The Lessons of Stephen Francis

B'nai B'rith: Wilhelm Marr - "The Patriarch of Antisemitism" - is a Jewish renegade

2006-06-27T14:26:00.000-04:00

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"Russia is the last defence against the Jews, and its surrender is only a matter of time. The elastic spirit of Jewish intrigue will crush Russia in a revolution, such as the world has never seen the like. When it has overthrown Russia, it will have nothing to fear from any quarter; when it has seized in Russia all the offices of state as it has done with us, then the Jews will openly undertake the destruction of western civilization, and this "last hour" of condemned Europe will strike within a hundred or a hundred and fifty years at the latest, since the march of events moves more rapidly in our era than in preceding centuries."

Wilhelm Marr
Der Sieg des Judentums über das Christentum (or Germanism or something)
1879

Wilhelm Marr coined the word "anti-semitism" circa 1879 in the pamphlet from the which the above quote was extracted, assuming that it's an accurate quote (if it is, it's almost prophetic). He was given the sobriquet "The Patriarch of Antisemitism" by Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann in Zimmerman's 1980's biography of Marr. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith calls him an "anti-Jewish German journalist" who "helped push "the Jewish question" to the center of German politics." Marr was also the founder of the League of Anti-Semites in Germany.

We can see that Marr probably isn't too popular at some garden parties. Even Karl Marx couldn't stand him.

Do a search on the internet for Wilhelm Marr. He was apparently so much an unperson that his writings in English are non-existent on the web, except for the above short excerpt. As stated, that's assuming that it's accurate. When it comes to the Wilhelm Marr story, it seems there are always a couple or a few different versions from the same source. Compare this ADL snippet to the above ADL snippet:

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"The term anti-Semitism was first used in 1873 by Wilhelm Marr, a German politician."

ADL, An Abridged History of Anti-Semitism

So according to the ADL, Marr was either a journalist or a politician that really ticked Jewish groups off in either 1873 or 1879.

There also seems to exist no English translation of this particular pamphlet, according to at least one librarian in the US and one in Israel, both having a hard time tracking down one of the more influential writings of the past 150 years judging by the minimum daily requirement of the use of the word in some literary diets.

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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 15:09:13 -0600
From: Public Staff Terminal
To: stumpers-l@crf.cuis.edu
Subject: ?Der Sieg der Judentums...

Greetings Stumper Friends,

A patron needs to know if there is a English translation of a book
(or pamphlet) called "Der Sieg der Judentums u(oomlaut)ber das
Germanentum" Bern, 1879.

He needs it for a paper he is writing.

Thanks,

Jeff Imparato
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:39:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Tsviya Polani
To: Public Staff Terminal
Cc: stumpers-l@crf.cuis.edu
Subject: Re: %Der Sieg der Judentums...

Jeff,

I had to verify the author's name before I could start checking this. The author is Wilhelm Marr and apparently there is some controversy about when the pamphlet was first published. That said, I can find no listing for an English translation. I've checked a number of anti-semitism bibliographies, the Israeli university union catalog and the book Zimmermann, Mosche. Wilhelm Marr, the patriarch of antisemitism, 1982, which does include translations of three other of Marr's pamphlets. I have not been able to access the Library of Congress for several days now but would advise checking their catalog. Be aware that the Israeli union catalog does not necessarily cover old material; but my feeling is that if there is an English translation it is relatively new. I would also recommend checking the Index Translationum (for which we don't have a complete run) and the Essay and General Literature Index. Sorry I can't pursue this further, but I've just been given a massive project with a short deadline; and I have to start working on it. Maybe our Holocaust museum Womb*t can continue the search. (If I can sneak out any more time and find anything, I'll let you know.)

hth

Tsviya Polani
Reference Librarian
Aranne Library
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Be'er Sheva, Israel

(The Stumpers list is a place for librarians (and others) to discuss reference questions which they are unable to answer using available resources, including the Internet and local interlibrary loan capabilities.}

Another librarian confirms it:

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WorldCat shows only the German version.

link

Recap: This work of Marr's is near impossible to find (though "Mein Kampf" is as easy to find as a Harlequin romance), there's not a whole lot of information on him (we know all about Hitler from TV), no one's really sure if it was ever translated into English (Hitler's tome has been translated into every major language). He was a politician or a journalist or something. And Marx didn't like him.

Why does Wilhelm Marr need to be hidden away? Now the quagmire gets quaggier.

According to B'nai B'rith, he was a "Jewish renegade", sharing the same label thrown on Spinoza, Alfred M. Lilienthal all other manner of unmentioned Jewish unpersons:

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At this time, a Hamburg journalist, Wilhelm Marr, issued a sensational pamphlet, "The Victory of Judaism over Germanism" (1879), calling for the defense of the "vanquished" against their "conquerors." It is through the writings of this Jewish renegade that the term anti-Semitism was coined, "expressing antagonism to the social and political equality of Jews." The pamphlet of this otherwise obscure writer fell on fruitful soil. It harmonized with the raging national jingoism that had mounted skyhigh with the unification of Germany and that had aimed at the creation of a unified racial and religious body of German citizens.

Source: Jewish Reference Book: B'nai B'rith Manual
Edited by Samuel S. Cohon
Cincinnati, Ohio
1926
pp. 287-88

The possible truth of Marr's having gone "renegade" is his virtual obscurity compared to the biggest marketing campaign of the 20th century using Adolph's face and the swastika as the logo. Maybe Marr, the Jewish renegade, is saying something that's even more uncomfortable for some people than Hitler's ideas?

Chayav Mita - Rabbinical death penalty for gentiles

2006-05-30T13:59:00.000-04:00

Note: "Chayav Mita" - deserving of the death penalty.

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Ask The Rabbi

Bournemouth, Dorset, England

Q: I have heard the Halacha that a non-Jew who keeps Shabbat is Chayav Mita. Can you please tell me the source of this Halacha and also its reason?

A: The reason why a gentile that keeps Shabbos is chayav mita, is that G-d created the world with the purpose of keeping it going and functioning. Everyone must participate in the continuation of the world by working and building. The Jews who accepted the Shabbos, were free of that obligation, since they had accepted the testimony that G-d is the Creator, and that all of our creating stems from Him. Hence we do not work on the Sabbath in order to show that He is the source of all the creation. But the gentile who does not have that commandment to rest and testify about the creation, he is not fulfilling his purpose in the world, which is to create and continue the world. Hence his punishment is death, since he is not fullfilling his function.

Best wishes from,

Rabbi Israel Pesach Feinhandler
Author of Avney Yashpeh and Beloved Companions
2/12 Gedera St.
Jerusalem, Israel 94427
telephone: 972-2-5371447
fax: 972-2-537-2658
e-mail: feinhan@aquanet.co.il
web site: http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/ask

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Cecelia Plechinger
Pittsburgh PA USA

Q: Somebody from Dorset, England asked you if Goyim observing Shabbos is "Chayav Mita" and why. I was confused by the reply. What does "Chayav Mita" mean and why is a Goy not to also rest in thanks for Creation. Creation was already done and the world is continued today by the goodness of haShem and by the labors of all the people in the world except that the Jews must not labor on Shabbos. The Goyim are not required to rest on Shabbos, but if they wish to, why is the "not fulfilling their puropose?"

Dear Cecelia,

A: It is really hard to understand why our Sages say that such a harsh punishment as death is deserved for a gentile that keeps Shabbos. We cannot fully understand but we can give some understanding. The purpose of the goy is to make a world that is liveable so that the Jews who are the real purpose of the world will have somewhere to live and be able to serve G-d which is the purpose of the whole creation. When the goy is keeping Shabbos, he is saying that he is not willing to be the one who will make the world liveable, but rather he wishes to be the one who is testifying about the creation. That he is not allowed to do since it is not his task in life, and he is not fullfilling his purpose.

Q: What about somebody planning to convert and is observing Shabbos in order to make sure that he or she can do it before actually converting. This person is certainly a Goy observing Shabbos. What is the differnce, if any, in this case and the case of a Goy who does not want to convert, but observes Shabbos for some other reason?

A: Even when a person wishes to convert, he must desecrate the shabbos at least once during every shabbos so that he shall not be over this prohibition. So you see that he has the same din as any other goy.

Best wishes from,
Rabbi Israel Pesach Feinhandler

The Rats In The House And The Wolf In The Woods

2006-02-20T21:28:00.000-05:00

I have a friend we'll call Bob because it's only three letters and easy to type. Bob lives in a nice suburban home and is a kind, friendly American. We've been friends for years and he's always struck me as a font of common sense and decency.

Until the past few years that is.

Bob's got rats in his house but for some reason he can't seem to admit it. But he goes on at great length about big, scary wolves in a faraway forest. Not putting too fine a point on it, it strikes me as insane. He invited me to dinner last week and it was a surreal experience.

I got to Bob's at about 7. Bob opened his front door and the unmistakable stench of rodent hit me immediately.

"Whoa! What's that smell, man?", I asked.

"What smell? Can I take your coat?", my host helpfully offered.

I gave him my coat and Bob opened the closet door. A large rat scurried from the closet and ran under the couch in the living room.

"Bob, a rat just ran into your living room", I commented.

"What are you talking about?", Bob half-mindedly replied.

We went into the kitchen and two rats were on the counter by the sink eating through a loaf of bread. They didn't budge when we entered the room. Bob got two beers out of the fridge and gave me one.

"The wolves ate two chickens and a farmer in Overtheristan yesterday", said Bob. "The wolf problem is getting quite severe. We really need to do something about it before they come here."

A huge crash followed Bob's words as a cabinet above the stove came open and three huge rats fell out fighting over a chocolate bar. They hit the floor and one rat took off into the hallway carrying the bar in its mouth. The other two crammed themselves under the stove.

"Bob, you seem to have a real rat problem", I said.

