IMF and World Bank meet in Washington - Greg Palast reports for BBC Television's Newsnight.
Three weeks ago James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, was supposed to appear on CNN, and he told CNN that if I showed up and they put me on the air he would not appear; he would remove all tapes of his interviews if Greg Palast were allowed on the air. And CNN did the courageous thing and yanked me out of the studio. Now we're going to find out why.
featuring Joseph Stiglitz (fmr chief economist World Bank)
Dear reader, this is the 96th Letter of an Autonomous Thinker.
When you find a lot of money you have found the elite.
Often I have been asked to give names of elitepeople. But I think masspeople are sufficient autonomous to decide which eliteperson they want to pressurize.
I give only methods how to find elitepersons. Because the elite always wants to have more than the masses, look for the money and you find the elite.
Money allows the elite to distinguish itself from the masses. With money the elite has build a separate world that is closed to masspeople. Money is the ultimate and dominating reason why elitepeople want to have power.
POWER and MONEY are intertwined.
But while it is not always clear who has power, money can always been traced. Money is spend in special places and on special goods. A Ferrari or a big yaught cannot be bought by people who just work for a monthly salary. In five star hotels masspeople are only servants. A massperson can never get a ticket for the first row in a theatre when a premiere is on program.
You can also determine who belongs to the elite by using the Method of the Three F's. (see "Who belongs to the elite", ). Elitepeople possess Finance (capital), Functions (to take important decisions) and Family (a network of trusted people).
In the past I used this method to make a list of more than two hundred people who belong to the Dutch top elite. I published the result in "The Power of the Family-Capital and What to do About It" (1980). Alas only available in Dutch.
By following the money trail you can find elitepersons.
Then and only then you can decide what to do to make an end to the dominating positions of elitepersons, to the situation in which decisions favour in the first place the continuation of the safe and privileged position of a few humans at the cost of the position of the vast majority of humanity.
More money for a small group of already privileged people is the basic reason that many people do not have a decent life. Even when it costs near to nothing to eradicate measles, malaria or tuberculosis, the money is not available.
It is not going to happen that extreme poverty is eradicated in a few years.
On the contrary, the elite continues to channel vast amounts of money to itself.
And again, follow the money and you find the culprits.
Then and only then masspeople can undertake the right actions that make it impossible for the elite to continue the exclusive and safe life they lived for ages. And it is fairly easy to disturb situations that can only be bought by excessive money.
When the elite cannot live any more its privileged life, then and only then the road is opened towards a New World in which all people have equal status.
Many years ago I read an interesting story regarding an alleged argument between the banking elites in Europe and the "United States of America Incorporated" (circa 1870s), in relation to the 'labor management system' required to engineer and build the City of London's 'Industrial Revolution.'
Allegedly the North American banking interests were still pushing for some form of 'institutional slavery' but the Europeans argued for a modernized system of 'serfdom.'
"Keeping slaves," they argued, "required accomodation, food, medicine, hospitalization..." In effect a kept slave necessitates similar expense and treatment accorded to the best 'yoked' animals in our business stables and pastures. The employed serf ('wage-slave') can be dismissed at will, works for a pittance under duress, feeds and clothes his family, will happily pay us three times for a mortgaged house over a generation, and will be totally dependent upon the 'Owners of Capital' for his continued mutual survival."
And better still -- according to the story -- by releasing slaves, more 'money' could be borrowed into existence by the new tranche of 'freed-men' using their 'Credit System" to further empower the generational plan of the global elite usurers for absolute world control.
So the tragic, ruthless, employment system we now must all endure in the West (and eventually in the East) was created over a century ago by -- and for -- the personal benefit of the richest people on Earth.
Humbling, isn't it?
coburg
Quote: "Dear Sirs: A Mr. John Sherman has written us from a town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress (National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter. Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world.
Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act and that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded, notwithstanding the fact that it gives the national Banks an almost absolute control of the National finance. 'The few who can understand the system,' he says 'will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.'
Please advise us fully as to this matter and also state whether or not you will be of assistance to us, if we conclude to establish a National Bank in the City of New York... Awaiting your reply, we are." (Rothschild Brothers. London, June 25, 1863).
I remember John Perkins. He was a real jerk. A gold-plated, super-slick lying little butthole shill for corporate gangsters; a snake-oil salesman with a movie-star grin, shiny loafers, a crooked calculator and a tooled leather briefcase full ofSeabrook Protestors high-blown bullshit.
This was two decades ago. The early 1980s. I wore sandals, uncombed hair down to my cheap collar and carried a busted ring-binder filled with honest calculations and sincere analysis. It was Economic Hit Man Perkins vs. Economic Long-Hair Palast. I didn’t stand a chance. The EHM was about to put a political bullet hole through me wider than a silver dollar.
