Irish Leaders Castigated As Greatest Traitors Of All Time

by Gabriel Donohoe

The Irish Government has recently passed the harshest budget in the history of the State with further austerity promised for the next three years and perhaps for decades. Prime Minister Brian Cowen and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan have steered Ireland from the booming prosperity of a Celtic Tiger to a ruined shell of a country where unemployment, poverty, emigration, and despair are proceeding to destroy a once proud, industrious people.

Cowen and Lenihan also bear the ignominy of having brought in the International Monetary Fund who, along with EU banksters, are now dictating Irish fiscal policy. The IMF has long had a vulturish reputation for plundering weaker countries by stripping the flesh of its victims down to the bare bones. This repulsive scavenger is well known for promoting austerity and misery, grabbing national assets for its bankster and corporate friends, and leaving the skeleton of a country’s economy in its wake. The first piece of offal to be plucked from the Irish carcass by this opportunistic carrion eater was the nation’s €20 billion pension fund, the life savings of working people.

As a result of Ireland’s dramatic reversal of fortune the names of Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan are now being reviled as the villains who inflicted horrendous financial disaster upon the Irish people and forced the enslavement of future generations to a criminal cadre of International Banksters.

The words ‘treason’, ‘traitors’, and ‘treachery’ are being increasingly used not only by ordinary citizens but also by certain politicians, economists, business leaders, and celebrities. ‘Economic treason’ was a term used by the leader of the Labour Party to describe Cowen and Lenihan’s blanket guarantee to the banks. And, incredibly, even the country’s ostensibly non-partisan police association, the GRA, accused the government of ‘treachery’ and denounced it as a ‘government of national sabotage’.

Today, Cowen and Lenihan are being compared to other traitors in history like Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian politician who assisted the Nazis to conquer his native country; General Benedict Arnold, an American soldier who changed sides during the Revolution and betrayed his country to the British; and even Judas Iscariot, who betrayed his Master for 30 pieces of silver.

In Ireland, the names of Cowen and Lenihan now evoke the same revulsion as that reserved for Dermot MacMurrough, a 12th century King of Leinster who has been loathed for over 8 centuries as the man who brought the first English invaders to Ireland. In 1167, after a dispute with other Irish kings which led to his forced exile, MacMurrough persuaded an English army under the command of the Earl of Pembroke, known as ‘Strongbow’, to invade Ireland and help him take his kingdom back.

MacMurrough died 3 years later and Strongbow declared himself the King of Leinster. Thus began the beginning of a British military occupation that would last for over 800 years and cause countless thousands of Irish deaths and condemn many generations of Irish men and women to utter misery, slavery, famine, and financial and religious tyranny. It is not easy for anyone to incite more odium in the hearts of the Irish people than that of the back-stabber Dermot MacMurrough.

And yet Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan are reviled with the same detestation as that accorded the traitorous 12th century King of Leinster.

What did Cowen and Lenihan do to earn such public loathing?

On September 29th, 2008, a momentous event occurred. That evening, four of the most senior executives of Ireland’s two largest high street banks, Dermot Gleeson and Eugene Sheehy of Allied Irish Bank (AIB) and Brian Goggin and Richard Burrows of Bank of Ireland (BOI), called to Government Buildings for a hastily convened meeting with the Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, and the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan. Also present was the Irish Attorney-General, Paul Gallagher.

The banksters were frantic. As the property bubble was beginning to burst, their main rival, Anglo Irish Bank, was in serious trouble and the huge loss of liquidity could bring down the country’s entire financial system. Like Anglo Irish, AIB and BOI also had massive exposure to the developers and all were in danger of imminent collapse. The banksters implored the Government to do something, immediately, before the money markets opened the following morning.

Having received such stark news from the banksters, Cowen and Lenihan knew they had to move quickly and decisively. They would have to act, and be seen to act, without bias and without favouring any special interest groups. Their first duty was to ensure the welfare of the nation as a whole and to safeguard the financial interests of all the Irish people.

But in this they failed utterly. One special interest group, the banksters, prevailed spectacularly over the interests of the Irish people. How did the banksters manage to wield such inordinate influence over crucial governmental policy?

A key disturbing fact about this meeting was never commented upon in the mainstream media. On the government side of the table sat Paul Gallagher, the Attorney-General, legal adviser to the Irish Government. On the banksters’ side of the table sat Dermot Gleeson, the AIB chairman and himself a former Irish Attorney-General. But, apart from both men holding the senior law office of the land, a more sinister connection between them remained undisclosed. They were both Bilderbergers.

For those who haven’t heard of the Bilderbergers, they are a brotherhood of unelected international banksters, corporatists, politicians, and others who meet secretly every year to formulate and manipulate world policy in finance, economics, trade, and any other area that they can control for their own selfish, globalist interests.

It may well be that the presence of the two Bilderbergers, Gleeson and Gallagher, was just a coincidence but, considering such incredibly high stakes, it can be argued that Gallagher’s attendance as Attorney-General at such a crucial meeting generated a monumental conflict of interest. His Bilderberger connection clearly compromised him as legal adviser to the Irish Government, especially when his Bilderberger pal, Gleeson, was about to be on the receiving end of a whopping government bailout.

After a surprisingly short discussion with some members of the cabinet, the Attorney-General, and top civil servants, Cowen and Lenihan arrived at an ominous decision. They decided that the Government would guarantee all the liabilities of six Irish banks – not just customer and interbank deposits but also the full exposure of all bondholders! This amounted to some 450 billion euro, an astronomical figure which, if ever called upon, would destroy the country.

With the stroke of a pen Cowen and Lenihan shifted hundreds of billions of private debt incurred by greedy, fraudulent banksters and dumped it onto the backs of the Irish people. This was an incredible act of treachery against the Irish nation. What could possess these two politicians to put their people into impossible debt and penury – perhaps for generations – just to save a few mega-rich banksters from taking a loss on their reckless gambling? Was it utter ineptitude or was it something more sinister than that?

As Marcellus said to Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘Something is rotten in the State of Denmark.’ He said ‘Denmark’, but he might well have been describing present-day Ireland. This bank guarantee deal stinks to high heaven!

Inflicting a risk exposure of €450 billion on the Irish nation was tantamount to state suicide. The willing and needless placement of an entire people into such peril could only be the result of criminal incompetence or criminal collusion. There could be no other explanation, except, of course, criminal insanity. Take your pick. Are Cowen and Lenihan criminally inept, corrupt, or insane?

To put the enormity of the hazard to the nation into perspective let’s compare it to U.S Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s 2008 bank bailout of $700 billion which was then strenuously opposed by the great majority of the American people. The Irish bailout was the equivalent of more than $585 billion dollars, not a far cry from the $700 billion that so appalled and angered most Americans. Consider that the U.S. has a population of 300 million while Ireland only has a population of less than 4.5 million, much the same as the state of Louisiana.

At 3.30am the four bankers left. According to Shane Ross, author of Bankers, they had ‘put the gun to the Government’s head and the ministers had delivered.’

Ireland was aghast. Cowen and Lenihan said the bailout was necessary to preserve Ireland’s creditworthiness with ‘the markets’. This was hogwash and was said so by many people at the time, including leading economists. (The fallacy of the ministers’ thinking is borne out by the approach of the plucky Icelandic people who refused to take on private bankster debt and whose economy is now in a much healthier position than that of Ireland.) But Lenihan persisted with the bailout declaring that it would be ‘the cheapest bailout in history’. Those words, like the ghost in Hamlet, would soon come back to haunt him.

Cowen and Lenihan then proceeded to pour taxpayers’ money into the banks, capitalizing the high street lenders to the tune of some €13.5 billion. This figure did not even include the requirements of Anglo Irish Bank, the biggest culprit of fraudulent lending, who Lenihan said could be saved with a €4 billion bailout. As time progressed the Minister of Finance continually revised his figures upwards, going to €12 billion, €18 billion, €24 billion, and now the figure is hovering around €35 billion. The Irish people will never see a single cent of the tens of billions poured into that black hole that is Anglo Irish Bank. This cannot be described as anything other than an act of outrageous criminality.

Another fiasco in the making, the brainchild of Lenihan and Cowen, is NAMA (National Asset Management Agency), set up to restore the banks’ balance sheets by buying their toxic loans to the tune of some €54 billion of taxpayers’ money. This is another huge and needless risk that is likely to go disastrously wrong and which hangs eternally over Irish taxpayers like the Sword of Damocles. The slightest miscalculation and the sword falls – with devastating effect.