At that, one of the rats on the counter stood up on its hind legs and actually hissed at me. I'd never seen a rat hiss before. It had breadcrumbs hanging from its whiskers and it seemed quite well-fed. At this, Bob made the first and only acknowledgement of the rats that I'd witnessed.

"Ix-nay on the at-ray alk-tay", Bob said in Pig Latin. "They hate that." He seemed terrified even speaking in Pig Latin about them, but then he went back to being his normal, congenial self after his denial kicked back into gear.

"I bought a new rifle the other day. If the wolves come to my door, they'll reap the whirlwind from this American", he said cheerfully.

I have a great affection for my friend, but I had to leave. I'd suddenly noticed the fleas and lice from the rats and thought it healthier for me to remove myself. I hope my friend survives the rats in his house so that he can make his dreamed of stand with the wolf, but I really doubt he'll make it much longer.

The War That We Deserve

2006-02-18T04:45:00.000-05:00

Ponder this phrase for moment or three: WAR ON TERROR

When you're done thinking about it, try to imagine a dumber phrase in history being employed by a government and its accessory-after-the-fact media as a rationale for creative destruction. This one takes the cakewalk.

It's like saying "WAR ON DEPRESSION" or "WAR ON ANXIETY". It's meaningless, in other words. Yet if we expose ourselves to the controlled press for more than about twenty seconds, we're likely to get hit with this meaningless phrase like vaudeville straightmen used to get hit with rubber chickens. I suppose some people still laugh at someone getting hit with a rubber chicken, and perhaps some people actually believe that there's a war on terror.

So where did this phrase come from? Did it used to have some kind of meaning?

When confronted by these seemingly bottomless questions about phrases, let's go where I always go: Usenet. It's a storehouse of old phrases and catch-alls easily broken up by dates and micro-eras. For instance, June 5, 1999 is the earliest use of the phrase "Google me" on Usenet that I can find. That's not to say that it's the first use, but it's probably close. Usenet is sort of like the trap in the elbow of your bathroom sink. There's no telling what's gotten stuck in it.

So, onto the WoT. A quick search on Usenet brings us to a UPI article from Wed, Dec 23, 1992 titled, "Palestinians blame Israel for 'killing' peace process". The relevant sentences reveal the hairball in the sink:

"Israel issued the deportation order a week ago following the kidnapping and execution of a border policeman. Five other Israeli soldiers were also killed by members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad since Dec. 8. Rabin defended the action as part of a "war on terror" and has continued to defy almost total world censure."

Thus, according to Usenet, this is probably something close to the earliest use of the offending phrase. It's Israeli, no less (and no surprise). We also know that Billy-Bob Clinton was fond of this phrase in his mid to late presidency, most likely owing to how it played in Tel Aviv. That the Bush administration and the Neocons that perch on its shoulders are also fond of the quadsyllabic incantation is a fact that we shouldn't take lightly. That one of its earlier invocations was by an Israeli politician assassinated for being a softie should also be kept in mind.

Now that we've got one part of the worm on the hook, let's see what the "War on Terror" means to one mindset.

In 2002, the Ariel Center for Policy Research ("devoted to incisive research and discussion of political and strategic issues concerning Israel and the Jewish people.") published an essay by a 1966 University of Chicago grad named Paul Eidelberg called "Democratizing Islam". In the essay, Eidelberg gave us the following neat summation of our spotlighted phrase:

"America’s war against international terrorism is in truth a war against Arab-Islamic civilization."

There's one reason why Eidelberg's definition matters: he was a contemporary of Leo Strauss, the mentor to many of the Neocons in the Bush nest, though Eidleberg's actually about half a generation ahead of Wolfowitz and Co.

So, one aspect of the War on Terror is about the destruction of the oldest enemy of the Jewish people using the most powerful military in history. I suppose this sits well with some people. It doesn't sit well with me. It portends the destruction of what's left of America.

There's another odd thing about Eidelberg's perception of the "War on Terror" that we should make note of. In the same essay referenced above, he invokes the Noahide Laws as the basis for the war:

"President George W. Bush, a devout Christian, is qualified to make the Seven Noahide Laws the ultimate justification of America’s war against Islamic civilization."

There it is: A dyed-in-the-wool Straussian Neocon Eidelberg lays it out. As I understand it, the Straussian method is to conceal tactics and ends from the hoi-polloi. If that's concealment, what the hell is he hiding?

So now when I hear the phrase "War on Terror", what I actually hear, with apologies to Country Joe and the Fish, is:

"So it's 1-2-3, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
The next stop is Armageddistan..."

"War on Terror": The dumbest phrase in the history of propaganda fed to the dumbest population to ever walk the earth. We get the government, and the wars, that we deserve.

Stephen Francis is a writer and a researcher living in Occupied Virginia.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Boot

2006-02-01T17:18:00.000-05:00

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

-George Orwell, 1984

On Tuesday night, 01/31/06, the boot came down for all to see. Cindy Sheehan was publicly hustled out of the "people's house" and arrested for wearing a shirt. If the Powers That Think They Be will now treat a known figure thusly in full view of the world, how will they treat those that they may have issues with when there are no witnesses present?

The "War on Terror" is spoken of in religious tones by both Democrats and Republicans in Washington. Cindy Sheehan's son died in the war and she had the temerity to question the war priests in their own church. Mike Weight, the US Capitol policeman that bravely wrestled her out of the inner sanctum, said "Protestor!" when he saw her shirt, much as an inquisitor's guard would shriek "Heretic!".

The First Amendment is quite clear about what laws Congress may NOT make regarding our ability to speak and assemble:

"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech..or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Whatever Congressional "rules" are in place that caused the manhandling and arrest of Cindy Sheehan are in direct violation of the US Constitution, supposedly one of the things that Cindy Sheehan's son was fighting for if you go by the rhetoric of the Executive and Legislative branches of the current government. This only underscores a conviction held by many, that the current government is an unconstitutional one and has been for some time.

So let's quit the charade, shall we? If we don't have a Constitutional Republic, what do we have? Is it a Plutocracy? A Usurocracy? A Cryptocracy? If Liberty has been sacrificed for a little temporary security, whose security is actually being assured by the arrest of dissent?

One thing I do know: the offices of the legislative branch certainly don't feel a need to comment to the hoi-polloi on the violation of Cindy Sheehan's First Amendment rights. I called my two senators, John Warner and George Allen and my representative, Virgil Goode, for a comment on what went down with Cindy Sheehan. Goode's office was at least honest enough to say there most likely wouldn't be any comment. As of this writing, I've received no response from the senators. I'm sure these principled legislators were clapping and cheering whenever George Bush intoned "freedom" and "democracy" in his Tuesday night speech as Cindy Sheehan was being processed.

Whether you agree or disagree with Sheehan's politics or opinions, what happened to her on Tuesday night is a bellwether event. If you're an American that actually values Liberty and its attendant responsibilities, I suggest you call your representatives and senators to let them know you're onto the game that's afoot. Some of them might actually appreciate it. Then again, you might have a rep in the mold that Ezra Pound spoke of in Canto XVIII:

...War, one war after another,
Men start 'em who couldn't put up a good hen-roost.

Their chickens are coming home to roost and there'll be no place for them to set. Let's make it more difficult for those same men to put on their stomping boots.

"All These Things" by A.N. Field, 1936

2006-01-25T16:29:00.000-05:00

ALL THESE THINGS

A. N. FIELD

Again, the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto Him, All these things will I give thee....

-St. Matthew iv; 8, 9.

VOLUME I

A. N. FIELD

P.O. BOX 154, NELSON, NEW ZEALAND

1936

PREFACE

THIS book is an assemblage of matter from many different sources exhibiting the nature and interconnection of certain world forces operating in many lands and making for the overthrow of the existing social order and the disintegration of patriotism, religion, and morality.

These influences are felt almost every day by every intelligent person. It is commonly assumed that the changes in opinion, conduct, and institutions which are taking place are, on the whole, changes for the better: that they represent progress and evolution from a lower to a higher and freer form of life. It is further widely assumed that they are a spontaneous growth.

Such was the author's own view until he was led some years ago to investigate the personnel behind certain great financial institutions. The facts encountered at first appeared incredible to him, but the further he went the more complete was the confirmation of their truth. The matter then collected was published in 1931 in a former volume "The Truth about the Slump."

Since then a large amount of matter has come to hand showing the operation of the same forces in other fields. A library of books might be collected dealing with different aspects of the subject, but as there appears to be nothing in the nature of a general conspectus covering the whole field it seemed that something of this kind might serve a useful purpose. The material collected to date has been drafted into twenty-eight chapters, of which the first seven appear in the present volume. It is hoped to publish the remainder of the material in later volumes completing the work.

The present volume is self-contained, but it is necessary to remind the reader that what is here presented covers only a small portion of the ground, touching on certain leading events during the past quarter of a century from 1912 to the present day. To bring the whole picture into perspective it is necessary to range much further afield.

Culled from a great variety of sources, the matter brought together is of varying degrees of validity. Writing in New Zealand, far away from the centre of events and the great libraries of the world, the author has had but limited opportunity of checking his matter to the full. He has, however, endeavoured to make some check of the general accuracy of every source used. These sources are named throughout, and the reader is thus in a position to proceed with independent check and verification on any point desired. In general, the further the research has been carried the more completely have the main facts been confirmed and amplified.

A great part of the activities described traces back to Jewish origin. This fact is quite inescapable; and it is quite impossible to arrive at any true understanding of the matters dealt with if it is ignored. At the same time it is necessary to remember that although certain Jews, or groups of Jews, are found engaged in activities detrimental to the interests of other races, it is unjust to jump to the conclusion that all Jews necessarily support or sympathize with the doings of these Jews. A fair-minded man should at all times be on his guard against drawing wide and sweeping inferences far beyond what any evidence will support. The truth can only be got at by proceeding on from fact to fact.

