"Justice" has been one of the themes of my life. It goes right back to my Dad, yelling at the television news when I was a kid over a perceived societal injustice. My Dad is an old fashioned socialist, one who believes in a better world for all, as opposed to a Socialist, who believes that the individual is to be feared and society planned and controlled down to mediocrity.
I recently read an article on Veterans Today about Adolf Hitler that got me thinking. Are we told the truth about who Hitler was, the times he lived in and what he did? I think not.
The answer to the question "Who Decides What is History?" is , in my opinion, those individuals and groups that seek to hide their own historical criminality behind convenient scapegoats.
How do we discern historical reality? Keep an open mind and read all viewpoints, whilst accepting that those who write history may do so with an agenda in mind.
I have copied the first paragraph of the article below to illustrate my point; please do read the whole thing.
When I was twelve years old, I had it out with the Mennonite Elders – I asked why the Devil was not given a fair hearing. I knew he was a villain – everybody knew! – but nowhere in the Bible did I find a forum where the poor sob could argue his case.
I was, in essence, pleading chivalry.
I had been raised to take it for granted that an accused be treated
with fairness and not be dismissed out of hand. As you can imagine,
that argument fell on deaf ears. As a matter of fact, I found myself
under suspicion that Satan himself had infested my mind.
It was an
experience I have never forgotten – my first introduction to the fury
unleashed by conformist belief.
Reason did not enter into it at all.
More decades than I care to admit have turned me into a lady of
decorum, but I still feel inside as I did then – defiant about
unexamined dogma. In my book, it’s just not fair to dump buckets of
slime on a scoundrel without allowing him the slightest chance of
defense.
I have already "shared" this on my Facebook page but I thought it so important that I'd reprint it here. Without breaking the cartel of private interests who issue and control the world money supply (and therefore the world resources), we will forever be doomed to "austerity".
A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes,
says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of
corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S.
Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up
its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American,
Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems
at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a
network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end
the corruption. And she is confident of success.
Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE
journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out
that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and
especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the
international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on
is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she
explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to
dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”
According
to the peer-reviewed paper, which presented the first global
investigation of ownership architecture in the international economy,
transnational corporations form a “giant bow-tie structure.” A large
portion of control, meanwhile, “flows to a small tightly-knit core of
financial institutions.” The researchers described the core as an
“economic ‘super-entity’” that raises important issues for policymakers
and researchers. Of course, the implications are enormous for citizens
as well.
Hudes, an attorney who spent some two decades working
in the World Bank’s legal department, has observed the machinations of
the network up close. “I realized we were now dealing with something
known as state capture, which is where the institutions of government
are co-opted by the group that’s corrupt,” she told The New American
in a phone interview. “The pillars of the U.S. government — some of
them — are dysfunctional because of state capture; this is a big story,
this is a big cover up.”
At the heart of the network, Hudes said,
are 147 financial institutions and central banks — especially the
Federal Reserve, which was created by Congress but is owned by essentially a cartel of private banks.
“This is a story about how the international financial system was
secretly gamed, mostly by central banks — they’re the ones we are
talking about,” she explained. “The central bankers have been gaming the
system. I would say that this is a power grab.”
The Fed in
particular is at the very center of the network and the coverup, Hudes
continued, citing a policy and oversight body that includes top
government and Fed officials. Central bankers have also been manipulating gold prices, she added, echoing widespread concerns that The New American has documented extensively.
Indeed, even the inaccurate World Bank financial statements that Hudes
has been trying to expose are linked to the U.S. central bank, she
said.
“The group that we’re talking about from the Zurich study
— that’s the Federal Reserve; it has some other pieces to it, but
that’s the Federal Reserve,” Hudes explained. “So the Federal Reserve
secretly dominated the world economy using secret, interlocking
corporate directorates, and terrorizing anybody who managed to figure
out that they were having any kind of role, and putting people in very
important positions so that they could get a free pass.”
The shadowy but immensely powerful Bank for International Settlements serves as “the club of these private central bankers,” Hudes continued. “Now, are people going to want interest on their country’s debts to continue to be paid to that group
when they find out the secret tricks that that group has been doing?
Don’t forget how they’ve enriched themselves extraordinarily and how
they’ve taken taxpayer money for the bailout.”
As far as
intervening in the gold price, Hudes said it was an effort by the
powerful network and its central banks to “hold onto its paper currency”
— a suspicion shared by many analysts and even senior government officials.
The World Bank whistleblower also said that contrary to official
claims, she did not believe there was any gold being held in Fort Knox.
Even congressmen and foreign governments have tried to find out if the precious metals were still there, but they met with little success. Hudes, however, believes the scam will eventually come undone.