This writer, and many others, pointed out at the time that there was a much better short-term solution to the Irish banking problem. The Government could have let the banks fail – that’s what happens in capitalism when businesses are reckless or make mistakes – and set up a state bank. A state bank could have created all the credit the country needed with a much, much smaller outlay. Through fractional reserve lending, a bank can create some twelve and a half times the amount of credit that it holds in assets. For example, if a state bank is capitalised with €10 billion it can lend out €125 billion. With only €20 billion in capital a state bank could create and lend out €250 billion. This would have boosted Irish businesses and given the economy a huge injection and would have obviated the need to go back to the exploitative money markets.

(It is important to point out that this would be a short-term solution only. The real cause of global financial chaos and prohibitive national debt is the permitting of private banking cartels to create a nation’s money, money that is based on debt and bears interest and which makes an immense fortune for the international banksters – to the impoverishment of the people.)

But Cowen and Lenihan seemed not to be focussed on what was good and efficacious for the people of Ireland but on how to save a few criminal banksters from incurring gigantic losses.

Before the bank guarantees, Ireland had a manageable sovereign debt. But after taking on the private debts of reckless, fraudulent banksters Cowen and Lenihan drove Ireland into insolvency. Interest on Irish government bonds rose dramatically and threatened to destabilise the Euro. Uncertainty about Ireland’s ability to handle its deficit caused unrest in Portuguese and Spanish bond markets. There were concerns too about Belgium and Italy. The EU, fearful that panic and contagion would spread and collapse the Euro, bullied the Irish Government into taking a joint EU/IMF bailout. The high placed members of the self-serving Brussels elite were willing to impose hardship and needless austerity upon the people of Ireland in order to save their precious Euro and to preserve their positions of opulence and power.

The Irish economy per se did not need a bailout, but Irish banks did. The IMF does not lend to banks but only to sovereign countries. (That way, they can force a country to bleed its taxpayers to get their money back.) Cowen and Lenihan then proceeded to sell the idea of an EU/IMF loan to the country as a ‘rescue package’ for the Irish nation. This was a complete lie. It was a rescue package mainly for German, British, and French banks who had recklessly and greedily loaned billions to Irish banks during the Celtic Tiger boom.

David McWilliams, Irish economist, broadcaster, and writer, says of the IMF, ‘It is not here to bail us out; it is here to bail [the banks] out. The bailout is a bailout for the banks of Germany and France and the Irish taxpayer foots the bill. It is that simple. And where will the EU and IMF money come from? It will be borrowed from the very investment banks that will be bailed out. So they will get interest payments from us, in order that we pay for their mistakes.’

This view is echoed by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev, adjunct lecturer in Finance at Trinity College, Dublin, who likens the ECB/IMF bailout to ‘corporate welfare’ (as opposed to social welfare). ‘It’s worse than corporate welfare, it’s corporate welfare with a massive moral hazard loaded on top. This is an undemocratic, corporatist transfer of wealth from ordinary citizens to a tiny group of people: bank bondholders…’

Just who are these precious bondholders that Cowen and Lenihan would bind and bankrupt the country in order to make up their ‘gambling’ losses?

Senator and presidential hopeful David Norris tried to read out their names under parliamentary privilege in the Irish Senate but was quickly silenced. It seems that Cowen and Lenihan and the Irish Government do not want the people to know that they have been put into debt slavery for the benefit of some of the wealthiest, most fraudulent banksters in the world. The names of these bondholders are now a matter of public record, thanks to investigative journalists like Guido Fawkes (www.order-order.com).

Some of the more familiar names among the four score or so major bondholders are Goldman Sachs, one of the most despised banks on Wall Street whose name is synonymous with greed, sleaze, and fraud. Max Keiser, broadcaster and former broker & options trader, says, ‘Goldman Sachs are scum. I mean that’s the bottom line. They have basically co-opted the U.S. Government, they have co-opted the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve functionality. They’ve co-opted the Obama administration. And Barack Obama dances to Goldman Sach’s tune. They are really crooked and abominable in what they’ve done.’

Keiser continues, with remarkable candour, ‘Just remember, Hank Paulson held Congress hostage, took them in the back room and said give us $700 billion or we’re gonna crash the market. He’s an arsonist; he’s an outlaw. And yet he’s given praise. If you go down the list, they’re all Goldman Sachs scum, whether it’s Hank Paulson, whether it’s Geithner…you know Geithner has very strong ties to Goldman Sachs…and of course all these banking bonuses are paid out to all their cronies who are Goldman Sachs scum.’

Another Anglo Irish Bank bondholder is the Rothschilds Bank, Zurich; the Rothschild family are reputed to have owned half the wealth of Europe a century and a half ago – how much do they own now? And most of the remaining bondholders are worth an accumulation of some twenty trillion euro. An Irish default would involve such an insignificant fraction of their wealth that it would hardly cause them to raise their eyebrows. Yet Cowen and Lenihan forced crippling debt upon the Irish people for many years to come in order to repay the banksters every single cent of their reckless investments.

One great irony amid all this debt and despair is the great wealth recently discovered in the gas fields off the west coast of Ireland. The Corrib gas field alone is reckoned to be worth well over €420 billion, enough to pay off all of Ireland’s debts and make the country vastly rich. According to the Petroleum Affairs Division there is even more gas and oil off the west coast, perhaps as much as 13 trillion euro or beyond, enough to make millionaires of every man, woman, and child in Ireland.

What did the Irish Government do with this €420 billion windfall from the Corrib field? They gave it away to Royal Dutch Shell for nothing. Yes, nothing! In an incredible move, the government cut the State’s share from 50% to zero on all its offshore oil and gas and abolished all royalties.

Why would they do such a crazy thing?

For an answer to that you’ll have to ask the then minister, Ray Burke, who was later convicted and jailed for political corruption on other matters.

Royal Dutch Shell, with its monthly revenues fluctuating between $25 billion and $45 billion, certainly doesn’t need the money as much as the Irish people do. Royal Dutch Shell is a key Bilderberg asset; its principal shareholder is Queen Beatrix of Holland, a long-time member of Bilderberg which was founded by her father, Prince Bernhard, a former officer of Hitler’s SS. Giving these plutocrats billions, and perhaps trillions, in oil and gas for absolutely nothing is criminally obscene and utterly enraging. These energy resources rightfully belong to the Irish people and it’s not for individual politicians, whether corrupt or incompetent, to give them away for nothing.

Looking forward, there will soon be a new government in Ireland. It is now time for the Irish people to take a firm stand. In the coming election campaign they must warn incoming government hopefuls that there HAS to be radical change. The criminal pledges of an outgoing government of traitors MUST be dismantled and consigned to the trash can, along with their authors. The people will not stand for more of the same old bullshit gombeen politics; they are in no mood for mealy-mouthedness or ineffectual tinkering with a failed system. They demand nothing less than clear, decisive, and even ruthless change. They demand leaders of integrity, innovation, and courage. And they demand a decent living for themselves, their children, and future generations yet unborn. There can be no going back!

Actions that should be taken as a matter of urgency:

• Defaulting on private bankster debt which is not a just or proper debt of the Irish people.
• Leave the Euro and return to the Irish Punt. (And consider leaving the EU altogether and take back control of our seas which have been plundered of hundreds of billions of euro of fish stock by other EU nations.)
• End Fractional Reserve Banking and take the power of money creation back from private, criminal banking cartels. The Government would then issue debt-free, interest-free money for the benefit of all the people.
• Spend this debt-free money on hospitals, education, sustainable green energy, ports & harbours, transportation, roads, and infrastructure such as the 100+ year old water and sewage systems that are about to collapse.
• Take full control of all oil, gas, and mineral deposits on land and within our territorial waters.
• Pay a monthly dividend, or basic income, to every adult and child, such as that described in Social Credit or as explained in ‘The Cook Plan’ by Richard C. Cook.
• Promote organic farming so that we are more self-sufficient and need to import less and less foreign foodstuffs.
• Encourage the use of natural medicines and natural health therapies so that the people have real freedom of choice.
• Reduce the number of seats in parliament, abolish the senate and useless quangos, and use the internet more to interface with our politicians and government.
• Make the Mainstream Media truly independent so that they will return to being the proper watchdogs of the people.
• Promote the arts and artists so that we may discover our true spiritual nature and live in peace and harmony and abundance on this wondrous planet of ours.

If a new Irish government implements the actions listed above, the country will quickly achieve unrivalled prosperity and contentment and could well become a guiding light for momentous reform in other nations of the world.

Pecunia, si uti scis, ancilla est; si nescis, domina. (If you know how to use money, money is your slave; if you don’t, money is your master.)

Economists: The Unholy Priests of the Banksters

by Gabriel Donohoe

“Political Economists,” according to Stephen Zarlenga in The Lost Science Of Money, “became the priesthood of the new Bank aristocracy, often serving as a propaganda apparatus to whitewash the monetary power structure. They put forward false ideas and smoke screens on the nature of money, primitive concepts that help entrench the bankers.”

