Summary - Matthew Johnson Scholar Russian History - REVIEW: Stephen Goodson book - 'A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind'

Summary Matthew Johnson Scholar Russian History REVIEW: Stephen Goodson book - 'A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind' RE:  Author:   Stephen Mitford Goodson Book:  A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind http://www.blackhousepublishing.com/central-banking Stephen Mitford Goodson South African banker & politician leader:  South Africa's Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party candidate for the Ubuntu Party  2014 General Elections former director of the South African Reserve Bank (2003–12) previously a financial consultant in Pringle Bay Wikipedia editors indicate Goodson: / maintains WWII provoked by economic success of Germany / book:  Bonaparte & Hitler Versus the International Bankers Wikipedia editors indicate that Goodson (& others) admired Germany's defeat of quote:  'banksters' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Goodson  COMMENT:   Wikipedia entry is classic Wikipedia public opinion shaping SEE:  Kerry Bolton book review: "Goodson was smeared by the Mail and Guardian the following month.[21] Goodson had made some heretical remarks about Germany in a radio interview with Deanna Spingola in 2011, which were used as a pretext to launch the campaign against him." Bolton Article & image of author Stephen Mitford Goodson http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/11/central-banking-and-human-bondage/ *I'm yet to read the Bolton article properly; just quickly skimmed here and there. ---------------------- ---------------------- SUMMARY  + EDITS / additional info, as marked MATTHEW JOHNSON REVIEW OF STEPHEN GOODSON CENTRAL BANKING ENSLAVEMENT BOOK source Matthew Johnson scholar of Russian Orthodox history & philosophy Eurasia Review A review of Stephen Goodson's A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (Black House Publishing, 2014) http://www.sott.net/article/291745-Book-review-A-History-of-Central-Banking-and-the-Enslavement-of-Mankind ---------------------- ---------------------- Capitalism & Communism -- share more in common than in conflict -- US banking & industrial conglomerates: financed Soviet Red Revolution -- US banking & industrial conglomerates built Soviet industry -- state control of entire economy one place is bankers' paradise -- one plan, one banking system, one social system -- banks merely forward cash - expecting STATE (not economy, as such) to REIMBURSE bankers w/ interest -- so:  COMMAND ECONOMY is most banker-friendly -- no necessary connection b/w private banking & a state-owned economy -- it is as simple for a banker to work for a political party as it is to work for Goldman-Sachs Capitalism & Socialism -- are based on MATERIALISM -- production + utility = goods -- EFFICIENCY in methods = ESSENTIAL -- both systems oriented to technology, hold linear view of history --  & seek mechanisation of ALL ASPECTS OF HUMANITY -- as both develop, ECONOMIC SYSTEM & STATE merge into SINGLE MACHINE -- error of libertarians:  insisting that state & private capital are opposed -- opposite is true -- LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF CAPITAL ARE DEEPLY EMBEDDED in the state -- the STATE is both a PERSONAL BODYGUARD and REGULATOR that keeps market entry impossibly high -- see Microsoft 2010-2012 defeat of US Dept. of Justice -- demonstrates IMBALANCE OF POWER between PRIVATE CAPITAL & STATE Goodson = served on Board of Central Bank of South Africa many years = ie. NOT an isolated academic = witnessed tight control of economic life by banking conglomerates world over -- in vivid colours = book is study in history, not technical economics = to grasp economic phenomenon, economics must be seen = as product of MANY DECADES OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT = each aspect of whole reinforces the other & whole is constantly changing like organism = presenting new challenges, new projects & new victims NOTE = secret life of banks = not confined to dictates of small group of men = such men were ACTORS WITHIN A HISTORICAL STREAM that goes back to MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILISATIONS = & ancient zenith in Rome = whole continually based on same set of assumptions, regardless of civilisation within which banking is embedded MANIFESTLY MADE CLEAR IN THIS WORK: -- essential distinction b/w MONARCHY & REPUBLICANISM -- broadly speaking, is:  ECONOMIC -- republics are normally OLIGARCHIES or its seeds -- monarchies are perpetually at war with own nobility, rejecting assumptions of oligarchy -- ALL FORMS OF STRONG STATISM MAKE WAR ON BANKING MONOPOLY:     - China, socialist party     - Belarus     - St Petersburg royal bank (czarist Russia)     - Augustan era centralised dictatorship EDIT - Additional info provided (Augustan Era)  Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD)  LINK | Source First Roman emperor  /  Golden Age of Latin literature Augustan era centralised dictatorship STRONG STATISM {not beneficial to banking monopoly} -- marked by civil peace & prosperity -- highest literary expression in poetry -- themes:  patriotism, love, nature -- Virgil; Horace; Livy; Pollio; Ovid SEE  http://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/augustus.html ------- NOTE:  No authoritarian leader  will accept competition from  an all-powerful economic mediator ------- DESPITE few exceptions on both sides,  HISTORY IS CLEAR that: STRONG STATES =  based on TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY, reject alchemy of MONEY & INTEREST ROME - 1% -- by Cicero, Rome moving from Senatorial oligarchy  -- to military empire of Sulla & successors -- result following civil wars:  minting centralised & usury controlled -- Julius Caesar sought to LIMIT interest & BANNED COMPOUND INCREASE OF INTEREST -- any accumulated interest could NEVER EXCEED original principal EDIT - additional info provided (Byzantium) Byzantium -- ancient Greek colony on site that became Constantinople (later Istanbul) -- colonised by Greeks from Megara in 657 BC -- emblem:  6-ray star and crescent motif (but motif assoc. w/ Sassanid Persians) -- Byzantines devoted to:     -- Hecate / Hekate - goddess shown holding two torches or a key / later in triple form     -- crossroads, entranceways, dogs, light, moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs & poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, sorcery     -- key, rope, and dagger  /  key to underworld     -- rope:  umbilical cord, rebirth, renewal     -- dagger:  symbol of ritual power     -- one of main deities worshipped in Athenian households as protective goddess     -- goddess only visible to dogs / her name called at night at crossroads of cities     -- said to live near tombs of victims of murder     -- Italy by the lake of Avernus, there was a scared dark grove of Hecate     -- demonised by Catholic authorities in Middle Ages     -- known as Queen of Witches / Queen of Ghostworld     -- Depicted wearing a gleaming headdress of stars     -- Carian origin (Karkiya, Kakisa) mentioned Hittite records     -- Luwian ancestry poss. / crests on their helmets     -- according to Stabo (Gk philo/hist.) -  Clarians of all barbarians,  tendency to intermingle with Greeks     -- roamed whole of Greece as mercenaries     --  owl is her messenger, and the willow is her tree SOURCE - Wikipedia & below     http://www.sibyllineorder.org/history/hist_hecate.htm Byzantium - 5% -- the Roman Empire eastern branch -- interest officially limited to 5% (approx) -- Basil II rejected interest altogether & forced wealthy landowners to financially assist poor peasants -- strength such as this common, but usually followed by:  ARISTOCRATIC REACTION -- such rulers replaced with PUPPET EMPERORS in Constantinople by greedy aristocrats (elite) -- even so, eastern Rome (Byzantium):     -- vibrant, populist economy     -- currency was global standard as far east as China     -- peasants were free landholders feudalism existed nowhere     -- inflation DID NOT EXIST     -- trade flows always favoured the capital     -- for this reason, oligarchic states:         -- Venice         -- Dubrovnik         -- Sicily (Norman interlopers)     -- CONTINUALLY FINANCED ROME'S ENEMIES 1204 - after Norman Crusaders sacked Constantinople -- dominance of Venetian oligarchs was established -- Byzantium MARKED FOR DEATH once emperors of 1300s & 1400s (14th C. & 15th C.) -- GAVE AWAY THEIR FINANCIAL AUTONOMY FOR REGULAR INFUSIONS OF VENETIAN MONEY -- LOST ALL ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE - immense wealth flowed east in interests payments to Italy -- Byzantium finally collapsed under ITALIAN-FINANCED TURKISH INVASION in 1453 -- Venice became Turkey's most significant ally ---------------------- ----------------------------- NOTE:  when INTEREST TIGHTLY CONTROLLED, continued COMPOUND LEAKAGE of cash to banking centres does not exist. Blocking financial haemorrhaging means, value remains with small businessman & small landholder WITHOUT GEOMETRICALLY INCREASING MASS OF INTEREST a fraction of today's labour was sufficient to maintain monetary stability, supplies & a NOBILITY FORCED TO SERVE THE STATE rather RULE the state With modern system of usury, CENTRALISATION UNAVOIDABLE as COMPOUND INTEREST continually INCREASES FLOW of REAL VALUE out of economy to coffers of banking cabal ------- ENGLAND -- prior to Norman invasion, Anglo Saxon England, after Viking attacks, in FINANCIAL GOLDEN AGE:     -- small landholders norm     -- urban trade maintained low prices     -- lack of liquid capital forestalled noble centralisation     -- feudalism could not exist under this system     -- USURY WAS BANNED IN MERCIA under Offa the Great     -- even under Alfred's attempt to centralise power in Wessex against Danes,     -- Alfred also REFUSED 'SERVICES' OF BANKING CABAL     -- William's planned assault on Anglo-Saxondom to remove Scandinavian influence from England     -- interested ITALIAN BANKS     -- USURY PERMITTED FOR FIRST TIME UNDER NEW NORMAN HEGEMONY     -- old Anglo aristocracy was SLAUGHTERED     -- William imported a new nobility w/ close ties to ITALY     -- feudalism made first appearance on English soil     -- Ireland, several centuries later, would also see 'benefits' of Norman progress     -- under Stephen, such progress would lead to banking system charging average 33%     -- on collateral lands & 300% on capital (ie tools in the cities)     -- in TWO GENERATIONS a full 66% of England's lands     -- wound up in hands of ITALIAN & JEWISH BANKERS     -- this fuelled constant drive to take more & more FRENCH LAND for Angevin Empire     -- this was lot of Norman Britain until reign of Edward I (d. 1307)     -- Edward I limited Byzantines (where many Anglo-Saxons served after 1066)     -- Edward I:         -- tightly LIMITED interest & its accumulation         -- EXPELLED BANKERS from England         -- ushered in prosperity         -- {cut short by plague}         -- just as Byzantium gave away economic sovereignty to Venice for use of their navy         -- Britain moved in opposite direction against Italy & Rome         -- England was prosperous until plague         -- first time since Edward the Confessor, rule of small holder had returned         -- a working year amounted to 14 WEEKS -- all essentials obtained         -- church calendar (eastern & western Europe) required over 100-140 DAYS OFF a YEAR         -- capitalism was to make war on the church & seek Protestant sanction for eliminating saints days         -- once Luther's influence had waned, Reformation had different ideas on money         -- after War of Roses &  Henry VII stabilisation of Britain         -- time ripe for rise of banks         -- Reformation & immorality of Henry VIII gave banks excuse needed         -- Reformation was Stuarts attempt to centralise power after old nobility had slaughtered itself         -- monastic lands were secularised         -- land markets were developed         -- priority:  financing long-distance trade         -- Henry VII was last gasp of powerful traditional state         -- from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I:         -- NEW OLIGARCHY GAINED POWER that required pomp of monarchy to hide behind         -- once it became confident in its role, it required William of Orange to justify oligarchy                 SPAIN         -- once Islam ejected, opted to expel Sephardi, normal allies of Muslim Caliphate         -- Spain's nationalism substantial:  both church & state radically reformed & purged                 AMSTERDAM         -- Sephardi expelled from Spain moved to Amsterdam         -- Sephardi rebuilt banking base creating a 'square' of influence that contained         -- four (4) corners:             -- Baltic, grain trade             -- Amsterdam, banks             -- Constantinople & Turkish market             -- Poland (most importantly)         -- these = overland routes of modernity  as GRAIN PRICES SKY-ROCKETED IN WEST         -- forcing east to EXPORT more and more                 ELIZABETH I         -- during & after English Revolution / Spain was the enemy         -- Catholic Ireland sought Spanish assistance vs. Elizabeth I dispossession of native Gaels         -- Cromwell to punish this with genocidal harshness                 SPAIN         -- Spain import of silver from New World threatened RULE OF BANKS         -- BANKING REGIME FINANCED Dutch rebellion against Spanish         -- world's PRESS spared no excess DENOUNCING Spanish army in Northern Europe         -- British ENEMIES OF BANKING ELITE looked to Spain for assistance                 BRITAIN         -- 1645 - Charles I defeated         -- 1653 - Cromwell military dictatorship instituted over Britain & Ireland         -- BANKING REGIME now had its enemies destroyed & its position assured         -- 30 years later (William) - BANKERS have England to use against France & Spain                 JACOBITES         -- spent their time attacking BANKING ELITE that had taken power         -- James I & James II did not believe in divine right of kings         -- neither wanted to impose dictatorship         -- Cromwell sought that honour         -- yet James I & James II accused of every imaginable crime         -- James sought religious tolerance not Spanish theocracy         -- Whigs later claimed         -- Whiggery was PARTY OF USURY and, therefore, partly most VEHEMENT         -- in seeking WAR with France, Spain &, eventually, Russia                 BRITAIN - PARLIAMENT         -- parliament now INSTRUMENT of CAPITALISM & of EMPIRE         -- seeking any excuse to take revenge on Spain         -- 'democracy' & 'will of the people' were considered as         -- INCIDENTAL to INTERESTS of URBAN MERCHANTS and TRADERS         -- Britain was now an OLIGARCHY         -- Roman Catholic rulers long forbidden to rule in London         -- irrespective of James I desire for neutrality         -- William WAR with FRANCE - FINANCED BY AMSTERDAM BANKING     [mention of Stuart marriage, childless ... relevance not clear (to me)]                 UKRAINE & POLAND                 -- CAPITALISM / BANKING REGIME         -- West growing population + centralisation of states = INCREASED DEMAND for GRAIN         -- result:  NOBILITY INTENSIFICATION OF SERFDOM OVER PEASANTS         -- FORCED PRODUCTION TOWARDS *EXPORT*         -- Britain:             -- Cromwell slow genocide of:                 -- Irish resisters                 -- English Jacobite resisters                         -- Polish nobility gave Jews full monopoly over:             -- overland trade             -- urban life             -- lease-holding             -- alcohol         -- mainstream on Ukrainian history all forced to admit this         -- IMPOTENT POLISH MONARCHY         -- sought to gain power via alliance w/ towns         -- POLISH NOBILITY countered this with Khazar Jews         -- after fall of Italy [?] centuries prior         -- Poland new Jewish home         -- mainstream power & success reached such heights         -- that common rabbinic claims were that 1600s were 'messianic' time           -- common claim amongst the more religious Jews that messiah at hand ** 'HETMAN'  = political title.  assigned to military commanders.  second-in-charge after monarch [derived from Germanic dialect] COSSACK HETMAN BOGDAN KHMELNYTSKY revolt resulted:         -- fought opposite to Cromwell direction         -- Cossacks fought AGAINST long-standing oligarchy, while Cromwell sought to establish one                 -- 1648 rise of Khmelnytsky - defined Ukraine nationalism for eternity         -- Poland almost collapsed         -- Jews fled for lives         -- Crimean Tatars freed themselves from Ottoman Turkey vassalage         -- Rome was in a panic as churches (with long history of usury) were burnt         -- their existence was based on ruins of Orthodox churches a century before         -- reeling from Reformation, Rome now faced the eradication in the east, too         -- Hetman Khmelnytsky declared:                     "The Monarch of All Rus." Russia, Vienna, Prussia & Paris           by Patriarch of Jerusalem, Paisios                   -- now centralised power could defy Rome         -- Russia had issue w/ Rome since it was PAPACY         -- that declared CRUSADE against northern Russia 1256 ROME financed MONGOL expansion  & declared POLISH ATTACK on Ukraine 'holy war'         -- Paris & Vienna remained Catholic - but a national Catholicism         -- Paris & Vienna CROWN selected Bishops; not Rome                 -- ROME talked Crimeans into abandoning Orthodox Slavs         -- 1657 led to division in Cossack host         -- b/w hetmans of the two banks of the Dnieper river, at war         -- Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky & Pavlo Teteria sought Polish alliance         -- Briukhovetsky (in east) went to Moscow         -- Doroshenko, desperate, turned to Ottomans / Turks         -- 1708 - hetman Ivan Mazepa allied with SWEDES DISASTER:  old Ukraine culture mercilessly destroyed by Peter I, Turks & Crimean Tatars         -- Ukraine historians refer to this period as:  'Ruin'         -- Russia:  moved closer to Dnieper River         -- Vienna, alarmed re potential Russification of most of east (incl. Balkans)         -- Vienna mobilised against Russia         -- [weakling, sneaky, rotten, cowardly, spineless, greedy Polish nobles return]         -- 100 years later:  Cossack Haidaimak rebellions         -- led to: Treaty of Andrusovo, 1667 (treaty of 'eternal friendship')         -- treaty b/w Poland & Russia divides Ukraine b/w the two empires         -- Cossack Haidaimak rebellion crushed by effort of Russia & Poland         -- all returned to as it was prior to 1648         -- Cossack rule, like England, society = counties - full local democracy         -- ABSENCE OF INTEREST & USURY         -- traditional Slavic smallholder communities re-emerged & basic political         -- & with this economic equality re-emerged         -- St. Petersburg financing Cossack nobles = imposition of OLIGARCHY that         -- made very easy for Catherine II mid-1700s to put end to Hetmanate forever UNITED STATES -- decentralised colonies generally prosperous -- plentiful land; excellent ports -- founders of America differed on issues, but unanimous on one:  banking -- issued own money (called colonial script) & NO INTEREST -- exception was Alexander Hamilton -- dollar remained steady until 1917 EDIT - definitions / look-ups camarilla =  group of courtiers or favourites who surround a king or ruler =  group of confidential, often scheming advisers; a cabal fm. Spanish - dimunitive of 'camara' - room / fm. Latin 'camera' - chamber] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/camarilla cabal -- secret or exclusive set of persons; clique fm. French 'cabale' / fm Medieval Latin:  cabala - see kabbalah http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cabal UNITED STATES, since Civil War, following boom bust cycles set stage for privately owned camarilla:     -- rise in federal power;     -- WWI;     -- coming American imperium (empire / supreme power) result:  'Fed' or Federal Reserve (as in shipping company 'Federal Express' vs. government controlled) FEARS OF ANTI-FEDERALISTS WERE CORRECT: WASHINGTON US GOVT. EXTREMELY POWERFUL & CUT OFF FROM COMMON AMERICANS -- had long been in thrall to oligarchy in embryo which burst forth in form of:     -- Fed     -- Rockefeller Empire     -- Carnegie Cult     -- the warfare state (tested in Spanish American war)     -- WWI (final months only) USA - 1914-1920 -- prices rose 125% -- dollar lost almost 60% of its value in SIX (6) years -- Federal bonds saw VALUE DROP by 20% -- older bonds became more dear -- newer bonds led to recall by banks -- this meant the money came due -- rail-roads & other transport more expensive:  instability -- long-standing linchpin of American prosperity, small farms - PRICED OUT OF EXISTENCE -- massive wealth transfer from the countryside to the cities -- agriculture production dropped by 50% -- war on rural America declared & is yet to end -- DEFICIT soon to be made up by Agribusiness -- centralised credit to attract large conglomerates, rather than small businesses -- 1927 - Fed