Good For Nothing Christians

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” (Matt. 5:13 KJV)

Jesus said that salt without savor is “good for nothing.” Savor is the ingredient, the character that gives salt its quality–and its value. When salt is as it should be, it is a most precious commodity. Not only is it used as a seasoning; it is, more importantly, a preservative. As most everyone knows, salt was the primary source of food preservation before the days of refrigeration. Salt has been deemed to be so valuable at times that wars have actually been waged over it. During times of unusual deprivation, salt can be even more valuable than precious metals. But when salt loses its saltiness, it is absolutely worthless; it is “good for nothing.”

Jesus plainly proclaimed that He viewed His disciples as being the salt of society. In other words, when believers have the character they should have, they provide the preservation of the land. They hold back and retard the putrefying properties of spoilage and decay. But when Christians lose their character, when they lose the internal resistance to decay, they become “good for nothing” and the result is, the land is “trodden under foot of men.”

It grieves me to say that, for the most part, the modern Christian, the modern pastor, and the modern church have lost their savor. Taken as a whole, we have lost our inner character: the ability to resist decay and preserve the land has long departed, and America is fast being “trodden under foot of men.”

Our churches are no longer places of respite from the world: they are mirrors of it: the same dress; the same attitudes; the same carnality; the same spirit; the same stubbornness; the same pride. Churches are no longer bastions of truth: they are glorified social clubs or mere corporations, where Christianity is never allowed to interfere with business. Instead of being watchmen on the wall, our pastors are CEOs or, even worse, politicians. Popularity and personal ambition far outweigh commitment to truth and an independent mind. And as for Christian homes, forget it. The modern American home is straight out of Isaiah chapter three: “babes shall rule over them.” In the average “Christian” home, children rule the mothers, and mothers, in turn, rule the fathers. Discipline and instruction are out; leniency and ignorance are in.

We have a pandemic all right, but it’s not the swine flu: it is a pandemic of spineless Christianity. Parents who cannot stand up to their own children; pastors who cannot stand up to their own congregations; religious leaders who cannot stand up to politicians; and churches that cannot stand up to unconstitutional government.

Our so-called “conservative Christian” special interest groups are far more concerned about not losing financial contributions than they are about confronting the real evils of society. And as far as the Religious Right is concerned, it lost its soul somewhere early on in the first administration of George W. Bush.

If one is looking for someone to blame America’s demise on, don’t look to the prostitutes, drug dealers, or crooked politicians: look no further than the doorsteps of America’s churches. While the ominous clouds of oppression and tyranny boil overhead, our churches are content to play kid games and wallow in their own materialism and laziness. I realize there are exceptions to the rule, of course, but they are few and far between.

Sadder still is the lack of anything on the horizon that points to any kind of spiritual awakening. Look at the churches that are growing: for the most part, they are of the Joel Osteen and Rick Warren variety, where conviction has been replaced with compromise, and popularity has replaced principle. Genuine Bible prophets usually occupy the pulpits where hardly anyone attends. Truth has been replaced with entertainment, and calls for repentance are drowned out by the clamor for prosperity theology.

I can tell you from personal experience that, in more than 34 years of Gospel ministry, it has never been harder to continue to carry the torch of truth than it is today. It takes a toll on one’s physical health and emotional being, and even on one’s family. Any pastor desiring to carry the torch of truth today need not expect to have many friends. And any evangelist desiring to carry the torch of truth today need not expect to get many meetings. Truth is about as popular as a bad case of the measles, and yes, I mean among today’s professing “Christians.”

Should it surprise us, then, that we see the encroachment of our liberties and the erosion of constitutional government coming hard and fast? Should it surprise us that America is losing its conscience–not to mention our heritage? Should it surprise us when we see hundreds of large, empty internment camps popping up everywhere? Should it surprise us when we read of would-be tyrants in Washington, D.C., trying to pass egregious legislation that would strip us of our Bill of Rights? Should it surprise us when we see multinational corporations working with foreign governments to erode the sovereignty of these United States? Should it surprise us when we see both Republican and Democratic Presidential administrations look the other way while our borders are being invaded and even erased?

When the salt loses its savor, it is “cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” And that is exactly what is happening to us today.

Does all this make me fatalistic? Not at all. I am absolutely convinced that God will always reserve to Himself a faithful remnant and a land of liberty for those who desire it. But before we talk about the land, we must be sure that our hearts are willing to pay the price to obtain it. We’ll leave that discussion for another time.

In the meantime, the clarion call to “come out” of this apostate, compromising, and carnal “church” is a good place to begin. We created our Black Regiment directory to help people find churches that were willing to stand up for Christ and liberty, as did colonial preachers of old. To locate Black Regiment churches and pastors in your area, or to volunteer to be a Black Regiment pastor, go to: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/blackregiment.php

Obama’s Speech In Egypt

Much has been made of President Barack Obama’s “reconciliation” speech in Cairo, Egypt, last week. For the most part, the American media have focused on Obama’s attempt to “repair” relations with the Muslim nations of the world. For example, Obama referenced the Koran five times, and the Bible only once. (It is noteworthy that one of the Koranic references Obama used was a verse dedicated to Islamic Jihad, in which Muslims are required to kill infidels–meaning those who are not Muslims, of course. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of America’s major media failed to report http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100504″>this story.

As nonsensical and revolting as much of Obama’s speech was, the most egregiously dangerous statement he made in his Egyptian speech was another one that all but a small portion of America’s mainstream media bothered to report. The sinister statement is as follows:

“Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.” (Barack Obama 06/04/2009, Source: WhiteHouse.gov)

Like his predecessors, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama envisions a global union, in which all nations are linked commercially, governmentally, and militarily. Bush I called it a “New World Order;” Bush II called it an “international order;” Clinton often regurgitated Bush Sr.’s “New World Order” mantra; and Barack Obama called it a “world order.” Do people not recognize that every President since Ronald Reagan (both Democrat and Republican) has called for an international one-world order? Obama’s speech goes a step further, however.

In calling for a “world order,” Obama blatantly said “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation . . . over another will inevitably fail.” Does everyone understand what Obama is saying? In order for this new “world order” to materialize, no individual nation can be preferred over another–not even our own. In a word, no country can be allowed to maintain national sovereignty, independence, or military superiority. All nations must be willing to surrender their sovereignty and independence to the new “world order.” Furthermore, all nations must be willing to submit their militaries to a new global military. Oh yes, my friend, all of this is inferred in Obama’s statement.

The last half of Obama’s statement is equally chilling: “Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.” In other words, Americans must forget about the heritage and tradition of our past. The ideas of national sovereignty and independence are archaic. The notion of “America First” is passé. The principles of constitutional government must be replaced with the international principles of a new “world order.”

In this regard, it would not have mattered to a tinker’s dam if John McCain had been elected President instead of Barack Obama. I well remember McCain repeatedly saying that one of the first things he would do after becoming President would be to implement a new “League of Democracies.” In fact, look no further than to a speech McCain made to the Hoover Institution. According to McCain, “The new League of Democracies would form the core of an international order.” (Source: John McCain Addresses The Hoover Institution, CFR Publication, May 1, 2007)

At the national level, both the Republican and Democratic parties are taking the United States headlong into an international “New World Order.” The national news media is likewise culpable, as are the vast majority of the Religious Right and most other religious entities, organizations, and movements.

As an example, outside of this column, how many warnings have you read or heard regarding the abovementioned statement by Mr. Obama? I dare say that many readers are learning of this statement for the very first time as they read this column.

The burning question facing the American people today is, are we going to do nothing as these globalists who control our political and corporate institutions sell our country into global tyranny?

Forget Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly. They will do nothing to resist. Forget Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. They, too, will raise no voice of opposition. Forget Newt Gingrich. He is as much a part of the problem as anyone. Ditto for virtually every other major Republican in Washington, D.C.–with the exception of Ron Paul, of course. (At the national level, only Sarah Palin seems to bring any of the right instincts to the discussion, but she is desperately behind the curve on this issue, and needs much education if she is to be an effective voice on the subject.) Forget Nancy Pelosi and her fellow socialists in the Democratic Party. They have never seen a Big Government proposal that they did not love. And if they love big national government, think how they will love big international government.

Forget the TV news talk shows. With the exception of Lou Dobbs, they are all too busy putting big bucks in their bank accounts to have time to worry about something as insignificant (to them) as the surrender of our sovereignty and independence. Forget the vast majority of today’s pastors. They are either totally ignorant or unconcerned on the subject, or too busy fighting with their own carnal church members to provide the leadership necessary to “rally the troops”–as did the patriotic clergymen of Colonial America’s “Black Regiment.”

That leaves you and me–and God, of course. But then again, God, guns, and guts was all it took in 1776, wasn’t it?

So, while all of the attention of the “talking heads” was focused on virtually everything else Obama said, the most diabolical and potentially destructive statement that came from his mouth last week was all but ignored.

From Bunker Hill to Baghdad

Pinter’s Dispatch to Obama…

Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
in the streets!
Poem by Pablo Neruda

About a month before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show and was asked whether he thought Obama would be a good choice for president. Brzezinski paused for a minute, peered at Rose out of the corner of his eye, and answered, “Just think of the symbolism.”  As soon as he said that, Brzezinski and Rose broke out into laughter as though they were sharing a private joke.

Brzezinski was right, of course. Obama was the perfect choice for president. Not because of his experience. He had none. He was a two year senator with a resume’ small enough to fit on the back of a matchbox.  Still Obama had what Brzezinski and Co. were looking for, symbolism; the kind of symbolism that connected him to people around the world and made them feel like one of their own had finally clawed their way to the top. Even better, Obama was a charismatic populist who could fill stadiums with adoring fans and put a benign face on America’s interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. What more could Brzezinski hope for? After 8 years of dragging “Brand America” through the mud, the country would finally get the emergency facelift it needed and begin to restore its battered image as the world’s indispensable nation.

For leftists, Obama has been a total bust. He’s escalated the war in Afghanistan, increased the cross-border bombings of Pakistan, hemmed and hawed about prosecuting war crimes, refused to actively lobby House members to make it easier for workers to organize (EFCA), and surrounded himself with bank industry reps who’ve committed $12.8 trillion to sinking financial institutions with no assurance that the money would be repaid. Apart from a trifling bill on stem cells, Obama has done absolutely zero to confirm his bone fides as a liberal. The truth is, Obama is neither liberal nor conservative; he’s simply an inspiring orator and a skillful politician who has no strong convictions about anything. If he achieves greatness, it will be because he was thrust into a crisis he couldn’t avoid and reluctantly acted in the best interests of the American people. That possibility still exists, although it seems more unlikely by the day.

Foreign leaders are clearly relieved to see the last of George W. Bush, and they appear to be willing to give Obama every opportunity to mend fences and break with the past. But Obama has made little effort to reciprocate or show that he’s serious about real change. The emphasis seems to be more on public relations than policy; more on glitzy photo ops, grandiose speeches and gadding about from one capital to another, than ending the chronic US meddling and militarism. Where’s the beef or is it all just empty posturing?

