CHAPTER 8
BABYLON REVISTED

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

George Santayana Writer, Philos., 1905

here are many people in our present society who believe the most extensive and influential bastion of organized crime existing in the world today is the Mafia, the Cosa Nostra or the international drug cartels. Some think it may be the communist regimes in China, Cuba or former soviet Russia. Others now believe it may be the religion of Islam. Still others will hasten to point their finger at the IRS, the CIA or the Federal Reserve System. Some have even dared to make allusions toward the Roman Catholic Church. While all of these institutions contribute in part their own brand of dubious or criminal activity to the over-all corruption that plagues the world at present, they are but fragments of a much greater and more insidious consortium, which is referred to scripturally as "Mystery Babylon, the Great."

To attempt to describe any particular enclave of "Babylon" as being all of "Babylon", is to underestimate its true proportions. A comparison can be drawn from the story of the blind men who were asked to give their description of an elephant strictly by feel. Each of them was able to describe only the part which he had touched; to one it seemed to be a snake, the other a tree trunk, and to another a wall and so on, none of which can adequately describe the full reality of an elephant.

The controlling authority, or "mind center" of this "Babylonian" world system, we are told, is comprised of an invisible cabal of international bankers who privately own and control the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and all the other national central banks of the world. We have previously referred to this cabalistic group as the Power Elite. The lifeblood of this Power Elite, through their harlot, "Babylon", is the wealth of the world that is stolen by taxation, usury and in some cases seizure, through the operations of their central and commercial banks. "Mystery Babylon" is our present world political/economic system. As has been popularly thought, even the political and economic systems of the "free" nations of the western world are not controlled "by the people, for the people", but rather "by the Power Elite, for the Power Elite." The people are simply cattle to be exploited for "Their" purpose and profit.

The principle by which this "Elite" gains its power and maintains it over our present world was established by the founder of the Rothschild dynasty - Mayer Amshel Bauer (Rothschild = Red shield - a particularly gifted agent of the true Power Elite), about two centuries ago when he stated: "Permit me to issue and control a nation’s money, and I care not who makes its laws." What this means to us in modern times is that we presently have the best Congress money can buy. This brilliant scheme, contrived by a lone goldsmith in Frankfurt, Germany, has come to enslave entire nations by providing control over the world’s monetary systems to a few powerful figures that have been able to keep the people in ignorance about the true function of money. This ignorance is costing the people of the world their freedom.

John Adams, in 1787, had this to say: "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." The responsibility for what he has said here, friends, falls upon us, because this is the precise condition in America today.

In 1905, George Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." How can we be expected to remember the past if we have no knowledge of it? Recall the warnings of Aldous Huxley as mentioned earlier in the foreword to his book, BRAVE NEW WORLD: "The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."

It could be understood that one of the first aims of the Power Elite would be to take hold of the reins of the educational system. This was originally achieved by simply acquiring a controlling interest in the firms that publish the texts that influence the studies of history and economics in the high schools and colleges of our nation. Thus, the knowledge that we need to keep us economically and politically free has been withheld from us and this assures that control of our nation will remain in the hands of the Power Elite.

The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, warned us of this when he stated: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Jefferson, allied with James Madison and Benjamin Franklin, was in virulent opposition to the schemes of the Power Elite’s representative in New York, Alexander Hamilton (Levine), to introduce a privately controlled central bank for the United States, similar to that of the Bank of England. After Franklin died however, in 1790, Hamilton (Levine) was successful in swaying a sufficient number of congressmen over to his way of thinking and secured a congressional charter on behalf of the Power Elite in 1791 to create the First Bank of the United States. This was to remain in effect for twenty years. Jefferson recounted, after losing his position to this high cabal: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to congress and to the people, to whom it belongs." In 1811, when the charter expired, Congress having grown in wisdom and integrity, would not reinstate it. Subsequently, we found ourselves engaged in the War of 1812 in another attempt to force us into submission to the Bank of England. Such was also the case in our War of Independence.

While much of this may seem unbelievable, it is only because our history texts do not reflect the truth as to the actual causes behind the historical events influencing the formative years of the American nation. It is quite a lengthy tale and far worse than one would ever imagine, however we cannot review history in depth, as space will not permit.

In order to understand how our present corrupted politico/economic system developed, we must examine briefly what has transpired. Let us depart from our historical examination and take a look at the mechanics of the criminal practice called "fractional reserve banking" and see how people caught in its insidious web become its slaves. Most Americans like to believe that their government creates the money we use in accordance with Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution, which says: "The Congress shall have Power.... to coin money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign coin...." Congress surrendered this very important governmental power to a privately chartered corporation called the Federal Reserve in the year 1913. This institution is no more federal than Finnegan’s Federal Laundry or Federal Express parcel delivery service, and is about as much a reserve as a pail with no bottom in it, yet more than ninety-nine percent of Americans choose to believe that this is a government institution. I will identify the owners of the Federal Reserve in another chapter.

