Financial Spider Webbing
Hans Schicht
The Money Spine
The main functions attributed by economic theory to money are broadly described as a means of exchange and store of value. But neglected is the vital role money plays as the structural spine of society, where everything turns around. Money price-tags, sorts, filters and classifies all goods and services, and, if we like it or not, modern money also classifies all of us individually as well as collectively as per our capacities and potential, accumulated wealth and our value to society. Money controls society. And he who controls the money flow rules. Never before in history has there existed a more ruthless, efficient system to control people than through modern banking and fiat money.
Everything and everybody in today's life carries a value, a price tag, and is subject to the hierarchy of the money spine. Be it labor, products, services, information, energy or wealth. Offer and demand regulate the markets, and as such direct production, human activity and society. What is it worth? What is he, or what are they worth? And high up in the money spine hierarchy reign the concentrations of wealth accumulated by the elite, by countries and by institutions.
When money has intrinsic value as in the form of precious metals and is allowed to flow freely, without interference, the money spine works naturally, provides balanced growth, gives equal opportunity and spreads wealth broadly. Industry, agriculture and mining produce, trade provides, and art creates and brings, all what the market needs and the public asks for. An independent gold and silver currency gives people their freedom of action.
And all would be well, would not an early Banker have seduced the government into tampering with the free circulation of the gold and silver currencies and diluted the monetary standard by bringing worthless fiat paper into circulation, in parallel, and in competition and finally as substitute for the gold and the silver. Nothing has reduced people's freedom more, nothing has wrecked greater havoc with the natural workings of the Money Spine and nothing has uprooted society more than the invention and introduction of fiat money.
Put the total wealth of the country together in a basket: its money hoard of gold and silver and everything else that could be turned into money, all its fixed and movable assets plus its infra-structure, all of which adds up to the total value of the common wealth. As long as the country's wealth is counted in tangible assets, its finances and economy will be balanced. But start adding fiat paper, created out of thin air, to the basket and decree it legal tender, the natural balance will be destroyed. Be it the Treasury or the Central Bank, for the USA the Federal Reserve, fiat paper, without giving anything in exchange, automatically and illegally makes its creator co-owner of the basket of the common wealth. Each time additional fiat paper is being issued, wealth is being stolen from the people and their freedom is reduced. Each cent of fiat paper money put into circulation, each paper credit extended, transfers wealth from the people to the issuer of fiat paper or fiat credit. Wealth in any form, be it precious metals, goods, enterprise, real estate or what ever.
The same holds true when foreign fiat paper penetrates into other countries: the issuer of the foreign fiat currency in question automatically obtains a claim on the assets of the respective country. (thus, third world countries: beware of dollarisation and protect your freedom!)
Instead of complaining so much about inflation, which is but a consequence, anger and protests would better be directed at the source of evil, namely toward the illegal usurpation of wealth through the issue and introduction of fiat money.
As said, everything and everybody today is tagged by and on the money spine. But it has become a spine which is not made up out of solid and honestly working precious metals any more. The gold and silver reserves of the countries, the savings of generations never to return, have been squandered or leased out by either ignorant politicians, or more sinister, by the malevolence of insiders. Worthless paper promises have usurped the gold's and the silver's place and turned the once solid metal spine of society into a deformed, fragile, vulnerable contraption which no longer promises the needed support in uncertain times.
Fiat paper and credit, and with them the whole modern banking system, have become a rapidly spreading, debilitating parasite, a deadly cancer.
Where are the "great" economists, academics and Nobel Price winners, not blind to obvious crime as the others, who dare to teach the truth to the people and unmask the perfidy of fiat money and credit banking and their totalitarian grip on society? How dare to talk about economic fine tuning and structural adjustments when the whole financial system the world turns around, is rotten to the core and tottering on the borders of the abyss?
Whereas originally the money spine used to adjust and adapt automatically to economic activity, today, with gold and the silver gone, the money spine, and with it our whole social order, has become subjected to the haphazard issue and manipulation of fiat money and credit by a banking system controlled by an anonymous financial elite, whose's power has spread to every corner of the world.
Who raped Russia, the Argentine and the underdeveloped world? Who pulled the rug out from under Japan in the eighties? Who precipitated the Asian crisis and the Tequila crisis? Who is manipulating the markets, from the currency to the bond, stock and commodity markets, the gold and the silver in particular? Who instigates to war so as to keep control over oil? Who pushes the dollar down the throat of the world? The same ones that control New York's major financial institutions and the FED! The same ones that control the IMF, the BIS, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization!
