret-society&lt;br /&gt;system. For nearly a century and a half, Skull and Bones has been&lt;br /&gt;the most influential secret society in the nation, and now it is one&lt;br /&gt;of the last.&lt;br /&gt;In an age in which it seems that all that could possibly be&lt;br /&gt;concealed about anything and anybody has been revealed, those blank&lt;br /&gt;tombstone walls could be holding the last secrets left in America.&lt;br /&gt;You could ask Averell Harriman whether there's really a&lt;br /&gt;sarcophagus in the basement and whether he and young Henry Stimson&lt;br /&gt;and young Henry Luce (Time magazine) lay down naked in the coffin&lt;br /&gt;and spilled the secrets of their adolescent sex life to 14 fellow&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen. You could ask Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart if&lt;br /&gt;there came a time in the year 1937 when he dressed up in a skeleton&lt;br /&gt;suit and howled wildly at an initiate in a red-velvet room inside&lt;br /&gt;the tomb. You could ask McGeorge Bundy if he wrestled naked in a&lt;br /&gt;mud pie as part of his initation and how it compared with a later&lt;br /&gt;quagmire into which he so eagerly plunged. You could ask Bill&lt;br /&gt;Bundy or William F. Buckley, both of who went into the CIA after&lt;br /&gt;leaving Bones - or George Bush, who ran the CIA / President -&lt;br /&gt;whether their Skull and Bones experience was useful training for&lt;br /&gt;the clandestine trade. ("Spook," the Yale slang for spy.) You&lt;br /&gt;could ask J. Richardson Dilworth, the Bonesman who now manages the&lt;br /&gt;Rockefeller fortune, just how wealthy the Bones society is and&lt;br /&gt;whether it's true that each new initiate gets a no-strings gift&lt;br /&gt;of fifteen thousand dollars cash and guaranteed financial security&lt;br /&gt;for life.&lt;br /&gt;You could ask...but I think you get the idea. The lending lights&lt;br /&gt;of the Eastern establishment - in old-line investment banks (Brown&lt;br /&gt;Brothers Harriman pays Bone's tax bill), in a blue-blood law firms&lt;br /&gt;(Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett, for one), and particularly in the&lt;br /&gt;highest councils of the foreign-policy establishment - the people&lt;br /&gt;who have shaped America's national character since it ceased being&lt;br /&gt;an undergraduate power, had their undergraduate character shaped in&lt;br /&gt;that crypt over there. Bonesman Henry Stimson, Secretary of War&lt;br /&gt;under F.D.R., a man at the heart of the heart of the American&lt;br /&gt;ruling class, called his experience in the tomb the most profound&lt;br /&gt;one in his entire education.&lt;br /&gt;But none of them will tell you a thing about it. They've sworn&lt;br /&gt;an oath never to reveal what goes on inside and they're legendary&lt;br /&gt;for the lengths to which they'll go to avoid prying interrogation.&lt;br /&gt;The mere mention of the words "skull and bones" in the presence&lt;br /&gt;of a true-blue Bonesman, such as Blackford Oakes, the fictional&lt;br /&gt;hero of Bill Buckley's spy thriller, 'Saving the Queen', will cause&lt;br /&gt;him to "dutifully leave the room, as tradition prescribed."&lt;br /&gt;I can trace my personal fascination with the mysteriouis goings-&lt;br /&gt;on in the sepulcher across the street to a spooky scene I witnessed&lt;br /&gt;on its shadowy steps late one April night eleven years ago. I was&lt;br /&gt;then a sophmore at Yale, living in Jonathan Edwards, the residential&lt;br /&gt;college (anglophile Yale name for dorm) built next to the Bones&lt;br /&gt;tomb. It was part of Jonathan Edwards folklore that on a April&lt;br /&gt;evening following "tap night" at Bones, if one could climb to the&lt;br /&gt;tower of Weir Hall, the odd castle that overlooks the Bones&lt;br /&gt;courtyard, one could hear strange cries and moans coming from the&lt;br /&gt;bowels of the tomb as the fifteen newly "tapped" members were put&lt;br /&gt;through what sounded like a harrowing ordeal. Returning alone to&lt;br /&gt;my room late at night, I would always cross the street rather than&lt;br /&gt;walk the sidewalk that passed right in front of Bones. Even at that&lt;br /&gt;safe distance, something about it made my skin crawl.&lt;br /&gt;But that night in April I wasn't alone; a classmate and I were&lt;br /&gt;coming back from an all-night diner at about two in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;At the time, I knew little about the mysteries of Bones or any of&lt;br /&gt;the other huge windowless secret-society tombs that dominated with&lt;br /&gt;dark authority certain key-corners of the campus. They were&lt;br /&gt;nothing like conventional fraternities. No one lived in the tombs.&lt;br /&gt;Instead, every Thursday and Sunday night the best and the brightest&lt;br /&gt;on campus, the fifteen seniors in Skull and Bones and in the Scroll&lt;br /&gt;and Key, Book and Snake, Wolf's Head, Berzelius, in all the seven&lt;br /&gt;secret societies, disappeared into their respective tombs and spent&lt;br /&gt;hours doing something - something they were sworn to secrecy about.&lt;br /&gt;And Bones, it was said was the most ritualistic and secretive of all.&lt;br /&gt;Even the very door to the Bones tomb, that huge triple-padlocked&lt;br /&gt;iron door, was never prermitted to open in the presence of an&lt;br /&gt;outsider.&lt;br /&gt;All this was floating through my impressionable sophmore mind that&lt;br /&gt;night as my friend Mike and I approached the stone pylons guarding&lt;br /&gt;the entrance to Bones. Suddenly we froze at the sight of a strange&lt;br /&gt;thing lying on the steps. There in the gloom of the doorway on the&lt;br /&gt;top step was a long white object that looked like the thighbone of&lt;br /&gt;a large mammal. I remained frozen. Mike was more adventuresome:&lt;br /&gt;he walked right up to the steps and picked up the bone. I wanted&lt;br /&gt;to get out of there fast; I was certain we were being spied upon&lt;br /&gt;from a concealed window. Mike couldn't decide what to do with the&lt;br /&gt;bone. He went up to the door and began examining the array of&lt;br /&gt;padlocks. Suddenly a bolt shot. The massive door began to swing&lt;br /&gt;open and something reached out at him from within. He grasped,&lt;br /&gt;terrified, and jumped back, but not before something clutched the&lt;br /&gt;bone, yanked it out of his hand and back into the darkness within.&lt;br /&gt;The door slammed shut with a clang that rang in our ears as we ran&lt;br /&gt;away.&lt;br /&gt;Recollected in tranquility, the dreamlike gothic moment seems to me&lt;br /&gt;an emblem of the strangeness I felt at being at Yale, at being given&lt;br /&gt;a brief glimpse of the mysterious workings of the inner temples of&lt;br /&gt;privelege but feeling emphatically shut out of the secret ceremonies&lt;br /&gt;within. I always felt irrelevant to the real purpose of the&lt;br /&gt;institution, which was from its missionary beginnings devoted to&lt;br /&gt;converting the idle progeny of the ruling class into morally&lt;br /&gt;serious leaders of the establishment. It is frequently in the tombs&lt;br /&gt;that conversions take place.&lt;br /&gt;NOVEMBER, 1976: SECURITY MEASURES&lt;br /&gt;It's night and we're back in front of the tomb, Mike and I,&lt;br /&gt;reinforced by nine years in the outside world, two skeptical women&lt;br /&gt;friends and a big dinner at Mory's. And yet once again there is an&lt;br /&gt;odd, chilling encounter. We're re-creating that first spooky moment.&lt;br /&gt;I'm standing in front of the stone pylons and Mike has walked up to&lt;br /&gt;stand against the door so we can estimate its height by his. Then&lt;br /&gt;we notice we're being watched. A small red foreign car has pulled&lt;br /&gt;up on the sidewalk a few yards away from us. The driver has been&lt;br /&gt;watching us for some time. Then he gets out. He's a tall, athletic&lt;br /&gt;looking guy, fairly young. He shuts the card door behind him and&lt;br /&gt;stands leaning against it, continuing to observe us. We try to act&lt;br /&gt;oblivious, continuing to sketch and measure.&lt;br /&gt;The guy finally walks over to us, "You seen Miles?" he asks.&lt;br /&gt;We look at each other. Could he think we're actually Bones&lt;br /&gt;alumni, or is he testing us? Could "You seen Miles?" be some sort&lt;br /&gt;of password? "No," we reply. "Haven't seen Miles." He nods and&lt;br /&gt;remains there. We decide we've done enough sketching and measuring&lt;br /&gt;and stroll off. "Look!" one of the women says as she turns and points&lt;br /&gt;back. "He just ran down the side steps to check the basement-door&lt;br /&gt;locks. He probably thought he caught us planning a break-in."&lt;br /&gt;I found the episode intriguing. What it said to me was that Bones&lt;br /&gt;still cared about the security of its secrets. Trying to find out&lt;br /&gt;what goes on inside could be a challenge.&lt;br /&gt;And so it was that I set out this April to see just how secure&lt;br /&gt;those last secrets are. It was a task I took on not out of malice&lt;br /&gt;or sour grapes. I was not tapped for a secret society so I'm open&lt;br /&gt;to the latter charge, but I plead guilty only to the voyeurism of a&lt;br /&gt;mystery lover. I'd been working on a novel, a psychological thriller&lt;br /&gt;of sorts that involved the rites of Bones, and I thought it wouldn't&lt;br /&gt;hurt to spend some time in New Haven during the week of tap night&lt;br /&gt;and initiation night, poking around and asking questions.&lt;br /&gt;You could call it espionage if you were so inclined, but I tried&lt;br /&gt;to play the game in a gentlemanly fashion: I would not directly ask&lt;br /&gt;a Bonesman to violate his sacred oath of secrecy. If, however, one&lt;br /&gt;of them happened to have fudged on the oath to some other party and&lt;br /&gt;that the other party were to convey the gist of the information to&lt;br /&gt;me, I would rule it fair game. And if any Bonesman wants to step&lt;br /&gt;forward and add something. I'll be happy to listen.&lt;br /&gt;What follows is an account of my search for the meaning behind&lt;br /&gt;the mysterious Bones rituals. Only information that might be too&lt;br /&gt;easily traced to its source has been left out, because certain&lt;br /&gt;sources expressed fear of reprisals against themselves. Yes,&lt;br /&gt;reprisals. One of them even insisted, with what seemed like deadly&lt;br /&gt;seriousness, that reprisals would be taken against me.&lt;br /&gt;"What bank do you have your checking account at?" this party&lt;br /&gt;asked me in the middle of a discussion of the Mithraic aspects of&lt;br /&gt;the Bones ritual. I named the bank, "Aha," said the party.&lt;br /&gt;"There are three Bonesmen on the board. You'll never have a line&lt;br /&gt;of credit again. They'll tap your phone. They'll..."&lt;br /&gt;Before I could say, "A line of what?" the source continued: "The&lt;br /&gt;alumni still care. Don't laugh. They don't like people tampering&lt;br /&gt;and prying. The power of Bones is incredible. They've got their&lt;br /&gt;hands on every level of power in the country. You'll see - it's&lt;br /&gt;like trying to look into the Mafia. Remember, they're a secret&lt;br /&gt;society, too."&lt;br /&gt;WEDNESDAY NIGHT, APRIL 14: THE DOSSIER&lt;br /&gt;Already I have in my possession a set of annotated floor plans&lt;br /&gt;of the interior of the tomb, giving the location of the sanctum&lt;br /&gt;sanctorum, the room called 322. And tonight I recieved a dossier&lt;br /&gt;on Bones ritual secrets that was compiled from the archives of&lt;br /&gt;another secret society. It seems that one abiding preoccupation&lt;br /&gt;of many Yale secret societies is keeping files on the secrets of&lt;br /&gt;other secret societies, particularly Bones. The dossier of Bones&lt;br /&gt;is a particularly sophisticated one, featuring "reliability ratings"&lt;br /&gt;in prercentiles for each chunk of information. It was obtained for&lt;br /&gt;me by an enterprising researcher on the condition that I keep secret&lt;br /&gt;the name of the secret society that supplied it. Okay I will say,&lt;br /&gt;though, that it's not the secret society that is rumored to have&lt;br /&gt;Hitler's silverware in its archives. That's Scroll and Key, chief&lt;br /&gt;rival of Bones for the elite of Yale - Dean Acheson and Cy Vance's&lt;br /&gt;society - and the source of most of the rest of the American foreign&lt;br /&gt;policy establishment.&lt;br /&gt;But to return to the dossier. Let me tell you what it says about&lt;br /&gt;the initiation, the center of some of the most lurid apocryphal&lt;br /&gt;rumors about Bones. According to the dossier, the Bones initiation&lt;br /&gt;ritual of 194O went like this: "New man placed in coffin - carried&lt;br /&gt;into central part of the building. New man chanted over and&lt;br /&gt;'reborn' into society. Removed from coffin and given robes with&lt;br /&gt;symbols on it. (sic) A bone with his name on it is tossed into&lt;br /&gt;bone heap at start of every meeting. Initiates plunged into mud&lt;br /&gt;pile."&lt;br /&gt;THURSDAY EVENING: THE FILE AND CLAW SOLUTION TO THE MYSTER OF 322&lt;br /&gt;I'm standing in the shadows across the street from the tomb,&lt;br /&gt;ready to tail the first person to come out. Tonight is tap night,&lt;br /&gt;the night fifteen juniors will be chosen to receive the one-hundred-&lt;br /&gt;forty-five-year-old secrets of Bones. Tonight the fifteen seniors&lt;br /&gt;in Bones and the fifteen in each of the other societies will arrive&lt;br /&gt;outside the rooms of the prospective tappees. They'll pound loudly&lt;br /&gt;on the doors. When the chosen junior opens up, a Bonesman will&lt;br /&gt;slam him on the shoulder and thunder: "Skull and Bones: Do you&lt;br /&gt;accept?"&lt;br /&gt;At that point, according to my dossier, if the candidate accepts,&lt;br /&gt;he will be handed a message wrapped with a black ribbon sealed in&lt;br /&gt;black wax with the skull-and-crossbones emblem and the mystic Bones&lt;br /&gt;number, 322. The message appoints a time and a place for the&lt;br /&gt;candidate to appear on initiation night - next Tuesday - the first&lt;br /&gt;time the newly tapped candidate will be permitted inside the tomb.&lt;br /&gt;Candidates are "instructed to wear no metal" to the initiation,&lt;br /&gt;the dossier notes ominously. (Reliability rating for the stated to&lt;br /&gt;be one hundred percent.)&lt;br /&gt;Not long before eight tonight, the door to Bones swings open.&lt;br /&gt;Two dark-suited young men emerge. One of them carries a slim black&lt;br /&gt;attache case. Obviously they're on their way to tap someone. I&lt;br /&gt;decide that Bones inititates are taken to a ceremony somewhere near&lt;br /&gt;the campus before the big initiation inside the tomb. The&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen head up High Street and pass the library, then make a&lt;br /&gt;right. Passing the library, I can't help but recoil when I think&lt;br /&gt;of the embarrissing discovery I made in the manuscript room this&lt;br /&gt;afternoon. The last thing I wanted to do was reduce the subleties&lt;br /&gt;of the social function of Bones to some simpleminded conspiracy&lt;br /&gt;theory. And yet I do seem to have come across definite, if&lt;br /&gt;skeletal links between the origins of Bones rituals and those&lt;br /&gt;of the notorious Bavarian Illuminists. For me, an intersted but&lt;br /&gt;skeptical student of the conspiracy world, the introduction of&lt;br /&gt;the Illuminists, or Illuminati, into certain discussions (say&lt;br /&gt;for instance, of events in Dallas in 1963) has become the same&lt;br /&gt;thing that the mention of Bones is to a Bonesman - a signal to&lt;br /&gt;leave the room. Because although the Bavarian Illuminists did&lt;br /&gt;have a real historical existence (from 1776 to 1785 they were an&lt;br /&gt;esoteric secret society within the more mystical freethinking&lt;br /&gt;lodges of German Freemasonry), they have also had a paranoid&lt;br /&gt;fantasy existence throughout two centuries of conspiracy literature.&lt;br /&gt;They are the imagined megacabal that manipulated such alleged plots&lt;br /&gt;as the French and Russian revolutions, the elders of Zion, the&lt;br /&gt;rise of Hitler and the House of Morgan. Yes the Bilderbergers and&lt;br /&gt;George De Mohrenschildt, too. Silly as it may sound, there are&lt;br /&gt;suggestive links between the historical if not mytho-conspiratorial,&lt;br /&gt;Illuminists and Bones.&lt;br /&gt;First consider the account of the origins of Bones to be found&lt;br /&gt;in a century-old pamphlet published by an anonymous group that&lt;br /&gt;called itself File and Claw after the tools they used to pry their&lt;br /&gt;way inside Bones late one night. I came upon the File and Claw&lt;br /&gt;break-in pamphlet in a box of disintigrating documents filed in&lt;br /&gt;the library's manuscript room under Skull and Bone's corporate&lt;br /&gt;name, Russell Trust Association. The foundation was named for&lt;br /&gt;William H (later General) Russell, the man who founded Bones in&lt;br /&gt;1832. I was trying to figure out what mission Russell had for the&lt;br /&gt;secret order he founded and why he had chosen that particular&lt;br /&gt;death-head brand of mumbo jumbo to embody his vision. Well,&lt;br /&gt;according to the File and Claw breakin crew, "Bones is a chapter&lt;br /&gt;of corps of a German university. It should properly be called the&lt;br /&gt;Skull and Bones chapter. General Russell, its founder, was in&lt;br /&gt;Germany before his senior year and formed a warm friendship with&lt;br /&gt;a leading member of a German society. The meaning of the permanent&lt;br /&gt;number 322 in all Bones literature is that it was founded in '32 as&lt;br /&gt;the second chapter of the German society. But the Bonesman has&lt;br /&gt;a pleasing fiction that his faternity is a descendant of an old&lt;br /&gt;Greek patriot society founded by Demosthenes, who died in 322 BC."&lt;br /&gt;They go on to describe a German slogan painted "on arched walls&lt;br /&gt;above the vault" of the sacred room 322. The slogan appears above&lt;br /&gt;a painting of skulls surrounded by Masonic symbols, a picture said&lt;br /&gt;to be "a gift of the German chapter." "Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser,&lt;br /&gt;Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich," the slogan&lt;br /&gt;reads, or, "Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king?&lt;br /&gt;Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death."&lt;br /&gt;Imagine my surprise when I ran into that very slogan in a 1798&lt;br /&gt;Scottish anti-Illuminatist tract reprinted in 1967 by the John&lt;br /&gt;Birch Society. The tract (proofs of a conspiracy by John Robinson)&lt;br /&gt;prints alleged excerpts from Illuminist ritual manuals supposedly&lt;br /&gt;confiscated by the Bavarian police when the secret order was banned&lt;br /&gt;in 1785. Toward the end of the ceremony of initiation in the&lt;br /&gt;"Regent degree" of Illuminism, according to the tract, "a skeleton&lt;br /&gt;in pointed out to him [the initiate], at the feet of which are laid&lt;br /&gt;a crown and a sword. He is asked 'whether that is the skeleton of&lt;br /&gt;a king, nobleman or a beggar.' As he cannot decide, the president&lt;br /&gt;of the meeting says to him, 'The character of being a man is the&lt;br /&gt;only one that is importance'".&lt;br /&gt;Doesn't that sound similar to the German slogan the File and&lt;br /&gt;Claw team claims to have found inside Bones? Now consider a&lt;br /&gt;haunting photograph of the altar room of one of the Masonic&lt;br /&gt;lodges at Nuremburg that is closely associated with Illuminism.&lt;br /&gt;Haunting because at the altar room's center, approached through&lt;br /&gt;the aisle of hanging human skeletons, is a coffin surmounted by&lt;br /&gt;- you guessed it - a skull and crossed bones that look exactly&lt;br /&gt;like the particular arrangement of jawbones and thighbones in&lt;br /&gt;the official Bones emblem. The skull and crossbones was the&lt;br /&gt;official crest of another key Illuminist lodge, one right-wing&lt;br /&gt;Illuminist theoretician told me.&lt;br /&gt;Now you can look at this three ways. One possibility is that&lt;br /&gt;the Bircher right - and the conspiracy-minded left are correct:&lt;br /&gt;The Eastern establishment is the demonic creation of a clandestine&lt;br /&gt;elite manipulating history, and Skull and Bones is one of its&lt;br /&gt;recruiting centers. A more plausible explanation is that the&lt;br /&gt;death's-head symbolism was so prevalent in Germany when the&lt;br /&gt;impressionable young Russell visited that he just stumbled on&lt;br /&gt;the same mother lode of pseudo-Masonic mummery as the Illuninists.&lt;br /&gt;The third possibility is that the break-in pamphlets are an&lt;br /&gt;elaborate fraud designed by the File and Claw crew to pin the&lt;br /&gt;taint of Illuminism on Bones and that the rituals of Bones have&lt;br /&gt;innocent Athenian themes, 322 being only the date of the death&lt;br /&gt;of Demosthenes. (In fact, some Bones literature I've seen in&lt;br /&gt;the archives does express the year as if 322 BC were the year&lt;br /&gt;one, making 1977 anno Demostheni 2299.)&lt;br /&gt;I am still following the dark-suited Bonesman at a discreet&lt;br /&gt;distance as they make their way along Prospect Street and into&lt;br /&gt;a narrow alley, which to my dismay, turns into a parking lot.&lt;br /&gt;They get into a car and drive off, obviously to tap an off-campus&lt;br /&gt;prospect. So much for tonight's clandestine work I'd never get&lt;br /&gt;to my car in time to follow them. My heart isn't in it&lt;br /&gt;anyway. I am due to head off to the graveyard to watch the&lt;br /&gt;initiation ceremony of Book and Snake, the secret society of&lt;br /&gt;Deep Throat's friend Bob Woodward (several Deep Throat theories&lt;br /&gt;have postulated Yale secret-society ties as the origin of&lt;br /&gt;Woodward's underground-garage connection, and two Bonesmen,&lt;br /&gt;Ray Price and Richard Moore, who weree high Nixon aides, have&lt;br /&gt;been mentioned as suspects - perhaps because of their experience&lt;br /&gt;at clandestine underground truth telling). And later tonight I&lt;br /&gt;hope to make the first of my contacts with persons who have been&lt;br /&gt;inside - not just inside the tomb, but inside the skulls of some&lt;br /&gt;of the Bonesmen.&lt;br /&gt;LATER THURSDAY NIGHT: TURNING THE TABLES ON THE SEXUAL&lt;br /&gt;AUTOBIOGRPHIES&lt;br /&gt;In his senior year, each member of Bones goes through an intense&lt;br /&gt;two-part confessional experience in the Bones crypt. One Thursday&lt;br /&gt;night he tells his life story, giving what is meant to be a painfully&lt;br /&gt;forthright autobiography that exposes his traumas, shames, and dreams.&lt;br /&gt;(Tom Wolfe calls this Bones practice a fore-runner of the Me Decade's&lt;br /&gt;fascination with self.) The following Sunday-night session is&lt;br /&gt;devoted exclusively to sexual histories. They don't leave out&lt;br /&gt;anything these days. I don't know what it was like in General&lt;br /&gt;Russell's day, maybe there was less to talk about, but these days&lt;br /&gt;the sexual stuff is totally explicit and there's less need for&lt;br /&gt;fabricating exploits to fill up the allotted time. Most Sunday-night&lt;br /&gt;sessions start with talk of prep school masturbation and don't stop&lt;br /&gt;until the intimate details of Saturday night's delights have come&lt;br /&gt;to light early Monday morning.&lt;br /&gt;This has begun to cause some disruptions in relationships. The&lt;br /&gt;women the Bonesmen talk about in the crypt are often Yale co-eds&lt;br /&gt;and frequently feminists. While it might seem to be a rebuke to&lt;br /&gt;Bone's spirit of consciousness raising, none of these women is&lt;br /&gt;too pleased at having the most intimate secrets of her relationship&lt;br /&gt;made the subject of an all-night symposium consecrating her lover's&lt;br /&gt;brotherhood with fourteen males she hardly knows. As one woman&lt;br /&gt;put it, "I objected to fourteen guys knowing whether I was a good&lt;br /&gt;lay...It was like after that each of them thought I was his woman&lt;br /&gt;in some way."&lt;br /&gt;Some women have discovered that their lovers take their vows to&lt;br /&gt;Bones more solemnly than their commitments to women. There is the&lt;br /&gt;case of the woman who revealed something very personal - not&lt;br /&gt;embarassing, just private - to her lover and made him swear never&lt;br /&gt;to repeat it to another human. When he came back from the Bones&lt;br /&gt;crypt after his Sunday-night sex session, he couldn't meet her&lt;br /&gt;eyes. He'd told his brothers in Bones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that the whole secret society system at Yale is in the&lt;br /&gt;terminal stages of a sexual crisis. By the time I arrived this&lt;br /&gt;April, all but three of the formerly all male societies had gone&lt;br /&gt;co-ed, and two of the remaining holdouts - Scroll and Key and&lt;br /&gt;Wolf's Head - were embroiled in bitter battles over certain&lt;br /&gt;members' attempts to have them follow the trend. The popular&lt;br /&gt;quarterback of the football team had resigned from Scroll and Key&lt;br /&gt;because its alumni would not even let him make a pro-coeducation&lt;br /&gt;plea to their convocation. When one prominent alumnus of Wolf's&lt;br /&gt;Head was told the current members had plans to tap women, he&lt;br /&gt;threatened to "raze the building" before permitting it. Nevertheless,&lt;br /&gt;it seemed as though it wouldn't be long before those two holdouts&lt;br /&gt;went co-ed. But not Bones. Both alumni and outsiders see the&lt;br /&gt;essence of the Bones experience as some kind of male bonding, a&lt;br /&gt;Victorian, muscular, Christian-missionary view of manliness and&lt;br /&gt;public service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While changing the least of all societies over its one hundred&lt;br /&gt;forty-five years. Bones did begin admitting Jews in the early&lt;br /&gt;Fifties and tapping blacks in 1949. It offered membership to some&lt;br /&gt;of the most outspoken rebels of the late Sixties and more recently,&lt;br /&gt;added gay and bisexual members, including the president of the&lt;br /&gt;militant Gay Activist Alliance, a man by the name of Miles.&lt;br /&gt;But women, the Bones alumni have strenuously insisted, are&lt;br /&gt;different. When a rambunctious Seventies class of Bones proposed&lt;br /&gt;tapping the best and brightest of the new Yale women, the officers&lt;br /&gt;of the Russell Trust Association threatened to bar that class from&lt;br /&gt;the tomb and change the locks if they dared. They didn't.&lt;br /&gt;The sort of thing is what persuaded the person I am meeting with&lt;br /&gt;late tonight - and a number of other persons - to talk about what&lt;br /&gt;goes on inside: after all, isn't the core of the Bones group&lt;br /&gt;experience the betrayal of their loved ones' secrets? Measure for&lt;br /&gt;measure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Bush,&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;and the New World Order&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul Goldstein&lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Steinberg&lt;br /&gt;George Bush,&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp;amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;and the New World Order&lt;br /&gt;A&lt;br /&gt;NEW AMERICAN VIEW-&lt;br /&gt;INTERNATIONAL EDITION&lt;br /&gt;WHITE PAPER&lt;br /&gt;April 1991&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTRODUCTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This special report is intended to assist the Japanese audience in more&lt;br /&gt;fully understanding the present policies of the United States under the&lt;br /&gt;administration of President George Bush. It explains the thinking behind&lt;br /&gt;America's military adventure in the Persian Gulf and its current attitudes&lt;br /&gt;toward the Middle East region.&lt;br /&gt;In so doing, we provide a glimpse into the most powerful organization&lt;br /&gt;in America-the Order of Skull &amp; Bones. This secret fraternity is based at&lt;br /&gt;Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where many of the leading members&lt;br /&gt;of the U.S. govemment and the American intelligence community received their formal education. The Order, as it is referred to by its members, is a&lt;br /&gt;bastion of White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) culture, which is at the core of the American 20th century outlook.&lt;br /&gt;The reader will learn that President George Herbert Walker Bush's&lt;br /&gt;concept of the New World Order is an old idea, one which has its origins in&lt;br /&gt;the philosophy and beliefs of the secret Skull &amp;amp; Bones fraternity. Today in&lt;br /&gt;particular, this is the prevailing outlook of the U.S. government, many of&lt;br /&gt;whose most influential members, like the president himself, are part of the Skull &amp; Bones network. These men seek to recreate the American imperium of the immediate post-World War II period, an era which President Bush frequently refers to as "the American Century."&lt;br /&gt;The powerful men of Skull &amp;amp; Bones genuinely believe that they have a strategic and moral "right" to control world affairs. Consequently, they take upon themselves the authority to crush any rivalrous threat to U.S. imperial leadership, whether by current allies, such as Japan, Germany or Great Britain, or by Cold War adversaries, like the Soviet Union. The members of the Order, due to their narrow WASP upbringing, view with particular suspicion the maneuverings of Zionist Israel and its affluent, influential lobby in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Bush, his fellow Bonesmen and their like-thinking elitist allies in the&lt;br /&gt;American Establishment see themselves as New World Order warriors, an&lt;br /&gt;American samurai caste of sorts, whose mission is restoring Ameriean&lt;br /&gt;greatness. They intend to utilize the institutional networks of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;government and key private agencies, such as the New York Council on Foreign Relations. to advance their purpose.&lt;br /&gt;The Skull &amp; Bones mernbers believe in the idea of "construclive chaos".&lt;br /&gt;By keeping their true policy intentions secret, by constantly sending out&lt;br /&gt;mixed signals on all critical policy issues, they consciously seek to sow&lt;br /&gt;confusion among both their nominal "friends" and "enemies alike.&lt;br /&gt;The fulcrum for the policy of constructive chaos is, at present, the&lt;br /&gt;Middle East situation. Although U.S. military action in the region has for&lt;br /&gt;the time being subsided, America's military power will remain a critical&lt;br /&gt;determinant in the future of that vital zone of conflict. American military&lt;br /&gt;power is aimed at securing undisputed control over the vast reservoir of&lt;br /&gt;oil-not at necessarily fostering any permanent alignment of local states or&lt;br /&gt;combinations of regional interests.