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The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries basic to military strength.This included the removal or destruction of all industrial plants and equipment in the Ruhr. It was first proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in a 1944 memorandum entitled Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany….
That sure sounds like what was done to the USA via ‘leveraged buyouts’ in the 1980s thanks to Reagan’s laissez-faire attitude towards monopolies. According to Source Watcha long list of industries now have over 50% foreign ownership.
I worked for one of the targeted AMERICAN corporations. Here’s how they ran their business. Compare these methods to those of current corporations:
Personnel were hired for the long term & for their ability to grow into other jobs.
The corporation paid for continuing education and would even give time off for critical courses if you were going for a degree.
NO CORPORATE DEBT
SELF INSURED HEALTHCARE provided to the employees
American owned
Matching-funds if you bought corporate stock up to 10% of your salary. [This is why they succeeded in fighting off the first few hostile take-over attacks… Until the CEO mysteriously died of a heart attack at his desk. – A CIA hit maybe? Given what I know now it is not as far-fetched an idea as I first thought.]
Committed to QUALITY, Religion & the USA.
What allowed the buyout of US corporations? Mutual Funds & Pension Funds held stock in them. The stock, purchased using YOUR MONEY or pensions and was held in YOUR NAME. But you didn’t vote it as a stockholder. Instead, the stock was VOTED by Fidelity, Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and other financial institutions. They are the ones who voted to allow the leveraged buyouts.
Do not forget 401K plans. They are another control transfer mechanism.
In 1974, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was enacted, [There is that 1974 date again. — GC] creating a governmental body that oversaw and regulated company-sponsored retirement and health care plans for workers.
ERISA temporarily halted IRS plans to severely restrict retirement plans through regulation in the early 1970s, according to the EBRI. The Act created a study of employee salary reduction plans as well, which the EBRI credits for influencing the creation of the 401(k) later on in the decade….
The modern 401(k) originated in earnest in 1978 with a provision in The Revenue Act of 1978 which said that employees can choose to receive a portion of income as deferred compensation, and created tax structures around it.
Section 401 was originally intended by lawmakers to limit companies creating tax-advantaged profit-sharing plans that mostly benefited executives, according to the ICI. Thanks to the interpretation of the section by businessman Ted Benna, the language evolved into the basis of the modern 401(k), as it enabled profit-sharing plans to adopt CODAs.
The law was signed by President Jimmy Carter and became effective at the turn of the decade….
Is it any wonder that ‘the little guy’ now has very little influence over the big corporations?
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But it gets worse. In 2010 the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on political advertisements and other forms of independent political expenditures. The founders, who hated corporations, must be rolling in their graves. SEE: What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations
Believe it or not, before some recent Supreme Court decisions the American political system was not always so skewed in favor of the wealthy and powerful. In fact, dating back to the Tillman Act of 1907 and the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, Congress limited the ability of corporations and labor unions to make contributions or expenditures in connection with political campaigns.
The influx of money from corporations, unions, and ultra-wealthy individuals in recent decades is due largely to a few poorly reasoned Supreme Court decisions. The best way to understand how our campaign finance laws became so horribly dysfunctional is to understand those decisions, which are explained in detail below.
The article goes through what each decision did to our election system.
One of the biggest problems as SourceWatch showed, is these corporations influencing our elections are no longer even AMERICAN corporations but are instead TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS run by FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS – AKA the Banksters using the Mercantile system. However if an international corporation has offices in the USA, they can donate to political campaigns or run ads. So much for ‘American only’ influence in our political campaigns.
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H/T to Barkerjim who brought us this last Tuesday from Badlands.
…Carroll Quigley, a historian with privileged access, wrote in Tragedy and Hope, [1966]
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim… nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands.”
Harvard, in this view, acted less as a neutral educator and more as a strategic hub.
They didn’t just teach economics. They reinforced orthodoxy:
Orthodoxy of narratives.
Orthodoxy of institutions.
Orthodoxy of “experts” upholding the prevailing system.
Graduating from an Ivy League school was less about critical thinking, and more about credentialing for access into the upper tiers of an increasingly globalized control system.
This is why the collapse of their perceived invincibility isn’t just symbolic, it’s tectonic.
Because if Harvard can fall, the entire scaffolding of manufactured consensus can fall with it.
If Harvard shaped minds, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street shaped markets.
These three asset managers didn’t merely participate in corporate governance, they dominated it. Their collective control over trillions of dollars made them the unofficial enforcement arm of the globalist order….
Good old Commie central. I lived near there in the Combat Zone. The area leans so far left, that three decades ago a friend, originally a card-carrying communist , had to register as a Republican and work the polls so Cambridge MA could hold their elections!
Also whenever a small company, such as the one I worked for or Spags, suddenly had problems from major changes in the way they did business and then went under, Hubby & I would say they had been HAVAAAAD business schooled. The method was to cut needed expenses such as ongoing maintenance so the bottom line looked really good for a couple years and then move on to the next victim.
The Spags case was special. The store was not open on Sunday because the Borgatti family was religious. The old man dealt in CASH ONLY, no checks or credit cards. Thus he could also get really good deals on merchandise by paying THAT DAY and NOT paying 3 months later as most stores do. Also since Massachusetts taxed inventory in warehouses but NOT goods in transit, he stored his merchandise in trailers in his lot. His retail store was a no-frills warehouse with the merchandise on warehouse racks in cut open boxes. (No additional stock boys.) When he died his kids hired a Harvard business grad. They started taking credit cards (5% paid to the card company by the vendor) fancied up the selling area ($$$$) got a warehouse ($$$$) and the business went under in a few years and was sold.
Today, those asset managers DO NOT LIKE TRUMP’S TARIFFS. Thus you are going to see price gouging such as bananas going from $0.39 to $0.59 in ONE WEEK. Allowing the Fake news arm of the globalists to jump in and BLAME TARIFFS.
We need a trade block, a D7, that would mirror Nato. An economic attack on one would be an attack on all
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a former prime minister of Denmark and former secretary general of Nato
[He writes:]
The postwar global economic order, with the United States at its centre, has created more prosperity than any other period in human history. [by sucking the USA dry. –GC] Yet as Donald Trump takes a sledgehammer to that economic order, America’s democratic allies face a choice. We can accept the new cost of doing business with the US. We can follow the US down a path of mutually assured economic destruction with an ever-escalating trade war. Or we can find new avenues to keep free trade alive.
[FREE? You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! –FREE to the EU but NOT to the USA that is getting raped via multiple methods. -GC]
My proposition? I believe we need a new platform for economic cooperation between the world’s seven leading democracies. Call it the “Democratic 7”, or “D7”. The EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea represent roughly 25% of global GDP and account for about 35% of global trade volume. Together, these democracies can help to shield each other from the threats of economic nationalism and coercion – while also championing democracy, the rule of law, and market economics…
GEE, the EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea… What do they all have in common? WHY THE US MILITARY GUARDS THEM!
What happens if the USA under Trump joins BRICS?
This problem was also identified by Angelo M. Codevilla (may he rest in peace) in July of 2010.
…The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party—and its vision is revolutionary.
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and The Wall Street Journal) on the right to The Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America.
The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” …
The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
Never has there been so little diversity within America’s upper crust. Always, in America as elsewhere, some people have been wealthier and more powerful than others. But until our own time America’s upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter….
Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters — speaking the “in” language — serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America’s ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.
…The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of life more different from one another than did the 19th century’s Northerners and Southerners — nearly all of whom, as Lincoln reminded them, “prayed to the same God.” By contrast, while most Americans pray to the God “who created and doth sustain us,” our ruling class prays to itself as “saviors of the planet” and improvers of humanity. Our classes’ clash is over “whose country” America is, over what way of life will prevail, over who is to defer to whom about what. The gravity of such divisions points us, as it did Lincoln, to Mark’s Gospel: “if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”….
This analysis combines both qualitative information and quantitative data. The author reviewed numerous first person reports of Tea Party rallies, conferences and meetings from every corner of the country, and read most of the movement’s own literature. The Tea Parties are described as a unique movement appearing at a specific historical moment. The movement encompasses constituent national networks, core members and more loosely aligned supporters. Its supporters are overwhelmingly white and middle class. Matters of race and national identity motivate many Tea Partiers as well as a sense of dispossession from their place of privilege in the racial order. This analysis takes at face value the movement’s dress, symbols and invocation of the constitution, as well as its claims to embody the aspirations of a narrow body of ‘real Americans’. By making an exclusionary claim on the nation’s founding moments, they actually set themselves apart from other Americans.…
Conclusion Social movements do not last forever. More often than not, they have one or another or a combination of three fates. One, they are either victorious and decline after reaching their goal. Two, they are defeated outright. Three, they are co-opted by some larger institution.
The militia movement that emerged in the 1990s, for example, was defeated following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 by a concerted campaign of civic opposition and government repression. Militia groups have reappeared, but the movement itself is gone as of now. To go back further in history, the Ku Klux Klan and other white-minded thugs that emerged during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War were essentially victorious in re-establishing the system of white supremacy in the former Confederacy, and the Klan dissolved effortlessly into the Democratic Party before the end of the century. The Klan in the 1920s may have suffered from the scandals surrounding its leadership, but the movement did not die until after it won a change in the 1924 immigration law that protected Anglo-Saxon hegemony for another generation. After that it basically closed up shop, except in the Deep South. The Klan, the Citizens Councils, the Birchers and the segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s were decisively defeated by the black freedom movement, and they were left standing with empty hands after Governor George Wallace’s independent presidential campaign in 1968. Only the Republican Party gained after it adopted its infamous ‘Southern Strategy’.
The decisive moments that will decide the Tea Parties’ fate have not yet occurred. The movement’s sights are set squarely on November 2012. If they win back the presidency for the Republican Party, the movement might or might not dissolve into squabbling factions. If they perceive that they have lost that election, or the Republican primaries before it, an internal power struggle may or may not split it irrevocably apart. Win, lose or draw, however, the Tea Party movement has already left important markers on America’s political landscape: First, in the current debate over economic policy and the national debt, they have moved the discussion toward fiscal restraint and de-regulation. They stand in the way of environmental protection and other measures by which the federal government might promote the common good. Of more long-term consequence, however, will be its legacy in the arena of race. Please consider that the Tea Party movement may be a precursor of an even larger revolt by supposedly dispossessed white people as the expected population and demographic shifts occur in the decades to come.
Keywords Tea Party, Tea Party movement, nationalism, racism, white dispossession, white majority fears, white nationalism
Good Grief the Tea Party was NEVER, EVER about RACE. It was about the Federal Reserve, Fractional Reserve Banking, TOO MUCH TAX and not enough FISCAL RESTRAINT! By ignoring the complaints and driving the Tea Party underground the Globalists forced the birth of MAGA.
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Wolf Moon in a comment thread gets into more of this information and its connections to today via Jack Smith.
I did research this. What I know is that his name is John L. Smith, where L is weird and I forgot what it is.
And he was indeed an attorney for the ICC/ICJ in the Hague – even Politico fact-checks this as TRUE, with lots of details.
But THIS is the most important part.
I did a Twitter thread on the guy, last year.
The Hague is a city in the Netherlands that is the home of U.N.’s International Court of justice and the International Criminal Court. So Jack Smith worked for the Globalists. — GC
The entire problem of "John Smith" (yes, that's his real name) as special counsel is explained by this great article on Smith's insane war against the Tea Party movement. The guy will relentlessly push bad theories until other people get into trouble.https://t.co/gvmzpn1jsT
The entire problem of “John Smith” (yes, that’s his real name) as special counsel is explained by this great article on Smith’s insane war against the Tea Party movement. The guy will relentlessly push bad theories until other people get into trouble.
This guy John Smith is literally, personally, WHY there was a Tea Party IRS scandal. Without him, no scandal. He’s the one who pushed the IRS into criminal persecution of conservatives. His DOJ then had IRS people pleading the Fifth to hide crimes against American citizens. [VIDEO]
IMO, dirty judge Merrick Garland and Obama DOJ handler Lisa Monaco chose Smith not to win the case, but to drive Trump out of politics. Smith did exactly that to John Edwards. Smith LOST his case against Edwards, but drove him out of politics for good.
Wolfm00n gives more examples of Smith’s sucessful lawfare cases used to destroy political opponents.
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So, getting back to Angelo Codevilla’s article, WHERE did all that 2008-9 bank bailout money actually go??? Why to our European Masters of course. SEE: The Federal Reserve’s Covert Bailout of EuropeAnd the American Tax Payer got stuck with the TRILLIONS in debt AS USUAL.
It is interesting that POTUS Trump is FINALLY going after the EU that has been taking advantage of the USA since WWII. FINALLY, the US might stop hemorrhaging wealth and lives.
…we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] …This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…
…In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that 3/4 of the core are financial intermediaries….
In this study, we decided to identify in detail the people on the boards of directors of the top ten asset management firms and the top ten most centralized corporations in the world. Because of overlaps, there is a total of thirteen firms, which collectively have 161 directors on their boards. We think that this group of 161 individuals represents the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. They collectively manage $23.91 trillion in funds and operate in nearly every country in the world. They are the center of the financial capital that powers the global economic system. Western governments and international policy bodies work in the interests of this financial core to protect the free flow of capital investment anywhere in the world…
The Transnational Capitalist Class (2000), Leslie Sklair argued that globalization elevated transnational corporations (TNC) to more influential international roles, with the result that nation-states became less significant than international agreements developed through the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international institutions.8 Emerging from these multinational corporations was a transnational capitalist class, whose loyalties and interests, while still rooted in their corporations, was increasingly international in scope. Sklair wrote:
The transnational capitalist class can be analytically divided into four main fractions: (i) owners and controllers of TNCs and their local affiliates; (ii) globalizing bureaucrats and politicians; (iii) globalizing professionals; (iv) consumerist elites (merchants and media). . . It is also important to note, of course, that the TCC and each of its fractions are not always entirely united on every issue. Nevertheless, together, leading personnel in these groups constitute a global power elite, dominant class or inner circle in the sense that these terms have been used to characterize the dominant class structures of specific countries...
This is why the Supreme Court decisions to give these TNCs control of our political campaigns was so detrimental to the USA. It explains why the Republicans and Democrats are globalists and not patriots.
A Major Hat-tip to barkerjim for introducing me to C&C News.
… Rounding out today’s accountability trifecta, on Sunday the Washington Post ran an intriguing story headlined, “Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions.” The “key check” is a Biden-era rule that forbids Attorneys General from investigating public officials for corruption without first getting permission from the DC field office. You can guess how often that happens.
According to leakers (“three people familiar with the proposal”), federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without pre-approval from “lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section,” or PIN, which is safely settled in Washington, DC where politicians can keep a wary eye on them.
Even better, under the new plan, FBI investigators and prosecutors would also be freed from having to ‘consult’ with the section’s attorneys “during key steps of probes into public officials.” In other words, even when the DC office did green-light an indictment, it still micromanaged the whole investigation.
Currently, the DOJ’s manual requires that PIN’s attorneys must approve —not just be consulted on— any charges against members of Congress. It doesn’t happen often, to say the least.
WaPo, probably intentionally, missed the painfully obvious point: a special oversight privilege for public officials provides them with a special tier of justice that other Americans do not enjoy. WaPo whined that the Public Integrity Section’s role was to “ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated.”
But … what about us? Wouldn’t it be better and fairer to ensure that cases against all Americans are legally sound and not politically motivated, and not just public officials?
The ironically named Public Integrity office has already “dramatically shrunk” during the Trump administration, plunging from around 30 prosecutors by the end of the Biden administration to fewer than five today. One was fired, some rage-quit over the dismissal of the DOJ’s case against New York’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, while others have been “detailed to different sections in the department,” such as the division of Indian Affairs. In Trump’s first week in office, he fired PIN Director Corey Amundson.
It sure makes you think. Say you were planning to initiate wide-scale investigations into members of Congress, maybe for NGO abuse, insider trading, or general self-enrichment. This kind of thing would probably be your first move. Just saying.
President Trump and his team appear to have no intention of losing Congress in next year’s midterms. And after seeing Trump’s scorched-earth tariff plan, imagine what similar kind of comprehensive strategy they might be deploying to completely destroy the Democrat brand. That is what I believe is happening.
The Democrats are getting further and further behind.
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that the next 18 months sees a steady series of increasingly damning disclosures about Biden’s lack of a real presidency plus the mounting evidence of 2020’s stolen election?
Remember, just like they gained access to the Biden Audio, the Trump Team now has access to all that information, too. They have receipts….
On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that prices only rose at an annualized rate of 2.3 percent, the smallest increase since 2020— before the pandemic. And that was in spite of tariffs. It’s almost like Trump’s tariffs have had the opposite effect the experts sagely predicted.
An honest media would call the experts to account, and require them to explain why they were wrong. But Politico’s story lavishly applied the passive voice (“prices were expected to climb”), obscuring who was wrong, generously giving unreliable experts a pass. Oh well.
….The CPI-U (consumer price index) is the broadest measure of consumer price inflation for goods and services published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
While the headline number usually is the seasonally-adjusted month-to-month change, the formal CPI is reported on a not-seasonally-adjusted basis, with annual inflation measured in terms of year-to-year percent change in the price index.
In the charts to the right we show two SGS-Alternate CPI estimates: One based on the pre-1990 official methodology for computing the CPI-U, and the other based on the methodology which was employed prior to 1980.
Please note: Our Data Download is currently only providing the 1980-Based numbers, but 1990-Based numbers will be introduced shortly.
Archaeological evidence for canal use is shown at many sites throughout Egypt including places such as the Giza plateau and where the Suez canal is today. The earliest written record of canal digging comes from about 3,100 BC…
Is it true that the pharaohs had a canal built?
Its origins date back to ancient Egypt.
The Egyptian Pharaoh Senusret III may have built an early canal connecting the Red Sea and the Nile River around 1850 B.C., and according to ancient sources, the Pharaoh Necho II and the Persian conqueror Darius both began and then abandoned work on a similar project.
What ancient civilization used canals?
Ancient Egypt
The Nile River, the lifeblood of Egypt, was utilized to create an extensive canal system for irrigation, transportation, and defense purposes. Notable canal features within ancient Egypt include: The construction of the “”Canal of the Pharaohs,”” connecting the Nile River to the Red Sea….
At least as far back as Aristotle there have been suggestions that perhaps as early as the 12th Dynasty, Pharaoh Senusret III (1878–1839 BC), called Sesostris by the Greeks, may have started a canal joining the River Nile with the Red Sea. In his Meteorology, Aristotle wrote:
One of their kings tried to make a canal to it (for it would have been of no little advantage to them for the whole region to have become navigable; Sesostris is said to have been the first of the ancient kings to try), but he found that the sea was higher than the land. So he first, and Darius afterwards, stopped making the canal, lest the sea should mix with the river water and spoil it.[10]
Strabo also wrote that Sesostris started to build a canal, as did Pliny the Elder (see quote further down).[11]
However, the canal was probably first cut or at least begun by Necho II (r. 610–595 BC), in the late 7th century BC, and it was either re-dug or possibly completed by Darius the Great (r. 550–486 BC). Classical sources disagree as to when it was finally completed….
…According to Greek historians Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, after Sesostris, work on the canal was continued by Necho II in the late 6th century BC, but he did not live to see the canal completed. Later, Darius the Great picked up from where Necho II left, but like Sesostris, he too stopped short of the Red Sea when he was informed that the Red Sea was at a higher level and would submerge the land if an opening was made. It was finally Ptolemy II who finished the canal connecting Nile with the Red Sea. According to Strabo the canal was nearly 50 meters wide and of sufficient depth to float large ships. It began at the village of Phacusa and traversed the Bitter Lakes, emptying into the Gulf or Arabia near the the city of Cleopatris…
So the idea of a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea has been active since ancient times.
Wiki’s: Suez Canal give a history of the various attempts, successes, abandonment and retries over the centuries.
…It was re-excavated by Roman emperor Trajan in the first century AD… A geography treatise De Mensura Orbis Terrae written by the Irish monk Dicuil (born late 8th century) reports a conversation with another monk, Fidelis, who had sailed on the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the first half of the 8th century… During the 16th century, the Ottoman’s made another try but it was too expensive… in late 1798, Napoleon expressed interest in finding the remnants of an ancient waterway passage…. Napoleon contemplated the construction of a north–south canal to connect the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. By avoiding the silt-laden Nile, such a canal would be easier to maintain. But the plan was abandoned because of the erroneous belief that the Red Sea was 8.5 m (28 ft) higher than the Mediterranean…. As late as 1861, the unnavigable ancient route discovered by Napoleon from Bubastis to the Red Sea still channelled water as far east as Kassassin…
At this point Wiki gets into the historic period of interest.
INTERIM PERIOD
Despite the construction challenges that could have been the result of the alleged difference in sea levels, the idea of finding a shorter route to the east remained alive. In 1830, General Francis Chesney submitted a report to the British government that stated that there was no difference in elevation and that the Suez Canal was feasible, but his report received no further attention. Lieutenant Waghorn established his “Overland Route”, which transported post and passengers to India via Egypt
The usefulness of this route for the British Empire was shown when dealing with the Indian Rebellion of 1857, with 5,000 British troops having passed through Egypt….
CONSTRUCTION
The British government had opposed the project from the outset to its completion. The British, who controlled both the Cape route and the Overland route to India and the Far East, favored the status quo, given that a canal might disrupt their commercial and maritime supremacy. Lord Palmerston, the project’s most unwavering foe, confessed in the mid-1850s the real motive behind his opposition: that Britain’s commercial and maritime relations would be overthrown by the opening of a new route, open to all nations, and thus deprive his country of its present exclusive advantages. As one of the diplomatic moves against the project when it nevertheless went ahead, it disapproved of the use of “forced labour” for construction of the canal. Involuntary labour on the project ceased, and the viceroy condemned the corvée, halting the project.
International opinion was initially skeptical, and shares of the Suez Canal Company did not sell well overseas. Britain, Austria, and Russia did not buy a significant number of shares. With assistance from the Cattaui banking family, and their relationship with James de Rothschild of the French House of Rothschild bonds and shares were successfully promoted in France and other parts of Europe….
The canal opened under French control in November 1869….
The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on world trade. Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed six months earlier, it allowed the world to be circled in record time. It played an important role in increasing European colonization of Africa.
The construction of the canal was one of the reasons for the Panic of 1873 in Great Britain, because goods from the Far East had, until then, been carried in sailing vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and stored in British warehouses.
An inability to pay his bank debts led Said Pasha’s successor, Isma’il Pasha, in 1875 [right after the end of the US Civil War when American Cotton became available again and depressed the price paid by Britian for cotton] to sell his 44% share in the canal for £4,000,000 ($19.2 million), equivalent to £432 million to £456 million ($540 million to $570 million) in 2019, to the government of the United Kingdom. [Actually the House of Rothschild] French shareholders still held the majority. Local unrest caused the British to invade in 1882 and take full control, although nominally Egypt remained part of the Ottoman Empire.
The British representative from 1883 to 1907 was Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, who reorganized and modernized the government and suppressed rebellions and corruption, thereby facilitating increased traffic on the canal….
At this point I am going to jump to a site in the UK.
The site is run by Stephen Luscombe a UK teacher who taught in France, the Middle East and Japan. He says:
First of all, I would like to make it clear that this site is not a rigorous academic site. I am sure there are plenty of mistakes and oversights on my part; for which I apologise in advance. My interest in the subject is purely that of a personal journey of discovery; to give myself a reason to research what I regard as a fascinating subject. Link
rade links had existed between the two countries for as long as anyone could remember. Egypt was a key part of the old spice and trade routes between Europe and Asia. British traders had been loading and unloading their cargoes in Ottoman waters for generations.
British military and political interest in Egypt first manifested itself as it became obvious that in the Eighteenth Century, India was falling under the influence of Britain (and away from France). Despite, the direct sail routes around the Cape of Good Hope, Egypt still provided the quickest way of maintaining communications between Britain and and India. It required a brief overland journey, but it was still substantially quicker than circumnavigating Africa. India. It required a brief overland journey, but it was still substantially quicker than circumnavigating Africa….
He then goes into Napoleon attempted grab, the rise of the Egyptian leader, Muhammed Ali and the Brits & Ottomans defeat of this Egyptian leader. This is followed by the French involvement and the building of the canal.
…It was the French who were thought to be the most active in the North Africa region. They funded the Suez Canal and steadily increased their economic base in the country. British interest in Egypt developed during the American Civil War. At this time, British mills were starved of cotton. Alternative sources had to be found and one such source was to be Egypt whose cotton was actually a particularly good quality product. British companies began investing heavily in the production of cotton in Egypt. The hugely ambitious public works programs of the ruling Khedives also attracted British businessmen and their wares. Although, Egypt’s inability to pay for these modern conveniences was not yet thought to be a barrier to trade.
British strategic interest in Egypt was captured in 1869 when the Suez Canal was officially opened. The sailing times from London to Bombay were dramatically cut. British maps and ideas of the world had to be radically altered. The fact that the canal was controlled by the Khedive and the French government was initially a serious concern to the British. Although, It is from this point on that British decisiveness and speed of actions which consistently outwitted and out-manouevered the French and brought Egypt under Imperial British control. The first opportunity to pull away from the French was in 1875 when it became obvious that the Khedive had got himself into serious economic difficulties. The only way he could stave off creditors was by raising a seriously large amount of money. It was at this point that Disraeli was able to step in and offer to buy the Khedive’s shares in the Suez Canal Company. The speed of action on this event left the French reeling. Overnight, the British went from being a minority shareholder to being the controlling shareholder. Her influence had grown considerably as a result…
In only a few years the Egyptian government was again in economic difficulties. This time, the British and French governments initiated a stewardship of the finances of Egypt. In effect, this stewardship was little more than a joint form of colonization. British and French experts were to be sent to the various ministries in order to take control of day to day business of them. The Khedive’s unwillingness to agree to such loss of control was rewarded by his forced abdication and replacement by his son Tawfiq. The steady loss of sovereignty was keenly felt by many Egyptians. So much so that in 1882, Arabi Pasha initiated a revolt from inside the Egyptian army. In June of that year, riots broke out against the Europeans in Egypt. From this point on Britain took the initiative. The French refused participation in a bombardment of Alexandria due to political problems back at home. Surprisingly for a Liberal government, The British finally resolved on intervention and sent an expeditionary force to the Suez Canal. The Arabists were rapidly defeated at Tel el-Kabir in September and Cairo was occupied the next day. Accidentally, the British had found themselves to be masters of Egypt….
ative Council was suspended. After the Ottomans declared war on the allies on October 29th 1914, the British moved swiftly to break the technical link between the Ottoman Empire and the status of Egypt. The fate of the Suez Canal was just too important to take any chances and technically it was in enemy territory if Egypt was indeed a suzerain of Turkey. Indeed, Britain declared that the Canal was closed to all but allied and neutral shipping – despite international agreements to the contrary. Additionally, they deposed the Turcophile Khedive Abbas (who happened to be in Turkey at the time of their declaration of war) and created the new title of Sultan of Egypt on 19 December 1914 and engineered the pro-British Hussein Kamel to ascend the new position. The newly created Sultanate of Egypt was declared a British Protectorate rather than colony meaning that its people were subject of the Sultan rather than of King George. Hussein Kamel’s accession brought to an end the de jure Ottoman sovereignty over Egypt. But when Great Britain proclaimed this protectorate over Egypt in 1914, Saad Zaghlul’s benign attitude towards British rule changed fundamentally. The proclamation of the British protectorate united many of the different opposition groups in Egypt, and would become the starting point for Zaghlul’s new nationalism after the war.
The post-war international climate saw an increase in ideas of self-rule and independence – partly inspired by talk of Wilson’s 14 points, but also by a surge in national identities brought about by the war. Egypt’s nationalists, temporarily, saw how the rest of the Ottoman Empire was being divided up and wanted to be granted similar rights. Within days of the armistice Saad Zaghlul, the unofficial leader of Egyptian nationalism, headed to the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Reginald Wingate, and informed him that the Egyptian people wanted their complete independence and that he would like to lead his delegation to London to negotiate with the British government.
The British government initially refused mindful of the continued importance of Egypt as a strategic concern. They did relent to say that they would meet with the Egyptian Prime Minister, but sensing the change in nationalist sentiment in his country, he not only refused but resigned. Saad Zaghlul called for a nationwide revolt. However, as martial law had not yet been rescinded, the authorities used their extensive powers to arrest Saad Zaghlul and deport him to Malta. This further inflamed nationalist sentiment and escalated into the 1919 revolution.