“This
is like crooks trying to figure out where they can go hide. It’s a
mafia,” she said. “These culprits that have grabbed all this economic
power have succeeded in infiltrating both sides of the issue, so you
will find people who are supposedly trying to fight corruption who are
just there to spread disinformation and as a placeholder to trip up
anybody who manages to get their act together.… Those thugs think that
if they can keep the world ignorant, they can bleed it longer.”
Of
course, the major corruption at the highest levels of government and
business is not a new phenomenon. Georgetown University historian and
Professor Carroll Quigley, who served as President Bill Clinton’s mentor, for example, wrote about the scheme in his 1966 book Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time.
The heavyweight academic, who was allowed to review documents belonging
to the top echelons of the global establishment, even explained how the
corrupt system would work — remarkably similar to what Hudes describes.
"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim,
nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in
private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and
the economy of the world as a whole,” wrote Prof. Quigley, who agreed
with the goals but not the secrecy. “This system was to be controlled in
a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert
by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and
conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International
Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled
by the world's central banks which were themselves private
corporations."
But it is not going to happen, Hudes said — at
least not if she has something do to with it. While the media are
dominated by the “power grabber” network, Hudes has been working with
foreign governments, reporters, U.S. officials, state governments, and a
broad coalition of fellow whistleblowers to blow the entire scam wide
open. There has been quite a bit of interest, too, particularly among
foreign governments and state officials in the United States.
Citing
the wisdom of America’s Founding Fathers in creating a federal system
of government with multiple layers of checks and balances, Hudes said
she was confident that the network would eventually be exposed and
subjected to the rule of law, stopping the secret corruption. If and
when that happens — even if it may be disorderly — Hudes says precious
metals will once again play a role in imposing discipline on the monetary system. The rule of law would also be restored, she said, and the public will demand a proper press to stay informed.
“We’re
going to have a cleaned-up financial system, that’s where it is going,
but in the meantime, people who didn’t know how the system was gamed are
going to find out,” she said. “We’re going to have a different kind of
international financial system.... It’ll be a new kind of world where
people know what’s going on — no more backroom deals; that’s not going
to keep happening. We’re going to have a different kind of media if
people don’t want to be dominated and controlled, which I don’t think
they do.”
While Hudes sounded upbeat, she recognizes that the
world is facing serious danger right now — there are even plans in place
to impose martial law in the United States, she said. The next steps
will be critical for humanity. As such, Hudes argues, it is crucial that
the people of the world find out about the lawlessness, corruption, and
thievery that are going on at the highest levels — and put a stop to it
once and for all. The consequences of inaction would be
disastrous.
Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is currently based in Europe. He can be reached at
anewman@thenewamerican.com.
I have been fascinated by many things in my life but two, in particular, stand out.
Firstly, I have always had a deep interest in the paranormal and the occult. As a child/young adult, one of the deepest mysteries to me was why my family and people I knew didn't seem to be remotely interested in these subjects. Surely, I thought, everybody would be interested in happenings that seemed to defy logic and established knowledge? Sadly, I found people, in general, are closed-minded and apathetic about such things, despite overwhelming evidence that the phenomena exists, despite contradicting scientific laws as we currently understand them.
Many years later, I find attitudes the same. Except, of course, the clandestine elements of the Military Industrial Complex, who I believe to be very interested in these subjects, albeit out of the gaze of the proletariat.
Secondly, I have always had great respect and fascination for individuals who have lived their lives in an unconventional manner. One such individual is Aleister Crowley.
The question, "Who was Crowley" would take many pages to describe and there are many sources out there who will give you an opinion. Here's an example from a so-called UK broadsheet newspaper, masquerading as journalism. Drivel.
This is from Wikipedia, not my most trusted source of information, but a source nonetheless:
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley, c. 1912
Born
Edward Alexander Crowley
12 October 1875 Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Died
1 December 1947 (aged 72) Hastings, East Sussex, England
Aleister Crowley (/ˈkroʊli/KROH-lee; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast 666, was an English occultist, mystic, ceremonial magician, poet and mountaineer, who was responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema.
In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see
himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it
was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century.
Born into a wealthy upper-class family, as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Subsequently he claimed that he was contacted by his Holy Guardian Angel, an entity he named Aiwass, while staying in Egypt in 1904, and that he 'received' a text known as The Book of the Law
from what he claimed was a divine source, and around which he would
come to develop his new philosophy of Thelema. He would go on to found
his own occult society, the A∴A∴ and eventually rose to become a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), before founding a religious commune in Cefalù known as the Abbey of Thelema,
which he led from 1920 until 1923. After abandoning the Abbey amid
widespread opposition, Crowley returned to Britain, where he continued
to promote Thelema until his death.