No one’s ready to write-off Obama just yet, but he needs to show he’s the real-deal by taking steps to ratchet-down the war machine and reign in the corporate elites and bank vermin. But is it really possible for one man–however well-meaning–to change the course of a nation by standing up the gaggle of racketeers who pull the strings from behind the curtain? Keep in mind, America’s history of violent interventions, unprovoked wars,  color-coded revolutions and coup d’ etats has a long pedigree that stretches from Bunker Hill to Baghdad. That river of blood did not begin with George Bush and it won’t end with Barack Obama. Every generation has produced its own litany of crimes, from Wounded Knee to Nagasaki to My Lai to Falluja. In Harold Pinter’s Nobel acceptance speech, the playwright invokes one such incident which epitomizes the pattern of hostility which has been repeated over and over again wherever the Washington mandarins detect opposition to their iron-fisted rule.

Harold Pinter, Nobel Acceptance Speech:

“The United States supported the brutal Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua for over 40 years. The Nicaraguan people, led by the Sandinistas, overthrew this regime in 1979, a breathtaking popular revolution.

The Sandinistas weren’t perfect. They possessed their fair share of arrogance and their political philosophy contained a number of contradictory elements. But they were intelligent, rational and civilized. They set out to establish a stable, decent, pluralistic society. The death penalty was abolished. Hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken peasants were brought back from the dead. Over 100,000 families were given title to land. Two thousand schools were built. A quite remarkable literacy campaign reduced illiteracy in the country to less than one seventh. Free education was established and a free health service. Infant mortality was reduced by a third. Polio was eradicated.

The United States denounced these achievements as Marxist/Leninist subversion. In the view of the US government, a dangerous example was being set. If Nicaragua was allowed to establish basic norms of social and economic justice, if it was allowed to raise the standards of health care and education and achieve social unity and national self respect, neighboring countries would ask the same questions and do the same things. There was of course at the time fierce resistance to the status quo in El Salvador.

I spoke earlier about ‘a tapestry of lies’ which surrounds us. President Reagan commonly described Nicaragua as a ‘totalitarian dungeon’. This was taken generally by the media, and certainly by the British government, as accurate and fair comment. But there was in fact no record of death squads under the Sandinista government. There was no record of torture. There was no record of systematic or official military brutality. No priests were ever murdered in Nicaragua. There were in fact three priests in the government, two Jesuits and a Maryknoll missionary. The totalitarian dungeons were actually next door, in El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States had brought down the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 and it is estimated that over 200,000 people had been victims of successive military dictatorships.

Six of the most distinguished Jesuits in the world were viciously murdered at the Central American University in San Salvador in 1989 by a battalion of the Alcatl regiment trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. That extremely brave man Archbishop Romero was assassinated while saying mass. It is estimated that 75,000 people died. Why were they killed? They were killed because they believed a better life was possible and should be achieved. That belief immediately qualified them as communists. They died because they dared to question the status quo, the endless plateau of poverty, disease, degradation and oppression, which had been their birthright.

The United States finally brought down the Sandinista government. It took some years and considerable resistance but relentless economic persecution and 30,000 dead finally undermined the spirit of the Nicaraguan people. They were exhausted and poverty stricken once again. The casinos moved back into the country. Free health and free education were over. Big business returned with a vengeance. ‘Democracy’ had prevailed.

But this ‘policy’ was by no means restricted to Central America. It was conducted throughout the world. It was never-ending. And it is as if it never happened.

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.”

Pinter’s speech is a somber indictment of US foreign policy; a policy which is now cloaked behind the rock-star facade of Barack Obama. Nothing has changed and, perhaps, nothing will change. The same barbarous campaign that thrived under Bush has been passed along to Obama intact. Wherever there is resistance to US ambitions; there lies the enemy. Whether its Marxists in Bogota,  nationalists in Kosovo,  Bolivarians in Caracas, Shia militias in Beirut, Islamic moderates in Mogadishu or Quakers in Toledo. They’re all enemies, every one of them, and they need to be dealt with.

Obama is no fool; he knows he’s being used. He knows he wasn’t chosen for his enlightened views on health care and stem cells. He was picked because the men in charge needed a new posterboy to hide behind while they carry out their illicit activities. Obama is not so much of a Commander in chief as he is master illusionist, diverting attention from the stealth war that goes on relentlessly with or without his consent. Here’s Pinter again:

“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis…It’s a scintillating stratagem.”

Consider how the news was shaped to make it look like the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were carried out for altruistic reasons.  Thus, the war in Afghanistan became “Operation Enduring Freedom”, stressing the selfless generosity of bombing a country into oblivion and reinstating the thuggish warlords to power. The same strategy was used for the invasion of Iraq which was celebrated as “liberation from a brutal dictator.” Liberation which cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqis and the displacement of 4 million more. Still, no one in the UN or so called international community has pressed for removing the US from the Security Council or prosecuting its leaders for war crimes. It’s a testimony to the success of the US media in upholding the “tapestry of lies” of which Pinter speaks.  Under Obama, the charade has only gotten worse. The coverage of the war has stopped entirely. War? What war? What matters now is Obama’s cheery banter with Jay Leno, or Michelle’s well-proportioned arms or Malia’s adorable Portuguese Waterdog. America is whole again. Let the killing resume.

Pinter: “What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days – conscience? A conscience to do not only with our own acts but to do with our shared responsibility in the acts of others? Is all this dead? Look at Guantanamo Bay. Hundreds of people detained without charge for over three years, with no legal representation or due process, technically detained forever. This totally illegitimate structure is maintained in defiance of the Geneva Convention. It is not only tolerated but hardly thought about by what’s called the ‘international community’. This criminal outrage is being committed by a country, which declares itself to be ‘the leader of the free world’. Do we think about the inhabitants of Guantanamo Bay? What does the media say about them? They pop up occasionally – a small item on page six. They have been consigned to a no man’s land from which indeed they may never return. At present many are on hunger strike, being force-fed, including British residents. No niceties in these force-feeding procedures. No sedative or anesthetic. Just a tube stuck up your nose and into your throat. You vomit blood. This is torture. What has the British Foreign Secretary said about this? Nothing. What has the British Prime Minister said about this? Nothing. Why not? Because the United States has said: to criticize our conduct in Guantanamo Bay constitutes an unfriendly act. You’re either with us or against us.”

Obama doesn’t need to solve the world’s problems. He doesn’t have to reverse global warming or slow peak oil, cure AIDS or end world hunger. All he needs to do is meet the minimal requirement of his job as president, which is to deliver justice to his people. That’s why the prosecution of Bush for war crimes is more important than any other issue on the docket. Justice precedes everything; it’s the thread that keeps the social fabric stitched together.  Justice for the victims who were killed in their homes with their families while they were sleeping or eating dinner. Justice for the people who were bombed in wedding parties or going to work or at the mosque praying to God. That’s what people want from Obama. Justice, nothing more. The Reverend Martin Luther King said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” It’s up to Obama follow that arc and take at least one step on the path of legitimacy, accountability and justice.

Pinter: “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice.”

It’s highly unlikely that a black man with a background in community organizing really believes that expanding the war in Afghanistan is the right thing to do. Nor is it likely that he supports wiretapping, the crackdown on immigrants, penalizing sellers of medical marijuana, trillion dollar bank bailouts or “enhanced” interrogation. He is merely reading from the script that he has been given. But as the economic crisis deepens and the country becomes more radicalized and politically unstable, that script will have to be tossed aside. Obama will have plenty of opportunities to shrug off his handlers and show what he’s really made of. Perhaps he is great man after all.

Pinter: “When we look into a mirror, we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimeter and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.”

Go ahead, Barack. Smash the mirror.

Few Christians Have Biblical Worldview

The prolific pollster George Barna just released another startling survey: among America’s professing “born-again” Christians, only 19% possess a Biblical worldview. That’s right. Some 80% of professing Christians do not possess a Biblical worldview.

And it’s not as if Barna’s survey questions were all that difficult. Barna’s criteria for determining a person’s Biblical worldview were the following:

• Believing that absolute moral truth exists;
• Believing that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches;
• Believing that Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic;
• Believing that a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or do good works;
• *Believing that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today.

In the research, anyone who held all of those beliefs was said to have a Biblical worldview. And again, even among professing “born-again” Christians, only 19% were shown to have a Biblical worldview.

See Barna’s research at:

http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/21-transformation/252-barna-survey-examines-changes-in-worldview-among-christians-over-the-past-13-years

This survey helps explain a bunch!

How in the name of common sense can Christians expect to be the “salt” and “light” to a lost and dying world when the vast majority of believers do not even possess a basic Biblical foundation?

Of course, many mainline Protestant denominations lost their allegiance to Biblical truth decades ago. And now it seems that a majority of evangelical churches are consumed with the politically correct doctrines of Prosperity Theology and Entertainment Evangelism. Old-fashioned Bible Christianity has been replaced with avant-garde movements such as the Emerging Church, Purpose Driven Church, Seeker-Sensitive Church, User-Friendly Church, Meta-Church, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

The result of this departure from Biblical Christianity is that some 80% of professing Christians today do not hold a Biblical worldview and are, therefore, impotent at being the “salt” and “light” that our Lord requires.

Let’s face it: without a Biblical worldview, these modern “born-again” evangelicals are walking around with pagan, Christless worldviews. Instead of the Bible, socialist talking heads, globalist media moguls, hedonistic entertainers, political hacks, and humanistic academicians are the ones to most influence their opinions, philosophies, and mindsets.

And just whose fault is it that our churches have become so riddled with infidelity and apostasy? The preachers, obviously.

Instead of standing up on their own hind legs and proclaiming, “Thus saith the Lord,” without fear or favor, they are falling all over themselves trying to emulate Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, and Bill Hybels. Instead of preaching with the fear of God in their hearts, they preach with the fear of the I.R.S. and the G.O.P. in their hearts. Or, worse than that, they “tiptoe through the tulips” for fear of their own church members.

I will say it one more time, if America’s preachers would stand up in their pulpits every Sunday and not be afraid to preach the truth (and courageously relate it to America’s everyday problems and challenges including our political problems and challenges), the ship of state could be turned around overnight! As the pulpits go, so goes the nation. And right now, the pulpits of America are leading our country over the cliff!

It is for this very reason that, a few years ago, I began a nationwide campaign to discover the modern “Black Regiment” pastors and churches in America. As a result of this effort, we have already identified scores of pastors and churches across America that have gladly chosen to identify themselves as being part of America’s “Black Regiment.”

See the Black Regiment web page here:

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/blackregiment.php

If you find a Black Regiment pastor in your area, by all means, join with and support both him and his congregation. How can pastors be expected to courageously proclaim the truth unless people who appreciate the truth support them with both their attendance and offerings?

It is also for this reason that I am now live-streaming my Sunday morning messages on the Internet. We now have hundreds of thirsty souls watching us every Sunday morning. For the most part, these are people who have tried desperately to find courageous, independent-minded patriot-pastors in their communities, but have failed to do so. Our live-streamed broadcast gives them an online home where truth is preached. If you want to join them, use this url on Sunday at approximately 10:30 a.m. (Central Daylight Time):

http://crossroadbaptist.net/live.html

George Barna’s research is tremendously revealing–and disconcerting. It is a sad day when many unbelievers seem to have more character and conviction about the foundational principles of constitutional government, liberty, and independence than do professing Christians. But then again, if Christians cannot be trusted to understand and revere the Sacred Text, how can they understand and revere the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights?