Riots broke out and Lord Allenby and Milner [of the Miner Round Tables -GC] were despatched from Britain to try and ascertain what to do next. They quickly came to the conclusion that it was better to grant independence to pro-British Egyptians rather than wait for nationalists to take power for themselves. Saad Zaghlul was released and allowed to return from Malta much to the joy of many Egyptians. However, negotiations over granting independence whilst still maintaining British troops in key positions, especially with regards to the Suez Canal, dragged on for two more years. Saad Zaghlul was once more sent into exile to the Seychelles, yet in reality both Allenby and Milner were of a like mind and resented the fact that it was politicians back in London who were delaying the inevitable. Eventually, it was Allenby who threatened to resign if independence were not granted. Lloyd George finally capitulated and agreed…
1920-30s
the newly installed King Fuad resented the constitutional challenges from the Egyptian Parliament and oscillated between undermining its power and having to turn back to Parliament to raise money. This lack of political stability in Egypt undermined its own influence. However, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 concentrated minds and a renewed negotiation with Britain finally bore fruit with a new Treaty in 1936.
The treaty, under which Britain still retained a prominent if diminished influence, was to run for 20 years; both parties were committed to negotiating a further alliance in 1956, at which point Egypt would have the right to submit to third-party judgement the question of whether British troops were any longer necessary in Egypt. The British occupation of Egypt was formally ended, though British troops were to remain in some areas. As Egypt’s self-defence capability improved, they would be withdrawn gradually to the Canal Zone and Sinai where their numbers would be limited to 10,000. And Britain reserved the right of reoccupation with the unrestricted use of Egyptian ports, airports and roads in war-time…..
Although this is a favorable view of the History of the British Empire as expected from a British school teacher, it is very helpful since he has a column on the right with a timeline and with links to other articles.
Unfortunately, my free time has been drastically shortened so I will leave it to people to delve into this history of Egypt as they wish. I will be looking at the more recent history next week since it is critical to understanding the Middle East of today.
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I am going to start where I ended yesterday, with the British Museums’ video: Britain’s WW1 gamble | Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict | Part 1
When you watch or read this, it is interesting to see what information they release and what they hide. Please remember the City of London/Rothschild’s.
Involvement in the US Civil War.
Support of Karl Marx and socialism/communism and the Fabians.
Hatred of Russia and involvement in the assassination of the Tsar that lead to the attacks on the Jewish people by the Russian population.
To me it looks like the Arabs have very good reason to hate the Brits. That the Brits/Rothschilds orchestrated the whole darn mess, including driving Jews into Palestine and making Americans their cash cow and cannon fodder. This was ALL so they could protect their trade routes through the Suez Canal.
Abbreviated Transcript derived from Youtube AI:
…This is the Balfour Declaration. Signed in 1917, It set out British support for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine….
In fact, when the Balfour declaration was signed the British had already promised this land to Arabs as an independent state and promised the French government that it would be an internationally administered zone – and even then, most of the land was still under Ottoman control.
So why did Britain make these three conflicting promises? How did it try to resolve them? And how did Britain’s strategy in the Middle East help to cause a century of conflict?
0:54 — At the turn in 20th century Britain’s primary interest in the Middle East isn’t oil,… what we’re really looking at then is an imperial lifeline–it’s the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is the quickest route from the Empire, especially India the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, to Britain.…
Britain had controlled Egypt since 1882 and believed that the Sinai Desert was enough of a buffer to defend the canal. But when the First World War began in 1914 the Ottoman Empire took Germany’s side. In February 1915 the Ottomans launched a surprise attack across the desert to attack the Suez Canal.
….the British are really worried that the Ottomans are going to use Sinai as a launchpad for further attacks on the canal.
There’s then a total mind change in British strategy back in London. There’s stalemate on the Western Front, the Russians are collapsing into revolution, and the idea now is to look for a quick victory somewhere else away from France and Flanders. And Lloyd George thinks Palestine is where we can do it.
We can knock the Ottomans out of the war, but also the Suez Canal will be safe from any threat. The area Britain had set its sights on was a larger one than today’s Israel/Palestine, made up of different regions east and west of the River Jordan. There were small Christian and Jewish populations, but the majority were Muslim Arabs.
2:27 — After centuries of Ottoman rule many many Arabs now wanted a nation of their own….in 1908 there’s a revolution within Turkey to try to strengthen and modernise the Empire,
it’s called the Young Turk Revolution. And what happens is some very nationalistic Turks take over
the government and are really into centralizing and pushing the idea of Turkish identity. And this really starts to rile a lot of these Arab leaders and this is where we start to get Pan-Arab nationalism coming up and the idea of one independent land for all of those Arab peoples.
One of those leaders was Sharif Hussein of Mecca. In charge of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, he was held in high regard by the local people. The British decided to use this to their advantage, promising him rulership over an independent Arab state if he rebelled against Ottoman rule. Sure enough in 1916 the revolt began with Hussein’s sons Faisal and Abdullah leading the fighting. As British and Commonwealth troops under General Allenby advanced through Palestine. Arab militia with help from T. E. Lawrence distracted the Ottomans…. And finally of course on the 1st of October 1918, Faisal and the Arab army have the honor of taking the surrender of Damascus.
But while the battle for Palestine was still raging, the British were doing secret backroom
deals elsewhere. Between November 1915 and January 1916 British and French diplomats …
carved up the Ottoman Empire into British and French spheres of influence. The borders were largely arbitrary, with little regard for ethnicity or religion of the local populations. [Operation Gladio Strategy of tension put in place. –GC]
France would receive modern day Syria and Lebanon as well as parts of Turkey and Iraq while Britain claimed the rest of modern day Iraq and southern and eastern Palestine. The remainder of the territory was to be under International control.
What the British are really looking for is an extra large buffer zone again for the Suez Canal, it’s all about the Suez Canal. The idea of making Palestine an international area, is really because the British don’t want to give this to the French, but the French don’t want the British to have it.
6:01 — Having already made commitments to Arab nationalists and the French government, in November 1917 the British made one more promise regarding the land in Palestine, this time to Zionists seeking to set up a national Jewish State. Zionism was a social movement that began in the 1800s. It was founded on the belief that Judaism was not only a religion but a nationality and that Jewish people deserved a state like British or French people did. …Interestingly there were three battalions of Jewish volunteers, one battalion of British, one of Americans, and one of Palestinian Jews.
7:00 — The British volunteers weren’t really interested in Zionism at all, they were more interested in using that military service, service to the crown to assimilate into British society. It was really the American volunteers and the local Jewish volunteers from Palestine who were really fired up by Zionism [Remember these ‘locals’ would have been the Jews shipped in by the Rothschilds earlier after a Jewish Agent killed the Tsar and the Russians retaliated against the Jews in Russia. –GC] and wanted to use this to defeat the Ottoman Empire and secure that Jewish homeland…. although Zionism was a popular movement, the majority of Jews were not Zionists and didn’t want to move to Palestine. Jewish immigration to Palestine had been slowly increasing throughout the 1900s, mainly fueled by brutal antisemitic and terrible pogroms in Russia. [Carrying water for the Rothschilds and Jewish Socialists who killed not only the Tsar but Russian officials as well are we? — GC] By 1914 the Jews in Palestine numbered around 60,000 or 8% of the population.
But for the British it was Zionists elsewhere that they were concerned with. In an effort to win the support of Jewish communities in both Allied countries like the United States, and enemy countries like Austria Hungary, the UK foreign secretary signed the Balfour declaration, vowing to set up a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
So the Balfour for declaration is signed in late 1917… [The same year as the Russian Revolution. GC]
8:35 — The British and French War efforts by this time are pretty much under pressure, there’s a manpower crisis, there’s a crisis in raw materials. The Americans have joined the war in April 1917 and we really need the Americans to to ramp up and get stuck into the war effort. So the idea is by supporting this Zionist idea it will get Jewish financiers and industrialists in America on side and they will put big pressure on the American government to keep them involved in the First World War and fight for the Allied cause. This idea, this is an antisemitic idea that the Jews control world finance and business across capitalist countries. And that idea takes hold and is one of the reasons we think they can put pressure on the American government.
9:45 — For the British these conflicting promises were worth making to assure that they came out on top in the world’s first Total War. And they were effective, Britain and France were victorious over the Central Powers in 1918. But now that the war was at an end, the British would have to face the consequences. The choices they made would help to spark a century of conflict.
Having captured Damascus in 1918, the British military left Faisal and his men in charge of a military occupation zone, an area that Faisal declared the Arab Kingdom of Syria.
However the French were not happy. Hoping to maintain their influence in the region they expelled Faisal in a short war. It was a crushing blow to the pan-Arab cause.
Instead it was the victorious Allied Powers who drew the new borders of the Middle East in a series of conferences from 1919 to 1923.With the formation of the League of Nations, Britain and France took control under a series of mandates.
Initially France was given the mandates for Syria and Lebanon while Britain was given the mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine. But after Faisal’s defeat the British decided to split Palestine in two.
Faisal was given the crown of Mesopotamia and his brother Abdullah was given the crown of the newly created Transjordan. The remainder of Palestine would be strictly British.
So this 1924 map shows the Palestine that came into being after the First World War. It is not part of a pan-Arab state, in fact there is no pan Arab state in this region. Also it is not an internationally controlled area or an area in which the French have any control at all. It is a British administered League of Nations mandate.
What this Mandate for Palestine does have however written into its statute is the Balfour Declaration of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
Jewish immigration to mandatory Palestine continue to grow. By 1931 there were 176,000 Jewish people living there, making up 17% of the population.This led to increased tensions, riots, and violence between the new arrivals and local Arabs, who, along with existing Christian populations, were starting to see themselves not only as Arabs but as distinctly Palestinian people.
What these new Jewish settlers bring in is lots of financial backing and they start to buy up more and more land. So it’s more of the fertile agricultural land of Palestine which actually makes the Jewish population increasingly economically dominant in the area. The British government gets very very worried about this. In 1930 the Colonial Secretary puts forward a white paper to drastically limit Jewish immigration into the Palestine mandate. The following year 1931, pressure from Zionists within the British government and also World Zionist leaders talks Ramsey McDonald in to dropping the white paper. And from that moment there is no limit on Jewish immigration into Palestine.
This reversal coincided with events elsewhere that would supercharge the conflict. In 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and began instituting a wave of antisemitic policies. This sent shock waves through the Jewish communities of Europe. However for those seeking to flee options were few, with most governments maintaining strict limits on Jewish immigration. For many Jews, Zionists or not, traveling to Palestine became the only option.
13:40 — By 1936 the Jewish contingent inside Mandatory Palestine had doubled to 28% of the population. Now tensions began to escalate at an alarming rate what began as a general strike among Palestinian Arabs in 1936 devolved into violent attacks on Jewish settlements and British military installations. [Think how we Americans feel about all the illegals shipped into our country. -GC]
This event became known as The Great Revolt.
From this point really you can see Palestinian Arab nationalism as opposed to pan-Arab nationalism. They’re fighting against an issue, that Jewish homeland and British control in the region, that no other mandate or any other has to fight against. And they want their own Palestinian State, an independent country free from British control.
The British response was to crush the revolt as quickly as possible with overwhelming strength.
They brought a surge of new troops, more men than were serving in India at the time,and declaredmartial law in 1937.Favoring tactics of collective punishment they destroyed homes and burned villages to the ground, they used aerial bombing even on urban areas, and arrested killed or exiled Arab leaders fracturing their movement. In addition the British use Jewish auxiliary units to fight the Arabs during the revolt.
But this is a real turnaround from 1921 when they disband the Jewish Legion. Now in 1936/37 the British are so overstretched that they really don’t care. They just need boots on the ground to sort this situation out and to end this revolt as quickly as possible. So by the end of the Arab Revolt 17% of the Arab male population are either killed, wounded, imprisoned, or exiled. This really weakens the Arab cause in Palestine just at the moment when the Jewish population is getting more and more power.
So the Brits stirred up generations of hatred. Remember prior to this Arabs, Jews and Christians lived in relative peace. Do not forget this passage:
By 1931 there were 176,000 Jewish people living there, making up 17% of the population.
This led to increased tensions, riots, and violence between the new arrivals and local Arabs, who, along with existing Christian populations, were starting to see themselves not only as Arabs but as distinctly Palestinian people.
I am only going to go over the first 30 minutes of this 2 hour video. It gives a completely different view of current events compared to what we get from the CIA propaganda ‘news.’
I do not know about the rest of you but I am getting darn sick and tired of being LIED TO so the Brits and the Bankers have an excuse to continue to kill our young folk and suck our wealth dry.
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT
10 min – 12:45 — Colonel Tower starts off with the CIA template.
If a country has something the International Syndicate (Cabal) wants like resources and the people elect someone that wants a FAIR SPLIT so the people get some benefit from those resources, the Cabal springs into action. The leader is attacked. [THINK PUTIN] First the leader is attacked financially. They isolate them and tell the IMF they can not loan them any money. Once they are surrounded and isolated and the leader, in desperation picks up the phone and calls, at the time the Soviet Union. [now it is China] The leader is then labeled a COMMUNIST. So the CIA calls them a communist and if they are a communist we [the CIA] get to kill them. So that’s the pattern.
14:40 – 18:00 — Colonel: Do you see the dip in the middle [northern border] straight down to to an inch below the southern border and west to Aden. Everything east and south of that is considered South Yemen. The rest is Northern Yemen. The people of Yemen have been trying to unify Yemen.
The Saudis wanted part of Northern Yemen. The British had most of Southern Yemen especially the port of Aden. They used that port for a 100 years. They had coal there [for the coal powered steam ships – GC] for the trips to India. So the Brits would come down and go just south of Yemen and stop at Aden [for coal -GC] and so they wanted control, So they invaded Yemen just like they invaded part of Egypt.
So this is very very important geographically. If you go all the way north through the straits there up to Egypt, that is where the Suez Canal is.
And just on the other side of the Suez Canal is Israel. And Israel is going to feature very prominently in our conversation tonight. All of this strait is very very strategic. A lot of money, I mean like trillions of dollars of shipping goes through there.
So you have the setting up of some horrific friction with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Yemen, Oman. And going a little bit further south you have the Horn of Africa, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan and those are all the hotspots, right?
So the whole time I was in the military, these were the hotspots. When I was part of Sitcom, we had the whole Horn of Africa as part of Central Command. This was SCHIFF HOT all the time. Crap going down all the time.
18 mins — Colonel: Until recently when I started researching Operation Gladio I had no clue. Zoom in close to Djbouti. Just off the coast, notice all the little islands. Let me tell you what that is. It is an archipelago. [A chain or cluster if islands -GC] It is a very very interesting place. That archipelago is called DAHKAK archipelago.
Let me tell you a little bit about that. There was an article that was written in august of 2024 talking about explosions happening on that island. The Island was vacated and no one was allowed to live on it. And surveillance showed that Israel was building an intelligence base there. They detonated all kinds of munitions there. And it says the local reporting in Eritrea was that Yemen had attacked that base because Israel had basically taken over the archipelago.
One of the things I look for when I look for Operation Gladio stuff is ISLANDS. If you remember back a year ago when we first started talking about this, where did Otto Skorzeny do all of his training. He did it on islands like Sardinia off the coast of Italy, the Canary Islands, where Robert Maxwell went missing. So I always check out the islands off the coast of these places. [Hot Spots — GC] It is funny because Ghost had sent me a text the other day and asked me if I had ever heard of these. And yes I had back when I was first looking at the Horn of Africa Countries when we were doing our around-the-world-tour. Israel is working with the Muslim community on that island.
21:15– Colonel: See that island off the Coast of the Horn of Africa? South of Yemen? Let me tell you a bit about that island. This one is going to blow your mind.
The Colonel then brings up an article by The Cradle. I found 2 articles on Yemen.
The transformation of Yemen’s strategically-located Socotra Island into an Emirati-Israeli military intelligence hub has raised concerns for the Ansarallah movement and its allies, significantly increasing the geopolitical stakes of the Yemen war.
Located off the southern coast of Yemen in the Arabian Sea, the Socotra archipelago has become a focal point of regional and international interest because of its strategic proximity to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
On 21 June, 2020, the Yemeni island was militarily occupied by Saudi Arabia’s Emirati [UAE] coalition partner, which has aggressively pursued a policy of establishing and controlling ports throughout West Asia and the Horn of Africa since 1999….
The War on Yemen
The assault on Yemen was launched on 26 March, 2015, in an announcement by Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir from Washington DC, in which he stated that a coalition of ten countries, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, would take military action to reinstate the government of Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. [The Colonel says, based on several different accounts, that this is the CIA guy. -GC]
Hadi had been ousted in popular [INTERNAL- Colonel] protests in 2014, after losing the capital city, Sanaa, to the joint forces of the Ansarallah movement and their allies in the country’s armed forces. Based in northern Yemen, the Ansarallah movement had been advocating for fair representation in the government for a long time.
24:00 Colonel:
I want everyone to understand the Ansaraliah movement is the POLITICAL PARTY. When you refer to the Houthis that is actually the name of a guy… It is like calling Republicans Trumpers. It is that type of divisive slur. It is actually a slur to the Ansaraliah political party. So there is an actual political party within Yemen who want all the foreigners out of their country. [SOUND FAMILIAR? — GC]
The Colonel reads more of the article:
With US-backing, Saudi Arabia launched “Operation Decisive Storm,” and the air strikes began. Initially expected to last only a few weeks or months – and according to MbS himself, just “a few days” – the Yemeni war has now entered its eighth year and taken on a markedly different shape than the coalition initially contended.
Two years into the war, the Emiratis began pursuing their own hidden agenda of establishing a “self-styled maritime empire” in Yemen, which veered sharply from Riyadh’s objectives. To achieve this goal, Abu Dhabi sought to control the country’s southern coastline and its ports and enlisted the help of a local Yemeni proxy called the Southern Movement.
The Southern Movement was formed by secessionist tribes [CIA backed – The Colonel] and groups seeking to divide Yemen along the old partition lines of 1967–1990. However, the movement had to be restructured to match the UAE’s aspirations, and in 2017 it was transformed into the Southern Transitional Council (STC).
MAP from the article. Note the location of the Socotra Island off the Horn of Africa.
Red Sea Map where you can see the Dahkak archipelago near the label Jaza ir Farasan, as well as Socotra Island. (click to expand size)
26:45 — Colonel: So Israel is right here [Dahkah archipelago] and we are going to find out, Israel is right here [Socotra Island.]
26:53 — Alpha: When you say Israel, you’re talking about civilian presence or military?
26:58 — Colonel: Oh, no I am talking military. A Schiff ton of military. They’re setting up long runways. They’re setting up all kinds of surveillance. They are doing all kinds of schiff. Did you know that, I did not.
27:15 — Alpha: I did not. That is a long way from home. [You can see that looking at the map.]
27:40 The Colonel starts reading the article again and says, See if this rings a bell Alpha.
Passages from the Article are indented, the Colonel’s comments are not.
The significance of Socotra
Socotra Island falls under the territorial jurisdiction of the exiled Hadi government, which to this day – despite his physical absence [Because he got kicked out – Colonel] and the replacement of the “presidency” with an 8-member, Saudi-sponsored Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) – remains Yemen’s internationally-recognized government.
28:12 — Colonel: So we have a government in exile.
However, on 30 April, 2018, the UAE deployed hundreds of troops with artillery and armored vehicles on the island, which is located 350 km away from the mainland conflict, without any prior coordination with Yemeni authorities.
28:33 — Colonel: So let me rephrase this. [In the map provided by the Cradle] the striped part in South Yemen, is factions of CIA sponsored rebels. So Israel is right here [Dahkah archipelago] and we are going to find out, Israel is right here [Socotra Island] and UAE along with some Saudis. This Part over here [North Yemen without the stripes] is the actual Yemeni people that are freedom fighters. We’re just going to call them that. They have no CIA backing.
29:00 — Alpha: like a legit resistance.
29:10 — Colonel: Yeah, like a legit resistance that wants all the foreigners out of their country.
The guy that they kicked out of the presidency, this Hadi guy [Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi] is the government in exile, and that sounds exactly like Chiang Kai-shek when he got kicked out for being CIA backed as well. He got kicked out of China and put on the Island of Formosa [now Taiwan.] This is exactly what happened to this guy. He gets put on this island, but the UAE who’s over there in the striped area sets up a whole bunch of ports that the Saudis do not even know that they are controlling now. They just pop over here and take over the island too.
The Riyadh-backed Yemeni government condemned the Emirati aggression, backed by local islanders protesting against the occupation of their territory. The Saudis were forced to intervene by sending troops and training locals to deter the UAE from seizing the island.
But later that year, UAE General Khalfan al-Mazrouei arrived on Socotra Island and has since been considered its de facto ruler. Under his leadership, the Emiratis gained the loyalty of local tribes by using bribery under the guise of “humanitarian aid.” They offered Socotra residents UAE passports and promised them an improved quality of life…
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I am going to leave it at that. Interested folk can read the articles or watch the rest of the video. However I hope Q-Treepers can entertain the notion that there is another side to the story of the Middle East and the people pulling our strings, the strings of the Jewish people, and that of the Arabs are NOT NICE PEOPLE.
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Trump proposed that the United States “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip, with Israel handing over control after the cessation of fighting. His vision included resettling Palestinians elsewhere, potentially in neighboring countries like Egypt or Jordan, and redeveloping Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” for economic and tourism purposes.
The Israeli plan, as described, focuses on Israel maintaining military control while facilitating the “voluntary departure” of Gaza residents, aligning with Trump’s resettlement concept but emphasizing Israeli operational control rather than direct U.S. ownership.
I just had a very good and productive telephone conversation with the President of Turkey, Recep Erdoğan, concerning many subjects, including the War with Russia/Ukraine, all things Syria, Gaza, and more. The President invited me to go to Turkey at a future date and, likewise, he will be coming to Washington, D.C. During my four years as President, my relationship with President Erdoğan was excellent. We worked together closely on numerous things, including the fact that he helped return Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was imprisoned, back to the United States — Immediately upon my request. In any event, I look forward to working with President Erdoğan on getting the ridiculous, but deadly, War between Russia and Ukraine ended — NOW!
In the next two articles I want to take a look at why the Middle East and Gaza is so important.
A General View of the City of Constantinople, hand-coloured engraving: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (public domain)
This is an incredibly important article. Yeah it is very long but it is jam packed with great info and concepts. PLEASE take the time to read it or listen to Patrick Gunnels reading it. (skip first 3 minutes of intro)
Will Zoll connects the City of London to Roman times, to the ‘Treaty of Washington 1871’ as well as Mercantilism and Gresham’s Law.
Those who wish to conquer nations are not interested in its laws, but instead its money. Therefore, the ‘District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871’ is not of great relevance to this series. However, the ‘Treaty of Washington 1871’ is another matter entirely… Understanding the connection between Mercantilism and Gresham’s Law is critical. These two systems worked together to ensure that bullion streamed into the City of London like a champagne fountain at a Great Gatsby party.
I will put some excerpts at the end of this article.
So what does the City of London, Mercantilism and Gresham’s Law have to do with the Gaza Strip, with Israel and with Yemen?
TRADE AND TRADE ROUTES
When reading this, keep in mind what POTUS Trump’s stated concerns are. Gaza, Yemen, Panama & Greenland not to mention tariffs and trade deals.
Nations, merchants and banks make money by moving products from point A to point B and charging the people at point B a lot more than they paid the people at point A for the product. Making the people at point A slaves does wonders for your bottom line, however if the trade route is long and hazardous you may still lose money. Therefore trade routes are very much a concern of the Cabal and have been for centuries. Also, just like the Chinese, they plan in terms of generations and not the next quarter.
Even today, ships are the preferred method for transporting goods, thus short cuts like the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal are still very important.
If you look at a globe , You will see there are three natural trade routes. Through the Arctic sea, around the tip of South Africa and around the tip of South America. ALL of these routes are not only long they are nasty and dangerous.
This article takes a quick look at the Europe – Asia trade routes, the Brits and the Rothschilds.
Long-distance trade routes carried valuable products like gold, silk, and spices over land and sea for centuries, making an indelible impact on world history.
The author, Claire Cock-Starkey, lists the Silk Road, the Spice Routes, the Incense Route, the Amber Road, the Tea-Horse Road, the Salt Route, the Trans-Saharan Trade Route and the Tin Route. Of interest is The Spice Routes.
…North African and Arab middlemen controlled access to trade with the East, making such spices extremely costly and rare. From the 15th to the 17th centuries, new navigation technology made sailing long distances from Europe possible. Europeans took to the seas to forge direct trading relationships with Indonesia, China, and Japan. Some have argued the spice trade fueled the development of faster ships, encouraged colonization, and fostered new diplomatic relationships between East and West. Christopher Columbus had spices on his mind when he set out on his famous voyage in 1492.
And that brings us to the Ottoman Empire and the Brits. My focus, as usual, remains on our enemies, the Brits, Rothschilds and the City of London. Too bad our government no longer feels the same way!
…American memories were longer:The First World War was a temporary exertion, after which we withdrew into isolationism;during the ’20s the U.S. Navy Department still maintained a “Red Plan”to deal with the contingency of conflict with the British fleet.
It was not until the war with Hitler that the gap closed permanently….
…Bevin, the unlikely originator of this revolution in British diplomacy, shrewdly calculated that Britain was not powerful enough to influence American policy by conventional methods of pressure or balancing of risks. But by discreet advice, the wisdom of experience, and the presupposition of common aims, she could make herself indispensable, so that American leaders no longer thought of consultations with London as a special favor but as an inherent component of our own decision-making. The wartime habit of intimate, informal collaboration thus became a permanent practice…
The CIA, and Kissinger, along with the bought and paid for media and Congress, made SURE it became a permanent practice. Thus the USA became the UK’s cannon fodder and piggy bank.
…the Silk Road began its decline by the 15th century. The reasons why this occurred were several: the rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century… Ottomans controlled much of the Silk Road in key parts that made it arduous for Europeans to access Asian markets.
….the discovery of the maritime trade route made it the efficient way to go. Maritime explorers began to explore sea routes to Asia bypassing the Silk Road totally as it had become an overland road. This led to a decline in trade patterned along the Silk Road accompanied by political instability and attacks….
Somewhere I had read that the Brits had agreements with the Ottoman Empire for trade routes through the Middle East. This is some of the information I dug up looking into that memory. It is pretty clear the Ottoman Empire was willing to negotiate various treaties as long as they got $$$ from the deal.
This article analyzes the engagement between Ottoman authorities and English merchants from the Muscovy Company within the Caucasus during the latter half of the sixteenth century. This period constitutes a significant phase in the evolution of international commerce and diplomatic ties, coinciding with the peak of the Ottoman Empire’s political and economic influence and the concomitant emergence of England as an active participant in global politics and trade. In 1553, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent bestowed a capitulation of commercial privileges upon the English merchant and explorer Anthony Jenkinson, marking the inception of formal relations between the two states in the realm of trade.
The importance of trade relations between different countries… The history of one of the ancient cities with ancient historical depth, which is the city of Smyrna, a city that has a civilized history. It was one of the most important cities overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, and it brings together various cultural and economic activities. It has one of the most important ports in the world, as it has formed a forum for global trade since ancient times.
Smyrna is in Turkey across from Greece on the Mediterranean sea. Since 1930 it has been known as İzmir. Seems we are not the only ones into re-naming old places.
However this article is the one that really caught my attention. WHY all of a sudden did interest in making deals stop?
This is an interesting read as it details the squabbles between, France, England, the Ottoman empire and various merchants and other commercial interests. What is important is other events going on in the world and the Rothschilds reactions.
…The quay of Izmir (Smyrna), known at the time as ‘les Quais de Smyrne’,(1) comprised a stone breakwater running the length of the city along the shore, two harbours and a considerable port infrastructure. It was one of the engineering feats of the nineteenth century as well as a tribute to private enterprise and capital. It was the first harbour infrastructure of its kind to be built in Ottoman Turkey and one of the earliest in the Ottoman Empire.(2) In design it was similar to the ports of Brest and Toulon, built by the same French company. Dussaud Brothers(3) were engineers with a first-class international reputation, having undertaken the construction of a number of ports: Cherbourg and Marseilles, besides Brest and Toulon, Trieste, Algiers,(4) Suez and Port Said.(5) The scale and modernity of the entire project put Izmir among the foremost city ports not only in the Near East but in the Mediterranean as a whole. It was a fitting distinction for a city that had dominated the external and internal trade of the Ottoman Empire since the middle of the eighteenth century.(6) The commercial importance of Izmir In 1889, with the harbour infrastructure in place, the British consul stationed in Izmir noted the economic dynamism of the city port….