Crowley was also bisexual, a recreational drug experimenter and a social critic. In many of these roles, he "was in revolt against the moral and religious values of his time", espousing a form of libertinism based upon the rule of "Do What Thou Wilt".[1]
Because of this, he gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime,
and was denounced in the popular press of the day as "the wickedest man
in the world".
Crowley has remained an influential figure and is widely thought of as the most influential occultist of all time. In 2002, a BBC poll described him as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time.[2] References to him can be found in the works of numerous writers, musicians and filmmakers,[3] and he has also been cited as a key influence on many later esoteric groups and individuals, including Grant Morrison, Marilyn Manson, Alan Moore, Kenneth Grant, Kenneth Anger, Jack Parsons, Gerald Gardner, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Jimmy Page[4], Raul Seixas and, to some degree, Austin Osman Spare.[5]
My first exposure to Crowley was his autobiography, "Confessions". An entertaining read it is, although I must admit to only understanding about 50% of it. Here is a biography that I think has some merit for the serious student.
Some sources will tell you that Crowley was some kind of "Antichrist", determined to lead the world into darkness. Most of these sources I have eventually found to originate from a fundamentalist Christian viewpoint, who decry anything as "evil" which contradict the myths of Jesus and the Bible.
His "Do what thou wilt should be the whole of the Law" mantra has been wilfully misunderstood by many as meaning do whatever you like and hang the consequences. Although I am not an expert, a more detailed reading of his voluminous writings indicate that he believed that all individuals have a "destiny" and it was governed by a higher aspect of the self (Crowley called it the "Holy Guardian Angel"). It is the task of us all to communicate with this higher aspect and divine what our purpose is during this incarnation. Commentators who see evil in this philosophy rarely append the line with "Love is the Law, love under Will", which is the full quotation. Of course what he meant by "love" is up for discussion.
Crowley, if he did anything, had the time and money to travel the world experimenting with various religious and spiritual methods and philosophies. He then attempted to distill this into a scientific method that anybody could use to achieve the aim of all religious and spiritual practices since ancient times: to understand the hidden laws of Nature, the Universe and Divinity.
Crowley's (along with Goerge Cecil Jones) occult society, the A:.A:. was formed to allow interested seekers to study and practice these methods. The society published a biannual periodical, the Equinox, the strap-line of which was "The Aim of Religion, The Method of Science".
“Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists
or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough
people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil.
Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have
--- Greatness.”
―
Aleister Crowley
As a parent, I can imagine no anguish greater than losing a young child. This is what happened to Gerry and Kate McCann on 3rd May 2007 when their daughter, Madeleine, disappeared whilst on holiday in Portugal.
The accepted version of events is that Madeleine was abducted by a person or persons unknown. To date, nobody has been convicted of abducting Madeleine and her body, alive or dead, has never been found.
Is it acceptable to question the accepted version of events? Despite the risk of causing distress to the parents I believe it is acceptable given that:
the case has never been solved.
there are investigators who offer another explanation as to what happened that night, based on the available evidence.
One such investigator is Goncalo Amaral. Amaral was originally placed in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine but was later dismissed from the investigation.
Following his dismissal, he resigned from the Police Force and wrote a book about Madeleine's disappearance entitled, "The Truth of the Lie". It is currently not available in the UK and was, as far as I am aware, the subject of an injunction.
There is an in depth summary of the book here and below you can watch a documentary about Amaral's investigation. He is convinced Madeliene died in the apartment she was staying in and was not abducted. The reasons (in brief) are:
Despite intensive border checks following the reported disappearance of Madeleine, no trace of her or her abductor(s) was found.
Amaral believes there are significant inconsistencies in the version of events given by the the McCanns leading up to reporting Madeleine missing.
Two trained sniffer dogs from the UK found traces of blood and a corpse in the flat where the McCanns were staying and in the boot of a car hired by the McCanns, 23 days after Madeleine's disappearance.
Samples of blood were analysed for DNA but results were inconclusive (i.e. for traces of Madeleine) due to the DNA from at least 3 people being present.
Following evidence provided by the sniffer dog team, Gerry and Kate McCann were questioned as suspects. Kate reportedly refused to answer any questions whilst Gerry continually professed innocence.
A family named Smith, holidaying in the same village as the McCanns at the time, were leaving a restaurant at 10pm that night. They reported seeing a man carrying a child walking towards the sea. Later, after seeing Gerry McCann on television carrying one of his children, Mr Smith gave a statement to Portuguese police that he believed the man he saw carrying the child that night to be Gerry McCann.