The Power Elite Playbook, Corporate Generals

Part Eighteen

Coincidentally or not, at about the same time that the international bankers were promoting and funding Japan’s war-hawk behavior under Emperor Meiji (Hirohito’s grandfather) against Korea, China and Manchuria, banker-backed U.S. imperialists were looking for ways to seize productive land and control in Cuba (achieved by the Platt Amendment on March 2, 1901), banish the Spanish and expand into the resource-rich Philippines. William Howard Taft represented U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in a highly confidential meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura on July 27-29, 1905. They agreed that Japan would relinquish economic control of Hawaii and the Philippines to the U.S. while Japan targeted adjacent Asiatic countries. This insidious treaty sealed Korea’s death warrant. It was approved by Britain, or rather the British financiers behind the throne who were also funding Japan’s warfare. [1]
 
The Philippines (7,000 islands), a Spanish theocracy by 1575, were on the early trade routes. Chinese merchants had been trading there since the tenth century. Many merchants settled along the coast of Luzon, the largest island. In exchange for Chinese goods, Spanish traders received gold from the New World and silver from Mexico. The Spanish traders would return to Luzon’s Manila Bay from Acapulco with ships loaded with precious metals. Thus, Manila became a very important Chinese financial center as early as the sixteenth century. The Chinese middlemen made a reasonable profit and sent the majority of the gold and silver to China to pay for goods. The Spanish, intimidated by Chinese capabilities, unique skills and economic access, denied them citizenship and prohibited them from direct ownership of land. Occasionally, the Chinese were massacred – sending a persuasive message while reducing a specific ethnic population. Inevitably, the ghetto-dwelling Chinese cohabited with Malay girls to produce a large number of illegitimate Chinese mestizo children. These children, still a minority, were raised as good Catholics. They often inherited their father’s financial acuity, could buy land, and acted as moneylenders and middlemen. [2]  
 
The Spanish mestizos, not as business-savvy as their Chinese counterparts, used the law to manipulate the native Malays into forfeiting their land. This ultimately resulted in the Katipunan Rebellion which began on August 23, 1896, an uprising against Spanish dominance. Emilio Aguinaldo, a member of the Chinese-mestizo minority, was a leader in that rebellion. [3] It failed, and Aguinaldo took refuge in Hong Kong where he purchased weapons to continue the battle. 
 
American politicians, eager to assist the corporate moguls in their opportunistic business quests, intervened. President McKinley sent Admiral George Dewey who led the Hong Kong-based Asiatic Squadron* of the U.S. Navy. (One must ask why the U.S. had an Asiatic Squadron, inasmuch as our military was/is constituted to exclusively defend our “homeland.”) On May 1, 1898, Admiral Dewey and his squadron defeated and sank the entire Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in six hours with the loss of one American life. If assistance to the Filipinos had been the actual agenda, they could then have departed, satisfied and victorious. Instead, on May 2, 1898, Congress voted a war emergency credit of $34,625,725. Two days later, the House, with McKinley’s consent, approved the annexation of Hawaii. On June 11, McKinley reiterated: “We must have Hawaii to help us get our share of China.” [4] In relation to the U.S., the Philippines are 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles from the Asian continent and more than 4,500 miles from Hawaii.
 
McKinley cabled Admiral Dewey and asked him to compile an account of the Philippines’ natural resources, mining, farming and industry. An emissary from the State Department was sent to prepare a directory for the economic exploitation of the area. American companies quickly targeted the most fertile lands. A Del Monte subsidiary, restricted by law to 1,024 hectares, managed to have the U.S. Governor-General convert public land into a U.S. Navy preserve. Then the Navy subleased 20,000 hectares to Del Monte. [5]
 
U. S. Governor-Generals from 1898 to 1901 were: General Wesley Merritt who functioned from August 14, 1898 to August 28, 1898; General Elwell S. Otis who operated from August 28, 1898 to May 5, 1900 and General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. who implemented the U.S. program from May 25, 1900 to July 4, 1901, when the U.S. installed a civilian – William Howard Taft (1901 to 1903) whose father Alphonso Taft had co-founded Skull and Bones (The Brotherhood of Death) at Yale University in 1832. Taft became Secretary of War (1904–1908) and U.S. president (1909–1913). Additionally, he supported the unconstitutional 16th Amendment of February 3, 1913, which allows the privately owned IRS to collect income tax designed to pay interest on the fiat money that the Federal Reserve, also privately owned, prints. He also supported the 17th Amendment, ratified on April 8, 1913, which deprived state governments of the right to select U.S. senators in favor of  direct, popular election of senators – popular election allows corporate giants to influence the result, and thus effectively to purchase federal legislation in their own favor.
 
Emilio Aguinaldo returned from his Hong Kong exile on May 19, 1898, at the invitation of the U.S. On May 25, 1898, the Philippine Expeditionary Force of 8,500 men (Eighth Army Corps) left San Francisco and arrived at Cavite, Philippine Islands. Surprise! Those U.S. soldiers were NOT there to help the Filipinos. Aguinaldo, naïve but hopeful, declared independence on June 12, 1898 and established the First Philippine Republic.
 
Aguinaldo stated in his 1899 work, True Version of the Philippine Revolution: “On the 4th of July (1898) the first United States military expedition arrived, under command of General Anderson, and it was quartered in Cavite Arsenal. This distinguished General called on me in the Filipino Government House at Cavite, an honour and courtesy which I promptly returned, as was right and proper, seeing that we were friends, of equal rank, and allies. In the course of official intercourse General Anderson solemnly and completely endorsed the promises made by Admiral Dewey to me, asserting on his word of honour that America had not come to the Philippines to wage war against the natives nor to conquer and retain territory, but only to liberate the people from the oppression of the Spanish Government.” [6]
 
According to Aguinaldo, Admiral Dewey had said: “Documents are useless when there is no sense of honour…have faith in my word, and I assure you that the United States will recognize the independence of the country. I further ask you to have patience if any of our soldiers insult any Filipinos, for being Volunteers they are as yet undisciplined.” [7]
 
On February 4, 1899, the official beginning of the American War in the Philippines, a Filipino was shot by an American sentry. This started the Battle of Manila led by General Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845-1912). Between 50 and 60 Americans were killed while 2,000 Filipino corpses lay in the streets of Manila. Poorer, less experienced populations cannot compete with better artillery, warships, or superior marksmanship and firearms. McKinley claimed that “insurgents had attacked Manila.” The administration further declared that Aguinaldo was an “outlaw bandit,” the antiquated term for enemy combatant.
 
U.S. troops took Aguinaldo captive on March 25, 1901. General MacArthur convinced him to surrender and swear allegiance to America. European dominance was then replaced by U.S. imperialism. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt thought Manila should become an American Hong Kong. McKinley, feeling that the Filipinos were unfit to govern themselves, wanted all of the Philippines, not just Manila. [8] Some Filipinos were willing to employ guerrilla warfare to resist, despite their lack of armaments.
 
On December 20, 1900, General Arthur MacArthur had officially declared that Filipinos were an “inferior race” and further stated that because guerrilla warfare was contrary to “the customs and usages of war,” that those who engaged in it “divest themselves of the character of soldiers, and if captured are not entitled to the privileges of prisoners of war.” Thus, they were treated as criminals. The real war criminals, Jacob Smith and Littleton Waller, were later admonished and acquitted during a Senate white-wash investigation, headed by imperialist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. The U.S. use of the water torture or waterboarding, frequently lethal, was divulged during the very revealing hearings. [9] [10] [11] Waller was, after all, just following orders, a defense not allowed to German defendants by the U.S. at Nuremburg. [12] California’s Fort MacArthur, a U.S. Army installation in San Pedro, was named after the general.
 
General Arthur MacArthur left the Philippines on July 5, 1901 and became Commander of the Department of the Pacific from January 1904 to April 1907. He was a Civil War veteran and had fought against America’s native population for thirty years. He was stationed in the Dakota Territory when the Spanish-American War began in 1898. He was sent to Manchuria to observe the Japanese military from January to September 1905, towards the end of the Russo-Japanese War.  He then did a short stint as military attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. [13] While in Japan, both the general and his son, Lt. Douglas MacArthur, met with Emperor Meiji who had collaborated with the British bankers in Japan’s assault against Korea, China and Russia. Then the general, his wife and his son toured several Asian countries from November 1905 through June 1906 to assess their military strength. Who received that report? The MacArthurs visited Shanghai, Hong Kong, Ceylon, India, Burma, Bangkok, Batavia, Singapore, Rangoon and Saigon, and were possibly among the first U.S. officers to visit Vietnam. [14]
 
Douglas MacArthur graduated from West Point in 1903 and was commissioned a second lieutenant of engineers. His first assignment was in the Philippines, from 1903 to 1904, with the 7th Cavalry Regiment. During this Philippines assignment he befriended Manuel Quezon, one of two leaders of the Nationalista Party which would monopolize politics in the Philippines for the next forty years. He was promoted to first lieutenant in April 1904, and was an engineer officer and aide to the Commander of the Pacific Division (his father) from 1904 to 1906. [15]
 
As part of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898, America paid $20 million to Spain and then started fighting the ill-prepared Filipinos, who many of the ex-Civil War officers referred to as “Niggers” or “Goo-Goos.” [16] President McKinley had been assassinated by a lone gunman and the U.S. military in the Philippines was holding a memorial service on September 28, 1901 in Balangiga on the island of Samar (600 square miles). Filipino guerillas who opposed the  American occupation chose this opportunity to attack. They killed forty-eight and wounded twenty-two. [17]
 
To avenge this surprise attack, General Jacob Smith (previously a speculator in whiskey, gold, and diamonds who had stolen Civil War enlistment money from “colored” recruits) gave instructions regarding the inhabitants of Samar to Major Littleton Waller: “I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better you will please me. Kill everyone over the age of ten.” Homes were burned; all animals were destroyed. Then they imposed sanctions to starve the remaining population into submission. Major Adna Chaffee advised reporters not to be sentimental over the deaths of “a few Goo-Goos.” [18]
 
Littleton also sought to avenge the deaths of his military comrades who had died in North China. The Chicago Tribune reported that “We are the trustees of civilization and peace throughout the islands.” In an effort to persuade the Filipinos of American generosity and good will, the U.S. established a few schools, reorganized city governments, and improved sanitation conditions. [19]
 
H. L. Wells, a correspondent for New York Evening Post stated that there had been no widespread outrageous acts committed by U.S. troops. However, he understood their savage contempt for the enemy: “There is no question that our men do ‘shoot niggers’ somewhat in the sporting spirit, but that is because war and their environments have rubbed off the thin veneer of civilization… Undoubtedly, they do not regard the shooting of Filipinos just as they would the shooting of white troops. This is partly because they are ‘only niggers,’ and partly because they despise them for their treacherous servility… The soldiers feel they are fighting with savages, not with soldiers…” [20]
 
General Order #100 was applied in the Philippines: Lincoln’s order authorized the shooting on sight of all persons not in uniform or acting as soldiers and those committing, or seeking to commit, sabotage. The 7th Calvary Regiment, a part of the Regular Army, was originally organized on September 21, 1866 and is still viable today.[21] This regiment was in the Philippines from 1904 to 1907, and again from 1911 through 1915. It employed the very same scorched earth policies against the Filipinos that had proven so effective against the vulnerable Plains Indians. Entire villages were burned, and unarmed Filipinos, women and children, were killed. To the troopers, all Filipinos looked alike and similar to the “red savages.” In fact, they called the Filipinos “Apaches” or “gooks. “[22]
 
Every member of America’s “high command” in the Philippines had spent most of his career chasing Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, and Sioux. Some of them, the 7th Cavalry Regiment, had taken part in the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota on December 29, 1890, where 370 women and children were slaughtered, in revenge for Custer. In American-written text books, the Balangiga Massacre focuses on  forty-eight dead Americans, without mentioning the slaughter of tens of thousands of Filipino civilians. [23] The men under the questionable “high command” expressed their biased views in letters they wrote home. (Read some of them here.)
 