A British project becomes French
The quay was in many respects a local project, born out of local needs, given the continuous increase in trade and shipping in the port of Izmir. It was initiated locally in the cities of Istanbul and Izmir, in the Ottoman Empire, and even financed locally at first. Both the initial concessionaires, J. H. Charnaud, A. Barker and G. Guarracino,(24) as well as the board of directors of the Smyrna Quay Company set up in 1868, namely A. Cousinéry, Baron Alliotti, P. Alliotti, E. de Creamer, F. Charnaud, K. Abro, A. Spartali and A. Alliotti,(25) with the exception of Cousinéry, who was French, were either British in origin or had British nationality; they were also long-term members of the city’s business community.(26) Despite subsequent bitter antagonism between the British community and diplomats, in its origins the quay was a British(27) project.(28)Aware that their plans might impinge upon the ‘vested rights or private interests’ of the owners of property on the sea front, including wharfs and warehouses,(29) the three concessionaires actively sought the agreement and support of the business community,(30) as well as the ‘assistance’ of British diplomats in both Istanbul and Izmir. Very early on, however, they became aware that the British consul in Izmir was going to be no friend of the project even when it was still in British hands….
Pg 15. …Negotiations were quite far advanced, the first instalment of £125,000 (3,125,000 francs) remained to be paid and the definitive contract to be signed,(105) when the deal fell through…. Both British and French sources relate that the British financiers could not raise enough funds by public subscription from individual investors on the London money market to effect the purchase. With no large-scale banques d’affaires in Britain eager to spearhead the deal, the requisite capital was not available.(108) The other important reason was that the Ottoman government, at a crucial point in the negotiations,(109) brought pressure to bear on Dussaud to abort the sale. Again British and French sources concur on this.(110) The government even hinted that Dussaud had no legal right to assign a concession to another individual. Although the Porte did not maintain this stance subsequently, it had the desired effect.(111)The Porte’s objections are not difficult to understand. For ‘the transfer of the Smyrna Quays to English hands [was] regarded in certain Turkish circles as part of a deeply-laid political scheme for increasing English political influence in Turkey’.(112) With the British failure to take over the company, it remained in French hands and the Porte became, to a large extent, the ultimate arbiter in this inter-imperialist rivalry…
Four years later, in 1886, Elie Dussaud, for the second time, proposed to sell his enterprise to a group of British buyers. However, the opposition of the French government and, more important, of the Ottoman government once more torpedoed negotiations.(113) Unable to sell it to the British, Dussaud offered in 1887 to sell out to the Ottoman government.(114)
“…With no large-scale banques d’affaires [Think the Rothschilds – GC] in Britain eager to spearhead the deal, the requisite capital was not available….”That would be in 1882.
Footnote 108 tells us a bit more.
PRO, FO 198/44, Granville, London, 22 May 1882, to Dufferin; see also AMAE, CCC, Vol. 54, Pellissier, Izmir, 4 and 8 June 1882, to Freycinet. British mercantile opposition to the project – represented in Britain by such institutions as the Manchester Chamber of Commerce – may also have influenced the London money market adversely.
So let’s see why the Rothschilds were not interested in financing this port. 25 years earlier:
John Reeves, in his authorized biography, The Rothschilds, the Financial Rulers of Nations, noted that when the family met in London in 1857 for the marriage of Lionel’s daughter Leonora to her cousin Alphonse, son of James Rothschild of Paris, Disraeli (Prime Minister of England) declared,
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild—a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James, and one for you, Lionel. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.“
This was the political origin of the American Civil War. The Rothschilds feared the rapidly growing and increasingly prosperous free American Republic, and they privately resolved that it would be less of a danger to their worldwide interests if it were broken up into two smaller and weaker nations.
1815 — The defeat of Napoleon I. Due to the Rothschilds vast spy network, and a bit of trickery spooking traders into selling off consuls, Nathan Mayer Rothschild ended up with a return of approximately 20 to 1 on his investment. This gave the Rothschild family complete control of the British economy, now the financial centre of the world following Napolean’s defeat.
1852 — Napoleon I’s, cousin, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, founded the Second French Empire (1852 to 1870)and ruled as Emperor Napoleon III. — from WIKI
1853 – 1856 –The Crimean War was the Russian Empire vs the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, Britain and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont – from WIKI
January 1860 — The London Morning Post bluntly called for the restoration of British rule in America. The Post was known as a mouthpiece for Lord Palmerston, Britain’s Prime Minister.
March 1881 — Rothschild’s Red terrorists (Jews) finally succeeded in assassinating the Tzar Alexander II of Russia.
1881–1884 – Pogroms, anti-Jewish violence by non-Jewish street mobs occur in the Russian Empire in retaliation to the assassination of the Tzar and other officials.
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So by 1882 the Rothschilds had orchestrated the pressure needed to form the nation of Israel and colonize the land they wanted for a new trade route. Currying favor with the Ottomans therefore would not be necessary and therefore they had become expendable. Mean while the Brits invaded Egypt.
Britain invaded Egypt in 1882 on the pretext of not paying the debts taken for the construction of the Suez Canal.
…The Ottoman government took certain measures against this movement, which threatened its territorial integrity. It feared that the law of 1869, which allowed foreigners to buy land in the Ottoman country, except for the Hijaz, on condition of reciprocity, would be abused. In 1871, 80% of Palestine was turned into state land. At that time, several thousand Ottoman Jews were living in Palestine.
Operation Rothschild
In 1881, the Jews who faced the pogrom in Russia wanted to immigrate to Palestine en masse, and they wanted world-famous people of Jewish origin to finance it, like the Rothschild and Hirsch families. This is called aliyah in Zionist literature.
From 1882, the Rothschilds began to buy land in Palestine on behalf of others. The Rothschilds, who had international power as they lent money to all governments, wanted the refugee Russian Jews to be allowed to settle in these lands. The embassies intervened. The Ottoman government was confused as to what to do. The first Jewish colony was established in Jaffa that same year, despite not having been granted permission. By 1918, one-twentieth of Palestine’s fertile lands belonged to the Rothschilds….
The Young Turks, who dethroned Sultan Abdülhamid II and seized power [1909], first nationalized the treasury lands belonging to the sultan. To please the Zionists who supported them, they allowed Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Even though they realized the gravity of the incident immediately after and banned the sale of land to foreigners in Palestine, things were already out of control. Between 1908 and 1914, the Jews bought 50,000 acres of land and established 10 colonies. In 1913, the Rothschilds bought the treasury lands.
According to the Ottoman censuses, the number of Jewish people living in Palestine was 9,500 in 1881, 12,500 in 1896, 14,200 in 1906 and 31,000 in 1914. In 1917, the Zionists came to an agreement with the British foreign minister, Arthur Balfour. Britain, which was greedy for Jewish capital, promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine with the Balfour Declaration. When the Syrian front collapsed, Palestine was occupied by British forces….
Do not forget that the Brits were ALSO behind the Young Turks.
British agent Vladimir Jabotinsky’s career would cross that of another of the most important operatives of the Bolshevik revolutionary epoch, Alexander Israel Helphand (a.k.a. “Parvus”). Both Jabotinsky and Parvus edited publications of the British/Venetian-spawned Young Turk movement, which helped instigate London’s Balkan Wars and the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire—without which, the entire Anglo-French Sykes-Picot colonial scheme would not have been possible.
Like Jabotinsky, Parvus (1867-1924) came from an Odessa family steeped in the grain trade. By 1886, Helphand/Parvus had already become involved in the Okhrana-spawned Russian socialist scene, travelling to Switzerland to participate in the Emancipation of Labor group.
Once “Bloody Sunday” unleashed the revolutionary destabilizations in St. Petersburg, Parvus appeared on the scene, as a leading collaborator of Leon Trotsky and other leaders of the Petersburg Soviet. Parvus and Trotsky bought a liberal newspaper, Russkaya Gazeta, to rival the Bolshevik publication….
When the entire leadership of the Petersburg Soviet—including Trotsky—was rounded up and jailed in December 1905, Parvus escaped the police clutches, and next turned up, via Germany, in Constantinople, as a “journalist” covering the Young Turk rebellion against the Ottomans, a crucial prelude to the British-manipulated second Balkan War. It would be at this moment that Parvus’s ties to the leading European “Venetian Party” factions—especially to British intelligence—would be publicly shown….
The Young Turks
In 1908, the Committee for Union and Progress, otherwise known as the Young Turks, carried out a military coup, overthrowing the Sultan and seizing power over the Ottoman Empire. Launching ethnic cleansing campaigns against all non-Turkic peoples, including Armenians, Greeks, and Bulgarians, the Young Turk regime played a pivotal role in provoking the 1912-13 Balkan Wars, through its brutality towards the minorities… The actual founder of the Young Turk movement was an Italian Freemason and grain trader named Emmanuel Carasso. Jewish by birth…
Carasso was a leading financier of the entire Young Turk insurrection, and during the Balkan Wars, he was not only the head of Balkan intelligence operations for the Young Turks; he was in charge of all food supplies for the Ottomans during World War I, a lucrative business which he shared with Parvus.
Carasso also financed a number of newspapers and other propaganda outlets for the Young Turks…
The Young Turk operation was headed, from London, by Aubrey Herbert, a grandson of one of Mazzini’s controllers, who himself died while leading revolutionary mobs in Italy in 1848. Aubrey Herbert headed all British Intelligence operations in the Middle East during the period of World War I, and no less a figure than Lawrence of Arabia identified Herbert as the actual head of the Young Turk insurrection.…
The Balfour Declaration was signed in 1917. It set out British support for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.
But when the Balfour Declaration was signed, the British had already promised Palestine to Arabs as an independent state and promised the French government that it would be an internationally administered zone.
Even then, most of the land was still under Ottoman control. So why did Britain make these three conflicting promises? How did it try to resolve them? And how did Britain’s strategy in the Middle East help to cause a century of conflict?
Their 15 minute video leaves a lot out but does a decent summation. When they mention dragging the USA into WWI remember the Federal Reserve in 1913 along with the The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), followed in 1915 with the buying out of the important US newspapers.
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Next week we will look at Egypt and Yemen as well as Palestine in relation to the all important Trade Routes from Europe to Asia.
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…The Times framed Trump’s historic first 100 days darkly, as a warning or a sinister omen, but was finally forced to admit that either way, the nation has never witnessed any presidency like this. For instance, one sub-headline blared, “The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.”
[And we had not seen a greater effort to EXPAND the unaccountable bureaucracy, then under FDR. POTUS Trump is trying to return us to the original Constitutional design of the executive.-GC]
“They are trying to do a moonshot on executive power,” explained Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith. Jack doesn’t share Trump voters’ excitement. He feels threatened: “this situation is a much more dangerous threat to the rule of law than the last time.” I’ll just point out that, over the last four years, Jack never thought Biden’s lockdowns, mandatory drugs, or vaccine passports for accessing air travel were threats to the rule of law….
Given our out of control judiciary, I thought this would be a good time to look at what has happened to our judicial system over time. I am hoping Pgroup2 chimes in because I am NOT a lawyer and don’t play one on TV.
Let’s start with what our Constitution says about the Judiciary.
Article I
Section 2.
…No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.…
Section 3.
….No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen….
Section 8.
The Congress shall have power…
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court…
I included Section 2 & 3 because it gives the minimum age and the minimum years as a citizen before the founders considered a person eligible to serve the US people. Shouldn’t judges who serve for a life time be required to have similar qualifications? Maybe 30 years of age and 10 years a US citizen? OR better yet, like our president a natural born US citizen?
Article II
Section 2.
The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy …. and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law,or in the heads of departments.
That last part will come back to bite us in the rump!
Article III
Section 1.
The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Section 2.
The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;–to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;–to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;–to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;–to controversies between two or more states;–between a state and citizens of another state;–between citizens of different states;–between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
This article looks at the judiciary from the point of view of the federal government.
….The provision for tenure during good behavior and a prohibition on reductions in salary assured the judges of the Supreme Court and other judges authorized to exercise the judicial power of the United States an independence that the Constitution denied the legislators and president. The constitutional outline of the judiciary, far briefer than the articles defining the legislative and executive branches, offered a general description of the federal courts’ jurisdiction. Article III was more specific in its protection of several rights and liberties, such as the guarantee of trial by jury in criminal cases and freedom from bills of attainder or vague charges of treason.
Other articles of the Constitution also shaped the structure and operation of the federal judiciary. According to Article II, the president would appoint judges with the approval of the Senate. In Article I, the enumerated powers of the Congress included the authority “to constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.” Although Article III made no mention of a chief justice, the provision in Article I for the chief justice to preside in the impeachment trial of a president indicated the delegates’ assumption that the Supreme Court would include one leadership position. Article VI required all judges, like state and federal legislators and executives, to be bound by oath to support the Constitution.
The constitutional provisions for the judiciary reflected the conventions’ debate on the appointment of judges, the institutional independence of the third branch, and the value of lower federal courts. Many delegates assumed Congress would elect judges, while other wanted the president alone to select the members of the Supreme Court. Madison’s original proposal for the Constitution called for the president and members of the Supreme Court to serve on a Council of Revision that would have authority to veto legislation. The most contentious, and finally unresolved, debate concerning the judiciary centered on the proposals for lower federal courts that would operate alongside existing state courts. Supporters of a strong national government wanted a system of lower federal courts with final jurisdiction in many cases, while those who wished to preserve the authority of state governments proposed that the state courts exercise federal jurisdiction on a local level. The debates on the ratification of the Constitution further demonstrated how controversial were the proposals for lower courts and made clear the challenge Congress would face in establishing a national judiciary within a federal system.
The Supreme Court has no power to amend our Constitution. And it’s impossible for an amendment to take away powers our Constitution doesn’t grant.
Joanna Martin, J.D.
1. First Principles
Let’s analyze COSP’s silly argument. We begin by looking at First Principles:
♦The Judicial Branch was created by Art. III, §1, US Constitution. Accordingly, it is a “creature” of the Constitution. 1
♦The federal government came into existence when the States, acting through special ratifying conventions held in each of the States, ratified the Constitution.2
Since the Judicial Branch is merely a “creature” of the Constitution, it follows that it is subordinate to the Constitution, and is completely subject to its terms. It may not annul the superior authority of the States which created the Judicial Branch when they ratified the Constitution; 3 and as a mere “creature” of the Constitution, it may NOT change the Constitution under which it holds its existence! 4
2. Supreme Court Opinions are not “the Law of the Land”
Article VI, cl.2, US Constit., the “supremacy clause”, defines “supreme Law of the Land” as the Constitution, and acts of Congress and Treaties which are authorized by the Constitution. Supreme Court opinions aren’t included!
Furthermore, Art. I, §1, US Constit., vests all law-making powers granted by the Constitution in Congress. Our Constitution doesn’t grant any lawmaking powers to the Judicial Branch.
So why does everybody say, as we heard during the Kavanagh confirmation hearings, that Roe v. Wade is “the Law of the Land”? Because Americans have been conditioned to believe that the Supreme Court is superior to our Constitution; that their opinions about our Constitution are “law”, and we are bound by them unless and until they issue new opinions which release us from their previous opinions.
3. Organic & statutory law and the totally different “common law” precedent followed in courts
Americans have been conditioned to ignore the huge distinctions between organic and statutory law, on the one hand; and the common law which is embodied in the precedents followed by judges in litigation…..
There is a lot more and it is well worth reading. Other Publius Huldah articles on the due process clause.
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REGULATIONS
Well, Well, Well the Federal Register says this page is ‘NOT FOUND’ No wonder I could not find it when I went looking a few weeks ago. However I had it in my notes and it was archived.
The idea for a centralized publication system for executive branch documents began during the Great Depression, when Congress began enacting a host of legislation that gave executive branch agencies increased authority to regulate.
With this flood of new regulations, [Thanks FDR – GC] it soon became apparent that, because there was no standardized repository, it was difficult for the public and federal agencies to know which regulations were effective and enforceable.
This situation was dramatically highlighted when the Supreme Court decided a case involving an agency that tried to enforce a regulation that had actually been revoked by an executive order. No one—not the government, not the defendants, not the lower courts—was aware that the regulation had been eliminated.1 In response, Congress enacted the Federal Register Act (FRA) in July of 1935. The FRA created the Federal Register as the official daily publication for presidential documents and executive agency rule and notice documents and established a central location for filing documents for public inspection.
The documents that the Federal Register Act requires agencies to publish in the Federal Register include:
* executive orders and proclamations;
* documents of general applicability and legal effect;
* documents that impose a penalty;
* any other documents that Congress requires.
The act also requires that these documents are made available for public inspection at least one day before they are published in the Federal Register….. [GEE a WHOLE DAY!]
Proposed Rules
This third section contains documents that announce possible changes to the CFR and solicit public comment on the proposal, such as notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) and preliminary rulemaking documents, including advance notices of proposed rulemaking and petitions for rulemaking…..
If you break a regulation you are not tried within the normal court system. Instead you are tried by a ‘judge’ WITHIN THE FEDERAL BUREAU THAT MADE THAT REGULATION.
Administrative law judges (ALJ) (not administrative judges) are executive judges for official and unofficial hearings of administrative disputes in the Federal government. Because they only hear administrative law issues as designated in the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA), administrative law judges are considered part of the executive branch, not the judicial branch, and ALJs are appointed by the heads of the executive agencies. However, administrative law judges receive much of the same protections as those in the judicial branch in order to preserve their neutrality [And if you believe that Schiff, I have a bridge I want to sell! –GC] such as not being subject to bonuses or ranking systems of executive agencies.
Given the broad scope of administrative law, ALJs participate in many different topics and for many different agencies such as the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), and the U.S. Postal Service. The determinations of an ALJ may be appealed potentially even to a federal judicial court. However, essentially every agency has its own appellate processes of review that must be followed before someone can access the federal courts, and sometimes in large agencies, the agency’s internal review process can be quite extensive.
ALJs do not serve the same role as administrative judges. While similar in name to ALJs, administrative judges can only participate in unofficial disputes of executive agencies which constitute the majority of administrative disputes. Only ALJs can hear official disputes heard by the agencies. Further, administrative judges are directly hired by the agencies and are subject to their employment rules and benefits, unlike the independent[YEAH RIGHT! -GC] ALJ judges.
Many states also have ALJs that serve similar roles as their Federal counterparts. The rules and nature of ALJs vary by state on levels of neutrality, procedure, and jurisdiction.
EXAMPLE:
The Food Safety Modernization Act bill was so over-the-top in its overreach that the bill’s language states, “(t)he validity and appropriateness of the order of the Administrator assessing the civil penalty shall not be subject to judicial review.”
And if you’re think this is as outrageous as this bill can be, you’d be very wrong. Section 406 clearly states, “(i)n any action to enforce the requirements of the food safety law, the connection with interstate commerce required for jurisdictionSHALL BE PRESUMED TO EXIST.”
…Lori Robertson of FactCheck.org, who is not a lawyer (she has a B.A. in advertising), claims the bill doesn’t apply to “ that tomato plant in your backyard.” As a lawyer, I am skeptical of this claim (I co-represented the prevailing defendant in the last successful constitutional challenge to federal regulation under the interstate commerce clause, United States v. Morrison(2000), one of only two cases in 70 years in which a challenge was successful). Congress’s power under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause is almost unlimited in the eyes of the courts, a nd thus can reach the “tomato plant in your backyard.” — Trojan Horse Law: The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
Text from the bill HR 875 that became the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Civil Penalty-
(A) IN GENERAL- Any person that commits an act that violates the food safety law (including a regulation promulgated or order issued under the food safety law) may be assessed a civil penalty by the Administrator of not more than $1,000,000 for each such
B) SEPARATE OFFENSE- Each act described in subparagraph (A) andeach day during which that act continues shall be considered a separate offense. [Now you know why I no longer sell my goats and sheep and rather kill & bury them than sell them for food! -GC]
Criminal Sanctions-
(1) OFFENSE RESULTING IN SERIOUS ILLNESS- Notwithstanding section 303(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 333(a)), if a violation of any provision of section 301 of such Act (21 U.S.C. 301) with respect to an adulterated or misbranded food results in serious illness, the person committing the violation shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or both.
(2) OFFENSE RESULTING IN DEATH- Notwithstanding section 303(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 333(a)), if a violation of any provision of section 301 of such Act (21 U.S.C. 331) with respect to an adulterated or misbranded food results in death, the person committing the violation shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or both.
(e) Penalties Paid Into Account- The Administrator–
(1) shall deposit penalties collected under this section in an account in the Treasury; and
(2) may use the funds in the account, without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation–
(A) to carry out enforcement activities under the food safety law; or
(B) to provide assistance to States to inspect retail commercial food establishments or other food or firms under the jurisdiction of State food safety programs.
I do not know if these Criminal Sanctions are tried before the Administrator or not. With NAIS aka animal ID traceability, the large corporations LOVE this law since they can slough off any legal ramifications onto the farmer.
….However, this type of jury is called a “petit” or “trial jury”; a grand jury is very different. A grand jury is a group of citizens convened by the federal government to determine if probable cause exists to believe that a person committed a federal crime.…
Federal prosecutors present evidence and live testimony in a grand jury proceeding by issuing grand jury subpoenas. A grand jury subpoena is not issued by the grand jury but by the federal prosecutor assigned to the case.
Under the United States Constitution, all federal felony charges must proceed with a grand jury indictment. However, there is no grand jury requirement for misdemeanor offenses.
Nothing like a bit of gaslighting to confuse the public….
In dealing with the grand jury, the prosecutor must always conduct himself or herself as an officer of the court whose function is to ensure that justice is done and that guilt shall not escape nor innocence suffer.
The prosecutor must recognize that the grand jury is an independent body, whose functions include not only the investigation of crime and the initiation of criminal prosecutionbut also the protection of the citizenry from unfounded criminal charges.
The prosecutor’s responsibility is toADVISEthe grand jury on the law and to present evidence for its consideration.In discharging these responsibilities, the prosecutor must be scrupulously fair to all witnesses and must do nothing to inflame or otherwise improperly influence the grand jurors.…
[updated January 2020]
9-11.242 – NON-DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GOVERNMENT ATTORNEYS
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(d) provides that the only prosecution personnel who may be present while the grand jury is in session are “attorneys for the government.” Rule 1(b) defines attorney for the government for Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure purposes as the Attorney General, an authorized assistant of the Attorney General, a United States Attorney, an authorized assistant of a United States Attorney, and certain other persons in cases arising under the laws of Guam.
An agency attorney or other non-Department of Justice attorney must be appointed as a Special Assistant or a Special Assistant to the Attorney General, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 515, or a Special Assistant to a United States Attorney, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 543, in order to appear before a grand jury in the district of appointment….
Note the word ADVISE and the CHANGE of DATE… From the older reading the Grand Jury is INDEPENDENT of the courts and can look into matters. This of course is NOT a concept our Overlords want us to know. It is JUST like the RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL and JURY NULLIFICATION. A right granted by the US Constitution but eroded and hidden from us.
Prepared By Kelly Mordechai, Author“The Hidden 4th Branch”
Kelly Mordechai is experienced at filing formal grand jury petitions and has appearing before a grand jury based upon a filing of his own formal grand jury petition. The process for accessing a country, state, or federal grand jury is protected by your ‘Right to Petition’ and can differ greatly from grand jury to grand jury, so knowing your rights, and the specific procedures that may be unique to the grand jury you are attempting to petition, is paramount to a successful filing. Mr. Mordechai is happy to consult with anyone interested in filing a formal grand jury petition….
Q2:What is a grand jury?
Answer: A grand jury isan independent legal authority, empowered by the U.S. Constitution, case law, and history. A grand jury is composed of everyday people entrusted to investigate any and all allegations of felonious criminal activity and inparticular “willful misconduct by public officials.”
Grand juries possess the legal authority to indict anyone believed to be guilty where evidence and testimony substantiates the allegations of criminal activity.
Once indicted, alleged criminals are required to stand trial or seek a plea bargain.
Grand juries are comprised of U.S. citizens, aged 18 or older, and selected directly from the communities they are appointed to serve.
Referred to as the unofficial 4th branch of the government, grand juries possess enormous power to pursue justice on behalf of ‘We the People’, particularly in times when corruption is evident and unchecked. With clear evidence during the COVID crisis that crimes against humanity, extensive fraud, and rampant acts of willful misconduct have been committed, grand juries present the best potential solution for Americans seeking justice. A grand jury convened to independently investigate government officials and public health officials for corruption, fraud, and willful misconduct can ensure that any and all alleged criminals stand trial for wrongdoing. [2]
Q3:Can any U.S. citizen petition a grand jury?
Answer: Yes. Every U.S. citizen retains the 1st Amendment ‘Right of Petition’. While some states have made significant effort to install obstacles that prevent ordinary U.S. citizens from actively engaging their right to petition grand juries, these rights are maintained in all 50 states, nevertheless. Kansas, Nevada, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska and Oklahoma have laws that specifically empower citizen led grand juries without the need to file formal petitions through the US Attorney or State Attorney General acting as a middleman in the process…
[Page 16 thru 39 are references.]
WHYdidtheyremovedTrial by Jury AND JURY TRAINING???
“ I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1788.
“Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle and fed and clothed like swine and hounds.”
John Adams, 1774.
“Trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.”
….Despite this extensive history, modern judges mostly forbid any mention of jury nullification in the courtroom. This has happened in part because of an obscure Supreme Court decision. In 1895, the Court ruled in Sparf v. US that juries do have the power to nullify the law. But the ruling also stated that judges are not required to inform the jury of this. As a result, judges and prosecutors have exploited Sparf to forbid any mention of jury nullification from the courtroom….
William Penn may have thought he had settled the matter. Arrested in 1670 for preaching Quakerism, Penn was brought to trial. Despite Penn’s admitting the charge, four of the 12 jurors voted to acquit. The judge sent the four to jail “without meat, drink, fire and tobacco” for failing to find Penn guilty. On appeal, however, the jurors’ action was upheld and the right of juries to judge both the law and the facts — to nullify the law if it chose — became part of British constitutional law.
It ultimately became part of American constitutional law as well, but you’d never know it…
“Anyone accused of a crime in this country is entitled to a jury trial.”
The Constitution may say so but, in fact, this is simply not the case — and becoming less so as politicians fiddle with legal definitions and sentencing standards in order specifically to reduce the number of persons entitled to a trial….
The nullification principle involves the power to say no to the excesses of government, and thus serves as a final defense against tyranny.As Thomas Jefferson put it to Tom Paine in a 1789 letter, “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”….
Author, Tom Stahl is a former FIJA Board member and practicing attorney from Waterville, Washington
ALL CRIMINAL CASES
The constitutions of Maryland, Indiana, Oregon, and Georgia currently have provisions guaranteeing the right of jurors to “judge” or “determine” the law in “all criminal cases.” Article 23 of Maryland’s Constitution states:
…In the trial of all criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges of Law, as well as of fact, except that the Court may pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. The right of trial by Jury of all issues of fact in civil proceedings in the several Courts of Law in this State, where the amount in controversy exceeds the sum of five thousand dollars, shall be inviolably preserved.
…There is no doubt that jury nullification was one of the rights and powers that the people were exercising in 1791 when the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution was adopted. As legal historian Lawrence Friedman has written:
In American legal theory, jury-power was enormous, and subject to few controls. There was a maxim of law that the jury was judge both of law and of fact in criminal cases. This idea was particularly strong in the first revolutionary generation when memories of royal justice were fresh.
Jury nullification is therefore one of the “rights retained by the people” in the Ninth Amendment.
And it is one of the “powers reserved to the people” in the Tenth Amendment.
Jury nullification is decentralization of political power. It is the people’s most important veto in our constitutional system. The jury vote is the only time the people ever vote on the application of a real law in real life. All other votes are for hypotheticals.
Chief Justice Roberts shows that he’s part of the swamp. If you believe his bs about judges, I have a bridge to sell you. The Obama judge is a leftwing extremist, and the son of a lefwing extremist who was a well-known communist classmate of mine at Berkeley in the 1960s.
Unfortunately I do not have the authors of the following two quotes.However they encapsulate our present situation so well, I am including themany way.
Justice is based on how strong your connections are to the people with power and how much money you have. Without those two, justice is rarely attainable. I have spent too many years around the system to even begin to think the average person stands a chance at getting justice.
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The whole concept of an “independent” judiciary is silly when you have activists judges making up justifications to rule on partisan ideological lines out of whole cloth. When this happens judges are effectively legislating from the bench.
IF THERE IS NO TRIAL BY JURY, THEN THE PEOPLE CAN NOT NULLIFY BAD LAWS.
Therefore removal of the right to a jury trial became a goal of the Cabal.
Right to Jury in Criminal Cases
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Right to Jury in Civil Cases
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved….
The 6th and 11th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article 3 Section 2 give US citizens the right to a trial. However as Joan Biskupic, a Washington Post reporter stated:
“Anyone accused of a crime in this country is entitled to a jury trial.” The Constitution may say so but, in fact, this is simply not the case — and becoming less so as politicians fiddle with legal definitions and sentencing standards in order specifically to reduce the number of persons entitled to a trial.
Biskupic also wrote: “The American custom is that jurors decide the facts of the case (whether the person did what he is accused of) and leave it to judges to interpret the law. There is no room, in other words, for jurors to say whether they think the law is a good one, though there have been a few celebrated exceptions — notably the 18th-century acquittal of John Peter Zenger of seditious libel and the 19th-century acquittals for prosecution under the fugitive slave law.”
This is a rewriting of history, one of the privileges of a reporter who works for a paper free to do so thanks to the rights of jurors upheld in the Zenger case. — The Progressive Review 2/99
I find it interesting that some of my older references are from PROGRESSIVES. It shows just how far they have ‘progressed’ towards a communist totalitarian dictatorship in a few decades.
Here is how the politicians have gotten around the US Constitution to make sure citizens are denied their right to a trial:
The Seventh Amendment, passed by the First Congress without debate, cured the omission by declaring that the right to a jury trial shall be preserved in common-law cases… The Supreme Court has, however, arrived at a more limited interpretation. It applies the amendment’s guarantee to the kinds of cases that “existed under the English common law when the amendment was adopted,” …
The right to trial by jury is not constitutionally guaranteed in certain classes of civil cases that are concededly “suits at common law,” particularly when “public” or governmental rights are at issue and if one cannot find eighteenth-century precedent for jury participation in those cases. Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission (1977). Thus, Congress can lodge personal and property claims against the United States in non-Article III courts with no jury component. In addition, where practice as it existed in 1791 “provides no clear answer,” the rule is that “[o]nly those incidents which are regarded as fundamental, as inherent in and of the essence of the system of trial by jury, are placed beyond the reach of the legislature.” Markman v. Westview Instruments (1996). In those situations, too, the Seventh Amendment does not restrain congressional choice.
In contrast to the near-universal support for the civil jury trial in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, modern jurists consider civil jury trial neither “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” Palko v. State of Connecticut (1937), nor “fundamental to the American scheme of justice,” Duncan v. Louisiana (1968).
The result is a relentless march towards concentrating power into the hands of the ruling elites….
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This comment is no longer available at either the Conservative Tree House or in the Wayback archives. I think it is important enough to preserve it here.
Judicial Tyranny has long been an enemy to our Republic.
President Thomas Jefferson knew what was coming way back in 1800, but even these great men would’ve laughed at allowing “lower courts” rule over the executive branch, and pushed back hard against the Supreme Court at times.
Thomas Jefferson on Judicial Tyranny
“Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” (Letter to Abigail Adams, September 11, 1804)
“The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will.” (Letter to John Wayles Eppes, 1807)
“Our Constitution . . . intending to establish three departments, co-ordinate and independent that they might check and balance one another, it has given—according to this opinion to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of others; and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. . . . The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” (Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819)
“You seem . . . to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so . . . and their power [is] the more dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.” (Letter to William Jarvis, Sept. 28, 1820)
“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet, and they are too well versed in English law to forget the maxim, ‘boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem’ [good judges have ample jurisdiction]. . . . A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.” (Letter to Thomas Ritchie, Dec. 25, 1820)
“The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.” (Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821)
“The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.” (Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, 1821)
“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against all liability to account.” (Letter to A. Coray, October 31, 1823)
FTA: The justices overturned a lower court ruling that had endorsed the SEC’s hiring practice for the judges. The agency’s commissioners, who are presidentially appointed, should have named them, not SEC staff, the justices said.
This ruling has real impact giving power back to the president across the board in numerous agencies. Looks like POTUS will have more seats to fill.
Here’s where case law method started:
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•In the 1870s, Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell transformed American legal education by introducing what has become the standard first-year curriculum for American law schools – including classes in contracts, property, torts, criminal law, and civil procedure.
•Langdell also developed the case method of teaching law, which became the dominant pedagogical model at U.S. law schools. His notion that law could be studied as a “science” gave university legal education a reason for being that was distinct from vocational preparation. Critics at first defended the old lecture method because it was faster and cheaper and made fewer demands on faculty and students. But advocates said the case method had a sounder theoretical basis in scientific research and the inductive method.
https://hls.harvard.edu/about/history
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So true! Our current structure represents the bastardization of our system! The Constitution, itself, is written in the Common law. That is a quote by Antonin Scalia, by the way. The Progressives systematically sidelined common law and replaced it with Equity law, which is why we have the corrupt legal and judicial system that we have today. For a lucid and comprehensive timeline of just how they did it, see this amazing legal journal article that I found quite by accident, but which I treasure, to this day. This link goes directly to a U Penn website where you can download the article as a pdf: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3957&context=penn_law_review
Title of the article: HOW EQUITY CONQUERED COMMON LAW: THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE [94 pages – GC] This is definitely a turgid law journal article and it requires a lot of concentration for us laymen. I had to read it several times to make full sense of it. HOWEVER: You can easily see, even while skimming the article, how the Progressives used the very same arguments to attack the common law that they use, now, to attack the Constitution: “The common law is antiquated and it’s no longer relevant to our society.” ” The common law is too complex. It needs to be streamlined.” I marvel that they have gotten away with destroying institution after institution using the same hackneyed lies! Lastly, the footnotes in this article are a treasure trove of truths that basically catch the evil doers of each era red-handed, destroying the key features of our system. Among those, the common law is the most valuable, and its main institution, the common law grand jury was the most valuable tool to help keep the republic, as Franklin exhorted us to do. The common law grand jury gave the jurors absolute hegemony over the judge and the prosecutor. No request that they made–not for evidence or further investigation, or to examine evidence personally, or to hear witnesses questioned again–could be refused. The decision of the common law grand jury was final.
Partly because I read this article, I came to the conclusion that the Founders intended for the common law grand jury to be the tool that made the People the fourth branch of government. They gave the people omnipotence, via the common law grand jury, so that they could nip corruption in the bud, as it first began to form, in local arenas. This is the key to the keeping of our republic. As we Drain the Swamp, we need to keep in mind that we must also restore the apparatus by which we can prevent the corruption spreading, again. I hope you guys give sufficient credence to what I am saying, here. I see this whole concept as being of central importance.
After almost twenty-five years of battle, Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1934,1 authorizing the Supreme Court to promulgate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“Federal Rules” or “Rules”).2 The 1938 Federal Rules were heralded as a phenomenal success.’ Approximately half of the states adopted almost identical rules, and procedural rules in the remainder of the states bear their influence.” For decades, most first year law students have learned about civil litigation through a Federal Rules filter.5
Now the Federal Rules and adjudication of civil disputes are under attack.’ Among the key targets are discovery abuse,7 expense and delay,” excessive judicial power and discretion,’ excessive court rulemaking,10 unpredictability, 1 litigiousness,12 an overly adversarial atmosphere,13 unequal resources of the parties, 4 lack of focus,1 5 and formal adjudication itself.”6 Case management, efforts to encourage settlements, and a breathtaking array of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms represent the current major categories of response.17 There remains speculation, however, as to what factors have contributed to the nature of current civil litigation. Suggested culprits include the explosion in substantive law, photocopying, the types and difficulty of issues brought to courts, the increase in amounts of money involved, and “the sheer number of parties.”1 ‘ Without denigrating these and other factors, this Article concentrates instead on the inherent nature of the Federal Rules and on the basic choice of procedural form made by their promulgators.
It advances two theses.
First, an historical examination of the evolution of the Federal Rules reveals that rules of equity prevailed over common law procedure.
Second, this conquest represents a major contributing factor to many of the most pressing problems in contemporary civil procedure.
That the Federal Rules and modem procedure draw heavily on equity is not news. Both the commissioners who drafted the New York Field Code in the mid-nineteenth century and the most influential proponents of procedural reform in the twentieth century, cited, drew upon, and applauded equity procedure.’ 9 Some contemporary scholars have also acknowledged the modern debt to equity procedure. For example, eleven years ago, Professor Abram Chayes noted how modem civil procedure, in public law cases, looked to equity for remedies.20 Professor Owen Fiss has eloquently expressed a recent defense to the obligation of judges, particularly federal ones, to use historic equity powers in order to breathe life into sacred constitutional rights and to permit such rights to evolve and expand as society attempts to become more humane.21
As important as scholarship like Professors Chayes’ and Fiss’s has been, however, it does not do justice to the revolutionary character of the decision inherent in the Federal Rules to make equity procedure available for all cases. Nor does it explore what the choice of equity procedure meant historically, how it evolved, and what concerns and problems flow from a procedural system driven by equity. The defense of equity power in constitutional cases designed to restructure public institutions tends to undervalue the problem of how to translate rights, constitutional or otherwise, into daily realities for the bulk of citizens. 12 Aspects of common law procedure and thought, not equity, may be required to help deliver or vindicate rights, now that equity has opened a new rights frontier.
Focusing on the historical currents that resulted in the Federal Rules will illustrate what an enormous distance was traveled, how one-sided the procedural choices became, and the problems implicit in those choices. Perhaps exploring where one came from can help clarify where one may wish to go. Part I of this Article first looks at the major components of common law and equity procedure, and then examines the domination of an equity mentality in the Federal Rules. Part II explores the American procedural experience before the twentieth century, and demonstrates how David Dudley Field and his 1848 New York Code were tied to a common law procedural outlook. Part III concentrates on Roscoe Pound (who initiated the twentieth century procedural reform effort), Thomas Shelton (who led the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Enabling Act Movement), and Charles Clark (the major draftsman of the Federal Rules). Through understanding these men and the interests they represented, one can see that we did not stumble into an equity system; people with identifiable agendas wanted it. Part IV examines how the Federal Rules advocate rejected methods that might have helped balance and control their equity procedure, why the methods of confining the system failed, and why current approaches to redress the imbalance of an equity-dominated system will also fail. It concludes with a summary of fundamental constraints rejected by the advocates of uniform federal rules of procedure. My goal is to rescue some quite profound voices from the wilderness.
I. COMMON LAW, EQUITY, AND THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
Much of the formal litigation in England historically took place in a two-court system: “common law” or “law” courts, and “Chancery” or “equity” courts.2 ” Although they were complementary, law and equity courts each had a distinct procedural system, jurisprudence, and outlook. The development of contemporary American civil procedure cannot be understood without acknowledging these differences. The more formalized common law procedure has been so ridiculed that we tend to ignore its development to meet important needs, some of which still endure, and that many of its underlying purposes still make sense. Conversely, especially during this century, equity has been touted in ways that obscure the underlying drawbacks to its use as the procedural model.
I hope this gives everyone a taste of how the Cabal has twisted our judiciary to ‘better suit their needs’ instead of ours.
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I mentioned that I believed that Colonel Towner was revealing facts based on other information I have unearthed over the years. Today I want to go over some of that information.
“Prussia is not a nation with an army, but an army that controls nations” comte de Mirabeau 1749 – 1791
Sounds a bit like Operation Gladio.
I want to start with the Prussiagate Series. King Frederick the Great of Prussia was alive during the American Revolution. Frederick was the eldest surviving son of Frederick William I, king of Prussia, and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, daughter of George I of Britain. He was born January 24, 1712 and died August 17, 1786. He was a brilliant military campaigner who, in a series of diplomatic stratagems and wars against Austria and other powers, greatly enlarged Prussia’s territories and made Prussia the foremost military power in Europe. Britannica LINK
The series was a paid subscription substack however now some are available. Zoll lays out an interesting hypothesis and backs it up with historical references. (Zoll is actually two people BTW) The Will Zoll essays. The table of contents also has pointers to Patrick Gunnels reading the essays. Skip the first 10 minutes of the videos which are intro.
The following substack articles are available to the public.
…Beside [these listed] Presidents, there were many others who opposed the future Federal Reserve. There were also wealthy and powerful bankers and industrialists who opposed it. John Jacob Astor IV, the man who invested in Tesla, opposed the plan, as did Benjamin Guggenheim and Macy’s owner Isidor Straus. They were the wealthiest men of the day, and unfortunately all met their end in the fateful sinking of the Titanic in 1912. It’s the stuff of conspiracy theories, but find comfort in the fact-checkers who have spent an awful amount of time reassuring us it is simply a coincidence – albeit a huge one…
In 1971, Nixon interrupted the primetime show, Bonanza, to announce the end of the US Dollar’s gold exchange system. Ever since, the world has been flooded with dollars, wars, welfare, bubbles and busts. The only thing that is stable is the never-ending printing of fiat-money and the debt based monetary system it supports. We are now a world “drowning” in debt, that one day must be paid back by us, our children and grandchildren. With the central banks still at the helm of monetary control, this trend will not end until our children wake up homeless on the land our fathers conquered. Which, of course, was the plan all along…
Before the Federal Reserve, there was the Bank of England, the Bank of Amsterdam and the German Reichsbank. We can explore the establishment of the BoE (during what we call the 1666 – 1702 window) and the Bank of Amsterdam another time (Prussia never ends), but the evolution of the German Reichsbank begins with King Frederick the Great in 1765….
Jefferson also knew that central banks were an even greater danger. Whether he knew this was to be of Prussian origin, we will never know. All the big players laying the foundations of the Federal Reserve had connections to Prussia: Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Warburg, Kahn, Schiff (Rothschild), [Y]ale, Skull & Bones, Johns Hopkins, the Carnegie Foundation, Marburg, Reynolds, the Reichsbank, President Taft and many more…
The Soldier King may have formed the largest military standing army in Europe, but his son Frederick the Great formed them into the most dangerous army in the world. Through a slow process of infiltration, his army of weaponized philosophers, educators, bankers, and PhDs were able to slowly usurp control of the freedoms and liberties granted to Americans in 1776.
This process which was largely complete by 1913. The same year of the founding of the Alfalfa Club, who claims that their “secrets” were obtained from Germany, and that the Kaiser depended on these for his successes…
…Similar to the colonization of [Y]ale by Skull and Bones, the infiltration of the world education system, the creation of Karl Marx, the financing of the Bolshevik revolution, or the weaponizing of philosophy, the Invisible Enemy pushed hard to implement their version of central banking upon America.
Spoiler alert. It was Prussia.
…The head of the Royal Main Bank, which was effectively the central bank of Prussia, had no time for the Jewish banking circles, yet there was nothing he could do about it and they continued to thrive. Prussia was a micromanaged administrative state.
It would never allow a competing activity to occur without the expressed consent of the king. The Rothschilds, Kuhns, Loebs, Warburgs were all originating from or near Prussia. How could these prosperous banking families have escaped the watchful eye of the formidable Prussian secret police without first paying homage and loyalty to the kingdom that allowed their businesses to operate? The answer is that they didn’t. It was all coordinated.
….The Royal Main Bank was about the monopoly of currency. The merchant banks (like the Jewish bankers) would complement this by facilitating trade and currency exchange for Prussia’s new bank note. This would ensure the economic power of Prussia would be expanded and solidified.
Who do you think Mayer Amschel Rothschild learnt his famous quote from?
Drawing attention to the Marburg Virus simply aims to show it was, and still is, potentially real. According to Bill Gates’ GAVI institute, if you get this virus, you have a 90% chance to develop fever, chills, vomit, then bleed out from every orifice, until you die.
And according to GAVI, it could be the next pandemic to strike humanity…..
Marburg the Town: The Apocalypse of the Four Horsemen
The origins of Marburg date back to 1140 A.D. It was subject to many wars, the most famous being the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), where Marburg and surrounding territory lost more than 66% of its population. It suffered a loss of life that surpassed WWI and WWII…..
The war was so bad, it reshuffled the European Order. It was the Great Reset of its day, and Prussia would to rise to prominence from it. There is that familiar pattern, again…..
Marburg became a backwater-town thereafter, under the Electorate of Hessen. Eventually Prussia was able to annex Marburg around 1866. Until then, Marburg was known only for its university, but it was also chosen as the administrative center of the Prussian empire. It became known for its academics, students and public servants. Its library housed many documents that were important to Prussia, as we shall unpack later….
Apart from discovering a deadly disease after fiddling with the African green monkey, [HMMMmmm GreenMonkey DNA Found in COVID-19 Shots –GC] the university is also popular for another academic reason: Its proud academic-Marxist stronghold.
Most are aware of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its devastating effects in the schools across the USA. CRT was born from an ideology espoused by the Frankfurt School, known as “critical theory”. The Frankfurt School fled Germany in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, finding a home at Columbia University.
The Frankfurt School birthed devout cultural Marxists such as Saul Alinsky, who in turn inspired disciples, such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
However, as the Frankfurt School fled Germany, a sister-school remained and would blossom over time. That would be later known as the Marburg School…..
So far, Marburg is known for a virus, an Apocalyptic war, becoming the Prussian administration centre, and a Marxist university.
Let’s see what else we can unpack about the wonderful Prussian town of Marburg.
Fairy-tale Anon: Marburg and the Grimm Tales of Child Abuse…
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Shady Grooove showed the high Ranking Nazis were transferred to NATO and SourceWatch showed the High ranking Nazis were transferred to Medical & Chemical Companies. See my Old Comment:
If you take things a step further this information supports Will Zoll’s Prussiagate. & ReichsWEF and the idea that PRUSSIA is now an idea AND AN ARMY without a country. In my opinion Colonel Towner documents that army. The Werewolf Units, were organized and trained by SS Officer Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Chief of staff, Adolf Heusinger, became NATO’s Chief Of The Military Staff in 1961. Skorzeny allegedly came to the U.S. after the war under Project Paperclip.
Operation Gladio was formally revealed in 1990 by the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in an official statement to the Italian parliament. By then, Gladio had already been exposed in the courts and elsewhere, but Andreotti’s ‘official’ revelations widely exposed the unpalatable reality. Italian investigations, into the ‘Years of Lead‘, revealed NATO’s hand in a series of terrorist atrocities that had taken place in Italy throughout the 1950s to the 1980s. These included bombings, assassinations, kidnappings and mass shootings by terrorist organisations. There is no doubt that elements within the NATO deep state were routinely using false flag terrorism to control and manipulate public opinion and shape policy.
This is not the speculation of ‘looney conspiracy theorists,’ it is proven, well documented historical fact…
Another snippet from one of the Will Zoll Articles.
The incredible history behind the formation of the World Economic Forum is founded on the vision set out by Frederick the Great centuries ago, where every aspect of a humanity would be controlled through 17,000 rules and regulations. Adolph Hitler and the Nazis disastrously tried to restore Germany back to its illustrious Prussian past. The current attempt to establish this regime globally was why the first 10 years of the ReichsWEF hosted a myriad of ex-Nazis and national leaders tied to brutal regimes, communist-ideology, and much worse.
To circumvent democratic principles, national sovereignty, and the Constitution, the ReichsWEF implemented the Young Global Leaders program to effectively penetrate government cabinets and steer nations toward the vision of Klaus Schwab and, more importantly, the matrix of globalist corporations that now serve the horrible invisible enemy that is Prussia.
Klaus, it would appear, has taken a leaf out of Joseph Goebbels playbook:
The ReichsWEF is not a friend; it is the enemy of humanity.
We conclude with a message to every member of the Young Global Leaders Community and every member of the World Economic Forum:
You are all citizens of sovereign nations built on the premise of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. In this invisible war, the WEF has appointed you to be enemies of your own nations. As Tyranny begins to destroy itself by unleashing wave-upon-wave of crises, Freedom will most-certainly prevail. As members of Klaus’ army, it is important to understand you are involved in one of the highest crimes known to man: TREASON…
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As I have mentioned before, the motive is MERCANTILISM.
“So, in 1765 he [Fredrick the Great] founded the Royal Main Bank, and monopolized the issuance of currency (coin) that could be used for trade.” — LINK
[An] economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers. It was the economic counterpart of political absolutism. Its 17th-century publicists—most notably Thomas Mun in England, Jean-Baptiste Colbert in France, and Antonio Serra in Italy—never, however, used the term themselves; it was given currency by the Scottish economist Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations (1776).
Mercantilism contained many interlocking principles. Precious metals, such as gold and silver, were deemed indispensable to a nation’s wealth. If a nation did not possess mines or have access to them, precious metals should be obtained by trade. It was believed that trade balances must be “favourable,” meaning an excess of exports over imports. Colonial possessions should serve as markets for exports and as suppliers of raw materials to the mother country. Manufacturing was forbidden in colonies, and all commerce between colony and mother country was held to be a monopoly of the mother country….
“The Biggest Corporation You’ve Never Heard Of” —The Guardian
How does one corporation — a mammoth British transnational corporation at that — provide so many critical services throughout the USA’s Military-Industrial Complex and yet very few have ever heard of them?
In view of its sheer size, scope of operations, and far-reaching penetration of both the American and British national security states, it’s inconceivable that SERCO has remained so conveniently under the radar for so many years.
Just how much “Bringing service to life” does SERCO do here in the United States? The following is a truncated list of their affiliations in and around the U.S. Federal Government and Armed Services. Their website is quoted as follows: “Skilled resources and a global presence to execute any CONUS or OCONUS*task”.
*OCONUS = Outside [the] contiguous United States
It is only by correctly understanding the true role that the SERCOs of the world have in the running of the planet that anyone can even begin to apprehend the enormity and complexity, pervasiveness and profundity of the Government-Corporate Complex. Truly, the warnings of George Orwell’s 1984 have found their full manifestation in the real 800 pound gorilla that currently rules the realm — the entire planetary civilization. As follows: The Government-Corporate Complex Takes Complete Control Of The USA
The SERCO website goes on to say:
“Serco is dedicated to providing military support in ways that matter most to our clients’ missions. The vast majority of our employees are embedded in military bases, working side-by-side with servicemen and women to deliver military support—real mission-critical and mission-support solutions.”
[An incredibly long] list of agencies and departments within the U.S. Federal Government and U.S. Armed Services is by no means exhaustive where it concerns SERCO’s direct and indirect involvement. There are, in fact, many other secret organizations and classified projects that are not shown below in which SERCO not only participates, but is also quite prominently configured in case claims of plausible deniability may be necessary to shield the US Govt and its employees.
…So the 64 thousand dollar question is how, and most importantly why, a British Corporation controls so many critical functions within the United States of America, as well as within many other key industrialized nations around the world?
[The long list includes Social Security Administration. — GC]
There is only one answer: Because SERCO is a foreign multinational corporation, it can do things at its headquarters in Hook, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, that a U.S. company could simply not get away with….
Obamacare: A SERCO Contract that Controls the US Healthcare System
Obviously it was no accident of good fortune that SERCO was chosen to process Obamacare applications.[1] What, pray tell, is more important to control than the healthcare delivery system of any nation. When you control the healthcare services, you control the health of the citizens. When you control their health, you effectively control them. If you don’t believe this, then please read the flowing exposé….
Certainly makes you wonder exactly what that company is actually up to!
Just think the USA has a British company doing Intel work & ‘services’ for our military and Chinese companies providing our military gear/weapons/transportation. No wonder POTUS Trump is emphasizing Made in America!
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“The hand-written copy of the proposed articles of amendment passed by Congress in 1789, cropped to show just the text in the third article that would later be ratified as the First Amendment” — WIKI
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
USA Bill of Rights
Scott467on April 17, 2025 brought an article from Sundance that covers the US Government’s attack on Free Speech.
SD: “The State Dept. Global Engagement Center was the epicenter of the Dept of State operation to control speech on social media platforms. Following revelations from within the Twitter Files, and facing increasing scrutiny, the GEC operation was shut down – but the remnants of the operation remained active within the State Dept.
The terms “disinformation, misinformation and malinformation” were weaponized by the State Dept to define speech against their interests and block, deplatform and remove any voices, including in the U.S., they determined were against the interests of the U.S. government. The COVID-19 and vaccine narrative were both examples of speech targeted by the GEC and later the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office (R-FIMI).
Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Acting Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy, Darren Beattie, delivered notice to congress the speech and platform control operation has been shut down. Secretary Rubio sat down with Mike Benz to discuss [Transcript Here]. .
15 minute interview of Secretary Rubio by Mike Benz..
para59r then chimed in with:
Yes, this should be coupled with yesterdays post by eilert as it’s a direct answer to Benz’s brilliant exposure talk thing. But somehow he had to know about Rubio doing this before hand.
look at January 6th 2020 and the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”
The Following legal information makes it clear WHY there were Agents Provocateurs such as Ray Epps dispatched into the Jan 5th & 6th crowd = KNOWINGLY
WHY the cyclone fence barricade & any signs were all removed prior to MAGA arriving. = KNOWINGLY
WHY ANTIFA/LEFTEST trouble makers were imported and dressed as MAGA = acts of physical violence SEE: Agents Provocateurs as a Type of Faux Activist by Professor Gary T. Marx. Professor Emeritus of Sociology, M.I.T.
WHY pepper spray and grenades were sprayed DIRECTLY AT PEACEFUL protestors in order to anger them into committing acts of violence.
WHY the Capitol police were short staffed and the National Guard was NOT deployed = “Police protection at the scene was” NOT “at alltimes sufficient to meet any foreseeable possibility of disorder.”
FIRST AMENDMENT:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people PEACEBLY to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This is a legal discussion about these two protected rights.
The “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” protects two distinct rights: assembly and petition. The Clause’s reference to a singular “right” has led some courts and scholars to assume that it protects only the right to assemble in order to petition the government. But the comma after the word “assemble” is residual from earlier drafts that made clearer the Founders’ intention to protect two separate rights….
How about criminalizing the RIGHT of Assembly and the RIGHT to PEACEABLY petition the government?? Notice the strawman (Free Speech) used to deflect from the rights this law actually attempts to wipe out.
…..HR 347, the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011,” amended Title 18, Chapter 84, Section 1752 of the U.S. Code — just as then-President George W. Bush did in 2006 when he signed the Patriot Act. (Click on the link to the U.S. Code and you can see how it was amended in 1982, 1984, 1994 and 2006.)
It specifies that it is unlawful to enter secured areas of the White House and its grounds, [aka private residence of POTUS. -GC] or the vice president’s official residence and grounds. Previously, according to the report, the law prohibited unlawful entry to any building or ground, secured by the Secret Service, where the president or vice president is “temporarily” visiting. That forced the Secret Service to rely on a District of Columbia law that “addresses only minor misdemeanor infractions” even if somebody were to breach the White House residence itself.
The new law revises the standard that prosecutors must meet to gain a conviction, from proving that a violation was committed “willfully and knowingly” to merely proving that it was committed “knowingly.”
(1) knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so;
(2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;
(3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds; or [1]
(4) knowingly engages in any act of physical violence against any person or property in any restricted building or grounds; [2]
(5) knowingly and willfully operates an unmanned aircraft system with the intent to knowingly and willfully direct or otherwise cause such unmanned aircraft system to enter or operate within or above a restricted building or grounds; or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
(b)The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) is—
(1)a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, if—
(A) the person, during and in relation to the offense, uses or carries a deadly or dangerous weapon or firearm; or
(B) the offense results in significant bodily injury as defined by section 2118(e)(3); and
(2)a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in any other case. (c)In this section—
This archived content from the U.S. Department of Justice website discusses the Constitutionality of this and a similar law. It cites Supreme Court cases.
Constitutional attacks on 18 U.S.C. § 1752 would most likely fall in two categories–vagueness or violation of the First Amendment.
Allegations of vagueness should be overcome by the formal designation of the buildings and grounds that are subject to the regulations published in the Federal Register. In addition to appropriate signs providing notice of a temporary residence or of a restricted area, the Secret Service will endeavor to post personnel in appropriate locations to give verbal notification to persons seeking to enter without authority or otherwise act in violation of the statute, to meet the special problems of notice in restricted areas. Peaceful assembly where the President or the President’s office is located will still be permitted. Presidential security is conducted pursuant to Federal authority, and thus does not depend upon differing local ordinances.
The basic legal theory underlying the provisions of this statute is that of trespass. The government has the right to control presence on government property, and physical presence on the designated grounds is clearly covered by regulations. Since demonstrations involve conduct, they are subject to reasonable regulations when necessary to protect other legitimate government interests. SeeCox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 559 (1965). Even-handed application of a precise and narrowly drawn regulatory statute should pass constitutional muster. SeeEdwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229, 236 (1963). See alsoShenck v. Pro-Choice Network, 117 S.Ct. 855 (1997) at 868-869, (upholding fixed buffer zones to permit ingress and egress at an abortion clinic).
Section 1752 of Title 18 is aimed at specific categories of knowing and willful conduct, and 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1) is far more circumscribed than the general trespass statute upheld in Adderly v. Florida, 385 U.S. 39 (1966).
First Amendment objections may be raised as to the validity of 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2) which outlaws the intentional disruption of government business at designated residences and offices. Section 1752(a)(2) is not aimed at suppression of peaceful and orderly protests and does not apply where there is no disturbance of others and no disruption of government activities.
SeeUnited States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367, 376 (1968), and the opinion of the Court in Cox v. Louisiana, supra….
