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"Why do you bother Pridger?"
one of Pridger's admirers asked, "Can't you find more constructive ways to spend
your time and energy than churning out an endless stream of articles and blog posts?"
Such pointy, yet seemingly pointless, questions
swell Pridger's heart with the sort of pride only a true philosopher could
appreciate. Why whistle into the winds of the
gathering tempest, with neither prompting nor encouragement – and without the least hope
of making enough money to cover even mouse and keyboard oil?
Pridger admits it's a habit of long standing,
born of a form of madness. He's driven by something he attributes to human
failings (though not exclusively his own).
And, in spite of the thankless
task he has shouldered (exposing what he considers systemic error and avarice on a monumental scale), it gives him a considerable amount of enjoyment and
satisfaction. Yet, he may one day tire of the pressure and take the cure.
In the
mean time, being
witness to what Pridger sees as the swift collapse of the greatest
socio-political experiment in recorded history – literally within Pridger's own
lifetime – is a very difficult matter to ignore and remain silent about. The
total breakdown of "government of the people, by the people, and
for the people," perhaps justifies a few more blog posts.
"Never,
discuss religion or politics," Pridger's old pappy used to admonish,
"If you aren't with the program, you'll just cause people to publicly compare you to the south end
of a northbound mule!"
Another bit of
fatherly advise was, "Keep your head down, or somebody will come
along and lop it off!"
Pridger's father was a
cynic. He'd given up on humanity and human institutions long before
Pridger had been born. He read much and refused to write anything,
though he'd once, before World War Two, aspired to be a pulp fiction
writer. In his old age he had found a good hole to repose in with his
books, and enjoyed life tremendously in his own little green and
isolated world. He depended on a small Social Security check for his
survival. That, to him, was sufficient hush money. He was comfortable,
and certainly didn't want to rock any boats anywhere.
He was a wise man. The
evidence of it was his own contentment with his meager lot in life,
though he was intimately aware of the foibles and folly rife in the
world just outside of his immediate field of view.
Pridger isn't
nearly so wise, nor as well read. But he does lay low and keeps his
head down, and lets the world spin around him. He's no activist or
organizer. He's never been a member of a political party, or bothered to
go to the polls. There's no point in it that he has been able to discern.
The voting polls don't work. They are effectively rigged, if not
technically rigged. "Democracy" on a national scale swiftly
became a deception and a joke. The overwhelming majority of voters
haven't got a clue. The mass media makes sure of that. The voters carry
every election, one way or another. Quality, knowledge, and
righteous wisdom of candidates are weeded out before the primaries. If a
good one somehow slips through, he'll be shot down in the primaries. The
media makes sure of that too. Or, if all else fails, and an elected
president bucks the system, he may be shot down in office –
discredited and impeached, or literally shot down.
Voting the rascals out doesn't work. History
has proven that. The overwhelming majority of replacement candidates are
rascals too, and most of those who are not either don't have a clue or
are careful to follow all the cues. Most
of the "good men" who have a clue, and get elected are soon
corrupted by the institutions in which they find themselves constrained.
Otherwise, how could things have gone so consistently astray, decade
after decade after decade? Certainly not because few people who have
a clue, or don't bother to vote. Unfortunately most of the clues are
even false leads anyway.
Democracy is a naturally rigged lottery
system. For every wise and informed voter who patriotically marches off
to the polls to fulfill his civic duty on election day, a thousand
others without a clue will show up, or be bused in by some special
interest group. All of them are convinced that they are participating in
a constructive and meaningful way in the vital machinery of
self-government.
So why bother trying to get a few simple points
across?
There comes a time when even the most
detached observer of national and international affairs can stand it no
longer, and must add his voice to the many other cries in the
wilderness. Even if nobody is listening!
Pridger felt the call a couple decades ago,
when it became apparent that the America he grew up in was quickly
ceasing to exist – in fact it was already gone – and it was by no means strictly a case of material
and technological progress that was making the difference. In fact, the
national political landscape was being subverted and overturned by a
rather peculiar and unlikely alliance of internationalist humanitarian
visionaries and the political and corporate agents of avarice, who –
without constitutional authority or a modicum of informed consent
on the part of the governed – fully intended to deliver up a whole
"New World Order."