One trooper wrote home: “I am in my glory when I can sight my gun on some dark skin and pull the trigger.”  His squad killed more than one thousand “dark-skinned” Filipinos in just one village. General Arthur MacArthur defended his army’s civilian massacres as “carrying out the civilizing mission of its Aryan ancestors.” [24]
 
War generates famine; wealthy landowners finally acquiesced. Americans passed a law stating that resisters would be ineligible for civil service employment. The desperate people gave up, and the war ended. One million (out of six million) Filipinos died: 16,000 guerrillas and 984,000 civilians. [25] The war officially ended July 4, 1902, but hostilities and the work of death continued for almost a decade.
 
*Cruisers: U.S.S. Olympia (flag ship), U.S.S. Raleigh, U.S.S. Boston, U.S.S. Baltimore, U.S.S. Concord and U.S.S.  Petrel; the Revenue Cutter USRC Hugh McCulloch (commissioned 12 December 1897; under the authority of the United States Department of the Treasury). After the Battle of Manila Bay, the monitors U.S.S. Monadnock and the U.S.S. Monterey provided heavy-gun support for ongoing warfare against the Filipinos. The U.S.S. Charleston, on the way to Manila on May 10, 1898 captured Guam, as instructed by Secretary of the Navy John D. Long. [26]
 

[1] The 1905 Secret Taft-Katsura Agreement: America’s Betrayal Of Korea
[2] The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave, Harper and Row, New York, 1988, pgs. 8-9
[3] Emilio  F.  Aguinaldo (1869-1964)
[4] Chronology for the Philippine Islands and Guam in the Spanish-American War
[5] The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave, Harper and Row, New York, 1988, pgs. 30
[6] True Version of the Philippine Revolution by Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, Chapter X. The Proclamation of Independence, Tarlak, 23rd September, 1899
[7] Ibid
[8] The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave, Harper and Row, New York, 1988, pgs. 10-11
[9] Nation Master Encyclopedia, Lodge Committee, January 1902
[10] The Lodge Committee, Testimonies
[11] Secretary Root’s Record: “Marked Severities” in Philippine Warfare, Report of the Philippine Investigating Committee formed in April of 1902 to investigate and publicize U.S. military atrocities in the Philippines.
[12] The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even by Victor Nebrida in Hector Santos, ed., Philippine Centennial Series, June 15, 1997
[13] Arlington National Cemetery, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., Lieutenant General, United States Army
[14] Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur (1845-1912) by James M. Gallen
[15] Douglas MacArthur Bio
[16] The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave, Harper and Row, New York, 1988, pgs. 12-13
[17] The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even by Victor Nebrida in Hector Santos, ed., Philippine Centennial Series, June 15, 1997
[18] The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave, Harper and Row, New York, 1988, pgs. 12-13
[19] The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even by Victor Nebrida in Hector Santos, ed., Philippine Centennial Series, June 15, 1997
[20] The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even by Victor Nebrida in Hector Santos, ed., Philippine Centennial Series, June 15, 1997
[21] 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
[22] The Bridge at No Gun Ri, A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War By Charles J. Hanley, San-Hun Choe and Martha Mendoza, Reviewed by: Lee Wha Rang
[23] The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even by Victor Nebrida in Hector Santos, ed., Philippine Centennial Series, June 15, 1997
[24] The Bridge at No Gun Ri, A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War By Charles J. Hanley, San-Hun Choe and Martha Mendoza, Reviewed by: Lee Wha Rang
[25] The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave, Harper and Row, New York, 1988, pgs. 12-13
[26] Chronology for the Philippine Islands and Guam in the Spanish-American War

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The Power Elite Playbook, Fascism and False Flags = War

Part Seventeen

Nagata Tetsuzan, in company with Obata Toshiro and Okamura Yasuji (all three trained in military intelligence) and Prince Hirohito, had met secretly at the German spa Baden-Baden on October 27, 1921 to plan a total war against the West. [1] With the exception of Hirohito, all were then serving at Japanese embassies in Europe. They developed strategies to purge the army of the Samurai (knightly) leadership of the Choshu clan, to reorganize and modernize the army, and a plan to dominate Manchuria. Another young officer-attendee was Tojo Hideki, the future prime minister who would launch the Pacific war, the imperial scheme.
 
Corporations, like Matsui, first targeted Manchuria’s natural resources in the First Sino-Japanese War from August 1, 1894 to April 17, 1895. Japan, ready to accommodate Japanese corporations and with backing from foreign banks, like J. P. Morgan, declared war on Tsarist Russia on February 8, 1904 specifically to gain control of the strategic Kwantung Peninsula, the area leased for 25 years to Russia by China in March 1898. Japan was granted that area after the war and established the Kwantung Garrison in 1906. The semi-autonomous Kwantung Army, part of Japan’s Imperial Army took its name from the Kwantung (meaning east of Shanhaiguan) Peninsula,
 
General Araki Sadao was the Japanese military attaché in Russia during WWI. [2] He became the Commandant of the Army War College in 1928. He indoctrinated the younger pseudo-patriotic naïve officers with a radical-right-wing agenda. Araki embraced Bushido (“The Way of the Warrior”) and permitted officers to wear swords for the first time since the samurai rebellions of the 19th century. [3]
 
The ultranational (superior-nation complex) objective was to seize the government, divorce it from the people and transform it into a profitable military dictatorship by removing opposing imperial advisors, creating chaos among radical students and unifying the many secret societies. The military foundation of the conspiracy was set by 1929. They installed General Honjo Shigeru, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the early period of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1904-1905). He served as commander of the Kwantung Army from August 1, 1931 to August 8, 1932. Honjo was an 1897 graduate from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Some of his classmates included future Prime Minister Abe Nobuyuki, and generals Araki and Matsui. He would prevent any potential interference. The Kwantung Army then had 12,000 willing men and would grow to 700,000 by 1941. [4]
 
Araki, with three other conspirators, devised the Mukden Incident by May 31, 1931. On September 18, 1931, a non-strategic section of Japan’s South Manchuria Railway was expertly dynamited by Japanese militarists. The Japanese, to be persuasive, claimed that the railway section was vital. It wasn’t! Asbestos-laden buildings unable to attract profitable renters and in need of being torn down and replaced would also serve the same purpose. Japan blamed the incident on the Chinese who, responding to the explosion, came running to investigate. The Japanese were prepared to invade; they already had the major munitions hidden at the Officer’s club in Mukden. This staged false flag incident was the pretext for an attack on the morning of September 19, 1931 against the Chinese garrison at Beidaying, eight hundred meters away from the incident. Five hundred unprepared Chinese soldiers perished; two Japanese soldiers died. Some researchers, such as David Bergamini, claim that Hirohito knew and approved of the whole plot. As a civilian, he was interned in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines.
 
In February 1932, Japan renamed Manchuria. It would now be Manchukuo. It was literally the kingdom of the Kwantung Army whose intent was to seize all of Manchuria, Mongolia and Northern China. [5] By 1936, the Kwantung Army managed Manchuria. Young bureaucrat Kishi Nobusuke, recognizing a great business opportunity, convinced his uncle to move the headquarters of his newly-formed Nissan zaibatsu (conglomerate) to Manchukuo. Nissan developed its iron and coal mines, timber and opium production. Life was luxurious for the 900,000 Japanese citizens now living in Manchuria as compared to the faltering economy in Japan. [6]
 
In the 1920s and 1930s, there were two opposing factions (similar to America’s two-party charade) both of which endorsed totalitarian, fascist political philosophies: The ultranationalist Kōdōha was led by General Araki who became Minister of War in 1933. According to a Time Magazine article dated January 23, 1933, Araki considered Hirohito as “utterly perfect,” the “Son of Heaven.” Hence, his soldiers rendered absolute obedience and abided by the strict government regulations which prohibited criticism of the emperor or his policies.
 
The other clique, called the Control Group (Tōseiha) was led by General Ugaki Kazushige and was composed of power-seeking, aggressive opportunistic officers who were gradually moving Japan towards a military dictatorship with an increased military budget. Uncooperative politicians were assassinated (as Kennedy and others in our own country) in order to establish a military dictatorship and escalate warfare in order to impose a colonial Japanese empire on the Asian mainland. This group wanted to conquer Soviet Siberia and China, followed by total war with the West. [7] Total war required the cooperation of the bureaucracy and the zaibatsu to maximize Japan’s industrial and military capacity. In 1936, the two factions would merge to form the Imperial Way Faction nationalist party.
 
With the goal of overthrowing the political and economic elite, allegedly to save Japan from the evil influences controlling the emperor, the far-right terrorist organization Ketsumeidan (League of Blood), composed of student radicals and young Japanese military cadets led by Inoue Nissho, assassinated Finance Minister Inoue Junnosuke (no relation) on February 9, 1932 and Baron Dan Takuma, the Director General of Mitsui, Japan’s largest zaibatsu conglomerate on March 5, 1932.  On May 15, 1932, Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, born to a former samurai family, was assassinated because he objected to the army’s expansion into Manchuria. He wanted to negotiate for peace with China. Attempts to bomb the Mitsubishi Bank and Tokyo police headquarters occurred on the same day. [8] Inoue Nissho, after minimal rehabilitation, would maintain a prominent right-wing position after WWII.
 
By 1933, Tokyo faced the largest public debt in Japanese history. The Diet (Japan’s parliament) made it substantially larger by authorizing massive loans in order to pay the expenses of the Army and Navy and to balance the budget on paper. The yen was taken off the gold standard, contributing to endless spending and an inevitable crash. War Minister General Araki wasn’t interested or concerned about fiscal issues. [9] Araki served as Minister of Education from 1938 to 1939 during which time he integrated militaristic ideals and fascism into the national education system. [10]
 
Fascism may include the following characteristics: extreme forms of patriotism and nationalism; an authoritarian hierarchical, highly centralized government; neutralization of individual rights; economic regimentation due to covert complicity between big corporations and government officials; suppression of opposition through media vilification; militarization of local police; military appointments based on a corporate agenda; propagated fear of communism, terrorism, false flag incidents etc. to control the population and usurp individual freedoms while pretending to purge imagined enemies; corruption of capitalism – seen in the devised consolidation of business, stock market manipulation, job outsourcing and procurement of cheap labor at the expense of the middle class.
 