lowered interest rates (INCREASED MONEY SUPPLY) -- oligarchy of roaring twenties - open, confident entity without serous resistance -- money seen as value and power in own right, detached from manufacture -- wealth generated went to stock market, boosting demand & inflating prices -- margins augmented by DEBT -- price-earnings ration went as high as 50:1 -- ie stock prices many times higher than actual productive nature of invested capital -- ie stock prices had no relation to financial health of firms, productivity of labour or value added -- 1927 - US stock market was a FRAUD -- prices based on speculative investment, easy money & perception that faux grown could last forever -- 1929 Fed INCREASED INTEREST RATE to 6% -- stock market as a whole, value drops by 83% -- 10,000 banks became insolvent -- brokers working on debt bubbles were ruined RUSSIA -- state controlled serfs freed by Tsar Nicholas I -- 1861 Alexander II liberation of serfs -- economic prosperity & growth commenced -- autocratic of monarchs = confidence to pass legislation in interest of peasants ---------------------- ---------------------- UNLIKE:  liberation of Austrian serfs; unlike freeing of American slaves: ***  RUSSIAN SERFS WERE EMANCIPATED WITH LAND *** -- state compensated indebted nobility & over time peasant was to repay state -- payments were VERY LOW -- Tsar Alexander III cancelled payments altogether -- one more nail in nobility's coffin -- Russian serfs had never been slaves -- serfdom - was a reaction to Swedish  Polish invasions of 1600s -- affected only southern peasants in black earth regions -- never existed in the north or in Siberia -- central Russia, affected only serfs required to perform labour -- by 1840s most peasants paid money rent -- making peasants tenants rather than serfs -- serfdom in Russia meant the guarantee of peasant land ownership -- & also assurance of noble incomes as they served the state, usually in military capacity -- as everybody served somebody, system was balanced -- Tsar Paul & mother Catherine II:  nobles liberated from state service -- nobles became politically sterile RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY / JUSTICE -- peasants had FULL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN COMMUNE where all posts were elected -- the VOLOST or county government was ALSO WHOLLY ELECTED -- with EQUAL REPRESENTATION from all classes -- COURT SYSTEM both at VOLOST & COMMUNE level was supported on peasant democracy -- communal judges = exclusively peasants -- volost courts = 2 noble and 2 peasant representatives -- for most part, Russian nobles fiscally worse off than peasantry; were drowning in debt & w/out useful work -- nobles little to do but buy expensive Western luxuries they could not afford -- peasant commune had the right to nullify federal law -- peasant commune:   generally self-sufficient in economics and social life -- Tsarist Russia suffered from excess democracy. ZEMSTVO REPLACES VOLOST 1861 -- 1861 volost replaced by zemstvo, county administration with:     -- lower house (peasants)     -- upper house (nobles, usually more to mid wealth) -- zemstvo in charge of education; infrastructure; church life; tax collection; police. -- there was NO PART OF PEASANT LIFE THAT WAS NOT BASED ON LOCAL DEMOCRACY -- 'land captain' - usually poor noble -- elected to mediate conflicts between peasants and nobles -- peasants would go to land captain if issue with commune or the zemstvo authorities BRITAIN almost ENTIRELY financed REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT, but:     -- freedom of serfs     -- freedom of press     -- zemstvo     -- educational improvements (many) -- undermined the British / banking regime financing of revolution in Russia -- 1881 - Alexander II was assassinated for it -- Alexander III continued father's reform programs -- Alexander III smashed the revolutionaries -- Alexander III premature death:  1894 -- Alexander III established:     -- Peasant Land Bank - early 1880s         -- giving INTEREST-FREE LOANS to peasants         -- sought to channel investment money into agricultural movement RUSSIA MOST COMPREHENSIVE LABOUR REGULATIONS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY -- drafted & passed by Tsar Alexander III and his Finance Minister, Nikolai Bunge -- Tsar Alexander III son, Nicholas II, added continually to labour regs until WWI ---------------------- ---------------------- CHILD LABOUR WAS ABOLISHED IN RUSSIA 100 YEARS BEFORE IT WAS ABOLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN 1867 -- all races in the Russian Empire had an equality of status & opportunity / unparalleled in modern world -- Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917) & his state bank created a workers paradise unrivalled in history of mankind -- equally autocratic German emperor passed similar legislation -- economic growth in both agriculture and industry averaged 15% yearly -- population growth boomed -- Russian:  peasants were given free land & tools in lush, southern Siberia (not the frozen north) -- to colonise Siberia:  vast empty location about twice the size of the US -- 1905:  90% of arable land in Russia was in hands of peasants / no industrialised society matched this -- peasants were buying noble land in massive quantities in Russia -- Russia almost completely