The humanitarians
(representing liberalism), were simply trying to save the
world, of course – to "do good." But their more financially
powerful "doer and shaker" allies (representing capital,
and a peculiar
brand of conservatism), had an eye toward the unparalleled
profits that could be made under the cloak of a humanitarian One World
movement – using the United States of America as the moral
soapbox, economic springboard, superpower persuader, and super-charged
consumer market, to accomplish
their very worldly goals – the fruits of which we have been
enjoying for some time now (with much more promised).
While the most powerful movers and
shakers behind the movement (of whatever stripe), are seldom found in
elective office, they couldn't have succeeded without the passive
cooperation, or active collusion, of Congress and various successive presidential
administrations. And, of course, they couldn't have succeeded without
the active support of the major mass media. In it, they have had use of
the best propaganda machine, public relations organizations, and sales
forces, money could possibly buy.
As the old saying goes, money talks more loudly
than either words or principles – and in the political arena this is
particularly true. And far above the political fray there is sufficient
money to bend the will of most politicians no matter how altruistic they
may be. Providing the money and the guidance is a manipulative cadre of
well endowed philanthropists, intellectual visionaries, and moneyed
power brokers with the intent of bringing the world under their
exclusive control. Their most significant and powerful weapon is the
"money power" itself, with its power to field credit on a
massive scale. This elite group today comprises sort of
a global chamber of commerce, working for what they would characterize
as "the greater public good" – saving humanity from itself
while insuring security and perpetual profits for themselves.
There was always sufficient high sounding
rhetoric attached to the proposition of "saving the world"
(and the prospect of compounding personal wealth at the same time), that our so-called
representatives (of both political parties), have very consistently
played along, with most dancing to the correct tune every single step of
the way.
As they have danced merrily along, a mockery
has been made of everything our founding fathers stood for. They have
progressively overturned the last shreds of limited, representative,
republican government. They have effectively repudiated not only the
Constitution, but the Declaration of Independence itself. And they have
overturned the American Creed that sprouted and grew from those
roots – while, all the while, dutifully pledging, on their sacred
honor, their undying support for those venerated principles,
documents, and institutions.
The elite groups forging the New World Order
have
finally hit upon an apparently successful formula for accomplishing
their goals through the use of self-perpetuating corporate systems –
organizations that harness both the best and the worst of human nature
and human ingenuity. These corporate systems have unfettered access to
almost unlimited credit. It channels both the natural desire people have for
peace and security and human greed down the same carefully planned path.
It holds that people can attain peace, security, and prosperity if they
will only become good and docile corporate citizens under the control of
corporate systems of governance and United Nations regulation – and that
this
single system of governance
must be consolidated under a single global unit in "market" terms.
As apparently successful as it is, there are
many things wrong with the New World Order plan as it is presently
unfolding. Much irreparable damage is being done on multiple levels,
dangerously impinging upon both the human community and global
ecological systems. And these, as far as Pridger perceives them, are the
subjects of, and purposes for, this blog.
Pridger doesn't expect to accomplish much here,
of course. Better and more well equipped men than he have been sounding
the alarm bells at every step along the way – telling it like it is
– and trying to wake somebody up. They've consistently tried to
catch the attention of the public, and tried to revive a modicum of
common sense and real "American" patriotism in
our nation's capital. And they have failed miserably.
All such efforts have been like trying to
whistle into a hurricane force wind. But, even in the face of expected
failure, Pridger can take satisfaction in being in good company. Of
course, there is always a surviving shred of hope (without which effort
would be totally pointless), that the voices in the wilderness will at
some point reach a critical mass and begin to be heard.
But, even as total hopelessness threatens,
there's at least a certain vainglorious satisfaction in making a
thankless effort. Perhaps the best Pridger can hope for is the
satisfaction of saying, "See, I told you so! Even this ignorant
hillbilly recognized the train barreling through the tunnel for what it
actually was – while our Washington brain trust (proclaiming it 'the
light of salvation at the end of the tunnel'), occupied itself
extinguishing the torch of liberty and dutifully lighting and tending
the fires that burned the Republic right down to the bottom of its
deepest tap root."
Unfortunately, it seems we can't expect our
stellar leadership in Washington, nor the general public, to wake up
this side of either a major global economic catastrophe, or an actively
induced facsimile of Armageddon. And when they do wake up, they will
likely be in such a state of befuddlement and confusion that they'll
race out into equally dangerous mine-fields of error – for it will be
the very perpetrators who will naturally be in position to propose and implement
the solutions.