On July 7, 1937 there was another false flag attack at the Marco Polo Bridge, outside of Peking. This incident, similar to the Mukden Incident, escalated into a Japanese invasion of China which allegedly would be over in three months. President Roosevelt threatened sanctions but the many banker-backed members of Congress resisted. Additionally, Wall Street’s pro-Japanese lobby backed by the J. P. Morgan Bank and some influential American corporations wanted to protect their huge investments in Japan, Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan. [11]
 
The false flag incident took place just prior to the bloody siege of Shanghai and Japan’s invasion of Nanking. The Prime Minister at the time was 46-year-old Prince Konoe Fumimaro, who still resented what he considered the racial rebuff of the Versailles Treaty which he asserted protected Anglo-American interests. He was also critical of the deliberate collapse of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, also according to the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Therefore, he favored Germany, also resentful of the very biased treaty. Konoe endorsed the use of force in Manchuria, allegedly for national survival. [12]
 
Spurned by the West, Japan went its own way militarily. The Soviet Union, viewed as an immediate threat, was placed in the same category as Britain and America – they were potential enemies who could not be trusted. As early as 1924, the U.S. had restricted Japanese immigration. “Yellow fear” was promulgated by U.S. journalists and labor leaders. Japanese aggression against China, exposed in the media, generated bad press, particularly in a post-war environment. Washington’s China Lobby used this to their benefit. Hirohito anticipated eventual war with the West if his army continued its aggression against the mainland. [13]
 
On August 15, 1937, the day after Japan’s assault against Shanghai, General Matsui Iwane was summoned to Japan’s Imperial Palace by Emperor Hirohito to be declared commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army Shanghai Expeditionary Force. Matsui bowed repeatedly then left the palace with Prince Konoe Fumimaro, the prime minister appointed by Hirohito on June 4, 1937. “There is no solution,” said the obedience-trained soldier to the prime minister, “except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what we must do.” [14]
 
Chronically ill General Matsui was only in Nanking for less than three days (December 17-19). Matsui was probably a well-placed premeditated patsy for Prince Asaka. The predictable and obedient Matsui would be physically and mentally unable to halt the slaughter of non-threatening civilians. He would be sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). Prince Asaka, who actually directed the horrific atrocities perpetrated against thousands of citizens of Nanking, was never interrogated or even asked to testify. [15] (See more details about the Rape of Nanking in part 14 of this series.)
 
Hirohito was fully aware of the atrocities committed in Nanking. Previously, he had suspended the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners. After he was informed of the atrocities, he did not condemn them or attempt to prevent further atrocities. In fact, on February 26, 1938, Hirohito had entertained the three generals associated with Nanking at the Imperial summer villa Hayama where he praised their efforts in Nanking and presented each of them with a pair of silver vases, perhaps pilfered from some poor victim. [16]
 
In October 1937, the Imperial General Headquarters was established on the palace grounds so that Emperor Hirohito, commander in chief, could fully direct joint military activities between the conscription-based Japanese Army and Navy. Hirohito met regularly with the two chiefs of staff, the army and navy ministers, the chiefs of the operations sections, and his chief aide-de-camp. By November 1937, the Imperial General Headquarters – Government Liaison Conference was initiated to integrate the activities of the Army and Navy General Staff with Hirohito’s government. [17] It was at one of the regular Liaison meetings that Hirohito reinforced Japan’s looting policies, started in 1895 in Korea, in a document entitled Principles for the Implementation of Military Administration in the Occupied Southern Area. This document dictated the following: the military was to (1) forcibly seize all strategic materials (2) compel the conquered populace to fully fund for their own occupation (3) terrorize the subjugated inhabitants to viciously crush any and all opposition. [18]
 
Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro had initiated the push for the “Asia for Asians” campaign through the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, to include Japan, China and Manchukuo. Though already a reality, the coalition was formally announced on August 1, 1940 by Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke, who wanted to build an empire while claiming to free Asia from imperialism. The Japanese elite felt that Japanese people were superior to other Asian people, as evidenced by their wholesale slaughter of the latter.
 
The plan to specifically attack Pearl Harbor was not a secret. Joseph Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Japan heard the rumors in January 1941. If there should be a collapse in the relationship with the U.S. then the Japanese would perpetrate a massive attack against them at Pearl Harbor. The ambassador reported this troubling news to Washington. Additionally, U.S. code-breakers had broken the code using a decoding device called “Magic” and could read every message sent to Japanese diplomats all over the world. The decoding machines were sent to London, Singapore and the Philippines but not to the military facilities at Pearl Harbor. By November 1941, alerts about a Japanese attack were circulated to the U.S. commanders in the Philippines and Panama but not to General Short or Admiral Kimmel, the commanding officers at Pearl Harbor. [19]
 
Britain wanted the U.S. in the war in order to crush Germany, an axis ally of Japan and Italy through the Tri-partite pact. On November 10, 1941, Winston Churchill said that if war broke out between Japan and the U.S. that Britain would declare war on Japan “within the hour.” Both Roosevelt and Churchill knew the details of the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack in advance. Britain had cracked the naval JN-25 code. U.S. Army attaché Colonel Bonner Fellers was told on December 6, 1941 that Japan planned their assault within 24 hours. A “day of infamy” attack on American soil was the only way Roosevelt could get Congress into the war for the benefit of Britain. [20] Churchill directed Roosevelt. The big question is – who was directing Churchill?
 

[1] The Yamato Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pgs. 154
[2] The Way of the Perfect, Time Magazine, January 23, 1933
[3] The Yamato Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pgs. 148-150
[4] Araki Sadao, Political and thinking career, Political and ideological works
[5] Ibid
[6] The Yamato Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pgs. 165
[7] Ibid, pgs. 148-150
[8] Ibid, pgs. 143-145
[9] The Way of the Perfect, Time Magazine, January 23, 1933
[10] Araki Sadao, Political and thinking career, Political and ideological works
[11] The Yamato Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pgs. 165-170
[12] Ibid
[13] Ibid, pgs. 143-145
[14] The Rape of Nanking : An Undeniable History in Photographs by Shi Young and James Yin, Innovative Publishing Group, Chicago, 1997, pg. pg. 282
[15] The Yamato Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pg. pg. 288
[16] The Rape of Nanking : An Undeniable History in Photographs by Shi Young and James Yin, Innovative Publishing Group, Chicago, 1997, pg. pg. 288
[17] Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix, HarperCollins, New York, 2000, pg. 327-328
[18] Gold Warriors, America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso Publishing, 2003, pg. 45. This book was exhaustively researched and has copious documentation to support it claims.
[19] Ibid, pg. 178
[20] The Yamamoto Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pgs. 181-192

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Deanna Spingola has been a quilt designer and is the author of two books. She has traveled extensively teaching and lecturing on her unique methods. She has always been an avid reader of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than entertain. She is active in family history research and lectures on that topic. Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center. She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current government policies, particularly as they relate to the Constitution. Her website is at: www.spingola.com
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The Power Elite Playbook, China: Shanghaied by Communism

Part Fifteen

Who and what motivated Japan’s brutal activities against its neighbors as described in part 14? Britain detrimentally meddled in Asia in the 19th century and America meddled in Asia in the 20th century – who was behind their actions? Kuhn, Loeb and Company financed Japan’s Russian invasion in 1905 while the European Rothschilds financed the Russians which somehow failed to receive timely armament delivery. Russia’s objectives, viable in 1895, were an ice-free Pacific port and the acquisition of just enough leased territory for the continuation of her transcontinental railway. [1] The conflict decimated Russia’s economy, preparatory to the well-planned revolution based on philosophy from Karl Marx (1818-83). The House of Rothschild, since 1863, had headquarters in four cities: London, Paris, Vienna and Frankfort. [2]
 
On January 30, 1902, Japan signed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance with Great Britain. Japan would be “the Crown’s policeman in Asia,” to do the dirty work – the killing and the dying. The alliance included high-interest loans from Rothschild-controlled British banks to finance Japan’s armament purchases and ships from British firms. Great Britain then demanded that Russia abandon the Kwantung Peninsula, territory leased from China six years before. Russia had already spent $300 million on improvements. [3] The alliance was renewed after the Russo-Japanese War and in 1911 after Japan’s annexation of Korea (part of Japan from 1910 to 1945). As directed, Japan adopted the gold standard. Carroll Quigley stated the following about the gold standard: “As a consequence, many persons, including financiers and economists, were astonished to discover, in the twentieth century, that the gold standard gave stable exchanges and unstable prices.” [4] Those who own/control the majority of any commodity, dictate its value, something to consider regarding the 50-year period of regimented Japanese plundering throughout Asia.
 
As part of the British/Japanese agreement, three hundred British-trained Japanese bankers set up the Japanese banking system. That banking system would create devastating hardships in 1927 and again in the 1990s. Great Britain, challenged with heavy war debt to America’s J. P. Morgan, would terminate the 1902 alliance in December 1921. J. P. Morgan and other banks, flush with war profits, focused on investment opportunities in Japan. [5]
 
Some of Japan’s generals had accepted bribes from Vickers-Maxim, the company that weaponized the small island country for the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. Vickers-Maxim tested their weaponry in the Spanish-American War (partly financed by J&W Seligman Co.) for the control of Cuba’s white gold (sugar). Vickers-Maxim supplied weapons for the Boer War (1899-1901) to seize the gold and diamond fields of the Witwatersrand. [6] Since those three wars, the Brotherhood of Death has targeted countries receptive to heavy weaponization, a financial windfall to the bankers of death and their cronies, the merchants of death. De-populating war is predictably followed by peace conferences and prudent disarmament, attended by bankers and Kissinger-style politicians. Acquiescent governments junk expensive weapons and shortly replace them with newer, more deadly, more expensive and more profitable weapons.
 
The Rothschilds were the biggest shareholders of Vickers-Maxim which was the creation, through company consolidations, of Sir Ernest Cassel, personal banker to Edward VII who reigned from January 22, 1901 to May 6, 1910. The king’s advisory staff included Leopold and Alfred de Rothschild and various members of the Sassoon family. Cassel was a close friend of Winston Churchill and his father, Randolph, an intimate friend of Nathaniel Rothschild. [7] Cassel made a fortune in Siberian gold mines, steel concerns and railway companies. [8] The House of Rothschild purchased the London-based Reuters International News Agency in the late 1800s. Just in time to propagandize World War I, the House of Rothschild bought control of major news agencies – Havas of France, and Wolff in Germany. [9] British foreign policy and Rothschild foreign policy were one and the same.
 
Yale University, due to a sizeable donation, was named after Elihu Yale (1649-1721) who was a governor of the British East India Company which began smuggling opium into China beginning in 1773. Yale would be the future home of Skull and Bones (S&B), founded in 1832 by William Russell (opium smuggler). Many S&B member families grew rich through drug dealing: Coffin, Sloane, Taft, Bundy, Payne and Whitney. Averell Harriman (S&B), former Ambassador to Moscow, was business partners with Prescott Bush (S&B), father of George H. W. Bush (S&B), who was appointed Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People’s Republic of China from September 26, 1974 – December 7, 1975. Clark T. Randt, Jr., (S&B) is the current U.S. Ambassador to China. Ambassadors are charged with representing U.S. corporate interests.
 