Zarlenga blames the wreckage of the world economy on “the financial establishment and their economists” and describes the latter as being the mouthpieces of the ‘Money Power’. The reason why the corrupt system of modern banking has endured for so long despite its abysmal performance is because professional economists almost never point the finger at the banksters nor do they ever challenge the fraudulence of private, debt-based money creation or the outrageous deceit of fractional reserve lending.

Economists are schooled in bank-funded university economics departments where they are thoroughly indoctrinated in monetary theories. The Money Power ensures that economists are methodically trained in economic language and thought and are programmed to spout the official, approved version. Manipulation is the name of the game and contentious issues are ignored or distorted. Proper evaluation of the history and function of banking is never allowed because that would throw up some very unsettling truths. Zarlenga compares political economists to medieval doctors “who theorized on how the body worked, but never dared to dissect the body and find out what was actually happening.”

Just as mules are the sterile offspring of asses and horses, economists are the barren progeny of banksters and corporatists. They are impotent when it comes to generating new thinking or new ideas outside of the current monetary system. Economists seem to be utterly incapable of meaningful monetary innovation and just cannot conceive of any systemic alternatives beyond that drilled into them in their bankster schools. Although they regard themselves as a different species from the banksters they really are one and the same. When one’s father is a donkey it is impossible to hide one’s pedigree; both have big ears and make the same braying sounds. Economists may argue and bluster and often appear critical of the banksters but for all their ‘hee-hawing’ they never manage to utter a single predatory growl.

When economists appear on TV or radio or write in the print media, these ‘experts’ argue heatedly and contradict one another and trot out conflicting solutions to our monetary woes. However, their pontifications rarely venture beyond the bounds of the existing monetary system, much to the delight of the banksters, as economists show no inclination whatsoever to challenge the fundamentals of a centuries old fraudulent practice of private, debt-based, interest-bearing money creation. Their debates can be hot and lively but in the end, utterly meaningless. Economists are much like the Big-Endians and Little-Endians in Gulliver’s Travels who argued ferociously over which end of the egg one should crack – the big end or the little end. This dispute was so fierce and bloody that it led to six rebellions with great loss of life, including that of the Emperor of Lilliput. And so it is with the empty polemics of economists.

Economists have been on the receiving end of the acerbic wit of no less a writer than George Bernard Shaw who said, “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” Author and Investment Advisor, Peter Lynch, twists this quote a little more savagely: “If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn’t be a bad thing.”

While Zarlenga is scathing about those economists who dance to the banksters’ tune and promote confusion and division among the public at large he praises those few free-thinking economists who dare speak out about the failings and criminal deception of the banking industry. But, in a bankster-dominated world, enlightened economists are treated much differently from the banksters’ own brood. Of the latter, Zarlenga says, “Some of the most ignorant and even the insane among them [such as Bonamy Price] were given important positions while the better minds were pushed aside or ignored by the money power.”

This writer came across a typical example of economist benightedness in a recent article in the Irish Independent by Professor Stéphane Garelli of the University of Lausanne (http://www.independent.ie/business/world/emerging-economies-hold-worlds-purse-strings-2349528.html). Professor Garelli is an economist and is currently the Director of the World Competitiveness Center at the IMD business school in Lausanne which publishes the annual World Competitiveness Yearbook. Garelli has a very impressive list of qualifications and achievements (http://www.garelli.ch/english/cv_complet.htm) but one can’t help wondering if the good professor may have been educated just a tiny jot beyond his intelligence.

Professor Garelli (quoting Raymond Barre, another economist) declares: “One of the few things we know about economics is that it has cycles — the problem is that we do not know when they start, how long they last and why they end.” Garelli goes on to assert: “The stigma of modern economics is that we still do not know how to avoid recessions and unemployment.”

Well, I’ve got news for you, Professor. Recessions are caused by central bankers intentionally contracting the money in circulation by calling in existing loans and refusing to issue new ones. If you don’t believe me, read Milton Friedman, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Dr. Friedman is on record saying that the Federal Reserve deliberately caused the Great Depression of the 1930s:

“The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933…” Milton Friedman , Two Lucky People, p233.

When asked about a single cause of severe economic depressions, Dr. Friedman responded:

“I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.”

It is incredible that Professor Garelli should admit that he does not know the cause of recessions. It is equally incredible that he should also admit that he does not know when economic cycles start, how long they last, or why they end. They are planned, dear Professor, planned and controlled by central bankers. There is abundant evidence to support this. The big boys of international banking decide when there will be bubbles and when there will be busts. That is how they get mega-rich. They provide lots of cheap money (rather, credit) and when people are over-borrowed they call in loans, stop lending, and foreclose on defaulters.

Since 97% of the money in the world is created from debt, any loans paid off decreases the amount of money in circulation. And when no further loans are given, the circulating money stock falls dramatically, adversely affecting businesses and the economy at large. This intentional reduction of the money supply leads to widespread business failures, high unemployment, foreclosures on property, and severe hardship within the community. On the other hand, great wealth is transferred from defaulting borrowers to the banksters. It is an act of gross criminality and systematic fraud.

The banksters have occasionally been caught boasting about their abilities to cause recessions and depressions and how they can seize property from borrowers for mere cents on the dollar. This racketeering has been going on for generations. The private issuance of a nation’s money has given tremendous power to central bankers, a power so great that even democratically elected governments are subservient to them. Governments are not in control of the economy; it is the all-powerful banksters who create the money, determine interest rates, and decide who gets loans and who doesn’t.

Thomas Jefferson, keenly aware of the dictatorial power of private central banks, was instrumental in having Congress decline to renew of the charter of the First Bank of the United States in 1811. Nathan Rothschild, operating from London, threatened the young republic with war and financial disaster if the bank’s charter were not renewed. The charter was not renewed and, sure enough, the United States soon found itself embroiled in the War of 1812, with all its attendant loss of life and financial difficulties. Such is the alarming supremacy of rapacious international banksters.

To restore financial normality, President Madison granted a 20 year charter to a new central bank in 1816, the privately owned Second Bank of the United States. But then, in 1828, along came another president who shared Jefferson’s great distrust and opprobrium for central banks and banksters, one Andrew Jackson, a former army general known affectionately as ‘Old Hickory’, a national hero of the War of 1812.

Jackson refused to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, even vetoing Congress who had approved its renewal. Nicholas Biddle, president of the bank, threatened Jackson that he would inflict a recession on the country if the president did not lift his veto on the charter renewal. Jackson still refused. Biddle, true to his word, called in bank loans and refused to issue new loans. The supply of money in the United States shrank dramatically.

Soon, Biddle’s engineered recession enveloped the whole country. Businesses failed and unemployment rose. But ‘Old Hickory’ was not for turning, even after a would-be assassin, an Englishman called Richard Lawrence, attempted to murder him in January, 1835. Both the assassin’s pistols misfired and legend has it that ‘Old Hickory’ then proceeded to thrash the man with his cane until restrained by his own aides. Jackson himself blamed the Rothschilds for the attempt on his life. In any case, the determined Jackson prevailed over the bank and its charter wasn’t renewed; it would be some 77 years before the central banksters could finagle another privately controlled central bank with the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

It is rare to get documented proof of the banksters’ deviousness in causing recessions in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. But we do have a private memo from the American Bankers Association in 1891, the contents of which are actually recorded in the Congressional Record of April 29, 1913. Keep in mind that this memo was written in 1891, undeniable proof that the Panic of 1893 was planned by the banksters a couple of years in advance:

“We are authorizing our loan officers from the Western States to loan on properties, monies repayable by September 1st, 1894. No fatal date is to exceed this date.

“On September 1st, 1894, we shall categorically refuse all loan renewals. On that day, we shall demand the repayment of our money, under penalty of foreclosure on collaterals.

“The mortgaged properties will become ours. (Money will have become scarce beforehand, and the repayments will have become generally impossible.) We’ll thus be able to acquire, at a price agreeable to us, two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi and thousands more east of this great river.

“We’ll even be able to possess three quarters of the western farms as well as all the money in the country. The farmers will then become land tenants only, just like in England.”

(Source – http://www.michaeljournal.org/bankphilo.htm )

So, you see, my dear Professor Garelli, recessions are deliberately caused by avaricious banksters for their own gain. These crooks care not a whit for the hardship and misery their greed inflicts on the people. They are conspirators and thieves and through their fraudulent actions they reveal the criminal philosophy upon which the entire banking system is founded. This contemptible philosophy still thrives on Wall Street and throughout the world and therein lies the source of all our global economic woes.