self-sufficient in production & resources -- Russia domestic market almost 99% of production & resources -- Russia domestic market almost 99% of production / needed nothing from abroad -- all Russia received from West is ideology RUSSIA PROTECTION -- GEORGIA sought Russian protection from Islamic neighbours -- Tibet, XIII Dalai Lama of Tibet, Thoubten Gyamtso sought Tsar Nicholas II Russia protection -- to defend Buddhist monarchy drowning in British opium -- Russia seen as saviour of al who fought British & Chinese imperialism -- Russia was 'White Saviour' long prophesied by Chinese Sages -- oil discovered in Baku (today's Azerbaijan) - then Russian Empire ---------------------- ---------------------- ROTHSCHILD DYNASTY -- Rothschild dynasty:     -- declared war on Russia     -- financed Russian revolutionaries     -- created ANTI-RUSSIAN COALITION IN FRANCE -- Rothschild alliance created in retaliation for Russian success -- based on FINANCING:     -- Turkey     -- Turkish tribes of Russian south     -- Persia     -- Japan (most menacing) -- colonial Turkish occupation of Balkans was approved by Rothschilds -- BECAUSE without Turkey, pro-Russian states (eg Serbia & Bulgaria) would have filled vacuum -- British press praised Turks as liberators from 'Orthodox superstition' & held Russians to be Mongols -- whose 'fangs' must be kept out of Balkans [COMMENT:  British press were always propagandist assh*les] RUSSIA -- helped finance Bulgaria & Serbia -- sought to unify China once Manchu state fell -- indirect protectorate:  Tibet -- protectorate:  literate & urbanised Georgian state THUS:  UNSTABLE BALANCE OF POWER B/W:     1. BANKERS' PARADISE         vs.     2. WORKERS' PARADISE ---------------------- ---------------------- EDIT info re Japan / Asia region: 1879-1880 Anglo-Afghan War -- Russia supported Afghanistan against England -- Japan recreated under auspices of Royal navy      Japanese Navy = third largest navy in the world by 1920      {behind British Royal Navy & US Navy}          British supplied Japan with ship building:           - Kotaka destroyer 1887          - Yoshino fastest cruiser in world 1892          - Chyoda armoured cruiser 1889 plus other      What followed:          - Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)          - Suppression of Boxer Rebellion (1900)              - with Western powers              -- Japs supplied 18 of total 50 ships              -- Japs 20,840 army of total 54,000          *allowed Japs to observe Western combat methods         1904-1905 - Russo-Japanese War         - 6 battleships (all British-built)         - 8 armoured cruisers (4 British-, 2 Italian-, 1 German-built Yakumo, and 1 French-built Azuma)         - 9 cruisers (5 Japanese, 2 British and 2 U.S.-built)         - 24 destroyers (16 British- and 8 Japanese-built)         - 63 torpedo boats (26 German-, 10 British-, 17 French-, and 10 Japanese-built)                 * majority of Jap losses = hitting Russian mines                 Result:     Japanese victory; Treaty of Portsmouth                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy#British_shipbuilding          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War                   Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901                       Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860              British forced the Chinese to accept the import of opium              in return for Chinese goods              trading centres were established at major ports              largest @ Shanghai              French, German, British, & American merchants demanded large tracts of land              asserted "extra-territorial" rights:  subject to laws of their own country not China              weak China govt failed to resist inroads on sovereignty              did not resist demands from Europeans              eg. right to build railways, & concession              resentment created among large sections of population              anti-foreign sentiment - eventually led to Chinese Revolution 1911, toppling imperial dynasty                      -- 1899 the I-ho-ch'uan & other militant societies          -- combined in a campaign against westerners & westernised Chinese          -- missionaries and other civilians were killed, women were raped          -- European property was destroyed          -- uprising spread beyond the secret societies          -- West decides to intervene to protect territorial & trade ambitions          https://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/boxer/ Author of review, Matthew Johnson Eurasia Review, speculates what may have happened had Russia not been party to WWI & how world might have appeared. Speculates: -- England & mercantile capitalism may not have developed -- Germany may have allied with Russia over Vienna -- African colonies would have been liberated earlier ---------------------- ---------------------- EDIT - include info re US take-over Hawaii HAWAII UNITED STATES financed the Hawaiian crown's overthrow [1893] "The United States had previously recognized the Kingdom of Hawaii’s independence. But on January 17, 1893, U.S. troops took part in a conspiracy led by a small group of wealthy businessmen and sugar plantation owners to overthrow the monarchy of Queen Liliuokalani. Most Hawaiians opposed the nearly bloodless coup, as did incoming President Grover Cleveland. Once Cleveland left office, however, the United States fulfilled the conspirators’ wishes by annexing the islands in August 1898. Hawaii became a formal territory two years later and a state in 1959. Seafaring Polynesians discovered Hawaii perhaps as early as 200 A.D. by paddling double-hulled canoes across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean.  ..." " ... early-arriving whites brought over Hawaii’s first venereal diseases and mosquitoes, along with smallpox, measles and other epidemics that reduced the native population by roughly 75 percent over the span of just a few decades. " "Under King Kalakaua’s reign from 1874 to 1891, Hawaii ceded away the rights to Pearl Harbor and signed a free-trade agreement with the United States that greatly benefited the islands’ sugar planters, who came to control about four-fifths of all arable land. Yet the white business class remained unsatisfied. Under the threat of force, they pushed through a so-called Bayonet Constitution that turned the monarch into little more than a figurehead. The constitution also enfranchised more whites even as it diluted the voting power of native Hawaiians and Asian immigrants. Kalakaua, meanwhile, drove the kingdom and himself deep into debt with such expenditures as the construction of a new palace." http://www.history.com/news/hawaiis-monarchy-overthrown-with-u-s-support-120-years-ago Author:   "Compared to English colonialism, Russian expansion was never exploitative, but defensive." -- Russian imperialism was not profit seeking as the British empire -- Native populations were normally treated well -- eg.   Armenians and Muslims of Asia, never forced to convert to Orthodoxy or speak Russian -- eg.  Islamic subjects took their oath to the Tsar on the Koran -- Poland was granted one of the most liberal constitutions in the world -- Finland, colony of Russia, was totally independent in every respect except foreign policy How is it conceivable to imagine Russia Empire great expansion, had Russia not been involved in WWI? See Russian potential below: ---------------------- ---------------------- RUSSIA 1860 - State Bank of Russian Empire -- founded to boost trade turnovers & strengthen monetary system -- auxiliary institution under Ministry of Finance to 1894 -- 1894 - turned to banker of bankers, operated as instrument of govt policy -- issued coins & notes -- regulated money supply -- provided industry & commerce w/ low interest loans thru commercial bank -- continued large-scale  development, population growth & industrialisation -- threat to usury -- Russian state planned & directed investment w/ local funds (more then private capital did) -- French were only substantial external stakeholders in Russian industrialism -- if this was replaced later by Russo-German joint projects, usury would be severely disadvantaged -- London motivated to act: Congressman L.T. McFadden speech to House of Reps 1932 (quoted by Goodson): -- Western banks financed Trotsky's mass meetings of discontent & rebellion (held New York) -- Western banks paid Trotsky passage to New York from Russia -- Western banks aimed to destroy Russia with Trotsky help -- Western banks fomented & instigated Russian Revolution -- Western banks placed large American dollars fund at Trotsky disposal in Sweden bank branch -- Western banks aimed to break up Russian homes & have children flung on the streets -- Western banks have begun break up American homes, dispersing American children [Comment:  this would probably be reference to repossession of mortgaged homes, as it was the Depression era] McFadden & Goodson were silenced. Usury Exploitative Lending - Compound Interest -- no issue like usury -- no power that can match that of compound interest -- the left is the product of banks as much as the neocon 'right' -- monarchy was overthrown as a barrier to financial penetration -- monarchy replaced w. global oligarchy controlling over 80% of the global GDP -- all established in the name of 'freedom', 'progress' and 'democracy' -- result:  continued monopolization of wealth and labour North Dakota example given: -- North Dakota established state-owned bank -- revenues of state deposited into state bank -- state bank provides low interest loans to farmers & small business -- all profits revert to state -- no compound interest charged against citizen -- North Dakota not affected by real estate disaster 2007 -- state GDP growth almost 100% since 1997 -- personal per capita growth around 140% in same time -- those that claim North Dakota small petroleum industry responsible -- look at Alaska, Nigeria -- look at Somalia & Chad (sitting on rivers of oil) -- look at Indonesia & Burma, also large oil reserves -- these remain fairly undeveloped Goodson contends that whenever state banks rule finance of a society, economy does well: -- Goodson did analysis of 1930s Germany, Italy & early 20th Century Japan -- all these featured state-controlled banks, low interest loans, state directed investment -- & aversion to libertarian free markets -- all these reaped:  triple digit growth rates, zero unemployment, low inflation -- today, China, Taiwan & Belarus = had modern-day state banks system Belarus, Ukraine & Russia came unstuck -- once IMF & Harvard University helped the Mafia arrange