Money not armies rules today. And who rules the money, rules the world.
Whereas it has been said that Washington never had a foreign policy, New York on the other hand clearly shows consistent long term planning and policy patterns:
- Making the dollar the world's exclusive currency, by pushing the dollar down the world's throat, not tolerating whatever competition, and
- Rule through debt enslavement at home as well as abroad.
Only a financial power center like New York could have pursued and coordinated, for over more than half a century, the policies needed to execute the dollar strategy so successfully. Politically divided Washington could never have achieved such.
For people, far from the heart of finance, New York's stellar concentration of financial power must seem far fetched, if not impossible, but for the initiated it is not only feasible, but even plausible, that a small inner circle could have succeeded in dominating the world's finances under the cloak of deceit and anonymity, through, what I call, financial spider webbing.
Financial Spider Webbing
The spread and might of financial spider webbing in anonymity is little known to the general public, being never talked about in the media, and hardly taught at University, as discussion of such would run head-on against the interests of the invisible owners of the media or trusts sponsoring the honorable institutions of learning.
It is never the people in the lime light or you hear or read about in the media which pull the effective strings. It is not the great public figures or so called intellectuals one reads about, neither is it the salaried employees, not even when secretary or minister of State, the chairman of the Central Bank or even the President of the country, but it is the silent powers behind the scenes, one hardly ever hears or reads about, that make or brake the world.
Already in the early days of my independent carrier, through certain lucky circumstances, I have had the privilege to meet and observe top people in industry, banking and commerce at close range. I had the opportunity to learn about the way business empires are managed by the way of financial spider-webbing. And instead of depending on reading general news and publications, where everybody has access to, I was in the favorable position of occasionally having first hand access to information on what was going on in "higher finance."
Spider webbing is the art to control the maximum financial empire with the effective wealth available. In this game, it are not the riches in themselves, but the control and power they provide that counts. Many are the variations of the game, but let me mention the basics:
-The first rule is to make the wealth unassailable through tax exempt foundations and/or off-shore trusts.
-Secondly, to make any concentration of wealth invisible,
-Thirdly to exercise tight personal management and control, with a minimum of insiders and front-men, restricted to partial knowledge only.
-Control of the wealth is done through secure leverage.
For instance:
A certain percentage of shares controls tax-exempt Foundation A. This Foundation A in turn has the control of one or more trusts, banks, companies or whatever at level B, also through controlling share holdings. Level B in turn controls level C investments. And so on ad infinitum. There are tricks like cross-share-holdings to be able to reduce the amount of shares needed for control. It often happens that one conglomerate is controlled by the combined votes of a number of different holdings at levels B, C or D, where the individual managers might not even suspect that overall control of their respective companies rests with one and the same share holder at the top. The managers even might not know one another. Other ways to get leveraged control is through ownership of "Trust and Fund Management Companies" which have the voting rights of the shares the Trusts and Funds themselves invested in. There are many other ways and means to exercise control through leverage, like for instance mergers and take-overs, or through conditions annexed to loans. What is mentioned here in an abbreviated way, I hope, will suffice to make the point.
My advise is never to look at companies on their own, how mighty they might seem, but always ask yourself: to which or to who's stable could they belong? Connections might be discovered through financial relationships and transactions, statements, double directorships, gatherings or even office locations, and so on.
-The most important rule is, that the "master spider" himself keeps anonymity and stays out of the public eye, at least as far as his business dealings concerns. Because once in the public eye, his very movements are prone to unmask his empire. Never appear anywhere as the master, take but a back-seat in anonymity. Never show up on the lists of the richest. Appear as philanthropist.
A good example of what has been done by spider webbing is a country with over 40 million inhabitants where over 75% of enterprise and banking is controlled by one conglomerate only: South Africa, controlled by the Anglo-de Beers empire under the Oppenheimers. Even the Reserve Bank and the Rand are managed by Anglo-de Beers. Nothing has changed there since apartheid ended. Still the same owners, still the same control, except that the Oppenheimers do not have to worry any longer about the competition of the Boers.