Argued: December 13, 1962 Decided: February 25, 1963 (Just before JFK’s assassination.)
…The City Manager testified that he recognized some of the onlookers, whom he did not identify, as “possible trouble makers,” but his subsequent testimony made clear that nobody among the crowd actually caused or threatened any trouble. 4 There was no obstruction of pedestrian [372 U.S. 229, 232] or vehicular traffic within the State House grounds. 5 No vehicle was prevented from entering or leaving the horseshoe area. Although vehicular traffic at a nearby street intersection was slowed down somewhat, an officer was dispatched to keep traffic moving. There were a number of bystanders on the public sidewalks adjacent to the State House grounds, but they all moved on when asked to do so, and there was no impediment of pedestrian traffic. 6 Police protection at the scene was at all [372 U.S. 229, 233] times sufficient to meet any foreseeable possibility of disorder.7 ….
In the situation and under the circumstances thus described, the police authorities advised the petitioners that they would be arrested if they did not disperse within 15 minutes….
And it is clear to us that in arresting, convicting, and punishing the petitioners under the circumstances disclosed by this record, South Carolina infringed the petitioners’ constitutionally protected rights of free speech, free assembly, and freedom to petition for redress of their grievances.
It has long been established that these First Amendment freedoms are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from invasion by the States. Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 ; Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 ; Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 ; De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353 ; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 . The circumstances in this case reflect an exercise of these basic constitutional rights in their most pristine and classic form. The petitioners felt aggrieved by laws of South Carolina which allegedly “prohibited Negro privileges in this State.” They peaceably assembled at the site of the State Government 10 and there peaceably expressed their grievances “to the citizens of South Carolina, along with the Legislative Bodies of South Carolina.” [372 U.S. 229, 236] Not until they were told by police officials that they must disperse on pain of arrest did they do more. Even then, they but sang patriotic and religious songs after one of their leaders had delivered a “religious harangue.” There was no violence or threat of violence on their part, or on the part of any member of the crowd watching them. Police protection was “ample.”
That Supreme Court case gave the template needed to arrest and convict MAGA during January 6th 2020.
Remove notifications that the area was off-limits. Short staff the Capitol Police and refuse the National Guard so Police protection was NOT “ample.” Employ Agents Provocateurs to do actual damage/threat of violence and lead the gullible. INTENTIONALLY injure and kill protesters to get them very angry.
You’re missing the point. The current abuses of the security state could only have happened because of 9/11. Vast amounts of money were stolen on the day, and as a result of it trillions more.
Cui bono ? The THREE towers were not brought down by planes. Or fire. Not possible. How and why did THREE towers come down in their own footprint with zero resistance,also not possible. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Basic physics. Floors cannot pancake in free fall as if no structure existed, unless….no structure existed. The only way they can.
Even I, a structural engineer,was in enough shock for a week that it did not seem fishy until the end of that week. Then it stank. Then after doing basic calculations it really stank. With computer modeling the stench became unbearable. Watching the videos a thousand times in slow motion and it was clear what had happened.
Then an experienced demolition engineer confided in me with his ideas which agreed with mine. Many engineers will not come forward, they’re scared with good reason,but 3000 have dared to.
You want to drain the swamp ? Cui bono ? Its always about the money. Even mass murder that’s televised live.
Money and power. Problem=reaction=solution.
Create the problem, to get the reaction, to bring in your desired prepared solution, in the chaos you created. If you can steal trillions while you do it, even better. They did. That’s why I call them the Merchants of Death,so will you. Our psychopath rulers will kill anyone for a profit. Millions of dead is just a bigger profit , more power for them and nothing else. No human emotions except greed exist in them.
Can you handle the truth ? Then seek it.
AEfor911truth.org 3000 architects and engineers that want to know what really happened that day. We absolutely know what did not happen that day,what the official narrative tells us happened. The laws of physics don’t change whatever NIST might say. Apart from anything else,for future design safety. Why has the Govt. lied to us all ?
These are two YouTube videos of Trump’s reporting of 9/11 as seen through workers and the building’s structure, respectively. These are short and instructive videos:
Donald Trump interview 2 days after 9/11 at ground zero
The result was the Patriot Act HOWEVER given most of the terrorist were Saudi muslims NONE of the rest of the US government’s moves made sense.
1. The FBI shephard out of the country Saudis CONNECTED to the terrorists. h t t p://www.wanttoknow.info/saudisflown913fbi
2. Americans have to put up with Grope-N-Fly while Saudi’s get EZ-Pass privileged boarding. h t t p://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-confers-ez-pass-status-on-travelers-from-saudi-arabia
3. The number of muslims immigrating into the country DOUBLED after 9/11. h t t ps://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/05/1m-immigrants-from-muslim-countries
4. Saudi Arabia is NOT the target of retaliation by the USA.
5. DHS Killed Investigations into muslim terrorist cells because of ‘Political Correctness’ and destroyed the files. link
Forget the analysis by engineers (see Winston’s comment a few days ago.) Everything else stinks to high heavens and points to a false flag operation used to bring in the Patriot Act, the Secret FISA court and SPYING on Americans…. Not to mention wiping out the possibility of an audit into the theft of TRILLIONS.
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Today, I wanted to look at a video (1 hour) that was brought to us byphoenixrising37onApril 9, 2025. A rough transcript is at the bottom of the article.
Burning Bright, over on Badlands Media, talks of the present conflict being as a “War of Stories” He also mentions that you can see the Overton window (wiki) shifting as people learn and share information. This video is a classic example of not only the Overton Window shifting but of a limited hangout.
It is aimed at MAGA and not the American public in general. Whether Catherine Austin Fitts knows it or not, she is serving the interests of the ‘International Syndicate’ aka Cabal as the Cabal tries to limit the damage done by Trump, Elon Musk and Q. The video shows what ground has been ceded and the diversions deployed to limit the damage.
Last week I went over part of a Colonel Towner/Alpha Warrior video. As luck, or God’s Hand, would have it, I went over some of the other sources that led me to believe Colonel Towner is fairly close to the truth. There is no way of knowing the full truth because so much is classified, but Colonel Towner’s ‘Story’ is consistent with information from other sources I have encountered over the decades. Also she has made it clear she uses sources that rely on primary documents like financial records and State Department cables.
Catherine Austin Fitts [wiki] presents information that is interesting because it shows us what information the Cabal KNOWS the MAGA base has, while at the same time trying to lead us astray. The purpose of the video, of course, is to get us to repudiate POTUS Trump and attack Elon Musk both of whom are major threats to the Cabal.
Catherine Fitts, is a former investment banker who was investigated for years for insider dealing and bid rigging. She starts out with the synopsis:
Ourplan had been to win the proxy war by hybrid war in the Ukraine. Get a hold of the Russian resources and maintain our hegemony against China in a unipolar model. Guess what? We failed. The current Administration was put into place by the bankers to get the control grid accomplished. Trump can only do what the bankers want him to do.
Do you want a global Mafia or the Federal Reservewhich is still under the powers of congress?”
This is a mix of truth: The Cabal is losing the Ukrainian war against Russia. And a falsehood. “Trump can only do what the bankers want him to do.” With the false Choice “Do you want a global Mafia or the Federal Reserve?” Also note that she acknowledges the cabal started the war in Ukraine in order to get their hands on Russian resources. — Operation Gladio anyone?
At 14 minutes she says: “One of the most important interviews at the beginning of the administration is Secretary of State Rubio gave an interview and he said we’re no longer a unipolar model it’s now a multi-polar world and we have to adjust to a multi-polar world.” And at 15 minutes she says: “ So now that you can’t strip out and get cheap oil and gas and resources and commodities going east. [Russia] What are you talking about? You’re talking about Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal. You’re talking about going north & south right?”
This supports the idea, that some folks have suggested, of a Sovereign Alliance between, Trump, Putin, Xi and Prince Mohammed bin Salman with different spheres of influence.
At 31 minutes Catherine presents her reason WHY Trump is under the control of the Banker Cabal.
… so every week the New York Fed and the primary dealers of which Howard Luton’s firm was one of them, 24 primary dealers go out in the market and they borrow money and they put it in the New York Fed. The New York Fed is the depository for the US government. So treasury, the agency, say they have their bank accounts in the New York Fed or the New York Fed member banks as agents. Those member banks of course own and control the New York Fed. So they put the money in Treasury and Treasury spends the money. The last month, I think it was February, our total deficit was bigger than 100% of our revenues. Okay?So we’re really dependent on the Fed borrowing and putting that money in….”
…so day to day week to week the federal government is 100% dependent on the New York Fed. Now at the beginning of the administration a reporter fromPolitico asked the chairman of the Fed, Jay Powell, if Trump wants you to resign will you. He said no. The reporter said well can Trump fire you? He said no. [LAUGH] Trump can only do what the bankers want him to do. So he can go for 24 hours without the bankers.
I might have fallen for this bit of falsehood, if I had not done my homework a couple decades ago. And wrote about it here:
Some of the most frank evidence on banking practices was given by Graham F. Towers, Governor of the Central Bank of Canada (from 1934 to 1955), before the Canadian Government’s Committee on Banking and Commerce, in 1939. Its proceedings cover 850 pages. (Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence Respecting the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, J.O. Patenaude, I.S.O., Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1939.) Most of the evidence quoted was the result of interrogation by Mr. “Gerry” McGeer, K.C., a former mayor of Vancouver, who clearly understood the essentials of central banking. Here are a few excerpts:
Q. But there is no question about it that banks create the medium of exchange?
Mr. Towers: That is right. That is what they are for… That is the Banking business, just in the same way that a steel plant makes steel. (p. 287) The manufacturing process consists of making a pen-and-ink or typewriter entry on a card in a book. That is all. (pp. 76 and 238) Each and every time a bank makes a loan (or purchases securities), new bank credit is created — new deposits — brand new money. (pp. 113 and 238) Broadly speaking, all new money comes out of a Bank in the form of loans. As loans are debts, then under the present system all money is debt. (p. 459)
Banks typically have 3% of their assets in cash in order to meet customer needs. Since 1960, banks have been allowed to use this “vault cash” to satisfy their reserve requirements. Today, bank reserve requirements have fallen to the point where they are now exceeded by vault cash, which means lowering reserve requirements to zero would have virtually no impact on the banking system. US banks are already operating free of any reserve constraints. The graph below shows reserve requirements falling to zero over the last fifty years.
Translation: US banks can create money out of thin air just as Mr. Towers described.
At 53 minutes she tries to redeem herself by invoking Christianity by saying “…you can’t make me.” [choose between them.] She then goes into “…I studied for two and a half years spiritual warfare at a wonderful church. I mean I really got an immersive course in spiritual warfare and what you learn in spiritual warfare? There’s a concept of just standing…”
And that is how she fought “…the Department of Justice for eight years and then fight with the IRS for four Years…” starting in 1997. Did she win? Or did she take a plea deal with a non-disclosure agreement?
Wiki mentions:
Fitts was a member of the Global Business Network‘s “Worldview” from 1996-1997, and served on the advisory board for The Arlington Institute from June 1998 to June 2000.
In 1989 John Petersen founded The Arlington Institute (TAI), a non-profit, future-oriented research institute, the purpose of which was to work with the leadership of the national security community to change the idea of “national security” from death and destruction to a broader understanding of security that included, environmental degradation, climate change, social value shifts, science and technology breakthroughs, and other global issues that clearly contributed to our security. The “think tank” now serves as a global agent for change focusing on facilitating the transition to a new world. It does that by developing new concepts, processes and tools for anticipating potential futures and translating that knowledge into better present-day decisions.
There are a lot of other ‘tells’ throughout the video.
Such as: “…Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC provides research advisory and screening services to Swan Asset Management, a registered investment advisor based in Augusta, Georgia. Catherine Austin Fitts is the founder and managing member.LINK”
She also says “I love Switzerland and I love the Swiss… I live in Netherlands half the year… Half the people at Solari are Dutch…”
Paul is co-owner and managing director of Holland Gold and the Aunexum Precious Metals Group. He also lives in The Netherlands, a country with very close ties to Belgium.
Reinvent Money — Description
Welcome to reinvent.money where Paul Buitink conducts insightful interviews with leading experts in finance and geopolitics in order to improve public understanding of what’s wrong with our financial system and how it can be improved. Paul has been active in both the mainstream and alternative finance space, having worked at a bank, credit insurance company, gold companies and a Bitcoin exchange. He was also one of the driving forces behind the campaign to establish a full reserve bank in The Netherlands, called depositobank. LINK
So it does not look like Fitts actually left her career as an investment banker AND she is directing people to invest in GOLD. Also her ‘Black Budget’ reveals happen AFTER her problems with the government are settled. AND after, as she says ” On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of of DOD,which is one of the agencies where the majority of money was going missing, did a press conference and said there’s 2.3 trillion missing from the Department of defense.”
At 3 minutes she starts talking about a secret black budget for BLACK PROJECTS that she says STARTED AT THE END OF WWII.
As Colonel Towner says, put on your GLADIO GLASSES and you can see Catherine Austin Fitts is revealing the part of the puzzle that is already known. However instead of getting into Operation Gladio, and the overthrow of sovereign nations so the cabal can rape them of their raw materials and enslave the population, she veers off into left field.
…clearly part of the problem was that trying to finance the black budget and a whole parallel universe of the sort of weaponry and intelligence and Military infrastructure was getting more and more painful. When 911 happened they passed the Patriot Act that made it much easier to get on budget money into the black budget but it kept ballooning. As some of us described it, it was enough money to fund a separate civilization.
You know essentially people saying we can’t operate within this Democratic Machinery. We have to fund and build a secret infrastructure outside the government. So we called it the Breakaway civilization. Literally. You know you funded a very significant infrastructure. One way of looking at what’s happening now is the Breakaway civilization is breaking back in…. So for example in two or three years ago I sat down and I spent two years with one of the best researchers I know. We tried to estimate how many underground bases there were just in the United States alone. And in the oceans immediately outside of the United States.We estimated 170 and that of course is the platform for all sorts of activities that you want to keep secret. you know including some of the things you may or may not be doing in space so so and there was a wonderful group, there were two people at the Washington PostI think 2010, 2012 that did a big study they made a database of all the secret facilities and all the facilities that had been financed through the Patriot Act or after the Patriot Act…
And you thought Alex Jones served up some weird stuff!
One of the cudgels, Fitts uses to bash Trump with is the Federal Account in Standards Advisory Board statement 56 made during Trump’s first term. However if you read it closely, it says CLASSIFIED ACTIVITIES MUST ALSO MEET GPFFRs standards, but will be reported only to cleared people including elected officials. That sounds like ‘Black Budget’ items ALSO have to be accounted for.
The objective of this Statement is to balance the need for financial reports to be publicly available with the need to prevent the disclosure of classified national security information or activities in publicly issued General Purpose Federal Financial Reports (GPFFRs). This Statement allows financial presentation and disclosure to accommodate user needs in a manner that does not impede national security.
This Statement permits modifications that do not affect net results of operations or net position. In addition, this Statement allows a component reporting entity to be excluded from one reporting entity and consolidated into another reporting entity, and the effect of the modification may change the net results of operations and/or net position. … [Sounds like the bottom line has to be accurate but some fudging is allowed to mask classified info. –GC]
This Statement applies to federal entities that issue unclassified general purpose federal financial reports (GPFFRs)…
This Statement does not apply to the reporting of financial information within the GPFFR in the classified environment and only applies when the information is presented in the unclassified environment, such as publicly available component reporting entity GPFFRs.
This Statement does not apply to classified GPFFRs provided to cleared personnel, including elected officials. This does not relieve reporting entities from their requirements and responsibilities to comply with other accounting standards in the appropriate classified environment.
At 11:30 Fitts says this about Advisory Board statement 56.
….the Trump Administration, the White House and Congress, Senate and House Republican and Democrat all got together and agreed to a little known policy called Federal account in standards Advisory Board statement 56. How’s that for a delicious electric entertaining headline. I call it for short fasbee 56. What fasbee 56 said as a matter of administrative policy agreed to by everybody during the sex scandal that the US government didn’t have to obey the Constitution Provisions for financial management. Didn’t have to obey the laws and regulations. That a secret group of people, by a secret process, that would remain secret, could take portions of the federal government finances and move them outside the financial statements in the budget process, on a secret basis not just for the 24 agencies, but for 150 plus governmental entities. When you combine it with the National Security classification laws, it also applies to the big Banks and defense contractors and other contractors doing [business] with the federal government.
Now let me explain to you what that means as [a] matter of financial disclosure. It means when I look at the US bond market, whether it’s the treasury bond market, the corporate bond market, or most of the large cap stocks their financial disclosure is entirely meaningless. I have no idea what it means. Okay?
Then she gets into bashing DOGE and Elon Musk.
First I want to put up the FACTS. As far as Bitcoin goes, Scott has been educating us on it’s decentralization. With gold, Steve has mentioned that if you do not have the physical gold in your possession, it is back to the old gold smith’s trick of several people ‘owning’ the same gold.
Last is what DOGE is actually doing vs the screaming horror scenarios the Cabal is trying to feed us.
An executive order from Trump this weekcharged DOGE — which is absorbing the U.S. Digital Service — with leading an initiative “to improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software, network infrastructure, and information technology (IT) systems.”…
In a report released Thursday, the GAO said that 463 of its 1,881 IT-related recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget and agencies since 2010 haven’t been addressed, creating challenges for the federal government in “effectively acquiring IT and managing IT projects.”
Additionally, the GAO said that 32 of its 69 priority recommendations for government IT over the same time period have also not been enacted. “If the agencies fully implement all recommendations that have not yet been implemented,” the watchdog said, “we estimate they could potentially achieve hundreds of millions in savings.”
A few of the tidbits where Catherine is trying to scare people.
2:12 — Catherine:He [Trump] is unbelievably Pro CBDC as long as privately owned and controlled exactly the stable coins. so yeah right. So let’s let’s discuss that too.
8:55 — To just go to a total control model, where they say you know, because their belief is democracy doesn’t work. So what you know and it’s similar in most of the G7 Nations but I use the United States. We have the bankers, who traditionally controlled monetary policy, and then the people’s Representatives, the legislature that controlled fiscal policy. You know taxation with representation not without. Part of what happened after the deal in 1995 and why they started I think to have what I call a financial coup. They said look this doesn’t work. We the bankers are to take control of fiscal policy. What we’ve been watching and part of what doge is doing is the continual process of stripping away the civil service so the bankers control through corporate contractors. Because that’s part of building the control grid.
22:50 —Catherine: Well here’s my question, because a lot of what they’re doing is focused on plunder. So from my guess from what I can tell, and the best source of information, Wired Magazine has done a remarkable job of documenting and and describing what DOGE is doing with the IT systems. My guess is they’re just taking the data right? They’re just taking it and moving it into their AI.
23:15 — If you look at musk’s different companies, including the ones he’s out in the market raising capital for, you know you were systematically firing the IGs. Firing the White House ethics office. You know a lot of those IGS were at agencies that are doing investigations or regulatory actions against him or his company. If you look at you know a government special employee such as Musk, [He] is not supposed to be fiddling around in things that cause their business values and private interests to go up. You know from everything I can see they are. I also think they’re literally just taking data and moving it into private Ai and that is going to be unbelievably good for whatever AI you moving [it into] because what AI needs to really build is very high quality data and government data and payment data is remarkable in that respect.
24:45 – Paul: They’re feeding the AI Beast. [This] was the ultimate goal I guess. Indeed. Then to control Society.
24:50 — Catherine: Well. But if you have a server, a government server, that has data on it which is subject to very serious privacy laws and National Security laws and you just bring in an external hard drive, slap it on and then take it out?
Paul: that’s theft.
Catherine: But, it’s criminal right? It’s criminal theft. And if it’s helping your AI, and you’re out raising capital for that company’s AI, you’ve got an AI, X-AI is a company and you’re raising Capital at the same time and the value of your your market value is going up while you’re raising stock that’s a violation of the of the laws related to government special employees. If it’s happening that is a criminal violation.
25:30 – Paul: It’s interesting to see how a lot of alternative media are sort of aligning at the moment with a lot of mainstream media when it comes to the risks and dangers of the policies being implemented at the moment by Trump and Musk and his other Tech Bros.
50:05 — Catherine: Well if you’re pumping out money it’s a way to balloon it. That doesn’t go into the regular indices. It’s kind of you’re building a parallel track. If you look at the genius act which is the act going through Congress to create the regulatory structure for stable coins in the US. It’s all going to be run by the big Banks. I mean if you look at the New York Fed and the banks that own and control the New York Fed and the banks that are going to control the Stable Coin Market, it’s like meet the new boss, same as the old boss. They’re just, here’s the important thing, to understand Paul, if the guys at the New York Fed do a CBC, they are subject to congressional oversight, the rules, regulations and laws that oversee them. That require them to do certain things and provide disclosure. If those same Banks do a CBD I.E programmable money, through stable coins, they are free of Congress.
I will leave it to Scott to refute that bunch of garbage.
This attack I had to laugh at. We have seen the Cabal use a disgruntled family member to smear someone they hate. Looks like Musk has joined the crowd.
33:00 — Catherine: I don’t know. Did you see Elon Musk’s dad just did an interview; quite wild… So Musk’s father gives an interview and he talking about how close the family is to Netanyahu and Netanyahu two years ago in the Biden administration had explained publicly that Elon Musk was the real president LAUGHS.
33:45 – Paul: True fact. Laughs. He’s already being called the co-president right and but it leads to all sorts of anger and fighting also within Trump’s crowd…
They then go on to praise the Chinese.
43:10 — Catherine: If you look at their planning it’s unbelievable. The planning, the plans they publish, they work at it. I mean it’s a very interesting topic because I studied Chinese. I lived in Hong Kong for a years, studied Chinese and I have a lot of thoughts about what makes Chinese culture unattractive, but also what makes it great and and attractive in many ways.
Kevin O’Leary has a completely different take on China.
WOW: Kevin O'Leary ERUPTS at MSNBC host who tries (and FAILS) to PIN HIM for applauding President Trump's pressure campaign against China!
"They cheat, they steal. They don't play by the rules. And I've had enough!"
….”They cheat, they steal. They don’t play by the rules. And I’ve had enough!” “I don’t care about the volatility. I don’t care if Trump ratchets it up 25% a day!” MSNBC: “What do you mean you don’t care about volatility? If volatility has a direct impact on us as consumers?!” “Because we have to fix this problem once and for all. It’s killing us! It’s killing small business in America. It’s killing large businesses!”….
The video in the tweet is a very, very interesting 5 minute talk.
At 25 sec O’Leary talks about all the IP (Intellectual Property) the Chinese stole.
At 1:10 the interviewer slides in the BIG LIE. “…China has a system in place, that is ABLE to manipulate the world, its currency and everything else BECAUSE of its totalitarian nature…”
WRONG! China is where it is today BECAUSE they BRIBED CLINTON! Without Clinton OK’s to export military IP, with out Clinton & Bush getting China into the WTO, China would have followed the Soviet Union into oblivion. SEE: Chasing the Dragon: Clinton’s China Policy
At 2 minutes O’Leary gives the solution on how to deal with China. Just as we did with the Soviet Union. Starving peasants are ALWAYS a threat to a totalitarian regime so while the USA has the upper hand we SQUEEZE China.
Catherine on the other hand completely over looks China’s technology theft. ESPECIALLY Google’s helpful hand.
34:50 — Okay, so let me give you one other example, healthcare was pretty ugly. This is the worst. There is an Australian Think Tank created by the Australian government in 2001 after 911 to track the top Technologies that drive geopolitical and economic power. They tracked 64 of the leading Technologies at the end of the financial, I think 2008, US was the leader in 60 of 64. They just published their 2024 report. I think it was the end of 2023. The US was the leader in seven, China was the leader in 54 and is moving up fast. Now that’s because, if you look at where we’re allocating our capital, we’re not allocating our capital to maintain our leadership in science and technology.
So if you look at the expenses you have in the United States, and the dollar system, you have way too much going to corruption. You have way too much going to subsidizing the centralization of the economy. You have way too much money spent on control. You have way too much money poisoning people and then paying for them to be sick. We either, as a society, have to change the way we allocate capital or basically we’re all going to be governed by the Chinese.
I cleaned it up a bit and added a few more comments, but I did not have time to do a good job. Two of my trucks broke down on the road this week. I ended up having to borrow a truck from my neighbor for the weekend gigs. The second truck broke down Tuesday and we ended up towing it. — (Shudder, I was in the towed truck.)
Intro
0:00 –Catherine Fitts: The federal government has been operated as a criminal Enterprise on a financial basis period way outside the law. It has enough money to fund a separate civilization. Our plan had been to win the proxy war by hybrid war in the Ukraine. Get a hold of the Russian resources and maintain our hegemony against China in a unipolar model. Guess what? We failed.
The current Administration was put into place by the bankers to get the control grid
accomplished. Trump can only do what the bankers want him to do. Do you want a global Mafia or the Federal Reserve which is still under the powers of congress?
0:50 — Paul Buitink (Reinvent Money): Hello everybody and welcome back to reinvent money, a podcast about money and power. Back on the show today [is] a former assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the George a Bush Administration and founder of the Solari Report, Catherine Austin Fitts. Welcome back to the show Catherine.
1:05 — Catherine: Hey Paul it’s wonderful to be back. I love you, I love your company.
1:10 –Paul: Thanks so much. Yeah, last time we actually recorded at your place in frand [?] wonderful location. This time we do it online. Looking forward to catching up with you because [there is] just so much going on and we cannot possibly discuss all the major events in one podcast. So let’s just focus on two things that are near and dear to you.
On the one hand on the one I would like to discuss the black budget with you because you’ve been writing about that for so long that every year billions disappear from the US budget into. it’s trillions it’s trillions that crazy.
Catherine: Trillions yeah
Paul: So I was wondering if Doge, Musk and his ilk can actually shed some light on on the black budget and whether we can find out what’s going on there. or what do you think?
2:00 — That’s not going to happen so that’s one topic and the other topic is the CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency] because you are very skeptical and you find CBDC a very dangerous Prospect. Then Trump is also against CBDC so I was wondering how do you resonate with that.
2:12 — Catherine: He’s unbelievably Pro CBDC as long as privately owned and controlled exactly the stable coins. so yeah right. So let’s let’s discuss that too. But let’s [start with] What is the black budget.
2:20 — Paul: First talk about the black budget could you? First explain to our viewers what exactly is the black budget.
2:30 — Catherine: So the black budget started at the end of world War I [I think she means WWII] with the 47 and 49 act in the United States where a process was set up to to fund a secret infrastructure for highly classified projects by the military and intelligence. At first there was money that was seized at the end of World War II and that was a portion of the funding but there were also ongoing activities including clawing money out of Appropriations made to other agencies that was used for black projects. You had one Congressional committee which would oversee the quote unquote black budget and as that money grew and then was made eligible for providing contracts to private corporations. So bringing private companies in to do these highly classified projects and pay for it. From essentially issuing treasury bonds and borrowing money. You know you created a direct linkage on classified projects between the ability to borrow as much as you wanted globally and the stock market is the only way I can describe it. The securities market. So the black budget grew and grew and then something happened. We had a budget deal in 1995. There was a big effort by the central Bankers to get the US governmental process on a more balanced budget and a financially responsible trajectory with respect to retirement savings.
3:50 — The budget deal exploded. The government shut down. There was a big fight. And as later described to me by the largest head of the largest pension fund in the country, we’ve given up on the country. We’re moving all the money out starting in the fall and that was the fall of October 1997. The beginning of the 1998 fiscal year, when literally trains of money started to disappear. By 2001 there was $4 trillion missing.
On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of DOD,which is one of the agencies where the majority of money was going missing, did a press conference and said there’s 2.3 trillion missing from the Department of defense.
I was working with a reporter on a story that was going to publish that Friday. A cover story going gratis to all the Senate and Congressional desks explaining about all the money that was disappearing from the federal government. We called it the missing money. I made the mistake of saying to the reporter, nothing will stop this story from going viral and then we know what happened. What happened the next day is several buildings holding all the records of that $4 trillion dollars got blown up and we were Off to the Races with great Appropriations and the war on terror.
5:00 — but the money kept going missing, missing, missing. I kept covering it for many years and so a process began. The largest amount that went missing in any year was in 2015. That was 6.5 trillion, A professor from Michigan State University heard me talking about it and said you know, what can I do to help? I had him and his students do a survey of DOD the two agencies where the majority of money had gone missing.
5:30 — He came back and found 21 trillion missing. I had it up to 12 trillion and he increased it by 9 trillion. Essentially you know what everybody says. Well where’s the money going and we can engage in conjecture on that.
But clearly part of the problem was that trying to finance the black budget and a whole parallel universe of the sort of weaponry and intelligence and Military infrastructure was getting more and more painful. When 911 happened they passed the Patriot Act that made it much easier to get on budget money into the black budget but it kept ballooning. As some of us described it, it was enough money to fund a separate civilization.
You know essentially people saying we can’t operate within this Democratic Machinery. We have to fund and build a secret infrastructure outside the government. So we called it the Breakaway civilization. Literally. You know you funded a very significant infrastructure. One way of looking at what’s happening now is the Breakaway civilization is breaking back in.
6:40 – Paul: And how does it manifest itself this Breakaway civilization? How how can we recognize that? How is it being built?
7:00 – Catherine: So for example in two or three years ago I sat down and I spent two years with one of the best researchers I know. We tried to estimate how many underground bases there were just in the United States alone. And in the oceans immediately outside of the United States. We estimated 170 and that of course is the platform for all sorts of activities that you want to keep secret. you know including some of the things you may or may not be doing in space so so and there was a wonderful group, there were two people at the Washington Post I think 2010, 2012 that did a big study they made a database of all the secret facilities and all the facilities that had been financed through the Patriot Act or after the Patriot Act.
7:35 — It was called Top Secret America and you saw this enormous explosion of money going for these activities. Part of the thing to understand Paul, is this explosion of secret and invisible activities, are the money is not often spent productively. You get an enormous corporate infrastructure which is financially dependent on this money. Then you get huge lobbyists and constituents depending on this money. The next thing you know everybody’s in the defense and the national security business and everybody’s making money from secrecy. It was very interesting.
8:11 — I’ve had a couple of interactions in the last 20 to 30 years with various groups who [are] inside the Machinery. Who decide okay we’re going to reduce the secrecy. They work through the different liabilities, Financial liabilities because you’ve transferred so much powerful technology, ownership of technology, to private companies without reimbursing the taxpayers. Or you’ve stolen so much money.
they can’t figure out how to let the secrecy down. It’s one of the things I think that’s driving the administration and all the US administrations, and around the world.
8:55 — To just go to a total control model, where they say you know, because their belief is democracy doesn’t work. So what you know and it’s similar in most of the G7 Nations but I use the United States. We have the bankers, who traditionally controlled monetary policy, and then the people’s Representatives, the legislature that controlled fiscal policy. You know taxation with representation not without. Part of what happened after the deal in 1995 and why they started I think to have what I call a financial coup. They said look this doesn’t work. We the bankers are to take control of fiscal policy. What we’ve been watching and part of what doge is doing is the continual process of stripping away the civil service so the bankers control through corporate contractors.
9:40 – Paul: Right?
Catherine: Because that’s part of building the control grid.
REP. MIKE LAWLER: DOGE IS DOING A TURBOCHARGED FORENSIC AUDIT OF THE ENTIRE GOVT
“We’re spending $86 trillion over 10 years—and we’re $36 trillion in debt.
Paul: Because on the one hand you could argue DOGE is for example bringing Full transparency when it comes to USAid. They are trying to make it clear to the American public and the whole world basically how the money is being spent in the US on a government level. But they also were going to check out the DOD. Right?
10:10 — Some of the expenses within DOD. But you don’t think in the end DOGE could play a role in trying to uncover all these black budget expenses.
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) April 10, 2025
10:15 — Catherine: So let me, because we can make some things very simple. This is something we can make very simple. When the professor from Michigan State University, Dr Skidmore, and I published this big study in 2017 saying there’s 21 trillion missing. You know of undocumented adjustments in the government. Of course the question was, was I part of a group of people in the first Bush Administration, [Who] got laws passed to have audited financial statements? The reason we know there’s 21 trillion missing is every year they said we can’t publish financial statements as required by law and here are the undocumented adjustments. Right? so they failed to comply with the most basic constitutional and legislative requirements of how we run the federal government.
11:00 — [The federal government] has been operated as a Criminal Enterprise on a financial basis period. Way outside the law. So there was a big sort of hullabaloo in Washington while whereby everybody the treasury DOD and HUD were dancing around about how they were going to explain why they couldn’t produce audits for 20 years. How they were going to keep saying well next year we’ll do it, okay? So the resolution of that big debate, Paul, was in October 2018.
11:30 — Do you remember when we had Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh? And America spent a week exploring the teenage sex life of Judge Kavanaugh. During that time interestingly enough the Trump Administration, the White House and Congress, Senate and House Republican and Democrat all got together and agreed to a little-known policy called Federal account in standards Advisory Board statement 56. How’s that for a delicious electric entertaining headline. I call it for short fasbee 56. What fasbee 56 said as a matter of administrative policy agreed to by everybody during the sex scandal that the US government didn’t have to obey the Constitution Provisions for financial management. Didn’t have to obey the laws and regulations. That a secret group of people, by a secret process, that would remain secret, could take portions of the federal government finances and move them outside the financial statements in the budget process, on a secret basis not just for the 24 agencies, but for 150 plus governmental entities. When you combine it with the National Security classification laws, it also applies to the big Banks and defense contractors and other contractors doing [business] with the federal government.
13:00 — Now let me explain to you what that means as [a] matter of financial disclosure. It means when I look at the US bond market, whether it’s the treasury bond market, the corporate bond market, or most of the large cap stocks their financial disclosure is entirely meaningless. I have no idea what it means. Okay?
13:15 — Now the first thing if you’re serious and you’re Doge and you want to know. I think their number one goal is to cut current expenditures and try and help get the model back in economic balance. We need to talk about the real issues that need to be faced and dealt with. I think that’s part of what they’re doing. The first thing you would have said is, you know something? We’re going to resind fasbee 56. Not a word. Go over to X. Everybody’s saying, why aren’t you doing anything about fasbee 56? Why aren’t you saying anything about the 21 trillion? Mum’s the Word okay? But remember fasbee 56 was done by the first Trump Administration. So here’s what DOGE is doing.
14:11 — One of the most important interviews at the beginning of the administration is Secretary of State Rubio gave an interview and he said uh we’re no longer a unipolar model it’s now a multi-polar world and we have to adjust to a multi-polar world. Okay You’re talking about an enormous change because we’re taking the old Bretton Wood system that was adapted for the Petro dollar and is now adapted to the debt dollar. And you’re saying okay, the revenues minus expenses don’t work. We’re running at an unacceptable trade and budget deficit our plan had been to win the proxy war by hybrid war in the Ukraine get a hold of the Russian resources and maintain our hegemony against China in a unipolar model. Guess what we failed. So Trump’s trying to put a happy face on guess what we lost. Right? There’s no happy face but he’s trying and that’s what Rubio is trying to do.
15:02 — So now that you can’t strip out and get cheap oil and gas and resources and commodities going east. [Russia] What are you talking about? You’re talking about Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal. You’re talking about going north & south right? But well. you’re trying to get the revenues back in balance. You’re trying to get the trade of the Commodities you want and need to run the global Empire Back in Balance. So you’re asking Europe to pay more. So whether you’re trying to get the revenues up or the expenses down, and they’re trying to do both, they’re trying to re-calibrate the model and any administration would have to do this.
15:49 – And one of their biggest problems is (she laughs) that one of the reasons the expenses have ballooned, is you’ve been paying people to go along with what you’re doing. So the American population is basically, here’s a check, sit down, shut up, and don’t ask questions. Whether it’s hiring a lot more people on defense contractors or giving everybody a check not to work, you know the lack of productivity has gone up up up up up. Healthcare expenses have ballooned because everybody’s sick. So your health care’s gone down okay?
So you have a whole layer of unproductive spending but then you have a layer of corruption. The corruption is absolutely in the old model and the new model and it is off the charts.
16:40 — The problem is the people who have been getting that money, They have the ability to kill people. They have the ability to destroy you. They have the ability to you know, I mean their covert operations capacity is enormous. When you look at a group of Mafia who are getting their cash flows cut and their security clearances canceled you know they get very angry and mad. So you’ve got a war going on.
17:00 You know it’s really funny because one of the latest Gallup poll charts, do you ever watch the Gallup Poll charts?
Paul: Sometimes yeah but not consistently.
Catherine: Well there’s the latest one. [It] says the question is: Is the country going in the right direction? They’re asking the Americans. The Republicans go from saying 10% saying it’s going in the right direction. Trump wins and immediately Rises to 68%. If you look at the Democrats they’re at 40% and then they dive to 5%. So it’s a huge spread. I’ve been trying very hard to listen to each group and each group is embroiled in lots of different issues. On some issues they have good Intelligence, on other issues they’re as stupid as a rock. It’s frightening but neither of them see the control grid being engineered and snapping into place. It’s like they’re both asleep to their real dangers. It’s frightening because the inability to compute and get a good map of what’s going on, let alone what to do about it, Is, I’ve never seen it lower in the United States than it is now.
18:20 — Paul: It’s become increasingly difficult of course to understand what’s going on because, the world is getting so complex. At the same time there’s more tools available right now than ever before to understand what’s going on. Do you believe Trump leading America the right way? On balance that America is heading the right way? After two months of Trump? Or are you. because I know you’ve always been skeptical about him, and quite a few of his team members. You like a few others, for example like Kennedy. But you’ve always been highly skeptical about Musk for example. But do you think America is going the right way or only getting worse from here?
19:00 —Catherine: So my goal, you know, if there’s anything we love at Solari it’s Freedom. So our tagline is actionable intelligence for Free Inspired Life. We want you to be free, right? That’s what we want and I believe you can’t be free unless we’re all free. So it’s an all or nothing kind of thing. I believe in a world where you have free speech and and relatively free flow of capital. That’s where entrepreneurs solve a lot of the problems that plague us. People figure it out in their daily lives So our focus is on sovereignty. Individual sovereignty. Government sovereignty and freedom.
19:25 — I would say that the current Administration was put into place by the bankers to get the control grid accomplished. The last group couldn’t accomplish the control grid. This group is doing a remarkable job of implementing the control grid at high speed and and marketing it. I would say both the Democratic and Republican side do not see the digital concentration camp snapping into place around them and it’s shocking.
19:55 — Paul: It’s like a new tech right? That’s being rolled out in front of our eyes.
20:00 — Catherine: It’s not technocracy it’s slavery. I mean I think it’ll have a different face and feeling in Europe than in the United States. But in the United States we’re talking about slavery and and we’re talking about you know, I have is we don’t need soft power anymore because with drones and robots and invisible weaponry and surveillance systems you know we can use hard power very cheaply and economically. And if you look at some of the things that have been happening in the United States with using hard power to basically kill people and take their lands you know this is very dangerous.
21:00 – Paul: Yeah, but Trump and Musk implementing the control grid at the same time you do favor smaller government so with Trump slashing Department of of Education like having costs and also um sending away lots of bureaucrats, it should make the federal government smaller. So that would align them with your view of more individual freedom is that correct?
21:15 — Catherine: No. No not at all, because if you look at the control structures being put into place, and the money being put behind them, you’re going to have significantly less [freedom] It looks to me, like it’s too early to tell, but it looks to me like they’re planning on leaving the control pieces of the US government in place to control.
21:35 – Paul:Right, so they’re symbolically slashing certain costs, but at the same time our freedom is being heavily reduced on other fronts,
21:40 — Catherine: Right. If you look at many of the things there, if you said to me okay go into Washington and dramatically reduce current expenditures in a way that’s good for the country, and healthy for the country, I would be reducing many of the same things, although I would be doing it a way where it would stick and not attract Court opposition. So you know, you’re the administration went in and said we want shock and awe. They’re purposefully cutting in ways that are illegal and causing great backlash in the courts. The question is why? Are they doing it that way? they clearly intend to do it that way. They want to do it that way. It doesn’t have to be done that way. It can be done totally legally. Quickly you know. It’s the difference between do you want to do neurosurgery with a scalpel or with a hacksaw. If your doing it with a hacksaw I don’t think you’re planning on the patient living.
22:45 – Paul: So they want the patient to die. Then with what glowing Minds do. Then resurrect something.
22:50 —Catherine: Well here’s my question, because a lot of what they’re doing is focused on plunder. So from my guess from what I can tell, and the best source of information Wired Magazine has done a remarkable job of documenting and and describing what DOGE is doing with the IT systems. My guess is they’re just taking the data right? They’re just taking it and moving it into their AI.
23:15 — If you look at musk’s different companies, including the ones he’s out in the market raising capital for, you know you were systematically firing the IGs. Firing the White House ethics office. You know a lot of those IGS were at agencies that are doing investigations or regulatory actions against him or his company. If you look at you know a government special employee such as Musk, [He] is not supposed to be fiddling around in things that cause their business values and private interests to go up. You know from everything I can see they are. I also think they’re literally just taking data and moving it into private Ai and that is going to be unbelievably good for whatever AI you moving [it into] because what AI needs to really build is very high quality data and government data and payment data is remarkable in that respect.
24:10 — Now the DOGE is making a great effort to persuade you there was terrible corruption in the systems and there is terrible waste. Clearly if 21 trillion is missing you know you have all sorts of strategies to get that money missing so I’m not trying to say that the old system was right because there was a massive Financial coup going on. But if you look at what DOGE is doing it looks to me like they are basically stripping data and privatizing it in the just do-it method.
24:45 – Paul: They’re feeding the AI Beast. [This] was the ultimate goal I guess. Indeed. Then to control Society.
24:50 — Catherine: Well. But if you have a server, a government server, that has data on it which is subject to very serious privacy laws and National Security laws and you just bring in an external hard driver, slap it on and then take it out?
Paul: that’s theft.
Catherine: But, it’s criminal right? It’s criminal theft. And if it’s helping your AI, and you’re out raising capital for that company’s AI, you’ve got an AI, X-AI is a company and you’re raising Capital at the same time and the value of your your market value is going up while you’re raising stock that’s a violation of the of the laws related to government special employees. If it’s happening that is a criminal violation.
25:30 – Paul: It’s interesting to see how a lot of alternative media are sort of aligning at the moment with a lot of mainstream media when it comes to the risks and dangers of the policies being implemented at the moment by Trump and Musk and his in his other Tech Bros.
25:50 — Catherine: So you know this is what makes it complicated. If you look at what needs to be done in terms of re-engineering the model? It’s hard work. It’s not easy. So if you look at what Trump is trying to do. It’s not easy. and he is trying to do it. He is trying to change the model.
26:10 — Catherine: Now my concern is the big racketeering. So somebody stole the 21 trillion. Now we’re stealing all the data, okay. And the courts are pushing back. But the big steal is what Howard Lutnick the Secretary of Commerce described as $500 trillion of land and mineral resources owned by the federal government. So if you think the Federal government has 36 trillion of debt, you know that’s pretty tiny compared to $500 trillion of land and mineral assets. Unfortunately my concern is that this group of people is really looking to privatize and steal that. We’re looking at a group of people building up to the biggest land grab in history.
26:55 – Paul: So they driving down the economy to the bottom in order to then seize the opportunity to, you got it, Buy assets on the cheap.
27:00 — Catherine: Well, my question is are are they systematically… Now, if you look at some of the things. You know tariffs or other things, the president is trying to do. He wants to move manufacturing back to the United States. And you need the dollar to come down and you need a variety of reasons for it to be cost effective to move back. So I’m not saying he’s necessarily doing those things to cause a recession, but if you look at a whole bunch of stuff that’s going on, it looks to me like we’re building up into you know a real potential reset down. So, for example, if you look at all the growth in GDP for quite a while now, it’s come from deficit financing. right? In the United States. so I don’t know. It looks to me, if you look at what the shock and awe strategy is and I don’t know the answer. The shock and awe strategy is designed to dismantle a portion of the government and the economy in a way that you could get a very significant recession.
28:15 — I mean here’s the biggest question on the economy. It comes down to the fight over the HHS appointees. So HHS is the Health and Human Services. If you look at the 2025 federal budget, the military budget, not the black budget, but the military budget is $857 billion. The Medicaid and Medicare, the health care budget is $1.8 trillion. So it’s more than double the cost of running a global Military. okay and that has ballooned. If we went back to 2010 disability levels, Paul, we would save $500 trillion a year on the budget. So when Kennedy went through his confirmation hearing and he said we have a chronic epidemic, we have an epidemic of chronic illness among the children. You know he uses the number, I think 54% of kids, have have chronic illnesses. The pediatrician I most trust says it’s up in the 70s because most kids can’t afford to get properly tested. So America is being poisoned. I don’t know if you’ve been to America recently, but literally America is being poisoned. It’s not one thing it’s many things. What Kennedy has been fighting for is to get into HHS and really turn it around. Step one being bringing transparency to what is causing Health to decline. Right now we spend almost double what the next industrialized country spends on healthcare. $135,000 per person. Everybody’s just walking around poisoned.
30:00 — So if you’re going to turn the budget around you need a plan. If you look at what just happened with the number two person going into CDC, Kennedy’s nomination got thrown out and killed. The White House had to withdraw it. If you look at who they’re putting in it says full on control grid. You know mRNA technology is going to poison another round of people. it’s bad.
30:30 – Paul: What’s Trump’s Role in all this? is he like just a useful idiot? Is Trump a useful idiot or a master?
30:37 — Catherine: He also one of the Masters behind this strategy. So he’s doing. It I mean if you if you look at his announcement for the Stargate initiative several days into the administration it was 500 billion for data centers. You know ostensibly private investment, but if you look at where it’s really coming from it’s coming from government and mRNA technology for everybody even though we’ve proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that mRNA technology is poison and kills.
31:05 — So you know now what I try and explain to people is the fundamentals of how the US government works. Okay so every week the New York Fed and the primary dealers of which Howard luton’s firm was one of them, 24 primary dealers go out in the market and they borrow money and they put it in the New York Fed. The New York Fed is the depository for the US government. So treasury, the agency, say they have their bank accounts in the New York Fed or the New York Fed member banks as agents. Those member banks of course own and control the New York Fed. So they put the money in Treasury and Teasury spends the money. The last month, I think it was February, our total deficit was bigger than 100% of our revenues. Okay? So we’re really dependent on the Fed borrowing and putting that money in. Now we could talk about the fact that we don’t need a debt based currency but let’s leave that for another day.
32:00 — Catherine: You know, so there’s a bit of a ruse here. But the minute the New York Fed stops doing that. everything stops okay? so day to day week to week the federal government is 100% dependent on the New York Fed. Now at the beginning of the administration a reporter from Politico asked the chairman of the Fed, Jay Powell, if Trump wants you to resign will you. He said no. The reporter said well can Trump fire you? He said no. [LAUGH} Trump can only do what the bankers want him to do. So he can go for 24 hours without the bankers.
32:50 – Paul: yeah? So Trump has the bankers and his Tech oligarchy basically setting the agenda and defining what’s going to happen in the US.
33:00 — Catherine: I don’t know. Did you see Elon Musk’s dad just did an interview; quite wild. I don’t know if you saw it.
33:05 – Paul: No there. I know they don’t see each other, but what did he say?
33:10 — Catherine: So we’re going to use a clip of this. We’re just about to record our first quarter wrap up. We’re going to use– we have Great Clips on everything. The big story we’re going to do is Trump, the first 70 days. you know we got tons of clips and stories and everything. So Musk’s father gives an interview and he talking about how close the family is to Netanyahu and Netanyahu two years ago in the Biden administration had explained publicly that Elon Musk was the real president LAUGH.
33:45 – Paul: True fact. Laughs. He’s already being called the co-president right and but it leads to all sorts of anger and fighting also within Trump’s crowd. So sooner or later some people will…
33:50 — Catherine: You look like I’m giving you a headache.
34:00 – Paul: Yeah, It’s such a mess. [Both Laughing]
34:05 — Catherine: No, you know something? It’s not a mess. In other words what we need to do is distill the complexity down and see the basic simple phenomenons of what’s happening because it all comes down to revenues, expenses, and assets. You need your revenues to go up, and you need your expenses to go down. Part of it is we the United States the dollar system have been running the greatest misallocation of capital in the history of Western civilization.
34:30 — You know that because you have a very wonderful and successful gold company and you were right at the heart of trying to help people find real solutions to deal with that massive misallocation of capital, right?
34:50 — Okay, so let me give you one other example, healthcare was pretty ugly. This is the worst. There is an Australian Think Tank created by the Australian government in 2001 after 911 to track the top Technologies that drive geopolitical and economic power. They tracked 64 of the leading Technologies at the end of the financial, I think 2008, US was the leader in 60 of 64. They just published their 2024 report. I think it was the end of 2023. The US was the leader in seven, China was the leader in 54 and is moving up fast. Now that’s because, if you look at where we’re allocating our capital, we’re not allocating our capital to maintain our leadership in science and technology.
So if you look at the expenses you have in the United States, and the dollar system, you have way too much going to corruption. You have way too much going to subsidizing the centralization of the economy. You have way too much money spent on control. You have way too much money poisoning people and then paying for them to be sick. We either, as a society, have to change the way we allocate capital or basically we’re all going to be governed by the Chinese.
36:00 — Paul: I guess that’s also where people like the role of technology. Musk and Peter Thiel would agree with you that the US needs to invest more into technology and science and AI and robots. I guess they would like to achieve that goal by slashing unnecessary expenses and by focusing on technology.
36:25 — Catherine: So I think technology is important. However I would say it’s not number one. Here’s why one of the things I love about some of the people Trump has brought in is they think and function entrepreneurally. We do. If you look at the old model, if you look at corruption 1.0 or dollar model 1.0 you know it got very sluggish, very slow moving. So we need something much more responsive to the future. Much more hopeful. Much more building wealth. A lot of them talk a very good game on these topics. It breaks down when you get into the reality of where their money’s really going. What’s really happening because what we’re seeing is the solution is, okay, we’re here now. So we get to control. I’ll never forget when I was I was having a meeting with the cabinet secretary I was working for when I was in the Bush Administration. We wanted to propose a new housing platform and we brought in two guys who were the top guys in the Housing Industry. Who’d led this Commission on how we should reinvigorate housing in America and they had proposed lots of decentralization. The secretary wanted a lot of centralization of course, because that’s how you get political contributions. You centralize control and then everybody’s got to come into you and give you political contributions and there you go and so one of them said said well Mr secretary I thought you Republicans you believed in decentralization and local whatever.
38:10 — The secretary had this little assistant who’d come in from Heritage Foundation. It is one of the conservative think tanks and he was very kind of chipper. He said yeah, yeah, but we’re here now,
38:20 – Paul: Right. It’s always the same thing, Right? I mean the Heritage Foundation was also authoring this project 2025 right ? Is that something that’s being rolled out?
38:40 — Catherine: I’ve not read it, but my understanding is a lot of the things they’re doing was envisioned by that. And of course the leader of that has come-in a very important position.
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[Kevin Roberts, was the Project leader and is now president of Heritage Foundation.]
[No Shit Sherlock, It was a collection of CONSERVATIVE articles, brainstorming type articles. Only the Demon-rats could blow it into some type of crisis.
People named in that NY Mag article.
J. D. Vance is a longtime friend and collaborator with foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin D. Roberts.
Brendan Carr, the FCC chair. authored the FCC chapter.
Pete Hoekstra, nominated U.S. ambassador to Canada. It’s not clear how he contributed, but the Department of Education chapter cites a critical report he authored in Congress on the Department.
Russell Vought is one of the architects of Project 2025, and he wrote the Mandate for Leadership’s Executive Office chapter, which proposes a sweeping transformation of the federal bureaucracy to eliminate the independence of federal agencies and consolidate and expand the president’s executive power.
Tom Homan is one of the many people listed as contributors to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, but it’s not clear how he contribute.
Karoline Leavitt, appears in a previously unpublished 30-minute video entitled “The Art of Professionalism.”
Also Steven Miller and John Ratcliffe are named in the article.] ……
38:45 — Catherine: So let me just mention what’s number one. If technology is not number one, what’s number one. If you’re going to run a global system, you have to have a culture that can run a global system. You have to have a culture. I used to have an ally [who] would say, a culture is the integration of the Divine and everyday life. I went back to him and I said John Edward Hurley you forgot to mention culture can be the integration of the Demonic in everyday life. [Laughs]
39:15 — If you’re going to run a global dollar system, monetary, financial markets, trade, or you’re going to be a critical power in the multi-polar world, you have to have a culture that is up to the task. And what in 1998, I had a choice of either walking out of the establishment purposely, or or going back in and I decided to walk out. Part of that decision was to then litigate with the Department of Justice for another 12 – 13 years. Or well litigate for eight years and then fight with the IRS for 4 Years. Anyway I decided to walk out because I said look for real solutions in the wilderness than to be part of something that was going to fail. I was sure the unipolar model that they were often running was going to fail. I wouldn’t have said it to you this way in 1998, but I’ll say it to you now. They didn’t have the culture that was necessary to succeed at doing that. They couldn’t.
40:30 — it’s what Sergey Lavrov said. The Americans are not agreement capable. It’s because they don’t have a culture. Now if you look at the people who designed the strategy that failed, the neocons, they’re the ones who are ransacking the government right now? So the country lost. But you know they still think they’re going to win because they’re going to get the plunder.
40:45 – Paul: What kind of culture do you need then?
41:00 – Catherine:I think..I remember when I was a little girl growing up in a family that really believed in the great game of civilization. We would talk about what it was like to build a cathedral, to design and build a cathedral that would take longer than your lifetime to build. To envision that. To be happy to do that. Having those kind of long-term lead times and having a culture where people could cooperate on the enormous things that we needed to do. So I was brought up in two different families, but both families were very involved in and they would compete. They were very, particularly my father’s family, they were very competitive about who’s done the most for civilization this year and know.
41:50 — So my father came back from the war. They moved the hospital he was an intern with over to the China-Burma theater during the war. When he came back he was commissioned to redesign the emergency rooms for the entire country. So he spent years doing that and being really proud of how many lives and they would literally compete, he and his brothers how many lives did you save? How many lives did we save. That was their metric. Not how much money did you make in the stock market, in the crypto Market, it’s like how many lives did you save this year. So my uncle got him back. He got the first transplant center set up in South Carolina. My grandfather had started a clinic in Jackson Tennessee which then became the hospital. Then they decided they weren’t good enough. He and his partner closed it down went up to the Mayo clinic. When they came back they brought antibiotics to Tennessee. They had a cousin in the legislature and they got antibiotics authorized by the legislature. And again it was like your grandfather saved thousands of lives with antibiotics. What have you done today?
43:00 – Paul: In a way the US can learn from Chinese Culture. A culture to have a long-term focus. To think more about the community and then just yourself. Of course there’s a lot to complain about Chinese culture and and the centralized control they have, but they do have a long-term Focus that they are able to do right.
43:10 — Catherine: If you look at their planning it’s unbelievable. The planning, the plans they publish, they work at it. I mean it’s a very interesting topic because I studied Chinese. I lived in Hong Kong for a years, studied Chinese and I have a lot of thoughts about what makes Chinese culture unattractive, but also what makes it great and and attractive in many ways.
43:30 — If you want to think about this issue, there’s quite a growing movie industry in China. [So] watch Wandering Earth One and Two. Watch[ing] the comparisons in Wandering Two is particularly good. You have the human race, [who] believes that the sun is going to fail and they come up with a project. A centuries long project to move the Earth out of the solar system to a new Sun. Okay?
44:05 – Paul: It sounds a bit like [what] Elon Musk [is] trying but then of course much bigger.
44:10 — Catherine: It’s called the Wandering Earth. The Chinese end up taking the lead to make this happen because the Americans can’t maintain a long-term project. They can’t get out of the short-term political mode and into taking responsibility to build civilization. There’s one great line, where the Chinese leader, who’s amazing a wonderful, wonderful guy, typical Chinese Mandarin. He says in the face of Crisis there is only responsibility. I said tell that to the Americans.
44:50 — Paul: But I guess that’s also the point, that guys like Peter Thiel and Musk make. That they believe that democracy is not going to work because it’s only leads to a loss of freedom and also a slowing down of the economy. If you have more of a technocracy in place then you should be able to achieve better outcomes for the economy.
45:10 — Catherine: Forget. If you look at trying to do things with that kind of digital control it’s not only environmentally very damaging and energy wasteful it’s so anti- Innovation. I could talk about this forever it’s a lose, lose, lose, lose. It’s total Yaya. Although the guys who end up controlling can make a fortune. So if you want to centralize ownership. Control of everything, Bravo. But there are ways of getting from here to there if we need to evolve our culture and our civilization, there are ways of getting there from here that don’t require technocracy.
45:50 – Paul: I like your road better than their road to be honest. I hope we can achieve it.
46:00 — Catherine: Let me get back to our goal. Why do I live in Netherlands half the year?
46:03– Paul: Because you like it over here?
46:05 — Catherine: So I always say… You know because I love Switzerland and I love the Swiss. I always say the Dutch or the Swiss in a good mood. If you look at the Swiss, if you look at the Dutch history and culture what they’ve achieved and how they’ve achieved and what their culture is compared to the Americans, you know there’s a reason they get things done. Half the people at Solari are Dutch.
