The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a fa ade of plutocracy: since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers.
Instead of the feudal structure of society, the plutocratic stepped in; birth is no more the decisive factor for social rank, but income is. Today's plutocracy is mightier than yesterday's aristocracy: because nobody is above it but the state, which is its tool and helper's helper.
When there was still true blood nobility, the system of aristocracy by birth was fairer than that of the moneyed aristocracy today: because then the ruling caste had a sense of responsibility, culture and tradition, whereas the class that rules today is barren of feelings of responsibility, culture or tradition.
This book tells the story of the series of secret agents who, since Napoleon I and the Great Game, precipitated the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and then obtained control of the world's oil supplies - for the West in general, and for the Anglo-Saxon world in particular - at the price of two world wars and countless regional conflicts. Though this saga is akin to an adventure story, the immense misfortunes which have fallen upon the oil-possessing nations for over a century are far from the stuff of dreams.
Current events confirm that the black gold spies have a great future ahead of them. But they also remind us that the spy business is well on the way to being privatised, meaning that, to paraphrase Montesquieu, the days when espionage might have been tolerated when exercised by honest people are gone for good. Given that the Western powers are not about to drop their double standards when it comes to the protection of their oil interests, the future does not look too bright.
Here are the simple facts of the great betrayal. Wilson and House knew that they were doing something momentous. One cannot fathom men's motives and this pair probably believed in what they were up to. What they did not believe in was representative government. They believed in government by an uncontrolled oligarchy whose acts would only become apparent after an interval so long that the electorate would be forever incapable of doing anything efficient to remedy depredations.
All of these central banks have the power of issuing currency in their respective countries. Thus, the people do not own their own money in Europe, nor do they own it here. It is privately printed for private profit. The people have no sovereignty over their money, and it has developed that they have no sovereignty over other major political issues such as foreign policy.
As a central bank of issue, the Federal Reserve System has behind it all the enormous wealth of the American people. When it began operations in 1913, it created a serious threat to the central banks of the impoverished countries of Europe. Because it represented this great wealth, it attracted far more gold than was desirable in the 1920s, and it was apparent that soon all of the world's gold would be piled up in this country. This would make the gold standard a joke in Europe, because they would have no gold over there to back their issue of money and credit. It was the Federal Reserve's avowed aim in 1927, after the secret meeting with the heads of the foreign central banks, to get large quantities of that gold sent back to Europe, and its methods of doing so, the low interest rate and heavy purchases of Government securities, which created vast sums of new money, intensified the stock market speculation and made the stock market crash and resultant depression a national disaster.
The Tavistock Institute for Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. It has been at the forefront of the attack on the American Constitution. No group produced more propaganda to encourage the United States to participate in the First World War at a time when the majority of the American people were opposed to it.
The same tactics were used by Tavistock's social scientists to get the US into World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and the two wars against Iraq. Tavistock began as a propaganda creation and dissemination organisation at Wellington House, London, in the run-up to the First World War, what Toynbee called 'that black hole of disinformation'. On another occasion, Toynbee described Wellington House as a 'factory of lies'. From somewhat rudimentary beginnings, Wellington House became the Tavistock Institute and shaped the destinies of Germany, Russia, Britain and the United States in a very controversial way. The people of these nations did not know that they were being 'brainwashed'. The origins of 'mind control', 'inner directional conditioning' and mass 'brainwashing' are explained in an easy-to-understand book written with great authority.
The fall of the Catholic dynasties, the Bolshevik revolution, the First and Second World Wars which saw the destruction of ancient alliances and frontiers, the convulsions of religion, the decline of morality, the destruction of family life, the collapse of the economic and political processes, the decadence in music and art can all be attributed to the mass indoctrination (mass brainwashing) practised by the social scientists of the Tavistock Institute. Among the members of the Tavistock faculty was Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew. It is said that Herr Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of the German Third Reich, used methods devised by Bernays as well as those of Willy Munzenberg, whose extraordinary career is recounted in this book about the past, present and future. Without Tavistock, there would have been no First and Second World Wars, no Bolshevik revolution, no wars in Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and Iraq. Without Tavistock, the United States would not be hurtling down the road to dissolution and collapse.
The first difficulty is that, over the last one hundred and fifty years, the term 'Jew' has come to be used in two very different ways. To understand this, let's imagine ourselves back in 1780. At that time, the meaning of this term for everyone coincided with what the Jews themselves considered to be the constitutive basis of their own identity.
This identity was essentially religious; moreover, the precepts of religion governed, down to the smallest daily detail, all aspects of the social and private life of Jews amongst themselves and in their relations with non-Jews. It was unthinkable for a Jew to drink even a glass of water in a non-Jew's home.
This situation was changed by a twofold process, which began in Holland and England, continued in France during the Revolution and in the countries that followed its example, and eventually spread to the modern monarchical states of the nineteenth century: in all these countries, Jews acquired numerous and important individual rights (and, in some cases, complete legal equality); and the judicial power that the Jewish community exercised over its members was abolished. It should be noted that these two developments were simultaneous, and that the second - although little known - is even more important than the first.
Esta novela de anticipaci n describe un golpe de estado liderado por blancos en los Estados Unidos. Los protagonistas del libro atacan al gobierno de Estados Unidos, pero tambi n a negros y jud os, a los que se describe como controladores del Estado norteamericano.
Los Diarios de Turner, sin embargo, proporcionan una visi n de la Gran Revoluci n que es singularmente valiosa por dos razones: