- I am a career employee of the federal government in Washington,
D.C. For most of the last 30 years, I have worked in offices within two
miles of the nation's great landmarks: the Washington Monument, the Lincoln
and Jefferson Memorials, the Smithsonian Institution, the White House,
and the Capitol. Just across the Potomac River is the Pentagon.
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- Today, America is in crisis. The outcome is unknown.
The danger is great. But the nature of the crisis is different from what
our political leaders have said, and so is the solution. I am going to
describe conditions as I see them, and I am going to speak with a certain
degree of authority. So please hear, and try to understand me. The first
thing I want to say is that I can understand why so many Americans believe
the federal government is no good, given its frequent bad behavior in recent
decades, especially in its relations with other nations. But our nation
is a republic. We elect our leaders, so we must share responsibility for
what they have done or not done. And our nation was founded on highly idealistic
principles. Read the Declaration of Independence again, as well as the
Preamble to the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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- We have had great leaders, some of the greatest in world
history, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
John F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Some would not agree that John F. Kennedy should be on
that list. Certain of the media have mounted a campaign to denigrate Kennedy
and discredit his legacy. But Kennedy was a visionary. He was one of the
key figures in creating a new modern consciousness that can take us far
into the future.
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- In the two years and ten months of his presidency, Kennedy
created the conditions which allowed the civil rights movement to eventually
succeed. Following the Cuban missile crisis, he moved to lay the groundwork
for world peace, through the nuclear test ban treaty and by opening a dialogue
with the Soviet Union. This likely has saved the world so far from nuclear
Armageddon. He struggled against the tyranny of the American financial
oligarchy - the Money Power - centered in Wall Street. And he started a
great expansion of modern technology, based on rocket and computer science,
through sponsorship of the manned space program. Kennedy was the founder
of today's progressive movement. All future progress in American governance
will take as a starting point the achievements of John F. Kennedy, along
with those of his brother Robert Kennedy and of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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- John F. Kennedy was murdered by those who clung to the
old ways, the ways of violence and greed. He was killed by a conspiracy
that was funded by right-wing oil tycoons and bankers from Texas, carried
out by figures from the CIA and organized crime, protected from discovery
by the FBI, aided on the scene by the Dallas police, and covered-up by
the American political and media establishment. It was a crime that can
only be avenged by those who carry on Kennedy's legacy, which is what we
must do today.
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- When Kennedy was killed, the Money Power in America gained
ascendancy and has ruled the nation by subterfuge and force since then.
The Money Power has largely operated through the American banking system
since the creation of the First Bank of the United States in the 1790s.
This Bank was modeled on the Bank of England. Through the First Bank of
the United States and the Bank of England, the U.S. and Great Britain committed
the fatal error of turning over the sovereign prerogative of money creation
to private bankers. Ever since, the bankers have used their privileges
to concentrate wealth and subvert democracy. They are doing it today.
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- Creation of money is one of the most important functions
of properly-constituted government. In the early 1800s, the Money Power
was fended off by a series of presidents who were the forebears of today's
Democratic Party - Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and Van Buren.
During the Civil War, the U.S. government, led by members of the House
of Representatives, broke free from the Money Power by authorizing the
direct issuance of currency by the federal government - the famous Greenbacks.
The Greenbacks were not based on borrowing or taxation. They entered into
circulation directly through government spending and served both to pay
government obligations and as fuel for the national economy. They were
a true American money, created and spent without borrowing and without
going through the privately-owned banks.
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- But after the Civil War, the Money Power gradually took
over, aided by the backing of British financiers, leading to the creation
of the Federal Reserve in 1913. The Federal Reserve is not a government
agency. It is chartered by government, but is owned and operated by and
for the private banking establishment. It is well known to economists that
constriction of the currency by the Federal Reserve produced the Great
Depression. Roosevelt fought the power of the banks and restored the economy
during World War II. Kennedy was poised to restore and extend the role
of the federal government in regulating and enhancing the productivity
of the nation's economy when he was assassinated. All the presidents since
Kennedy have been controlled by the Money Power or have vainly struggled
against it. Again the Federal Reserve wrecked the American economy during
the Volcker recession of 1979-83, when U.S. industry was devastated and
the fateful shift occurred from an industrial to a "service"
economy.
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- Today the bankers rule the United States. The standard
of living of 80% of our men, women, and children has declined in the last
generation. Working people are increasingly in debt. In fact, we are being
led into virtual debt slavery. One of the mechanisms being used for this
is usurious levels of compound interest on credit card debt, combined with
proposals in Congress for more stringent bankruptcy laws.
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- Worse has happened with respect to other nations, especially
the Third World, whose economies have been sacrificed to the predatory
greed of the Money Power. This has been done through currency manipulation
and the need by other nations to use the dollar as a reserve currency.
For the last 20 years, the dollar has been "strong," which means
that foreign products are cheap for U.S. consumers. The dollars that are
shipped overseas to pay for these purchases come back to the U.S. as investments
in the U.S. stock and bond markets, including Treasury securities.
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- But all this is changing. U.S. industrial production
has collapsed. Our best industrial jobs have been shipped overseas to be
carried out by people working as virtual slave laborers. Now the dollar
is slipping, so we cannot purchase as many foreign products as before.
Our markets are not so attractive as places for foreigners to invest, so
the stock and bond markets are crashing. While this might provide an opportunity
to restore our exports, our industrial capacity has been decimated, and
we no longer have the ability we once had to produce for foreign markets.
Meanwhile, our infrastructure has been neglected and has deteriorated disastrously.
Our railroads, airlines, roads, bridges, schools, and power and water systems
are in disarray or disrepair.
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- Which brings us to today. What has changed in the last
few years has been the appearance on the world scene of a new currency,
the Euro, which is starting to displace the dollar as a reserve currency
in many countries. In particular, the Euro is replacing the dollar in such
countries as North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, which not so coincidentally have
been labeled by President Bush as an "axis of evil."
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- Iraq has replaced the dollar with the Euro as the denominator
for purchase of its oil. The U.S. is afraid this will begin a slide in
the dollar that will also involve the other oil-producing nations. It could
lead to a collapse of the U.S. economy if the flight from U.S. markets
continues. The key to resolving this situation, in the eyes of the Money
Power and its servants in the White House and Pentagon, is Iraq, which
is pivotal in the control of the Middle East. War against Iraq would also
aid Israel in its geopolitical ambitions, which are supported and financed
by interests in the U.S. who are closely tied to the Money Power.
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- The Iraq War, if it happens, would in fact be a currency
war between the U.S. and Europe. This is leading to the ongoing collapse
of NATO, with France, Germany, and Belgium opposing the U.S. war policy,
also joined by Russia and China. Again, this is because the domestic U.S.
economy has been so weakened that we rely on dollar-based foreign domination
to stay afloat. It all goes back to the control of the U.S. economy, politics,
and society by the Money Power.
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- The Iraq War has been in the works for several years.
What brought it on so suddenly was the events of 9-11, which are providing
the pretext. Here we must understand that 9-11 appears to have been created
by the Money Power for exactly this purpose. The people who planned and
carried out 9-11 were connected to the intelligence services of the U.S.
and certain other nations. The leadership of the CIA, the FBI and the military
evidently knew what was going on but did nothing to stop it. Al Qaeda operatives
were recruited as foot soldiers, and the Al Qaeda network was exploited
to create a financial trail, but the role of Osama bin Laden had to have
been slight, if he had a role at all. Remember too that Al Qaeda was created
by MI6 and the CIA to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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- All these things must now change. A new phase in the
assault against the U.S. Constitution by its domestic enemies is about
to begin. President Bush is as much a victim of the Money Power as he is
a perpetrator. He simply does not have the knowledge or background to know
what to do, and he is surrounded by a cabal of truly nefarious characters
who are constantly goading him into action. This cabal includes the present
leadership of the Israeli government and the Likud Party.
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- But what may be programmed to come after Bush would be
much worse. This is because the Money Power itself is being taken over
by and is melding into what may be called a Political Crime Syndicate whose
power straddles the three sectors of politics, finance, and organized crime.
This syndicate deals in such areas as international money laundering, weapons
trafficking, and drugs. It is this Political Crime Syndicate, working with
Western intelligence agencies, that ran Iran-Contra during the Reagan years,
has revived the Afghanistan drug trade, and that controls the U.S. trade
in "ecstasy" and other "street" drugs. It is also the
Political Crime Syndicate that continues to engage in targeted assassinations,
including U.S. political figures.