John
Q. Pridger
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! April 1, 2006
June,
2010 update: The great collapse of
the Ponzi schemes began in earnest in 2007, and has barreled on like an avalanche
since then. Things were even worse than Pridger dreamed. And this is probably only the beginning. The housing bubble
and the Wall Street derivative infection was far worse, and much more
widespread, than Pridger imagined. The economic cancer that Pridger discerned
many years ago had metastasized and mushroomed out of all envisioned
proportions. The response, of course, was to stimulate the cancerous
growth and the public debt.
A totally unlikely president was
elected to office in 2008, promising "Change" – "Change
we can believe in!"
Now that was a flashing red light if there ever
was one! Since Obama's great electoral victory, endorsing change, in
the midst of gathering financial chaos, the
"change" seems to be a lot more of the same,
plus a lot of new disturbing wrinkles.
So far, the change has essentially been a lot more of everything that has caused our national malaise. The
once steadfast
camel's back has been broken, and the invading camel has pushed his nose,
neck, and torso into the tent.
Pridger threw his hands up in despair. Quite
frankly, the situation seemed hopeless. The situation had already seemed hopeless for a long, long, time. But it became much more hopeless. So Pridger started "taking
the cure" in an attempt to break the blogging habit. What was the use?
The blog was discontinued for a while, and it
continues to be only a sporadic blog. In taking the cure, Pridger
has been spending much less time writing and more time investigating and
trying to figure out just what is going on and what our present prospects
are. He adds a post from time to time, on whatever strikes his fancy, and posts
a few informative links and videos which he believes all Americans should take the time to watch. Even
people who don't read, can at least get something out of a video.
As Pridger had long predicted, we were destined to live in interesting times.
Those interesting times are here – in spades. Stay tuned. John
Q. Pridger
12 June, 2010
THE
CONSPIRACY
A PRIMER Of course, what appears to be a conspiracy to some is nothing short of a
noble plan for the salvation of mankind to others. When good is the goal,
sometimes the end is presumed to justify the means – however devious it may be.
Conspiracy debunkers may say that
"Everything that isn't an act of God, can be construed as a
conspiracy," but they are being slightly factitious. Clearly many
things men do are actually honest and above board. But it is true that conspiracies are so common that we
often don't think of them as conspiracies.
For example, it has been observed that, "Every business
meeting is a conspiracy against the laity." And every esoteric or
religious conclave is in some way also likely a conspiracy against the laity as well.
Whenever there is a conspiracy –
especially a conspiracy of grand magnitude (diabolical or otherwise)
– the conspirators themselves will go to considerable lengths to
hide the fact and camouflage their activities in some way. They may be
doing something right out in the open, assisted by many well intentioned
people and organizations, but nonetheless have hidden motives and goals, to which only
an inner circle is privy.
For example, the board of directors of a
corporation may publicly announce that its
sole purpose is to deliver the best quality
to the customer at the lowest possible prices. But who in the laity would not
know that its most central concern is to insure corporate profitability and
facilitate corporate expansion?
So, when elite groups of global movers and
shakers meet secretively year after year, and one fine day allow one of
their members to announced that a New World Order has miraculously materialized, what are we to
think?
Who would believe that a whole New World
Order could simply "arrive" as the result happy happenstance?
And if it is conceded that it must have been planned and fashioned over a
period of time, who would believe such a carefully
constructed New World Order was really a selfless endeavor on behalf of
all mankind?
Would it not be more logical that their plans were first and
foremost to secure their own wealth, position, and status for all time,
while going to great and careful lengths to make their project appear
to be unfolding as the natural chain of events – the natural result of
modern "progress" – and a blessing to the
people?
And if they worked hard enough at
it, perhaps they could convince themselves of their good motivations too.
After all, working for world peace, security, and human progress, has all
the elements necessary for a certain degree of self-satisfaction.
The New World Order has all the earmarks of
a multi-faceted "intelligent design." Are we to believe that it
was simply an act of God, or could it more appropriately be construed as
the design of intelligent men with a carefully crafted plan?
Pridger, naturally, believes the latter.
But he also believes the men were a little too self-serving to have brought about a
New World Order that will work to the lasting benefit of mankind – that
the New World Order is so seriously flawed that the plan will ultimately
fail. Even that
could be intentional, of course. Since the "control mechanisms" are
in place, and will remain in the hands of the elite planners after failure
and maybe chaos intervenes. So it
naturally follows that the same movers and shakers will
necessarily be on the ground floor of any and all required solutions and corrections. And
many will be needed.
Of course, right alongside the prime movers
of the economic plan – but no less a part of the conspiracy, whether
knowingly or unknowingly – were the allied legions of philanthropists
and do-gooders sincerely seeking a better world. Their inputs into the process have
consistently appealed to the homegrown liberal left and progressives. Their
collective goal?
Nothing short of saving the world and mankind – often saving it from
predatory capitalism. Leftist academia has played
a major role on the social side moving the New World Order forward, while
the "Rockefeller" right and free market economists
represented the small but powerful moneyed and academic cadres looking out for strictly capitalistic
interests.
Much of the planning and methodology of the
left were the brain-children of the international communist movement and particularly came into
significant play during the history of the U.S.S.R. (which, of course,
advocated its own brand of a New World
Order). This "strange bedfellow" circumstance (the
combination of the altruistic left and the capitalist right), led to
complex and confusing ironies and enigmas, often confounding and confusing
many of those who opposed the New World
Order. Was the grand scheme a communist conspiracy or a capitalist plot? In the end, it
appears to have been a sufficiently baffling amalgamation of both, and it
got the job done. It both wrecked what worked and instituted a system of
corporate global control that is effectively on autopilot guiding us
toward a great train wreck we are currently experiencing.
The grand scheme has been a two pronged
affair conducted by apparently mutually hostile movements (both of which
have undoubtedly been manipulated by powerful individuals and organizations). The double attack on our society has been both social and economic. Thus we
have seen an ongoing cultural war which has helped pave the way for the
ultimate consolidation of capitalist power in the world. And when we speak
of "capitalists" here, we're not referring small business,
individual free enterprise, or grassroots free market systems. We aren't
even speaking of industrial capitalism per se. We're essentially speaking
of international financial capitalism, and the large globe-straddling
multi-national corporations that have grown up around it.
Even the need for world government has been
a pretty easy sell in many quarters. Two world wars and the nuclear age
made it apparent to everybody that unlimited global war should no longer
be an option. The North-South and West-East divides, along with increasing
hunger and populations in the poorer nations of the South and East made
excellent arguments for the need for "global" solutions.
Appealing to fears engendered by these things provided an excellent
humanitarian platform for the one worlders of both the right and the left
to come together.
How better secure the goals of the
conspiracy than by
appealing to, and effectively harnessing to their purposes, both the best
and the worst of human nature at the same time – all working in harmony
together? If they could find a way
to harness the nearly universal human desire for peace, security, and
material wealth, and combine it with the eager desire and ability of
business corporations to satisfy every imaginable human craving, they
would have an unbeatable combination.
The great unwashed masses of the North
(where the decisions were made), would be happy
with with increasing material possessions, a rising standard of living
with increased expectations, progressively unfettered moral license, and an
abundant array of cake and circuses. If they could be made to rejoice in
their liberation from the traditional opiate of religion and strict moral
and social codes, and adopt other types of opiates
and vice, all the better.
All of these goals were becoming easily
attainable by the 1950s. As for business in general – capital
(particularly financial capital) – all it
needed was to be given unlimited access to world markets to unleash its
full array of predatory tendencies.
To
make the business program feasible, the government (the American
government being key to the whole global program), had to be sold on the
idea that a global free market system would be good for Wall Street, the
national economy, as well as the personal economic interests of all cooperative
elected and un-elected officials. Naturally, everybody who saw the
opportunity for greater personal profit, tended to favor any program that
held that promise.
With the greater American public happy with its
football, beer, and bobbles – and financial and industrial
capital on the road to unbounded profits and control – wouldn't the
elite planners' position soon become invulnerable?
Ironically, the Soviet Communist Empire was the final
stumbling block to free international markets. Liberalization duly set in
when the time was right, and though the total crumbling of the communist
superpower was probably not part of the program, its collapse nonetheless
set the final stage for the New World Order to come into being as planned.