&lt;br /&gt;If President George Bush and his fellow true believers are successful.&lt;br /&gt;the United States will be first among equals in the New World Order. This is their goal. It is also the quest of the Bonesmen of the Order of Skull &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones-America's warrior aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Bush,&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;and the New World Order&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE ORDER OF SKULL &amp;amp; BONES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp; Bones was founded at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut in 1832. It is the oldest and most prestigious of Yale's seven secret societies. Among the others are: Scroll &amp;amp; Key, Book &amp; Snake, Wolf's Head, Eliahu, and Berzelius. These fraternities serve as a recruiting ground for young men destined for careers in government, law, finance and other influential sectors of American life. Skull &amp;amp; Bones is the elite of the elite among these secret societies. Only Scroll &amp; Key can claim a near equal influence on American affairs over the past 160 years.&lt;br /&gt;Unlike the Greek fraternities on most other American university&lt;br /&gt;campuses, Skull &amp;amp; Bones and its similar secret societies exist exclusively at Yale. They are not part of any nationwide public association. The other elite Ivy League colleges, Harvard and Princeton have similar e~clusive secret societies. Yet, even among these few universities, the secret societies of Yale-led by Skull &amp; Bones-are unchallenged in their influence on American political affairs.&lt;br /&gt;According to some accounts, the Skull &amp;amp; Bones secret society at Yale&lt;br /&gt;has an underground affiliation with two other societies which were&lt;br /&gt;simultaneously founded at two other locations. The number "322" that appears under the skull and crossbones on the Order's emblem is believed to indicate the year of its founding-1832-and the fact that it is the second lodge within an international system. By some accounts, the lodge holding the number "1" is in Germany and the lodge numbered "3" is based at another American college.&lt;br /&gt;Since its founding, Skull &amp; Bones has only inducted about 2,500&lt;br /&gt;members. At any given time, only about 600 or so members of the Order are alive. This small number underscores the tremendous concentration of power in the hands of its members.&lt;br /&gt;If the members of Skull &amp;amp; Bones were to select a Hall of Fame from&lt;br /&gt;among their own elite ranks, some of the people whose names would almost certainly appear at the top of the list would be:&lt;br /&gt;* Alphonso Taft, a founding member of the Order who served as the&lt;br /&gt;Secretary of War under President Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1880).&lt;br /&gt;* William Howard Taft, the only man to ever serve as both the&lt;br /&gt;President of and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.&lt;br /&gt;* Henry Lewis Stimson, partner in the Wall Street law firm of Root and Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft (1908-1912), Governor General of the Philippines (1926-1928), Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and Secretary of War under Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1940-1946).&lt;br /&gt;* Averell Harriman, investment banker with Brown Brothers Harriman, director of the Lend-Lease program of the U.S. State Department (1941-1942), U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946), Governor of New York, Under Secretary of State for Asia (1961-1963), and presidential secret envoy to Soviet leaders Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov.&lt;br /&gt;* Robert Lovett, partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, Assistant&lt;br /&gt;Secretary of War for Air (1941-1945), Deputy Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense (1950), leading member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations.&lt;br /&gt;* Harold Stanley, investment banker, founder of Morgan Stanley.&lt;br /&gt;* Robert A. Taft, United States Senator (1938-1950).&lt;br /&gt;* Prescott Bush, investment banker and partner in Brown Brothers&lt;br /&gt;Harriman, United States Senator from Connecticut, father of George Herbert Walker Bush&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* George Herbert Walker Bush, United States Congressman (1964-1970), Chairman of the Republican National Committee, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, first American Diplomatic Liaison to the Peoples Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Ageney (1975-1977). Vice President of the United States (1980-1988), President of the United States (1988- ).&lt;br /&gt;* John Thomas Daniels, agro-industnalist, founder of Archer Daniels&lt;br /&gt;Midland.&lt;br /&gt;* Hugh Wilson, foreign service officer, Counsellor to Japan (1911-&lt;br /&gt;1921), U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1924-1927), Assistant Secretary of State (1937-1938). Ambassador to Germany 1938), Special Assistant to the Secretary of State (1939-1941), Office of Strategic Services (1941-1945)&lt;br /&gt;The members of the Order of Skull &amp; Bones, true to their firm belief&lt;br /&gt;in "constructive confusion," have intentionallv allowed a series of&lt;br /&gt;conflicting mythologies to spring up about the origins and history of their&lt;br /&gt;secret fraternity. According to one version of the Order's founding, it was an outgrowth of an earlier British or Scottish freemasonic grouping first established at All Soul s College at Oxford University in the late 17th century. Another version of the history of Skull &amp;amp; Bones is that it grew out of the German "nationalistic" secret .societies of the early 19th century. Still a third explanation is that Skull &amp; Bon~s is an uniquely American institution which adopted some of the rituals of European freemasonry, but molded these rituals and beliefs into a new form.&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of these conflicting accounts, it can be stated with&lt;br /&gt;certainty that the Order was first established on the Yale campus in 1832 It was officially incorporated only in 1856 under the name Russell Trust&lt;br /&gt;Association. According to virtually all the available biographical data on&lt;br /&gt;its early members, the money required to sustain the secret order's campus affairs and its broader role in placing its members into key positions of influence upon their graduation from Yale, derived from the opium trade in the Far East. That trade was set up by the British East India Company and was flourishing by the time the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 ending the American War for Independence. The East India Company during this period was controlled by the Baring Brothers Bankt (Toward the closing decades of the 17th century, the British House of Rothschild would supplant the Baring Brothers as the controlling financial interests in the China opium trade.&lt;br /&gt;Through the sponsorship of the Barings and also the Rothschilds, a&lt;br /&gt;number of leading New England families, some of whom had sided with Great Britain during the American Revolution, were brought into the opium trade as junior partners. These merchant families ran fleets of clipper ships and became in many cases fabulously wealthy as the result of their asscoiation with the British East India Company. Among these key New England merchant families were; Cabot, Coolidge, Forbes, Higginson, Sturgis, Lodge, Lowell, Perkins and Russell.&lt;br /&gt;These New England merchant families founded the United Fruit Company and the Bank of Boston. The founding families of Skull &amp; Bones included the Russell and Perkins families, Over several generations, however, all these families heavily intemarried and became, in effect, one extended power grouping.&lt;br /&gt;William Huntington Russell incorporated Skull &amp;amp; Bones as the Russell&lt;br /&gt;Trust Association. Throughout the 20th century, the Russell Trust Association listed the New York City headquarters of Brown Brothers Harriman as its address.&lt;br /&gt;Russell was valedictorian of his class at Yale in 1833. He and his Skull &amp; Bones comrades considered themselves to be a special elite among the merchant banking and Puritan pilgrim elite of Yale. They took the Puritan beliefs of the early New England settlers, that they were "elected by God," and pre-ordained to rule North America.&lt;br /&gt;The founding of Yale College in 1701 pre-dates the Amencan Revolution by several generations. Many of the founders of Yale were righteous men of the Puritan heritage who devoutly believed in God and country. Some of these patriotic souls later made up the core of Benjamin Franklin's political coalition which ultimately broke with the mother country, Great Britain. Many graduates of Yale were active in the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Two critics of the Order, historian Antony Sutton and investigative&lt;br /&gt;journalist Ron Rosenbaum (himself a Yale graduate), both concluded that Skull &amp;amp; Bones has degenerated since its founding and has taken on more of the occult and ritualistic trappings of the majority of European freemasonic and illuminati secret societies. Sutton charges that the Order is secretly known among its initiates as the "Brotherhood of Death" and has become an evil instrument in the hands of America's secret power elite. Rosenbaum claims that the society's Germanic origins are inherently wicked and pre-Nazi.&lt;br /&gt;In a long 1977 article in Esquire magazine, Rosenbaum charged that the Skull &amp; Bones building on the Yale campus houses remnants from Hitler's private collection of silver. While these stories cannot be dismissed out of hand, it must be noted that authors Rosenbaum and Sutton may be biased. As a young Jewish student at Yale, Rosenbaum was almost automatically excluded on religious grounds from the inner sanctum of the campus's secret societies. Sutton, a British-born eccentric historian, proudly admits his strong British biases, frequently citing philosopher John Stuart Mill as the spiritual mentor in his book on the Order.&lt;br /&gt;Despite the possible personal biases in these two accounts of the&lt;br /&gt;history of the Order of Skull &amp;amp; Bones, it must be acknowledged that the&lt;br /&gt;membership of the society has tended over generations to converge upon a small group of New England families who have intermarried and then sponsored their sons and nephews into the Order. This kind of inbreeding always tends to produce narrow-mindedness and prejudice against outsiders, which can be a serious shortcoming, particularly among individuals responsible for charting the course of a nation as powerful as the United States.&lt;br /&gt;It can be documented by comparing the family charts of the early&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen that there is today a core group of no more than 20 to 30 families who form the nucleus of the Order. The majority are old-line Puritan families who came to North America in the very first wave of settlers in the 17th century. Among these prominent families are: Whitney, Lord, Phelps. Wadsworth, Allen, Bllndy, Adams, Stimson, Taft, Gilman and Perkins. A second group of families in the Skull &amp; Bones core earned fabulous fortunes during the 18th and 19th centuries and thus won a rite of passage into the New England elite, even though they were not among the earliest settlers. The leading Skull &amp;amp; Bones families in this second category are: Harriman, Rockefeller, Payne, Davison, Pillsbury and Weyerhauser.&lt;br /&gt;A few of the Jewish banking families who made their way from Germany to the United States during the 18th and l9th centuries were eventually granted limited access to the WASP inner sanctums. Some families, like the Schiff, Warburg, Guggenheim and Meyer families, were unofficially designated as intermediaries between the New England WASPs and their cousins in London.&lt;br /&gt;This was especially true after the Rothschild interests supplanted the&lt;br /&gt;Anglican Baring group as the most powerful financial cabal in the City of&lt;br /&gt;London. Some of these German Jewish families became so absorbed into the WASP or Anglican society that they eventually converted from Judaism to Protestantism and were gradually ostracized from the Jewish aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;The WASP families, however, never saw the prominent Jewish investment banking families of America as equals. The Jews were considered politically and cultrally different by the WASPs, and have never been accepted into the latter's inner circle. For the most part, these Jewish merchant bankers are viewed with suspicion and distrust by the members of the Order. Moreover, the Jewish fraternal societies, such as B'nai B'rith, were formed out of the British-based Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Their sponsors in America, the Rothschilds and the Cecil Rhodes Trust (also known as the British Round Table Group), are connected with the British Foreign Office and its secret intelligence apparatus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INITIATION AND RITUAL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be initiated into the Order of Skull &amp; Bones, one must endure a&lt;br /&gt;ritual of selection called "tapping". It is conducted by 15 senior classmen&lt;br /&gt;of Yale University who make up the current membership of the secret society. They select 15 members of the junior class to be the Bonesmen the following year. Historically, Skull &amp;amp; Bones kept blacks, jews and all other non-WASPs from its ranks. Within the last 30 years, however, token members from these groups have been occasionally selected to join. Thus, in the most recent list of initiates to the Order, there is one Yalie with a Jewish surname and even one with a Chinese name. According to author Rosenbaum, in recent years, the Order has inducted members of homosexual rights groups on the campus into its ranks.&lt;br /&gt;Among the criterion for selection-apart from family ties to the order,&lt;br /&gt;which has always been an important factor-is what is referred to by&lt;br /&gt;historians and members as the "Three Ordeals." These ordeals are intended to measure the prospective Bonesman's ability to "make it" in the world beyond the university campus.&lt;br /&gt;The first ordeal is boarding school. The overwhelming majority of&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen, given their wealthy bueblood family pedigrees, attend one of the prestigious New England preparatory schools, i.e, private high schools. (Whereas a large number of the most elite of the Harvard University students attend Groton, a school with close ties to the Anglican-Episcopal Church, where they receive a thoroughly Anglophilic education, the preferred prep schools for the future Bonesmen are the two Puritan Calvinist-sponsored Phillips Academies.)&lt;br /&gt;The second of the ordeals is that of nature. The prospective Bonesmen are judged on their skills as outdoorsmen. Hunting in the New England countryside or, better yet, traveling to distant locations like Africa, the jungles of South America or even the American badlands of the Plains states, is a prerequisite for admission to the Spartan elite ranks of the Order.&lt;br /&gt;The third of the ordeals is war. The experience of combat during&lt;br /&gt;wartime is considered to be of special significance for the Bonesmen, who see themselves as the elite of the New England WASP warrior caste. Many Yale Bonesmen of President George Bush's generation, as the result of the outbreak of World War II, went directly from prep school into the military service prior to their entering Yale. For a majority of Bonesmen, the preferred military service has historically been with thc U S Navy. During World II the Naval air corp was a particularly important track for future Bones initiates. In peacetime, participation at Yale in military officer's training is desirable but not essential. The commitment to enter some branch of the military upon graduation is viewed with favor.&lt;br /&gt;After the formal selection of the next group of prospective Bonesmen,&lt;br /&gt;there is an invitation followed by a formal initiation ceremony. First the 15&lt;br /&gt;senior class members who are the members of the Order select a group of junior class members who are to be "tapped" for Skull &amp; Bones. A group of Bonesmen proceed to the dormitory room of the "tappee." Upon reaching the door, they pound loudly. When the prospective member opens the door, a Bonesman will tap him on the shoulder and yell, "Skull and Bones: Do you accept?" If the candidate accepts, a message wrapped with a black ribbon sealed by black wax with the skull and crossbones emblem and the mystical Bones number 322 is handed to the "tappee." The message appoints a time and a place for the candidate to appear on initiation night. Candidates are instructed to wear no metal objects or clothing.&lt;br /&gt;According to a 1940 Skull &amp;amp; Bones document, the initiation ceremony&lt;br /&gt;involves the following kinds of things: "New man placed in coffln-carried&lt;br /&gt;into central part of building. New man chanted over and reborn into society.&lt;br /&gt;Removed from coffin and given robes with symbols on it. A bone with his name on it is tossed into the bone heap at the start of every meeting."&lt;br /&gt;Within the Skull &amp; Bones Crypt, also known as "the Tomb," there is what is referred to as a "sacred room" with the number 322, On the arched wall about the vault entrance is inscribed in German: "Who was the fool, who was the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death."&lt;br /&gt;This quotation from a German Freemasonic ritual remains a source of&lt;br /&gt;controversy surrounding the origins of Skull &amp;amp; Bones. It is one of the bits&lt;br /&gt;of "evidence" cited by some of the Order's most ardent critics that the group is "Nazi like" and singularly "Germanic". In fact, the rituals of the Order are very much like the rituals employed by Scottish and English freemasonic lodges.&lt;br /&gt;Some of the mystery and confusion surrounding these occult symbols and rituals is intentionally fostered by the Order itself. Among the principles taught to the members of the Yale secret society are the value of ambiguity and secrecy. These values are not taught as part of a purely mystical or occult quasi-religion. They are taught as valuable tools to be applied by the Bonesmen when they leave the insulated environment of Ihe Yale campus and become officials of government, the intelligence community, the military or the private sector.&lt;br /&gt;A careful study of the often confusing and self-contradictory behavior&lt;br /&gt;and public statements of President Bush and his closest advisers throughout the months of the Persian Gulf crisis of last year and war that followed offers a valuable example of how ambiguity and secrecy are applied by Bonesmen.&lt;br /&gt;For the initiates of the Order, the question of whether secrecy and&lt;br /&gt;ambiguity are used for the purpose of accomplishing "good" or "evil" is of&lt;br /&gt;secondary importance. Secrecy and ambiguity are essential instruments for wielding power. The effective wielding of power is one of the overarching goals of all Bonesmen. The secret ties built up during the Bonesmen's senior year of active membership in the Order are maintained for life. Those ties link each Bonesman to every other initiate, especially to those initiates who were members of the Order in the same year.&lt;br /&gt;Thus, every member of Skull &amp; Bones is, in real and practical terms,&lt;br /&gt;part of a small elite group of young Yale graduates-most from wealthy and powerful WASP families-who enter the world of politics, business, finance, intelligence or education and who proceed to make their mark on the world.&lt;br /&gt;According to several sources, President George Bush to this day&lt;br /&gt;frequently consults with several of his fellow Yale Bonesmen, and has, on&lt;br /&gt;occasion, called upon Skull &amp;amp; Bones members to carry out secret diplomatic missions for the White House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE SPARTAN MODE&lt;br /&gt;These rites of passage into the upper ranks of the WASP Establishment are capped by the expeirence the Bonesmen go through in their final year at Yale-the year in which they actively participate in the Order. For the vast majority of the initiates, the process of inculcation with the ideas of WASP supremacy, an American Calvinist version of what British imperialist writer Rudyard Kipling called the "White Man's Burden," began at prep school.&lt;br /&gt;According to the biographical accounts of a number of the leading&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen, the prep school experience is paramount. At prep school,&lt;br /&gt;intellectual pursuits are encouraged, but special emphasis is also placed on athletic performance. Future Yale Bonesmen are expected to excel in some team sport, such as baseball and football, both American inventions. (Members of Skull &amp; Bones were involved in the development of both games.) Team sports supposedly prepare the future Bonesman to accept leadership responsibility, and more importantly, teach him to "respect the rules of the game."&lt;br /&gt;According to one biographer, when George Bush was a Yale undergraduate he was a member of the university baseball team. Although he was apparently not a very good baseball player, he eventually became captain of the Yale team. One day during the Yale baseball season, he excitedly visited his mother to proudly proclaim that he had hit his first home run. She reportedly looked back at him with patrician coolness, and asked, "Yes, George, but did your team win the game?"&lt;br /&gt;The particular emphasis on team sports during the prep school and Yale years is, according to several historians, part of the Spartan training that is so essential to the Skull &amp;amp; Bones philosophy. In the world of Skull &amp; Bones, one of the greatest virtues is the ability to steer the nation into&lt;br /&gt;war and to successfully prosecute the war.&lt;br /&gt;To the Bonesmen, the use of military power is a natural and essential&lt;br /&gt;corollary to political power. The Bonesmen are taught that, although ideas&lt;br /&gt;have their place, to truly transform history, military force is almost always&lt;br /&gt;required. Critics of the Order have pointed out that this philosophy of power and the imperial use of military force comes straight from the chronicles of the Roman Empire-especially the Roman Empire during its phase of decline and collapse.&lt;br /&gt;The criticism may prove to be most prophetically true of the current&lt;br /&gt;generation of Bonesmen who are leading the United States under the presidency of George Bush. During the final phase of the Roman Empire, legions were deployed out around the world to conquer and subjugate vast territories, while back in Rome, there was a breakdown, a crisis in which the entire social and cultural fabric of the early Roman republic was eroding and giving way to something akin to the drug, rock-sex counterculture of today. The Roman imperial policy of attempting to gloss over the decadence at home-by engaging in constant wars of expansion led ultimately to the total collapse of Rome.&lt;br /&gt;In this regard, the Spartan-Roman imperial outlook of the American WASP warrior caste, exemplified by Skull &amp;amp; Bones, cannot be precisely compared to the Japanese samurai code of Bushido. The Japanese Bushido code emphasized honor among the warriors and presumed a fundamentally moral or ethical vision of the world.&lt;br /&gt;No such emphasis on morality and honor exists in the code of Skull &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones. On the contrary, the Skull &amp;amp; Bones philosophy, according to several of its most astute critics and historians, emphasises the "double-cross system."&lt;br /&gt;The "double-cross" is symbolically represented by the crossbones on the&lt;br /&gt;emblem of the Order. According to this philosophy, anyone who is not an&lt;br /&gt;initiate is inferior, and can be lied to and manipulated to further the power&lt;br /&gt;of the WASP Establishment. To the extent that Japanese leaders view their American WASP counterparts as men of honor whose word is sacred and wbose intentions are presumed to be virtuous, they will miss the fundamental character of the American imperium. This is of special importance today, with a leading member of the Skull &amp; Bones system occupying the White House.&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp;amp; Bones philosophy first manifested itself at the American&lt;br /&gt;national political level in the late l9th century. At that time, the men of&lt;br /&gt;the Order adopted all the critical features of the British imperial system,&lt;br /&gt;especially the belief in the Anglo Saxon God-given right to rule over all the other races. Even countries like Japan, which were never colonial possessions&lt;br /&gt;of the Anglo-American combination, were viewed as inferior nations to be&lt;br /&gt;treated no differently from the colonies in Africa. India or Latin America.&lt;br /&gt;In 1898, President William McKinley, one of the last of the American&lt;br /&gt;presidents to manifest any of the early republican (anti-British imperialism) traditions of the Founding Fathers, was under enormous pressure from the Skull &amp; Bones-led American imperialists Eventually, he went to war against Spain to "free" Cuba and seize the Philippines This was the first time that the United States entered a war through devious manipulation and purely in order to expand its territories It marked the beginning of a new epoch in American history which would forever alter the vision of the United States. It was the first evidence that the men of the Order were at the helm of the ship of state.&lt;br /&gt;President McKinley's capitulation to the WASP warriors would prove to&lt;br /&gt;be fatal to himself and, some would say, for his country, too. The&lt;br /&gt;Spanish-American War of 1898 catapulted the Skull &amp;amp; Bnes crowd into a&lt;br /&gt;position of dominance within the Republican Party. At the 1900 party&lt;br /&gt;presidential nominating convention, McKinley was forced to accept Teddy&lt;br /&gt;Roosevelt as his vice presidential running mate. The McKinley-Roosevelt slate was swept into office, in part as the result of the jingoist climate built up by the just-concluded Spanish-American War Those circumstances were not all that-different from the mood that prevails in America in the aftermath of the Gulf War of 1991.&lt;br /&gt;Within months of his inauguration of 1901, President McKinley was&lt;br /&gt;assassinated by an anarchist while traveling through Buffalo, New York. Thus, Teddy Roosevelt became president, and the Order of Skull &amp; Bones for the first time moved into the White House. Roosevelt surrounded himself with Bonesmen. His successor in 1908, William Howard Taft, was himself a second generation member of Skull &amp;amp; Bones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HENRY STIMSON: MASTER BONESMAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a January 1991 article by the Washington syndicated&lt;br /&gt;columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, when President George Bush was making his final decision to use military force to crush Saddam Hussein and decimate Iraq, he spent most of the Christmas holidays closeted at Camp David reading a newly published biography of one of his true heroes, fellow Skull &amp; Bones initiate Henry Stimson. While most White House advisers thought that the gulf crisis would be ultimately resolved through diplomacy, unbeknownst to them, President Bush had already decided on the use of devastating military force-regardless of what measures the world community or the Iraqi leaders took to avert war. Intimate Bush advisers described the president as being in a "mesmerized" state of mind as he walked around the presidential&lt;br /&gt;retreat in the Maryland mountains with his Stimson biography, The Colonel:&lt;br /&gt;The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, under his arm at all times.&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, for most contemporary Bonesmen, Henry Lewis Stimson, the&lt;br /&gt;quintessential WASP warrior, was the very personification of the Order's full ascent to power during the period of World War II.&lt;br /&gt;A member of the Order's class of 1888, Stimson served seven U.S.&lt;br /&gt;presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft (a fellow Bonesman), Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. As the Secretary of War under FDR and Truman, Stimson oversaw the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Stimson personally decided on the use of that devastating weapon against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Years earlier, as the chairman of the American delegation at the London Naval Conference and as Secretary of State under President Hoover (1929-1933), Stimson had played a pivotal role in restricting the size of the Japanese Imperial Navy. He would be an architect of the FDR 's administration's economic provocations against Japan which&lt;br /&gt;ultimately helped induce Japan into the attack at Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the United States formally into World War II.And Stimson was also ultimately responsible for the FDR administration's decision to intern the Nisei (Japanese-Americans) after Pearl Harbor.&lt;br /&gt;Yet, it was also Stimson who ordered American bombers to refrain from attacking the old Japanese imperial capital of Kyoto, a city rich in religious and historical tradition and artifacts. And, according to at least one of Stimson's biographers, it was also "the Colonel" who decided at the close of the war that the Japanese emperor should not be deposed. His sensitivity to Japanese culture and the importance of allowing Japan to retain honor even in defeat is widely to his close adviser, Joseph Grew, a longtime U.S. ambassador to Japan and an accomplished historian. Whether this report of Stimson's involvement in the decision to maintain the emperor is accurate or whether it underplays the role of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the fact remains certain that Stimson was the key policymaker overseeing the postwar occupations of both Japan and Germany.