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- The Political Crime Syndicate may be plotting to take
over the U.S. presidency in 2004 and install one of its members in the
nation's highest office. If this happens it would involve the Democratic
Leadership Council and the Washington Post. Both are Trojan Horses for
the Money Power within the Democratic Party, as was Rothschild agent August
Belmont in the late 19th century and President Woodrow Wilson in the early
20th. But this potential coup d'etat, which would likely to lead to a Nazi-like
regime in the U.S., followed perhaps by World War III, is not inevitable.
These conditions may also provide an opportunity for progressive forces
to strike back, provided they begin to lay the groundwork now.
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- On assuming power, the first step the progressive forces
must take is to relieve the pressure from the collapsing domestic economy,
because it is this pressure which is driving the Money Power insane, causing
the Iraq War, and leading to the incessant push toward turning events over
to the Political Crime Syndicate. Please believe me when I say that the
economic crisis could be relieved within a matter of months by an act of
Congress, followed by executive action through the U.S. Treasury Department,
to nationalize the Federal Reserve and take control of the credit mechanisms
of the national banking system. This would be followed by a measured program
of release of money into the economy through a Greenback-like mechanism.
This would mean direct creation of money by the federal government and
its utilization in projects of social worth related to infrastructure restoration
and other worthwhile social purposes, such as adequate national health
care, Social Security, the space program, education, and technology research
and development.
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- The knee-jerk objection to such a program is that it
would be inflationary, but this is false. Throughout history, monetary
policy has been inflationary only when money was created in excess of legitimate
economic needs, or when the currency has been under attack, as the Continental
currency was from British counterfeiting during the Revolutionary War.
Inflation could be controlled by a Treasury Department adequately staffed
by experts who would regulate the system. What is inflationary is actually
unlimited creation of credit by the banks that is diverted into speculation
in stocks, real estate, etc. This abuse of banking was what created the
stock market bubble of the "Roaring 20s" and the dot.com and
real estates bubbles of the 1990s. The dot.com bubble has burst and so
will the real estate bubble.
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- Objections might also be raised to turning such regulatory
and financial power over to the federal government. This argument is based
on decades of propaganda coming from the Money Power and its media and
academic shills. It is time to face the fact that control of money by private
interests has totally failed in fulfilling the purposes of democracy. It
is also time for Americans to remember that government in a republic is
"us," not "them." It is the instrument by which the
community may act to promote, preserve, and protect its shared human values.
Since America began, these values have consistently been subverted by the
Money Power. Please understand that within the ranks of the federal professional
workforce, there are many dedicated, competent patriots who could implement
the solutions which their political overseers fail to understand because
they have been blinded by decades of right-wing antigovernment propaganda.
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- Once the monetary problem has been dealt with, all other
reforms will follow as a matter of course, because the chief threat to
the progress and evolution of American democracy will have been removed.
And we won't need any more foreign currency wars either. Nor will we need
the CIA, since the requirements for overthrowing other nations' governments,
assassinating domestic and foreign political leaders, and financing overseas
adventures with proceeds from drug and weapons trafficking will be gone.
Legitimate intelligence duties could then be transferred to the appropriate
accountable agencies. The CIA complex at Langley, Virginia, could be razed
and replaced by something pleasant like a botanical garden. Similarly,
we will no longer need a subversive and conspiratorial FBI. That institution
can best be cleansed by opening its files to a thorough investigation of
its role in the Kennedy and King assassinations and other misdeeds. As
for the Defense Department, we would be able to restore the concept espoused
by great military leaders such as MacArthur and Eisenhower, which is a
force manned by citizen soldiers whose primary task is national defense,
not foreign conquest.
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- All this can be done once we really start thinking about
where we are going and how to get there. We can help ourselves get our
heads straightened out by turning off the din from right-wing talk-radio
psychopaths and fundamentalist preachers who seem to be longing for a conflagration
to take place in someone else's part of the world that will justify their
opinion of themselves as being among the "elect."
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- It is time to realize that what Jefferson wrote in the
Declaration of Independence is true. All men are created equal, and we
are all endowed with inalienable rights - life, liberty, the pursuit of
happiness, and others as well, including a place to live, food to eat,
and a decent education. We are all God's children, every single living
soul on earth, as well as those who have been here before and those who
are to come. The idea that some people, and not all, are God's "chosen
people," as espoused by such as John Calvin, the Illuminati and other
cultists, certain Jewish bigots, and the British aristocracy is sociopathic,
anti-democratic, and just plain wrong. It is time we start to realize this
and put our beliefs and values into action. It is time for a New America.
This paper has some feasible suggestions as to how to go about it.
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- Let's try. Let's make a start.
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