All that the author asks is that the reader, whatever his race, should temperately and calmly consider whether the unchecked operation of the forces herein described is likely to make the world a better or a worse place. A great aggressive power is at work in the world boring, undermining, and overthrowing. Every effort is made to prevent knowledge of what is happening from reaching the people. Only by that knowledge can the nations avert the dangers threatening them.

The publication of the remainder of this work will depend upon the reception with which the present volume meets. Readers desiring to secure copies of the second volume, or further volumes, are therefore invited to notify the undersigned.

A. N. FIELD.

P.O. Box 154,

Nelson, New Zealand

July, 1936

Chapter I

STRAWS IN THE WIND

1. SOME NEW ZEALAND HAPPENINGS

THE story to be told in these pages deals with many strange and enigmatical events very far away from New Zealand. At the same time in looking around at our own affairs in this country one notices certain things, some of no great moment and others of more importance, but all tending to raise a question in the mind as to whether they came about purely by chance.

Two years or so ago the silver coins in circulation in New Zealand were replaced by a new nickel coinage of lower intrinsic value, corresponding to the lower value which had been given to the New Zealand bank-note pound. When the new coins appeared it was noticeable that the inscription was different from that on the old coins. The old coins in abbreviated Latin set out the Royal style and titles: "George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." The new coins simply bore the legend: "George V: King Emperor." His Majesty on these coins was no longer King "by the Grace of God," nor was he "Defender the Faith." All reference to the religious aspect of the Monarchy had been removed from the coins. There was no necessity for this, for the design on the reverse with the words "New Zealand" made the coins quite distinctive. A trifling thing, the reader may say. Nevertheless, a significant trifle. Just a straw in the wind. A needless thing done. The person who did it must have acted from either one or other of two motives. He must either have regarded the references to the religious aspect of the Monarchy as of no importance; or they must have been definitely repugnant to him, and he took the opportunity of quietly removing them. Whoever did this, moreover, did it at a time when a world campaign against the Christian religion is proceeding. In the midst of that campaign somebody needlessly removed from the coins of New Zealand the reminder that the British Monarchy rests on a definitely religious basis: that our King is not fully vested in his Kingship until he has been consecrated to God, and has pledged himself to maintain the Christian faith. A New Zealander has only to pull a sixpence out of his pocket to have evidence in his hand that whoever designed his country's coinage was without interest in either the Grace of God or the Defence of the Faith.

Some time ago in looking over a list of officials in control of the people of New Zealand — the most British of the Dominions as it is often called—the author noticed that half a dozen key positions were at that time filled by persons with names indicative of non-British ancestry of various kinds. The officials in question were all of the highest character, and there were no grounds for raising any shadow of doubt as to their attachment to British interests. Nevertheless in a community where the percentage of persons of foreign extraction is small, it was surprising to find a number of high positions simultaneously occupied by officials bearing the sort of names one might expect to see if the League of Nations had sent an international delegation from Geneva to govern the country. Was it purely by chance that these posts happened at this time to be so filled? Or was it possible that a dash of foreign blood carried with it much greater ability than unmixed British and so brought its possessors automatically to the top? Or was it by any means possible that somewhere in the background some subtle internationalist influence came into play? These questions can only be stated. They are stated because curious internationalist leanings have been apparent in other directions in New Zealand, and because one notices in other parts of the Empire from time to time the raising of questions about the gravitation to high office of persons whose antecedents are not of an entirely unmixed British character, almost as though it were desired gradually to accustom British people to being ruled as a matter of course by men of other race than their own.

* * * *

In 1930 two emissaries of the Bank of England visited New Zealand to advise its Government on monetary matters.

Their names were not distinctively British. One was Sir Otto Ernsy Niemeyer; the other was Professor Theodor Ernanuel Gugenheim Gregory, a member of the teaching staff of the London School of Economics, a nursery of Socialism, as we shall see in the next volume, and staffed largely by teachers bearing names indicative of foreign extraction. Sir Otto Niemeyer was a functionary at the British Treasury from 1906 until 1927, holding the post of Controller of Finance from 1922 to 1927. In the latter year he joined the staff of the Bank of England. Professor Gregory seems to have been detached temporarily from the staff of the Socialist institution to accompany him to Australia and New Zealand as "economic adviser."

Sir Otto Niemeyer made a report advising the Government of New Zealand to establish a private corporation to control the volume of currency and credit in the country. He also proposed that this privately owned central reserve bank should be given a permanent monopoly of all the Government's "money, remittance, exchange and banking transactions." He further proposed that the Government should find a million sterling for the working capital of the bank, in respect of which sum it would hold no shares and have no voice in the management; and that half a million should be obtained by the issue of shares to the public, the holders of such shares to be the owners of the bank. In the original Bill as introduced it was left open to foreigners to own the bank, though only shareholders who were British subjects resident in New Zealand had votes at bank meetings. Furthermore, the share list was not open to inspection and ownership of the institution was thus secret. It was not easy to see what advantages the Government was to gain from an institution set up as recommended in this report. Sir Otto Niemeyer certainly pointed to no outstanding Benefit to the people of New Zealand. The terms on which he Government banking account was secured were distinctly unfavourable terms. The bank was given a monopoly of the account; the Government was given no right to so much as a pennyworth of accommodation from the bank; the bank might give accommodation to a limited amount if it chose, but need not if it did not so choose. No private concern would dream giving a monopoly of its banking account on such terms, nor would any private person ever consider finding two-thirds of the capital for any venture without having a voice in its control. It was a very one-sided arrangement in every aspect.

When the Reserve Bank Bill was before Parliament in 1933 an amendment of a quite ineffective nature was inserted giving the Government representation on the board of the bank. Of the nine members three were to be Government nominees: but once appointed even these minority representatives were not to be amenable to Government control, for they held office far five years and the Government was powerless to displace them during that time if dissatisfied with their conduct.

Another amendment was made by Parliament at the instance of a private member, Mr. R. A. Wright. This provided that the shares should be issued only to British subjects ordinarily resident in New Zealand. It is to be assumed that the original draft permitting foreign ownership was not so framed without reason. To gain light on this point the international origin of reserve banking requires to be considered.

2. INTERNATIONALISM IN EXCELSIS

The parent of the new model central reserve banks is the United States Federal Reserve Board and its twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks set up about six months before the European War broke out. These banks are privately-owned institutions with very complete control over the volume of currency and credit in the United States, and thus over th« prevailing level of wages and prices. The principal prime mover in creating the Federal Reserve system was the late Mr. Paul Warburg (1868-1932), who with his brother, Mr. Felix Warburg, was a partner in the international banking-house of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, New York. The head of that firm at this time was Mr. Jacob H. Schiff (1847-1920). According to the Jewish Encyclopaedia the Schiff family is the oldest contemporary Jewish family of which there is record, tracing its ancestry back to 1370. In "All in a Lifetime" (Heinemann, 1923), the memoirs of another eminent Jew, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Senior, formerly United States Ambassador to Turkey, Mr. Schiff was referred to as "the much beloved leader of the Jews." He was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, where his father was a broker for the Rothschilds. In America he built up and controlled enormous railway, telegraph and telephone and innumerable other combines. He was decorated by the Mikado for financing Japan in her war against Russia, and much matter has been printed tending to show that he financed Russian revolutionaries freely.

Mr. Paul Warburg was brother-in-law to Mr. Schiff, and was also a Jew of German birth, becoming naturalized as an American citizen in 1911, three years before the war. His brothers conduct the powerful German banking-house of M. Warburg and Company, Hamburg, financing the German shipping industry and controlling the Hamburg-America and North German Lloyd lines. Herr Max Warburg, head of this banking-house, played an important part in German politics, particularly at the time the Kaiser fled to Holland. Dr. Carl Melchoir, a partner in it, was one of the five German delegates-in-chief at the Peace Conference at Versailles, and in later years was prominent in the founding of the Bank for international Settlements, the central bank of the central banks established in Switzerland, which has been internationalized in peace and war alike, pays no taxes, and is above and beyond all law. Provision was made in the New Zealand Reserve Bank Act for our reserve bank to join up with the Bank for International Settlements (B.I.S.). A message from Basle, Switzerland, published in the London "Times" of April 9, 1934, in reporting a meeting of this institution, said: "The newly-established [Reserve] Bank of Canada and Bank of New Zealand are empowered by their Governments to buy B.I.S. shares and to make deposits at the bank as soon as the stabilization of the respective currencies will allow." This shows that these reserve banks were established as part of the network of an international money trust.

Of the war-time activities of Mr. Paul Warburg, promoter the Federal Reserve, we find Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to the end of 1917 writing as follows under date of November 13, 1914; "He practically controls the financial policy of the immistration, and Paish and Blackett had to negotiate with him. Of course it was exactly like negotiating with Germany. Everything that was said was German property." In various books on war-time espionage the Hamburg-America offices in New York are referred to as the centre of German espionage in the United States. In a pamphlet published by him in 1932 ("A State Currency: to Hell with Wall Street"), Mr. George W, Armstrong, president of the Texas Steel Company, printed what he said was the United States Naval Secret Service report on Mr. Paul Warburg under date of December 12, 1918. As given by Mr. Armstrong this ran in part as follows: "Warburg, Paul . . . handled large sums furnished by Germany for Lenin and Trotsky; subject has a brother who is leader of the espionage system (of Germany)." The allegations as to the participation of Messrs. Schiff and Warburg in the financing of the Russian revolution will be dealt with later. Mr. McAdoo, President Wilson's son-in-law and Secretary of the Treasury during the war, was a former partner with Mr. Warburg, and the "Dictionary of National Biography" records that the late Sir Ernest Cassel, the Jewish friend and financial adviser of King Edward VII, was associated in former years with Mr. Jacob Schiff in effecting some of the great American railway combines in which his firm specialized. The authorities for the foregoing statements (where not given above) will be found in the author's previous book "The Truth about the Slump."