&lt;br /&gt;To fully understand President George Bush's attitudes and policies&lt;br /&gt;toward Japan, one must first appreciate the overarching influence that&lt;br /&gt;Stimson had on the current occupant of the White House.&lt;br /&gt;According to his British biographer Geofrey Hodgson, Sdmson's&lt;br /&gt;membership in Skull &amp;amp; Bones was "the most important educational experience in his life." Unlike most of his fellow Bonesmen, Stimson earned his membership solely on the basis of his achievements at Yale-not through family money. His parents were not wealthy, although his forefathers did come to America as early Puritan colonists. But Stimson made up for his lack of financial credentials by his fierce competitive spirit. As he himself put it, the "idea of a struggle for prizes, so to speak, has always been one of the fundamental elements of my mind, and I can hardly conceive of what my feelings would be if I ever was put in a position or situation in life where there are no prizes to struggle for."&lt;br /&gt;Although Stimson did not come from classic blueblood background, he&lt;br /&gt;married into wealth and power. His wife, Mabel White, came from a prominent Establishment family with longstanding ties to the Order. Thus, upon graduation from law school, Stimson became a partner in the law firm of Eliahu Root, President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of War.&lt;br /&gt;Although Stimson and Roosevelt would have a falling out in later years, early on Roosevelt and Root provided "the Colonel" with the critical&lt;br /&gt;sponsorship and training required to succeed in the world of Establishment&lt;br /&gt;politics. According to Stimson's biographers, Roosevelt would frequently&lt;br /&gt;taunt the young Bonesman about the fact that he, unlike the president, had never been-in the military or fought in any wars. (Roosevelt had resigned as Under Secretary of the Navy to go off and fight in the Spanish-American War.)&lt;br /&gt;Thus, at the ripe old age of 44, Stimson joined the Army during World War I and served in the American Expeditionary Force in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;Among the other lasting interests that Roosevelt would pass on to&lt;br /&gt;Stimson was his deep passion for the Pacific. Roosevelt was convinced that America's imperial destiny was dependent upon its domination of the Pacific Ocean and the Far East. The Spanish-American War, which marked the beginning of Ameriea's imperial phase-and the virtual abandonment of the republican principles upon which the nation had been founded-began the U.S. colonial occupation of the Philippines, which would continue through half of the next century. Ultimately, Stimson would himself serve as the American Governor General of the islands.&lt;br /&gt;In 1900, Roosevelt wrote to Stimson: "Our people are neither craven nor weaklings, as we face the future high of heart and confident of soul, eager to do the great work of a great power . . . ~ wish to see the United States the dominant power on the Pacific Ocean."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STIMSON'S KINDERGARTEN&lt;br /&gt;AND THE COLD WAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Henry Stimson's towering influence on C;eorge Bush and many other&lt;br /&gt;current members and like-thinking allies of the Order was based not only on "the Colonel's" lifetime of achievements. It was also rooted in the fact that Stimson used the World War II period to groom a successor generation of young WASP warriors who would dominate American policymaking during thc Cold War and beyond. Although not every member of what came to be known as the "Stimson's Kindergarten" was a member of Skull &amp; Bones, or even a Yale graduate, many were. All were inculcated with the Skull &amp;amp; Bones philosophy and methodology of wielding power. It is through this alliance and patronage system that the influence of the Order has been extended far beyond its small membership roster.&lt;br /&gt;Among the leading members of the "Stimson Kindergarten" were:&lt;br /&gt;* John J. McCloy, who was Assistant Secretary of War and later served&lt;br /&gt;as the High Commissioner for Germany during the postwar occupation.&lt;br /&gt;* Robert Lovett, a member of Skull&amp;Bones and a partner in the Order's&lt;br /&gt;preeminent Wall Street investment house Brown Brothers Harriman. He became&lt;br /&gt;Stimson's Assistant Secretary of War (Air Section). Lovett remained an&lt;br /&gt;influential policymaker through the presidency of John F. Kennedy.&lt;br /&gt;* Harvey Bundy, another Bonesman, who became Stimson's special&lt;br /&gt;assistant at the War Department. Haryvey Bundy's two sons, McGeorge and William fresh out of Yale University and Skull &amp;amp; Bones, joined their father on Stimson's personal staff. McGeorge Bundy would co-author Stimson's memoirs In Active Service in Peace and War.&lt;br /&gt;* Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State, Yale graduate (he was not a member of the Order, but, rather, of one of the other Yale secret&lt;br /&gt;societies, Scroll Key) and senior policy adviser to FDR and Truman, who&lt;br /&gt;ultimately made him Secretary of State.&lt;br /&gt;* Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the armed forces during World War II and later Truman's Secretary of State.&lt;br /&gt;This group of high-powered policymakers of World War II and immediate post war period were known as the "Stimson-Marshall-Acheson Circle." They shaped America's Cold War containment policy against the Soviet Union and Communist China, including the involvement of the United States in the Korean War. It was also this group which, for better or worse, directed the postwar reconstruction programs in Germany and Japan.&lt;br /&gt;Another influential member of Skull &amp; Bones, Averell Harriman, was personally responsible for the sacking of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. It was Harriman, a banker, intriguer and former American Ambassador to Moscow, who convinced President Truman to fire MacArthur.&lt;br /&gt;The predominant role that Averell Harriman would play over the course of 40 years of postwar Amencan policymaking underscores the fact that not all leading members of Skull &amp;amp; Bones share the identical policy outlook. While some members of the Stimson inner circle were critical of Harriman, whom they considered to be too personally ambitious (he was also a liberal imperial Democrat in a secret fraternity dominated historically by moderate&lt;br /&gt;Republicans), Harriman nevertheless stands out as one of the Order's most active figures. The fact that he was a business partner and social intimate throughout his adult life of fellow Bonesm~n and Republican Sen. Prescott Bush Sr., the father of the current president underscores that point.&lt;br /&gt;Henry Stimson died in 1950, leaving behind a core group of political offspring led by members of his old secret society, Skull &amp; Bones. In the final years of his life he was involved in helping to shape a number of postwar government agencies which would become bastions of power and influence for the Order for years to come. Through this active role in&lt;br /&gt;shaping the key institutions of the Cold War era, Stimson was able to establish a continuity of power that would more than compensate for the fact that no single figure among his "kindergarten" emerged as a clear successor, and that several, like McGeorge Bundy, would prove ultimately to be rather disappointing students.&lt;br /&gt;The National Security Act of 1947 transformed Stimson's old War&lt;br /&gt;Department into the Department of Defense, a sprawling civilian bureaucracy which would in future years house many of the most important members of the Order. Robert Lovett, for example, would become the Secretary of Defense in 1950. The 1947 act also established the Central Inte!ligence Agency (CIA) as the permnent successor to the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In the early 1950s, the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination was merged into the CIA, giving the secret agency total control of America's clandestine operations Th National Security Agency (NSA) also was established, under the direction of the Department of Defense, vastly expanding America's signal intelligence capability.&lt;br /&gt;Of all these agencies of the Cold War era, the CIA would stand out as a singular power center for Yale University alumni in general and Skull &amp;amp; Bones initiates in particular. The term "spooks," the well-known CIA term for a clandestine operator, was originally Yale campus argot for a secret society member. According to a recently published article in the Covert Action Information Bulletin, there is reportedly a "Bones club" within the CIA which helps promote the intelligence careers of members of the Yale secret society.&lt;br /&gt;It should be pointed out that bureaucratic standing is not a real&lt;br /&gt;measure of power within the CIA. Very often, individuals in relatively&lt;br /&gt;insignificant positions within the organizational chart wield tremendous&lt;br /&gt;clout and maintain access to the most sensitive information and policy. Thus,&lt;br /&gt;for example, the present U.S. Ambassaclor to Beijing, James Lilley, a member of Skull &amp; Bones and a career CIA man, is being suggested to replace William Webster as Director of Central Intelligence. For Lilley to step in as director of CIA would at this moment represent a demotion for the senior field operator. It is, however, a demotion he might accept as a personal favor to fellow Bonesman and longtime intimate pal George Bush.&lt;br /&gt;The predominance of Yale graduates inside the CIA is also a part of the Stimson legacy. During World War II, many Yale students and even several leading faculty memhers entered the OSS. The X-2 Branch of OSS, the counterintelligence unit, was dominated by Yale students, as well as Yale English Literature professor Norman Holmes Pearson. One of the Yale men in X-2, James Jesus Angleton, went on to a legendary career as director of the CIA's counterintelligence staff.&lt;br /&gt;Yale Skull &amp;amp; Bonesman and Stimson "Kindergartener" William Bundy&lt;br /&gt;assumed a senior post at CIA during the 1950s, as did Yale graduates Richard Bissell and Cord Meyer, and Yale professor Sherman Kent.&lt;br /&gt;VIETNAM: THE BONESMEN'S DEBACLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to author David Halberstam's best-selling critique of the&lt;br /&gt;Kennedy years, The Best and the Brightest, the JFK presidency marked the high point of Skull &amp; Bones postwar power. But it also marked the beginning of the secret fraternity's fall from the position of unchallenged power, and the beginning of America's precipitous decline as a world power. All these factors are summed up in one word: Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Cabinet was largely handpicked by Skull &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones elder statesman Robert Lovett, who was personally approached by Joseph Kennedy, the president's father, and asked to shape the direction of the new administration Lovett had been one of the architects of the World War II industrial mobilization under President Franklin Roosevelt, which helped bring the United States out of the Great Depression. He had been a factional opponent of Averell Harriman within the Skull &amp; Bones circles, initially opposing the Cold War containment doctrine and pushing the idea of Atoms for Peace during the early years of the Eisenhower presidency (l952-1960).&lt;br /&gt;Kennedy had personally asked Lovett to join his Cabinet, but Lovett, a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, preferred to shun formal government service. Instead, he placed a number of younger Bonesmen into the critical posts. McGeorge Bundy was appointed Kennedy's National Security Adviser. Averell Hamman was made Under Secretary of State for Asian Affairs, a position that placed him in charge of many of the most critical decisions along the way to disaster in Vietnam. William Bundy remained in a senior post at CIA.&lt;br /&gt;The decision to escalate the American military involvement in Vietnam-a rejection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's prophetic warning that the United States should never engage in a ground war in Asia was made by members of the Order. According to some accounts, President Kennedy began to have senous second thoughts about escalating the war, particularly after several private Oval Office discussions with MacArthur.&lt;br /&gt;With Kennedy's assassination, American soldiers began pouring into&lt;br /&gt;Southeast Asia. Harriman remained a fixture of Vietnam policy under President Lyndon Baines Johnson. McGeorge Bundcy remained on as LBJ's National Security Adviser untill , when he left government service to assume the presidene; of theF ord Foundation, the largest tax-exempt philanthropic agency in the United States. The Ford Foundalion annually dispenses of nearly billion in grants.&lt;br /&gt;In his capacity as president of the Ford Foundation, Bundy helped&lt;br /&gt;finance the anti-Vietnam War movement. The National Student Mobilization Committee, the umbrella group for the entire New Left of the late 1960s and early 1970s, was led by David Dellinger, a Yale graduate. Episcopal Church activist William Sloan Coffin, a Bonesman, a second leading figure in the anti-war protest movement, had previously served as a CIA officer.&lt;br /&gt;Thus, the Order had its hands in two critical elements of the policy&lt;br /&gt;debacle of the second half of the 1960s. Some leading Bonesmen helped shape the disastrous limited war strategy in Vietnam, while other members of the Order, at least tacitly, contributed to the growth of the drug-rock-sex counterculture by nourishing the New Left soil from which it sprang.&lt;br /&gt;As a result of the Vietnam debacle, the "Stimson Kindergarten"&lt;br /&gt;literally drove itself out of the corridors of power which it had occupied&lt;br /&gt;without challenge for the previous 20 years. With the election of Richard&lt;br /&gt;Nixon as president of the United States in November 1968, a different team came into prominence. The politics of that team were personified by Henry A.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger, Nixon's National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.&lt;br /&gt;In a May 1982 speech in London at the Chatham House headquarters of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Kissinger boasted that he was an enthusiastic follower of the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and that throughout his years in senior government posts under Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford (1974-1976), he had always consulted more frequently with his counterparts in the British Foreign Office than he had with officials of his own government.&lt;br /&gt;Although Kissinger had enjoyed early patronage from McGeorge Bundy, when the Bonesman was Dean of Harvard University and Kennedy's NSC adviser, the Kissinger era marked a low point in Skull &amp; Bone's government power. The Central Intelligence Agency, a hub of the Order's clout, was decimated by scandals that only compounded the damage done to the Agency as the result of its role in the Vietnam disaster.&lt;br /&gt;According to some respected writers, for example, Jim Hougan, author of Secret Agenda), the CIA attempted to reverse the route by helping to bring down Richard Nixon in Watergate. There is significant evidence to bolster some of these accounts.&lt;br /&gt;When Gerald Ford became president in August 1974 following Nixon's&lt;br /&gt;resignation, Skull &amp;amp; Bones made a brief comeback. In what came to be known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," Ford, in the autumn of l975, removed Henry Kissinger from his post as NSC Adviser, replacing him with Gen. Brent Scowcroft. Kissinger ally James Schlesinger was fired as Secretary of Defense and replaced by Donald Rumsfeld. And CIA Director William Colby, who had dueled with Angleton, was fired and replaced by Skull &amp; Bones member George Bush.&lt;br /&gt;If these maneuvers were intended to be the first step in a more&lt;br /&gt;ambitious comeback by the WASP warrior faction, the plan was short-circuited with the election in November 1976 of Jimmy Carter as president. It would really not be until the inauguration of George Bush as president in January 1989-a dozen years later-that Skull &amp;amp; Bones would resurface with the same degree of governmental power that it had enjoyed during the Stimson years.&lt;br /&gt;George Bush's selection as Ronald Reagan's vice presidential running mate in the 1980 and 1984 elections was the transition back to that power.&lt;br /&gt;Many things had gone wrong in the years since Vietnam to drive the&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen off the center stage. With more than a little input from Bonesmen like McGeorge Bundy and Averell Harriman, the United States had gone into a period of scientific, technological and industrial retreat. The Nixon decision on August 15, 1971 to remove the dollar from a fixed, gold-backed exchange rate system, had triggered a move toward double-digit inflation, urban decay, rising unemployment and soaring interest rates. The Kissinger-orchestrated Iranian-Middle East oil crisis in the early l970s had contributed to a rate of deindustrialization that ultimately transformed the United State from the biggest creditor nation in the world to the world's biggest debtor nation. According to estimates compiled around the time of George Bush's inauguration as president, the total U.S. internal indebtedness had skyrocketed to more than 12 trillion.&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, the period of the 1970s and l980s had given rise to a new and powerful political-financial combination demanding a share of government clout. This new grouping, with its principle power bases in the U.S. Congress, in Hollywood and on Wall Street, was known as the Zionist lobby.&lt;br /&gt;Although Jewish names had been prominent in the legal profession and on Wall Street since the founding of the American republic, in the aftemath of the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and her Arab neighbors, Zionist power took on a whole different proportion. Again, Henry Kissinger~s position in the Nixon administration symbolized the fact that the pro-Israel lobby had moved in with a vengeancs. to the corridors of power in the nation's capital.&lt;br /&gt;Even on Wall Street the 1970s and 1980s had seen a new generatian of Jewish financiers come into power, replacing their more cultured and Anglicized predecessors. The WASP Establishment had developed a tolerance of and working relationship with the largely German Jewish bankers known among themselves as "Our Crowd." The new upstart Wall Street Zionists, however, were viewed by the WASPs as a collection of gangsters.&lt;br /&gt;If the Skull &amp; Bonesmen needed a legitimate justification for reviving&lt;br /&gt;their ever-present dislike of the East European Ashkenazic Jews, the Wall&lt;br /&gt;Street Zionists whs became known as the so-called "New Crowd" provided them with all the excuses necessary. When Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Naval&lt;br /&gt;intelligence analyst, was arrested in November 1985 and charged with spying for Israel against the United States, there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUSH IN PROFILE&lt;br /&gt;Unlike Averell Harriman, who reportedly coveted personal political&lt;br /&gt;power and drew sharp criticism from some of his fellow Bonesmen, George Bush&lt;br /&gt;has been a long-term "project" of Skull &amp;amp; Bones. The Bush presidency in real&lt;br /&gt;and symbolic terms represents the-effort by the Order to restore the lost&lt;br /&gt;spirit of the WASP warrior Henry Stimson. With the passage of time and the&lt;br /&gt;decay of the WASP elite, the Bush presidency may yet prove to be a tragic&lt;br /&gt;replay of past American dreams.&lt;br /&gt;George Bush's career was sponsored every step of the way by Skull &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones members, mostly of his father's generation. Prescott Bush (Skull &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones Class of 1917), a Brown Brothers Harriman partner who would serve one&lt;br /&gt;term in Congress as senator from Connecticut, sent George to the traditional&lt;br /&gt;private preparatory school, Phillips Academy in Andover, New Hampshire, which&lt;br /&gt;grooms young New England squires for later studies at Yale.&lt;br /&gt;It was while finishing his prep school training at Andover that Bush&lt;br /&gt;was first exposed to Henry Stimson. Reportedly, Stimson delivered a stirring&lt;br /&gt;patriotic speech to the Phillips student body in l940 arguing forcefully for&lt;br /&gt;American intervention in the war in Europe. Ironically, at that very moment&lt;br /&gt;on the Yale campus, the majority of Skull &amp; Bonesmen were leading the Ameriea&lt;br /&gt;First movement, which opposed any such U.S. entanglement in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;When war with Japan broke out a year later, George Bush enlisted in the&lt;br /&gt;Navy and was trained as a pilot. He flew more than 50 missions before being&lt;br /&gt;shot down in the Pacific. At Yale after the war, Bush captained the baseball&lt;br /&gt;team and followed his father's footsteps into the Order.&lt;br /&gt;Political legends have it that George Bush shunned his family's&lt;br /&gt;patronage and went off on his own to launch a business career as an oil&lt;br /&gt;wildcatter, or speculator, in Texas. Nothing could be farther from the truth.&lt;br /&gt;Bush moved to Texas to work for Dresser Industries selling oil drilling&lt;br /&gt;equipment. The job was arranged for him by his father with Dresser president&lt;br /&gt;Neil Mallon, who was a fellow member of Skull Bones. Desser, according to&lt;br /&gt;several sources, had close ties with the CIA.&lt;br /&gt;After a few years with Dresser, George Bush set up his own company,&lt;br /&gt;Zapata Oil, to explore new oil fields in Texas and Mexico. Again, Bush was&lt;br /&gt;heavily backed by member of his family. Uncle George Herbert Walker, also a&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp;amp; Bonesman, put up a large amount of capital, as did Brown Brothers&lt;br /&gt;Harriman. Lazard Brothers, a Jewish brokerage house with longstanding&lt;br /&gt;friendly ties to the New England WASPs, put up some money as well, at the&lt;br /&gt;urging of Andre Meyer, the owner of the Washingtor. Post Corporation and the&lt;br /&gt;father of the current Post publisher Kathanne Graham. Zapata Oil sunk the&lt;br /&gt;first offshore well for the Kuwaiti government.&lt;br /&gt;Even with that kind of backing, George Bush was less than a success as&lt;br /&gt;a businessman. In 1964, a longtime Bush friend, William Farrish III of&lt;br /&gt;Scotland, bought the majority of shares in Zapata for .2 million to keep&lt;br /&gt;the business afloat, while George, in a major career shift, ran for U.S.&lt;br /&gt;Congress from a wealthy district in Houston, Texas. He won.&lt;br /&gt;During his three terms in Congress (Bush lost the 1970 Senate race to&lt;br /&gt;Lloyd Bentsen), George Bush distinguished himself as an advocate of zero&lt;br /&gt;population growth and a defender of the eugenics movement. Both of these&lt;br /&gt;positions, radical for their day, were probably the result of Bush's close&lt;br /&gt;friendship with William Draper Jr.-a fellow Bonesman and a longtime advocate&lt;br /&gt;of population reduction schemes in the Third World.&lt;br /&gt;The 1970s were for George Bush years of grooming in high-level politics&lt;br /&gt;and foreign policy. During the Nixon re-election campaign of 1972, George&lt;br /&gt;Bush was the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He later joined&lt;br /&gt;the chorus calling for Nixon's resignation. After a tour as the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;Ambassador to the United Nations, Bush was sent off to Communist China as the&lt;br /&gt;Chief Liaison Officer prior to the formalization of diplomatic relations.&lt;br /&gt;Bush shared the Beijing experience with Winston Lord, a fellow Skull &amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;member who was the CIA station chief. Lord went on to become president of the&lt;br /&gt;New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in 1983. (The Lord family founded&lt;br /&gt;the city of Hartford, Connecticut, has a large number of Skull &amp;amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;members on its family tree, and set up one of the most powerful old-line Wall&lt;br /&gt;Street law firms, Lord Day Lord.) In 1975, George Bush completed his&lt;br /&gt;"grooming" with a brief stint as Gerald Ford's CIA director.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1980, Bush ran a short-lived campaign against Ronald Reagan for the&lt;br /&gt;Republican Party's presidential nomination. Future running mate Reagan cut&lt;br /&gt;short Bush's 1980 presidential hopes by defeating him soundly in the primary&lt;br /&gt;election in New Hampshire, in the heart of New England. Reagan blasted Bush&lt;br /&gt;for his membership in the internationalist Trilateral Commission, which had&lt;br /&gt;attained notoriety because 20 members of the unpopular Carter administration&lt;br /&gt;had served on the commission. Bush's campaign was otherwise noteworthy&lt;br /&gt;beceause a significant number of his campaign volunteers were CIA officials;&lt;br /&gt;his campaign organization was directed by six top Agency and Pentagon&lt;br /&gt;retirees.&lt;br /&gt;THE ORDER'S NETWORK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Bush in the White House, the WASP Establishment is seeking to&lt;br /&gt;reconquer lost territory, not only within the domain of national politics,&lt;br /&gt;but within the financial community, the legal profession and big business. A&lt;br /&gt;struggle between some elements of the WASP crowd and the Jewish "New Crowd"&lt;br /&gt;on Wall Street has been playing out in the newspapers and federal courts for&lt;br /&gt;the past six years, beginning with the criminal indictments of junk bond&lt;br /&gt;dealers Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken and the bankrupting and criminal&lt;br /&gt;prosecuting of the powerful Zionist-run brokerage house Drexel Rurnham&lt;br /&gt;Lambert.&lt;br /&gt;To some extent these wars reflect the kind of scramble that always&lt;br /&gt;takes place during a financial crisis and shakeout, when certain formerly&lt;br /&gt;powerful financial institutions are wiped out and others profit from their&lt;br /&gt;rivals' adversity. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the House of&lt;br /&gt;Morgan came out on top. Not coincidentally, Morgan Guaranty Trust and Morgan&lt;br /&gt;Stanley have been cornerstones of the Skull &amp; Bones grouping on Wall Street&lt;br /&gt;since their founding duling the last century. Founding partner Harold Stanley&lt;br /&gt;was a Bonesman.&lt;br /&gt;One hub of the Order's postwar economic power, the major multinational&lt;br /&gt;oil corporations, have clearly benefited greatly from President Bush's&lt;br /&gt;"charming little colonial war" in the Persian Gulf. The leading oil companies&lt;br /&gt;which are linked to the Order are: Standard Oil Trust Corporation, Shell Oil&lt;br /&gt;of America, Creole Petroleum Corporation and Pennzoil Corporation. The&lt;br /&gt;founder and present chairman of the board of Pennzoil started out in the oil&lt;br /&gt;business in partnership with George Bush in Zapata Oil. It is interesting to&lt;br /&gt;note in the context of the Bonesmen's deep involvement in the world petroleum&lt;br /&gt;business that George Bush, during his early days as a Texas oilman, had&lt;br /&gt;worked closely with the Kuwaitis.&lt;br /&gt;Eight major Wall Street and Washington, D.C. law firms stand out as&lt;br /&gt;practically wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Order of Skull &amp;amp; Bones. Each of&lt;br /&gt;these firms was founded by members of the Order, and each of these firms&lt;br /&gt;continues to provide up-and-coming- Order initiates in the legal community&lt;br /&gt;with training, credentials and connections. A review of the major corporate&lt;br /&gt;clients of these firms would reveal many of the most powerful companies among&lt;br /&gt;the Fortune 500.&lt;br /&gt;The Skull &amp; Bones law firms are:&lt;br /&gt;* Lord Day Lord&lt;br /&gt;* Davis Polk Wardwell&lt;br /&gt;* Simpson Thacher Bartlett&lt;br /&gt;* Debevoise Pli,npton Lyons &amp;amp; Gates&lt;br /&gt;* Cravath Swaine &amp; Moore&lt;br /&gt;* Covington &amp;amp; Burling&lt;br /&gt;* Dewey Ballantine Palmer &amp; Woods&lt;br /&gt;* Milbank Tweed Hadley &amp;amp; McCloy.&lt;br /&gt;In addition to their corporate clientele and their direct involvement&lt;br /&gt;in government through the frequent appointment of partners to Cabinet posts,&lt;br /&gt;these firms also specialize in handling the personal financial affairs and&lt;br /&gt;investment portfolios of the leading WASP families. In this respect, the&lt;br /&gt;Skull &amp; Bones-centered WASP Establishment imitates the Venetian model.&lt;br /&gt;During'the height of power of Venice, which was the trading capital of the&lt;br /&gt;Byzantine Empire, the leading families used their personal wealth to&lt;br /&gt;establish insurance companies, family funds and cultural programs through&lt;br /&gt;which they extended their political power.&lt;br /&gt;Today, the prominent law firms listed above play a speclialrole in&lt;br /&gt;directing the affairs of the leading tax-exempt foundations which shape the&lt;br /&gt;culture and public opinion of the United States and many foreign countries.&lt;br /&gt;We have already-seen that McGeorge Bundy, a leading Bonesman, left his&lt;br /&gt;position as National Security Adviser to President Lyndon Johnson in 1966&lt;br /&gt;assume the presidency of the Ford Foundation. During the nearly two decades&lt;br /&gt;that Bundy'spent directing the billion tax-exempt fund, he arguably&lt;br /&gt;wielded more power than he did during his six years as the National Security&lt;br /&gt;Adviser to two presidents. Under the Bundy reign the Ford Foundation spent&lt;br /&gt;hundreds'of millions of dollars to launch the environmentalist' movement and&lt;br /&gt;funded scores of projects devoted to population reduction in the Third World.&lt;br /&gt;From its early decades, the Order has concentrated much of its efforts&lt;br /&gt;at establishing, controlling and, in some instances, capturing the major&lt;br /&gt;tax-exempt philanthropic foundations of America. The Russell Sage Foundation,&lt;br /&gt;which specializes in "social control" programs, was founded by Bonesmen.&lt;br /&gt;Among the leading functions of the Russell Sage Foundation today is the&lt;br /&gt;maintaining of a centralized tracking of the finances of all the large&lt;br /&gt;tax-exempt foundations in the United States. The Peabody Foundation, the&lt;br /&gt;Slater Foundation and several of the Rockefeller foundations were all either&lt;br /&gt;started by members of the Order or haw been dominated by Bonesmen from their&lt;br /&gt;inception. Other major family funds, like the Ford Foundation and the&lt;br /&gt;Carnegie Endowment, were wrestled from family control by the Skull &amp;amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;apparatus. During the tenure of McGeorge Bundy, two members of the Ford&lt;br /&gt;family resigned from the Ford Foundation in disgust over the direction in&lt;br /&gt;which Bundy had taken the philanthropic agency.&lt;br /&gt;THE NEW WORLD ORDER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between 1983-1986, the British-born conspiracy theorist Antony Sutton&lt;br /&gt;wrote a series of pamphlets about the Order of Skull &amp; Bones. According to&lt;br /&gt;informed sources, Sutton was one of several historians who were provided with&lt;br /&gt;a large file of the Order's internal documents, including minutes of some&lt;br /&gt;meetings, descriptions of rituals, and what would appear to be a rather&lt;br /&gt;complete list of its members from its founding through to the early 1980s.&lt;br /&gt;The short pamphlets were compiled into one volume and published as a book in&lt;br /&gt;1986.&lt;br /&gt;For someone closely following the just-concluded Persian Gulf War and&lt;br /&gt;attempting to gain some insight into George Bush's performance during that&lt;br /&gt;largely orchestrated affair, one recurring theme in the Sutton volume stands&lt;br /&gt;out like a sore thumb: the New World Order.&lt;br /&gt;According to the Skull &amp;amp; Bones documents used by Sutton in his somewhat&lt;br /&gt;flawed profile of the Order, the creation of a New World Order is a primary&lt;br /&gt;goal of the Bonesmen and has been for decades. For the initiates into the&lt;br /&gt;Order, the term New World Order has a very specific meaning.&lt;br /&gt;It is a world dominated by American military power and American control&lt;br /&gt;over all strategic raw materials. Just as the Greek city-state of Sparta&lt;br /&gt;provided the Skull &amp; Bones with the image of a WASP warrior caste, the&lt;br /&gt;Persiain Empire, with its system of coalitions of satrap armies, provides the&lt;br /&gt;model for the Bonesmen's New World Order. The image of Secretary of State&lt;br /&gt;James A. Baker III traveling from foreign capital to foreign&lt;br /&gt;capital-demanding military legions or chests of gold to finance the war for a&lt;br /&gt;New World Order is an image straight out of the chronicles of the Persian&lt;br /&gt;Empire.&lt;br /&gt;According to the recent biography of Henry Stimson, the man who&lt;br /&gt;inspired President Bush was firmly convinced, that it was essential for&lt;br /&gt;America to go to war once every generation or so. It was, for Stimson, a&lt;br /&gt;spiritually cleansing process which enables the nation to rally behind a&lt;br /&gt;cause and overcome its weaknesses and shortcomings in one grand burst of&lt;br /&gt;military fervor. The romantic mystique of the purgative powers of combat is&lt;br /&gt;key to understanding the politcal philosophy of Skull &amp;amp; Bones.&lt;br /&gt;Although America's Vietnam debacle remains a bitter memory of the&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen's failure in war, the recent Persian Gulf conflict, with its&lt;br /&gt;massive overkill and the use of highly advanced weapons and technologies, is&lt;br /&gt;now the new glorious symbol of the WASP warrior caste's reincarnation. When&lt;br /&gt;President Bush vowed that the Gulf War would not be another Vietnam," he was&lt;br /&gt;speaking first and foremost to his fellow Bonesmen-not to the American&lt;br /&gt;people..If such thinking smacks of dangerous fantasy on the part of a major&lt;br /&gt;world power in the modern era, it is indeed.&lt;br /&gt;On a more practical political level, the Gulf War was a gambit to save&lt;br /&gt;the Bush presidency from a mountinng pile of domestic financial woes, not the&lt;br /&gt;least of which was the savings andloan (S&amp;L) crisis and a pending series of&lt;br /&gt;failures of major&lt;br /&gt;commercial banks. In the months preceding the gulf showdown, the prsident's&lt;br /&gt;own son, Neil Bush, came under intense media scrutiny for his role in the&lt;br /&gt;failure of a large&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;amp;L in Colorado. Neil's photograph, testifying under oath before a&lt;br /&gt;congressional committee probing fraud among top S&amp;L manager's, became a&lt;br /&gt;familiar front-page feature in every major newspaper in America, threatening&lt;br /&gt;dangerous popular disillusion with the Yale Bonesman in the White House.&lt;br /&gt;With a U.S. federal government deficit projected at nearly a half a trillion&lt;br /&gt;dollars for Fiscal Year 1991, in large part because of the S&amp;amp;L crisis and a&lt;br /&gt;shrinking business tax base, the Democratic Party majority in the U S&lt;br /&gt;Congress was pressing for deep cutbacks in defense spending now that the Cold&lt;br /&gt;War had ended.&lt;br /&gt;On the international stage, the reunification of Germany, clearly the&lt;br /&gt;most dramatic event of 1990, posed new challenges to the Bush team. Germany&lt;br /&gt;was about to emerge as the dominant power in continental Europe by virtue of&lt;br /&gt;its advanced industrial infrastructure and its long tradition of independent&lt;br /&gt;political dealings with Moscow. Just months before the outbreak of the gulf&lt;br /&gt;crisis, Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl had met with Soviet President&lt;br /&gt;Mikhail Gorbachev and signed a long term economic assistance pact. As a&lt;br /&gt;result, Gorbachev dropped all remaining objections to the immediate&lt;br /&gt;reunification of Germany.&lt;br /&gt;At that point, the Bush administration changed its tactics. Previously,&lt;br /&gt;in sharp contrast to the Thatcher government in Great Britain, it had been&lt;br /&gt;nominally in favor of German reunification. But at the Houston economic&lt;br /&gt;summit of the Group of Seven Industrialized Countries in the summer of 1990,&lt;br /&gt;the United States blocked (with Britain) Germany's plan of unconditional&lt;br /&gt;economic aid to the Soviet Union. President Bush took the position that the&lt;br /&gt;Soviet Union must submit to International Monetary Fund requisites as a&lt;br /&gt;precondition for any substantive economic assistance&lt;br /&gt;In the Far East, Japan's continuing growth in manufacturing also posed&lt;br /&gt;a threat to Washington's desire to retain superpower status If President Bush&lt;br /&gt;and his Bonesmen coterie were unaware of a stunning historical analogy, their&lt;br /&gt;British "cousins" were quick to pick up on the parallels between the global&lt;br /&gt;strategic situation in July 1990 and the identical intemational situation&lt;br /&gt;that existed 100 years earlier.&lt;br /&gt;In the 1890s, France, under the brilliant political leadership of&lt;br /&gt;Foreign Minister Gabriel Hanataux, was attempting to forge a Eurasian&lt;br /&gt;alliance with Germany, Russia and Meiji Japan. The idea was to-link&lt;br /&gt;continental Europe with Japan and China through a series of large overland&lt;br /&gt;infrastructure projects, beginning with the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Through&lt;br /&gt;treaties covering key areas of economic and security matters, Hanataux hoped&lt;br /&gt;to create a zone of prosperity, built on a foundation of rapid economic&lt;br /&gt;growth and extensive trade.&lt;br /&gt;Such a politlcal-economic common interest alliance threatened the&lt;br /&gt;imperial hegemony of Great Britain. At the turn of the 20th century, Britian&lt;br /&gt;looked to the United States (as its English-speaking ally) to join in&lt;br /&gt;sabotaging the Hanataux plan. Through the Spanish-American War of 1898 and&lt;br /&gt;the Russo-Japanese War of1905, Britain and her American junior partner (by&lt;br /&gt;then led by Henry Stimson's old mentor Teddy Roosevelt) managed to disrupt&lt;br /&gt;the French-German-Russian-Japanese econornic axis. Two world wars and the&lt;br /&gt;Great Depression were the consequences of that interference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE PERSIAN GULF WAR&lt;br /&gt;It was against this historical backdrop that President Bush, invoking the&lt;br /&gt;World War II imagery of his Skull &amp; Bones idol Henry Stimson, went to war&lt;br /&gt;against Iraq. There is even speculation that President Bush was personally&lt;br /&gt;instrumental in luring Saddam Hussein into invading Kuwait, thereby,&lt;br /&gt;provoking the American-led military response. Many news accounts have&lt;br /&gt;emphasized that a two-hour private meeting between the president and Margaret&lt;br /&gt;Thatcher in the Aspen, Colorado vacation chalet of U.S. Ambassador Henry&lt;br /&gt;Catto on August 2, 1990 helped finalize Bush's decision to immediately deploy&lt;br /&gt;military force.&lt;br /&gt;Recently, an astute Japanese analyst drew a disturbing parallel&lt;br /&gt;between Bush and FDR, who was gready influenced by Stimson. According to the&lt;br /&gt;wtiter, FDR lured Japan into World War II through an intricate series of&lt;br /&gt;economic warfare maneuvers which left Japan with little choice but to&lt;br /&gt;strike-back. In much the same way, said the analyst, Bush had lured Saddam&lt;br /&gt;Hussein into Kuwait in order to launch a new Gulf War that would have&lt;br /&gt;consequences reaching far beyond Iraq and the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;As a result of the military victory over Iraq, the United States is in&lt;br /&gt;the process of establishing a string of permanent military bases throughout&lt;br /&gt;the Persian Gulf and Near East. The oil sheikdoms of the region, led by Saudi&lt;br /&gt;Arabia, are now thoroughly dependent on the American military presence to&lt;br /&gt;ensure the survival of their regimes. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting&lt;br /&gt;Countries:(OPEC) is effectively captured by Washington. American bankers&lt;br /&gt;aided by U.S. gunboats now are setting world oil prices. Thus, one&lt;br /&gt;consequence of the Persian Gulf War is that the United States now has an oil&lt;br /&gt;weapon-pointed principally at Germany and Japan. Ironically, America's two&lt;br /&gt;chief economic rivals have paid out a total of billion to date to help&lt;br /&gt;finance a Bush administration military adventure which put the oil weapon in&lt;br /&gt;Washington's hand.&lt;br /&gt;Another telling example of how the Order's man in the Oval Office&lt;br /&gt;intends to administer a crmubling U.S. domestic economy while imposing the&lt;br /&gt;New World Order on the rest of the world is to be found in the recent buyout&lt;br /&gt;of the majority of stock in Citicorp, the largest U.S. commercial bank, by&lt;br /&gt;Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz. Citicorp is one of the major American&lt;br /&gt;commercial banks on the verge of collapse, but which is considered by the&lt;br /&gt;Bush administration and the Federal Reserve System to be "too big to fall."&lt;br /&gt;The stock purchase amounted to a Saudi Royal Family bail-out of Citicorp,&lt;br /&gt;using the increased profits being enjoyed by the House of Saud as a result of&lt;br /&gt;the massive jump in Saudi oil production since the beginning of ~he gulf&lt;br /&gt;cnsis in August 1990.&lt;br /&gt;There points up a striking difference between the role of the United&lt;br /&gt;States in World War II and the Bush administration's handling to date of the&lt;br /&gt;Middle East crisis. During World War II, the United States went through a&lt;br /&gt;genuine economic revival. Skull &amp;amp; Bones historian Samuel Huntington described&lt;br /&gt;it as a "neo Hamiltonian" policy, a reference to the first United States&lt;br /&gt;Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Beginning in 1939, America&lt;br /&gt;became a major supplier of military and industrial goods under the Lend-Lease&lt;br /&gt;program to the European states fighting Hitler. At the same time, the federal&lt;br /&gt;government began issuing low interest credits to revive the nation's&lt;br /&gt;manufacturing base which had been gutted by a decade of economic depression.&lt;br /&gt;The industrial buildup accelerated once the United States formally entered&lt;br /&gt;.World War II, leading to the establishing of entirely new industrial&lt;br /&gt;sectors, such as aerospace and petrochemicals.&lt;br /&gt;This time around-at least to date-there has been no such marshaling of&lt;br /&gt;the U.S. domestic industrial base. Despite moderate increases in the&lt;br /&gt;production of certain high-tech weapons systems, the U.S. economy continues&lt;br /&gt;its gradual slide into what could be a new depression. Unemployment is&lt;br /&gt;greater than at any point in the last decade. Some sociologists fear that the&lt;br /&gt;complete disintegration of America's urban centers could produce new&lt;br /&gt;race-riots as early as the summer of1991.&lt;br /&gt;The single greatest challenge to George Bush and the.Order is: Can they&lt;br /&gt;capitalize on-the current revival of the American spirit to reverse&lt;br /&gt;the..disastrous post industrial society dogmas, and launch their own version&lt;br /&gt;of the World WarII neo Hamiltonian industrial recovery? So far, some&lt;br /&gt;doomsayers claim, it appears that Bush and his administratlon plan instead to&lt;br /&gt;direct their.efforts at looting and blackmailing the rest of the&lt;br /&gt;world-especially the gulf oil sheikdoms, Japan and Germany-into bailing out&lt;br /&gt;the bankrupt U.S. financial houses and federal government and financing the&lt;br /&gt;posting of American-led foreign legions at every corner of the globe where&lt;br /&gt;there are large deposits of strategic raw materials. If this policy is not&lt;br /&gt;altered, George Bush may soon find himself presiding over a new disaster that&lt;br /&gt;will make the Vietnam debacle appear insignificant in comparison.&lt;br /&gt;The politics of the New World Order appear to be borrowed largely from the&lt;br /&gt;pages of the decline and fall of the British Empire. Political columnist&lt;br /&gt;Patrick Buchanan, an early vocal opponent of the Bush Persian Gulf strategy,&lt;br /&gt;warned as early as August 1990 that the White House was falling into the trap&lt;br /&gt;of British "balance of power" politics, the very politics that left Great&lt;br /&gt;Britain on the scrap heap of world powers at the close of World War II, and&lt;br /&gt;put Winston Churchill, the architect of World War II and the Cold War, out of&lt;br /&gt;a job.&lt;br /&gt;Since the crushing military defeat of Iraq by a technologically far&lt;br /&gt;superior American-led coalition, the Bush administration has vacillated on a&lt;br /&gt;postwar policy - for the region. It has pursued a pragmatic power balancing&lt;br /&gt;game which is rife with potential problems. The two key elements of the&lt;br /&gt;American balance-of-power politics in the region are the preservation of a&lt;br /&gt;weakened but territorialy whole Iraq to offset the other would-be&lt;br /&gt;regional-powers Iran and Syria. At the-same time, it is tilting toward a&lt;br /&gt;nominally more "pro-Arab" position with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict,&lt;br /&gt;While the harsh reparations terms being imposed upon a war-devastated&lt;br /&gt;Iraq, are probably, in the mind of Bush, aimed at dissuading any future&lt;br /&gt;regional military power from launching-cross-border aggressions, they amount&lt;br /&gt;to the slow, excruciating extermination of the population of that&lt;br /&gt;country. As one seasoned observer noted recently,ea rlier air wars had caused&lt;br /&gt;greater immediate losses of life, due to the inaccuracy of bombs and rockets&lt;br /&gt;but had generally left basic infrastructures intact. The precision bombing of Iraq's&lt;br /&gt;entire infrastructure has caused what a United Nations team has called an-"apocalypse."The greater&lt;br /&gt;loss of life, will occur in the aftermath of the combat as a country with 16&lt;br /&gt;million inhabitants is suddenly thrown into a "pre-industial" state with no&lt;br /&gt;electricity, no water or other necessities. American humanitarian aid,&lt;br /&gt;administered by occupying troops will not&lt;br /&gt;offset this apocalypse-especially if harsh war reparations and asset seizures&lt;br /&gt;deprive Iraq of the financial resources needed to begin a rebuilding process.&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of the fact that the United States has not thrown the full&lt;br /&gt;weight of its military presence behind the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein&lt;br /&gt;regime, the shortsightedness of the present Bush policy may very well lead to&lt;br /&gt;a Lebanon-type protracted civil war in Iraq. Such a war could potentially&lt;br /&gt;spread throughout the region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout this short study of the Order of Skull &amp; Bones, emphasis has&lt;br /&gt;been placed on the philosophy, the rituals and the modus operandi of the&lt;br /&gt;Bonesmen who have devoted their post-Yale careers to world politics. This&lt;br /&gt;particular emphasis was chosen in order to provide the Japanese reader with&lt;br /&gt;an insight into how the Bush presidency views the rest of the world, so that&lt;br /&gt;it will be possible for Japan to better understand what it faces in the&lt;br /&gt;post-Persian Gulf War strategic environment.&lt;br /&gt;The implications of Skull &amp;amp; Bones domination over American policymaking&lt;br /&gt;under the Bush presidency are enormous. Japan must be prepared to meet what&lt;br /&gt;amounts to a fundamentally new challenge. Few of the postwar experiences in&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Japanese relations will have prepared the Japanese government and the&lt;br /&gt;leaders of Japanese industry and finance for-what they now face.&lt;br /&gt;In the recent past, the policy of Washington toward Japan has been&lt;br /&gt;simply to use political leverage, mostly related to Japan's regional security&lt;br /&gt;concerns, to exact compromises and concessions in the economic and financial&lt;br /&gt;sphere. But the United States, under its policy of free trade, privatization&lt;br /&gt;of the monetary and credit mechanisms, and the transition to post-industrial&lt;br /&gt;service-oriented forms of economic activity at home has suffered a gradual&lt;br /&gt;but steady decline over the past 20 to 30 years. Japan, meanwhile, has&lt;br /&gt;prospered under a more protectionist and industry oriented policy.&lt;br /&gt;In the past decade, Japan has been increasingly thrust into the role of&lt;br /&gt;scapegoat for the decline of American prosperity, while at the same time&lt;br /&gt;coming under mounting pressure to help finance the United States out of its&lt;br /&gt;economic mess. The pressures upon Japan to bail out its postwar big brother&lt;br /&gt;have caused tensions between Washington and Tokyo, but the Cold War had&lt;br /&gt;provided a common security interest that generally offset the occasional&lt;br /&gt;rough language.&lt;br /&gt;Under the George Bush Skull &amp; Bones regime at the White House all that&lt;br /&gt;has changed. True to the Bonesmen's credo of constructive chaos and global&lt;br /&gt;political domination by the WASP Establishment, the United States is now out&lt;br /&gt;to dominate U.S.-Japanese relations with a degree of brutal frankness that&lt;br /&gt;will fly in the face of all previous American sensitivities to Japan's honor.&lt;br /&gt;Gone are the days of former U.S. Ambassador Michael Mansfield, who always&lt;br /&gt;sought to maintain a public climate of friendship and cooperation between&lt;br /&gt;the two nations even when behind the scenes he was taking the toughest of&lt;br /&gt;stands on the most divisive issues.&lt;br /&gt;Under the American-led New World Order, Japan can expect to be treated&lt;br /&gt;with far less respect publicly. It can expect that the Bush administration,&lt;br /&gt;including his coterie of former top CIA men now working directly out of the&lt;br /&gt;Oval Office, will be constantly interfering, covertly in the internal affairs&lt;br /&gt;of Nippon.&lt;br /&gt;This shift in style has held sway since the Bush inauguration and the&lt;br /&gt;subsequent appointment of Michael Armacost as U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;Armacost has assumed the posture of a Roman pro-consul, dictating policy to a&lt;br /&gt;weak satrap, rather than to engage, in diplomatic dialogue. Armacost's&lt;br /&gt;performance even before the recent events in the Persian Gulf reestablished&lt;br /&gt;American military might as the defining factor in world affairs-should have&lt;br /&gt;provided the Japanese leadership with a clue as to the shift under way in&lt;br /&gt;Washington's new policy approach.&lt;br /&gt;The Bush policy can best be described as a sophisticated containment&lt;br /&gt;policy. The new approach to Pacific affairs was telegraphed in the early days&lt;br /&gt;of the Bush administration when the president deployed three of his most&lt;br /&gt;trusted senior spooks to three critical Asian diplomatic posts: Armacost was&lt;br /&gt;sent to Tokyo; Bush's vice presidential national security aide and former&lt;br /&gt;career CIA operator Donald Gregg was sent to Seoul; and John Lilly, another&lt;br /&gt;career CIA man and a fellow Yale Skull &amp; Bones member, was sent to Beijing.&lt;br /&gt;The fact that three of the CIA's most experienced clandestine field operators&lt;br /&gt;were assigned the senior diplomatic posts says a great deal about the Bush&lt;br /&gt;administradon's intentions to conduct sophisticated political-warfare and sow&lt;br /&gt;confusion among the three major nations of the Far East. Bush clearly intends&lt;br /&gt;to pursue the historic Skull &amp;amp; Bones mission of extending America's dominion&lt;br /&gt;over the entire Pacific region. The idea of even paying lip service to equal&lt;br /&gt;partnership between Washington and Tokyo is over, at least for the time&lt;br /&gt;being.&lt;br /&gt;The process of internally weakening Japan's resistance to this&lt;br /&gt;overarching domination by Washington's New World Order began with the Recruit&lt;br /&gt;scandal, when the Takeshita government was brought down through a&lt;br /&gt;U.S.-inspired secret intelligence operation. One of the primary targets of&lt;br /&gt;that operation was Yashuhiro Nakasone, the former prime minister and the&lt;br /&gt;architect of Japan's post-1973 effort to develop independent ties to the&lt;br /&gt;oil-producing Arab states of the Persian Gulf.&lt;br /&gt;It is important to understand that Bush's WASP warriors, while adopting&lt;br /&gt;a similar approach of non-compromise and domination over Israel and the&lt;br /&gt;Zionist lobby inside the United States, will not hesitate to use the Jewish&lt;br /&gt;lobby as an instrument for bashing Japan into line. Thus, Commerce Secretary&lt;br /&gt;Robert Mosbacher went out of his way to encourage the Anti-Defamation&lt;br /&gt;League's leadership convention, which he addressed last year, to join with&lt;br /&gt;the Bush administration in pressuring Japan to submit to American free trade&lt;br /&gt;demands.&lt;br /&gt;The Bush administration will at times encourage the Zionist lobby and&lt;br /&gt;Israel to mercilessly attack Japan and will at other times severely criticize&lt;br /&gt;Zionist "insensitivity" to Tokyo. This will all be part of the Bush strategy&lt;br /&gt;to dominate the Pacific Rim by playing one country or faction off against&lt;br /&gt;another, using hard cop-soft cop and other classic techniques of the&lt;br /&gt;intelligence trade.&lt;br /&gt;Japan will be offered a limited junior partner status in the New World&lt;br /&gt;Order, while coming under mounting pressure to continue providing tribute to&lt;br /&gt;finance the American imperium. Above all else, Japan will be forbidden from&lt;br /&gt;developing any independent foreign policy toward its neighbors, the Soviet&lt;br /&gt;Union, the Arab world or anyone else. Such programs as the Global&lt;br /&gt;Infrastructure Fund, to the extent that they pose an alternative to the&lt;br /&gt;U.S.-dominated international regime, will be vetoed.&lt;br /&gt;As a subservient junior partner in the New World Order arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;Japan's financial and economic muscle will be used as the piggy-bank for U.S.&lt;br /&gt;imperial objectives. The billion "contribution" to the U.S.-led Gulf-War&lt;br /&gt;coalition was another benchmark in the transition in U.S.-Japanese reladons,&lt;br /&gt;as was President Bush's abrupt cancellation of his long-sheduled state visit&lt;br /&gt;to Tokyo. When the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) attempted&lt;br /&gt;to visit Kuwait immediately after the gulf cease-fire in March l991, the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;State Department refused to grant him permission to go into the&lt;br /&gt;American-occupied-territory. These intentional diplomatic affronts should be&lt;br /&gt;understood as telling signs of the new American-Japanese relationship.&lt;br /&gt;On the other-hand, President Bush also suddenly scheduled a brief summit&lt;br /&gt;with Japanese Prime Minister Kaifu in Newport Beach, California for April 4,&lt;br /&gt;1991. One purpose of the sudden meeting was to lay out clear parameters of&lt;br /&gt;acceptable behavior on the part of the Japanese government when the prime&lt;br /&gt;minister meets later in April with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.&lt;br /&gt;Japanese Soviet relations, like all other crucial Japanese ~foreign&lt;br /&gt;relations, will be expected to conform with those of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An essential blackmail "stick" that the Bush administration intends to&lt;br /&gt;hold over Tokyo is-Japanese dependency on Persian Gulf oil. As-the result of&lt;br /&gt;the Gulf War and the post war American military occupation of Kuwait, Saudi&lt;br /&gt;Arabia and other-key oil-producing sheikdoms, the Bush administration will&lt;br /&gt;exert unabashed control over world oil supplies- and prices. In the New World&lt;br /&gt;Order, Japan's oil supply will be increasingly linked to concessions on a&lt;br /&gt;range of monetary and economic issues, including the Global Agreements on&lt;br /&gt;Trade and Tariffs (GATT) talks, which broke up last year as the result of&lt;br /&gt;largely Japanese and continental European resistance to the pure free-trade&lt;br /&gt;system sought by Bush and Thatcher. Assistant Treasury Secretary David&lt;br /&gt;Mulford, a former senior official at White Weld Securities, Inc. which&lt;br /&gt;restructured Saudi Arabia's entire financial apparatus, has recently&lt;br /&gt;announced that he will seek to prosecute Japan for its violations of the GATT&lt;br /&gt;regulations that call upon Tokyo to surrender government control over&lt;br /&gt;interest rate policies to the international banking community.&lt;br /&gt;The Bush presidency, with its ambitious drive for domination over&lt;br /&gt;former friends and foes alike, poses an unprecedented challenge to Japan.&lt;br /&gt;While this is neither the time nor the place to offer a solution to the&lt;br /&gt;growing dilemma, the profile of the men of Skull &amp; Bones in this white paper&lt;br /&gt;should provide the Japanese reader with helpful insights into the nature of&lt;br /&gt;the American WASP warrior class and the secret society which spawned it.&lt;br /&gt;Bibliography&lt;br /&gt;"Bush Boy's Club: Skull and Bones." Covert Information Action Bulletin,&lt;br /&gt;Winter, 1990.&lt;br /&gt;Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. Random House, New York, 1969.&lt;br /&gt;Hodgson, Godfrey. The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson. Afred&lt;br /&gt;Knopf, New York, 1990.&lt;br /&gt;Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas. The Wisemen: Six Friends and the World They&lt;br /&gt;Made. Simon and Schuster, New York, l986.&lt;br /&gt;"Membership List of All Skull and Bones Members From 1833-1950." The Russell&lt;br /&gt;Trust Association, New Haven, Conn., 1949.&lt;br /&gt;Ranleagh, John. The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. Simon and&lt;br /&gt;Schuster, New York, 1986.&lt;br /&gt;Rosenbaum, Ron. "Skull and Bones: An Elegy for Mumbo Jumbo." Esquire&lt;br /&gt;Magazine, September, 1977.&lt;br /&gt;"Skull and Bones: A Short History." Excecutive Intelligence Review, January&lt;br /&gt;30, 1980.&lt;br /&gt;Stimson, Henry and McGcorge Bundy. In Active Service in Peace and War.&lt;br /&gt;Octagon Press, New York, 1949&lt;br /&gt;Sutton, Antony C. America's Secret Establishrnent: An Introduction to the&lt;br /&gt;Order of Skull and Bones. Liberty Press, Billings, Mont., 1986.&lt;br /&gt;Winks, Robin. Cloak and Gown Scholars in the Secret War William Morrow, New&lt;br /&gt;York, 1987.&lt;br /&gt;Some Prominent Members of Skull &amp;amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William F. Buckley, Jr. (Bones Class of 1950) Founder of National Review, the&lt;br /&gt;leading conservative magazine in the United States. Brother James (Skull &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones l944) is now a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals. William F. Buckley,&lt;br /&gt;Jr., former CIA officer in Mexico, also built the political grassroots&lt;br /&gt;conservative movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. President Bush and Buckley&lt;br /&gt;have recently split over Buckley's strong pro-lsraelism.&lt;br /&gt;McGeorge Bundy (Skull &amp;amp; Bones initiate of 1940) Scion of the Skull &amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;Bundy family. Father Harvey H. Bundy was Skull &amp;amp; Bones, as was brother&lt;br /&gt;William P. Bundy. McGeorge served in the War Department during World War II&lt;br /&gt;as Henry Stimson's assistant and later became the Nalional Security Adviser&lt;br /&gt;to President Kennedy. William Bundy became a CIA official and later served in&lt;br /&gt;key positions at the Departments of State and Defense. McGeorge headed the&lt;br /&gt;Ford Foundation (1968-1980) and William chaired the Council on Foreign&lt;br /&gt;Relations (1972-1983).&lt;br /&gt;George Bush (initiated in 1948) President of the United States. Comes from a&lt;br /&gt;complete Bones family. Father Prescott, a Bones initiate of the class of&lt;br /&gt;1917. Uncle George Herbert Walker, Bones Class of 1927. U S Federal District&lt;br /&gt;Court Judge John Walker is also a relative and a Bonesman.