Obviously, the planners still think their
plan is a good
and worthy one. To them, it wasn't a conspiracy, but an enlightened and
progressive plan for world order, which they would control because
something as important as global governance could not be entrusted to anyone else. Since the grand scheme is obviously
already enjoying a great deal of "success," just about all We
the People can do is to set about determining
whether the results are ultimately good or bad for us. And, if the
assessment turns out negative (as it began to do in 2007-8), the sooner we awaken to the facts, the
better. A
BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH The grand scheme for global governance has
had a long and distinguished history. There have always been such conspiracies. Every major
empire throughout history comprised one. Even in relatively recent memory
there have been either related or independent plans. There was
international communism, of course, and there was Hitler's rather modest plan for a
Greater Germany in a unified Europe. Hitler may have been a maverick, but he
nonetheless played a significant role in furthering internationalist
dreams. Had World War Two failed to materialize, the New World Order would
undoubtedly still be in the distant future.
Though there have been many conspiracies
throughout history, the one under consideration essentially
developed as a result of the Enlightenment in Europe. Aside from the fact
that many thinkers were beginning to question the established scheme of
things, including government and religion, most were anything but
troublemakers. Since unorthodox ideas about religion and politics were
rather sensitive subjects of debate, secret societies, some of which
claimed truly ancient roots, were naturally made to order for what we might call
free thinkers.
Freemasonry, of course, was one
such secret society, and one that has figured very widely in the various
conspiracy theories. They claim such antecedents as the Knights Templar
and even much more ancient ancestors going all the way back to ancient
Egypt.
Of
course, the Masons are still very much with us today, and are perfectly respectable
except, perhaps, in the eyes of religion-based conspiracy theorists. But
there was a splinter group formed in the late eighteenth century by Adam
Weishaupt, a professor of Canon law at Ingolstadt University in Germany,
who in 1776 founded the the Order of the Illuminati.
In 1798, John Robison, a professor of
Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University in England, published a book entitled Proofs
of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe
Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading
Societies..., exposing the Order of the Illuminati as a
conspiratorial group hostile to the interests of the established religion
and governments of Europe. In fact, Weishaupt envisioned a new world order
– an order he hoped to rule. Weishaupt knew it to be a good plan, and as
for purposes of the Illuminati itself he said:
(It
would) "...form a durable combination of the most worthy persons,
who should work together in removing the obstacles to human happiness,
become terrible to the wicked, and give their aid to all the good
without distinction, and should by the most powerful means, first
fetter, and by fettering, lessen vice; means which at the same time
should promote virtue, by rendering the inclinations to rectitude,
hitherto too feeble, more powerful and engaging. Would not such an
association be a blessing to the world?"
Good intentions, assuredly. But since putting them into effect would
require methodically overturning all of the crown governments and
religious establishments of Christendom, the Illuminati was taken to be
dangerously subversive conspiracy.
The subject was covered at much more length
by a French clergyman, Abbe Augustin Barruel, in a four volume study
entitled Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, published
in 1799.
After being exposed, the Illuminati was
outlawed and disbanded. It went underground, supposedly surviving for some time in the
French Grand Orient Lodges of Freemasonry and Jacobinic groups of the
French Revolution era.
From the time of the Illuminati, conspiracy
theorists have traced at least a more or less direct path to our present
day New World Order. It appeared obvious to many that, "Weishaupt's
entire program and methodology was virtually identical with what was later
to become known as Communism." (Publisher's Introduction to the 1967
Western Islands Publishers, Americanist Classics Edition, of Proofs of
a Conspiracy).
It is also only fair on behalf of our
Masonic friends to quote the publisher's Introduction again. "The
conspirators have long since discarded Freemasonry as their vehicle. If
clever conspirators could use – of all groups – so fine a group as the
Masons, we must open our minds to consider what infinite possibilities are
available to them in our own present day society. Their main habitat these
days seems to be the great subsidized universities, tax-free foundations,
mass media communication systems, government bureaus such as the State
Department, and a myriad of private organizations such as the Council on
Foreign Relations."
The conspiracies can at least loosely be
traced throughout the nineteenth century, mainly in the form of the
international "money power's" attempts to bring the United
States under its influence and control, with the Bank of North America,
the First and Second Banks of the United States, the National Banking Acts
of the Civil War era, and finally the creation of the Federal Reserve
System in 1913.
Of
course, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels came up with their socialist plan
in 1847, and The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.
Though the money and banking powers are naturally thought of as
capitalists, and thus hostile to communism, there has nonetheless been a
peculiar relationship between financial capitalists and the communist
movement.