As to the mode of operation of the great American money-controlling machine established under the above auspices, we have the fact that it was created for the ostensible purpose of preventing financial crises, and there have been greater and more violent crises since it was established than were ever previously known. Professor J. R. Commons, of the University of Winconsin, testified in evidence before the United States House of Representatives Banking and Currency Committee in 1927 that a member of the Federal Reserve Board had told him that the great inflation of 1919 was deliberately created by the Federal Reserve Board. Minutes of a secret Federal Reserve conference of May, 1920, ordering immediate contraction of credit have been freely quoted in Congressional documents as direct evidence of the cause of the depression which brought disaster all over the world at that time. Former Senator Robert L. Owen, who as chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee piloted the Federal Reserve Bill through the Senate in 1913, testified before the House Banking Committee on March 18, 1932, that the great world depression beginning in October, 1929, was brought about by deliberate contraction of credit by the Federal Reserve system, specifying in detail the actions which led to the disaster. The allegations as to the deliberate expansion and contraction of currency and credit by the Federal Reserve system will be examined in Chapter V.

Soon after the war was over the international financiers decided that the time was ripe to establish reserve banks all over the world. Whatever other people might think of the Federal Reserve system in the United States, it satisfied the financiers. In 1922 there was held a great international conference at Genoa at which Herr Walter Rathenau, the Jewish Foreign Minister of Germany, surprised the world by announcing that Germany had decided to recognize the Bolshevik Government of Russia, being the first country in the world to do so. Simultaneously another conference was sitting in Genoa attended among others by Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, the Governor of the Bank of France, the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and other international bankers. This conference resolved that central reserve banks should be set up in all countries where they were not already in existence. This work was thereafter steadily proceeded with and such banks have been established throughout almost the whole world.

A prominent part in the establishment of these banks was played by Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. In "Montagu Norman, a Study in Financial Statesmanship" (Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1932), Mr. Paul Einzig, editor of the London "Financial Review," tells us that Mr. Norman "raised central banking after its early haphazard growth to a scientific system." In this he was "assisted by able and experienced experts such as Sir Otto Niemeyer and Mr. Siepmann." Further, "the names with which the elaboration of these (central bank) statutes was closely associated are those of Sir Otto Niemeyer and Sir Henry Strakosch."

In passing it may be noted that according to matter in Lieut.-Col. A. H. Lane's book, "The Alien Menace" (1932), Baron Georges Strakosch von Feldringen of Vienna is nephew to Sir Henry Strakosch, who is listed as Jewish in the "Fascist" of June, 1935.

Of the doings of this internationalist picnic party, Mr. Einzig, conductor of London's "Financial Review," proceeds to tell us that: "Another condition on which Mr. Norman and is collaborators insisted was that the central banks should independent of their governments." It is emphasized that on this "they insisted rather dogmatically." In other words, the State was not to govern in the sphere of money, which was to be left to the Normans, Siepmanns, Niemeyers, Strakosches, etc., ad lib. Despite the audacity of these proceedings they were entirely successful. The paid economists duly discovered that reserve banks were marvellous scientific improvements, the newspapers joined in the chorus of applause, and the politicians of the various States behaved as so many bellwethers leading the sheep into the slaughterhouse. The fact was entirely overlooked that these financiers are in no sense public servants, but simply the paid agents of the shareholders in a banking company whose interests need not in the least be identical with the national interest.

This digression has been made to permit the reader to appreciate the highly international atmosphere in which central banking, and incidentally the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, had its birth. Sir Otto Niemeyer in his report said we ought to have a reserve bank to co-operate with the reserve banks of other countries as these banks had "no suitable point of contact in New Zealand." Furthermore, we were told that we would be benefited by having our Reserve Bank ship away all or most of the gold held by the banks in New Zealand. It was pointed out that this gold did not bear interest and it was thus a dead loss to hold it when we might exchange it for interest-bearing paper. It thus appeared that Sir Otto Niemeyer and his friends, on purely philanthropic grounds, were willing to carry off our gold, bear the dead loss on it themselves, and hand us over valuable paper for it. Nobody in the Government of New Zealand ever paused to think whether there might be any drawback to this admirable arrangement. It was swallowed whole. The entire reserve against the paper money issued by the New Zealand Reserve Bank may lawfully consist of private people's bills of exchange promising to pay sterling or some foreign gold-standard money. These bills of exchange do not need to have the least connection with the trade of New Zealand, and may be concerned with sales and purchases between foreigners in any part of the world.

The Reserve Bank Act was passed in 1933. It so happened that in the preceding year advantage had been taken of a similar, but not so sweeping, provision in the United States Federal Reserve law by one Ivar Kreuger with the assistance of aiders and abettors in America. Mr. Kreuger successfully worked off on the United States Federal Reserve some very large parcels of commercial bills of exchange which were later discovered to have no exchange value at all. Speaking in Congress on June 10, 1932, Mr. Louis T. McFadden, long chairman of the House of Representatives Banking and Currency Committee, said: "Every dollar of the billions Kreuger and his gang drew out of this country on acceptances [bills of exchange] was drawn from the Government and the people of the United States through the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The credit of the United States Government was peddled to him. . . " Mr. McFadden explained at length and in detail how by allowing foreign commercial bills of exchange to be used as a basis for the issue of money in the United States immense frauds had for years been systematically worked by "the swindlers and speculators of all nations," bad bills being bought by the Federal Reserve by the issue of good money, and the loss being saddled on the taxpayers of America.

In lectures at Oxford University immediately following on the exposure of the gigantic Kreuger frauds, Professor Gustav Cassel, the well-known monetary expert, said of this method of keeping central bank reserves in foreign exchange that it had been "completely discredited by the occurrences of the last year." Twelve months later the Parliament of New Zealand adopted this "completely discredited" basis for its reserve bank currency; and the Government of the day even went so far as to announce the new system as a wonderful reform.

Immediately it was established the New Zealand's Reserve Bank took over the gold in the trading banks and duly shipped about three-quarters of it away in return for exchange paper. It also took over from the trading banks something in the neighbourhood of 16 millions of sterling in London. Large sums were thus made available for dealing in bills of exchange in the short-term money market in London. If it were possible to uncover the actual facts it might be instructive to see exactly who has been financed by the internationalists with these millions belonging to the people : New Zealand. It is quite open, for example, for the money be employed in financing the trade of our competitors in the British market. The London moneylenders, as everybody knows, have long had much greater interests in the Argentine than in this quarter of the world. Whatever has been done with our money it was not intelligent to leave large sums loose and open to be used in furthering other people's interests instead of our own.

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Now let us go back and consider just why it should have been left open in the Reserve Bank Bill for foreigners to hold Reserve Bank shares. The foreigners had no voting rights: they could not elect the directors and have a say at bank meetings. What result followed if they bought shares? This very important result: if the Parliament of New Zealand at a future date decided to amend or abolish the Reserve Bank it would be changing the terms of a piece of legislation forming the basis of a contract between the Government of New Zealand and the citizens of a foreign State who had put up their money and bought shares in the bank. These foreigners would then be in a position to have their Government take up the question of this breach of contract either with the Imperial Government or the Government of New Zealand. Obstacles might thus readily be put in the way of Parliament interfering with the Reserve Bank. And we have the word of Mr. Einzig, editor of the London "Financial Review," that Mr. Montagu Norman, and Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, and Sir Henry Strakosch and Mr. Siepmann, and the rest of the gentlemen who run the Bank of England, insist "rather dogmatically" that these banks are to be independent of their governments. Happily New Zealand did not leave it open to foreigners to own its Reserve Bank, and the State has since become sole owner.

Another very curious thing happened when the Mortgage Corporation Bill came before Parliament in 1935. This measure set up a second great privately-owned concern to take over the loans of the Government lending departments, or rather to take them over to the extent to which they were good, leaving the rest on the taxpayers' backs. As in the case of the Reserve Bank, it was extremely obscure what benefit the people of New Zealand were supposed to derive from this institution. The wording of the legislation suggested a certain identity of origin with the Reserve Bank. The sections relating to the capital and shares, for instance, seemed to have been lifted bodily, word for word, from the Reserve Bank Bill. Strangely, like the Reserve Bank Bill in its original form, the New Zealand Mortgage Corporation Bill left it open for foreigners to own the institution. The rest of the wording of the sections about capital was the same as in the Reserve Bank Act, but the amendment which had been inserted in that Act at the instance of Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., restricting share ownership to British subjects resident in New Zealand, had been somehow omitted. It is very difficult to think that this omission was accidental. Only £500,000 of capital was required: there was no necessity to go outside New Zealand for such a sum. Mr. Wright, as he had done in the previous case, thereupon moved to restrict ownership to British subjects ordinarily resident in New Zealand. The Government of the day did not reject Mr. Wright's amendment. It would have looked extremely strange if it had rejected such an amendment. What did the Government do? It accepted Mr. Wright's amendment — and then added words on to it that completely nullified it. As the law was enacted no individual other than a British subject ordinarily resident in New Zealand could own shares in the Mortgage Corporation, but any company, British or foreign, with a place of business in New Zealand could own shares to any extent. It was thus legally competent for the entire ownership of this corporation to pass into foreign hands, and even on some future war occurring for it to be found in the possession of the King's enemies. The sequence of events showed quite clearly that, for reasons not disclosed to the public, the Government then office considered it essential that the law should leave it open for the ownership of this great corporation controlling immense areas of the farming lands of New Zealand to fall in part or whole into foreign hands. What was the meaning of this straw in the wind? Perhaps later in these pages we may see further into this. It is satisfactory to note that the new Government is resuming control of this institution also.