private deals -- Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko stopped privatisation, centralised power & nationalised finance -- Ukraine has lost 70% of its industry & witnessed 80% of well-educated population living below poverty line -- Belarus however, unemployment at 1%; industry grown since 2000. Matthew Johnson remarks that what three countries did with economic success = they cannot be held up as standard-bearer for healthy society [comment:  I think he means Germany, Italy & Japan ... but I'm not sure.] 1997 - George Soros engineered Asian currency meltdown -- only TWO economies UNAFFECTED = state-controlled banks:  China & Taiwan -- these former powerhouses became official wards of IMF as consequence of monetary vulnerability:     -- South Korea     -- Japan     -- Thailand -- lifetime employment policies were abolished; living standards have fallen. Libya & Syria -- prior to attacks on these countries, both registered double-digit annual growth -- countries were reaching first world status -- both countries had STATE CONTROLLED BANKS & state-directed investment IRAQ -- Saddam Hussein's Iraq was also reaching first world status -- USA then engineered war with Iran -- USA then attacked Iran 1990 BURMA / MYANMAR -- Burmese not taking chances -- Burmese state bank under control of Ministry of Finance -- headed by Major-Gen. Hla Tun (Western education in finance) -- deputy is Colonel Hle Swe -- Burma a target for Western speculation & political attacks b/c:     -- oil;     -- rich soil;     -- minerals;     -- close ties w/ China;     -- increasingly educated population. Burma contending with: -- ongoing & multi-front civil war -- Western sanctions -- Western-backed (?) separatist movements -- but has still built x10 universities; several dozen dams & increased literacy to 80% -- & ensured peasants own own land since 1999 WWI - Gavrilo Princip | Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand -- did not start WWI -- Serbia exhausted after Balkan Wars / could not fight again -- target, Archduke Ferdinand, was most pro-Serb of royal family -- target did not make sense -- Serbia acceded to Vienna demands after assassination -- Germany was impressed by Serbian desire for peace -- Austria itching for casus belli (case for war) since Serbian rebellion vs. Austria occupation of Bosnia -- & artificial creation of 'state of Albania' (Austrian colonialism) -- Serbian national day (Vidovdan) when nationalistic spirit high - odd choice -- coincided wit highly inflammatory military manoeuvres in Bosnia -- lacked normal security detail for visiting hostile territory -- motorcade inexplicably rerouted by own handlers where assassination group waiting -- Vienna DECLARED WAR BEFORE Serbian answer to Austrian ultimatum received ---------------------- source Matthew Johnson scholar of Russian Orthodox history & philosophy Eurasia Review A review of Stephen Goodson's A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (Black House Publishing, 2014) http://www.sott.net/article/291745-Book-review-A-History-of-Central-Banking-and-the-Enslavement-of-Mankind ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT The review article covers areas of history and politics that interest me.  It covers things in a straightforward way, so it was really enjoyable doing this summary. There's a lot of information I wasn't aware of, which is cool. And it gives a nice overview of some history that's useful keeping in mind. Got a bit lost when he started talking about something financial ... think it was shares or speculation. Can't remember exactly what it was ... and I'm too slack to go looking, now. I've spent forever on this and I'm going to need a break from it, as I'm reaching the limit of my meagre ability to concentrate. Reading this, I really didn't like the sound of the self-interested, spineless Polish nobles. It looks like all nobles are bad news, and the modern-day nobles are those that control corporations rather than estates. Not impressed with Italy financing Turk take-down of the eastern end of the Roman Empire (Byzantine) 1453. From the sound of this article, England lost its sovereignty hundreds of years ago. America assigned sovereignty when she handed over control of finance to private bankers in the early 1900s. So does that mean the death warrant has been signed for the American Empire and it's just a matter of time? It's interesting learning that capitalism and communism are similar, materialistic and production focused, mechanising, or whatever ... etc. Rome financing Mongols is beyond belief:  Rome deserved to fall. Christianity is absolutely loathsome.   Europeans need to go back to the traditions of their ancestors.  I like the sound of Cossack Bogdan Khmelnytsky and his church burning.  lol    Must read some more about him when I have more time. This will sound silly, but I wish I could be right there in the past -- all of the past -- sort of safely observing like I am now, only a bit more closely.  Wouldn't that be great? If I had a genie in a bottle my wish would be time travel ... which is stupid, I guess, because the time and everything in that space of time is forever gone. PS ... NOTE:  Europe only required 14 weeks a year of work for all essentials (above).  Church had over 100 calendar holidays!  WTF ... modern labour really is SLAVERY.  lol