46:35 – Paul: We know how to get things done. We like business. We like trade. We like freedom of course. We invented the capitalist model basically.
46:45 — Catherine: Right, but you have a way of maintaining your state of amusement all the time you’re focused on productive action. Productive action.
46:50 — Catherine: I’ve just finished reading a book by a guy I’m going to mispronounce his name named Mo Gawdat, it’s g a w d a t. Do you know who he is? … He was the chief business officer at Google. As soon as he came to understand AI he immediately quit and completely changed his life. He’s got a new book. I was reading it and it says your thoughts should either be joyful or productive.
47:30 — If you you find your in negative thinking and one of the things I do because I spend so much time every week trying to understand current events and how they fit into the long-term trend and what it means to you and me that you know it can get very negative yeah ex exactly yeah so if you find yourself in a negative Loop say to yourself it’s got to be productive or joyful. When I’m looking at really ugly things, like some of the people, I mean if you look around the planet there’s a lot of genocide going on, it’s very ugly. Sometimes I can’t get to joyful, it’s just too ugly. But I can say there’s no point in not being productive. I can get to productive. Then from there if I get something done I can get to joyful.
48:10 – Paul: that’s a very smart way to live. We also wanted to talk a little bit about CBDC versus stable coins. Because you already mentioned earlier that the debt-based dollar system is of course changing but it’s still being maintained. It’s still the hegemonic currency but it seems like they need the stable coins as the next way to maintain the dollar dominance. The status quo right?
48:40 – Catherine: And it’s very clever. Remember in Iraq when they would send pallets of cash to get everybody off the dinar. They just hand out cash all over Iraq or whatever they were doing. I mean it was billions and billions of dollars of pallets of cash just going to Iraq. So the stable coins are going to be the digital equivalent of the pallets of cash in Iraq. What you are going to try and do is get every person around the world who you can reach through a mobile phone to get on the dollar. You’re going to try to massively build the market share of the dollar and if you can engage Google pay, Apple pay, Visa, Mastercard — all these people — you can literally afford to give away massive amounts of dollars just to get them on the dollar right? So you can go to extraordinary lengths to build out the market share. That’s what they are using stable coins to do. As they do it they can use stable coins to do what they used to use the hedge funds for which is to balloon their balance sheet and they buy more and more treasuries and that keeps the treasury market going.
49:55 – Paul: I saw this week Tether was the 7th largest buyer of US treasuries in that particular week. It’s like the biggest stable coin. It’s already one of the biggest buyers of treasuries at the moment.
50:05 — Catherine: Well if you’re pumping out money it’s a way to balloon it. That doesn’t go into the regular indices. It’s kind of you’re building a parallel track. If you look at the genius act which is the act going through Congress to create the regulatory structure for stable coins in the US. It’s all going to be run by the big Banks. I mean if you look at the New York Fed and the banks that own and control the New York Fed and the banks that are going to control the Stable Coin Market, it’s like meet the new boss, same as the old boss. They’re just, here’s the important thing, to understand Paul, if the guys at the New York Fed do a CBC, they are subject to congressional oversight, the rules, regulations and laws that oversee them. That require them to do certain things and provide disclosure. If those same Banks do a CBD I.E programmable money, through stable coins, they are free of Congress,
51:05 – Paul: But if they would, because of the big fear people have of course is with CBDC you have centralized control. People are afraid that at some point it could lead to government’s censoring their expenses or programming their money. When we use stable coins, it’s a little bit more dispersed. A little bit more decentralized.
51:30 — Catherine: Totally, centrally, controlled, but privately with no obligations to the citizen or the Congress or anybody else. So their basically completely out of control. They are not subject to FOIA. They are not subject to reporting. They are not subject to disclosure.
Do you want a global Mafia or the Federal Reserve which is still under the powers of congress. Which do you want?
51:55 – Paul: I would then choose the Federal Reserve.
52:00 – Catherine: I hate to say it this is the first thing I’ve ever seen anybody do that made the FED look good. [Laughs]
52:05 – Paul: That takes something.
52:10 – Catherine: If you come into Solari, we have a panel called video shorties and one of the first playlists is financial transaction freedom. The first three videos are the ones I always show people to help them understand what’s going on. One of them is the president in the Minneapolis Fed saying you know Americans would be crazy to let this happened. CBDCs are terrible, but you know we’ll lose taxation you know they’ll just take the taxes out of our bank account. You don’t want this. So the Fed, you know the FED is slow walking this whole thing, because they know, they can’t really do this unless they get out from under Congress.
52:45 – Paul: So if you could, if you would choose between CBDC, and stable coins everywhere in the US, even you would also choose CBC.
52:55 — Nope, you’re not going to, you can’t make me. [choose between them.]
So you know and this is really funny, because this has happened to me when I was litigating with the Department of Justice. I was told it was hopeless. I had no chanc.e I was going to you know I was going to die. I was going to live in poverty. And um uh and I studied for two and a half years spiritual warfare at a wonderful church. I mean I really got an immersive course in spiritual warfare and what you learn in spiritual warfare? There’s a concept of just standing. When it’s absolutely hopeless and there’s no way you just stand on God’s word. And what happens to you I swear, I wouldn’t have believed it, and I wouldn’t have tried it, if I had any other choice — but suddenly a door opens that wasn’t there. It’s kind of like the universe says okay well we couldn’t trick her on that one…. The technocrats love to do that. Do you want to cut off your right foot? Or do you want to cut off your left foot? It’s like no, I’m not.
54:00 – Paul: Good, Stand your ground and be strong. Any more advice, Catherine you have, for our dear viewers.
54:10 — Catherine: I hate to be totally obsequious, but you know something, you absolutely, if you come to Solari, we have a great old piece but still timely, What percent of my assets should I hold in precious metals? We divide precious metals into a core position and an investment position. Right now, you know everybody 100% should have a core position, well with some rare exceptions, but right now, I’ve never seen gold look more attractive as an investment position as well. So I appreciate you, I appreciate Holland Gold, but precious metals for a variety of political and economic reasons I think is going to do very well. If somebody’s not familiar with precious metals, they need to start learning. I tell everybody never touch precious metals until you’ve gotten yourself a really good education on what it is. How it works. How given what you need, where you want to own it, how you want to own it, what you want to own, so it’s a big topic. But you know the time has come and there are a lot of good people who’ve been building businesses to help you with this. What I’m saying is good for Holland Gold but Holland Gold could be very good for you. So get that education. Start thinking about precious metals.
55:30 – Paul: Well, thanks so much for the recommendation, Catherine. People can definitely also educate themselves on many different topics from investing to health to spiritual awareness going to Solari of course. So could you give the website where people can find you?
55:45 – Catherine: So we’d love to have you as a subscriber. We have a lot of free introductory content if you want to just first get to know us. It’s at solari.com — s o l a r i.com You’ll find everything there.
56:00 – Paul: You also have regularly organize meetups for people.
56:05 – Catherine: I wish you could have come. We had the most wonderful, a lot of people brought their kids, so we had some, not too young, we had a lot of you know college kids. And that age. We had people from Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, and the great one, we had somebody come from Sardinia sat down turned and introduced himself to the person next to him. They were also from Sardinia and they never met before they were like what what a freaking coincidence. Or Providence. Well if you want to have a successful life right now, you have to find like-minded people, you have to find people who want to be free. Who really work at being free. Enjoy helping and collaborating with other people who want to be free.
Paul: Totally agree Catherine thanks so much for all your insights and all the work you do. Perhaps next time we can do it again in your office.
Catherine: Keep in touch thank you Paul have a wonderful day.
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I really love this paragraph because Jeff Childers ‘gets it’
To say that London is the world’s globalization headquarters is like saying the Mouse lives at Disney World. London has been the velvet-gloved epicenter of globalism ever since the East India Company shipped spices and opium on the same manifest. London’s financial class didn’t just benefit from globalization— they practically wrote the instruction manual. For them to start hand-wringing now about “mass immigration” and “no benefits from free trade” is a sign the ground is shaking beneath the WEF cathedral.
When looking at new information and ideas, it is always useful to see how it fits into past knowledge and history. In this case it is useful to look at the ending of the British East India Co. and the British actions in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899 -1902.) That was a war over resources, such as diamonds and gold.
I want to reiterate what my South African friend told me on Sunday, March 16. First if I understood her correctly the South African area was NOT occupied by Blacks when the Dutch originally settled there. The Dutch (Boers) colonized it. Second she told me that DURING THE Second Boer War, the British took women and children prisoners AND FED THEM FOOD LACED WITH GLASS SO THEY DIED LINGERING, HORRIBLE, PAINFUL DEATHS!! Colonel Towner also mentioned that the Brits took women and children prisoner tortured and slaughtered them.
…According to the historian Madhusree Mukerjee, the colonial regime practically eliminated Indian tariffs, allowing British goods to flood the domestic market, but created a system of exorbitant taxes and internal duties that prevented Indians from selling cloth within their own country, let alone exporting it. This unequal trade regime crushed Indian manufacturers and effectively de-industrialized the country. [Sound familiar? — GC]
As the chairman of East India and China Association boasted to the English parliament in 1840: “This company has succeeded in converting India from a manufacturing country into a country exporting raw produce.” English manufacturers gained a tremendous advantage, while India was reduced to poverty and its people were made vulnerable to hunger and disease.
To make matters worse, British colonisers established a system of legal plunder, known to contemporaries as the “drain of wealth.” Britain taxed the Indian population and then used the revenues to buy Indian products – indigo, grain, cotton, and opium – thus obtaining these goods for free. These goods were then either consumed within Britain or re-exported abroad, with the revenues pocketed by the British state and used to finance the industrial development of Britain and its settler colonies – the United States, Canada and Australia. [Except those colonies were ALSO suffering under British mercantilism. -GC]
This system drained India of goods worth trillions of dollars in today’s money. The British were merciless in imposing the drain, forcing India to export food even when drought or floods threatened local food security. Historians have established that tens of millions of Indians died of starvation during several considerable policy-induced famines in the late 19th century, as their resources were syphoned off to Britain…
The template described above is similar to the template in use today. I wrote the following two decades ago:
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The 1944 Breton Woods Agreement (written by a Soviet spy and the Fabian, John Keynes) established the IMF and the World Bank because “The stock of gold grew slowly but the stocks of dollars and pounds could grow without limit. Member countries accepted the obligation to treat the two alike. In practice this meant they had to accept inflation or appreciate their exchange rate.” The IMF/World Bank used Structural Adjustment Policies, SAPs, to open up countries to exploitation by corporations. Instead of a British Empire overtly colonizing the world, heavily criticized by a voting public, we now have Corporate and Banking interests united in the covert control of whole nations in the name of profit.
Structural Adjustment Policies are economic policies which countries must follow in order to qualify for new World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and help them make debt repayments on the older debts owed to commercial banks, governments and the World Bank. Although SAPs are designed for individual countries they have common guiding principles and features which include export-led growth; privatisation and liberalisation; and the efficiency of the free market.
SAPs often result in deep cuts in programmes like education, health and social care…
A former respected member of international banking, John Perkins, said this in “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”and in interviews.
JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring – to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud…
John Perkins states he was initially recruited by the National Security Agency, a US Government agency. I contend these were not from our legitimate government elected by the US citizens but traitors representing banking interests. Perkins writes, “The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits – Jaime Rolds, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternityof corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Rolds and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.” Perkins “ fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire” is certainly not representing the American people, but a cartel intent on a worldwide empire.
American corporations have been quietly sold off piece by piece. This is a sampling of the industries with over 50% foreign ownership, according to Source Watch in 2008 Foreign Ownership of US Corporations
Also Perkins neglects to mention the activities of the CIA.
…White House and Intelligence Community stated concerns during the period of the Church and Pike inquiries were preserving the effectiveness of the CIA and reassuring future operatives who might fear their “heads may be on the block” for their actions, no matter how well-intentioned. But intelligence officials also worried that disclosures of agency operations would be “disastrous” for CIA’s standing in the world: “We are a great power and it is important that we be perceived as such,” a memo to the president warned, urging that “our intelligence capability to a certain extent be cloaked in mystery and held in awe.”
In 1975, it was then-Deputy Chief of Staff Dick Cheney who spearheaded the Ford White House’s hostile approach to Congress, which required the CIA to submit all proposed responses to Capitol Hill for prior presidential approval and featured the explicit intent to keep investigators away from the most sensitive records. Those events presaged the battles between the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the U.S. Intelligence Community since 2012 over plans to publish the former’s 6,000-page report on the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program…
This continuing fight against America by the rogue Intelligence Community is a feature of today’s political landscape.
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The big take away from this next article is that public perception was a major factor in the downfall of the British East India Co. I think this is KEY. The ‘International Syndicate’ aka Cabal wants to fly under the radar of both the public and of politicians to prevent a repeat. Complete control of the media in the USA, starting in 1915; Off the books operations of the CIA especially after the Church Commission tried to aired the CIA’s dirty linen (see above); and assassination of anyone who wanders too far off the International Syndicate’s Plantation; has kept knowledge of the International Syndicate off everyone’s radar until Operation Gladio was finally revealed by the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in an official statement to the Italian parliament. Operation Gladio – Hard Evidence of Government Sponsored False Flag Terrorism
The EIC had many enemies, not only rival European trading companies and rulers in India but also back in Britain. It was criticised for its monopolies, harsh trading terms, and corruption. The company’s trade was so large it was responsible for a serious drain of Britain’s stock of silver. Its directors returned to England with vast new wealth that upset the established hierarchy of British society. This nouveau riche was disparagingly called ‘nabobs’…
The 1773 Regulating Act resulted in changes…. The greater interest the British government began to take in India was likely a direct result of the loss of its colonies in North America in 1783…
…Once again, prominent members of the British Parliament were aghast at lurid tales of the EIC’s policies in India, and many sought to bring the company under much greater scrutiny and control. Reform was not straightforward, though, when dealing with such a commercial giant. Many MPs remained in EIC employ or were shareholders (23% in the 1770s). Further, the British monarchy was not in favour of infringing on private property. Still, the burning question of the day was why was this private company with private interests being allowed to conduct itself like a state but without any of the constraints of an electorate or any of the scruples of justice.
The atmosphere of the time was relevant here. Political philosophers were now influencing politicians in Britain with their thoughts on the importance of individual liberty, government by consent, and rule through justice….
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After the mutiny was quashed, the sentiment in Britain was that such an important colony as India could no longer be left in the hands of a private company. The general mood was captured by the Illustrated London News in the following article extract of July 1857:
The state of affairs in India may well exercise the alarm of the nation…Our house in India is on fire. We are not insured. To lose that house would be to lose power, prestige, and character – to descend in the rank of nations…Whether it were desirable that we should win India by the sword is no longer a question. Having won it we must keep it. (Barrow, 167-8)
The British Crown took full possession of EIC territories in India with the Government of India Act of 2 August 1858. The EIC armies were absorbed into the British Army, and the EIC navy was disbanded. The most aggressive and utterly ruthless private company ever yet created was effectively nationalised…
Read that last sentence again. “The most aggressive and utterly ruthless private company ever yet created was effectively nationalised…” So the British East India Company didn’t actually die it just morphed into part of the British government. Then after WWII British/City of London mercantilism was outsourced to NATO and the Brit’s favorite slave colony, the USA.
….Internationaldevelopmentprogramscouldpresentthemodernisationandexpansionofsecurityinfrastructureasgrowingstability [When in fact it increased destabilization which was its entire goal so the ‘International Syndicate’s’ oligarchs could steal these people’s resources. That is what it was really for and to put down any dissidents while they were being raped and stuff was being pillaged out of their country. -GC] and preventing crime in these nations, without the bad optics of the CIA or the military [involvement.]
Aubergine on April 1, 2025 brought an article to the Qtree that starts with this:
“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way. If foreign societies are also entering a Fourth Turning, this could accelerate the chain reaction. At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” –The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe
I think the author is correct that the risk of much death and destruction is high, but IMO it is because the CABAL is responsible for perpetuation of the 80 year turnings, on which they feed and thrive.
This turning is about disempowering the Cabal. It may be different in some new ways.
Another aspect of this risk is what the Colonel and Alpha address in the transcript I present today.
Cutting off the funding to the CIA/NATO Werewolf Units aka Stay-behind Units, is a major start but REMOVING/WIPING OUT those units is paramount. With Elon now in the CIA, he may be able to turn up the data on the Werewolf Units under the CIAs control.
Thomas Wictor (Carlos Osweda) mentioned during the George Floyd riots, that he thought tiny drones were being used to track the ANTIFA ring leaders. I certainly hope he is correct. Getting rid of the imported terrorist illegals is also going to help. Unfortunately the Cabal has had four years to import Werewolf Units, train them, equip them and hide them.
patfrederick brings a NebraskaFilly comment to the Qtree onApril 7, 2025.
“DC Cop Getting a Pass for Drugs, Guns Should Raise Major Questions” Bearing Arms, Tom Knighton | 4:30 PM | April 06, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “I’m not anti-cop by any stretch of the imagination. I happen to know for a fact that there are good cops out there. I was raised by one, may he rest in peace. I’ve known plenty in my life. I’ve known a bunch that were on the opposite end of the spectrum, too, though most are somewhere in between the angels and the devils, like most people. But what bothers me is how police often get preferential treatment on things. Cops often look the other way when one of their fellow officers are driving too fast or roll through a stop sign. Of course, this kind of thing bothers me far more.
A D.C. police officer once celebrated as a community leader was pulled over and detained in Prince George’s County with guns and drugs inside his car — but is only being cited for traffic violations.
Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith confirmed Thursday the detention of Officer Maleek Isaiah Loggins, 22, which had taken place the day before in District Heights, Maryland.
She said his police powers have been suspended as the D.C. department conducts its own investigation into the incident.
MPD said Officer Loggins worked as a patrol officer. He became a sworn officer in March 2024.
A Prince George’s County police report obtained by The Washington Times said Officer Loggins was pulled over at about 3:20 p.m. after authorities witnessed him “committing traffic violations” near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Silver Hill Road.
The report said Officer Loggins was ordered out of the car, and a search of his vehicle turned up a Glock pistol with a 10-round magazine, and a Draco handgun — which mimics the look of an AK-47 — with a 24-round magazine.
Authorities said Officer Loggins also had 27.5 grams of marijuana in his car, which falls short of the 1.5 ounce criminal threshold for marijuana possession in the state, as well as a digital scale.
The report said the MPD officer was detained, handcuffed, and processed for multiple traffic-related offenses, and then released pending further investigation.
Now, let’s break this down. First, I get that the drugs were below the threshold, but in case you don’t have the conversion of grams to ounces handy, it was only short by less than a gram. Maybe it’s just me, but that could be a scale calibration issue. Either way, the law is the law. But because the law is the law, we have to remember that possession of a firearm by someone who uses drugs–even marijuana, mind you, regardless of state laws on the subject–is a felony. “Tom, that’s a federal charge. Local cops can’t file those charges unless there’s a corresponding state law.” That is true, and I haven’t bothered to look to see if Maryland has one, which is where Prince George’s County is, has one. But they do have a magazine capacity limit of just 10 rounds. The Draco had a 24-round magazine. They had grounds to charge him. Except for the fact that he’s a cop and they get special treatment. The laws don’t apply to someone like him as they would to you or me in Prince George’s County. So, they just wrote him a traffic ticket and sent him on his way. These are the gun control laws that we’re all supposed to follow. These are the laws we’re assured are absolutely essential to keeping us all safe. But they don’t apply to law enforcement officers because they’re better than us. They get different rules because they’re special. Well, I’m not walking around with marijuana in my vehicle, much less an amount that’s a skooch under the legal limit and trusting my badge to keep me out of trouble. What happened here should raise a lot of questions, including why laws that are supposedly so essential aren’t applied to everyone equally. Unfortunately, no one in Maryland or DC will be interested in asking those.”
Colonel Towner (above) sheds a lot of light on why police officers may be given a free pass in the following video. In this Operation Gladio video the Colonel turned up another danger point I never anticipated. Alpha Warrior, is not only a retired Marine he is also a fired LEO. He was fired for being honest BTW and then attacked by the Biden Admin AG/FBI using Lawfare as a ‘potential Domestic Terrorist.’ Keep this in mind as he makes comments on what Colonel Towner is saying.
The Colonel refers to this article, WIKI — Office of Public Safety, as she is talking about the Office of Public Safety. As usual it is a Limited Hangout telling SOME of the story but hiding the fact the actions never stopped. The story told is horrendous enough! Please note the section on the LAPD and also note the LAPD is now allowing NON-CITIZENS on their police force.
OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 47 – “USAID-Office of Public Safety” PART 5 – EP.394
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT
7:00Colonel: I have even shocked myself and I have gotten pretty immune to this stuff. This is crazy. Again I could not be partnered with a better person, because the Office of Public Safety is about policing. It is an oxymoron because it has absolutely nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with torturing and killing. So you would think what has that got to do with policing? Well you are about to find out!
7:50 — 11:10 Banter about trick Colonel played on Alpha at GART in Los Vegas.
11:10Colonel: Pull up Wiki article on Office of Public Safety. I want people to understand the limits. We are going to do a tutorial just using Wiki to tell you something. Because when we are done tonight we are going to come back to this. I want you to compare what they are telling you is the Office of Public Safety to what I am going to explain to you is the Office of Public Safety.
READS:
The Office of Public Safety (OPS) was a U.S. government program within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that provided training, assistance and equipment to the security forces of U.S. allies. The program commenced in November 1962 and was terminated by Congress in 1974.
12:10 Colonel: You would think anything that happened before 1962 would have nothing to do with the Office of Public Safety and that we did not do any of these kinds of things. And that after 1974 they terminated it. They actually said you could not do it any more because of how bad it is. So that does not mean we did not do it. It [the wiki article] implies that it went away.
READS:
…Police assistance projects overseas had been established by the Eisenhower administration…
12:40 Colonel: Hey but wait a minute, Eisenhower was not in charge in 1962. How did that happen? Under the guise of ‘Police Reform’ Byron Engle, served from 1962 to 1973. Basically this guy was in charge of it.
Well, who is Byron Engle?
Byron Engle was hired by basically a Democrat Mafia Boss in Kansas City to be a police officer in Kansas City. And he goes on to become the head of this Office of Public Safety AND WAS IN FACT A CIA OFFICER.
To Alpha. If you can pull up that document I sent, this is what verifies the fact that Byron Engle was not just a cop. He was a CIA asset.
Alpha then reads the memorandum
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DOCUMENT SHOWN @ 13:56.
In readable form from The “Family Jewels” Report @ https://www.newsfollowup.com/docs/obama/family_jewels_ps607-613_ocr.pdf
The CIA Reading room refuses to cough up a copy and instead shows a different document.
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14:50 Alpha ends with the sentence: “This phase of the training is concluded by a two day orientation by the Bomb Squad of the DADE County Police Department in Florida.”
15:00 Colonel: What Dade county, you mean where the largest CIA domestic training facility is? Where they were training people to do bombs that were [QUOTE] Cuban Exiles [UNQUOTE to provide the False flag excuse] for attacking Cuba? Yeah that exact same place.
15:25 Alpha: That was the same one where Bad Boys, Bad Boys, with Will Smith and Martin Laurence operate out of. LINK And it is all about corruption in law-enforcement administration.
[Goes to page two and reads]
“….. Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving practical experience with both manufactured and improvised devices through actual fabrication. ….”
16:40Colonel: So now you get the idea of the type of training we are talking about. Actually blowing shit up. The Office of Public Safety is teaching people at a police academy in Washington DC with a field trip to Miami on how to blow shit up and set booby traps.
Does that sound like safety to you?
17:05 Alpha: That does not even sound like police work to me!
17:10Colonel: Correct. It gets better. Let me read to you a letter that was written from Lyman Kirkpatrick who was the executive Directer, the #3 guy at the CIA to Byron Engles. Dated 21 June 1963, at the beginning,
Dear Byron,
I have received some rather disturbing information on the status of a police academy in Panama. Which may or may not be accurate please look into it. First I am told that General Mammira had agreed to make other … buildings [available]…. On the basis of the knowledge it would be in the government’s best interest to keep the academy on the fort. Second I understand that the accommodations… talks of air conditioning… on the first floor where they put non-americans is not air-conditioned. Third, I understand that in billeting and messing arrangements, the Latin attendees are saying there is no distinction made for rank. That you are messing and billeting colonels with non-coms. That’s not OK. Four, and finally I am told that the administrative support staff of the academy could be improved by an aggressive support or supply officer who could beg, borrow or scrounge what ever was required.
And then it is signed by the CIA director, basically implying that the guy is working for him, when supposedly USAID is an independent organization. Unless it is a CIA front which I have been saying all along.
19:25 Alpha:There is no way you are training together unless you are going to be doing future collaborations. [Remember this statement when I go into Fusion Centers. -GC]
19:30 Colonel: Now that we have established who this guy is, let’s go back to Wiki. It goes on to say: [The Colonels comments are in [brackets] – GC]
Police assistance projects overseas had been established by the Eisenhower administration, but military intervention and covert action by the CIA was the primary method of addressing communist groups and other subversives in poor and recently decolonised countries. [You know like the entire continent of Africa] In the 1950s and 60s, covert action was increasingly unsuccessful, [I do not know what they mean by unsuccessful because they had over thrown by that time, by the 1960s, at least 20 different countries.] the most infamous example being the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. [4] [Yes, they screwed that up, but all the rest of them were sucessful.] Already a proponent of modernization theory and international development programs as an alternative method of combating the spread of Communism, Kennedy was receptive to the efforts of national security advisor Robert W. Komer [that guy himself could take an entire show. He was complerely corrupt. He was the guy who basically setup the phoenix program. Again a policing program out of Michigan State which we are going to get to. ALPHA: When you look at his Wiki page, his nickname is Blowtorch Bob Colonel: Komer is the one who told Kennedy that it would be a great idea to set-up this office of Public Safety. So you go on down ] …..International development programs could present the modernisation and expansion of security infrastructure as growing stability [When in fact it increased destabilization which was its entire goal so the ‘International Syndicate’s’ Oligarchs could come in and steal these peoples resources. That is what it was really for and to put down any dissidents while they were being raped and stuff being pillaged out of their country.] …. In a document drafted to launch the concept of the OPS, the USAID expressed concern over the optics of white American soldiers killing non-white dissidents: “In countering insurgency, the major effort must be indigenous. . . . In internal war it is always better for one national to kill another than for a foreigner—especially one with a different skin coloration to do so”
Colonel: So the whole purpose of the Office of Public Safety was to go in and train, under the guise of a national guard or a national police force, killers to put down their own citizens.
22:30 Alpha: An important statement that you read Colonel and I will quote it — “In countering insurgency, the major effort must be indigenous.” — If that is how they feel about other countries, that is exactly how they would deploy in our own country.
22:50 Colonel reads: –“The OPS operated in at least fifty-two countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas.” — It was actually about 90. As a matter of fact, there is a weird overlap of the 90 we have over thrown and the 90 that the OPS was present in.
She reads: — “In total, it provided over $200M of USAID and CIA funds to recipient countries in weaponry, communications equipment and tactical equipment.” — Wait a minute “weaponry, communications equipment and tactical equipment’ sounds an awful lot like stay-behind Units, right?
She reads: — “Its other functions were to facilitate the planting of CIA operatives within police forces of at-risk regions” –so it is an apparatus that allows the infiltration of CIA into police forces. GOSH! If they do it there, don’t you think they do it HERE?
23:50Alpha: You knew that part was going to give me goosebumps… HOLY SMOKES!
24:15 Colonel reads: — “A total of 1500 advisers were deployed overseas, reaching over a million police officers.[11] Alongside training, the OPS provided US-made equipment to overseas police forces, creating an aftermarket for upgrades and parts.” — And again this creates an industry. It creates a demand for our Military-industrial complex to provide the equipment because if we are over their training on it they are going to buy our shit. So this is basically salesmen going into a country and selling arms for the defense industry.
24:45 Colonel: a little bit about that international police academy you just read about. This is the one set-up in DC.
The OPS-operated International Police Academy (IPA) was instituted in 1963, and provided training to 7500 senior officers from seventy-seven countries in total.[1][15] Its first class included sixty-eight police officers from seventeen different nations.[16] The officers were trained at the Georgetown Car Barn in Washington, D.C.[17] Until the early 1970s, selected candidates could also receive training from CIA officers at the U.S. Border Patrol academy in Los Fresnos, Texas, including the making of bombs and incendiary devices.