The people expect economists to keep a rein on the banksters and to keep them honest – well, at least more honest than they want to be. They also expect economists to advise governments on honest, effective, and socially rewarding economic practices. But you, Professor Garelli, and the vast majority of your colleagues, have let the people down. Whether through cowardice, ignorance, or dishonesty you have sided with the banksters and allowed these racketeers to enslave the people of the world in a lifetime of utterly unnecessary debt. Your failure to question the blatant dishonesty of modern banking and your reluctance to offer ethical alternatives has prevented a fair and equitable system of money creation from coming into being, an incorruptible system which would have brought economic freedom, opportunity, and prosperity to all.

Thankfully, not all economists sup from the banksters’ trough. There are many economic reformers who are worthy of praise and attention. While glancing at the notes for this article the author comes across one Larry Bates, a former professor of economics, a bank president for eleven years, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, a chairman of a Committee on Banking and Commerce, and the author of a best-seller, The New Economic Disorder.

Bates says:

“The greatest shock of this decade is that more people are about to lose more money than at any time before in history, but the second greatest shock will be the incredible amount of money a relatively small group of people will make at the same time. You see, in periods of economic upheaval, in periods of economic crisis, wealth is not destroyed, it is merely transferred.”

Bates goes on:

“The Fed really is more powerful than the Federal Government. It is more powerful than the President, Congress, or the Courts…The Fed determines what the average person’s car payment and house payment is going to be and whether they have a job or not. And I submit to you – that is total control…”

Larry Bates hits it right on the head. “Total control.” The banksters want to maintain total control. They want the people to remain in ignorance. They don’t want them to know there is a much happier, beneficial alternative. They want to keep all of humanity submissive to them in lifelong debt slavery. And above all, they are terrified the people will somehow become aware of their outrageous conniving and criminality.

What we need now is more economists who will use their knowledge and training to show the people how they can take this reprehensible power away from the banksters and how they can formulate exemplary new ways of money creation that will deliver the people from the relentless treadmill of debt and give them a new birthright of freedom, happiness, and abundance.

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Irish Government To Auction National Assets: Criminal Stupidity Or National Sabotage?

by Gabriel Donohoe

(This article is a follow-on to “Snakes And Banksters: A Tale of Reptilian Treachery”)

The Irish Government is so hard up for cash that it is considering auctioning off national assets like state lands, buildings, state agencies, and other valuables that belong to the Irish people. The Government says that the money is needed to support economic growth and employment.

When the cash for the sale of these assets is spent, what then?

The State will still have no money and its assets will then be in private hands. The inherent wealth of the citizens of Ireland will have passed to the super-rich, a small class of people who already own most of the wealth of the island. The thrift, travail, and sacrifice of previous generations will be casually tossed aside. What would have been the legacy of future generations of Irishmen and women will now find its way into the bulging pockets of the banksters and the corporatists.

It is like a middle-aged couple selling their house and belongings to finance an extravagant lifestyle and then becoming homeless, leaving no inheritance for their children.

Selling the national assets will only serve to impoverish the Irish people yet further enrich a wealthy elite. It is either an act of criminal stupidity or one of national sabotage. It is criminally stupid because it strips the Irish people of national treasures which have become the foundation of the wealth of the nation while at the same time delivering no enduring gain.

It is national sabotage if the government is doing this merely to further the interests of their exploitist pals in banking and big business. Many national governments have shown themselves to be working not for the people who elected them but for the welfare of a powerful elite who buy politicians with party donations, post-politics employment, consultancy fees, holidays, and other bribes.

The big question is whether the Irish Government is brainless or corrupt. Either way, it is not acting in the interests of the people of the country.

Is there an alternative?

Absolutely! There is an alternative that will allow the Government to raise money without going into debt or paying interest and yet still keep all our national assets.

It is called monetization. Banks and financial institutions do it all the time to increase their capital reserves to enable them to lend (create) more money. If, for example, a bank owns property valued at €10 million it can create and loan, through the Fractional Reserve System, an amount of about €120 million in cash or credits.

A government can do the same. In Ireland, the state owns many billions of euro in property, parks, natural resources, and many other kinds of assets. All it needs to do is monetize only a small fraction of these. Let’s say it nominates certain state-owned buildings or land valued at €10 billion: it can then create some €120 billion in credits which it can loan out through a national bank set up for the purpose of creating employment and getting the economy moving again.

The state can thus create €120 billion without going into debt and without having to pay interest to any grasping bankster. This would be of enormous benefit to the welfare of the people and of great financial advantage to the State. Such a bank would enjoy universal confidence as it would be backed by the full faith and credit of the Irish Government and the Irish people.

A state-owned bank would work for the enrichment of all the citizens of Ireland, not just for the few shareholders of private banks. At the moment, private banks create almost all our money, set interest rates, decide whom they will lend to and whom they will not. This allows them to wield tremendous power and gives them the ability to override parliamentary decisions and government policy. In other words, unelected private banks decide national (and international) economic policy and governments are completely subservient to their every diktat. That is the key reason why the entire world is now in utter financial chaos.

But a government owned bank could operate in complete freedom from bankster influence. It could loan money to county councils, municipalities, farmers, fishermen, small businesses, and citizens at low interest rates and it could afford to be patient when times are hard. For example, if a business venture were not profitable or was even making a small loss, a state bank could continue to support it as long as it was providing jobs, bringing in tax revenue to the government, and keeping people off welfare which would be a drain on the exchequer.

Today, viable businesses are going bankrupt by the hundreds, families are losing their homes by the thousands, and workers are losing their jobs in their tens of thousands – all because private banking cartels choose, for selfish corporate reasons, not to lend to the business and private community but to stash their bailout money in ‘safer’ gilt-edged investments. Banksters have no loyalty whatsoever to the state or its citizens. Their god is Profit, profit at any cost; huge dividends for their shareholders and obscene bonuses for their executives. The people be damned!

But a government bank could change the fortune of the state almost overnight. It could create enough money or generate as much credit as it needed, all without debt or crippling interest. Of course, that’s not to suggest that a state bank should throw money at every hare-brained scheme that is put before it. Borrowers would have to have a viable business plan and provide adequate security for the amounts sought. But, as opposed to private banks, a state bank could take more risks and accept lower profits where private banks will not. All profits accruing would go to the national exchequer or be re-invested as bank capital. Also, all government receivables would be lodged in the state bank, thus generating additional funds for future lending.

A state bank would lead us to national prosperity, full employment, improved infrastructure and resources, less national debt, and less taxes and allow us to emerge with renewed vigour and hope from the horrendous mess into which private banks have landed us.

The Government has already missed a huge opportunity to get us on the right road to wealth and prosperity when it threw billions of taxpayers’ money into that black hole of criminality known as Anglo Irish Bank whereas a national bank could have created credit of more than €200 billion with the money that has already been squandered and lost forever.

It is plain that government ministers do not have a single innovative, intelligent thought between the whole lot of them, nor is there any sign of original or inventive thinking among the opposition parties who are poised to seize the mantle of government by default.

If this proposal, outlined above, is put before the government, do you think they will implement it?

No, they won’t.

Why?

Because the banksters would not allow it. It would put them out of business. And we all know by now, after the outrageous bank guarantees, bank recapitalization, the Anglo Irish Bank debacle, and NAMA, whom our politicians really work for.

We the people must force change. We must educate and bring forth dynamic new political creatures who will actually work for the good of the people rather than the present crop of scavengers who luxuriate in the laps of the banks and big business. We must boot the incumbents out of office and we must decline to elect their drooling cousins in opposition who are piddling themselves with excitement at the prospect of taking their turn at the trough.

Where do we start?

We can start by passing this article on to our friends and associates. We can discuss banking reform at home, at work, in bars and clubs, and in our community centres. We can explore what other reformers are saying by reading their books and pamphlets and by visiting their websites. A good place to start is by reading the following books: “Web of Debt” by Ellen Brown, “The Grip of Death” by Michael Rowbotham, “The Creature From Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin, and “The Lost Science of Money” by Stephen Zarlenga.

Forget about the highly propagandized mainstream media which is controlled by a handful of mega corporations and switch to alternative TV news channels like Russia Today (Sky 512), Al Jazeera (Sky 514), and The Controversial Channel (Sky 201). (The latter seems to have gone off the air recently. Perhaps it was too controversial for the powers that be.) These channels may not give you the whole truth either but at least you will have much more balance in news and current affairs.

You could visit and subscribe to internet news sites like Jim Corr, Alex Jones, Global Research, Dandelion Salad, Sovereign Independent, OpEdNews, The Alliance for Natural Health, and a great host of others.

The thing is to get talking and to create a national forum where ideas can be exchanged and critiqued. The ideas posed in this article may be challenged, improved, expanded, adopted, rejected, or whatever. But what is clear is that we MUST instigate banking reform, total reform – not just tweaking the system here and there.

The idea of a National Bank should not be seen as the ultimate goal of monetary reform but as a stepping stone to achieve monetary justice and freedom. Banking is not a proper function of government; nevertheless, government intervention is required right now to clean up the mess that criminal banksters have foisted upon us.