After Britain’s First Opium War (1839-1842) against China, the real power behind the Chinese Emperor was the Soong family who were agents of the House of Sassoon, Jewish multi-national opium traders originally from Baghdad who were later forced to flee to Bombay, India. They obtained exclusive rights from Great Britain to market opium to Shanghai and Hong Kong from which the queen received a healthy share of the millions of dollars of profit. By 1890, about 10 percent of China’s total population were opium smokers. [10] In 1874, attention was drawn to China’s alleged pervasive decadence by members of the Yale School of Divinity – no doubt because of all that opium. [11] So, in 1903, a year after the Japan/Great Britain alliance, Yale Divinity School established schools and hospitals throughout China – known as Yale in China.
 
The Sassoons preferred to run their financial interests from their luxurious English estates in order to socialize with royalty and other elites like A. J. Balfour, H. G. Wells and the rising Winston Churchill. [12] In addition to drug profits and in order to exploit India’s cheap labor force, Albert Sassoon established huge textile mills in Bombay. This early-day outsourcing destabilized the Lancashire mills and devastated the English citizens who depended on the mills for employment. In 1872, despite this economic assault, Albert was knighted by Queen Victoria, both economically unaffected by the collapse in the textile industry. [13] In 1887, Edward Albert Sassoon, son of Sir Albert, married Aline Caroline de Rothschild of the French banking family, grand-daughter of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, son of Mayer.
 
Dr. Sun Yat-sen (November 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925), revered as the Father of modern China and founder of the Nationalist Party (NP), was born in Guangdong province. He became an American citizen while living with an older brother in Hawaii where he embraced the concept – “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” He returned to China in 1883 and was baptized as a Christian. Troubled by British colonialism and exploitation, Dr. Sun left his medical practice and became involved in the reform plot of 1895, an attempt to establish a democracy. [14] The plot failed and several reformers were executed. Dr. Sun escaped. On October 11, 1896, he allegedly was kidnapped and kept prisoner in the Chinese Legation in London (established 1877). [15] He returned to China after the successful coup against the Qing emperor and was proclaimed Provisional President of the new Republic of China on December 29, 1911. He hoped to establish peace, freedom, and equality in the country. [16] However, most of northern China was controlled by unsupportive war lords.
 
Dr. Sun Yat-sen married Soong Ching-ling, his second wife, one of the Soong sisters, in Japan on October 25, 1915. His brothers-in-law were Harvard-educated Tse-ven Soong, head of the Sassoon-controlled Bank of China, and financier H.H. Kung, Minister of Finance. Tse-ven Soong was the governor of the Central Bank of China and later Minister of Finance (1928 – 1931, 1932 – 1933). The Soong family, with Rothschild/Sassoon money, controlled the Chinese government and had carved up the country into drug regions dominated by warlords. Both the British Crown and the Soong family profited substantially from their mind-destroying, highly addictive opium business. [17]
 
In 1921, in an attempt to unify China, Dr. Sun established a military government in the Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong Province in southern China. He was then elected as president and generalissimo. [18] The Whampoa Military Academy was established in 1924 with Chiang Kai-shek as its commandant. The academy was supplied, financed and staffed by Russian military advisors. Sun Yat-sen’s principle military advisor, Soviet General Vasily Blucher, had helped found the academy. At least seven hundred cadets were from the Green Gang. [19]
 
In order to hasten the conquest of the warlords in northern China, he accepted Soviet help and cooperated with local communists after he had been rejected by the western powers (as Ho Chi Minh had been when he petitioned Woodrow Wilson at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference and again by Truman in 1945 and 1946 when he wrote asking for assistance). Sun died of liver cancer on March 12, 1925, at the age of 58 at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital which was founded in 1921 by the Rockefeller Foundation after he established the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1915 to westernize traditional Chinese medical practices. [20] Millions of Chinese patients connoted major profits.
 
Sun Yat-sen’s death split the Nationalist Party (NP). Right-wing Chiang Kai-shek took over the National Revolutionary Army and left-wing Wang Jingwei took over the national government, the perfect scenario for civil war. With Soviet troops commanded by General Michael Borodin, Chiang Kai-shek looted the vaults of the Rothschild/Sassoon/Soong bank in Shanghai, the nation’s banking center. This infuriated the bankers. Tse-ven Soong made Chiang a tempting offer if he would switch loyalties – $3 million in cash, his sister Mai-Ling Soong (the sister of Dr. Sun’s widow) and the presidency of China for life. Chiang agreed. He ordered the Russians out of China and became a British agent. [21] When Chiang and Soong were married, Tse-ven Soong presented his sister with his personal mansion. [22]
 
Chiang Kai-shek married Mai-Ling Soong, the sister of a Rothschild agent, on December 1, 1927 and was “chosen” president of China on October 10, 1928. [23] Chiang’s new alliances were revealed when he inexplicably abandoned Nanking, then the capital of the Republic of China, and exposed its vulnerable citizens to six weeks of brutal savagery by the invading Japanese beginning on December 13, 1937.
 
By 1920, Shanghai, the focus of western economic interest, contained the majority of the country’s industrial workers and the biggest base of Communist support in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dominated Shanghai’s municipal government. The NP and the CCP were officially still allies. [24] Yet, on April 12, 1927, acting on orders from the Extraterritorial International Settlements on Shanghai headed by Lord William Johnston Keswick[25], the Green Gang Syndicate and Chiang Kai-shek, leading the Nationalist Army in a reign of terror, purged the leftists and labor activists from Shanghai in what is referred to as the Shanghai Massacre. They executed 5,000 to 6,000 of those captured and drove the CCP underground. [26] Within six months the Chinese Communist movement was halted as many as twenty-five thousand perished in Shanghai, Nanking, Wusih, Soochow, Changchow, Hangchow, and Canton. [27] Probably, most of those who perished could not even fully elaborate on the Communist ideology but wished to alleviate their own misery and poverty.
 
Chiang had been introduced to the Green Gang as early as 1906 and was sponsored for membership in 1908 and participated in gang activities as an officer of the Chinese army prior to the 1911 revolution. His police record in the British-administered international settlement in Shanghai included murder, extortion, and armed robbery. [28]
 
The Green Gang, operating from the French concession, was a criminal cabal and the most powerful secret society in China which was absorbed into the corporate state system after 1932. When opium imports were banned in 1917, drug dealing went underground and the Shanghai traffickers set up their own refineries. Thereafter, illegal drug distribution was dominated by the Green Gang, headed by Tu Yue-sheng who was head of the Chung Wai Bank and chairman of the board of directors of the Commercial Bank of China which made it easy to finance his drug enterprise. [29]
 
Lord Keswick actually directed China’s opium policy through Tse-ven Soong, who carried out the day-to-day business operations for Jardine Matheson from 1927 to 1942. Keswick was the Director of Jardine Matheson and was closely associated with the management of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Additionally, he was Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Director of the Bank of England, Vice-Chairman of Alliance Assurance, and Director of British Petroleum. Shanghai became a drug depot. Earlier, Keswick had collaborated with Sam and Abe Bronfman to found the Pure Drug Company to illegally distribute whiskey into Canada. [30]
 
In June 1932, Tse-ven Soong resigned as Finance Minister after failing to raise sufficient money to fight communism. He agreed to return if the government of China would resort to opium as a new revenue source which might solve China’s financial crisis. Consequently, millions of acres were taken out of food production which greatly impacted food-short China and reduced peasant survival. The worst famine occurred in the Shaanxl Province between 1928 and 1933, wiping out a third of the population. As many as six million lives were lost in four provinces. [31]
 
Personal freedoms have been under world-wide attack, especially since the inception of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its spin-off organizations which played a part in the tyrannical control in the Far East. In 1925, the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was established in twelve countries. It was financed by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations and controlled by an alliance of Morgan and Rockefeller interests in Wall Street. [32] Other financing came from Standard Oil, IT&T, Vacuum Oil, Shell Oil, International Business Machines (IBM), International General Electric, Time Magazine, J. P. Morgan, National City Bank and Chase National Bank and private individuals with Wall Street connections. [33]
 
Harry Dexter White and Owen Lattimore, both high-level State Department officials, were members of the IPR and planned the destruction of the Chinese economy. They falsified documents claiming that the Chinese Communists were simply farmers promoting agricultural reform. From 1943-49, popular U.S. magazines, like the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers, sanctioned the Communist movement. Mao Tse-tung, who had fought on the side of Dr. Sun’s revolutionaries in 1911, was portrayed as a reformer. In 1945, Lattimore suggested, to President Truman, a Communist/Nationalist coalition government which became the basis of Truman’s China policy, announced on December 15, 1945. [34] Dr. Chi Chao-ting, who collaborated with Soviet intelligence agents, worked for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and subsequently became a high Chinese Communist official. [35]
 
The IPR’s party line and the Kremlin’s party line emanate from the same source – the left wing of the Hegelian Dialectic (orchestrated opposition). The right-wing is Fascism. Darwin-influenced Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) founded Nietzscheism, a forerunner of the Fascism, embraced after WWI by Mussolini and Hitler. Mussolini’s Doctrine of Fascism, co-written by Giovanni Gentile and Marx’s earlier Communist Manifesto (1848) provided the polar political opposites that bred the Cold War.
 
Lattimore left the IPR to assume a post as Chiang Kai-shek’s political advisor in 1941. He had been recommended by fellow traveler, Lauchlin Currie, economic advisor to President Roosevelt. [36] The U.S. government predictably adopted the IPR plan to cut aid and ammunition to Chiang Kai-shek, ultimately resulting in the suppression of 600,000,000 Chinese between 1945 and 1949. [37] But Chiang got his $3 million, a mansion, a well-connected wife and a relatively cushy life. The Chinese who survived, the so-called, collateral damage, got tyrannical Communism.
 