A sketch of the New World Order conspiracy
would not be complete without mention of the infamous Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion. This peculiar, and still somewhat puzzling
work, regardless of its origins and officially recognized spurious nature,
purported to be a plan by unnamed persons, assumed to be Zionists, for
world conquest. It's true origins and purpose are somewhat mysterious. In
a sense, it is a lot like Proofs of a Conspiracy, only the Protocols
are supposedly the work of the conspirators themselves meticulously laying
out their plan of action.
The Learned Elders, whoever they may have
been, obviously had a lot in common with the Illuminati, and their goals
and methodologies were essentially the same, though apparently aimed at a
Zionist controlled world. The most alarming part, was that at the time of
their publication, the the plan
seemed already to have been confirmed by unfolding world events – and
they seem to be continuing today!
They supposedly originated in Russia, but
came to light through France and found their way back to Russia where they
were first published in 1905. They caused quite a stir and found their way
to the United States in about 1920, where they were published by Henry
Ford.
When the Protocols were published,
the grand conspiracy appeared very real to many Americans, and from then
on, the idea of a Jewish conspiracy, also implicating Masonry (as one of
their tools), took wing
– and the fires have not been put out yet. All possible efforts have
been made by Jewish organizations, and many others, to discredit and
suppress the Protocols, and to ban it outright wherever possible,
it remains very interesting reading material for all who are interested in
learning more about the evolution of most "One World" conspiracy
theories – and why the
Jew's have been singled out for particular attention.
While the "official finding" is
that the Protocols were a "forgery" on the part of Tsarist
Russian secret police, there is no consensus (except among paranoid
conspiracy theorists) on whether or not such a plan
as the Protocols outlined ever existed or exists. The official
consensus, of course, is that the Protocols were a very sick
joke by evil anti-Semites, and certainly should never ever be read
by another human being. The danger in reading the Protocols is that it
cannot help but to "make one wonder."
The main reason the
very idea has refused to simply go away is very simple – by all
appearances, the plan is still being successfully executed, though it
doesn't seem to be necessarily Jewish or Zionist in nature, and certainly
not exclusively so. In fact, today, it includes the international
corporate machinery as well as the central banker class of all advanced and
developing nations, i.e., the elite classes who stand to profit in both
money and power.
"International bankers," of
course, have always had a very high stake in "world order," at
least as far as it concerns their specific areas of interest, and their
power in the modern world of international finance, and consequently in
influencing international affairs in general, is hardly a matter of
dispute. So it is only natural that they occupy a high profile in anything
that would be considered a conspiracy to attain a New World Order.
The conspiracy, of course, has always been
a well funded affair, and has allegedly included some of the world's
wealthiest capitalists, including the Rothschilds, Cecil Rhodes, and John D.
Rockefeller, to
mention only three of the most recognizable names. In fact, disregarding the
Protocols and the communist leg of the conspiracy, it is during the career of Cecil Rhodes
that the most convincing trail of the international conspiracy is picked
up, with his vision of reuniting America with the British Empire in the
belief that the English Speaking powers should rule the world. The famous
English Round Table group is a direct predecessor of Royal Institute of
International Affairs, which is the direct parent (or sibling), of the American Council
on Foreign Relations. (See Tragedy & Hope, by Carroll Quigley)
Leaping over the League of Nations, which
was the first modern step toward a facsimile of global government, Wendell Willkie was Franklin D.
Roosevelt's presidential challenger in 1940. He had been a Democrat but changed to a
Republican because he felt the Democrats represented unwise restraints on
business enterprise – and he became what might be called a one world,
and United Nations, point man. In August of 1942, long before the United
Nations became a reality, Willkie embarked on a round the world mission in
a Liberator bomber, converted to a transport plane, known as
"Gulliver." His purpose was to see the world and talk to
leaders, and to spread the One World message – or rather he went out and
returned with a one world request from the rest of the civilized world, from leaders
which, of course, included Joseph Stalin and Generalissimo Chaing Kai-
Shek. After his return he wrote and published his 1943 book One World.
In it he repeatedly referred to the Allies as the "United
Nations." And before the war was over, the allies were referring to
themselves as the "United Nations."
Willkie wrote very persuasively and
eloquently of his one world vision and what America's post war role in the
world should be. We have since adopted just about everything he
advocated, from the United Nations itself to our present doctrines of free
trade and international interdependence. Willkie wasn't a prime mover and
shaker, of course, but he was a good, and well intended, PR man.