When the Reserve Bank Bill was before the Legislative Council in November, 1933, Sir James Parr had charge of the measure as Leader of the Council and representative of Cabinet therein. Sir James Parr, as a former High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, had been in contact with London financiers. In moving the Reserve Bank Bill he referred to Sir Otto Niemeyer in the following terms:

"He was born in England, and comes of four generations of men of his family born in England, and, therefore, full British subjects. I have sat, both at Geneva and in London, on important commissions with Sir Otto Niemeyer as one of the financial advisers to these commissions. Sir Otto I know to be a Britisher through and through, in his sentiments as loyal to the British Empire as you or I."

Now it so happened that the portion of this statement printed in heavy type was very difficult to reconcile with statements concerning Sir Otto Niemeyer to which the present writer had given publicity. He at once wrote to Sir James Parr pointing out the discrepancy between his own and Sir James Parr's statements, and inquiring whether Sir James had positive knowledge that Sir Otto Niemeyer came of four generations of men of his family born in England and therefore full British subjects. The letter proceeded:

"As this statement is difficult to reconcile with matter contained in a book in the Parliamentary Library and quoted by me in good faith in my book 'The Truth about the Slump,' and as I may shortly be issuing a new edition of this book, I shall be grateful if you will let me know whether you have positive information that what is contained therein is incorrect, as I am naturally desirous of having my facts as accurate as possible.

"On page ii of the appendix to my book I quoted matter from 'The Alien Menace' by Lieut.-Col. A. H. Lane (Boswell Press, London, 2nd edition, 1929) in which are reprinted extracts from what purports to be correspondence of the late Dr. Ellis Powell, then editor of the London 'Financial News,' with the late Mr. Bonar Law, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Writing on December 18, 1918, Dr. Powell is stated to have asked Mr. Bonar Law whether certain Germans named Niemeyer who had ill-treated British prisoners of war had a near relative occupying a high position in the Treasury and married to a German wife. It is added that five days later Mr. R. M. Gower wrote in reply from Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, as follows:

'Mr. Bonar Law wishes me to inform you that the case of Mr. Niemeyer was recently considered by the Committee appointed by the Government to examine the cases of persons not the children of British-born subjects who are employed in Government Departments, and that the Committee had decided that it was in the public interest that Mr. Niemeyer should hold the post which he occupies in the Treasury.'

"Colonel Lane added: 'Thereupon Dr. Powell wrote direct to Mr. Bonar Law two further letters in the second of which he pointed out that no answer had been given to his question whether Mr. Niemeyer of the Treasury was any relation "of the Germans referred to." At this point the correspondence seems to have ended. I now put to Sir Otto Ernest Niemeyer the same question. I make no reflection on the personal character and integrity of Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer. I publish the above facts because I feel strongly that it should be known to the British people to what extent our Government services are directed by officials of alien extraction.'

"If your own statement is correct, and if the foregoing is correct, it seems an extraordinary thing that the case of Sir Otto (then Mr.) Niemeyer should have been referred for examination by a Committee set up to deal with the cases of persons in a different category altogether. Colonel Lane, in the third edition of his book, published last year, seems to have been as unsuccessful as Dr. Powell in obtaining an answer to his question. It is a legitimate inference that if Mr. Bonar Law had been able to say there was no relationship he would have done so.

"The circumstance prompting Dr. Powell's inquiry seems to have been the publication in the London Press of the report of the Government Committee, presided over by Mr. Justice Younger, on the treatment of British prisoners of war in Germany. This appeared in the London 'Times' of December 5, 1918, under the headings: 'Torture of our Officers. Twin Tyrants. Three Specimens of the German Brute.' It was strongly condemnatory of the conduct of Captains Karl and Heinrich Niemeyer, twin brothers, in command respectively of the prison camps at Holzminden and Clausthal in Hanover, in which were interned most of the British officer prisoners of war.

"Further reference to this matter is made in another book 'The Tunnellers of Holzminden' by Mr. H. G. Durnford, M.C., M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1930). On page 106 it is stated that the conduct of the two Captains Niemeyer was so bad that about May, 1918, the British Government, as a last resort, having failed to secure any redress, instituted reprisals by segregating for special treatment all the Hanoverian officers among the German prisoners of war in Britain. On page 159 it is stated: 'Both the Niemeyers figured on the Black List [of War Criminals] communicated by the Supreme Council to the German Government during or after the Peace Conference.' On page 28 it is stated that the conduct of Captain Karl Niemeyer had been strongly condemned by the German War Office itself when he was in command of a prison camp at Strohen, but this had not interfered with his appointment to Holzminden. On page 35 it is stated that the reason for the high favour enjoyed by the Niemeyers 'was always something of an enigma,' and that according to a member of the Netherlands Legation they were under the personal patronage of the Emperor. 'Certain it is,' states Mr. Durnford, 'that despite the strongest representations ever since the departure of the first party for exchange to Holland —from British officers to the British General commanding in that country, from the General to the War Office, from the War Office back to the British Legation in Holland, from the Legation to the Dutch Government, and from the Dutch Government to Berlin—the pair stuck like leeches, and retired, by the back door, only at such an advanced period in the war that it had become evident that not even the patronage of the All-Highest was likely to avail them much longer.'

"In view of the strong stand taken by you in the past as Minister of Education on questions of nationality, as evidenced by your introduction of the practice of saluting the Flag in the schools, and your dismissals of certain teachers on points of loyalty, I take it that you have positive evidence that Sir Otto Niemeyer is not in any way related to the two Captains Niemeyer referred to above. Your speech as published, however, does not specifically cover the points referred to in Colonel Lane's book, and I shall be extremely grateful for information as to the actual position.

"Sir Otto Niemeyer's association with the disastrous American debt settlement as the principal Government official accompanying Mr. Baldwin on his ill-fated mission to the United States in January, 1923, and his membership of the Treasury Committee in 1925, on whose recommendation Mr. Churchill made the equally disastrous return to gold in that year, do not point to his possession of greater financial acumen than might have been obtained from a financial adviser of our own blood and flesh. I certainly think it a !ost extraordinary thing that Mr. Bonar Law should fail to answer the plain and simple question put to him by Dr. Powell, and I hope that you will answer it. It is a very horrible thought that there should be any possibility of a high official in the British Treasury in the midst of a life and death struggle being the near relative of a pair of scoundrels against whom the British Government was actually taking reprisals for non-observance of the rules of civilized warfare. ."

The above letter was dated November 28, 1933. Sir James Parr replied under date of December 18. After quoting a long extract from his speech, he said:

"Apparently the sentence to which you take exception is the statement that: 'He comes of four generations of men of his family born in England, and, therefore, full British subjects.'

"When I made this statement I did so on specific information supplied to me by a Departmental Officer, and my statement was made in all good faith. I have since made enquiries by cable, and I find that Sir Otto Niemeyer was born in England and is a British subject. His father was a native of Hanover who came to England because his country was annexed by the Prussians, and he became a naturalized British subject. Further, it is quite clear that Sir Otto's mother was English by birth. On his mother's side the line is British for several generations at least. It would also appear that Sir Otto Niemeyer is not a Jew. There is no doubt that Sir Otto has a long record of distinguished public service, and has enjoyed, and still enjoys, the full confidence of English Governments and of the English financial world.

"I have no knowledge whatever regarding the other question, as to Sir Otto's relationship with certain German officers. But, as regards Sir Otto himself, I may repeat that I saw much of him in London in various capacities, and both his sympathies and his speech were as pro-British as yours or mine.

"With the modifications now made by me in one sentence only, the rest of my speech, I think, is correct."

The statement so emphatically made in Parliament by Sir James Parr as to the long British ancestry of Sir Otto Niemeyer thus proves to be an inaccurate statement. And the question asked by Dr. Ellis Powell and repeated by Colonel Lane remains an unanswered question. High finance is international: but we do not want internationalism in the British Treasury in time of war. As to whether we had it in this particular case, Sir James Parr had "no knowledge whatever." We certainly had it in some other departments of State in curious instances which will presently come under our notice. The principle involved rises superior to all questions of personality. A straightforward question was asked by Dr. Powell, and a straightforward answer should have been given him.

4. THESE BROAD-MINDED DAYS

If we find distinct traces of internationalism—and an internationalism devoid of any conspicuous benefit—in the incubation and framing of recent legislation in this country we must not be surprised to find it accompanied by indications of "broadmindedness" in other directions. The difference between the ordinary and the broadminded way of looking at things was succintly put in a few pithy words in Joseph Conrad's strange chronicle of revolutionary intrigue "Under Western Eyes," written a quarter of a century back:

"History-—not Theory Patriotism—not Internationalism Evolution—not Revolution Direction—not Destruction Unity—not Disruption."

Curious indications of leanings to the broad-minded side in unsuspected quarters will be found in plenty by anyone who takes the trouble to peruse that voluminous document containing the evidence given before the New Zealand Government Monetary Committee in 1934. We shall find there that in cross-examining witnesses advocating monetary reform the Conservative members of Parliament on the committee quoted with frequency a certain book which they appeared to regard as a sort of Bible on monetary matters This was "What Everybody Wants to Know about Money" (Gollancz, 1933), the author of which is Mr G. D. H. Cole, Reader in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Mr. Cole is a Socialist. He does not consider the social results he desires are to be obtained by monetary reform Tn other books and speeches he has made clear the line of ;action preferred by him. In his book "The World of Labour", he says that "the interests of Capital and Labour are diametrically opposed"; that " 'social peace' is a sham and a trick"; that matters can only be righted by "the overthrow of capitalist society." Mr. Cole emphasized his views in an address delivered to the British Socialist League as reported in the "New Clarion" of January 27, 1934. He said: "A classless society will never come from above, but only as the result of the working class toppling over the capitalist system from below." A Parliamentary victory would be quite insufficient: what was wanted "involves the direct and formidable class action of the workers in the mass."