Hit Men have “clients.” Perkins’ was a giant power company, Public Service of New Hampshire. PSNH was trying to sell New England lobstermen and potato farmers on the idea that they desperately needed a multi-billion dollar nuclear plant. The fact that this bloated atomic water kettle, called “Seabrook,” would produce enough electricity for everyone in the Granite State to smelt iron didn’t matter. That the beast could add a surcharge to electric bills equal to home mortgages was simply smiled over by Perkins and his team of economic con artists.
Oil, that bubbling crude, Black Gold, Texas Tea; no matter which country's buying or selling it, all oil purchases around the globe are made with U. S. dollars only. The greenback is the international currency of oil-sales, all oil-sales the world over. Since the dollar is the money needed to purchase oil, every country around the globe must hold U. S. dollars. By having to earn or borrow U. S. currency to purchase oil, the value of the dollar is artificially supported because of the demand for oil. Supporting the value of the dollar is vital to the economy of the United States.
Translated from a Finnish article, which in turn has been written off "Dagens Nyheter", a Swedish publication.
Sweden is threatened by acute lack of cash. The Swedish workers' union for transporters stopped all shipments on Thursday because of continued robberies. The union demands police protection for their deliveries.
The banks have requested people to use cards. Also big department stores recommend their customers to pay with cards.
The banks wish to remind that cash withdrawals should be avoided.
"This is not only because of yesterday's robbery. This is a continuous matter of security. If your bank card is stolen, you can always secure your money by shutting down the card. . Stolen cash is gone forever", the deputy PR chief of Handelsbanken, Johan Lagerström, says in Dagens Nyheter magasine.
On Friday noon the banks had not yet seen signs about hoarding cash.. Many banks have however made preparations for the weekend because of the stopped shipments of cash. In addition, bank card requests will be processed faster than usual. "We shall process the requests for cards all weekend. A card requested today will be ready by Monday", promises Lagerström.
Masked robbers blew up a Securitas (company) cash delivery vehicle in Stora Höga on Thursday, north from Göteborg city and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Over 30 cash shipments have been robbed on either roads or from security companies' warehouses in Sweden this year.
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no reason to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves, like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose, they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely, sooner or later, it must occur to them to do it? And yet -- -- George Orwell, 1984
I've never understood the idea of speaking truth to power. The truth, surely, is that in almost all countries of the world, political and economic systems are designed to benefit only the rich and powerful, at the expense of those with less money and power. This is how the world works, and I see no reason to think that the powerful don't already understand that. After all, they designed it; they maintain it.
They steal our money, sacrifice our children in their wars, send the poorest and most victimized among us off to jail for petty mistakes, and crush those of us who might present a real threat to the arrangement. They know we don't like it. They don't care. They don't need to care. They also control most of our avenues of dissent. It's a very simple, very elegant design.
Meanwhile, we get angry and toddle off to tell the truth to the powerful. We have been telling them the truth for centuries. We travel to their great palaces by the hundreds of thousands, to express our anger and despair. We shout and sing and stomp and whine. We threaten. We plead. Sometimes we're beaten up, or sent to jail. It's a tradition of great courage and personal sacrifice, no doubt.
What do sweatshop workers in Bangladesh have in common with the people who work in your local supermarket? More than you might think, writes George Galloway, Respect MP
The only way to make poverty history is to make the G8 history. I don’t mean simply the annual jamboree for the leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful states. I mean the whole nexus of exploitation and privilege that the G8 and its attendant institutions represent.
They are a gigantic siphon sucking up vast quantities of wealth from the poor — whether they live in the poorest countries or in the G8 states themselves. The G8 is not the solution — it is the problem.
Some of the most dangerous men in the world are in Gleneagles Hotel this week. They are responsible not only for the renewed and terrifying drive to war that characterises the start of the 21st century. They also preside over a system that is itself the biggest killer in the world.
The front page of the London Observer on 12 June announced, "55 billion dollar Africa debt deal 'a victory for millions'." The "victory for millions" is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first time in their lives without owing you or me a penny...". The nonsense of this would be breathtaking if the reader's breath had not already been extracted by the unrelenting sophistry of Geldof, Bono, B-liar, the Observer et al. http://i.am/jah/truth.htm
Africa's imperial plunder and tragedy have been turned into a circus for the benefit of the so-called G8 leaders due in Scotland next month and those of us willing to be distracted by the barkers of the circus: the establishment media and its "celebrities". The illusion of an anti establishment crusade led by pop stars - a cultivated, controlling image of rebellion - serves to dilute a great political movement of anger. In summit after summit, not a single significant "promise" of the G8 has been kept, and the "victory for millions" is no different. It is a fraud - actually a setback to reducing poverty in Africa. Entirely conditional on vicious, discredited economic programmes imposed by the World Bank and the IMF, the "package" will ensure that the "chosen" countries slip deeper into poverty.
video More evidence of why the ONLY
solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N.W.O. Globalist
mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of 911 and the phoney War on
Terror:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man:
How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of
Trillions
Tuesday, November 9th,
2004 We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the
international banking community. In his book Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man
he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S.
cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by
lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take
over their economies. [includes rush transcript] http://i.am/jah/illumin.htm
John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly
paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of
trillions of dollars.
