‘‘Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who have become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.’’
-Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1981.“Only Hegel is fit for America”
-Walt Whitman
"...the world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not themselves behind the scenes."
-Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, Coningsby, 1844.
"To assist in keeping up the deception, we will form secret societies and clubs… and so by fair means or by foul we shall gain our ends and carry on our dishonest proceedings with impunity."
-Plato, The Republic. Book II, p.48.
"A conspiracy is rarely, if ever, proved by positive testimony. When a crime of high magnitude is about to be perpetrated by a combination of individuals, they do not act openly, but covertly and secretly. The purpose formed is known only to those who enter into it. Unless one of the original conspirators betray his companions and give evidence against them, their guilt can be proved only by circumstantial evidence...and circumstances can not lie."
-Special Judge Advocate John A. Bingham, quoted in The Trial Of The Conspirators, Washington, 1865.
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
-Will Durant
“Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order. [...] A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment -- the ruling class -- is not supposed to be discussed.”
-Arthur S. Miller, George Washington University law professor
"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 subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now 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 auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany 1991.
"Within the next
hundred years... nationhood as we know it will
be obsolete; all states will recognize a single
global authority. A phase briefly fashionable in
the mid 20th century -- 'citizen of the world'
-- will have assumed real meaning by the
end of the 21st century."
-Strobe Talbot, Former
Deputy Secretary of State, Time, July
20th, 1992.
“If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build the credibility and authenticity of your propaganda and persuade the enemy to trust you, although you are his enemy.
-A Psychological Warfare Casebook, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958 p.38
“Deluded people: You must understand that there exists a conspiracy in favor of despotism and against liberty; incapacity against talent; of vice against virtue; of ignorance against light! It is formed in the depths of the most impenetrable darkness, a society is to rule the world, to appropriate the authority of sovereigns, to usurp their place."
-Marquis de Luchet, 1789.
"Even minutiae should have a place in our collection, for things of seemingly trifling nature, when enjoined with others of a more serious cast, may lead to valuable conclusion."
-General George Washington
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
-Ephesians 6:12
"World events do not occur by accident: they are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings."
-Denis Healey, former British Defence Minister
“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one
discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running,
opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and
mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of
shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations,
crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for
political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured
labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and
scab labor -- backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old
money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several
generations of possession.”
-Michael Parenti
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