Money - The Source of the Evil and our Greatest Hope

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". 

Source: The New American.

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.

In Search of Aleister Crowley

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
Occupation	Occultist, poet, novelist
Spouse(s)	Rose Edith Kelly
Parents	Edward Crowley, Emily Bertha Crowley (neé Bishop)

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

So, genius or devil?

I'll let you decide.  

Do we have the right to ask, "What happened to Madeleine McCann?"

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.

      

   

Madeleine McCann - Body Found?

Stephen Birch, a South African property developer who launched his own investigation into the Maddie McCann disappearance, claims he knows where her body is buried.  He claims it is buried in the grounds of the villa of Robert Murat (initially a suspect), a short distance from where the McCann's were staying when their daughter Maddie disappeared.

Some researchers have cast doubt on the version of events given by the McCanns and the so-called "Tapas 9" concerning the disappearance of Madeleine.

Trade between Portugal and the UK is worth some £7 billion (2009 figures).

This is Kate McCann's reaction to Birch's findings.  If your daughter had disappeared and someone told you he knew where she was buried, would you not at least be interested to find out if his claims had any validity,  particularly if the claims concerned the property of a one-time suspect?  It would be relatively simple, it seems to me, to quickly prove or disprove the claims.

Chris Spivey has two articles on his blog concerning this case, here and here.

NOTE: Although I link to other blogs and information sources, I do not endorse everything written there.  For instance, I do not endorse Spivey's comments regarding Freemasonry and Satanic worship.  As with all information coming from whatever source, you should exercise critical thinking, using your own research and experience to come to an opinion.   
   

Woolwich - Common Sense Views...

WARNING:

Do not open this link if you are offended by the site of blood or bad language.  The blood and gore you see is not present in any of the photographs relating to the Woolwich incident but in photographs of real knife attacks and shootings.

The link opens up the blog of Chris Spivey.

Chris Spivey - The World Put Right.

Woolwich - Stop, Step Back and Think...

All the evidence concerning the events in Woolwich, London, of last week is what the media has told us.

Can we always believe what the media tell us?

Until the two accused are convicted in a Court of Law, everything else is "trial by media".  My belief is that the case will never reach court and, if that happens, I believe it indicates that this was staged event.  

Many aspects of this event raise questions.

There do not seem to have been many witnesses to the actual attack and those that have been interviewed seem to tell stories that do not ring true.

This is the infamous video seen all around the world.  Who is the filmmaker?  How did he have the guts to stand filming a man that had (allegedly) hacked another man to death?  Why was there no blood on the clothes of the alleged attacker (I'm presuming that hacking a man to death produces an abundance of blood)?  Why does the woman in the video walk past the scene as if nothing unusual is occurring?

  
This is the car that allegedly rammed the deceased.  Does the damage look as if it has been caused that way?

Is this the same car?

Then there are the alleged links between the UK security services and the accused.

This is the alleged girlfriend of one of the accused, Michael Adebalajo, hairdresser Justine Ridgen.  The picture proves nothing but does it look like the girlfriend of a devout Muslim?

This is allegedly Kirk Redpath, a British Soldier who was killed in 2007 by a roadside bomb in Iraq.  He was reportedly best friends with Adebalajo.

I'm not the only one who has doubts about the event.

This is a picture of the man apparently "hacked to death" and "beheaded".  Do you see any blood?

Please use your brain and ask yourself if what you have been told happened at Woolwich on 24th May 2013 is corroborated by the evidence presented.

If you answer "yes", then please do all you can to pressure the establishment to get the accused into court so we may hear the truth and have justice served.

If you answer "no", then do the same.

Most information on presented here was taken from aangirfan.

Philip Marshall and 9/11

In February 2012, Philip Marshall published a book about 9/11 called "The Big Bamboozle", in which he laid out his research indicating that Saudi interests, along with complicity from key members of the Bush administration, orchestrated the attack.

Marshall was an interesting character.  He was not only an experienced airline pilot (including having flown the types of aircraft used in the 9/11 attacks), but had been involved with a character called "Barry Seal".  According to Wikipedia:

 "Adler Berriman Seal, better known as Barry Seal, was a United States drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Medellín Cartel."

Seal apparently had links to George Bush senior, Oliver North and therefore the arming of the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.  Marshall asserts that Seal showed him a photograph of Seal in Mexico, taken 22nd January 1963, with various individuals involved with intelligence agency "Special Activities".  Some investigators have alleged that this picture was of the team involved in Operation 40, responsible for the assasination of John F Kennedy.  Barry Seal was gunned down in 1986.

His book presents a verifiable analysis describing the gradual take-over of the political, media, military and intelligence structures by various groups headed by people such as the Bush Family, Dick Cheney and the so-called Neo-Conservatives.  The 9/11 event enabled the US to invade Iraq (along the lines of the PNAC document) and thereby take over the second largest oil reserves in the world.  It also removed the main competitor to Saudi oil interests.

There are stories behind 9/11 that Marshall tells which I have not come across before.  For instance, he tells the story of the long battle by United Airlines employees to take control of their company from bankers who wanted the company broken up and sold.  Eventually, the company was bought out by it's employees and built up an enviable record for customer service and efficiency.  This all went down the tubes when the stock plummeted as a result of 9/11 and the company was soon in trouble again.  Conincindence?  Probably.

Marshall tells a salutory tale of when he was involved with flying communications and electronics experts from the US Marines to Kuwait prior to the 2003 invasion of Kuwait.  Before leaving, CNN in the US reported that a sniper had fired on the Kuwaiti Airport, smashing windows.  Upon arriving at Kuwait airport, after taking all measures possible to avoid sniper attack, Marshall asked the Marine Sergeant responsible for airport security about the sniper.  The Marine denied any such thing had occurred and advised Marshall that, if it had, he would have known about it first.  When Marshall relayed what CNN had reported, the Marine stated that the report was "bullshit, just like the rest of this dumb-shit mission"

Talking of "bullshit", remember Colin Powell at the UN, telling the World about intelligence gleaned from an informant codenamed "Curveball" which told of Saddam Hussein's weapons capability?  On March 13 2011, "Curveball" gave an interview to US television from an undisclosed location, admitting that he had lied to the CIA and had never seen any WMD.  When asked where he got the technical, information that he gave, he abruptly ended the interview and walked out.  Perhaps the fact that Curveball's supervisor at the factory where he worked then came forward to admit that he had been offered (and had turned down) $50,000 by an intelligence agency to corroborate Curveball's claims tells its own story.      

People who believe what the media tell you (e.g. that a soldier was hacked to death in Woolwich, London) without verifying the truth first, should take note.

Of course, we should not accept what Marshall says without question.  Unfortunately, Marshall himself will not provide us with further information.  He was found dead earlier this year, together with his two teenage children and his dog, in what police called an apparent suicide.  Researchers are not so sure it was suicide.

In homage to Marshall, I will repeat his "Call to Action" from the end of his book in which he calls for a trial in the US for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), as it was on the basis of his confession gained by the intensive use of torture (including 183 visits to the water board) that 9/11 was linked to (among others) Osama Bin Laden.  Marshall was sure that KSM would be found innocent as, apart from confession under torture, there was no hard evidence to link him with 9/11 and this would then allow others to present evidence of Saudi involvement which was buried in the original 9/11 Commission report.

This will, Marshall hoped, eventually lead to prosecution of those in the US political, media, intelligence and military establishment who were responsible for planning, executing, facilitating and covering up the 9/11 false flag attack.