How have the Power Elite managed to conquer entire nations economically? It is so simple that it is scarcely believable! Initially, they manoeuvre the political authority at hand into granting them the sole power to issue the nation’s currency as "debt" at interest (usury). Then they fabricate this currency, backed by nothing (fiat), as a ledger or computer entry when they lend this "central bank" credit to the government in question and to corporations, in exchange for interest-bearing bonds, and also to individuals through a network of private banks, in exchange for title to their properties, farms, homes, businesses, etc. This is called collateral. Inevitably, there comes a time when there will be no unencumbered property left to collateralise any more loans, and then suddenly and mysteriously, there will not be sufficient money in circulation to pay back all these loans, whereupon the unwitting victims are then foreclosed upon. Sectioning and manipulating the economy to this end accomplish this. For a while the farmers will be singled our for repossession, then homeowners, then small enterprises, on and on in cyclic fashion like a huge vacuum cleaner, until one day...?

Why the above outcome is inevitable is the best-hidden secret that exists. How it works, is when the Power Elite, the international banks, and their subordinates (your home town banker), create the "currency" as a ledger entry in order to make a loan, (See article: SAVE YOUR HOME, Chapter 4, Page 60). For example: one thousand dollars for a year at, lets say, ten percent interest (usury), the actual amount of the interest is not created and is not circulated, therefore it cannot be repaid. Immediately following this artificially induced economic stimulus will be a diminishing money supply that causes a "shortage pressure" and imminent foreclosure somewhere down the line.

To examine this further, when the credit that is created by the bank is placed into circulation, there is an artificial increase in the supply of money available in the economy and this in turn stimulates an increase in activity economically throughout society. Then, when the original amount of the loan, (the principal) is paid back, the credit issued by the bank is erased and the economic activity is commensurately decreased. At this point it would still be possible to maintain equilibrium in the economic system if there were integrity behind it. However, as the amount of the interest on the loan was never created, it stays in the economy as a deficit, as a claim on some poor borrower’s property. Why is this so? Owing to the fact that if the borrower in the case of this one thousand dollar loan is to be able to pay the one hundred dollars interest, someone else now has to borrow that money into circulation. The "system" is both self-perpetuating and self-defeating. We can see that a never-ending and ever-increasing procession of debt is created whereby the only end result that can be is that eventually ownership of all the nation’s real wealth and property will be in the hands of the Power Elite through their financial agents. (See PUBLIC LAND POLICY IN HAWAI'I

- Report No. 3, Chapter 4, Page 66)

This explains why the homes, farms and factories of America are being swallowed up weekly at an alarming rate, by the thousands, in bank foreclosures. It also explains the cause of inflation that has caused the present dollar to decrease in value to about ten percent of the value it enjoyed in the early nineteen-forties. The farmers in particular have been singled out for repossession since this is the logical manner in which they can gain control over our food supplies.

The entire amount of currency in circulation, with the exception of the coinage and whatever few U.S. notes might remain, has been fabricated without backing by the Power Elite’s banking agencies, borrowed by our government and circulated to us as "debt". Approximately ninety-five percent of this "debt" is present in the form of bank deposits (checks) and about five percent is in Federal Reserve Notes. These are, in fact, nothing more or less than I.O.U.’s. In view of this, it stands to reason that there isn't nearly enough money circulating in our economy to repay the more than six trillion dollar national debt, much less the more than twenty trillion dollar private debt. Our politicians know this, of course, and so it is purely rhetoric when we hear them speaking of balancing the Federal Budget. There is simply no way to balance a budget that is designed to devour itself and our "American Dream" along with it.

Increased taxation is simply a means of accelerating the removal of currency from circulation, which means less money will be available to repay the loans in force. Yet, in such a usurious "Babylonian" economic system, if the government did not continue to borrow more Federal Reserve "credit" into circulation, there would be no means of exchange by which we could engage in commerce. Since the debt our government has incurred upon the people of America far exceeds all of the real estate and property value in the country, which we have all "mortgaged" to pay it, we are presently all legally bankrupt. We are already faced with a debt that is impossible to repay.

Robert Hemphill, who was for a number of years the credit manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, had this to say: "If all the bank loans were paid, no one would have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible - but there it is. It [the problem of money] is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."

Louis T. McFadden, who was then Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, revealed the omnipotent corruption of the Federal Reserve System in 1933. After two unsuccessful tries, the Power Elite finally managed to have him assassinated. He wrote: "Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is... the "Fed" has usurped the government. It controls everything here [Congress] and it controls our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will." It should now become clearer to the reader how criminally exploitive our present economic system is and how each of us is enticed into a disadvantaged position by it. For those who may still be having some difficulty in understanding, let me use an analogy:

Monopoly is a game that is familiar to most people and its name is quite apropos. The rules of this game are fitting for the parlor, but if we adjust the rules slightly we can see that it more closely resembles the "real" world of economics. At the beginning, count all the money that is available in the game’s bank. Let us say an amount of ten thousand dollars. Then have a banker lend, not give, an equal amount of twenty five hundred dollars to each of four players. Finally, have each player pay two hundred dollars in interest to the bank each time he passes GO instead of collecting it. It shouldn't take long to figure out who will win the game every time. If you don't believe it, try playing the game by these rules and you will see. Many Americans have already lost the game in real life and many more will follow. The outcome is inevitable.