It is, however, the proper function of government to create and issue a nation’s money, debt-free and interest-free. Such a course of action would make for a wealthier, happier, country that would break the shackles of the banksters and end a miserable 300 hundred year ordeal of debt slavery.

Abraham Lincoln was on the verge of achieving monetary freedom with his ‘greenback’ programme which had enabled him to win the Civil War and preserve the union. He intended to continue with the U.S. Treasury issuing debt-free money, removing that power from private banks, but was assassinated only weeks into his second term. Who do you think was behind his murder?

Here is an amazing bankster inspired excerpt from an editorial in the London Times from 1865 which shows how terrified the banksters were of Lincoln and his ‘greenback’ policy.

“If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated [sic] down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”

An incredible revelation from the London Times!

Listen to what the banksters are telling us, albeit inadvertently. Look what total banking reform will do for us! Ireland – or any country – “can furnish its own money without cost…will pay off debts and be without debt…will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce…will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world.”

Who wouldn’t want that kind of prosperity and contentment for their children and their grand-children? It is there within our grasp at this very moment. Why don’t we go for it? Right now!

In the next article we’ll discuss how we can achieve Total Banking Reform, for the good of Ireland and for the good of humanity in general.

Snakes And Banksters: A Tale of Reptilian Treachery

by Gabriel Donohoe

Irish banks have been tripping over themselves recently to announce yet more increases in mortgage rates. The latest is Allied Irish Bank (AIB) who will now stick its borrowers for a further 0.5%. This follows a Bank of Ireland (BoI) increase of 0.45% last week which in turn follows other hikes in mortgage rates by financial institutions like Permanent TSB and EBS.

Consecutive mortgage increases this year alone have raised BoI’s variable rate to 3.49%, this at a time when the European Central Bank (ECB) has held its rates to 1% for the 15th month in a row. The increases will further pressurize already hard-pressed borrowers and will drive many of them into default to join the 30,000 homeowners who are now hopelessly in arrears. Widespread suffering and sacrifice is now the lot of the Irish people, all generated by the greed of the banksters.

Terence Flanagan, a spokesman for the main opposition party, Fine Gael, said:

“While the ECB rates remain unchanged, the banks have chosen to rip off variable mortgage holders to pay for their own reckless behaviour. Homeowners are at the pin of their collar trying to make mortgage repayments…These variable rate increases will exacerbate the problem.”

This act of treachery is how the banks have repaid Irish taxpayers for bailing them out of their own criminal recklessness to the tune of billions of euro. The bailout comes on top of generous state guarantees to the banks’ depositors, guarantees underwritten by the taxpayers and without which the banks could not function. The hard-earned money of the Irish people was used to save privately owned banks from huge losses, but now, having been restored to financial health, the ungrateful banks plunge their fangs into the veins of their saviours.

This is all so reminiscent of an old fable concerning a boy and a semi-frozen adder. (Isn’t it peculiar that an ‘adder’ is a snake and it is also a colloquialism for a banker, an ‘adder’ of figures.)

The boy found a snake almost frozen to death on a mountain path. The snake begged the boy to warm him up inside his jacket before he died from the cold.

“No,” said the boy. “If I pick you up, you will surely bite me.”

“I promise I won’t bite you,” the adder said. “What good would that do? You would die here on the mountain and so would I. Please warm me up inside your jacket.”

“All right,” the boy said. “I trust you then.”

The boy picked up the snake and continued on his journey, warming the adder inside his jacket. When the boy got to the base of the mountain he found that the snake had thawed out. As he removed the creature from his jacket the adder suddenly lashed out and bit the boy in the neck.

“Why did you do that?” the boy cried out, knowing he had been dealt a mortal wound. “And after I saving your life.”

“Boy,” the snake said, “you knew what I was when you picked me up. You should have known better. Don’t you know I can’t control my own nature?”

What a salutary lesson! Adders of the snake species and adders of the bankster species have much in common. Their cold-blooded reptilian nature separates them from the rest of humanity. It is their natural instinct to gorge themselves on easy prey, to kill without hesitation or compunction. That, as we have learned to our cost, is the essential nature of the beast.

And it has long been the nature of banksters to feed off the lifeblood of society. They have cunningly devised a monetary system that allows them to create money from debt; it is a magical system so cleverly designed that it entraps borrowers for all time. The banksters create the money of the world out of thin air but will only do so when a borrower pledges his indebtedness to them.

But, ingeniously, they don’t create the interest. Interest has to be paid back along with a principal sum that was created out of nothing. How can borrowers pay back interest that hasn’t been created and which doesn’t exist? They have to keep borrowing more and more to continually bring new money into circulation. That is the only way they can come up with the interest on their loans. The whole scheme is a relentless treadmill of increasing debt that enriches the banksters and impoverishes the people. It is debt slavery, pure and simple. The peoples of the world are transformed into slaves of the banksters.

When the Irish banksters were challenged about these recent mortgage rate increases they responded that they were forced to raise the rates because they were losing money. They ‘regretted’ the need to charge more but said they had to become profitable in order to help turn the economy around. These declarations of regret and protestations of civic-mindedness are completely disingenuous and nothing more than a crock of horse manure. They are as sincere as the tears of the crocodile before he devours his victim.

According to Michael Quirke, AIB’s Head of Mortgage Products:

“Funding availability on wholesale money markets for Irish financial institutions remains difficult. Unfortunately, we have little choice but to introduce this pricing change, which is a measured response to the significant challenges which must be overcome if we are to achieve an economic return on our loan book and thereby return to a sustainable business model”.

Brendan Nevin, BoI’s Director of Consumer Lending, explains the reasons behind the increases:

“Funding mortgages has become increasingly costly. For example, we are paying more to customers for deposits than we are receiving for mortgages.

“As a result of this, our current mortgage pricing is unsustainable.

“While any increase is regrettable, we have no choice but to make this move to ensure we remain open for business and continue to support our customers and the Irish economy going forward.”

Re-read Mr. Nevin’s second sentence, “we are paying more to customers for deposits than we are receiving for mortgages”. Do you believe him? Do you think he’s telling porkie pies?

On the face of it, to the uninformed majority of borrowers, it might seem like Mr. Nevin is telling the truth. We’ll ignore for the moment the fact that banks can borrow from the European Central Bank at 1% and charge 3.49% for mortgages. Banks also need depositor funds so that they can leverage new loans into existence. Let’s say that they pay these depositors 5% interest on their savings. They would appear to be losing 1.51% if they then only charge 3.49% for mortgages.

But that is certainly not the case, not by a country mile.

Through the fraudulence of Fractional Reserve Lending, banks can create 10 to 12 times or more of new money based on customer deposits. According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) they must keep on hand a minimum reserve of 8% of deposits in case some customers want to withdraw their cash. The balance they regard as ‘excess reserves’ and can be used to create new money as loans.

For example, a customer deposits €10,000. The bank holds €800 in reserve and can lend out €9,200. This is newly created money and exists alongside the original €10,000 which is still in the customer’s account. When the new €9,200 is deposited in the same bank, or any other bank, the bank holds 8% of that in reserve and can create a further €8,464 of new money. This can go on and on until some €125,000 of new money is created. And the original depositor still has €10,000 in his account.

So, if the bank paid their €10,000 depositor 5% interest, it would cost them €500. If they only loaned out €10,000 at 3.49% they would just earn €349, a loss of €151. This is what the weeping and hand-wringing BoI (and all banks) want the public to believe. But through the leverage of Fractional Reserve Lending the bank can expand its interest percentage to 43.63% of customer deposits which means they actually earn €4,362.50, giving them a grotesque net profit of €3,862.50 on the original €10,000.

This is usury of the most despicable kind. It is immoral, unethical, and cruelly punishing on borrowers. That it is tolerated by governments is utterly baffling and unpardonable.

What is the solution?

There are a number of solutions. One of them is explained in the next article, “Irish Government To Auction National Assets: Criminal Stupidity Or National Sabotage?”

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Return To Nuremberg: Big Pharma Must Answer For Crimes Against Humanity

by Gabriel Donohoe

After World War Two, scores of suspected Nazi war criminals were prosecuted by the Allies in the Palace of Justice in the city of Nuremberg, the birth-place of the Nazi Party. The defendants were drawn not just from the military, but also from medical, judicial, administrative, industrial, and other sectors of the German war machine.

Among the industrial prisoners charged with crimes against humanity were 24 managers of IG Farben, an organization without whom, according to U.S. Chief Prosecutor General Telford Taylor, the Second World War would not have been possible.

In 1925, IG Farben, Interessengemeinschaft Farben, (Association of Common Interests), became a powerful cartel of German chemical and pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer (the aspirin manufacturer), BASF, AGFA, and Hoechst (now known as Aventis.)