20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, "Conscience of an Economic Hit Man."
Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two
countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of
as kindred spirits - Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and
Omar
Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes.
Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they
opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads
whose goal is global empire*. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring
Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the
CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.
The capitalist system is designed in
such a way that if it is not growing, it is automatically in recession.
It is designed to operate only on perpetual growth rather than on
stability. It cannot stand still without collapsing and therefore is
totally unstable.
The global elite are using it to the aim
of not only dominating the world, but owning it - all of it - including
the inhabitants - you.
In order for an economy to function
properly, calmly and peacefully, it has to be built on a firm and
stable foundation and not be a house of cards that teeters from one
crisis to another, incessantly, so that everyone is permanently kept on
edge and worried.
The way to stop the global elite and
destroy their evil system is to
stop consuming and thus feeding it. By feeding it you are allowing it
to grow and keep devouring your substance and driving you further into
debt and slavery to the NWO
elite.
Like many other viewers, I shrank back in disbelief when the images
of the World Trade Centre (WTC) attack first began
to flood the airwaves. How could this happen? Who would want to do such
a thing? How could four different airliners all be hijacked at the same
time? How had security systems and air defenses both failed so
miserably? How would America respond?
And then the answers to such questions started coming in within
hours the authorities "knew" that the perpetrators were linked to Bin
Laden, and President George Bush was already announcing a "War Against Terrorism". While images of the
attack were still being replayed, over and over again, US Congress had
already authorised the President to take "any necessary measures", and
had allocated $40 billion to that purpose. Within days, the US had
persuaded NATO to declare that this "attack on one member nation was an
attack on all". Then it turned out that the $40 billion had come from
America's social-security fund, and $15 billion was being allocated to
bailing out the airline industry. Next we were being told that
Americans would need to give up their civil liberties, and Congress was
rapidly approving the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001". The War on
Terrorism was going to be largely a covert war, a war "unlike any
other", a war that would go on indefinitely into the future.
"Those unaware are unaware of being unaware" - Merrill Jenkins,
Monetary Realist
It is normal for you to reject this message
but any rejection is at your peril. Psychologists call such a
rejection "cognitive dissonance. " It
would be much wiser to ask questions.
Lincoln was shot after issuing his infamous "greenbacks" that
deprived bankers of interest. John
Kennedy was shot after he issued his United States notes that deprived
bankers of interest. Lincoln deserved a firing squad because his
legal tender acts made every war since his time possible.
Those acts made it possible for government to take
everything while paying for nothing. We pretend we're paid.
President James A. Garfield was shot shortly after he said: "Whoever controls the volume of money
in any country is absolute master of all commerce and industry".
There should be no issue more critical than what money is, who controls
the volume and how they control it, if
we want to be healthy with no absolute masters.
"If governments should refrain
from regulation....the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and
the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer".
---Economic Consequences of The Peace, by John Maynard Keynes
So, the medical industry is controlled by the same "omnipotent
counterfeiters" who prefer healthy money to healthy people in that they
published a booklet titled: Keeping Our
Money Healthy where they said their unlimited "counterfeit" would
keep its value "if there were fewer people bidding against each other".
The Library of Congress Catalogue No. for this booklet is:
60-14368 / Revised, January 1979.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care
not who makes it's laws"
-- Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the
international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve
System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress
and manipulates the credit of the United States" -- Sen. Barry Goldwater
(Rep. AR)
"To expose a 15 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the
stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last 100 years will be
a tall order of business." -- Buckminster Fuller
President Franklin Roosevelt (prior to his being elected president) wrote a letter to Col. Edward Mandell House, President Woodrow Wilson's close advisor: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned every Government since the days of Andrew Jackson..."
When reviewing the material please keep an open mindset but cross-check the details, as inaccuracies may not just exist but are sometimes quite obvious.
This was two decades ago. The early 1980s. I wore sandals, uncombed hair down to my cheap collar and carried a busted ring-binder filled with honest calculations and sincere analysis. It was Economic Hit Man Perkins vs. Economic Long-Hair Palast. I didn’t stand a chance. The EHM was about to put a political bullet hole through me wider than a silver dollar.