People who do not keep themselves up to date may be surprised to know that a person holding such views as Mr. Cole holds is considered a fit and proper instructor for British youth at Oxford University. In passing it may be noted that Mr. Cole's numerous books on economics usually appear through the Jewish publishing house of Gollancz, whose publications make an interesting study. If the existing social order is violently overthrown, as Mr. Cole advocates, it will only be because the mass of the people are suffering want and privation. The existing order is capable of producing in abundance all that the people require. If they are unable to obtain what they require it is mainly because they lack the money to buy it. The problem is thus a monetary one. But if by monetary reform this state of things were remedied a violent overthrow of the existing social order would be most unlikely. It is a very striking fact that, taken generally, Communists and Socialists are as violently opposed to monetary reform as is the moneyed interest itself. Their sine qua non is not so much the betterment of conditions, as the violent overthrow of the whole present constitution of society. Destruction is the immediate objective.

It was curious to find Conservative members of Parliament treating with such deference the views of one who sees in formidable mass action of the workers to topple over the present social order the cure for the diseases of that order. The official spokesman for the Douglas Credit Association of New Zealand in commenting upon this fact in evidence before the committee remarked: "We are rather bewildered when a man professing to be a Socialist is yet a Communist and is used in support of the present system." At the same time this witness himself said: "I am a great admirer of Cole; I feel that if Douglas fails, we will have to revert to Cole:" and again: "I admire Cole, and we may relapse into his philosophy if we fail."

It was furthermore noticeable that when the Monetary Committee came to draft its recommendations the Conservative majority (with one exception) appended their names to a report which almost completely ignored the evidence presented and enlarged at length on what might be achieved by a Planned Economy regimenting and controlling industry, the inference being that monetary reform was useless and Planning the only real cure. Advocacy of Planned Economy was also to be found in the evidence of Mr. Walter Nash in explaining his scheme for financing guaranteed prices by Government control of the external trade of the country. Mr. Nash was then a private member of Parliament but is now Minister of Finance in the Labour Government which came into office following on the elections in November, 1935. He deprecated the view that monetary reform was in itself a remedy for the national difficulties. "We have got to fit into a system of planned production," he said. Many leading questions as to the advantages of Planning were asked of witnesses by the Government economist attached to the committee as an expert, and at the time of writing on the staff of Mr. Nash as Minister of Finance.

A considerable literature has appeared in Britain of late expatiating on the merits of Planned Economy. Some of it is written by Conservatives and some by people of more radical tendencies. Articles in support of Planned Economy have appeared in the most Conservative London newspapers. Whence comes this Planning and what is its significance? At the moment it is sufficient to note that just as nothing was heard of reserve banks until after the establishment of the Federal Reserve system in the United States, so nothing was heard of Planning until after the Bolsheviks in Russia had formulated their Five Year Plan. The financiers put on the screw by taking money out of circulation and thus created want and discontent among the people. The Moscow Bolsheviks and their agents throughout the world then loudly affirmed that the only cure was a universal Communistic revolution. On that revolution not developing, another school of thought arises which asserts that we can only escape from our difficulties by adopting a Planned Economy. Is this view sound or is it a mistaken view? It seems that in the circumstances we should at least do well to sift out and understand all we can of the movement for Planning.

Before tracing out the developments abroad in the direction of Planned Economy and the personnel behind them we shall in the next three chapters consider certain curious happenings immediately before, during, and after the Great War, for it is from the dislocations following on that great event that our most acute troubles spring.

On The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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A Perspective: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
by Stephen Francis

“Agree with me if I seem to you to speak the truth; or, if not, withstand me might and main that I may not deceive you as well as myself in my desire, and like the bee leave my sting in you before I die."- Socrates

Growing up as I did in a target-rich, post-Vatican II Catholic environment, bombardment by both conflicting dogma and conflicting accounts of history were unavoidable. In my case, it was complicated by Jewish cultural conditioning on my father's side (as a friend in the same boat said to me once, "If your dad's a Jew, you get all the brainwashing without access to the international floating casino."). I suspect my situation wasn't unique, and my suspicion has been confirmed in discussions with friends in the past few years (See: How The Jews Changed Catholic Thinking by Joseph Roddy, LOOK Magazine Senior Editor, LOOK Magazine January 25, 1966).

There were many messages, intended and otherwise, transmitted to literate Boston area Catholic children in the 1960's and 1970's. One of them was, "Don't criticize Jews. As a matter of fact, it's best to just not think of them in any light except a favorable one." The same message didn't hold true for fellow Christians such as Protestants and other heretical sects deemed unworthy by the bishops. They were wide open for excoriation.

Another message was subtly pounded into my skull in my Zio-Judaized Catholic education - anything vaguely connected to "anti-semitic" thought was utterly verboten. Ezra Pound? Anti-semite. Henry Ford? Anti-semite. Joe McCarthy? Anti-semite. G. K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, Charles Coughlin and Denis Fahey? Catholic anti-semites all, the last two being priests.

The biggie was the work known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was to be given no quarter in any discussion, debate or exercise of the mind. I dimly recall being given a brief lecture on the topic in my fourth grade class. I remember being left with the impression that the Nazis wrote them, false information I ran with for many years thereafter.

It wasn't until after 9/11/01 that I was moved to read the Protocols. Until then, my conditioning had always put a leash on my curiosity. My research into the structure of the international banking/industrial/corporate cartels had made a straight path into the Protocols, based on passages such as:

"What we want is that industry should drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the goyim into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the goyim will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist."

I wish I could recall the date that I realized the Protocols had earthshaking validity. It was sometime in early to mid-2002. No matter. In the intervening time, I'm more convinced than ever of the truthfulness of their content, though like everything else associated with the Worldly Powers, there's a deceptive edge to them.

When The Protocols are acknowledged at all by groups like the Anti-Defamation League, they're called "a forgery". The actual contents are never addressed, and for one very good reason: like a forged Mona Lisa, the contents are a true likeness even if the authorship is in doubt. People that choose to belong to groups like the ADL are in a fatal denial about this topic. As Ezra Pound said about The Protocols:

"If or when one mentions the protocols alleged to be of the Elders of Zion, one is frequently met with the reply: Oh, but they are a forgery. Certainly they are a forgery, and that is the one proof we have of their authenticity."

-Ezra Pound, April 20, 1943 radio broadcast

My opinion is that they are indeed a "forgery", though that fact in no way diminishes the weight of their import. Lies and forgeries have been a hallmark of thieves, usurpers and murderers throughout history. Every international event of the 20th century was based on a lie, fraud and/or a forgery: the founding of the Federal Reserve (for that matter, every central bank in the world), the Russian Revolution, America's entry into World War I, the cause of the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, the founding of Israel, the Korean War, the JFK whitewash, Viet Nam, the Gulf War, 9/11, and the current Iraq War/War on Terror. Last but not least, the Holocaust. All based on lies, frauds and forgeries, to the last drop of deception and treachery.

What follows is a brief perspective on this forgery known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zions and the light it might shed on the factions battling for worldly power.

Jews, The Nations and the Protocols

That Jews have played a major role in the power structures and social movements of much of the world in the past centuries and the current time is an established fact. Prof. Benjamin Ginsberg of Johns Hopkins University and Prof. Kevin MacDonald of California State University are just two recent scholars that have excellently documented these cultural dynamics, if from differing points of view. Werner Sombart's 1911 work, The Jews and Modern Capitalism is also another valuable, if underrated, source on the topic.

Just as ignoring Jewish influence in political and social workings is intellectually dishonest, to lay all of the flying buttresses and arched vaults of the Cathedral of Worldly Power at the feet of the Jews alone is equally imprecise and dishonest. This is where the Machiavellian diablorie of the Protocols is most impressive. Whoever wrote the work intimately knew the workings of statecraft and the inter-generational plans of the minority Autocrats that seek to rule the world. The Plan is laid out, naked, for all to see. By pinning the blame on Jews alone, the author(s) knew that the Protocols would be torn apart and marginalized by Jewish groups, thus rendering any attempts by brave souls to expose the Plan as "paranoid", "anti-semites", "conspiracy theorists", etc.

That there is indeed a Plan strikes this writer as a concrete fact. It's a Plan that all pack predators and opportunists know by instinct and intuition. You could say it's in the blood of all the thieving, lying murderers of every nation:

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
-Jesus

Viewing the structure of Worldly Power as an armored beast, Jewish power is the vulnerable area of the monster. That's why its protection seems to be so important to all that would rule the world. It's also the single greatest divider of brainwashed, overly-conditioned nations. We see every world leader pay homage to Jewish influence as that's how they keep their own populations divided against each other. Divide and conquer - the oldest trick in the book.

At this stage in history, Zionists of all stripes and Zionist Jews in particular are reaching the peak of their power. By all means, we must keep the heat on the wielders of Jewish power. By no means must we also take the heat off the corrupt wielders of Christian, Muslim, atheistic, Masonic or Satanic power. I suspect that if we made a Venn diagram of just-named six seats of power, there'd be a large overlap in the middle. The factions are muddied to keep us all in the dark.

So read the Protocols for yourself. Draw your own conclusions. You could also read a nation-neutral verison as a comparison, The Directives of the Agents of the New World Order.

Deception is the means of waging war that all of the Children of Hell employ. The only defense I've found is to keep seeking the truth and question everything that I think I know. If we don't deceive ourselves, the chances of being deceived are lessened. Above all, think for yourself. The Powers that oppose us give it all their might that we think and act for them.

Peace.

SF
01-16-06

Stephen Francis is a researcher living in Occupied America.

Tenth Lesson

2005-11-25T14:44:00.000-05:00

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — power is ever stealing from the many to the few…. The hand entrusted with power becomes … the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."