By 1933, the IG Farben group had become the largest chemical and pharmaceutical corporation in the world. And even today, although it doesn’t use the name IG Farben, its companies remain the most powerful transnationals on the planet in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and agro-chemicals.

The IG Farben cartel was crucial to the Nazi war effort by supplying synthetic fuel, rubber, and other chemicals. They also manufactured Zyklon-B, the nerve gas used to kill millions in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, and elsewhere.

The cartel, later known as the Devil’s Chemists, used unwilling inmates of the concentration camps as slave laborers and guinea pigs to test chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines. Tens of thousands died, and those who became too ill to be of any use were murdered in the gas chambers.

IG Farben worked closely with the Nazi regime and with the SS and was perhaps the most important dynamic in driving the Nazi war machine, donating some 80 million Reichsmarks in return for chemical, pharmaceutical, and petrochemical industries seized from occupied countries.

Yet they could not have gotten to a position of such power without huge investment from John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company.

Together with Rockefeller they set up a company called Standard IG Farben.

Although he knew it would be used for war purposes, Rockefeller was able to organize a shipment of 500 tons of tetraethyl lead to IG Farben in 1938 which the Luftwaffe needed for aviation fuel. Amazingly, a year later, with war about to break out, he supplied them with up to 20 million dollars of tetraethyl lead which directly enabled Hitler to start the War by attacking Poland and France.

Even as late as 1942 he supplied the Nazis with oil diverted through Switzerland and refueled German submarines in the Channel Islands.

When charged under the “Trading With The Enemy” Act, Rockefeller got away with a ‘slap on the wrist’ (5,000 dollar fine) when President Roosevelt abruptly halted the investigation at the behest of the War Department. (The unpatriotic Rockefeller had threatened to stop supplying the U.S. with crucial supplies of war-time oil.)

IG Farben went on to build the largest industrial complex in Europe at Auschwitz to manufacture chemicals and explosives for the German war effort.

The venture was financed by Deutsche Bank to the tune of almost one billion Reichsmarks. This complex, known as IG Auschwitz, covered some 24 square kilometers including the Auschwitz concentration camp from which it drew on a huge pool of slave labor. IG Farben directors were instrumental in turning this huge complex into the largest extermination camp in human history.

On a number of occasions, when orders were given by the Allies to bomb the complex, Rockefeller used his influence through John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War (who was a former legal counselor to IG Farben), to cancel the bombing raids, much to the chagrin of some of the Allied commanders.

Furthermore, not one bomb fell on IG Farben’s Headquarters back in Germany, at Frankfurt. Astounding, at a time when German industrial cities were widely bombed and pulverized, including Frankfurt itself.

At the Nuremberg Trials, 24 of the IG Farben directors and other industrialists were charged with genocide, slavery, and other crimes against humanity.

Many of these unscrupulous villains would later play a key role in reinstating several IG Farben companies as huge players in the pharmaceutical/chemical industry not only in Germany but also throughout Europe and the United States. And several of these former Nazis would be pivotal in devising a pan-European trade association which has now evolved into the European Union.

Dr. Fritz ter Meer, a director of IG Farben who was directly involved in developing the nerve gas, Zyklon-B, which killed millions of Jews, was sentenced to seven years in prison but was released after four years through the intervention of Rockefeller and J.J. McCloy, then U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. An unrepentant Fritz ter Meer, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, returned to work in Bayer where he served as Chairman for more than 10 years, until 1961.

This same ter Meer, a convicted Nazi war criminal, went on to become one of the initiators of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1962, an organization that was nurtured by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Codex Alimentarius, supposedly set up to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade, is in reality extremely hostile to the world’s vitamin, supplement, and natural food industries and seems determined to destroy them.

Codex is controlled by Big Pharma whose only raison d’être is to promote disease for profit and sell more and more pharmaceuticals. If Big Pharma actually developed a drug that would cure disease they would soon put themselves out of business. And as a multi-multi-billion dollar industry they are certainly not going to do that.

Karl Wurster, chairman of the IG Farben company, Degesch, which manufactured the Zyklon-B nerve gas, was charged as a war criminal but was somehow acquitted. He later served as CEO of BASF of 13 years, until 1974.

Hans Globke co-authored the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Race Laws and was responsible for writing the new laws of the Greater European Reich in Nazi-occupied countries.

After the War, Globke became a minister in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s government and served from 1949 to 1963. He was free of any parliamentary supervision and controlled the Secret Service. He was also directly involved in plotting with the oil and drug cartel on how to take over and control European markets within the newly constructed European Economic Community (EEC), fore-runner of the current European Union (EU).

Walter Hallstein was a prominent Nazi law professor who stated in 1939: “One of the most important laws (in occupied European countries) is the ‘Protection Law of German Blood and Honor’.

This Nazi “blood and honor” lawyer was instrumental in creating the European Union’s basic structure and became the first head of the European Commission, an executive body adroitly designed to rule Europe without any interference from democratic control. This absence of democracy is quite evident in Brussels especially today.

In 1957, Chancellor Adenauer and Hallstein signed the first European Treaty in Rome.

[Much of the information here on IG Farben comes from Dr. Matthias Rath, a tireless campaigner for health freedom and the scourge of Big Pharma. Dr. Rath, under the Freedom of Information Act, has managed to obtain tens of thousands of IG Farben documents from the War Crimes Tribunal that had been kept secret for six decades and has posted them on his website. See (www.profit-over-life.org) , also (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/) . These are incredible sites - you'll spend hours there! Check out articles on Codex Alimentarius, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Dr. Rath's series of Open Letters to the New York Times.]

The domination by the pharmaceutical industry of current medical practice and their insidious influence on government legislation is a direct legacy of IG Farben and the Nazi war criminals who ran the original cartel.

Crimes are still being committed today on such a massive scale that millions of people have died since World War Two and millions more are being poisoned daily by these monsters. It is impossible in this short article to list all the horrendous criminality of Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Biotech, and their political henchmen but the following paragraphs provide some examples of the death and mayhem they cause.

In a recent report authored by Dr. Gary Null, Dr. Carolyn Dean, et al, (Death by Medicine) some 780,000 Americans are killed by their doctors or by the medical system each year. 106,000 of these die from properly prescribed medicine in properly prescribed doses and over two million people are hospitalized because of adverse effects from taking these FDA-approved prescription drugs.

The directors of the companies who manufacture these drugs well know the harm they cause but do all they can to keep such adverse information from the public.

These gangsters are driven by greed and profit; they couldn’t care less about people’s health or their lives. A good example is the scandal of Vioxx, a drug that was kept on the market even though it was known to cause heart attacks.

Vioxx is believed to have killed between 50,000 and 70,000 people. Other dangerous drugs include Baycol, Bextra, Celebrex, and the list goes on…

Big Pharma is involved in rigging drug trials, ghostwriting the reports of “independent” researchers, bribing politicians, doctors, and scientists, and hiding reports unfavorable to their drugs. One particularly nasty example of collusion is the recent case of Dr. Biederman of Harvard University who advocated mind-altering drugs for children while being secretly paid off 1.6 million dollars from the drug companies.

And to maintain their markets, Big Pharma is very active in suppressing vitamins, minerals, and natural health foods.

They also suppress any information on natural health and are energetically assisted in this by their friends in the FDA and other government bodies. They are helped by colluding politicians who push through legislation to favour big corporations and they remain unchallenged by mainstream media who have a deeper affinity for advertising revenue than for people’s health.

Big Food poisons us with chemical additives, preservatives, colorings, flavorings, trans fats and other harmful ingredients. The effects of these deadly additives are well known and documented; aspartame, MSG, sodium benzoate, potassium bromate, sodium nitrite, and thousands more. It’s no wonder most of us are sick, and we’re getting sicker.

Governments turn a blind eye to crimes of toxicity and actively promote the dumping of fluoride and chlorine in our water, the use of mercury in vaccines and in dentistry, and to a host of other criminal acts committed in the pretext of advancing public health.

Again with government complicity, Big Biotech poisons us with Genetically Modified crops in a plot to own the patents to the very food that’s nourished us for hundreds of thousands of years. GM crops pose one of the greatest threats to our health and survival on this planet. No one really knows what effects this frankenfood will have on us or future generations.

GM food is currently suspected as a cause of Morgellon’s Disease.

And what kind of calculating, evil mind would invent a “terminator” seed that is designed to become sterile when the plants are harvested so that the farmer is forced to buy more seeds from these already mega-rich corporations.

What if these terminator seeds infiltrated the crops across the world?

Now it is time to say, “Enough!”

This unmitigated evil must end. Those responsible must be stopped and made to answer for their crimes. We need to revisit Nuremberg and finish the job that was begun there some 60 years ago.