&lt;br /&gt;Alfred Cowles (Class of 1913): Built the Cowles Communication empire based on&lt;br /&gt;the Des Moines (lowa) Register and the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Star and&lt;br /&gt;Tribune. These two newspapers play a significant role in shaping the early&lt;br /&gt;presidential primaries, especially in Iowa.&lt;br /&gt;Hugh Cunningham (Bones 1934); CIA man from 1947 to 1973. He served in top&lt;br /&gt;positions in the Clandestine Services, the Board of National Estimates and&lt;br /&gt;later as Director of Training.&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Daniels (initiated in 1914) founder of the largest agro-business and&lt;br /&gt;grain cartel company in Minnesota-Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) Served in the&lt;br /&gt;Foreign Service and later during World War II as head of the Fats and Oils&lt;br /&gt;Section of the War Produclion Board. ADM Corporation's new head Dwayne&lt;br /&gt;Andreas is one of the most powerful figures in U.S.-Soviet trade relations.&lt;br /&gt;Daniels's only son, John (Bones 1943), also works in ADM. The bank which&lt;br /&gt;underwrites ADM stock issues is the Morgan Stanley investment bank&lt;br /&gt;Richard Ely Danielson (Skull &amp; Bones 1907) Past publisher of the Atlanric&lt;br /&gt;Monthly magazine, one of the leading magazines for seeing which policy line&lt;br /&gt;on a variety of issues is coming out of the Eastern Establishment.&lt;br /&gt;Russell Wheeler Davenport (initiated in 1923); Fortune magazine writer and&lt;br /&gt;editor, made this magazine the leading authority on financial matters in the&lt;br /&gt;United States. Davenport created the Fortune 500 companies list.&lt;br /&gt;Henry P. Davison (Bones Class of l920): Key senior partner in the Morgan&lt;br /&gt;banking and financial trust networks. His fellow Bonesman Harold Stanley&lt;br /&gt;(1908) founded the investment bank Morgan Stanley. Davison and his family&lt;br /&gt;helped set up the Guaranty Trust Corporation which became Morgan Guaranty&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Cochran (1904 Bonesman) was one of the most powerful partners in the&lt;br /&gt;Morgan bank. The influence of the Mgrgan banking system can be seen in its&lt;br /&gt;relationship with the hierarchy of U.S. intelligence. The head of the Office&lt;br /&gt;of Strategic Services, Gen. William Donovan, worked as a Morgan intelligence&lt;br /&gt;operative in thc 1920s and prepared the intelligence reports for the Morgan&lt;br /&gt;banking concerns on developments in Europe. F. Trubee Davison became CIA&lt;br /&gt;Director of Personnel in 1951 and placed key Bonesmen in the right positions&lt;br /&gt;inside the CIA.&lt;br /&gt;Averell Harriman (1913 initiate). Scion of the Harriman railroad family. His&lt;br /&gt;brother Roland (Skull &amp; Bones 1917) ran the investment bank Brown Brothers&lt;br /&gt;Harriman. Averell was one of the most powerful members of the Skull &amp;amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;fralernity, His government posts ranged from Ambassador to Russia during&lt;br /&gt;World War II and various State Department positions to chief negotiator on&lt;br /&gt;the Vietnam Talks. Confidential adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman,&lt;br /&gt;Kennedy, Johnson and later Nixon and Carter. His investment banking firm is&lt;br /&gt;virtually a Skull &amp; Bones bank-nine senior partners are from Skull &amp;amp; Bones.&lt;br /&gt;President Bush's father worked in Brown Brothers Harriman after helping to&lt;br /&gt;merge several companies in the Unitd Rubber Corporation of America.&lt;br /&gt;Winston Lord (Bones Class of 1959): Chairmah of the Council on Foreign&lt;br /&gt;Relations (1983-l988). Former State Department official and CIA officer in&lt;br /&gt;Asia. China expert. Six members of the Lord family were Skull &amp; Bones,&lt;br /&gt;including Charles Edwin Lord, former Comptroller of the Currency, Department&lt;br /&gt;of the Treasury. Oswald Bates Lord (Skull &amp;amp; Bones l926) married Mary&lt;br /&gt;Pillsbury of the Minnesota based Pillsbury Flour Corporation. Winston Lord is&lt;br /&gt;their son.&lt;br /&gt;Robert A. Lovett (1918 initiate): Put together the Brown Brothers Harriman&lt;br /&gt;merger and later organized the aviation industry mobilization for World War&lt;br /&gt;II. Became part of the most exclusive power group in World War II under Henry&lt;br /&gt;Stimson. Lovett was one of the five or six most powerful men in the United&lt;br /&gt;States for nearly 40 years until his death in 1986.&lt;br /&gt;Henry Luce (initiated in 1920): Built the Time-Life publishing empire. Became&lt;br /&gt;the leading publicist of the "American century" doctrine&lt;br /&gt;Dino Pionzio (Bones Class of 1950): CIA deputy chief of station in Chile&lt;br /&gt;during the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. Now works at the&lt;br /&gt;investment firm Dillion Read.&lt;br /&gt;Alphonso Taft (initiated in 1833): Secretary of War (1876), Attorney General&lt;br /&gt;(1876-1877) and later Minister to Austria and Russia. Co-founder of Skull &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones.&lt;br /&gt;Robert A. Taft (1910 initiate); Speaker of the House of Representatives&lt;br /&gt;(1921-1926) and Senator (R-Ohio). Leader of the Isolationist movement in the&lt;br /&gt;1930s. His son Robert A. Taft, Jr., also senator from Ohio, led the&lt;br /&gt;right-wing of the Republican Party in the 1950s and 1960s. Robert A. Taft,&lt;br /&gt;Jr., however, was the only member of the Taft family who was not Skull &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Bones.&lt;br /&gt;William H. Taft (Skull &amp;amp; Bones 1878): President of the United Statcs&lt;br /&gt;(1908-1912) and appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1921-1930).&lt;br /&gt;Secretary of War (1904-1908). Trustee, Carnegie Institution. Part of the long&lt;br /&gt;line of Tafts who served in the U.S. government.&lt;br /&gt;William Collins Whitney (initiated 1863): Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889).&lt;br /&gt;Promoter of the Naval Shipyards and financier. Part of the Whitney family&lt;br /&gt;which sent eight of its members to Yale to become Skull &amp; Bonesmen. Family&lt;br /&gt;intermarried with the Payne, Harriman and Vanderbilt clans. The Whitneys&lt;br /&gt;became some of Wall Street's most powerful financiers through the Guaranty&lt;br /&gt;and Knickerbocker Trust Companies.&lt;br /&gt;Current U.S. senators who are Skull &amp;amp; Bones members;&lt;br /&gt;Sen. Jonathan Bingham (D-N.M.).&lt;br /&gt;Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.) is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.&lt;br /&gt;Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.); Former Navy Secretary and on the Senate&lt;br /&gt;Intelligenee Committee.&lt;br /&gt;Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.): Recently killed in an airplane crash. was a Bonesman&lt;br /&gt;as was his father. The Heinz farnily has one of the largest food-producing&lt;br /&gt;companies in the world.&lt;br /&gt;Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.): Formerly on the Senate Intelligence Committee,&lt;br /&gt;Kerry is now on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.&lt;br /&gt;Selected Quotations&lt;br /&gt;* During the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, two Skull &amp; Bones&lt;br /&gt;advisers to President Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Lovett, met in the&lt;br /&gt;west wing of the White House to discuss strategy. According to author Godfrey&lt;br /&gt;Hodgson, there was a photograph of master Bonesman Henry L. Stimson, their&lt;br /&gt;mentor, on Lundy's desk. "All during the conversation the old Colonel seemed&lt;br /&gt;to be staring me straight in the face," recalled Lovett. Finally, he said to&lt;br /&gt;Bundy, "Mac, I think the best service we can perform for the president is to&lt;br /&gt;try to approach this as Colonel Stimson would."&lt;br /&gt;* At the Potsdam summit in 1946 when President Truman first met Soviet&lt;br /&gt;dictator Josef Stalin, Stimson told the president: "The chief lesson I have&lt;br /&gt;learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to&lt;br /&gt;trust him."&lt;br /&gt;* Commenting on the plan of Robert Morgenthau, President Franklin D.&lt;br /&gt;Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary, to deindustrialize Germany after World War&lt;br /&gt;II, Stimson wrote: ". . . just such a crime as the Germans themselves hoped&lt;br /&gt;to perpetrate on their victims . . . a crime against civilization itself?" He&lt;br /&gt;added rather ironically that the plan was like "a beautiful Nazi program!&lt;br /&gt;This is to laugh!"&lt;br /&gt;* "They possessed a common background, common experience, and a common&lt;br /&gt;liking for old wines, proper English and Savile Row clothing," wrote the&lt;br /&gt;biographer of former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew. A top level&lt;br /&gt;diplomat and State Department powerhouse during the first half of the 20th&lt;br /&gt;century, Bonesman Hugh Wilson adds, "The Foreign Service [is] a pretty good&lt;br /&gt;club."&lt;br /&gt;* "These men helped establish a distinguished network connecting Wall&lt;br /&gt;Street, Washington, worthy foundations and proper clubs," wrote historian and&lt;br /&gt;former JFK aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "The New York financial and legal&lt;br /&gt;community was the heart of the American Establishment. Its household deities&lt;br /&gt;were Henry L. Stimson and Elihu Root; its present leaders, Robert A. Lovett&lt;br /&gt;and John J. McCloy; its front organizations, the Rockefeller, Ford and&lt;br /&gt;Carnegie foundations and the Council on Foreign Relations."&lt;br /&gt;* Brtiish author Godfrey Hodgson stated in an essay on the American&lt;br /&gt;Establishment that it was "characteristic of these men to take on the burdens&lt;br /&gt;of world power with a certain avidity . . . It reflected a grim but grand&lt;br /&gt;duty that was a legacy from half-buried layer of New England Puritanism."&lt;br /&gt;* Averell Harriman's father, owner of the largest railroad company in&lt;br /&gt;the United States at the turn of the century, told his son: "Great wealth is&lt;br /&gt;an obligation and responsibility. Money must work for the country."&lt;br /&gt;* "I scoffed at Harvard's Porcellian club. It was too smug. But to get&lt;br /&gt;into Bones, you had to do something for Yale, wrote Averell Harriman. He&lt;br /&gt;would frequently retum to the "Tomb on High Street." During the Paris Peace&lt;br /&gt;Conference on the Vietnam War, Harriman was quite upset about not being able&lt;br /&gt;to attend a "Bones Reunion." In the book The Wise Men, Harriman is described&lt;br /&gt;as willing to talk openly about national security affairs, but "he refused,&lt;br /&gt;however, to tell [even] his family anything about Bones . . . so complete was&lt;br /&gt;his trust in Bones's code of secrecy . . ."&lt;br /&gt;* Stimson during the liberation of France in 1944 wrote about the need&lt;br /&gt;for France's reconstruction following the Nazi occupation of France: "America&lt;br /&gt;cannot supervise the elections of a great country like France. Consequently,&lt;br /&gt;we must eventually leave the execution of the State Department formula to the&lt;br /&gt;French themselves . . . where we ourselves will assume responsibility in part&lt;br /&gt;or more for its execution according to Anglo-Saxon ideals."&lt;br /&gt;* Stimson on Austria and Germany following World War II: "They [the&lt;br /&gt;British] haven't any grasp apparently of the underlying need of proper&lt;br /&gt;economic arrangements to make peace stick . . . If they restore Austria to&lt;br /&gt;her position in which she was left by the Versailles arrangement 25 years&lt;br /&gt;ago, why they would reduce her to a non-self-sustaining state [is beyond me]&lt;br /&gt;. . . Central Europe after the war has got to eat. She has got to be free of&lt;br /&gt;tariffs in order to eat."&lt;br /&gt;* Stimson was "opposed to a Carthaginian Peace" in which Germany was&lt;br /&gt;reduced to a non functioning society. He wrote, "The Ruhr and Saarland . . .&lt;br /&gt;[must not] be turned into a second rate industrial land . . . regardless of&lt;br /&gt;what it means to Germany . . . [rather] to the welfare of the entire&lt;br /&gt;continent "&lt;br /&gt;* In 1948, the debate within the U.S. government over the creation of&lt;br /&gt;the state of Israel was reaching critical intensity. President Truman was the&lt;br /&gt;"dark horse" candidate to defeat the Republican nominee, Thomas Dewey. Truman&lt;br /&gt;thought he needed the Jewish goups to mobilize in his support in order to get&lt;br /&gt;elected. He also believed that after so many years of suffering and&lt;br /&gt;persecution, the Jews deserved a homeland of their own. However, his most&lt;br /&gt;trusted foreign policy advisers, George Marshall, Dean Acheson and Robert&lt;br /&gt;Lovett, were, according to the book The Wise Men, "all dead set against the&lt;br /&gt;birth of Israel . . . However humanitarian a Jewish homeland might seem . . .&lt;br /&gt;it posed a real risk to U.N. national security. It was absolutely vital that&lt;br /&gt;the U.S. maintain its pipeline to Mideast oil. Supporting tne Zionist cause&lt;br /&gt;would only antagonize the Arabs." Lovett said, "Israel was one ally too many&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;* On Japan, Stimson and McGeorge Bundy wrote their book On Active&lt;br /&gt;Service in Peace and War: "Since 1937, when the Japanese attacked China,&lt;br /&gt;Stimson had been urging, as a private citizen, an embargo on all American&lt;br /&gt;trade with Japan, and this attitude he carried with him into the Cabinet&lt;br /&gt;[when he became Secretary of War]." Stimson prepared a memorandum in 1940&lt;br /&gt;pointing out how Japan had yielded before American firmness, in her&lt;br /&gt;withdrawal from Shantung and Siberia in 1919 and her acceptance of naval&lt;br /&gt;inferiority in 1921. "Japan," Stimson wrote, "has historically shown that she&lt;br /&gt;can misinterpret a pacifistic policy of the United States for weakness. She&lt;br /&gt;has also historically shown that when the United States indicates by clear&lt;br /&gt;language and bold actions that she intends to carry out a clear and&lt;br /&gt;afflrmative policy in the Far East, Japan will yield to that policy even&lt;br /&gt;though it conflicts with her own Asiatic policy and conceived interests. For&lt;br /&gt;the United States now to indicate either by soft words or inconsistent&lt;br /&gt;actions that she has no such clear and definite policy towards the Far East&lt;br /&gt;will only encourage Japan to bolder action."&lt;br /&gt;* On December 7, 1941, Stimson wrote in his diary: "When the news first&lt;br /&gt;came that Japan had attacked us, my first feeling was of relief that the&lt;br /&gt;indecision was over and that crisis had come in a way which would unite all&lt;br /&gt;our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of&lt;br /&gt;catastrophes which quickly developed. For I feel that this country united has&lt;br /&gt;practically nothing to fear, while the apathy and division stirred by&lt;br /&gt;unpatriotic men have been hitherto very discouraging."&lt;br /&gt;* On the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Stimson wrote&lt;br /&gt;in an article for Harper's Weekly in 1947: "My chief purpose was to end the&lt;br /&gt;war in victory with the least possible cost in the lives of men in the armies&lt;br /&gt;which I had helped to raise. In the light that no man, in our position and&lt;br /&gt;subject to our responsibilities, holding in his hands a weapon of such&lt;br /&gt;possibilides for accomplishing this purpose and saving those lives, could&lt;br /&gt;have failed to use it and afterwards looked his countrymen in the face."&lt;br /&gt;* At the Truman White House in the presence of Secretary of State James&lt;br /&gt;Byrnes, Adm Leahy and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, according to his&lt;br /&gt;biographer: "Stimson had argued consistently for a commitment to allow the&lt;br /&gt;Japanese to keep their Emperor, not because- with the memory of Manchuria in&lt;br /&gt;his mind-he had any special sympathy for him, but because only the Emperor&lt;br /&gt;could persuade the Japanese to surrender and therefore save American lives."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YALE'S SKULL &amp; BONES SOCIETY MEMBERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Eric Samuelson, J.D.&lt;br /&gt;I am presently researching a biography on David Rockefeller. An overview of the book will soon be sent to a New York City agent for circulation among all the major publishing houses. Among the topics that will be covered is the role of British USA Round Table member Rep. Wayne Hays (Demo-Ohio) in "killing" the Reece Committee investigation of tax-exempt foundations, the disappearance of the research on the Rockefeller-funded Kinsey studies and the "disposal" threats made to Reece Investigator Norman Dodd by a lobbyist for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).&lt;br /&gt;In 1986, Hoover scholar Antony C. Sutton published his "magnum opus" - AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ORDER OF SKULL AND BONES. In his preface Sutton said he had been given an eight-inch batch of documents which was "nothing less than the membership lists of an American secret society. Glancing through the sheets it was more than obvious -- this was no ordinary group. The names spelled Power with a capital P." Throughout the book Sutton hinted at even deeper revelations he would make in books to come. However, the full list never was published by Sutton. In making inquiries of those who knew Sutton, I was told that he had become exiled in his own country. For months I searched the Web looking for a list of the members of Skull and Bones. At long last, a notebook was given to me which required the use of a magnifying glass to make out the names. So, the following semi-final list is about 97% accurate. It opens the door to the Bones realm at a time that one of their own is now hitting the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination.&lt;br /&gt;For about the past ten years I have been studying secret elite groups. The average person has almost no knowledge of them and there are very few sources of information. These secret groups include the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Knights of the Garter, The Knights of Malta, The 33rd Degree Masons, the Rhodes Scholars, The Skull and Bones and the Trilateral Commission. What is needed is a historical roster of the membership of each of these groups.&lt;br /&gt;The list that follows is only the first of an upcoming series of historic exposes of these secret societies. If you have any biographical information on any of these individuals, your sharing will be appreciated and reciprocated. Any suggestions or corrections appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;Why is million going to The Museum of Modern Art?&lt;br /&gt;Some facts on the Rockerfeller empire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12Sep00 MOMA CAN'T PAY ITS STAFF RIGHT, BUT GETS MILLION FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK&lt;br /&gt;Now, please ask yourself, "Why the heck are my New York City tax dollars to the tune of million going to The Museum of Modern Art, a private organization that can't even pay its workers properly?" [Visitors to the city take note: you are paying New York City sales tax too!]&lt;br /&gt;Because, folks, It's the....DAVID ROCKEFELLER SHOW. ...David is MOMA's Chairman Emeritus. Hey, MOMA even gives out a David Rockefeller Award every year. Awards to David's buddies, Like Katherine Graham of Washington Post fame and Edgar Bronfman of Seagrams Ltd.....He gives awards to powerful people to ingratiate them to himself, using public money such as the million YOU are giving him. He knows how to network your dough into his coffers in a flash. You all know the Rockefeller family, don't you? Right, the oil and bank people. Well, David has his fingers in more pies than you can count. But besides getting public funding for HIS idea of art, but not paying the staff of his MOMA clubhouse properly, here's what else David is up to.&lt;br /&gt;THE NEW YORK CITY PARTNERSHIP-OUT TO KILL THE COMMUNITY GARDENS: Formed in 1979 by ...guess who? Go ahead, guess. You were right. DAVID is the god of this little-known organization. However, when supporters of the Community Gardens found out that the Partnership wanted to take the gardens over and turn them into condominiums, they launched a protest in front of New York City Partnership headquarters, bringing the Partnership unwanted publicity. The Partnership is David's little unofficial mayor's office in the Wall Street district. It also poses as a chamber of commerce, since it stole New York's. Quite frankly, nobody can really figure out what this org is all about. Basically, it's another one of David's big-wig networking schemes. He had about 60 of them cough up a million each not too long ago for one of his pet projects.&lt;br /&gt;THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Yes, this is another one of David's babies. Located on Park Ave and 68th Street, the Council's members include most of Clinton's cabinet, among a multitude of current and former government officials. This org claims not to take a stand on issues, but with War-Monger In Chief Madeline Albright one of its shining stars, one would guess that it is for a few things, like, say, bombing of women and children crossing bridges in Montenegro on shopping trips. As a matter of fact, the Council regularly places opinion pieces in the New York Times. They were big time for the Mexican bailout in '95-were hoping to loot us of billion for it via the Clinton White House, but our own Al D'Amato stopped 'em in their tracks. Dubbed the "Park Avenue State Department" by New York Magazine. Uh, they're non-profits, and get a nice tax break so you can slave for their idea of a better world [for them]. And guess who is Honorary Chairman...just take one guess...oh no, not ....DAVID?!!! You got it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE POPULATION COUNCIL: Founded by John D. Rockefeller III. Oh, sorry, you may not have known it, but all those pro-abortion people are not interested in your right to have an abortion; no, they just want to make sure you don't have any babies, cuz they have decided that THERE ARE TOO MANY OF YOU. [Hey, are you getting this?] It may not mean a lot to you folks, but isn't it funny that the AIDS epidemic is such a nice way to pare down the populations of the less-developed nations? Why, the Population Council must be having a dang party over it (even though there's a lot about fighting AIDS on their web site. Guilty conscience?). (NB.: Aha, darum wurde nach meinem 12-seitigen Leitartikel im “Spiegel“ N°40/1992 im Sept. 92 in der BRD die Warnung vor AIDS eingestellt … und im Nov.92 die Pflegeversicherung eingeführt. Seither starben in der BRD 8 Mio EW an AIDS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION A nice little organization. An outgoing official of this org was quoted by the NYTimes as saying that guns, drugs, and people crossing borders are among our biggest problems....Hey...people crossing borders...that's as bad as drugs and guns, isn't it?... people--always getting in the way...someone stop them! Oh David...oh David!!!!! For more info, contact The Ad Hoc Committee to Restructure America at ahcra@yahoo.com&lt;br /&gt;By Peter Duveen &lt;pduveen&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to reality for a moment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Rockefeller Sr. and family&lt;br /&gt;1.4 billion Inheritance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NB: Nachdem vor einigen Jahren bereits sein Vermögen mit 184 Milliarden (billions) beziffert wurde, kann 1,4 billion logischerweise nur echte Billionen sein, zumal die Morgan-Chase, Bechtle-Steel und Exxon-Mobil allesamt in sein Schatzkästlein gehören.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New York City. 81&lt;br /&gt;Widowed, 6 children&lt;br /&gt;Grandson of John D. Rockefeller; youngest of 5 brothers (see Rockefeller family, Laurance, Winthrop). Ph.D. economics. Became international statesman, banker, philanthropist [allegedly ed.]. Founded the Council of the Americas; helped establish the Trilateral Commission, latest favorite target of conspiracy buffs. Led Chase into global expansion; aided the Thais in setting up National Institute for Development Administration; active in mobilizing business behind NAFTA.&lt;br /&gt;Turned over Rockefeller Financial Services to son David 1992. Still has small piece of Rockefeller Center through Goldman Sachs group that bought it. While not the end of the saga, sale of this family landmark is perhaps the end of an age.&lt;br /&gt;The real David. Madman or philanthropist? What kind of stuff does he talk about, what's he into, and what vision (if any) does he have?&lt;br /&gt;The following little gem was sitting there on the internet at http://web.bu.edu/ISCIP/content/digest/ed7.html&lt;br /&gt;ISCIP: Editorial Digest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy.&lt;br /&gt;Editorial Digest Volume II Number 7 (April 23, 1997)&lt;br /&gt;. . . while Zyuganov thunders about Western threat to Russia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently weary from moderating his tone on his January tour of the United States, National Patriotic Front leader Gennadi Zyuganov blasted the current Russian leadership for having "sufficient will only to starve the country for the sake of their personal, selfish interests and in response to the diktat of the International Monetary Fund."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We should have no illusions," Zyuganov wrote in Sovetskaya Rossiya on April 10. "The West sees Russia as its most dangerous opponent. An opponent who has been weakened, bloodied, and bowed, but not beaten once and for all and who is capable of recovery."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zyuganov alleged that the collapse of the USSR had been preceded by a meeting of the Bilderberg Club at which "David Rockefeller, a very powerful American banker and head of the highly influential Trilateral Commission" purportedly called for the establishment of a "single world government." "A supranational government of the intellectual elite and world bankers," Zyuganov reported that Rockefeller said, "is preferable to the right of peoples to self-determination." (Sovetskaya Rossiya, 10 Apr 97)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scary Stuff:&lt;br /&gt;excerpted from http://www.devvy.com/main.html&lt;br /&gt;(quoting Mr. Rockefeller):&lt;br /&gt;"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years........It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."&lt;br /&gt;Links:&lt;br /&gt;New Dawn Magazine: The Rockefeller Syndicate http://www.afn.org/~govern/rockfeller.html&lt;br /&gt;Bankwatch - who are these Rockefeller Brothers fund guys? http://www.zpok.hu/mirror/bankwatch/&lt;br /&gt;A history of the Rockefeller family http://members.tripod.com/~JakeHollin/Wealth/Rock.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other Western Élites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trilateral Commission&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...a vehicle for multinational consolidation of commercial and banking interests..."&lt;br /&gt;Barry Goldwater&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26Feb01 - Annual meeting of the Trilateral will cover "globalisation and governance"&lt;br /&gt;Article of Jakob Andersen in the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet&lt;br /&gt;14Aug99 - David Rockefeller defends the Trilateral Commission&lt;br /&gt;Europe's Fundamental Challenges, 1996 Trilateral Commission paper&lt;br /&gt;Roundtable exposes the background behind the TC&lt;br /&gt;Reuters News wire releases&lt;br /&gt;25Apr92 - The Washington Post - Beware the Trilateral Commission! The Influential World Panel Conspiracy Theorists Love to Hate&lt;br /&gt;Contact details for the Trilateral Commission&lt;br /&gt;Trilateral Commission research links&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002&lt;br /&gt;From: belfast.gazette@pop.net.ntl.com&lt;br /&gt;To: tony@gaia.org&lt;br /&gt;Recent events in the Irish republic concerning the corrupt activities of various politicans and businessmen have resulted in the establishment of various tribunals to investigate their activities. one politican who has been jailed as a result of not co-operating is a dublin T.D.(member of the Irish parliament) L. Lawlor.&lt;br /&gt;In a profile feature of Liam Lawler in the Sunday Business Post a Dublin based newspaper published on 3rd of Febuary 2002 it revealed that liam lawler was a member of the Trilateral Commission. this is the only reference I have seen to this piece of information and it might be of information to you .&lt;br /&gt;keep up the good work all the best&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg lords want rid of 85% of worlds population&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NB: Diese Aussage deckt sich eigentlich mit Rockefellers Aussage der Geburten"kontrolle" (=Reduktion) und der Beseitigung "überzähliger Zweibeiner" (siehe vorherigem Beitrag.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19Jun06 - Jocelan Caldwell - Bilderberg site exclusive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would you think if all of the North-American sports team owners, for instance, met secretly every year where no media were allowed in or to interview any of the participants, where there were armed guards at all the doors and when they exited that meeting, the individuals hid their faces so as not to get photographed and refused to talk to reporters? What would the reaction be? Sports fans - and most everyone else - would be furious! We would wonder what kind of deals were they hatching, what were they plotting and planning that they didn't want the rest of us to know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sounds pretty weird, eh? But did you know that recently at a 5-star hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, more than 100 of the world's most wealthy and powerful individuals - called the Bilderbergers or the Illuminati or Synarchists - (and confirmed as including Hilary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Gov. George Pataki of New York, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank, Henry Kissinger and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, whose family owns Royal Dutch Shell Oil) got together under just such circumstances to discuss the future of not baseball but the world as the rich and powerful want it to look like. At the end of their meeting they covered their faces, ashamed, as they sneaked out to their limousines to the airport.