-WENDELL PHILLIPS, speech in Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 1852

TENTH LESSON: WAKE UP, SMOTHERED SHEEPLE!

Ninth Lesson

2005-11-23T11:06:00.000-05:00

Michael Ledeen's Public Lies

In the same manner as Goebbels, Michael Ledeen is an influential man. He says things and pushes things through the media and through channels in DC that 'get around'. In the 1970's he was a founder of JINSA, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, which gave us the term "shock and awe" as a descriptor of the pain and misery being inflicted on the Iraqi people by the American military.

Ledeen posts as 'MLedeen' on Free Republic, a GOP website run by a fellow named Jim Robinson (see Ledeen's posting history on Free Republic). Two posts on Free Republic by Ledeen are indicative of the way he operates.

On September 11, 2001 at 6:26am PDT (9:26 EDT, or 24 minutes after the South Tower of WTC was hit and 9 minutes before the Pentagon was hit), Ledeen posted this on Free Republic:

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To: BigWaveBetty

Saddam's revenge
11 posted on 09/11/2001 6:26:38 AM PDT by MLedeen
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He never retracted or corrected his public lie.

On April 2, 2003, 13 days after the invasion of Iraq and one week before Baghdad was captured, Ledeen posted this on Free Republic:

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To: JohnHuang2

i have been told there are wmd under the shrine of Ali, deep under ground. we'll see.
3 posted on 04/02/2003 7:10:02 AM PST by MLedeen
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Again, another public lie never retracted.

Were Ledeen just another Free Republic poster, this disinformation wouldn't matter. As it is, Free Republic is seen and read by tens of thousands of people, many in the media and in official Washington. I suppose we should thank Ledeen for leaving a public record of his lies so we know what he's all about.

He is one of the ideological architects of the War on Terror, after all.

NINTH LESSON: When someone publicly worships Machiavelli, we can be reasonably certain that the public good is not part of their agenda.

Eighth Lesson

2005-11-22T15:22:00.000-05:00

The Muddy Footprints of Michael Ledeen

"One of the most dangerous of these 'bad teachers' is Michael Ledeen, promoter of the the idea of 'universal fascism'. These days he does not stop threatening war against Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, and has evidently been chosen once more by the establishment to manipulate institutions and threaten those who oppose his dangerous and wicked madness. On the other hand, Ledeen has a long history of interference in Italy's strategic choices. During the Moro case he was among those "most suspected" of having misled the enquiries, with the collaboration of the "bretheren" of the P2. It was wondered and it is still wondered why the Italian magistrates do not carry out adequate enquiries about him and his work".

In 1990, Berlusconi was found guilty of perjury for denying his membership P-2. Ledeen is a keen enthusiast of Berlesconi and his 'clear eyed' government.

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EIGHTH LESSON: It is also wondered why American magistrates do not carry out adequate enquiries about him and his work.

Seventh Lesson

2005-11-21T18:04:00.000-05:00

"Guiding spirit" of Nuremberg trials was part of the Freud family

Historical trivial pursuit...

Edward Bernays is called by many the "father of public relations", though it's my opinion he's more the progenitor of modern spin. He called his activities the "engineering of consent". Bernays was also Sigmund Freud's nephew, a link that he ceaselessly used in his business as a method of promoting himself. He perfected much of his techniques during World War I, crafting propaganda for for the U.S. Committee on Public Information in the Foreign Press Bureau. After the War, he was part of the official press office for the Versailles Peace Conference.

In 1919, he founded his PR biz "Edward L. Bernays Publicity Direction". His first clients were the American Civil Liberties Union, the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropies, the Lithuanian National Council and the United States War Department.

His brother-in-law, Murray Bernays*, was hired as one of his first employees. Murray did research and writing for the company. Later, Murray became a successful attorney in New York City.

As noted below, Murray is credited with being "the guiding spirit leading the way to Nuremberg".

...By the end of July, he [Edward Bernays] also realized he could afford to rent his own three-room office on the fifth floor of an old building at 19 East 48th Street. He calculated his first month's expenses for rent and furniture at $1,357. And his first employee, Fleischman, was a bargain at $50 a week. She quickly helped him hire a secretary, a mail clerk, an office boy, and his brother-in-law Murray C. Bernays, who was paid $75 a week to do research and some writing.[22]

...Note 22: Bernays, Biography of An Idea, 193-94; interview with Edward L. Bernays, October 29, 1989, Cambridge, Mass. *Murray Bernays, born Murray Cohen, married Bernays's sister Hella in 1917 and shortly afterwards had his name legally changed to Murray C. Bernays to keep his wife's family name alive. Edward Bernays had said he would never marry, and all his siblings were female. Murray Bernays was divorced from Hella Bernays in 1924 but kept her last name. See "Murray Bernays, Lawyer, Dead; Set Nuremberg Trials Format," New York Times undated clipping (probably 1970s), box III:6, Edward L. Bernays Papers, LC.

Learning to Swim Skillfully in Uncharted Waters:
Doris E. Fleischman, 1913-1922

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...Two Jewish officers in the US Army -- Lieutenant Colonel Murray Bernays and Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus -- played key roles in the Nuremberg enterprise. In the words of historian Robert Conot, Bernays was "the guiding spirit leading the way to Nuremberg." Bernays, a successful New York attorney, persuaded US War Secretary Henry Stimson and others to accept the idea of putting the defeated German leaders on trial.

Marcus, a fervent Zionist, became the "number three man in making American policy" in occupied Germany. As chief of the US government's War Crimes Branch in 1946 and 1947, he selected almost all of the judges, prosecutors and lawyers for the Nuremberg NMT Trials. (He later became a commander of Zionist "Haganah" military forces in Palestine.)

The Nuremberg Trials and the Holocaust by Mark Weber

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SEVENTH LESSON: "The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one."
-Heraclitus

Sixth Lesson

2005-11-21T06:49:00.000-05:00

The "Neocons": From the Cold War to the "Global Intifada", By Leon T. Hadar

April 1991, Page 27:

"...Israel became one of the most important elements on the agenda of the neoconservative coalition that emerged as a counterforce after the 1972 victory of the McGovern forces in the Democratic Party. In 1968 the neocons backed the late Senator Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota for president. In 1972, they mobilized their support behind the late Senator Henry Jackson from Washington. Both Humphrey and Jackson represented staunch anti-Soviet and pro-Israeli positions in the party.

Senator Jackson's aides, Richard Perle and Elliott Abrams, who later became major figures in the Reagan foreign policy team, attempted to torpedo any effort by the Nixon and Carter administrations to improve relations with the Soviet Union or to launch peace efforts in the Middle East. From Jackson's office, the two led the campaign to use the issue of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union to sabotage detente between Washington and Moscow.The result was Jackson-sponsored legislation denying the Soviet Union a "most favored nation" status unless it permitted increased Jewish emigration. Ironically, that move not only froze the Nixon-era detente, it also froze the emigration of Soviet Jews."

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SIXTH LESSON:

Who is Friend and who is Foe,
Depends on the who telling you so.

Fifth Lesson

2005-11-21T06:07:00.000-05:00

THE DEVIL'S CURRENCY SYSTEM
Chicago Daily Tribune
March 25, 1876
pg. 4

In that wonderful picture of human life which Goethe has drawn from the legend of Faust, the poet has painted a financial episode in the second part of the tragedy, the particular features of which will be applicable for all time.

In the first act, Faust and his Satanic companion Mephistopheles, who is the inventor of paper money, appear at the Court of the German Emperor. The realm is in a ruinous condition, and the situation affords Mephistopheles an opportunity of securing power for Faust by the introduction of the financial system which is now so desperately urged by by Kelley and his rag-baby* followers.

The Court officials are gathered about the Emperor. The Chancellor complains of the decline of justice and the increase of plunderers; that lawlessness is upheld by law, and that "the man of good intent to flatterer and briber bendeth." The General-in-Chief complains of discords, mutinies and devastation of the realm. The Treasurer complains that the allies have not contributed their promised subsidies, and that "the strong box is void indeed." The Lord High Steward complains that he is always trying to be economical, but is ever greater in need, that the Court is short of wine, and that the Jews will have him "past all chances."

The Emperor, in despair, appeals to Mephistopheles, who shows that only money is lacking; that the earth is full of gold, and that as the earth is the Emperor's he has only to take hoe and spade and bring it to the light. The Emperor is disgusted with this proposition and demands that Mephistopheles shall procure him money.

Thereupon Mephistopheles, with his diablerie, sets upon foot a grotesque carnival masquerade, and after the mad revel is over, to the Emperor's astonishment, money is plenty. The Lord High Steward is safe from the Jews, and has blunted the usurers' claws. The General pays up his arrears. The Treasurer's box is running over. The Devil has created paper money, and the Treasurer thus informs the astonished Emperor how the transformation was effected:

Remember! Thou this note did undersign,
Last night, indeed. Thou stood as mighty Pan,
And thus the Chancellor's speech, before thee, ran:
"Grant to thyself the festival pleasure, then
The people's good - a few strokes of the pen!"
These did thou give; they were ere night retreated,
By skillful conjurers thousandfold repeated;
And, that a like advantage all might claim,
We stamped at once the series with they name.
Tens, thirties, fifties, hundreds are prepared,
Thou cans't not think how well the folk have fared.
Behold thy town, healf dead once and decaying,
How all alive, enjoying life, are straying!
Although thy name long since the world made glad,
Such currency as now it never had.

The Lord High Steward informs the Emperor that the currency was scattered everywhere; that the note was accepted for its worth in gold and silver; and that the people at once commenced feasting and reveling. Even the Devil himself grows merry over his new currency, it is so handy, and the Emperor orders everyone to do as he royally pleases. Even the Court Fool rejoices that he shall be a landed owner, and Mephistopheles sneeringly says to himself, "Who now ill doubt that this, one fool, has wit."