I propose compiling a record of all the people from the above-mentioned industries, mass media, politics, government regulation bodies, finance, and from wherever appropriate, and entering their names in a register along with their observed crimes against humanity. This register would be presented as a prosecution document when the day of reckoning comes. These individuals are acting against the health interests of the people of this planet and must be dealt with accordingly.

When a name and a crime goes on the list, that person should be put on notice so that they can’t say they were unaware of their crime or that they were just “following orders”. This will also give them a chance to repudiate their crime and to join the ranks of the promoters of natural health and freedom of choice.

This book of records might become known as “The New Nuremberg List” and widely publicized so that it quickly enters the public consciousness.

Soon, the very mention of “The New Nuremberg List” – unlike “Schindler’s List” which offered hope and salvation – would instill fear of liability and punishment into those who persist in poisoning their fellow man.

Dr. Matthias Rath has already started things rolling by instigating proceedings against some of these corporate criminals.

In June, 2003, Dr. Rath’s Foundation lodged formal charges against those special interests behind the pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’ at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, the Nederlands.

The ICC is the premier world court for cases of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

Dr. Rath said, “We are convinced that one day soon these charges will form the basis for an international tribunal at the ICC that will shadow the scope of the Nuremberg Pharma Tribunal of 1947/48.”

Among those charged are, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Dick Cheyney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other members of the Republican administration.

Also cited are executives of the pharma/chemical/oil industries, mainstream media, financial institutions, and other culpable people.

Dr. Rath should be congratulated for his efforts and assisted in every way possible.

Let today be the beginning of the end for medical tyranny and let good health and fair play prevail on this beautiful but defiled planet of ours.

Cops Charge Irish Government With Treason

by Gabriel Donohoe

When a national police association accuses its government of what amounts to treason it is time to sit up and pay attention.

Michael O’Boyce, President of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), said at its annual conference in Limerick, at the end of April, 2010, that the Irish Government had been ‘corrupted’ and had been ‘bought’ by developers and bankers. (A garda is an Irish policeman, gardaí in the plural.)

Mr. O’Boyce, speaking on behalf of the country’s 11,000 gardaí, charged government ministers with sacrificing the country to protect ‘wealthy cronies’ who had bankrolled the leading government party, Fianna Fáil. Such criticism of a serving government by its police force is unprecedented in Irish history and extremely rare in any western democracy.

Smarting from recent government disparagement of the gardaí a rankled Mr. O’Boyce pointed to an aggravating Fianna Fáil gaffe. While the government referred to the gardaí as ‘self-serving, overpaid, underworked and dishonest people’, it at the same time praised the ‘entrepreneurial skill’ and ‘business acumen’ of failed banksters like Sean Fitzpatrick (Anglo Irish Bank) and Michael Fingleton (Irish Nationwide Building Society), two people who played a huge part in bringing the Irish economy to its knees.

Clearly infuriated by collapsing living standards and the abject state of the economy, Mr. O’Boyce intended to deliver his speech directly to the Minister of Justice, Dermot Ahern, who was scheduled to attend the annual conference of the GRA. However, Mr. Ahern was sent a copy of the speech in advance and hastily declined to attend.

Mr. O’Boyce would have castigated the Justice Minister directly by saying, “The Government of which you are a long-serving member has mismanaged the wealth of this country for more than a decade by allowing our assets to be plundered and robbed by bankers and speculators, and you are making generations of Irish workers pay the price for this treachery…

“…You did this because bankers and speculators have bought your party, and in return you have sacrificed the greater good and prosperity of the Irish nation for the benefit of the few – the few who have now taken their ill-gotten gains and secured them in tax havens around the world. Truly, a government of national sabotage.”

Gardaí present at the meeting gave Mr. O’Boyce a standing ovation for the speech of which they were aware but which was never actually made. Nonetheless, the speech was angrily criticised by politicians and others who said that a police force should not intervene in politics. Justice Minister Ahern said that he utterly refuted the allegations made in the speech and that such remarks “besmirch the reputation of the force and have no place in a modern democracy.”

Government backbencher Niall Collins said, “…[F]or me to hear a member of An Garda Síochána accuse a sovereign Government of robbery, corruption and treason, and this coming from a member of An Garda Síochána who are the agents of the State to investigate and prosecute these types of crimes, it’s just clearly not sustainable.”

This is an amazing attack on a modern democratic government described by the country’s own police association as “a government of national sabotage.” What prompted such wrath and fury from the GRA and does the Association have any basis for charging the Irish Government with treachery or treason?

The underlying cause of garda frustration and anger is the state of the Irish economy. The gardaí, like most Irish citizens, blame government incompetence and collusion with banksters and speculators for economic collapse. The government itself points to global recession and international bank failures as the cause of Irish woes but the reality goes much deeper than that.

The economic depression in Ireland is much more severe than anywhere else in the world. The fallout from global recession was seriously exacerbated by shortcomings of Irish Government Ministers, i.e., flagrant failures of governance through incompetence, self-interest, and criminal recklessness. These failures were further amplified by the cronyism and cosy intimacy of Fianna Fáil politicians with bankers and developers, by the utter ineptitude of government regulators, and by the laissez-faire attitude of the then Finance Minister, Brian Cowen, towards an alarmingly inflating construction bubble. (Cowen is now the Irish Prime Minister or Taoiseach and is stubbornly clinging onto power even though his personal rating is a paltry 18% in opinion polls.)

What angers the GRA, apart from hair shirt budgets, welfare cuts, and cuts in public sector pay, are the huge amounts of money given to renegade banks. These astronomical sums, cavalierly tossed into the laps of fraudulent bankers, are underwritten by the ever-suffering Irish taxpayer. A massive 22 billion euro has gone into the corrupt Anglo Irish Bank which has the dubious distinction of being the worst bank in the world. It is the biggest loss-maker of any bank on the planet and the Irish bank bailout is the most expensive bailout anywhere on the globe.

The Irish people are now learning that they will never see a penny of their 22 billion euro again – it has disappeared into a black hole of bankster-generated debt. The new chief executive of Anglo has admitted that the money would never be seen again and Prime Minister Cowen grudgingly confirmed, only after four attempts by opposition leaders to get a straight answer, that the 22 billion euro is gone forever. This is a heartbreaking loss for a small country of less than 5 million people, many of whom are calling the bailing out of Anglo an act of criminal recklessness.

Responding to a recent government decision to extend the bank guarantee to Anglo Irish Bank, Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore said, “I believe that the decision was made to save the skins of a number of individuals, some of whom are connected to Fianna Fail. If my belief is correct, and I have not been convinced to the contrary, then that decision was an act of economic treason.”

Strong words indeed from Mr. Gilmore which echo the sentiments of Michael O’Boyce and the GRA.

Even worse than the Anglo Irish Bank fiasco is the government bank bailout programme called NAMA (National Asset Management Agency) which covers 5 Irish banks including Anglo Irish. The government says that NAMA will clean up the banking system by paying the banks 54 billion euro of taxpayer money to purchase toxic loans from their balance sheets. This is a huge risk which could blow up spectacularly and put several generations of Irish people into excessive debt.

Already we are seeing evidence that the banks lied about the quality of the loans on their books. At the time of agreeing values on their toxic property portfolios the banks assured the government that 40% of their loans were income producing. Now we find out that the real figure is only 25%. What the percentage will be in a year’s time is anyone’s guess.

Apart from NAMA and the Anglo Irish Bank bailout, the Irish Government has already recapitalized other Irish banks and financial institutions to the amount of some 13.5 billion euro. This was supposed to release funds and provide much needed credit to Small Business and to mortgage seekers. But the banks which were bailed out by the people of Ireland are not responding in kind to the people of Ireland. They are holding onto their funds while businesses are failing in unprecedented numbers for want of working capital. Much of the bailout money is being used by the banks to strengthen their balance sheets or to make safe investments elsewhere.

(In the United States, banks find it more profitable and free of risk to borrow from the Federal Reserve at .25% interest and buy 5-year Treasury bonds at 2.5% return rather than lend money to cash starved businesses. They can make enormous profits while thousands of businesses go to the wall.)

When one adds up the amount of money committed to recapitalization and bailout of Irish banks one arrives at a figure of some 90 billion euro.

If the Irish Government had invested this 90 billion in a state owned bank they could have implemented that sleight of hand practice so beloved of banksters called “Fractional Reserve Lending” whereby they could create and lend some 12 times the amount of capital invested. This would exceed 1,000 billion euro!

Ireland would be awash with cash and with prudent management the economy would have been turned around very quickly. Small businesses would have adequate working capital, home seekers could buy homes, public projects and infrastructure could be easily financed, and Ireland would return very swiftly to full employment.