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday, June 14th on the nightly "Coast to Coast" radio program from Los Angeles, host George Noory interviewed three men who have been long aware of the Bilderbergers but up until the past few years have been laughed at and dismissed as conspiracy theorists and worse - Jim Mars of Texas, author of "Rule by Secrecy"; Daniel Esheron, author of "The True History of the Bilderberger Club" and Alex Jones author of "Martial Law 911".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They discussed the One World Order the Bilderbergers have been planning for all the rest of us, to include the Canamex Highway which would run straight from Mexico, through the U.S.A. up to Canada with no border inspections; transponders for taxation purposes to be placed in all new automobiles (which has already come up for discussion in the Texas legislature); the U.S.'s future of undefended borders which started only recently when the government backed down on a plan to spend million to update all U.S. ports; a future where the Bilderbergers will appoint all world leaders and return to feudalism and a plan [color=red]to reduce the world population by 80-90 percent[/color], to name just a few.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How, you may ask, can a group of only about 300 individuals get control over the rest of us? One way is by placing microchips in individuals (recently done by the President of a large American bank to "allow him access to secret vaults and store rooms in his bank"), the International Monetary Fund's Wolfowitz who will control the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, all European banks, the Secretary General of NATO and therefore NATO itself; it includes the Tri-Lateral Commission's plan, already in process, of NAFTA, the Euro Group and to include a group of Asian countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their plans, over the years, have already been witnessed - World War II, the Korean War, starvation of nations, Viet Nam, and the fact that virtually nothing is being done for the Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19Jun06 - American Free Press - Big Surprises at Bilderberg&lt;br /&gt;EVEN POLICE-STATE SECURITY CANNOT SILENCE HONEST MEDIA&lt;br /&gt;By James P. Tucker Jr.&lt;br /&gt;19th June 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/big_surprises_at_bilderberg.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg expects interest rates to rise and many Americans to lose their homes in the months ahead. Meanwhile, they hope they can pressure President Bush to refrain from an all-out invasion of Iran while maintaining oil prices at their current record-high levels of about a barrel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, predicted rising interest rates and difficulties for families that have obtained adjustable rate mortgages, or “variable” interest rates. Many are likely to lose their homes as rising home mortgage rates add hundreds of dollars to their monthly payments, he said. While most listened solemnly and some expressed concern, one was heard to say, “stupid Americans deserve their fate.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Americans, especially young families, have been buying expensive homes at low but “variable” interest rates. Others have been paying just the interest owed on their homes and not the principal. They are the most vulnerable, Geithner said. Some have paid little or nothing down. Some institutions “lend” buyers the down payment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When home construction peaks and prices start downward, many will find they owe more on their home than it is worth in the marketplace. They will also find their mortgage—even “interest-only” payments—are unaffordable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The banks will get the homes back and sell them again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, the term “stupid Americans” was heard among clucks of sympathy or silent indifference. According to one source, no concern was expressed by Allan Hubbard, assistant to President Bush for economic policy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;European Bilderbergers said they would have no part in an invasion of Iran, something Bush says is an “option on the table.” Although NATO is helping by adding 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, expect no help if Iran is invaded, they said. “We will not help you fight a war for Israel,” one said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several noted that Israel has had nuclear weapons since at least 1963 and has never signed on to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, so no international inspections are conducted. It was the late George Ball, a charter member of Bilderberg who was No. 2 man in the State Department under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, who first revealed that Israel has nuclear weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Is it not reasonable that Iran would need such a deterrence against Israel?” an unidentified Bilderberger was heard saying. “If you invade Iran, Israel is your only ally and good luck.” One suggested that “surgical strikes”—but no land invasion—may be tolerated but others said they would be ineffective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listeners to this dialogue included Eival Gildy of Israel, head of “coordination and strategy in the office of the prime minister,” and Ziad Abu Amr, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, president of the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations and professor of political science at Birzeit University. Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and one of the key sources of disinformation about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, was also present.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William Luti, special assistant to Bush for defense policy, and Richard Perle, former high Defense Department official and still a close adviser to Bush, responded that the United States is simply trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and make the world “safe.” But, said one European: “How ‘safe’ do you think the world will be if you invade Iran and Iran responds by firing missiles on your ally, Israel? Israel will nuke Iran in response and you will have your ‘proliferation.’”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state, said it would be necessary to keep the invasion “option” to pressure Iran into agreeing to abandon its nuclear weapons program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You’re wrong,” the European answered. “Iran simply refuses to be bullied by the United States. Save us a lot of trouble and forget about invading Iran.” The Americans remained silent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg’s mood was described as “uneasy” when it came to the issue of oil, a discussion followed closely by such oil-rich participants as banker David Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Franco Bernabe, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Latin American problem” mixed the issue of oil with Bilderberg’s scheme to expand NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and have it evolve into an “American Union” patterned after the European Union. Hugo Chavez, head of Venezuela, is not only raising taxes on the extraction of oil from his country, he is trying to establish a trade coalition with neighboring nations that would block the expansion of NAFTA by creating the Free Trade Area of the Americas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg’s consensus seemed to be to not force higher oil prices at the moment, but be content with the immense profits enjoyed now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chavez’s barrier to NAFTA expansion leaves them moody because establishing an “American Union” is a critical step toward Bilderberg’s goal of establishing the United Nations as a world government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/big_surprises_at_bilderberg.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Issue #26, June 26, 2006)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THERE IS MUCH MORE COVERAGE OF BILDERBERG 2006 in this issue as well as many other cutting edge stories. Why not become a subscriber - either to our online or print edition?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also recommend that you read JIM TUCKER’S BILDERBERG DIARY - an excellent source of information about this shadowy group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please make a donation to American Free Press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not Copyrighted. Readers can reprint and are free to redistribute - as long as full credit is given to American Free Press - 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20003&lt;br /&gt;In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;— Präsident Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address January 17, 1961&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wenn man wissen will, wer außer der pro-israelischen Lobby und dem immer aktiven militärisch-industriellen Komplex sonst noch erheblichen Einfluss auf amerikanische Politik hat, der kommt am “Projekt für das neue amerikanische Jahrhundert” nicht vorbei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PNAC - eine imperialistische Washingtoner Denkfabrik wie jede andere ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Projekt ist noch relativ jung. Es ging erst 1997 aus dem 3 Jahre vorher gegründeten “New Citizenship Project” hervor. Nicht nur was die Tradition anbelangt, sondern auch mit seiner Lage scheint PNAC im Schatten anderer Denkfabriken zu stehen: Denn seinen Sitz in Washington (1150 17th Street, N.W. Washington, DC) teilt sich das Projekt mit dem altehrwürdigen konservativen American Enterprise Institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auch seine kurzgefasste Agenda unterscheidet das Projekt nicht sonderlich von anderen Befürwortern eines amerikanischen Imperialismus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Das Projekt für ein neues amerikanisches Jahrhundert (…) ist einigen fundamentalen Grundsätzen verpflichtet: Dass eine amerikanische Führungsrolle nicht nur für Amerika, sondern auch für die Welt gut ist. Und dass solch eine Führungsrolle militärische Stärke, diplomatische Energie und eine Bekenntnis zu moralischen Prinzipien vorraussetzt.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die beiden Gründer des Projektes sowie ihr Team aus Direktoren und Mitarbeitern sind allesamt altgediente konservative Hardliner, jedoch noch nichts Außergewöhnliches:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da wären zunächst einmal die beiden Gründer des Projekts, William Kristol und Robert Kagan.&lt;br /&gt;Kristol war während der Präsidentschaft von Bush senior der Stabschef des Vizepräsidenten Dan Quayle. Danach leitete er das “Project for the Republican Future“, das nach Kristols Angaben “die Strategie formulierte, die den Republikanern 1994 den Sieg bei den Kongresswahlen einbrachte”. 1995 dann gründete William Kristol die konservative Zeitschrift “The Weekly Standard“.&lt;br /&gt;Robert Kagan war von 1984 bis 1985 Mitglied im Planungsstab des Außenministeriums und der Hauptredenschreiber für Außenminister George P. Shultz. Kagan ist Mitglied des einflussreichen “Council On Foreign Relations” und ein hohes Mitglied der Denkfabrik “Carnegie Endowment for International Peace“. Er schreibt sowohl für Kristols Weekly Standard als auch als Kolumnist für die Washington Post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die weiteren Direktoren des Projektes sind Bruce P. Jackson, Mark Gerson und Randy Scheunemann.&lt;br /&gt;Jackson war von 1979 bis 1990 Military Intelligence Officer der US Army, und zum Ende dieser Periode hin Mitarbeiter im Büro des Verteidigungsministers. Danach schloss sich Jackson dem militärisch-industriellen Komplex an, zuerst bei der Investmentbank Lehman Brothers als Berater und später das Rüstungsschwergewicht Lockheed Martin als Vizepräsident für Planung und Strategie. Dann gründete Jackson das “Project on Transitional Democracies“, das die “Demokratisierung” der postsowjetischen Staaten vorantreibt, bei der sein früherer Arbeitgeber Lockheed Martin so gut verdient. Bei der Kampagne für die Präsidentschaft 2000 war Jackson schließlich beim Wahlkampfteam für George Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark Gerson ist Aufsichtsratmitglied des Manhattan Instituts, das sich neue Ideen für freiere (also privatisierte und unregulierte) Märkte ausdenkt. Gerson ist Chef der Wirtschaftsberatung “Gerson Lehrman Group“.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Randy Scheunemann schließlich war von 1986 bis 1993 Stabsmitarbeiter im Kongress. So zum Beispiel im Komittee für Auslandsbeziehungen sowohl des Abgeordnetenhauses als auch des Senats, oder auch im “House Republican Policy Committee”. Nach eigenen Angaben beriet er den Senat in diversen Entscheidungen über Kriegseinsätze, unter Anderem Somalia, Korea, Irak, Haiti und Bosnien betreffend.&lt;br /&gt;Von 1993 an war Scheunemann dann Sicherheitsberater der Fraktionsführer der Republikaner in Abgeordnetenhaus und Senat, Bob Dole und Trent Lott.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im festen Mitarbeiterstab finden sich noch zwei erwähnenswerte Männer:&lt;br /&gt;Gary J. Schmitt war von 1980 bis 1984 Mitarbeiter und Stabsdirektor der republikanischen Mitglieder im Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Seitdem ernannte ihn Ronald Reagan zum Chef des Beraterstabs des Präsidenten für Geheimdienstangelegenheiten im Ausland. Schlussendlich war er ein Berater im Verteidigungsministerium.&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Donelly schließlich war Mitarbeiter im Streitkräftekomittee des Abgeordnetenhauses, und dort vor Allem mit der Aufsicht über die Bombenkampagne auf dem Balkan befasst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die wahre Macht des Projektes für das neue amerikanische Jahrhundert zeigt sich erst dann, und da wird die Sache richtig interessant, wenn man betrachtet, welche Mitglieder der Elite sich William Kristol und seinem Team angeschlossen haben:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am 3. Juni 1997 wird das “Statement of Principles” geschrieben, also eine Art Gründungsdokument für das Projekt. Unterzeichnet wurde es von folgenden Mitgliedern der NeoCon-Elite, die sich als Ensemble durchaus sehen lassen können:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dick Cheney, Vizepräsident beider Bush-Administrationen&lt;br /&gt;Donald Rumsfeld, Verteidigungsminister beider Bush-Administrationen&lt;br /&gt;Paul Wolfowitz, stellvertretender Verteidigungsminister der ersten Bush-Administration, seitdem Chef der Weltbank&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Libby, vormaliger Stabschef von Vizepräsident Dick Cheney, jetzt im Gefängnis wegen der Enttarnung von Valerie Plame&lt;br /&gt;Jeb Bush, Bruder des Präsidenten und Gouverneur von Florida&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Francis Fukuyama,Wirtschaftsfachmann, wichtiges Mitglied im Außenministerium 1989, Mitglied des Council On Foreign Relations.&lt;br /&gt;Elliot Abrams, im nationalen Sicherheitsrat zuständig für den Nahen Osten, “Spezialassistent” des Präsidenten, früher Mitglied im nationalen Beraterstab des American Jewish Committees&lt;br /&gt;William J. Bennett, Bildungsminister unter Ronald Reagan, seitdem Chef christlicher Lobbys (”Foundation for Community and Faith Centered Enterprise”)&lt;br /&gt;Gary Bauer, war in Bennetts Ministerium, seitdem Gründer christlicher Lobbys (”American Values”, “American Alliance of Jews and Christians”)&lt;br /&gt;Eliot Cohen, leitende Tätigkeit im Büro des Verteidigungsministers 1990, heute im Defense Policy Board des Pentagons und Leiter des Centers For Strategic Studies an der Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.&lt;br /&gt;Midge Decter, Frau von Norman Podhoretz, christliche Konservative (”Institute on Religion and Public Life”)&lt;br /&gt;Paula Dobriansky, in den 90ern im Außenministerium und im Nationalen Sicherheitsrat verantwortlich für Europa und die Sowjetunion. Dann Vizepräsidentin des Council On Foreign Relations, heute im Außenministerium “Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs”&lt;br /&gt;Steve Forbes, Präsidentschaftskandidat (in den Vorauswahlen gescheitert) von 1996 und 2000, Besitzer des Wirtschaftsmagazins “Forbes”&lt;br /&gt;Aaron Friedberg, früher Berater der CIA und des nationalen Sicherheitsrats, heute Vizepräsident Cheneys zweiter Sicherheitsberater&lt;br /&gt;Frank Gaffney, unter Reagan im Verteidigungsministerium unter Anderem verantwortlich für direkte Verhandlungen mit der Sowjetunion, hoher Posten im politischen Teil der NATO&lt;br /&gt;Fred C. Iklé, Aufsichtsratvorsitzender des Pentagondarlings Telos, unter Reagan Undersecretary of Defense for Policy im Pentagon&lt;br /&gt;Donald Kagan, Vater von Robert Kagan&lt;br /&gt;Zalmay Khalilzad, unter Reagan im Außenministerium, unter Bush senior im Verteidigungsministerium, dann Risikoanalyst für den Ölriesen Unocal, dann im nationalen Sicherheitsrat zuständig für den persischen Golf, Südostasien und andere Regionen. Seit 2003 schließlich amerikanischer Botschafter in Afghanistan&lt;br /&gt;Norman Podhoretz,Gründer des Hudson Instituts, Chefredaktuer des konservativen “Commentary“-Magazins&lt;br /&gt;Dan Quayle, ehemaliger amerikanischer Vizepräsident&lt;br /&gt;Peter W. Rodman, unter Rumsfeld Unterstaatssekretär im Verteidigungsministerium für “International Security Affairs”&lt;br /&gt;Stephen P. Rosen, 23 jahre lang bei Israels Lobbymonster AIPAC, am Schluss Policy Director. Dann gefeuert und angeklagt wegen Spionage für Israel&lt;br /&gt;Henry S. Rowen, früher im Verteidigungsministerium, jetzt Mitglied des Defense Policy Boards im Verteidigungsministerium&lt;br /&gt;Vin Weber, Co-Chairman der Domestic Strategy Group des konservativen Aspen Instituts&lt;br /&gt;George Weigel, Präsident des Ethics and Public Policy Center&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bleibt die Frage, was genau all diese Schwergewichte denn unterschrieben haben. Wie der Name des Projektes schon andeutet, wollen die Unterzeichner ein neues amerikadominiertes Jahrhundert haben, eine Welt unter der Führung der USA. Sie werfen sowohl den Demokraten um den damals amtierenden Präsidenten Clinton als auch anderen Republikanern vor, nicht genug für solch ein Jahrhundert und solch eine Führungsrolle zu tun. Im Statement Of Principles fordern die Unterzeichner daher, dass Amerika seine Hegemonieansprüche zur offiziellen Politik macht. Das Land solle “Verantwortung akzeptieren für Amerikas einzigartige Aufgabe, eine internationale Ordnung zu beschützen und zu erweitern”. Andere Staaten ohne das patentierte Demokratiegütesiegel dürfen nicht anerkannt werden, sondern “wir müssen im Ausland für politische und wirtschaftliche Freiheit werben. Regime, die unseren Interessen und Werten feindlich gegenüber stehen, müssen herausgefordert werden.” Natürlich haben die Unterzeichner und das PNAC die beste Lösung für diese Aufgaben: “Wir müssen die Rüstungsausgaben deutlich erhöhen.”&lt;br /&gt;Zu guter Letzt fordern die Unterzeichner schon damals ein völkerreichtswidriges Vorgehen, dass Präsident Bush Jahre später in seiner Doktrin der “pre-emptive Strikes” offiziell machen sollte: “Es ist wichtig (…), Bedrohungen zu begegnen bevor sie sich materialisieren”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ein gutes halbes Jahr später weiß das Projekt auch schon, wie man diese seine Forderungen konkret umsetzen könnte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Forderung nach einer gewaltsamen Lösung des Kosovokonfliktes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im Januar bzw. März 1998 schreibt das Projekt 2 offene Briefe. Einen davon an Präsident Bill Clinton und den anderen an den Sprecher des Abgeordnetenhauses Newt Gingrich und an den Mehrheitsführer im Senat, Trent Lott. In beiden Briefen wird darauf gedrängt, dass “Problem” Saddam Hussein möglichst schnell und möglichst irreversibel zu lösen. Das Projekt findet eine Politik, die von Allianzpartnern der Kooperation Saddams abhängig ist, zu gefährlich. Stattdessen fordert sie, “Saddams Regime zu entfernen”. Und man bedenke nochmal, dass es sich all das 1998 abspielt - also vor 9/11 und weit vor Sonderermittler Hans Blix.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nachdem das PNAC mit dem “harten Vorgehen” gegen den Irak bei Clinton vorerst auf Granit beisst, nimmt es sich einen neue Zielscheibe amerikanischer Bomben vor: Jugoslawien.&lt;br /&gt;In einem weiteren Brief an Präsident Clinton vom 20. September 1998 kommt PNAC zu einem ähnlich klaren Schluss wie schon beim Thema Irak unter Saddam: “Es kann keinen Frieden und keine Stabilität auf dem Balkan geben, solange Slobodan Milosevic an der Macht bleibt.” Wieder wird Clinton dazu aufgefordert, “in dieser Krise ‘forcefully’ zu handeln”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dass hier eine gewalttätige Lösung gemeint ist muss vermutet werden, wenn man sich die Unterschriftenliste dieses Briefes anschaut, denn neben “alten” PNAC-Mitgliedern finden sich neue hochkarätige Advokaten des military-industrial complex:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dov S. Zakheim, oberster Rechnungsprüfer im Pentagon, davor im Beraterstab der beiden großen Rüstungskonzerne McDonnell-Douglas (Tochter von Boeing) und Northrop Grumman&lt;br /&gt;Morton Abramowitz, bis 1997 Präsident des Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, der auch Robert Kagan angehört. Davor politischer Berater des Kommandanten der Pazifikflotte und “Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research”&lt;br /&gt;Richard Armitage, während der ersten Amtszeit von Bush junior Vizeaußenminister. Im Aufsichtsrat des Rüstungskonzerns CACI, der auch für Abu Ghraib teilweise verantwortlich war.&lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Bergner, Lobbyist unter Anderem für Boeing und Monsanto&lt;br /&gt;John Bolton, UN-Botschafter Amerikas/Israels&lt;br /&gt;Frank Carlucci, Ronald Reagans Verteidigungsminister, danach bei der berüchtigten Carlyle Group&lt;br /&gt;Seth Cropsey, Lobbyist bei ‘Greenberg Traurig’, vorher Vizestaatssekretär der Navy und ein leitender Posten im Verteidigungsministerium&lt;br /&gt;Dennis Deconcini, früher Senator im Geheimdienstkommitee, jetzt Lobbyist bei ‘Parry, Romani, DeConcini &amp; Symms”&lt;br /&gt;Morton H. Halperin, unter Clinton Direktor des Politikplanungsstabs im Außenministerium, Besonderer Assistent des Präsidenten im Nationalen Sicherheitsrat, und ein Berater des Verteidigungsministers&lt;br /&gt;Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, UN-Botschafterin unter Reagan, Beraterin des ‘Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs’&lt;br /&gt;Mark Lagon, ‘Staffer in the Office of Policy and Planning’ im Außenministerium&lt;br /&gt;Richard Perle, bis 2004 Chef des Defense Policy Board im Pentagon, 1981 bis 1988 Vizestaatssekretär im Verteidigungsministerium. Chef einer study group des Council On Foreign Relations. Gleichzeitig Co-Chef der Rüstungsfirma Hollinger International und Managing Partner der Rüstungsfirma Trireme Partners. Co-Autor des maßgeblichen israelischen Strategiepapiers “A Clean Break”&lt;br /&gt;Stephen Solarz, Council On Foreign Relations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs&lt;br /&gt;Helmut Sonnenfeldt, früher im Außeniministerium und im Nationalen Sicherheitsrat&lt;br /&gt;William Howard Taft IV, ein Nachkomme des 27. Präsidenten der USA&lt;br /&gt;Ed Turner, damals Vizeexekutivpräsident des Nachrichtensenders CNN&lt;br /&gt;Wayne Owens, 3 Amtszeiten als Abgeordneter im Kongress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weitere Unterzeichner sind Nina Bang-Jensen, George Biddle, John Heffernan, Lane Kirkland, und Peter Kovler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diesmal stieß die Kriegstreiberei von PNAC auf fruchtbareren Boden, undam 24. März 1999, ein halbes Jahr nach dem Brief, beginngt Präsident Clinton mit der Bombardierung Jugoslawiens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der Plan für das neue amerikanische Jahrhundert&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach diesen “Testläufen” der eigenen Agenda und ihrer Implementierfähigkeit beginnt beim PNAC gewissermaßen eine neue Stufe der Aktivität. Mit dem 75-seitigen Report “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century” geht lässt PNAC die Katze vollends aus dem Sack und formuliert die eigenen Ziele und den Plan für das neue amerikanische Jahrhundert mit erschreckender Klarheit. Im Nachhinein ließt sich das Dokument wie der Fahrplan für die kommenden Jahre der Außenpolitik Bushs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In der Einleitung äußert PNAC erstmal seine Besorgnis darüber, dass das exorbitante Verteidigungsbudget in den nächsten Jahren stagnieren oder gar sinken könnte. Während das Pentagon und der Kongress bis dahin geplant hätten, die Lücke zwischen Budget und Aufgaben durch ein Zurückfahren der Aufgaben zu schließen, will PNAC das Budget erhöhen. Das Ziel dieser Militärstärkung soll te auch weiterhin die Rolle der USA als einzige Weltmacht garantieren. “Heute steht weltweit kein (gleichwertiger) Rivale Amerika gegenüber. Amerikas primäre Strategie sollte es sein, diesen Vorteil auszubauen und so weit es geht in die Zukunft auszudehnen.”&lt;br /&gt;Darüberhinaus gibt PNAC in der Einleitung freimütig zu, dass ihr Strategiepapier auf einem ähnlichen Papier aus Dick Cheneys Tagen als Verteidigungsminister unter Bush senior basiert. Cheneys “Defense Policy Guidance” von 1992 unterstrich damals schon die angebliche Notwendigkeit höherer Rüstungsausgaben. Nachdem Cheney diese Strategie alleine nicht durchsetzen konnte und die folgende Clintonregierung seine Pläne weitgehend ignorierte, beginnt er mit PNAC also gemeinsam mit Gleichgesinnten Hardlinern einen neuen Versuch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In seinen “Key Findings” nennt das Papier dann vier zentrale Aufgaben, die die amerikanischen Streitkräfte zu erfüllen haben:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Verteidigung des amerikanischen Heimatlandes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Mehrere gleichzeitig verlaufende Kriege führen und entscheidend gewinnen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. In kritischen Regionen die Aufgabe einer Art “Schutzpolizei” erfüllen, die (dort) mit der Formung eines stabilen Umfelds verbunden ist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Transformierung der Streitkräfte, damit sie von der “Revolution der Kriegsführung” profitieren&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damit diese vier wichtige Aufgaben erfüllt werden können, sind aus der Sicht des Projektes folgende Dinge nötig:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Die atomare Überlegenheit muss aufrecht erhalten werden, nicht nur im Hinblick auf Russland, sondern auch im Hinblick auf zukünftige Gefahren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Die Truppenstärke der Streitkräfte muss von jetzt 1,4 Millionen Soldaten auf 1,6 Millionen Soldaten erhöht werden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Die amerikanischen Streitkräfte müssen neu ausgerichtet werden, um auf die sicherheitstechnische Realität des 21.&lt;br /&gt;Jahrhunderts zu reagieren. Dazu müssen in Südosteuropa und Südostasien permanent Streitkräfte stationiert sowie allgemein die Marineverlegungspläne angepasst werden, um die wachsenden strategischen Interessen der USA in Ostasien zu reflektieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Ausgewählte Streitkräfteteile der USA müssen modernisiert werden. So muss zum Beispiel das F-22 Programm fortgeführt werden, Unterstützungsflugzeuge (wie z.B AWACS), Truppentransporter und andere Flugzeuge müssen verstärkt beschafft werden. Sowohl reguläre als auch Unterseemarineeinheiten müssen aufgestockt werden. Für die Armee müssen Comanche-Helikopter und mittelschwere Fahrzeuge, für das Marinekorps das V-22 “Osprey” Transportflugzeug.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Hinderliche Programme müssen gestrichen werden, die zwar exorbitante Teile des Pentagonbudgets verbrauchen, aber im Vergleich mit den schon vorhandenen Möglichkeiten nur wenig Verbesserung bringen würden. zB der Joint Strike Fighter, die CVX Flugzeugträger und der Crusader-Haubitze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Ein weltumspannendes Raketenabwehrsystem muss entwickelt und eingesetzt werden, um das amerikanische Heimatland sowie unsere Verbündete zu verteidigen, und um eine sichere Basis zu schaffen, von der aus Amerika seine Macht in der Welt ausspielen kann.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Die neuen “internationalen Gewässer”, der Weltraum und der “Cyberspace”, müssen (von Amerika) beherrscht werden. Eine neue Abteilung der Streitkräfte muss geschaffen werden, die US Space Forces, die den Weltraum beherrschen muss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Damit die konventionellen Streitkräfte der USA auf lange Sicht überlegen bleiben, muss die “Revolution der Kriegsführung” ausgenutzt werden. Dazu muss der Nutzen der aktuellen Waffensysteme durch die Anwendung neuer Technologie maximiert werden, tief greifendere Verbesserungen der militärischen Möglichkeiten durchgeführt und ein Wettkampf zwischen den verschiedenen Abteilungen der Streitkräfte angeregt werden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Der Verteidigungshaushalt muss schrittweise auf mindestens 3,5% bis 3,8% des Bruttoinlandprodukts erhöht werden, was einem Anstieg um jährlich 15 bis 20 Milliarden $ bedeuten würde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In seinem Strategiepapier fordert das Projekt also vor Allem das, was seine Klientel um Halliburton und Boeing noch reicher macht - Rüstungsausgaben. Sowohl die F-22 als auch der Comanche-Helikopter sowie das V-22 Luftlandeflugzeug werden von Boeing gebaut, auf deren Gehaltsliste nicht nur eines der PNAC-Mitglieder steht. Nach den implizit empfohlenen Kriegshandlungen (auch in den Briefen vor diesem Strategiepapier) würde und wurde automatisch eine Phase des Wiederaufbaus einhergehen, bei der dann Dick Cheneys ehemaliger Konzern Halliburton fette Gewinne einstreicht.