If no other lesson can be learned from what is presented here, remember this: If you are in debt you are not free, you are a slave in bondage. You may even be astute enough or lucky enough to have no personal debt, but if you are an American citizen you already owe a share in excess of twenty thousand dollars of the national debt and any property holding you presume to own has already been pledged by your government to repay it.

Is this why we are presently witnessing the unstoppable juggernaut of foreign enterprise displacing American industrial development in our own country? We shall soon see.

In Proverbs 22:7 the scriptures reveal: "The borrower is servant to the lender." The process by which borrowers (bond slaves) were to be controlled and governed was laid out in "The Bankers Manifesto" of 1934, part of which read: "Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When, through a process of law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people, they can be made to expend their energies in quarrelling over questions of little importance to us, except as teachers of the common herd." Read that again!!! This information will not be found in high school or college textbooks. One must dig for the truth, learn to investigate obscure sources, but also check on their reliability. Above all, learn to develop discernment, to recognize what is true and what is untrue, and then trust your own perceptions and conscience as you compare your notes against the reality of events around you.

The mind can be an ally or an enemy, depending upon the beliefs we allow to influence it. A belief is simply a mind-set we have become comfortable with because it gives us a sense of security. A belief is different from faith, in that faith is the result of knowledge and experience resulting in an inner "knowing", whereas a belief simply fits well with already preconceived notions.

A case in point is the matter of property ownership as opposed to stewardship, particularly of land. The concept of land ownership is a fairly recent idea (Sixteenth Century, A.D.) but it has become so conditioned into the minds of Western man that it controls almost his every attitude and action. It has given him the sense that he is in control of his universe, in a way, that he controls all that he surveys. He does not realize that this conditioned need for control is actually controlling him. The concept of ownership in a society that embodies maturity and integrity takes on a different meaning than that which we are accustomed to understand. The concept of property ownership in the modern Western context is a fallacy that has been introduced by the cunning Power Elite who have convinced the masses that ownership is a privilege granted by them and that for the mere payment of a tax, the privilege can be maintained. No tax payment - no privilege of ownership. So, rule the "Elite".

In the ancient egalitarian systems of society the concept of stewardship of the land is most predominant. Stewardship implies that the appropriate care of the land justified the person’s use of it. The accepted social persuasion suggested that if you were capable of caring for the land, protecting it and making productive use of it, your efforts to do this should not be challenged or thwarted. These efforts however, did not always go unchallenged or un-thwarted by marauders and usurpers who did not honor the social agreements of their time. So man eventually evolved a system of government that would guarantee his right to do his days work upon the land, in exchange for a fee in the form of taxation.

In its original context, the idea of government was a necessary and sound one, but over the centuries, the marauders and usurpers have managed to find their way into the offices of government bureaucracy and have further managed to legalize and justify the continuance of their own marauding and usurping. Now a land "owner" relinquishes his right to live upon and utilize his land and his right to ownership if he neglects to pay his "fees" for what presently amounts to a non-service. All we have done is given them the right to force us to pay them for the privilege to believe their lies.

It is now also quite common to see land that is not used for anything, change owners merely for pure profit. In fact, the land itself remains unchanged, and all that really happens is that an "idea" is exchanged; a concept transplants itself from one mind to another and it costs someone dearly to make this happen.

In the world as we presently know it there is not a single subject that presides with greater importance in our lives than money. We have been persuaded to divide ourselves into thousands of differing factions from being anti-racist, anti-abortion, anti-communist, anti-this or anti-that, or we sit hypnotized in front of our television sets as our collapsing society presents itself to us in increasing degrees every day. Many choose to escape in alcohol or drugs while others still numbly await the rapture. The diversions are many.

It's quite likely that after toiling half of each year for the Power Elite and their government, you have little time to study history or economics. Yet, to re-quote Robert Hemphill: "(Money) is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."

It is sad to see the degree to which we have deluded ourselves, in this modern age, into thinking we are in control of things in such a foolish manner. The truth is, that in our ignorance of where these concepts originated, they have unwittingly controlled us. We are so busy playing a game that someone else designed and foisted upon us, that we have forgotten to ask who made the rules and who ultimately wins.

Our older societies, those whom we choose, in our intellectual arrogance, to call primitive, did not fool themselves in such an adolescent manner. They very intuitively and intelligently, saw themselves as part of the land and as part of a harmonious interplay of activities and events in nature. Modern Western man, in contrast, sees himself as a modifier of nature and he has chosen to interfere with this harmonious interplay of activities and events in nature. He, in his quest to "improve" upon nature, has succeeded in distorting and artificializing almost every aspect of life he has touched. It will be interesting indeed to observe how far he will succeed in his sophistication (distortion) of nature before the pressure and tension he has created snaps it all back into place. What will modern man then find himself the owner/steward of? He may very well find himself wandering amidst the wreckage and debris of his own fabrications.