24:45: Colonel: “.. the U.S. Border Patrol academy in Los Fresnos, Texas…” That is another one of the bomb and incendiary devices that we found during Operation Gladio [in Italy] They were bringing people as early as the immediate aftermath of WWII to this location in Texas. Some of the OAS agents, some of the Otto Skorzeny trained Gladio Assassins, and teaching them how to build bombs. That is what they were doing in this place in Texas. This are the same things, we are talking about Gladio here. Once you read thru this the parallels to Gladio are glaring….
26:20 Colonel: Read the next part, the role of LAPD, Alpha.
The OPS conducted a form of international knowledge exchange by recruiting ordinary US police officers for ‘short-term tours of duty’ on overseas police assistance projects. The LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) was a major source of such officers, partly because a significant proportion of them spoke Spanish.[21]
LAPD officers were sent to Venezuela in 1962 to train local police officers and assist them in repression against the Armed Forces of National Liberation (AFNL).[10] Officers were also sent to the Dominican Republic in the same year; there was significant popular unrest following the CIA-backed assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and Dominican police were struggling to keep order and train officers.[22]
27:15 Colonel: LAPD was not the only one, but it was one that was used. So basically they are sending US police officers TDY, to this locations. Wait until you hear what they do. So our police officers were being exposed to the CIA and probably often times recruited into being informants for the CIA while still being police officers. Because we know that hide the drug trafficking and stuff like that and if they catch one of the CIA guys in the drug network, it is just a matter of calling up one of your buddies that went on a deployment with you from the LAPD and saying Dude, he is one of ours leave him alone. That is why they never get prosecuted.
[Now do you know why I wanted to highlight Patfredrick’s comment on DC Cop Getting a Pass for Drugs, Guns Should Raise Major Questions” Bearing Arms, Tom Knighton | 4:30 PM | April 06, 2025? Now does that cop getting a pass make more sense? -GC]
28:05 Alpha: And just so everybody knows, that this really happens, I have been on the receiving end of those phone calls before. Where I was told Hey, and this is from some of the people you have worked with in the federal task force. And they say Hey, you have got one of ours, he is on our paperwork man. So do not hit him with new charges. Do what you are doing but don’t do this. And you are taking it like this. I have known this guy for years, we have been on teams together, I have got one of their informants. I do not want to compromise their informant. I do not want to compromise their investigation, so of course you go along with it.
And then you have to look back and wonder, did I stop one of their Gladio assets. And more scary than that colonel, LAPD is one of the police department here in California that is giving badges to people who are NOT US CITIZENS.
29:05 – 29:30 Colonel:After they train people in foreign countries to do all kinds of horrendous things.…
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I am stopping only one third of the way through because I want to bring even more information to the table. 9-11 was used as an excuse for the federal government to get their sticky fingers into our local police forces.
“Fusion Centers” are terrorism response and prevention centers designed to promote information sharing about potential threats between federal, state and local law enforcement officers. [1] They were started as a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007. According to the DOJ, “a fusion center is an effective and efficient mechanism to exchange information and intelligence, maximize resources, streamline operations, and improve the ability to fight crime and terrorism by merging data from a variety of sources.”[2]
Although the centers may have started in an attempt to gather criminal intelligence data, the fusion centers have continually focused on public and private sector data, raising many concerns about the privacy rights of Americans. [3]
As of July 2009, there were 72 designated fusion centers with 36 field representatives deployed. Department of Homeland Security has given more than $254 million to support fusion centers from FY 2004-2007. [4] The stimulus package gave $250 million to upgrade, modify and construct state and local fusion centers. [5] With the exception of Idaho and Pennsylvania, every state has at least one fusion center (if not more, as is the case with Texas). [6] State and local police departments provide both space and resources for the majority of fusion centers, and centers may be staffed by DHS employees, local police, or the private sector. [7]
Criticism of Fusion Centers: Overreaching and Lack of Oversight
Critics of fusion centers worry about the secrecy and lack of regulation or authority over individual centers, as well as the privacy intrusions that can arise from this lack of oversight.
The federal role in supporting fusion centers consists of providing financial assistance, primarily through the Homeland Security Grant Program, as well as security clearances, providing congressional authorization and appropriation of national foreign intelligence program resources, and some training.[8] States have been using local, state, and federal funds since 2004 to create fusion centers, but no standards or guidelines have been in existence to assist with interoperability and communication issues between centers at the regional, state, and federal levels. [9]. Most significantly, there has been a marked lack of regulation and federal oversight over individual fusion centers.
Both the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Research Service have told Congress the need for more oversight in fusion centers. [10] A Congressional Research Service Report highlights the lack of focus of fusion centers on actual terrorism. “The centers “have increasingly gravitated toward an all-crimes and even broader all-hazards approach,” focusing on traditional criminals and local emergencies, according to a report this month by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).” [11] The CRS Report further found “little true fusion, or analysis of disparate data sources, identification of intelligence gaps and pro-active collection of intelligence.” [12]
The DOJ and Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) have recently developed fusion center guidelines in response to these criticisms.[2]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) highlights five problem areas regarding fusion centers: ambiguous lines of authority, private sector participation, military participation, data fusion/data mining, and excessive secrecy. [13]…
Insurrection Barbie I was curious as to how the United States can continue to engage in proxy wars without an official war declaration from Congress so I finally did the research.
You’ve heard of the CIA’s covert ops. But you may not know about Section 127e—the Pentagon’s shadow authority to fund, arm, and direct foreign proxy forces with almost no oversight. And it’s how the U.S. runs wars you never hear about.
What is Section 127e? It’s a legal authority buried in the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Full name: 10 U.S. Code § 127e – Support of Special Operations for Irregular Warfare.
Passed after 9/11 and expanded under Obama, Section 127e allows U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to: •Fund and train foreign militaries or militias •Embed with them in combat •Launch joint operations •With almost zero transparency
These aren’t advisors. Under 127e, U.S. forces can command, plan, and direct the actions of foreign troops—without a declaration of war. It turns militias into covert extensions of U.S. Special Forces.
The budget? — Classified. But documents leaked in 2022 revealed that 127e operations had been run in: •Syria •Yemen •Somalia •Niger •Cameroon •Egypt •Tunisia •Afghanistan And elsewhere.
Where does the money go? Not just to the proxies. Huge portions are outsourced to contractors who provide: •Logistics •Intelligence •Weapons •Private airlift •Surveillance •Local “intermediaries”
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Booz Allen Hamilton •Deep ties to DoD, NSA, and SOCOM •Provides SIGINT, surveillance logistics, and battlefield IT for Special Forces •Former employer of Edward Snowden •Has won classified “special access” contracts linked to counterterror ops in Africa and the Middle East
CACI International •Major player in “human terrain mapping” and irregular warfare support •Accused in Abu Ghraib torture-related litigation, but still awarded contracts •Known to work on interrogation, signals intel, and drone ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance)
Leidos •Tech contractor tied to CYBERCOM and Special Operations •Supplies battlefield AI, threat detection systems, and intel fusion platforms used in 127e partner missions
L3Harris •Specializes in tactical communications, ISR drones, and battlefield radar •Linked to 127e-supported drone base operations in Niger and Somalia •Provides real-time targeting support through embedded tech systems
DynCorp (now part of Amentum) •Previously ran covert airlift and logistics for the U.S. in Afghanistan and Africa •Allegedly used to move arms and personnel supporting 127e programs in East Africa and the Sahel
Palantir Technologies •Provides battlefield data fusion and surveillance targeting support •Used to map insurgent networks in real-time •Its software has supported JSOC-led kill/capture missions using 127e-authorized partner forces
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The problem? Congress barely sees any of this. Section 127e funding is hidden in “Overseas Contingency Operations” or “classified annexes” of the defense budget.
There’s no public debate, no war authorization, and no transparency on outcomes or casualties.
This isn’t just a loophole. Section 127e is a deep state weapon—a tool for war without war powers, partnered with defense contractors that profit in the shadows.
Your tax dollars fund secret wars. Corporations get the checks. Congress gets kept in the dark.
The only way to really understand our foreign policy, especially the shadowy foreign policy that operates independently of the executive branch is by: Following Section 127e. Following the classified contracts. Following the bodies buried in black budgets.
I hope this article sheds a bit more light on the Gordian Knot/Ticking bomb that POTUS Trump and his team are dealing with.
My working hypothesis is our enemy are the Brits. Specifically the Fabian Society, The Cecil Rhodes/Milner Round Tables, the Rhodes Scholars, the London School of Economics and Oxford University.
At first I was puzzled by the destruction of the UK via immigration until I realized it was consistent with the Fabian Society desire to destroy our current world, based on Christianity and independent thought, in order to implement their ‘New World Order.’ Note that our most recent illegals are NOT Christians from Central and South America, but non-Christians shipped in from Africa and elsewhere.
“Countless people will hate the new world order and will die protesting against it.” – Fabian Co-Founder, H.G. Wells, The New World Order, 1939
“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by consent or conquest.” – James Paul Warburg [son of Paul Warburg, the author of the Federal Reserve Act] February 7, 1950
Penny Butler of Australia has an excellent compilation such as this (2 minutes)
DrMahathirMohamad former (and longest serving) Prime Minister of Malaysia who for over 40 years as a world leader would have been privy to the highest level international meetings warning at International Conference of the New World Order, in Putrajaya, 2015 of the global elite’s The New World Order and depopulation agenda. Unbelievable.
War_Hamster (Brady) mentioned that Britain actually has 55 votes in the United Nations. So the British Empire has not really died, it has just gone underground as The FiveEyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, shows.
FIVE EYES spying on Trump et al in 2016.
Confirmed…Barack Obama and John Brennan committed Treason.
Some time ago I wrote a piece entitled Q is Real Because Math Says So, in which I demonstrated why we can be mathematically certain that Q is a legitimate insider connected to the Trump administration.
The author goes over why he thinks Q is friend not foe.
Joe Lange another Badlands author wrote Bloody Wonderlandabout the Uranium One deal.
Why did Q say, “It’s a name recognized around the world.”
The Uranium One deal is connected to someone that nobody ever mentions. This drop is dated Nov 2, 2017, just three days before Prince Alwaleed would be arrested in Saudi Arabia along with hundreds of his allies.
That’s also why Q often mentions “Alice and Wonderland.”
Who is Alice?
What is Wonderland?
This is just one of the many Q drops on the day Alwaleed was arrested.
By the time POTUS returns from his trip the world will be a different place. Godfather lll Alice &
WONDERLAND Alice (Lewis Carroll) = The Bloody
WONDERLAND =
[Repost] Why did JK (Jared Kushner) travel to SA (Saudi Arabia) recently? What is SA known for? Where do the biggest donations originate from? Why is this relevant? What else is relevant w/ SA? Safe harbor? Port of transfer? Why was there a recent smear campaign against JK (Jared Kushner) and POTUS? Why is the timing important?
Here’s another Q drop on the day Alwaleed was arrested.
We need to get organized. Things need to be solved to understand what is about to happen. Let’s start w/ Alice & WONDERLAND.
Hillary Clinton in WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll.
Saudi Arabia – the Bloody WONDERLAND. Snow White.
Wizards & Warlocks. Q
Joe Lange then writes:
Who is in control?
Alwaleed was a big puppet master controlling the Obama administration, lots of politicians around the world, big corporations, media and banks. He also controlled the CIA. Removing him from the chessboard threw the enemy into chaos. They’ve been reacting to what’s been happening ever since.
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My question is WHO controls Al Waleed?
So let’s take a look at Al Waleed, Obama’s mentor and part owner of the upper floors of the Mandalay Bay resort, including the 32nd floor, which was involved in the Las Vegas massacre.
Hopefully by now we realize the people we see, like Obama, the Clintons, and perhaps even the Rothschilds are not the true puppet masters but only their visible lieutenants.
From the Bank of England forward all the governments of Europe had central banks for a very good reason. The kings and princes of Europe had learned from hard experience that they could raise the taxes of their subjects only so high and then they had a revolt on their hands and they tended to lose their jobs (and heads). It appears that that natural level was about 40-43%; people will tolerate taxes up to about 40-43% and then they start digging in their heels and they just won’t allow it to go any further.
Griffin was talking about taxes, but it extends to anything the ruling elite want to do that they know the peasants will revolt against. So it is best to let your lieutenants heads roll.
Al Waleed is a grandson of Abdulaziz, the first king of Saudi Arabia, and of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon’s first prime minister…. Al Waleed received a bachelor’s degree in business administrationfrom Menlo College in California in 1979,[30][31] finishing in two-and-a-half years,[1]: 43 and a master’s degree with honors in social science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1985,[32][33] finishing in eleven months.[1]: 57
Lebanese historiography transformed them into a national myth, portraying Khuri and Sulh as the founding fathers of an independent Lebanon, who heroically resisted French occupation in the struggle for their country’s independence and national unity. A third figure, however, is missing in this myth: that of Major-General Edward L. Spears, who played a key role in both events. Footnote1
This article aims to shed light on the unique collaboration between General Spears, the British Minister for Syria and Lebanon, and Riad al-Sulh, independent Lebanon’s first prime minister. The two worked closely during the Second World War to bring an end to the French Mandate and to force France out of a region where it had centuries-old religious, cultural and economic ties. It focuses on the period between February 1942, when General Spears was appointed by Winston Churchill to head the British Mission to Syria and Lebanon, and November 1943, when the Lebanese constitutional crisis effectively concluded France’s control of Lebanon.
To uncover the extent of their collaboration is no easy task, as it was shrouded in secrecy…
So in both cases there was major British influence.
This 730-page history book reads more like a gripping novel, with its protagonist carrying the tale from start to finish. In addition to plotting the course of how myriad Arab provinces came to become the rigid collection of states that we today call the Middle East, Seale also chronicles the life of Lebanon’s prodigal, yet perhaps most important, son: Riad el-Solh.
The life of Lebanon’s first prime minister is recounted from the days of his grandfather Ahmad to his untimely death in Amman in 1951.
Seale, who spent six years researching material for the book, describes a dark and tumultuous period of Arab history, jumping back and forth between the life of his protagonist and the broader events happening at the time, to offer one of the most comprehensive books in English on Arab struggles against Ottoman, Western and now Zionist occupiers.
The book cites countless sources from historical works, intelligence documents and personal accounts to paint what is, at times, a rose-tinted picture of Riad el-Solh’s political life and the role he played in shaping Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Seale portrays Solh as an internationalist, an Arabist, a working class sympathizer, an anti-colonialist, a journalist and a lawyer all in one…. Seale describes Solh’s most significant change of heart, when he started to believe in an independent Lebanon, something that set him apart from his fellow Arab nationalists. From that point onward, the reader follows Solh’s every political maneuver to become the first premier of the country, as he navigates his way past colonial French occupation, hostile Maronite opponents and even his own family members. The chapter describing how he and Bishara el-Khoury, the British-backed first president of Lebanon, battled with the French in the final throws of their colonial project, is separated into rounds — 14 of them, each a page or two long.
Finally, Seale describes how King Abdullah I of Jordan, the great grandfather of the current king, who sought to end the fight with the Zionists, tricked Solh into coming to Amman to mend ties that had deteriorated, only to be assassinated in what Seale suggests was an Israeli plot.
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OIL
Oil is a very big factor. Without oil, Saudi Arabia is just a desert inhabited by a bunch of backward goat herders. Do you really think uneducated Bedouins could setup an oil industry without American or European aid? One interesting tidbit is the mismanagement of oil money causing major headaches for the Saudi Kings. The question then becomes, WHO taught them how to handle money? WHO helped Al Waleed become a multi billionaire?
Colonel Towner has on more than one occasion brought up the corrupt officials within countries that are the puppets of the ‘International Syndicate’ aka GRIFTERS.
“The International Syndicate has dispatched these forces down there (to S. America) to take democracies and dismantle them. In doing so they have to have that powerful elite that we have talked about repeatedly, that are corrupted officials that are on the payroll of the international Syndicate and the CIA. They are the modern day plantation overseers.
So I think Joe Lange has it backwards, Al Waleed is more likely a puppet of the CIA. A very, very useful puppet who got Obama into the White house, helped choose his cabinet AND transformed US Mosques towards radicalism. (Good luck finding a better link anymore!)
…When Ibn Saud established a council of ministers in 1953, Saud became its president, and in November of that year he became king with the support of his brothers.
He continued his father’s program of modernization, with special emphasis on increased medical and educational facilities. Domestic affairs, however, were overshadowed by a crisis in the administration of the central government; in the early 1950s the first large-scale petroleum royalties began to be received, and financial and administrative affairs became too complex to be conducted simply on the personal authority of the king. Saud had neither the ability nor the inclination to cope with these problems, and he so mismanaged the financial affairs of the state that he was forced to reconstitute the council of ministers and give full executive powers to Faisal as its president. Saud did not regain executive authority until 1960….
Saud abdicated in 1964 and Faisal who became king was assassinated by a nephew in 1975. Faisal instigated theOil Embargo of 1973–1974. If you actually believe that the Rockefellers were NOT behind that embargo that started the steep rise of oil prices we are still seeing… Well I suggest you read:
….the shortages of petroleum which have been artificially created in the US has made us dependent on foreign oil. In order to calm an angry public, there has been much talk of taking off the political restrictions and achieving “energy independence”. It is strictly a smokescreen. While talking independence, the Rockefeller conspirators are planning to keep us dependent on foreign oil. After all, they own or market most of that foreign oil.
In the Wall Street Journal for March 6, 1974, Henry Kissinger admitted the talk about “energy independence” was a fraud. Project Independence is merely a weigh station on the road to a new Project Interdependence and at the World Energy Conference in Detroit during September 1974, President Ford, speaking without any detectable ventriloquist’s strings, declared:
“I call on all of you to respond to the challenge and to propose to the world your recommendations for a global energy strategy. Whether you call it Project Interdependence, or some other name, is not the essential point.”
It is the “interdependence” which is essential. The created crises in energy, food, and population are straw men, set up by the Insiders so they can be knocked down and a “New World Order” can be established.
You can see why POTUS Trump’s ‘Drill baby DRILL’ causes panic in the hearts of the globalists.
The above quote is disputed but this quote is directly from David Rockefeller’s 2011 “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House
BTW, most of Faisal’s sons attended university abroad at either Cambridge or Oxford or US Ivy League schools. LINK Also of interest,Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Alwaleed’s father, was Saudi Arabia’s finance minister during the early 1960s.
Another interesting tidbit from my old notes:
SHELL OIL OWNERSHIP Shell Oil (and BP and the Rockefellers) have been pushing global warming since day one when they provided the initial funding for the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia. The Dutch royal family (The House of Orange) is still reportedly the biggest shareholder in the Dutch part of the group, although the size of its stake has long been a source of debate. The Queen of England is also a major stockholder link and Scuttlebutt and more Scuttlebutt.
Another major stockholder is the Rothschilds, along with the Rockefellers.. The Rothschild Investment Trust was formed in 1988 => RIT Capital Partners. Rockefellers and Rothschilds Unite
With 261 billion barrels of crude oil lying beneath its soil, Saudi Arabia remains the lynch pin in the international oil grab presided over by the Four Horsemen of oil (ExxonMobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco & Royal Dutch/Shell). As Joseph Story, Middle East analyst and former ARAMCO executive once said, “Only one factor is involved in where the price of oil is going to go, and that is Saudi Arabia”….
According to Platt’s Oilgram News, Saudi ARAMCO also supplies Big Oil with discount crude, giving them $5/barrel off the posted spot price of whichever grade of crude the Horsemen are buying. ARAMCO official James McPherson resigned in disgust because the company was holding back from direct competition with the US Horsemen. McPherson then revealed a $17 million ARAMCO tax fraud to Saudi authorities.
Abdullah Tariki, Saudi Director of Petroleum and Minerals, went public with the charges and announced new transit fees that would be charged the Horsemen to compensate for the rip-off. Within days of the proclamation Tariki was driven from office by King Fahd [1982 –2005] himself. [110]
ARAMCO’s lawyer was John McCloy, who chaired both Chase Manhattan and the World Bank. McCloy, who helped David Rockefeller wisk the Shah out of Tehran, was one of six “Wise Men” who advised President Johnson and was an influential member of the Warren Commission, which “investigated” the Kennedy assassination.…
John McCloy was another very interesting character.
According to WIKI:
He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson. In this capacity he dealt with German sabotage and political tensions in the North Africa Campaign. He was both the prime mover of Japanese internment[2] as well as a high-ranking Federal bureaucrat who opposed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[3][4] After the war, he served as the president of the World Bank,U.S.High Commissioner for Germany, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Warren Commission, and a prominent adviser to all presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.
McCloy was a member of a foreign policy group called “The Wise Men“.
…Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, and specifically those efforts to support the nation’s aerospace industry and boost the economy through arms exports, has generated its fair share of barking dogs. For Mourinho, it was his seemingly boundless self-belief. For the United Kingdom, national security has been the overriding factor that has allowed our particular caravan to carry on its journey.
The heavy lifting required to achieve closer integration falls to the triumvirate of the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, and the Department for International Trade. When it comes Saudi Arabia, the 2006 deliberations of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Attorney General also have an important role to play. It is a well-coordinated and focused effort across Government designed to give the commercial sector the freedom of action they require to ensure security and deliver prosperity.
…the UK-Saudi relationship should be seen as a model of how Government integration can deliver both security and prosperity. Both are issues that cannot be ignored in today’s volatile and unpredictable world. This article will examine the UK-Saudi relationship, specifically the efforts to support the nation’s aerospace industry and boost the economy through arms exports.1
Britain is not alone in its determination to keep the Saudi caravan rolling along. There are clear tensions in the United States where President Biden’s ‘recalibration’ towards Saudi Arabia is a far cry from candidate Biden’s rhetoric on the campaign trail when he vowed to make them ‘the pariah that they are. It is the view of Frederick Kempe, President of the Atlantic Council, that when it comes to Saudi Arabia, ‘it is better to have a flawed or deeply flawed ally than an adversary’. He is keen to emphasise that the return of Great Power competition means Saudi Arabia could turn to Russia or China should the West abandon its support. Deeply flawed or not, the 2018 UK Saudi Arabia Joint Communique is a clear sign of how the UK intends to maintain its relationship with the Kingdom.
Fusion – Three Years and Counting
The 2018 National Security Capability Review is a useful place to remind ourselves of the UK’s National Security Objectives. Number one is to protect our people (at home, in our overseas territories and abroad, and to protect our territory, economic security, infrastructure and way of life). Number two is to project our global influence – reducing the likelihood of threats materialising and affecting the UK, our interests, and those of our allies and partners. National Security Objective Three is to promote our prosperity – seizing opportunities, working innovatively and supporting UK industry.2 So there we have it, economic security, threats against the UK and supporting UK industry are the building blocks that form the foundations of the UK’s seemingly unbreakable relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Khashoggi – when Dodging a Bullet is not the same as Ducking the Issue
The UK’s relationship with Saudi Arabia has not been perfectly smooth and the UK has not remained silent at every turn. In 2019, Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan called the mass execution of 37 mainly Shiah Muslims as ‘repulsive’ and ‘utterly unacceptable in the modern world’. Britain’s response to the murder of [Jamal] Khashoggi was not quite so stinging. This is despite the fact that the CIA concluded that the operation was approved at the highest levels by Mohammed bin Salaman (MBS). For anyone who felt that the UK had dodged a multi-million-pound export-laden bullet by ignoring MBS’ involvement, Dominic Raab was able to clarify that situation. He told Parliament that the Government had not ducked the issue, and stressed the point that even the United States had not brought any sanctions to bear against MBS. Case closed as they say.
Conclusion
Despite the UK’s long-standing relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, it has been an increasingly challenging journey, one not helped by Saudi’s involvement in the war in Yemen since 2105. By integrating and coordinating various offices of state, the UK Government has successfully provided the private sector the freedom of manoeuvre it needs to sell arms and military aid. Although the MOD has several personnel advising the KSA, it is the use of private contractors that allow the UK to operate at range; not taking part in the war in Yemen but facilitating the Kingdom to continue its Iran-facing operations. This is a potent and effective mix and one that demonstrates that the UK has, at least in the case of Saudi Arabia and the war in Yemen, achieved a truly integrated approach and certainly a model for the future. Perhaps this is a model that is already being reshaped? Prime Minister’s Johnson’s response to the Liaison Committee following the sale of Britain’s largest chip-making plant, Newport Wafer Fab, to a Chinese firm was simply that he did ‘not want anti-China spirit to pitchfork away every investment from China in this country.’ If you were wondering, Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea at the end of 2015. Sometimes the dogs win – don’t be like Jose.
(Maurice Strong, the ‘Father of Global Warming’ worked for Rockefeller’s CalTex in Nairobi. It was the joint venture between the Texas Company and Socal to exploit Saudi oil. LINK)
….Maurice bought the Colorado Land & Cattle Company and its accompanying 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado in 1978 (now owned by the Conservation Fund)….The ranch belonged to Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a man who’s career was started by the Bin Ladens and who [had]strong connections to British intelligence.
… At the ranch there are representatives of many of the world’s religions, spiritual movements, and New Age sects, including the Catholic and Protestant churches, Buddhist monks, and representatives of different variations on Hinduism. A circular temple has been built on the ranch where the missionaries of different religions can contemplate with each other. If you look at the floor plan you’ll see the building is a complex flower (the representatives sit in circles within this flower) within a Celtic Cross/Hindu Kiakra. The latter two represent a divine sexual union. The building seems to be a Rosy Cross, which can be interpreted as having the same meaning….
Jamal Khashoggi was born in 1958 to a well-connected family. His grandfather was Mohammed Khaled Khashoggi, King Abdulaziz Al Saud’s personal doctor. Jamal is also the nephew of late billionaire Adnan Khashoggi.
After graduating from Indiana State University in 1982, Khashoggi quickly launched a career in journalism….
Known for being a vocal critic of Riyadh, Khashoggi used to be a loyalist before Prince Mohammed bin Salman became the crown prince in 2017.
In the 1960’s, Adnan made a name for himself by brokering arms deals between Riyadh and Washington.
Reportedly also having close ties with late Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, Adnan became a prominent figure in Middle East politics.
Adnan was implicated in the Iran-Contra affair and suspected of being the middleman who brokered back-door arms sales to embargoed Iran during the Reagan administration.
In 2015, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal launched a TV station called Al-Arab News and appointed Jamal, his close confidant, as its editor-in-chief.
However, the TV station aired for less than 24 hours before shutting down, citing technical difficulties. Rumors started to circulate that the Saudi government pressured the station into closure after it broadcasted a Bahraini politician from opposition.
According to Jamal’s friends, who spoke to BBC Turkey and wished to remain anonymous, Jamal’s problems began shortly after the Al-Arab News incident.
Jamal was barred from speaking to any news outlets and could not find any work during this time, and chose to self-exile himself to the U.S…
In my opinion Al Waleed was extremely dangerous to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his plans to remove Saudi Arabia from the grip of the ‘International Syndicate.’ Mohammed bin Salman’s plans are not to use Saudi’s oil money to buy influence in the USA or promote touchy-feely causes at home, but to train his people in the sciences and technology and INDUSTRIALIZE so Saudi Arabia can actually join the first world.
Reading between the lines, I think the capture and information extraction from the royal princes probably was actually about finding and eliminating the NATO/CIA trained Stay-behind Units. This would go a very long way to defanging the ‘International Syndicate’s’ control of Saudi Arabia.
I think Jamal Khashoggi was eliminated because he was actually a CIA gun runner just like his uncle and therefore dangerous to the stability of Saudi Arabia. As we are finding out, being a ‘journalist’ is such a useful cover.
These three asset managers didn’t merely participate in corporate governance, they dominated it. Their collective control over trillions of dollars made them the unofficial enforcement arm of the globalist order….
TRADING MAYORS ☙ Tuesday, May 20, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 
Rounding out today’s accountability trifecta, on Sunday the Washington Post ran an intriguing story headlined, “Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions.” The “key check” is a Biden-era rule that forbids Attorneys General from investigating public officials for corruption without first getting permission from the DC field office. You can guess how often that happens.
As one of the diplomatic moves against the project when it nevertheless went ahead, it disapproved of the use of “forced labour” for construction of the canal. Involuntary labour on the project ceased, and the viceroy condemned the corvée, halting the project.
reading it. (skip first 3 minutes of intro)
, You will see there are three natural trade routes. Through the Arctic sea, around the tip of South Africa and around the tip of South America. ALL of these routes are not only long they are nasty and dangerous.
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Schiff, I have a bridge I want to sell! –GC] such as not being subject to bonuses or ranking systems of executive agencies.
WOW: Kevin O'Leary ERUPTS at MSNBC host who tries (and FAILS) to PIN HIM for applauding President Trump's pressure campaign against China!
(Shudder, I was in the towed truck.)
REP. MIKE LAWLER: DOGE IS DOING A TURBOCHARGED FORENSIC AUDIT OF THE ENTIRE GOVT
Bad Boys, Bad Boys