All goes swimmingly for a time, but at last comes the logical conclusion of the shinplaster madness. In the third act, Mephistopheles, upon the eve of battle between the rival Emperors, tells Faust:

...He did enjoy, even he!
Meanwhile the realm was torn by anarchy,
Where great and samll were warring with each other,
And brother drove and slaughtered brother.
Castle to castle, town 'gainst town arrayed,
The nobles and the guild of trade,
The Bishop, with his chapter and congregation -
All meeting eyes but looked retaliation.
In churches, death and murder; past the gates,
The merchants traveled under evil fates;
And all grew bolder, since no rule was drawn
For life, but self-defense! - So things went on.

The Devil having invented irredeemable paper money for the Emperor, and plunged him into all his troubles, takes pity upon him and rescues him. Mephistopheles' system is a fair exposition of the modern inflation business. The poet has painted a picture which has always been true in the past, which will always be true in the future, but the way of escape in the poetical creation is not available in real life.

If the people of the country avail themselves of the Devil's system of currency, the Devil himself will not get them out of the troubles that must flow from it.

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*rag-baby - Mid-19th century term referring to the general type of money we use today, specifically the 'Federal Reserve Note'.

FIFTH LESSON: We've availed ourselves of the Devil's currency system since 1913.

Fourth Lesson

2005-11-21T02:58:00.000-05:00

Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical & Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto

by Vladimir Z. Nuri, 15 March 2002

PDF link, 62 pages.

FOURTH LESSON: You're not the only one catching on to the con game.

Third Lesson

2005-11-17T05:30:00.000-05:00

Demand For Monetary Reform in England: 1943 Letter By Nobel Laureate Frederick Soddy

The following letter was written and sent in 1943. It was addressed to His Excellency, Most Reverend William Godfrey, the Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, and to the Anglican Archbishops of Canterbury, York and Wales and to other ecclesiastical dignitaries in Britain.

It's signed by 32 people, a Nobel Laureate and two aviation pioneers among them.

Your Grace,

(1) We, all of British blood and descent, having studied the fundamental causes of the present world unrest, have long been forced to the conclusion that an essential first step towards the return of human happiness and brotherhood with economic security and liberty of life and conscience, such as will permit the Christian ethic to flourish again is the immediate resumption by the community in each nation of its prerogative over the issue of money including its modern credit substitutes.

(2) This prerogative has been usurped by those still termed in general "banker", both national and international, who have perfected a technique to enable themselves to create the money they lend by granting of bookkeeping credits, and to destroy it by the withdrawal of the latter at their discretion, in accordance with entirely mistaken and obsolete ideas which they do not defend against impartial and informed scientific criticism and examination. In this way, a form of national money debt has been invented, in which the lender surrenders nothing at all; and which is physically an impossibility for the community ever to pay. Any attempt to do so produces the artificial "economic blizzard", as it did after the 1914-18 war.

(3) This has led to the gradual rise of a form of national, international and supra-national power, dominating through its monopolisaton of the National social credit all the basic creative activities of mankind. Thus, in this as in other countries, it has become impossible to obtain publication in the press, or to broadcast on the radio, the truth concerning this economic enslavement which holds the peoples of the world in thrall.

(4) Under the world's present financial system the money, except for a now trifling portion, is originally created by the issue of a loan at interest by the "bankers", who lend nothing of themselves but in effect make a forced levy in kind on the Nation by conferring on the borrower the power to purchase a corresponding amount of wealth on the market, which wealth does not belong to them, or those who borrow from them, but to the community. The proceeds of the issue of new money - whether of paper or any other form of credit money - belong to the Nation in which it is, or is accepted as, legal tender, and not to the issuer. Herein lies the basic flaw of the existing monetary system.

(5) By this method, which has come to be regarded as legal by virtue of established practice, the banks in our country are responsible for the issue of new money of their own creation amounting today to between two and three thousand million pounds - this being the difference between loans extended, including those to themselves, and those repaid since they instituted the system a number of years ago - and are thereby extracting by means of interest an annual tribute from the Nation of over £100,000,000 for what has now become to them a relatively costless and riskless service. But the real danger, well understood in every preceding era of history, is the undermining of all lawfully constituted authority by the creation and destruction of money carried on in secret for private gain and the acquisition of power.

(6) All forms of government, whether conservative, liberal or labour, fascist, socialist or communist, fall alike under the control of a political Power Group, which is ultimately, and in large measure unwittingly, dominated by the Money Creators and Manipulators. In this way the national political power, which, if the individual is to enjoy the maximum of personal freedom consistent with his duty to his conscience and his fellows, should be distributed throughout the people, has been usurped without their knowledge and consent.

(7) It will be seen that the present monetary system, which by its disregard of primary physical and ethical laws is inevitably destroying the civilisation into which it has been introduced, requires rectification both in the material technique and in the ethics which at present inspire and control this technique. It is particularly in view of its devastating effects in the moral sphere that we have ventured to refer to Ecclesiastical Authority, and to invoke the Churches to action.

(8) We therefore appeal to you in your position of great authority and influence to proclaim the truth to the Nation on this subject and in the hope that you may see fit to disseminate as widely as possible the text of this statement, whereby this vitally important question may be brought to the light of day and earnestly enquired into by the peoples of the British Commonwealth.

(9) We do so in all Christian fellow-feeling, knowing and honouring the efforts you are making against the abuses of our present economic system and the evils of usury, and believing that the world is now in the gravest crisis of its history. The issue of new money by the money-lender is an unforeseen result of the modern cheque as a substitute for national money _ a valuable invention which in itself was undoubtedly social and benevolent in intention and effect. If the cheque system were corrected, as it can be simply corrected, to restore to the nations their rightful prerogative over the issue of money, there is every reason to retain it. We fully appreciate the services which banking organisations have rendered and can continue to render to the community. But the issue and destruction of money by the money-lender is not a service, but a weapon which can be and has been unsed to perpetuate poverty amidst abundance, which renders individuals and nations powerless to protect themselves, and which may even be perverted to serve vast designs for the complete subjugation of the human race to tyranny, exploitation and the powers of darkness and evil.

NORMAN A. THOMPSON
(A.M.I.E.E., Research Engineer, Inventor of the Norman Thompson Flying Boat, 1914, and other developments in aviation and in mechanical propulsion; Originator of this appeal)

FREDERICK SODDY
(M.A., LL.D., F.R.S, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1921; pioneer in the Economics of Wealth, author of Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt (1926), Money versus Man (1931), Role of Money (1934))

J. CREAGH SCOTT
(D.S.O., O.B.E., Lt. Col; Chairman, The Farmer's Action Council; Advisory Chairman, The Service for Economic Action)

REGINALD ROWE
(Kt., author of The Root of All Evil)

JOHN HARGRAVE
(F.R.S.A.; inventor of the Hargrave Automatic Navigator for Aircraft (1937); Economic Advisor to the Planning Commission of HM Govt. of Alberta (1936-7); Founder and Leader of the Social Credit Party of GB)

WILFRID HILL
(Industrialist, Birmingham and London; President, Comite International de Echanges, Paris; Chairman, Econ. and Monetary Joint Council, London; Anglo-American Comm. World Trade Alliance)

CHARLES TURNER
(Mechanical and Mining Engineer; Knowles Gold Medallist; inventor of the Oil-from-Coal Process and Plant)

ALLIOT VERDON-ROE
(Kt., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.Ae.E.; Aviation Pioneer)

A. G. SEAMAN
(M.I.E.E.; Inventor of Automatic Sorting of Heavy Goods)
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(ed. note: Also signed by 24 other authors, MPs, economists, businessmen and other notables of the day).

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THIRD LESSON: The Moneychangers were quite humiliated when Jesus booted them from the Temple. To avoid further humiliation, they've engaged in a campaign of Temple camouflage and a generations long education program of "USURY: GOOD FOR YOU, BETTER FOR US!"

First Lesson

2005-11-16T18:33:00.000-05:00

Stephen was the first Christian martyr, stoned to death by the Sanhedrin about a year after the murder of Jesus. The Sanhedrin were obviously rather annoyed at what he had to say. I suspect that they've reconvened in Jerusalem after all these centuries to stone a few more loudmouths to death.

Francis of Assisi was told, "Go, Francis, and repair my house, which as you see is falling into ruin". He was called insane by his peers. He loved songs. He didn't give a damn what the world thought of him. He detested money, discord and strife. He talked to anybody from any station. My kinda guy. It's a good thing half my name is taken from him.

First Lesson: Stephen Francis is named well, even if he has given up on what passes for 'The Church" these days.

Acts 7:43: "...you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, the images that you made to worship."

Second Lesson

2005-11-16T18:32:00.000-05:00

"The execution of the sinners was necessary to confirm Moses’ authority.”

-Michael Ledeen, author of screeds and co-author of the smash-hit, "The War on Turr" (quote taken from Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago (Truman Talley Books (St. Martin’s Press), 1999)

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Michael Ledeen has been hanging around Washington, DC for many years now. He was involved in the Iran arms scandal of the 1980's, is now involved in the Niger yellowcake forgery scandal - along with some shady Iranians, Iraqis, Israelis and Italians (how he manages to keep his job, I'll never know) - and is pushing quite hard for a US attack on Iran.

Those malefactions are just scratching the surface.

Michael Ledeen reminds us about terrorists and Islamofascists with great alarm and frequency (he may have even coined the word Islamofascist). If one of his beloved Islamofascists said, "The execution of the sinners was necessary to confirm Mohammed’s authority", could we tell the difference between Ledeen and the Islamofascists?

Or is it only our neo-fascists that are kosher?

Second Lesson: WWII did not defeat Fascism. It only gave it a home across the ocean.