[1] China in Transformation by Archibald R. Colquhoun, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1912. Pg. 147
[2] The House of Rothschild, Paris Conference, October 11, 1863, The New York Times
[3] Descent into Slavery by Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, Oregon, 2001, pgs. 190-199
[4] Tragedy And Hope, A History of the World in our Time by Carroll Quigley, pg. 53
[5] The Yamoto Dynasty, the Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pgs. 101-102
[6] The World Order, A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism By Eustace Mullins,
[7] Churchill’s London: Spinning Top of Memories of Ungrand Places and Moments in Time by Martin Gilbert, M.A.
An address to The International Churchill Society, London, England, 17 September 1985
[8] Ernest Cassel
[9] Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The London Connection by Eustace Mullins, Chapter 5, pgs. 59-60
[10] Tales of Old Shanghai
[11] The Yale Divinity School, Lecture By Prof. Seelye–Missions– Condition Of Pagan World—Fail, The New York Times, December 12, 1874 This is a must read – so incredibly arrogant!
[12] The Empire of “The City”: The Secret History of British Financial Power by E. C. Knuth, CPA Books, 1995, pg. 75
[13] The Jewish Opium Trade and Britain, The Truth at Last: Hong Kong’s opium dens, October 1, 2007
[14] China in Transformation by Archibald R. Colquhoun, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1912. Pg. 106
[15] Sun Yat-sen by Marie-Claire Bergere, Janet Lloyd, Translated by Janet Lloyd, Stanford University Press, 2000, pg. 62
[16] China in Transformation by Archibald R. Colquhoun, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1912. Pg. 283-84
[17] Organized Crime
[18] Wikipedia: Sun Yat-sen
[19] The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics: A Study in Criminal Power
By Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt, Lexington Books, 2006   pages 78-82
[20] Rockefeller Fund Tells China Plans; Medical Board Will Operate Union College, Peking, on Most Modern Lines. Commission To Scan Field Scholarships Provided for Training in America — Women of Far East to be Taught.
June 16, 1915
[21] Descent into Slavery by Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, Oregon, 2001, pgs. 190-199
[22] Party Like it’s 1929 by Derek Sandhaus, August 22, 2008
[23] Descent into Slavery by Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, Oregon, 2001, pgs. 190-199
[24] The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics: A Study in Criminal Power
By Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt, Lexington Books, 2006   pages 78-82
[25] Dope, Inc., Executive Intelligence Review News Service, June 1992, pg 279
[26] Exploring Chinese History, Rebellion and Revolution – Nationalist Movement
[27] The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics: A Study in Criminal Power
By Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt, Lexington Books, 2006   pages 78-82
[28] Ibid
[29] Post Japanese
[30] Organized Crime
[31] Ibid
[32] Tragedy And Hope, A History of the World in our Time by Carroll Quigley, pg. 947
[33] Final Warning: A History Of The New World Order, Chapter Four, British East India Company
[34] Communism Comes to Asia and Cuba by David Allen Rivera
[35] Professor on Trial, Time Magazine, December 29, 1952
[36] American Involvement in China by Ah Kiang
[37] The Naked Capitalist by W. Cleon Skousen, pgs. 44-47

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The Nature Conspiracy in Southeast Colorado – Part 2

In cooperation with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and others, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund financed The Unfinished Agenda, a societal transformation “eco-totalitarian” blueprint for the U.S. which advocates the following: heavy gasoline taxation, “severe restrictions on the ownership and use of automobiles, population controls, an end to development of nuclear power and regimentation of agriculture and the food supply.” [1] The 274-page report was copyrighted in 2001 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) which partners with, among others, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) on sustainable solutions. “Sustainable” and “going green” fall into the globalist “newspeak” category. These international enviro groups receive money from the Rockefeller Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S.  Department of Agriculture, the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Alcoa Foundation and others. [2]
 
Today, the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), created by the Rockefeller Family Fund in 1985, represents 225 foundations and is an affinity group of the Council on Foundations. [3] It is described by the American Land Rights Association (ALRA) as “a cartel of eco-money” that “lavishes millions on eco-agitators.” This “cartel,” through its “hundreds of millions” controls the environmental activist movement to carry out Agenda 21. Money is also appropriated through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to government schools to create an “environmentally literate public” to produce “a public that accepts the Green Gospel uncritically.” [4]
 
These conservation efforts appear noble! To conceal their agenda and gain public approval, corporations sedate the tax-poor public through influential tax-exempt foundations which finance non-profit groups that purportedly promote peace, health and conservation. Some people can see through the conservation charade. On October 13, 2006, Kimmi Lewis, Secretary of the Colorado Independent Cattle Grower’s Association pointed out that the Army and TNC are partners in this land and water seizure. A first step in this partnership is the establishment of buffer zones. [5]
 
“On December 14, 2000, the Department of the Army and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed a memorandum of understanding” with TNC whose president, Steven McCormick, “has bragged about his organization’s partnership with the Pentagon to acquire private land and funding for buffer zones around military bases.” [6] This was the same year (2000) that TNC “received $60,085,455 in contract fees from the federal government, plus $81,925,124 from the sale of private land to federal agencies.” So, just in that year alone, this group received “a total of at least $142,010,579, or a little more than 18% of its total revenue, from the federal government.” [7] That’s tax-payer money – the government produces nothing!
 
If one looks deeply into some of the environmental groups, one will find big money, big foundations, and big oil. These land-grabbing, resource-grabbing greedy globalists use their money and power to obstruct independent business from simply making a living on their own land, often owned by family for generations. [8] Since 1992, Colorado has lost 2.89 million acres of agricultural land. Continued losses, about 690 acres per day, threaten the state-wide economy and the future of rural Colorado. [9] Ranchers are disappearing – “over the last twenty years, about half a million ranchers sold off their cattle and quit the business.” The remaining ranchers are “fairing poorly.” Some work second jobs, sell their cattle at break-even prices or worse – at a loss. Ranch families who have frugally managed to operate profitably often must sell off “large chunks of land.” This further reduces “productive capacity.” [10]
 
While condemning environmental degradation, prominent environmental groups have embraced Public-Private Partnerships and have made a noticeable shift to a “market-based approach to conservation.” Many have literally “opened their doors to “transnational corporate leaders,”[11] including TNC. The “benevolent” elite Board of Directors hide behind a façade of sincere activists and local trustworthy managers. The TNC’s Board of Directors is a veritable list of government-friendly, corporate globalists who are quite open about their “governance” goals. “Governance – as opposed to Government means ‘control by rules, restrictions and regulations.’ That is totally opposed to “our elective, representative form of government” where laws are passed by elected officials, allegedly in “pursuance of the Constitution.” [12]
 
TNC, spawned in 1951, claims that it has protected more than 117 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers, worldwide. It operates more than 100 marine conservation projects globally, has more than 1 million members, and works in all 50 states and in more than 30 countries— protecting habitats from grasslands to coral reefs, from Australia to Alaska to Zambia. [13] TNC received funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation between 1966 and 1983. [14]  “TNC is governed as a single, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization by a worldwide, volunteer Board of Directors and is managed from its worldwide office in Arlington, Virginia.” [15]
 
“TNC says it owns or has under conservation easement 1,177,000 acres in its private preserve system. Good. TNC also says it has protected 10.5 million acres in the United States. Good. If they own only 1.17 million of that 10.5 million, what happened to the other 9.3 million acres? They sold a lot of it to the government. TNC bought private land from private owners who thought it would remain in private hands and sold it to the government. TNC is a conduit for the nationalization of private property – nearly ten million acres so far.” “In fiscal year 1996, TNC spent $419,729 on lobbying. In 1997-98 TNC spent $993,396 on lobbying. TNC spent $3,191,930 on lobbying in 2000.” [16] Remember, that’s the year they teamed up with the Pentagon, the planet’s biggest polluters. This is a must-see, 124-page list of corporate contributors to TNC. This group cares little about conservation or the southeast Colorado ranchers!
 
On July 17, 2008, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2009. Allard is on that committee. It didn’t include an extension on the moratorium, requested by Senator Salazar. He says he is going to check into it. [17] An examination of the stock portfolios of the committee members might prove interesting. Senator Diane Feinstein, a committee member, had to leave her previous position as chairman and ranking member of the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee in March 2007 when it was discovered that her husband, Richard C. Blum, had been the recipient of “billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts” that she had approved. [18] Decades ago, major conflicts of interest would have resulted in prosecution.
 
In that same bill (the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2009) Senator Salazar was able to get almost $700 million for key military construction projects and veterans’ priorities for Colorado. Some of the taxpayer’s money will be used to acquire land for a buffer zone. New armories are being built. Fort Carson will get $631 million for “the return of the 4th Infantry Division and the additional brigades we will be hosting.” All of this, according to Salazar, is “vital to our military readiness.” [19]
 
Will Philipp Holzmann AG, who through the Fort Carson Family Housing Limited Liability Corporation, make additional millions by building even more military housing at Fort Carson to accommodate relocated personnel? The taxpayers paid for the previous construction but Holzmann’s company, not the taxpayers, will collect millions in rents. Read about it here. Congress spends fiat money printed by the Federal Reserve and politically-connected Public-Private Partnerships profit. What a despicable scam against the American citizens, knowingly orchestrated by our Congress!
 
On July 17, 2008, Keith Eastin, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment, publicly claimed that the “Army did not feel in any way constrained by a Congressional funding ban.” Jim Herrell, Board member of expansion opposition group Not 1 More Acre!, said “It is an outrage that the Pentagon believes it can flout the clear intent of voters, taxpayers and lawmakers.” Expansion opponents “demanded that Senator Salazar oppose pending legislation that would trigger a 60-day countdown to the military acquisition of property.” [20] Eastin said the Army has already budgeted for land acquisition notwithstanding the current ban on the expansion in the 2008 federal budget. He admitted that congressional approval was also needed to actually buy the land. [21]
 
After Eastin’s remarks, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave wrote to Army Secretary Pete Geren “requesting a ‘clear and full accounting of any funds allocated towards the intention of purchasing said land’ by July 31.” [22]
 
Then on July 17, 2008, the Army compromised, allegedly because of opposition from ranchers. Instead of 418,000 acres, they want 100,000 acres. Army Secretary Pete Geren (close Rumsfeld crony) “scaled back” the original request and would like the 100,000 acres south of the existing site. [23] Excuse my skepticism, this appears to be a Hegelian Dialectical tactic (government creates a major crisis to engage the masses; the government compromises; citizens accept the compromise). Eastin said: “We have done a lot of soul-searching, and the upcoming report we will submit to Congress is an honest effort to find common ground on this issue.” [24] This is just round one. The Army will be back to plunder the rest of your land!
 
Craig J. Walker, a Denver businessman, owns that 100,000 acres south of PCMS. [25] He recently purchased the 60,000-acre River Canyon Ranch and he owns the 40,000-acre Bow & Arrow Ranch. He stated that he isn’t interested in selling to the Army and doesn’t endorse PCMS expansion but “wants to place the land in conservation easements.” [26] In fact, it appears he has already made those arrangements. He said: “It has been a good experience working with the Nature Conservancy and its very capable staff. One of my very important goals has been to put my ranch lands into conservation easements for ‘future generations to enjoy.’” [27] “Future generations to enjoy” is right out of the globalist “newspeak” handbook. A year ago Walker, Piñon Canyon’s largest landowner, said that “I’ve never spoken to anyone from the Army about my ranches.” [28] So then, it was the Pentagon he must have spoken to, right?
 
In 1977, Craig J. Walker founded the Walker Component Group, Inc. (WCG), also known as Integrated Electronics Corp. (IEC), a firm that is listed as a supplier in the Department Of Defense Handbook. Previously, he was an OEM buyer for Ball Aerospace Division of Colorado. WCG has 7 locations throughout the U.S. and is one of the “premier distributors of semi-conductors, switches, relays, connectors, passive components and electro-mechanical components.” [29] Walker, who appears to maintain a very low profile, is part owner of First Southwest Bank in Alamosa which received approval to open a de novo bank on December 18, 2003 with other organizers: David Broyles, Robert Hummel, John Smith, and Timothy Gallagher. [30] A de novo bank is a state member bank that has been in operation for five years or less.
 