&lt;br /&gt;Während ich manchen Mitgliedern des PNAC nicht absprechen will, dass es ihnen wirklich um eine Dominanz amerikanischer Werte geht, so deuten die verfügbaren Fakten darauf hin, dass für viele PNAC-Mitglieder ihr Aufruf zum amerikanischen Imperium vor Allem dem eigenen finanziellen Gewinn und dem Gewinn ihrer Auftraggeber aus dem militärisch-industriellen Komplex dient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Implementierung des PNAC-Planes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da George Bush viele Mitglieder des PNAC zwei Monate nach der Veröffentlichung des Strategiepapiers “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” in die höchsten Ränge seiner Administration berief wundert es nicht, dass große Teile ihres Planes alsbald in die Tat umgesetzt wurden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zunächst einmal wäre da die wichtigste Forderung des PNAC, die Erhöhung des Verteidigungshaushalts. Dieser ist von knapp unter 300 Milliarden $ bei Bushs Amtsantritt auf 513 Milliarden $ angestiegen, die für 2007 geplant sind. Dies entspricht einer Erhöhung in nur 7 Jahren um 71% und jetzt 4,2% des amerikanischen Bruttoinlandprodukts, und damit mehr als den von PNAC geforderten 3,5 bis 3,8%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auch die Prioritäten wurden wie von PNAC gewünscht verändert. Da wäre zunächst einmal die Verschiebung des Fokus amerikanischer Außenpolitik weg von Europa hin nach Asien. Diese Verschiebung geschah sowohl auf militärischem Wege als auch mit wirtschaftlichen Mitteln.&lt;br /&gt;Wie von PNAC gefordert, wurde die amerikanische Marine verstärkt im Pazifik eingesetzt, so zum Beispiel bei der bis dato größten Flottenübung im Pazifik, der “Rim of the Pacific 2004″. Die von PNAC geforderte Repositionierung der in Übersee stationierten Truppen wurde ebenfalls Realität, als Präsident Bush im August 2004 ankündigte, 70.000 Soldaten vor Allem aus Europa abzuziehen.&lt;br /&gt;Wirtschaftlich wurde die Neuausrichtung vor Allem über die Energiepolitik vollzogen. PNAC-Mitglied und Vizepräsident Dick Cheney leitete alsbald die Sondergruppe “National Energy Policy Development Group”. Diese empfahl Präsident Bush im Mai 2001 unter Anderem, sich bei der Sicherung von Ölfeldern nicht nur auf die persische Region und die loyalen Saudi-Arabier zu konzentrieren, sondern auch andere Gebiete wie das Kaspische Becken anzuzapfen. Ein wichtiges Mittel dabei sollte das “Caspian Pipeline Consortium” sein, das von den amerikanischen Ölkonzernen ExxonMobil und ChevronTexaco geleitet wird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auch die weiteren Restrukutrierungsmaßnahmen beim Militär wurden von Bush anstandslos durchgesetzt. So gab er der Forderung von PNAC nach, das Atomwaffenarsenal nicht Etwa abzubauen, sondern zu modernisieren und so wie gefordert die nukleare Überlegenheit auch weiterhin zu sichern. Zwei der von PNAC als überflüssig deklarierten Waffensysteme, der CVX-Flugzeugträger und der Crusader-Haubitze wurden in der Entwicklung eingestellt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Forderung von PNAC nach einem “weltumspannenden” Raketenabwehrsystem werden ebenfalls erfüllt. Am 28. Januar 2001 gibt Präsident Bush in seinem Haushaltsplan bekannt, dass man ein solches Raketenabwehrsystem für sich und seine Verbündete aufbauen werde. Am 13. Dezember 2001 ebnete Bush dafür dann weiter den Weg, indem er dem russischen Präsidenten Putin bekannt gab, dass Amerika aus dem ABM-Vertrag aussteigt. Und selbst nach 43 Milliarden dafür aufgewendete Dollars und nicht einem einzigen erfolgreichen Test in 4 Jahren hält die Regierung am Raketenabwehrsystem fest und fordert für nächstes Jahr weitere 10 Milliarden $ für das Programm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zu guter Letzt bleibt noch die Forderung, den Weltraum zu militarisieren und den Cyberspace zu beherrschen. Für militarisierte Weltraumforschung will Präsident Bush für das kommende Haushaltsjahr eine Milliarde $ haben, und eine “Nationale Strategie für die Sicherung des Cyberspace” gibt es auch vom Präsidenten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stand dieser Umsetzung des PNAC-Plans irgendetwas im Weg ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angesichts der hochrangigen Positionen, die die Mitglieder des PNAC in der Bushregierung einnehmen, ist es eigentlich nicht verwunderlich, dass sie sich ziemlich sicher sind dass ihre Vision der Transformierung Amerikas vom Präsidenten umgesetzt und Realität werden könnte. Das einzige, was solchen ambitionierten imperialen Plänen in der Regel im Weg steht, ist die eigene Bevölkerung. Die immensen Erhöhungen des Verteidigungsbudgets und damit die Gewinne der Klientel der PNAC-Mitglieder müssen schließlich bezahlt werden, und so kommen mit dem neuen amerikanischen Jahrhundert unweigerlich Steuererhöhungen und neue Schuldenberge auf den Bürger zu.&lt;br /&gt;Weil die Mitglieder des PNAC aber Ahnung haben von dem was sie tun und in diversen Administrationen jahrelange Politerfahrung gesammelt haben, sind sie sich dieser “Hürde Bürger” durchaus bewusst:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Der Prozess der Transformierung wird wahrscheinlich ein sehr langwieriger Prozess sein, (…) außer es gäbe einen katastrophalen, katalysierenden Vorfall - wie ein neues Pearl Harbor“.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PNAC hatte Glück, denn bekanntlich geschah am 11. September 2001, ein Jahr nach Veröffentlichung von “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, eben so ein neues Pearl Harbor, Amerika wurde angegriffen. Und tatsächlich hatte dieser Angriff eine katalysierende Wirkung, vereinte er doch die Amerikaner hinter ihrem Präsidenten und weckte er doch die Rufe nach mehr Sicherheit und damit mehr Verteidigungsausgaben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ein erfolgreiches Projekt geht zu Ende&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wenn man sich die (Außen-)politik von Präsident Bush seit seinem Amtsantritt anschaut, kann man nur zu dem Schluss kommen, dass das Projekt für das neue amerikanische Jahrhundert ein voller Erfolg war. Die Kriege gegen Jugoslawien und gegen den Irak wurden geführt, und außer der Aufstockung der Streitkräfte von 1,4 Millionen Soldaten auf 1,6 Millionen Soldaten wurde so ziemlich jedes Ziel erreicht, und die diversen Projektmitglieder haben ihre einflussreichen Positionen immer noch inne. Selbst der äußerst unpopuläre Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld wurde noch nicht gefeuert.&lt;br /&gt;PNAC scheint auch selber der Meinung zu sein, dass seine Mission erfüllt ist. Denn in letzter Zeit hat es kaum mehr etwas von sich hören lassen und nur spärlich offene Briefe oder andere Publikationen veröffentlicht. Im April 2005 wurde noch ein Papier zur schwierigen Lage im Irak geschrieben, und davor am 28. Januar 2005 wurde der Kongress abermals aufgefordert, die Truppenstärke der Armee zu erhöhen und damit auch das letzte große PNAC-Ziel umzusetzen.&lt;br /&gt;Größere Strategiepapiere jedoch wurden nicht mehr veröffentlicht, und das PNAC scheint sich mehr oder weniger in einer Phase der Auflösung zu befinden. Auch oder gerade deshalb ist es an der Zeit, sich eingehend mit diesem vielleicht einflussreichsten aller Denkfabriken Washingtons zu beschäftigen, so lange die Informationen und Texte noch auf der PNAC-Homepage verfügbar sind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DaRockwilda&lt;br /&gt;Debating World Domination: Bilderberg Meets in Canada's Capital&lt;br /&gt;Iran and Venezuela on their secretive agenda&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by James P. Tucker Jr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 9, 2006&lt;br /&gt;American Free Press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The secretive group known as Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at the posh Brook Street Resort a few miles from Ottawa, Canada, June 8-11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The location and part of the agenda was disclosed to American Free Press by a source inside Bilderberg’s inner circle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;High on the Bilderberg’s secret agenda this year are oil prices and the political upheaval in Latin America. When meeting last year in Rottach-Egern, Germany, Bilderberg called for dramatic increases in the price of oil. Oil prices started climbing immediately from a barrel to .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether Bilderberg will call for still higher prices is unclear, but Henry Kissinger and others had gleefully anticipated ultimate prices at 0 a barrel a year ago. Bilderberg is certainly concerned about supply, which is related to the “Latin American problem,” as one insider said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Approximately 120 international leaders in politics and finance will also discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has caused a rare breach between American Bilderbergers and their European counterparts since the United States Iraq invasion in 2003. Whether the United States should invade Iran is also high on the agenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg is especially concerned about Venezuela, where as part of a plan to increase revenues from its petroleum industry President Hugo Chavez said May 7 he would impose a new tax on companies that extract oil from his country. Big Oil is represented at Bilderberg by Jeroen van der Veer of The Netherlands, chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Franco Bernabe of Italy, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe, among others. “We are going to create a new oil tax, called the tax on extraction,”&lt;br /&gt;Chavez said. “The companies that are pumping oil in Venezuela are making a lot of money.” Chavez accused foreign oil companies of exploiting his country’s vast petroleum reserves without paying sufficient taxes. Venezuela is the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter but has troubled oil barons by sending cheap petroleum to needy American families and subsidizing domestic use so local citizens pay 12 cents a gallon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Venezuela has voided oil-pumping contracts with private companies at 32 fields and replaced them with a mixed-company model that gave Venezuela’s state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA a minimum 60 percent stake. Chavez has also sharply raised royalties and taxes, and reduced potential drilling acreage by almost two-thirds. He is also resisting expansion of NAFTA throughout the hemisphere, a prime Bilderberg goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chavez’s outspoken criticisms of the United States make it unlikely that American Bilderbergers can help smooth over the supply problem. However, banker David Rockefeller’s family has always had a heavy interest in oil and other investments in South America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Bush will have a top White House aide representing him at Bilderberg, and high officials of the state, defense and treasury departments will attend. Heads of state and other high officials in government and banking will attend from Europe and Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg’s agenda also includes the turmoil in the Middle East, nuclear proliferation, with an emphasis on Iran, North Korea and Pakistan, and global warming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bilderberg group takes it name from the hotel in Holland where the group met in 1954, during the earliest period of its inception. Bilderbergers meet regularly, presumably on a once-a-year basis, at various locations around the world, always in extreme secrecy, often at resorts controlled by either the Rockefeller or Rothschild families. The Rothschild family is the leading European force within the Bilderberg Group, sharing its power with the American-based Rockefeller empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilderberg maintains an extremely low profile and seldom, if ever, publishes reports or studies for the public, at least, under its own official aegis. Participants denied the groups very existence for decades until it was forced into the open by the glare of media publicity, generated largely by the now defunct Spotlight newspaper.&lt;br /&gt;The information that follows provides the history of a Roadshow of Deception. The Roadshow of Deception was used to demonstrate psychological warfare techniques and strategies to different Whitehouse Administrations. The Roadshow of Deception was used to convince different presidential administrations to use psychological warfare techniques on American citizens.&lt;br /&gt;Four people staged and presented the Roadshow of Deception. They were Nelson Rockefeller, Hadley Cantril, Gerard B. Lambert, and Adlebert Ames. However, there were many other men involved in developing the psychological warfare techniques; putting together the communication apparatus to apply those techniques; and effectively coordinating the psychological operations (PSYOPS) used to manipulate the American public and people in other nations. Many of the men worked in United States intelligence agencies and the US Department of State. Many of the men worked in the British Secret Service and the British State Department. The Americans belonged to a group called the Council on Foreign Relations; the British to a group called the Royal Institute of International Affairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs were formally founded in 1919. The Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs continue to effectively coordinate psychological operations used to manipulate the American public and people in other nations. The Council On Foreign Relations headquarters is the Pratt House, 58 E. 68th Street, NY, NY, 10021. England's Royal Institute of International Affairs headquarters is Chatham House, 10 St. James' Square, London, SW1Y 4LE, UK. The Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs have branch organizations in other nations including Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India, France, China, Japan, Netherlands, and the Soviet Union.1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few Americans have heard of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council grew out of a secret society funded by money left by Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes was a racist, a sexist, a white supremacist, and an imperialist. Lord Rothschild and Alfred Beit bankrolled Rhodes. Rothschild and Beit were racist, sexist, white supremacist, and imperialists too.The banking house of Rothschild maintained one of the great intelligence services of the nineteen century. The private intelligence they gathered helped the Rothschild's to successfully place their investments. According to former CIA chief Allen Dulles, "In 1815, while Europe awaited news of the Battle of Waterloo, Nathan Rothschild in London already knew that the British had been victorious. In order to make a financial killing, he then depressed the market by selling British Government securities; those who watched his every move in the market did likewise, concluding that Waterloo had been lost by the British and their allies. At the proper moment he bought back in at the low, and when the news was finally generally known, the value of government securities soared." In American the banking houses of Morgan and Rockefeller would come to maintain the great intelligence services of the 20th century. The intelligence services of the houses of Morgan and Rockefeller would include control of the intelligence services of the United States government. Many agents of the banking houses of Morgan and Rockefeller would go to work for United States intelligence agencies. During World War I, one of the most important elements of agent authentication was the fabrication of passports, identification cards and other documents. The censorship and documents branch was headed by Commander Henry S. Morgan of the United States Naval Reserve, a son of financier J. P. Morgan Jr.. Morgan's agency collected and compiled intelligence from mail, cables, and telephone conversations intercepted by the War Department under the government's wartime censorship powers. 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Cecil Rhodes and his followers knew how to apply psycho-political operations effectively to justify their conquests. The conquests were made in the name of an ideology -- civilizing "the white man's burden." Rhodes would leave a legacy that would help to formalize international psycho-political operations and covert activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cecil Rhodes was instrumental in establishing British control over South Africa. Rhodes gained fabulous riches digging diamonds in South Africa. In 1888 Rhodes consolidated several diamond companies into the De Beers Consolidated Mines. The same year Rhodes sent ten thousand pounds to England for the cause of Irish Home Rule. In 1889 Rhodes obtained the charter for the British South Africa Company. Rhodesia was named in his honor. Rhodes became a South African statesman. Rhodes established a racist system of government which would be named apartheid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The racist policy called for strict separation of the races. Blacks were restricted to certain occupations. Blacks received far lower wages than whites for the same work. Only whites could run for or hold public office. In 1948 the policy of separate development of the races was made official. The new policy was called apartheid. On May 31, 1961 the Union of South Africa withdrew from the British commonwealth and became the Republic of South Africa. Until the end of 1993 the Government of South Africa was a trilateral parliament. The parliament had one house for whites; one house for Coloureds (people of mixed race); and one house for Asians. The parliament had no franchise or representation for blacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between the ages of 24 and 26 Cecil Rhodes made seven wills. The first will established a secret society -- it was called the "Secret Society Will." The seventh will established the Rhodes Scholarships. The scholarships were to be awarded to Americans, Germans, and colonials for study at Oxford. All Souls College at Oxford would become the secret societies headquarters. Rhodes third will made his financier, Lord Rothschild trustee. The Rhodes Scholarship will changed the trustee to Rothschild's son-in-law Lord Rosebury. Rothschild was Jewish, Rosebury wasn't. Rosebury, was a more fitting trustee then his Jewish father-in-law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rhodes was born 5 July 1853. The first will, written in 1877, established the "Secret Society" --"The Round Table." Rhodes was the first Round Table leader. Rhodes' wills insured Round Table members the funds to carry on for generations to come. The men of the Round Table were English upper class -- the University Educated -- The Wealthy -- the Privileged. The group was publicly referred to as the English "establishment." Secret Society members included students from Oxford and Cambridge. The Oxford boys included Cecil Rhodes, Arnold Toynbee, Lord Alfred Milner, Arthur Glazebrook, Sir George Parkin, Philip Lyttleton Gell, and Sir Henry Birchenough. The Cambridge boys included Reginald Baliol Brett ( aka Lord Esher), Sir John B. Seeley, Lord Albert Grey, Arthur Edmund Garrett. The aim of the secret society, and the purpose of the Rhodes Scholarships, was to spread English ruling class tradition throughout the English-speaking world. The boys of Oxford and Cambridge would devote their lives to extension of the British Empire and uplift of England's urban masses as two parts of one project which they called "extension of the English-speaking idea." Pursuit of the "extension of the English-speaking idea" included becoming rich through war and plunder. The imperialism of the time of Rhodes generated billion in gold, diamonds, and slaves. The Round Table boys captured the lions share of the spoils resulting from their ignoble efforts.3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was in the years following the Civil War that many of America's great fortunes would be made. England had launched its industrial revolution one hundred years earlier. Fortunes were made by both northern and southern families during the civil war. Many men that made fortunes from the Civil War sent their sons to England for an education. Some boys attended preparatory schools some attended Universities such as Cambridge and Oxford. Some boys went abroad accompanied by American nannies. Some of the nannies sent abroad had been slaves before the war, and were now gainfully employed by their former masters. The men and their wives traveled abroad to visit their sons and tour England. Pompous manor houses in the English style sprung up on the sooty hillsides outside Pittsburgh. Entire rooms where purchased from Northumbrian castles and shipped to Tarrytown along with acres of heavy English Furniture. English butlers and nannies were hired and brought back to America as servants. A newly acquired "social voice" developed. It was a blend of the Southern accent, Yankee accent, and inflections copied from the British aristocracy. While attending Oxford and Cambridge many of the American boys became interested in the pursuit of the "extension of the English-speaking idea" which included becoming rich through war and plunder. Some of these American boys were invited to join the "Round Table." 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Round Table remained secret for 14 years. The Oxford boys and the Cambridge boys were introduced to each other by one of England's most sensational journalists William T. Stead (1840-1912). Like Rhodes, Stead was a racist, a white supremacist, a sexist, and an imperialist. Rhodes enjoyed Stead's articles. The two became close friends. On February 5, 1891 Rhodes and Stead formally established the secret society "The Round Table". Rhodes was the leader. William Stead, Reginald Baliol Brett ( the Cambridge Group - Lord Esher ), Alfred Milner (from the Oxford Group - Lord Milner) formed an executive committee. In 1897 Milner became high commissioner in South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony. Lord Arthur Balfour, Sir Harry Johnson, Lord Rothschild, and Lord Albert Grey were listed as members of a "Circle of Initiates." An outer circle known as the "Association of Helpers" would be established in other nations. The first two secret Round Table Groups of the outer circle were the Australia Round Table and New Zealand Round Table were established between 1890-1893. William T. Stead recruited members through his magazine Review of Reviews.5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1902 Rhodes died. The leadership of the Round Table passed to Lord Alfred Milner who became chief Rhodes Trustee. While governor general and high commissioner in South Africa Milner recruited a group of young men from Oxford and Toynbee hall to help organize his administration. In South Africa under Milner's direction this group was known as Milner's "Kindergarten." Sir George Parkin became the Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes' Trust and Milner's second in command. During the next seven years the "Round Table" was busy establishing a network in the chief British Dependencies and in the United States. The United States Round Table members included ( George Louis Beer, Walter Lippmann, Frank Aydelotte, Whitney Shepardson, Thomas W. Lamont, Jerome D. Green, Frederick Dixon, and others ). One of the functions of the network would be to gather private intelligence. The intelligence services of the Round Table would be modeled after one the great intelligence services of the nineteenth century -- the intelligence services of the banking house of Rothschild, made available to the group by Lord Rothschild, a charter member of the Round Table, and the sugar daddy that bankrolled Rhodes. The intelligence gathering activities would be used to help the "Round Table Group" members to achieve successful investments. The intelligence gathering activities would also be used to provide information to media people like Stead, who would focus psychological operations at different target groups through various publishing houses and newspapers controlled by Round Table group members. Council members George Louis Beer, Edward Mandel House, Walter Lippmann, Whitney Shepardson, James T. Shotwell, Charles Seymour, and Isaiah Bowman would become charter members of America's first formal Intelligence organization the Inquiry. The idea for the Inquiry was suggested to President Wilson by Felix Frankfurter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between 1909-1913 the outer circle,the 'Association of Helpers,' was expanded to other chief British dependences. The Canadian Round Table was established by Arthur Glazebrook and George Parkin (Milner's Oxford undergraduate friends). The South Africa Round Table was established by Sir Patrick Duncan, B. K. Long, and Sir Dougal Malcom (men of Milner's "Kindergarten"). The India Round Table was established by Sir William Marris, Lord James Meston, and Lord Malcom Haily (men of Milner's "Kindergarten"). The Australian Round Table and New Zealand Round tables were expanded by Parkin (1889-1910) and Lionel Curtis (1910-1919). The secret society "Round Table" groups were financed with Rhodes' money and funds from Rhodes' supporters including Alfred Beit (1853-1906), Sir Abe Bailey (1864-1940), and the Astor Family (1915). Since 1925 substantial contributions have been made by foundations and firms associated with the international banking fraternity especially the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, J.P. Morgan organizations, Rockefeller Family organizations, Whitney Family organizations, the associates of Lazard Brothers, and Morgan, Grenfell, and Company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschild banking dynasty was founded in Frankfurt Germany by Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Rothschild had five sons. Each son would establish a branch in a different country. Amschel, the eldest, remained in Germany with his father. Solomon, the second son, founded a branch in Vienna Austria. Nathan, the third son, founded the London branch. Carl the fourth son, founded a branch in Naples Italy. Jacob, the fifth son founded the Paris branch. Other international family banking dynasties arose including Baring, Larzard, Erlanger, Warburg, Schroder, Selingman, the Speyers, Mirabud, Mallet, Fould, Peabody, and Morgan.6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most effective means of controlling political appointments and deciding political issues was through a Round Table Group controlled international financial network. The banking dynasties differed markedly from regular savings or commercial banks. They had special names, in England they were known as "merchant bankers," in France they were called "private bankers," and in the United States, there were known as "investment bankers." The characteristics that distinguished an "investment bank" included : 1. they were international ( which meant "investment banks didn't owe allegiance to any one nation, their allegiance shifted in favor of the nation resulting in the banking network maximizing its profit); 2. they lent money to the government ( which meant "investment banks", to paraphrase McKenna, directed the policy of Governments and held in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people ); 3. they made money from investments in bonds (which meant "investment banks" were interested in controlling the countries inflation rates. Knowing how inflation would go was like knowing which horse would win a horse race in advance. An "investment bank" could make money in periods of inflation or deflation if they knew which was going to happen) 4. they remained private unincorporated firms, usually partnerships (which meant since the "investment banks" were private unincorporated firms they did not have to make their business public. Since the public did not know if the "investment banks" were buying or selling bonds the "investment banks" could use this knowledge to help control inflation and deflation by buying and selling. This also meant that the "investment banks" could keep their commercial ventures a secret. This included financing such ventures as Cecil Rhodes South African adventure. It also allowed financing covert operations that would result in the imperialism of the time of Rhodes that generated billion in gold, diamonds, and slaves through war and plunder. It also allowed the same "investment bank" to make money by financing both sides of a war. During the Civil War the House of Rothschild and other banking dynasties made money by financing both the northern and southern causes. A the famous American banking house that financed both the northern and southern causes was the banking house of George Peabody &amp; Company. George Peabody &amp;amp; Company made London its base of operations so it could take part in directing the capital which flowed from Europe to pioneering America. J. P. Morgan's father was a partner in George Peabody &amp; Co. J. P. Morgan began working at his daddies famous London banking house as an apprentice when he was 19 years old. He left London in 1857 and returned to the rising financial center to establish a banking house of his very own. In March 3, 1863 Morgan was investigated by a Committee on Government Contracts. Morgan was investigated for participating in the purchase and resale of defective rifles to General Fremont who headed the Northern troops quartered near St. Louis. The defective rifles shot off the thumbs of soldiers using them. The army refused to pay. Morgan filed a claim against the government for 9,912. Morgan had loaned only ,486 to purchase the defective weapons. The committee report refused Morgan the payment. The committee report on Morgan, said, "He cannot be looked upon as a good citizen, entitled to favorable consideration of his claim, who seeks to augment the vast burdens daily increasing, that are to weigh on the further industry of the country, by demands upon the treasury for which nothing entitled to the name of an equivalent has been rendered...Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretending loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation, while patriot blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and bodies of their countrymen are moldering in the dust." 