The United Nations, the post World War Two descendent
of the earlier League of Nations, is obviously an international body
resembling a world government – and that is what it is ultimately supposed to be.
But the New World Order is not a creation of the UN. The UN is merely a
tool of the real powers who have been fashioning the New World Order. There's
little point in debating whether or not
the "Illuminati" survives today, no matter what present
organizations they might represent. What concerns us is how We the People
might regain control over the government that still holds the keys to our
national destiny as well as the future prospects for the world.
Though an admitted conspiracy theorist, Pridger
doesn't subscribe to the commonly held views that the Illuminati (or elite
global policy "insiders"), is evil incarnate – that it is a
monolithic Luciferian cabal.
The way Pridger views conspiratorial history
differs slightly from the view of many conspiracy theorists. This is
because many of them see the conspiracy from a Christian fundamentalist
perspective, considering it a single dark Luciferian plot. Pridger, as a
somewhat progressive conservative (with a smattering of humanistic and
libertarian blood coursing through his veins), tends to believe that there have always been
good and evil forces at work in often divergent great designs.
One way of differentiating between the two,
in Pridger's opinion, is by comparing the American and French revolutions,
both of which had flowed from the same period known as the
"Enlightenment." To use religious allegories, it might be said
that the American revolution and form of government were born of a
Christian illuminism, whereas the French revolution, which turned into a
murderous bloodbath, was ultimately commandeered by evil illuminism
of the very human variety.
What Pridger calls Christian illuminism
might be defined in Thomas Jefferson's view of Christianity, or how he
viewed himself as Deist, "free thinker," and a Christian.
Pridger believes our founding fathers
successfully launched this nation on the highest ideals of government at
that time conceivable. But the most powerful men who have since gained de
facto control over our national destiny have fallen into serious error.
Not because they were, or are, evil, but because they were flawed in their
reasoning, and their ranks had always been dominated or influenced by self-serving men.
The
only real question is this: Is the plan a
good one for our nation and for the world, or is it not? It's fairly
certain the plan is progressing. But is it really taking us where we want to
go? (Since 2008, more and more people are coming to the conclusion that it
definitely is not!)
These are the questions that Pridger
addresses here. Yes, there
is a conspiracy. It has been long on-going and so well planned, well
orchestrated, and such a multi-faceted affair that plausible deniability
has consistently been fairly easy to maintain. The perceptive have seen
it, or at least parts of it, all along – and we have been warned every
step of the way. Literally everything has been published in one form or
another! But few have read or listened. Those who have warned us have been
categorized and discredited as paranoid conspiracy theorists. Most people
have merely come to accept the unfolding results of the conspiracy as the
inevitable, unavoidable, and unstoppable, march of progress. Most
Americans are happily overfed, over-entertained, and mal-educated. They
believe they live in the best of all worlds under the best system that has
ever been devised. The government takes pretty good care of them. So, most
of them ask, "What's the problem?"
Globalism and the new international economic order
(a.k.a., New World Order), are the results of the conspiracy. Those who
would question this assertion should ask themselves these things: Could
this very big deal, intimately impacting all of our lives, have come about
without some sort of a plan and guidance? If there was no conspiracy, why wasn't the
plan laid out for all of us to see in advance? (It was! But not one in ten
thousand read the material!) Why was there no mass media debate, public
assessment period, and no comment period, so an informed public could cast
a vote for or against the plan?
Yes, it has been available for everybody
to see all along. Its always been hidden in plane view (so how could it
qualify as a secret conspiracy?). But the masses could not see what they were told did not
exist. They believed what they were told. That the conspiracy only existed
in the minds of right-wing conspiracy nuts, and that humanity was
obviously on the upgrade due to enlightened policies of the various
western governments and the United Nations.
The answer is simply that the plan, whether
good or bad, was definitely not one to be subjected to democratic
processes. And why not? Because it could never have been brought to
fruition had it been placed before an informed public. By any definition, this is a
conspiracy. Even though every aspect of it has been published and right
out in the open all along, the informed consent of the governed has never
been sought – rather, it has been scrupulously avoided.