But the government did not take that option. Instead, they pledged a colossal amount of money to private banksters to save them and their investors from losses incurred by their own criminal recklessness. In doing so, they have mortgaged the future of Ireland and the Irish people for generations to come and crippled the economy to levels often seen in the Third World.

By giving billions of public money to maintain the fortunes of its former cronies in banking and property development the Irish Government has created a living hell for its struggling citizens: almost 500,000 people out of work, 200,000 emigrating in search of jobs, tens of thousands of mortgages falling into arrears, hundreds of small businesses going to the wall, and suicides alarmingly on the rise. The land is filled with misery and despair when it could so easily have been triumph and prosperity.

Is Michael O’Boyce and the GRA correct when they charge the Irish Government with treason?

You decide.

This article first appeared on articlesbase.com on July 21, 2010.

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Bilderberg: Inciting Treason In Ireland’s Attorney General?

by Gabriel Donohoe

For those who may be unaware, the Bilderberg Group is a secretive cabal of elite bankers, corporatists, politicians, lawmakers, academics, journalists, writers, celebrities and others in areas of influence who meet every year to discuss and manipulate world policy, especially in banking and economics.

These people are unelected, operate in total secrecy, and work to promote the interests of a mega-rich global elite. They’ve been meeting every year since 1954 when they first met in Hotel de Bilderberg in Holland, an event hosted by Dutch Prince Bernhard, one of Bilderberg’s founders.

Prince Bernhard was born in Germany and served as an officer in Hitler’s infamous SS (Schutzstaffel). He also worked for I.G. Farben, a massive conglomerate of chemical companies who, according to U.S. Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg, General Telford Taylor, were crucial to the Nazi war effort and without whom Hitler could never have conducted the War. One I.G Farben company was responsible for manufacturing Zyklon B, a cyanide-based pesticide used to murder millions of Jews in the gas chambers.

Prince Bernhard was father to Queen Beatrix, the present Queen of the Netherlands who is a regular attendee at Bilderberg. The Prince had to give up his position with Bilderberg when he became involved in the Lockheed Bribery scandal in the mid-1970s when he was charged with taking a kickback of $1.1 million from Lockheed to ensure that their F-104 was favoured over the Mirage 5 in Dutch military purchase contracts.

Certain researchers and investigators of Bilderberg firmly point the finger at the group for having masterminded the current global banking disaster which has caused financial and economic chaos around the world. The resulting turmoil led to massive amounts of money and property being plundered from the middle classes and the booty then finding its way into the vaults of the already obscenely rich banksters.

One of the greatest and most odious of scams perpetrated by Bilderberg is described by renowned author, F. William Engdahl, in his book, A Century of War, Pluto Press, 2004, pp 130-5. At a Bilderberg meeting in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, in May, 1973, the banksters and oil corporatists conspired to raise the price of oil by 400% in order to tilt the balance of power toward Anglo-American financial interests and increase world demand for U.S. dollars. The schemers subsequently made a massive fortune in the enormous flood of dollars that their plot engendered.

Thus, the Bilderbergers engineered the 1973 Oil Crisis for their own selfish gain and were completely oblivious to the world-wide hardship, deprivation, and anguish that their despicable actions caused. They forced the world onto its knees, causing widespread bankruptcies and record unemployment.

Mr. Engdahl wrote in A Century of War, “Never in history had such a small circle of interests, centred in London and New York, controlled so much of the entire world’s economic destiny…”

This is the diabolic circle of swindlers and tricksters that has attracted Paul Gallagher, Ireland’s Attorney General. One wonders why Mr. Gallagher would want to involve himself with people whose ruthless obsession with self-enrichment and global economic control is starting to register into wider public awareness. Bilderbergers have been fanatical about keeping their meetings ultra-secretive but in recent years they have been tumbled by veteran investigators like Jim Tucker, Daniel Estulin, and Charlie Skelton and by web reporters like Alex Jones and Jim Corr.

Mr. Gallagher’s attendance at Bilderberg from June 3rd to 6th, 2010, in Sitges, Spain, and his attendance at the two previous Bilderberg meetings has some very serious implications for the Irish Government, Irish judicature, and the Irish people in general. As Attorney General, Mr. Gallagher is the senior law officer who advises the Irish Government on all matters of law. But in whose interest does he work – the Irish people or the New World Order of the Bilderbergers?

For example, there are many who feel that the Lisbon Treaty referendum should not have been put to the Irish people a second time. The first referendum was soundly rejected by the Irish electorate. But the government persisted with a second referendum even though there was no legal basis for such a move. Not a single word of the treaty had been changed from that overwhelmingly defeated in the first referendum. Incredibly, Mr. Gallagher, barrister, senior counsel, and government law adviser, allowed the government to proceed with what amounted to an illegal re-run. One suspects he was unduly influenced by the Bilderberg elite who were desperate to see the Lisbon Treaty passed, a pan-EU treaty which would form the basis for a federal European state.

Perhaps Mr. Gallagher sees his connections with Bilderberg as a clever career move. Two of his fellow Bilderbergers and predecessors as Irish Attorneys General, Peter Sutherland and Dermot Gleeson, went on to lucrative careers in banking and industry. Mr. Sutherland in particular held posts as Chairman of Allied Irish Bank (as did Mr. Gleeson), Director-General of the World Trade Organization and also of GATT, served on the Board of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, and is one of the chief financial advisers to the Vatican. Mr. Sutherland is currently Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and, until last year, was Chairman of BP. These latter two companies are probably the most reviled companies in the world today, with the possible exception of Monsanto.

It is one thing for Irish bankers and corporatists like Sutherland and Gleeson to attend Bilderberg but it is quite another for a serving law officer of the current Irish Government. Because of his ties to Bilderberg the Attorney General is severely compromised. (Another Irish politician to attend Bilderberg 2009 in Greece was European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy.)

This author wrote to Mr. Gallagher last July to ask his purpose in attending Bilderberg meetings and to point out that such actions were not compatible with his position of Attorney General. The author also pointed out the risks of an Irish Attorney General associating with self-confessed globalists like David Rockefeller and people of the ilk of Henry Kissinger who is wanted for questioning on serious international war crimes.

The Attorney General’s office replied to confirm that Mr. Gallagher had indeed attended the Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia, from the 5th to the 8th June, 2008. (They never mentioned that two months earlier he had attended the Bilderberg meeting near Athens in Greece.)

The AG’s office said that Mr. Gallagher had attended as an “invited guest”, not as a representative of government, and that “government policy was not discussed”.

Yeah, sure. And the reason men go into brothels is purely for scintillating conversation.

Who does Mr. Gallagher think he is kidding? That he was invited to this elite, secretive, global group of only a few hundred handpicked people because the Bilderbergers thought he would make a delightful dinner guest? Does he expect us to believe that the Bilderberg Steering Committee picked his name at random from the telephone directory?

No, Mr. Gallagher was invited solely because of his position as Attorney General of Ireland. If he hadn’t been Attorney General he would not have been invited. Full stop.

Why do the Bilderbergers want the Irish Attorney General at their meetings? Because they see him as an asset, someone of considerable influence who will work to further their private aims and agenda. This means that Mr. Gallagher cannot be an impartial adviser to government. He might well subordinate the interests of his country to those of Bilderberg. He cannot serve both Bilderberg and the people of Ireland. He should resign immediately or publicly forswear his connections to Bilderberg. To do neither leaves him open to charges of treason.

In the United States there is a 1799 law called the Logan Act. This law makes it a crime for unauthorized American citizens to consort or negotiate with foreign governments. Questions are now being asked about certain members of the Obama Administration who have attended Bilderberg meetings and who have even delivered speeches.

Some of those implicated are James Steinberg (Deputy Secretary of State), Richard Holbrooke (State Department Special Envoy), Paul Volcker (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and currently Chairman of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board), and Lieutenant General Keith Alexander (Director of the National Security Agency). According to the London Times, Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, is also believed to have attended Bilderberg 2009, although Geithner denies it.

These officials could be charged with treason under the Logan Act, and, if found guilty, would suffer severe punishment.

No doubt the Irish Government also has laws against treason. If so, then Paul Gallagher might have to explain himself in court and give an account of his questionable association with the secretive Bilderbergers to the Irish people. While Mr. Gallagher may think that Bilderberg will make his career, the very opposite may be the case. There is a growing international awareness about the nefarious activities of the Bilderbergers. The spotlight is firmly focussed on these notoriously shy creatures and the unwelcome publicity is causing them panic and consternation.

Bilderberg is now on the run and there is evidence of in-fighting among the elite themselves. It is only a matter of time before the powers behind this secretive organization will have to answer for their criminal activities. All those ambitious wannabes, including Paul Gallagher, who are seduced by the perceived supremacy of Bilderberg – you would be well advised to think again.

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