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the period between the end of the civil war and the beginning of the 20th century the United States changed from a merchantile-agrarian democracy to a unified industrial society. A small group of young entrepreneurs was largely responsible for the change. This group gained economic control of the nation. The men "were Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, J. P. Morgan, Philip Armour, Andrew Carnegie, James Hill and John Rockefeller, Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, [and] Jay Cooke. In the ensuing years all of the members of this band of youth would have met with their first "windfalls"... and the end of the war would see them masters of money, capitalists equipped to increase their capital. In the hour of danger and confusion it was as if they alone were prepared. It was as if the Second American Revolution were fought for them. "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The members of this new ruling class were generally called "barons," "kings," "empire-builders," or even "emperors". They were aggressive men; sometimes they were lawless; in important crises, nearly all of them tended to act without those established moral principles which fixed more or less the conduct of the common people of the community.." 8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie were members of the Cecil Rhodes' American Round Table Group. The Robber Barons engaged in intense rivalries. These rivalries often resulted in severe economic depressions causing misery for hundreds of millions of people, in various nations throughout the world. The rivalries and picturesque combats were played out in the press. Sometimes the press was used to initiate the depression. In June of 1871, Pierpoint Morgan joined forces with Anthony Drexel, the second largest "investment banker" in Philadelphia. A company called Drexel, Morgan &amp; Co. was formed and linked to the J.S. Morgan branch in London. The Northern Pacific Railroad was the country's second transcontinental railroad. It was being financed by the most powerful "investment banking" house in the United States Jay Cooke and Co., the largest "investment banker" in Philadelphia. Cooke had a virtual monopoly on government financing. Cooke was the major source of money for funding the North during the civil war. He operated through a Washington DC banking house, his partner was Anthony Drexel. Cooke was so successful at raising money for the war effort that he eventually became the sole fiscal agent of the government. G.W. Childs ran the Philadelphia Ledger. Drexel, Morgan's new partner, had loaned Childs the money to establish the Philadelphia Ledger. In June of 1871, the Philadelphia Ledger began attacking the Northern Pacific Railroad. Ulysses Simpson Grant ran for re-election in 1872. Cooke was counting on Grant to be re-elected. Part of Grant's re-election promise was a 0,000,000 government loan to "refinance" the Northern Pacific Railroad. Cooke spent a lot of money to help Grant win. Cooke was providing ,000,000 a month for Railroad Construction. This money was coming from the sale of Northern Pacific bonds by Jay Cooke &amp;amp; Co. offices in the United States and in London.. The adverse publicity at home and abroad hurt bond sales. Cooke could only sell enough bonds to cover 0,000 of the ,000,000 a month needed by Northern Pacific. Cooke had to buy the other 0,000 in bonds himself, which he did. The Railroad started having problems; a section sank into a northern lake, the President was ousted for corruption. As time approached for the 0,000,000 refunding loan the Philadelphia Ledger beefed up its anti-Northern Pacific campaign. It printed a rumor that Cooke needed the new government funding operation to "bolster up their credit, which had been impaired by the connection with the Northern Pacific." In February of 1873 the 0,000,000 loan went down to defeat. Cooke had been counting on the loan -- so had a lot of other people. Cooke's troubles made money tight, the price of gold soared in London. Drexel &amp; Morgan Co. did quite well. Northern Pacific bonds became harder and harder to sell. On September 18th Grant and Cooke were eating breakfast at Cooke's home in Philadelphia. Cooke received a telegram from his partner in New York. Cooke and the President went to the Philadelphia office. There Cooke told the President and his Philadelphia associates that at 11:00 his partner closed the doors of the branch office in New York. Cooke turned his face away from the President and the men who surrounded him and cried. A few minutes latter the doors to Jay Cooke &amp;amp; Co., Third St., Philadelphia swung shut. Soon allied brokers and 5,000 commercial houses followed it into bankruptcy. The Wall Street rout continued for ten days. It was everyman for himself. Only the strongest survived. The strongest were Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie, the men who belonged to America's Round Table. A few young adventures preyed upon the rich debris and became rich themselves. One of the scavengers was Edward H. Harriman. The country entered a depression that would last for five years.9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 1901 there were two major "investment banks" left in the United States The House of Morgan, and the House of Rockefeller . A powerful but smaller firm was the House of Kuhn-Loeb &amp; Co. These three houses were all closely connected to the Round Table group. The chief financial genius of Kuhn, Loeb and &amp;amp; Co. was Round Table group member Otto Kahn (February 21, 1867- March 29, 1934). Kahn was born in Mannheim, Germany. Otto's father was a financier for the Deutsche Bank. Otto went to work at the bank when he was seventeen. At twenty-one Otto was transferred to the London Branch, grew fond of London and became a British Citizen. At twenty-six (1893) Otto accepted a position with the banking house of Speyer &amp; Company in New York. The House of Speyer was one of the largest and oldest international banking dynasties in Europe. That year a financial panic began that lasted four years. After two years at Speyer (1895), Otto Kahn returned to Europe to travel, study art, and listen to music. On January 6, 1896 Kahn married Addie Wolff, daughter of a former partner of Khun-Loeb &amp;amp; Co. Kahn became a member of the Khun, Loeb &amp; Co. a year latter. Kahn and his wife were wealthy. Kahn collected art and became a major force in establishing the Metropolitan Opera Company. In 1902 Paul and Felix Warburg, of the House of Warburg, another of the largest and oldest "investment banking" houses in Europe arrived in America. They left their brother Max in Frankfurt Germany to run the family bank. Paul Warburg married Nina Loeb, Felix married Jacob Schiff's daughter Frieda Schiff. Jacob Schiff was the senior partner at Kuhn-Lobe &amp;amp; Co. Both brothers became Kuhn-Lobe partners. Paul Warburg's salary was 0,000 a year. Kahn became the chief financial genius of Kuhn-Loeb &amp; Co. Prior to America's entry into World War I, another Round Table member was hired by Kuhn-Loeb &amp;amp; Co, like Kahn, he was an Englishman and member of the Round Table. His name was Sir William Wiseman. Wiseman was the New York Section Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. After America's entry into the war Wiseman would leave Kuhn &amp; Lobe and serve as intermediary between President Wilson's administration and the British government. Wiseman was introduced to Wilson by another Round Table member, Edward Mandel House. Wiseman returned to Kuhn Lobe &amp;amp; Co. shortly after the Paris Peace Conference. While Wiseman's work in the Secret Intelligence Agency allegedly ended, he remained in contact with his successor agents who held that post in the years between wars including: Maurice Jeffes; Captain Henry Maine; Commander H.B. Taylor, Royal Navy; Captains Sir James Paget, Royal Navy; and William Stephenson. 10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kahn entered Kuhn-Loeb &amp; Co. just as Edward Harriman was rising to power. Harriman depended upon Kahn for financing his titanic railroad transactions. Harriman was also aligned with the House of Rockefeller. The other major railroad baron was James J. Hill, who was aligned with the House of Morgan. J. Pierpoint Morgan had surrounded himself with a group of partners. All his partners were energetic -- many were handsome enough to be Hollywood leading men, though Morgan wasn't much to look at himself. The ablest of his partners were Charles H. Coster (a railroad expert) , Egisto Fabbri (an Italian economist and mathematician), George W. Perkins (from the First National Bank), George F. Baker (from the First National Bank) , George S. Bowdoin, J. Hood Wright, and Robert Bacon (future Ambassador to London). Morgan and his partners had been busily acquiring direct control of numerous banks and insurance companies. In his campaign of secret alliances Morgan controlled the National Bank of Commerce, First National Bank; and was linked to Hanover, Liberty, and Chase. Morgan dominated three great life insurance companies New York Life, Equitable Life, and the Mutual Life. As 1900 approached these companies owned about one billion dollars in assets. By law they were required to invest ,000,000 each year. Morgan Partners Perkins, Baker, and Morgan were also life insurance company directors. Morgan and his partners would buy securities from themselves. Morgan was investigated, twice. One investigation was directed by Charles Evans Hughes ( the Armstrong investigation in New York). The other was the Pujo Committee investigation lead by Louis Brandeis. The Pujo investigation concluded that Morgan directed a great pool of banks and insurance companies to purchase securities he floated; then the proceeds of these securities were deposited either directly into the House of Morgan, or its controlled banks, the First National, the Bank of Commerce etc. The Pujo committee found that Rockefeller's National City Bank co-directors Cleveland H. Dodge, James Stillman, J. Ogden Armour, William Rockefeller operated in the same way. Brandeis concluded, "They control people through people's own money. The power and growth of power of our financial oligarches comes from wielding the savings and quick capital of others." The House of Morgan and the House of Rockefeller already knew that. With the investigations closed they lost no further time and extended themselves with amazing speed in a concentrated effort to control all of the nations savings. 11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A spectacular contest for the stock of Northern Pacific Railroad began between the Hill-Morgan forces and the Harriman-Rockefeller-Kahn forces (May 3-9, 1901). The Northern Pacific stock was run up by Robert Bacon of Morgan and Company. The public, didn't know exactly what was happening. The perception given by the press was that the House of Rockefeller and the House of Morgan were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The by-product was a sudden panic. When the smoke cleared thousands of people had been ruined. Morgan was blamed. Morgan replied, "I owe the Public Nothing." The Round Table groups House of Morgan and House of Rockefeller shook hands and formed an interlocking directorship. The Truce of 1901 was negotiated by the Round Table Groups House of Khun Lobe &amp; Co. With their rivals out of the way the Round Table Group members began a psycho-political operation to give the public a perception of a much mellower and virtuous group of capitalists. As a result the public perceived the age of the "Robber Baron" was over. What they didn't know was the age of the "Subtle Fascist" had begun.12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edward Mandell House was the seventh son of a seventh son. According to House, "We originally came from Holland and the name was Huis, which finally fell into House. Father ran away from home and went to sea when a child, and did not return to his home until he had become a man of property and distinction. He came to Texas when it belonged to Mexico. He joined the revolution, fought under General Burleson, and helped make Texas a republic. For his services in this war he received a grant for land in Coryell County. He lived to see Texas come into the Union, secede, and return to the Union. He lived in Texas under four flags."13 According House's biographer, Charles Seymour, "Thus wrote Colonel House in the summer of 1916, when a brief lull in his political activities gave opportunity for him to reconstruct on paper something of the background that lay behind his rapid rise to national and international eminence. Although the family was in its origin Dutch, his forbearers were for some three hundred years English, and it was from England that his father ran away. House himself, a seventh son, was born in 1858, at Houston, Texas, and this State he has always regarded as his home. Even more than those of Wilson or Walter Page, with whom he later was so closely associated, his first years were touched by the excitement and turmoil of the times."14 The turmoil of the times was the Civil War (1861 - 1865). Thomas House had become a millionaire growing Cotton on his Coryell County land. Thomas House used some of his money to buy ships. The ships carried goods that were bought and sold. Two commodities House traded in were cotton and slaves. Some Southerners managed to profit from the Civil War. Thomas House was one. When the war began Lincoln blockaded the Southern coast. Thomas House increased his wealth by using his ships to run the blockades.Thomas House became rich and avoided risk by hiring men to run the blockades while he observed safely from shore. According to Edward House, "During the war he sent many ships out from Galveston with cotton, to run the blockade to near-by ports, such as Havana and Belize Honduras. At that time we had a house in Galveston as well as in Houston. The Galveston home covered an entire block. The house was a large red brick Colonial one, with white pillars, and an orange grove took up most of the grounds, and oleanders encircle them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In determining when to send his ships out, Father was governed largely by the weather. Dark, stormy nights were the ones chosen. In the afternoon he would go up to the cupola of our house, and with his glasses he would scan the horizon to see how many Federal gunboats were patrolling the coast. Then his ship would go out in the early part of the night. In the morning, at daylight, he would be again on the lookout to count the Federal gunboats, to see if any were missing. If they were all there, he felt reasonably sure his ship had gotten through the blockade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be months before he knew definitely whether his ships had come safely to port or whether they had been captured. When he lost one, the loss was complete; but when one got through, the gain was large. He had a working arrangement with the Confederate Government by which the return voyage brought them clothing, arms, and munitions of war of all kinds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The terrible days between Lee's surrender and bringing some sort of order out of the chaos in the South made a lasting impression on my mind. I cannot recall just now long the interim was, but it must have been a full year or more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was one regiment of Texas soldiers that came to Houston and disbanded there. They looted the town. They attempted to break into Father's storehouse, but he stood at the doors with a shotgun...Murder was rife everywhere; there was no law, there was no order. It was unsafe to go at night to you next-door neighbor's. When Father had this to do, he always reached for his shotgun or six-shooter and held it ready to shoot while both going and coming."15 Men of war met at the House plantation to discuss military strategy. One of those men was Jefferson Davis. On January 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing "all slaves in rebellion." The proclamation encouraged slaves to rebel and kill their owners -- their reward would be their Freedom. Slave owners had cause to hate Lincoln. Lee's surrender on April 9th 1865 was bad news for Thomas House -- his blockade running business was over. Lincoln would be assassinated five days latter. This encouraged southern troops to fight on. The news of Lincoln's assassination was a cause for celebration at the House plantation. The last rebel troops surrendered a month later May 26, 1865. In 1866 the Ku Klux Klan formed secretly in the South. They were a vigilante group, that terrorized blacks, and used frontier justice against carpet baggers, and criminals that traveled throughout the south during reconstruction. Thomas House and some of Edward's older brothers joined the Texas Klan. 16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the civil war Edward was sent to preparatory school in England. Edward developed close friendships with his English schoolmates. Some of Edward's schoolmates would become members of Cecil Rhodes Round Table group, so would Edward. Some of Edward's schoolmates would grow up to become the most powerful English diplomats and spies in Britain. Edward would grow up to be on of the most powerful diplomats and spies in America. Edward's mother died when he was fourteen. Edward returned to the States to complete his education. According to House, "I had expected to be able to enter Yale, but I found myself wholly unprepared and reluctantly entered the Hopkin's Grammar School of the Class of '77...What I had been taught was of but little use, and I would have been better off as far as Latin and Greek were concerned if I had known nothing and had started from the beginning. I studied but little, and I soon found I should have difficulty in joining the Class of '81 in Yale. Meanwhile, Oliver T. Morton, a son of Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, and I had become fast friends and we agreed to tutor and go to Cornell instead of Yale. Both Morton and I were more bent on mischief than upon books and, while the mischief was innocent, it made us poor students." 17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House didn't get good grades -- House did get a good education.Oliver T. Morton's father was a potential Republican presidential Candidate. Morton was an Republican. House, being from the south, was an ardent Democrat. The youngmen's friendship, coupled with an interesting political presidential race, would provide House with educational experience, that no planned curriculum could ever have offered. The youngmen followed the election campaign. They argued politics, they read about politics, they debated political issues, and they cut class to attend political meetings. House relates, "Every near-by political meeting I attended, and there was no one more interested in the nomination and election of the presidential candidates of 1876 than I. At every opportunity I would go to New York and hang about Democratic Headquarters which, I remember, were at the Everett House in Union Square. I used to see Mr. [Samuel] Tilden go in and out, and wondered then how so frail a looking man could make a campaign for President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bayard, Blaine, and others I heard speak whenever the opportunity occurred, and I believe that I was as nearly engrossed in politics as I have ever been since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the nominations were made, I was, of course, hoping to see young Morton's father nominated for President, and it was a bitter disappointment to us both when the telegraph operator handed us out the first slip giving new that the Republicans had compromised upon Rutherford B. Hays. The operator knew us, for we were continually hanging about the office instead of attending to our studies. Morton's father was such a poser at the time that there was no difficulty in his having access to any information that was to be had.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ardent Democrat that I was, and ardent Republican that he was, young Morton and I had no unpleasant discussions. After the election and during the contest that followed, it was utterly impossible for me to bring myself to think of desk or books. I was constantly going to Washington with Morton, in order to be near the center of things. I was usually the guest of the Mortons, who lived at the time at the Ebbitt House. I knew much of everything that was going on. Republican leaders would come in day and night to consult the distinguished invalid who was directing the fight for Hayes. In this way, directly and indirectly, I saw and met many well-known Republicans in public life at that time."18&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the election results of 1876 came in Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) believed he had lost the election to Samuel Tilden (Democrat). It was discovered that a few Southern States had submitted two different sets of electoral votes. A dispute arose over the result. A electoral commission was appointed by Congress. Eight Republicans and seven Democrats served on the commission. All the disputed votes were awarded to Hayes. Hayes became president by one electoral vote. Hayes did keep a promise he made to the Southerners -- he withdrew troops from all areas still occupied in the South, ending the era of reconstruction. 19&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1880 Thomas House died. Edward House dropped out of Cornell and returned to Texas. Edward inherited his father's greatest wealth the cotton plantations. The Civil war had made it impossible for Edward to inherit his father's slaves. Edward managed the plantations for ten years. In 1890 he sold the plantations and invested the money in bank notes. The interest provided Edward Mandell House with financial independence for the rest of his life.20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides the Plantations, Edward inherited his daddies friends. They were older than Edward. After the civil war they were the men that formed the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klaners were the old-timers who dispensed vigilante justice. Some of that justice was warranted -- some of the justice was simply murder. By 1880 a new legitimate group was in charge of dispensing justice in Texas -- the Texas Rangers. They wore stars, carried arms, were paid salaries, and killed in the line of duty. They were hard men, and tough men. They were aggressive, virile and domineering men. Intimidation was one way they used to keep the peace. Many of them had big brawny bodies -- all of them had big egos -- all of them had six-shooters buckled around their waists. Many of the Texas Rangers were members of the Klan. Edward was the new master. It was Edward's job to gain their loyalty. Edward gained their loyalty by stroking their egos. Edward would use his money and influence to try and make them famous. Edward described his new friends as "that intrepid band that made Texas what she is to-day. I make obeisance to them! Nothing daunted them. They tore a principality from a sovereign state and moulded a trackless wilderness into a great commonwealth. These men were the heroes of my childhood; and now when I am growing old and have seen many men and many lands, I go back to them and salute them, for I find they are my heros still."21&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the oldest and perhaps best of these "friends" was a Texas Ranger named Captain Bill McDonald. According to House, "In my early boyhood I knew many of the Bill McDonalds type, although he was perhaps the flower of them all. I knew personally many of the famous desperados, men who had killed so many that they had almost ceased to count their victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were two types of so-called "killers" - one that murdered simply for the pure love it, and others that killed because it was in their way of duty. Bill McDonald belonged to this latter class. So also did Blue-eyed Captain McKinney of the Rangers, whom I knew in my ranching days in southwest Texas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McKinney was finally ambushed and killed, as almost every sheriff of La Salle County was killed during that particular period. Whenever I went to our ranch, I was never certain that I would return home alive. Feuds were always going on, and in some of these our ranch was more or less involved."22&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the Sheriff's of La Salle county were little more than hired thugs -- licensed to kill. They were loyal to the men running the county. If those men's interest were threatened the Sheriffs administered discipline. The Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894 was Governor Hogg. Edward Mandell House was instrumental in getting Hogg elected. During his administration rail-road workers struck. Governor Hogg used Texas Ranger Bill McDonald to break up the strike. According to House, "Governor Hogg...broke up strikes during his administration. Captain Bill McDonald, of the Ranger Service, was the instrument he used. Hogg sent word to the leaders that if they continued to uncouple cars, or to do anything that might interfere with the movement of trains, he would shoot holes through them big enough to see through. When Bill conveyed this to the ringleaders and presented himself as the instrument through which it was to be done, lawlessness ceased." Edward inherited the Texas Ku Klux Klan.23&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The success of the Hogg campaign insured the political position of House in Texas. Edward Mandell House helped to make four men governor of Texas (James S. Hogg (1892), Charles A. Culberson (1894), Joseph D. Sayers (1898), and S. W.T. Lanham (1902)). After the election House acted as unofficial advisor to each governor. House would say in regard to the Hogg election, "So in politics I began at the top rather than at the bottom and I have been doing since that day pretty much what I am doing now; that is, advising and helping wherever I might." Hogg, caught onto House. Hogg gave House the title "Colonel" by promoting House to his staff. Appointment to the official Staff of the Governor was a Texas political custom of dubious honor. Along with the staff position came a uniform they could wear to official gatherings or "bestow upon an ancient and grateful darkey." Governor Hogg appointed House to his staff without telling him. Upon receiving the staff officer's uniform House did give it to a servant. The title Colonel stuck. Despite his protest, he became "Colonel House" or even "The Colonel.".24&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House wanted to control more than Texas, House wanted to control the country. House would do so by becoming a king maker instead of a king. House learned by controlling two or three men in the Senate; two or three men in the House; and the President -- he could control the country. Edward saw his father, Thomas, become rich and avoid risk by hiring men to run the blockades while observing safely from shore. House would do the same in the political arena. He would find a candidate that he could influence. He would be instrumental in helping that candidate achieve office. He would influence the candidate from behind the scenes. The people would perceive one man was representing them, when in reality, an entirely different man was in control. House could influence that man to betray his constituents with no risk to himself. House had learned a great secret -- how to control a country. House didn't need to influence millions of people, he need only influence a handful of men. The less the people knew about him or what he was doing, the better off he was. House would profit from remaining in the shadows. House would help establish a secret society in America that would operate in the same fashion -- the Council on Foreign Relations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1912, Woodrow Wilson (president of Princeton 1902-1910, governor of New Jersey 1911-13) ran as a Democrat in a three man presidential race. Howard Taft was the incumbent Republican. Former President Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Progressive party ticket. Wilson's main financial genius and support came from a group of directors of the House of Rockefeller's National City Bank including: Cleveland H. Dodge, J. Ogden Armour, James Stillman, and William Rockefeller. Otto Kahn, and Jacob Schiff of the House of Khun-Lobe &amp; Co. provided additional financial support. The House of Morgan guided the Progressive campaign of Teddy Roosevelt. Morgan partner George Perkins provided Roosevelt with money, speeches, and men from Wall Street to help his campaign. The House of Morgan also gave money to the Wilson campaign. The republican vote was divided and Wilson was able to beat them both, won by a land slide, and became 28th President of the United States. After the election Wilson's financial backers provided him with their own agents to act as unofficial advisors. Among these advisors was a young lawyer named Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter worked for the New York "establishment" law firm Hornblower, Byrne, Miller and Potter. Another adviser was Edward Mandell House. Without House, Wilson may never have become president. Wilson was nominated as Democratic candidate because of support from William Jennings Bryan. Colonel House obtained Bryan's support for Wilson. House became Wilson's closest unofficial advisor. The Round Table Group had four pet projects, a graduated income tax, a central bank, creation of a Central Intelligence Agency, and the League of Nations.25&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the period between 1901 and 1913 the House of Morgan and the House of Rockefeller formed close alliances with the Dukes and the Mellons. This group consolidated their power and came to dominate other Wall Street powers including: Carnegie, Whitney, Vanderbilt, Brown-Harriman, and Dillon-Reed. The Round Table Group wanted to control the people. The Round Table Group would control the people by controlling the government. The Round Table Group would control the government by using the government to tax people and having the government deposit the peoples money in a central bank. The Round Group would take control of the bank and therefore have control of the money. The Round Table Group would take control of the State Department and formulate government policy, which would determine how the money was spent. The Round Table Group would control the CIA which would gather information about people, and script and produce psycho-political operations focused at the people to influence them to act in accord with Round Table Group State Department policy decisions. The Round Group would work to consolidate all the nations of the world into a single nation, with a single central bank under their control, and a single International Security System.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between 1901-1913 the Establishment worked hard at achieving these goals. Some of the men involved were American Round Table group members and insiders Allen Dulles, John Dulles, Dean Rusk, Jerome Greene, James T. Shotwell, John H. Davis, Elihu Root, and Philip Jessup, Felix Frankfurter, and Edward Mandell House. Some of the first legislation of the Wilson Administration was