Promises, promises – the current promises include (according to Eastin): (1) the creation of 100 or more permanent jobs, (2) it will bring about $50,000 a week into the local economy. Given the state of our depressed-because-of-militarization and never-ending-foreign-war economy, those promises sound like bribery. Oh, and (3) “you won’t see us back here for another 15 or 20 years.” [31] Sounds like the same song and dance lies of 1982.
 
In 1982, the Army promised that (1) PCMS would bring prosperity to the area by using local resources and labor, (2) PCMS would never be expanded, (3) schools would receive payment-in-lieu of taxes to replace family ranches removed from the tax base, (4) there would never be live fire used at PCMS and (5) the Army would be good stewards over the land and natural resources. NONE of these promises were kept! [32] There is no reason to believe any past, present or future claims made by the Army.
 
The Nature Conspiracy in Southeast Colorado – Part 1

[1] Behind the Environmental Lobby: It May Seem Stranger Than Fiction, but It’s a Documentable Fact: The Eco-Socialist Movement Is Financed by the Super-Rich as Part of a Comprehensive Agenda for Global Control by William Norman Grigg, The New American, Vol. 21, April 4, 2005, Page 17
[2] International Food Policy Research Institute, sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty
[3] The Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA)
[4] Behind the Environmental Lobby: It May Seem Stranger Than Fiction, but It’s a Documentable Fact: The Eco-Socialist Movement Is Financed by the Super-Rich as Part of a Comprehensive Agenda for Global Control by William Norman Grigg, The New American, Vol. 21, April 4, 2005, Page 17
[5] Army Quietly Maneuvers for Massive Colorado Training Site by Cara DeGette, Aug 16, 2006
[6] Piñon Canyon Expansion: Plan pits ranchers against Army, Nature Conservancy by Kimmi Clark Lewis, August 6, 2006
[7] The Nature Conservancy by Ron Arnold
[8] Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance by Ron Arnold
[9] National Trust’s 20th list of America’s most endangered historic places
[10] Fast Food Nation, the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, Harper Perennial, 2002, pp. 133-147
[11] Silence Is Beholden; Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight? By Liza Grandia, Grist Magazine, June 2, 2005
[12] Regionalism: Sneaking America Into World Government by Jackie Patru, December 2000
[13] Welcome to The Nature Conservancy
[14] Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives
[15] Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy
[16] The Nature Conservancy by Ron Arnold
[17] Sen. Salazar’s Statement on Piñon Canyon Developments, July 17, 2008
[18] Feinstein quits committee under war-profiteer cloud Report documents military contracts for firms owned by senator’s husband, March 28, 2007
[19] Sen. Salazar Announces Nearly $700M in Funding for Colorado Military Installations and Veterans’ Priorities, July 17, 2008
[20] Press Release, Not 1 More Acre! Trinidad, Colorado 81082, July 17, 2008 http://www.not1moreacre.net/docs    
[21] Army wants to speed up Piñon Canyon land buy by Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain, July 18, 2008
[22] Press Release, Not 1 More Acre! Trinidad, Colorado 81082, July 17, 2008 http://www.not1moreacre.net/docs  
[23] Army wants to speed up Piñon Canyon land buy by Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain, July 18, 2008
[24] Army Only Wants 100,000 More Acres At Piñon Canyon, July 17, 2008
[25] Army offers to scale back Piñon Canyon expansion by Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain, July 16, 2008
[26] Army claims willing Piñon sellers, A county official says some land is for sale, but folks aren’t likely to sell to the feds By Cynthia Pasquale, March 7, 2008
[27] The Nature Conservancy and Colorado Department of Transportation Partner to Conserve Colorado’s Disappearing Grasslands Cornerstone Easement Second Largest in Colorado Conservancy’s History Pueblo, Colorado, 18 August 2006
[28] Ranchers Scoff At Army’s Claim Some Want To Sell Neighbors Rally Against Piñon Canyon Expansion, July 2, 2008
[29] Walker Component Group
[30] For the record, Northwestern Financial Review,  Apr 1-Apr 14, 2004
[31] Army wants to speed up Piñon Canyon land buy by Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain, July 18, 2008
[32] Why is the Pentagon Trying to Take this Land—When is Enough, Enough? The Army’s Broken Promises: Initial Establishment of the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS) NO Piñon Canyon Expansion, Piñon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition

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Buried in the Back Yard

Dig anywhere in Iraq & find wall-to-wall weapons caches?

Anyone who has ever read anything I’ve written since George W. Bush stole the presidential election in 2000 will know that when it comes to writing about Bush, Cheney and the neocons, nothing is sacred. I’ve lampooned them, criticized them, exposed them for the crooks and liars that they are, demanded that they be put in jail IMMEDIATELY and made jokes at their expense. However, I’ve always had the utmost respect for the American military and have never ever made jokes at their expense.

Until now.

I’m sorry, guys, but I just can’t resist.

Several months ago I got an e-mail from a US military press information center in Baghdad, asking me if I wanted to be on their “Press Release” mailing list. Sure! Maybe I could get some hot tips. And I did. What I discovered was that, according to these daily press releases, apparently there is nothing but wall-to-wall weapons caches lying just underground all over Iraq! Dig anywhere in that country and instead of coming up with oil or date-palm roots or garbage or sewer lines or graves, you will find nothing but weapons caches! Judging by these press releases, the whole country is one big freaking “cache cow”!

Enclosed below some samples of the press releases I have received over the space of only one week. Admit it, guys, this really IS good satire material. Apparently, according to the releases that are flooding my inbox daily, all you gotta do is dig down more than one foot deep anywhere in Iraq and you’ll find mortar rounds, rocket launchers, machine guns, dynamite, detonation cords, hand grenades and/or IEDs.

So. After reading approximately 40 or 50 of the US military’s press releases listing all kinds of weapons caches buried in Iraq, what have I learned? I’ve learned that either the US military is really good at digging up stuff, that the insurgency is still going strong even after five long hard bloody years of occupation, or that the weapons manufacturers of the world have a HUGE demand for their products and are experiencing yet another year of fabulous profits!

But there is an up-side to the weapons-cache situation in Iraq. According to journalist Tom Engelhardt, Bush and Cheney are now building or have already built approximately 200 permanent American bases and mega-bases there. “By now,” stated Engelhardt, “billions have evidently gone into single massive mega-bases like the U.S. air base at Balad, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. It’s a ’16-square-mile fortress,’ housing perhaps 40,000 U.S. troops, contractors, special ops types and Defense Department employees. As the Washington Post’s Tom Ricks, who visited Balad back in 2006, pointed out — in a rare piece on one of our mega-bases — it’s essentially ‘a small American town smack in the middle of the most hostile part of Iraq.’ Back then, air traffic at the base was already being compared to Chicago’s O’Hare International or London’s Heathrow — and keep in mind that Balad has been steadily upgraded ever since to support an ‘air surge’ that, unlike the President’s [sic] 2007 ‘surge’ of 30,000 ground troops, has yet to end.”

So. We can now rest assured that not ALL of the ground under Iraq contains wall-to-wall weapons caches. All those vast expanses of Iraq that are now covered with American military bases — or which will be covered with even more American military bases in the near future — are gonna be cache-free. Whew! That’s a relief!

Here are the promised samples of press releases regarding weapons caches found in Iraq — and this is just a example of what I get in my inbox within the space of any given week.

CAMP STRIKER, Iraq — Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 25th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division found a cache of multiple mortar rounds near Abu Hamid, about 30 kilometers southwest of Baghdad, May 1. Acting on a tip, the soldiers found a cache in two different holes that consisted of over 40 mortar rounds, a 120 mm artillery round, 12 boosters, one canister of TNT and various illumination round components.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq — Coalition forces found a weapons cache of explosively formed penetrators in the southern Baghdad community of Warij May 2. Soldiers from 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division were on patrol in Warij when they discovered four EFPs hidden in a closet shelf in a factory office. A brand new 107 mm rocket was also discovered. The EFPs were covered with foam and had wires leading from the back. The cache also included 40 pounds of unknown bulk explosives, a rocket sled and blasting caps.

BAGHDAD — A local citizen’s tip led to a cache find in Kartani Fahal village in Sadr al-Yusifiyah, about 25 kilometers southwest of Baghdad. After receiving the tip, Soldiers from 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), arrived on the scene to find Abna al-Iraq, or Sons of Iraq, already recovering the cache, with Iraqi Army troops providing security. The cache contained 36 mortars, 17 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, 11 rocket-propelled grenade launch motors, an improvised rocket launcher, two rockets, a hand grenade, seven 50-pound bags of homemade explosives, over 300 rounds, and 400 blasting cap primers, a mortar tripod and three mortar tube sites as well as other bomb-making materials.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq — Multi-National Division — Center soldiers discovered a weapons cache while patrolling the town of Wardia, Iraq. The cache belonged to a local criminal group known for targeting Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition forces 50 miles northeast of Baghdad. Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, and 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, found the cache through tips from Abna
al-Iraq, or Sons of Iraq, and National Police sources. The cache included Iranian rocket-propelled grenades, RPG launchers, propellant, multiple trip flares, a heavy machine gun, ski masks and ISF uniforms.

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Army Scouts with 1st IA Division, advised by U.S. Special Operations Forces, discovered three weapons cache sites in al-Karmah, approximately 27 miles northwest of Baghdad. IA conducted an operation in the area to find and recover al-Qaeda in Iraq weapons caches in the area. Three separate caches were found containing a total of 24,000 .50 caliber rounds, 50 mortar rounds of various sizes, and 2,000 gallons of nitric acid, a substance used to make homemade explosives.

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — While conducting operations in Warij, a local Iraqi led soldiers to a munitions cache. Three criminals were also detained. Two have been linked to indirect fire attacks against Coalition forces south of Baghdad. The cache contained four mortar rounds, a bag of machine-gun ammunition, three cans of DSHKA ammunition and a rocket-propelled grenade motor.

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Security Forces, Sons of Iraq (Abna al-Iraq) and Multi-National Division — Baghdad soldiers seized caches and recovered weapons across Baghdad. At approximately 9:20 a.m., SOI members in Adhamiyah discovered a possible improvised explosive device that had been inadvertently picked up by a sanitation truck. The SOI found two 81 mm projectiles, a 120 mm Hera Mark I mortar, a projectile booster and detonation cord.

At approximately 10:45 a.m., Iraqi National Police, along with soldiers from the Company D, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized munitions found in an abandoned mosque while conducting a patrol in east Rashid. MND-B soldiers secured the area as the Iraqi Police obtained permission to enter the mosque. The Iraqi Police entered the abandoned mosque and seized two containers of home-made explosive, a rocket-propelled grenade with launcher and a smoke grenade, along with an Iraqi Army uniform.

At approximately 6:50 a.m., soldiers with Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discovered a weapons cache containing three 107 mm rockets, five RPGs, a 60 mm mortar and 200 rounds of PKC light machine gun ammunition during a combat patrol in west Rashid.

At approximately 4 p.m., soldiers with Co. B, 4th Bn., 64th Armored Regt., discovered a weapons cache consisting of eight 155 mm projectiles and five 60 mm mortar rounds while on patrol in west Rashid.

Did you note that bad guys in Iraq are no longer being called insurgents, terrorists, Al Qaeda, militias or even The Enemy in these press releases now? Now they are simply being referred to as “criminals”.

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