About
the same time President H. W. Bush felt confident enough to make the public
New World Order announcement during the first Gulf War, David Rockefeller gave a hint as to how such a big deal can
become a done deal without so much as a single Democrat or Republican
vote. It was allegedly at a meeting of the Trilateral Commission in 1991:
"We are grateful to The Washington
Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
Those meetings not only included meetings of the Trilateral Commission,
but the Council on Foreign Relations, the so-called Bilderbergers, and other
elite organizations. What those announcements effectively mean is that "government of the
people, by the people, and for the people" has finally perished from
the earth, and the nation state has finally been vanquished. The
New World Order is a de facto invisible world government under the control
of a sophisticated cadre of elite intellectuals and international
financial interests. It's army is an array of transnational corporations
which have been out conquering the world, with the American military
industrial complex at its head. And, whenever resistance is encountered,
the military is used to deliver a little tough love – regime change, and
alleged democracy.
The New World Order has been brought about right under the noses, and
with the active assistance, of our various presidential administrations and
congresses. Their stamps of approval are on every single page, though they
were sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, and represent the
interests of the American people.
All of this
said, cracks are developing in the armor of the elite purveyors of world
government. The present global economic crisis is a crises for the global
movers and shaker as well as for the rest of us. (But, then again, it
could be part of the plan. The jury is still out, and Pridger certainly
hasn't figured it all out yet.) We are certainly at a major turning point, and
probably a most crucial one. Things could go either way – and they could
go bad either way. Fortunately, ever-more people are waking up
and making themselves heard. People and formerly trusted institutions are
being exposed. The Emperor is losing his clothes and cover
at a steady pace.
We The People, of this nation as well as the
world, may still have a chance.
But the typical thing the Emperor does when a crisis strikes is to
engineer a big distraction. WAR. In our case, it would be more, bigger,
and much more destructive, war – a war which will much more personally
impact every American than those currently going on delivering a little
tough love to Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Since things are not going all that well with
those wars, and the nation is near financial collapse, what they need
is a much bigger war – a MUCH BIGGER WAR! – a real global
game-changer. And that's pretty scary.
There is still hope that some other sort of
"reason" will prevail, but there are certainly no guarantees.
The
reemergence of China, and its swift rise as a major global economic and
military power with the active assistance of the United States is
particularly puzzling. Just how this major change in the global balance of
power will play out and effect the New World Order plan is unclear. It must be
part of the plan, of course. It couldn't have happened otherwise.
Unless...
Sometimes
it occurs to Pridger that maybe he's wrong about many of the apparently
inexplicable things that happen on the national and global stage.
Everything appears to happen according to a plan of some sort – a
conspiracy. And we give credit to the conspirators, believing that, as
members of the global elite, with the standard array of human instincts
with regard to self-preservation and the quest for security through power,
they are not only cunning but very intelligent. Pridger is still pretty
confident that they are. But Pridger doesn't have all the answers. And
there is another uncomfortable possibility...
A FINAL
"WHAT IF?"
What if
attributing the great One World conspiracy to "intelligent design"
is all wrong? What
if the whole thing we think of as a conspiracy is really is just Stupidity
masquerading as brilliance and determined intent? What if the entire
"conspiracy" is nothing more than some sort of running damage
control in the face of an uncontrolled and always snowballing cascade
of human stupidity? Could it be that the powers that be are
continually, and stupidly, reacting to Stupidity, while otherwise appearing
to set the agenda?
No, that's
way too farfetched to believe. But there is no doubt that the movers and
shakers are very adept at harnessing and directing Stupidity to further
their ends. The marked change in the balance of power between the United
States and China, as well as the general decline of America itself (in
cultural, political, moral, and economic contexts), can easily enough be
attributed to Stupidity on the part of our national leadership. Stupidity
has undoubtedly played a major role. But it isn't likely that it can be
attributed to stupidity on the part of the what we have referred to as the
"movers and shakers" behind their "intelligent design"
For example, the big international bankers, and major multinationals, have
generally managed to profit even after some of the biggest players have
apparently fumbling the ball. They have been winners while the rest of us
have been losers. They have been rewarded while we have been forced to
accept the tab – the very epitome of "taxation without
representation."
The
question remains, what will the emergence of China as a super-power mean
to the United State and the world? Especially in light of the fact that U.S.
industrial power has already been intentionally emasculated. A massive
transfer of wealth from the Untied States to China has been under way for
over two decades. China has the
potential reflected in the 4:1 advantage it has in human capital. And that
4:1 advantage is magnified by its intelligent, and increasingly well
educated population, which (significantly), still possesses a not only a very strong
work ethic, but a very long memory.
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