But was it really Ernst and Harry Oppenheimer who built the Anglo de Beers empire for their own account or were even they only front-men? And did Cecil Rhodes pioneer independently or did he have a sponsor too?
So please do consider if it would be too far fetched, that also other countries, including the USA, might be entangled in opaque, wide spread spider webbing? And that spider webbing and its ramifications could have penetrated American corporate life much deeper than known to the public?
Could we even go that far and suspect that spider webbing might have become so centralized and concentrated, that the greater part of US banking and enterprise could now be under the control of just a very small inner circle, dominated by one solitary clever man?
Some twenty odd years ago, I had the unique opportunity to observe this same man in the Buenos Aires Plaza Hotel in action within a selected circle of about 15 people. Coming out of a corridor, they were falling over one another in trying to keep up with their Master, who with goose steps Mussolini would have been proud of, marched past where my wife and I were sipping tea in the mezzanine, nobody else around.
Once, I stood but 20 yards away from, then vice-president, Nixon, when demonstrators threw eggs and tomatoes at him in front of the Hotel Bolivar in Lima, Peru. And once I had the opportunity to watch Gorbachev as the guest of honor, at the table next to us, when having luncheon with Harry Schultz in Montreux, Switzerland. I have observed many top people in my life, but never have I met anybody of the caliber of David Rockefeller and never have I experienced a man radiating greater power.
David Rockefeller was not just a lieutenant of the Commission on Foreign Relations. He was the CFR's chairman from 1970 till 1985. And as William Jaspers writes: every trail of Washington's policies leads to the CFR.
David Rockefeller was also the founder of the Trilateral Commission. When Nestor Kirchner recently visited the United States, the electronic pages of the first Argentine news-paper, la Nacion, did not even mention Kirchner meeting Bush, but a full account plus photos was carried of Kirchner sitting for luncheon between Rockefeller and the president of Citigroup, William Rhodes. It was of the greatest importance for Rockefeller not to have the Argentine declare open default so as not to start a world wide chain reaction of defaults. He himself had to be present.
For every empire, in order to foster its policies and at the same time cover manipulations and deceit, info-filtering and public relations are a must. For that reason the ownership and control of the media and the institutions of learning are a must for financial spider webbing.
The times are gone that news filtered through the community relative to the importance people gave it. Since media ownership has become concentrated and controlled, news is being filtered as directed from the top, and subjected to censure, to be finally polished with propaganda and indoctrination.
Journalists and authors, who not conform with directives will not see their articles or personal opinions published. So will teachers and lecturers be recruited for their ideologies and fidelities by the boards of the institutions of learning, controlled from above.
Journalists promoting the interests of the elite get the Pulitzer prices. Scientists formulating derivative risk as acceptable investment instruments get the Nobel prices. So ask yourselves: would Maynard Keynes have been invited to Bretton Woods if his monetary ideas would have been contrarian to the interests of the bankers? No sir! Keynes' theories were exactly what the international bankers wanted to launch their world wide aggressive credit expansion plans.
Most intellectuals are living with the illusion, that it are their writings and efforts that are forging the future of mankind. What delusion! Yes, theories and ideas have spread but hardly ever the way intended. Stalin used the mantel of communism for his dictatorship. Hitler used the empty slogan of National Socialism. Bankers talk capitalism, monetary discipline and free enterprise, while supporting controls, socialism and spending. Forget about all the -isms and look at what really makes the world turn round, it are the silent powers behind the scenes, one hardly ever hears of. It is the elite which decides, filters and selects what is to be propagated in accordance with its plans.
I strongly recommend Ferdinand Lundberg's writings about who owns whom in America, especially where he delves into the media ownership. One of his last publications "The Rich and the Super Rich" was published in 1967, never to be reprinted or, in all probability, allowed to be reprinted! Lundberg leaves no doubt about financial spider webbing in the USA and the persons and families involved.
However, time has not stood still and since Lundberg's publications some landslide changes in the world's balance of power have taken place, and capital has become super concentrated. Changes have to be taken into account when assessing the present.
-Firstly, after and in consequence of World War II, the global balance of power has shifted decisively from Europe to the USA.
-Secondly, capital concentration at the top has proceeded rapidly since Lundberg and has reached drizzling new heights. Today only trillions count.
-Thirdly the banks' ever accelerating growth rate relative to enterprise and businesses has made the banker king, and the entrepreneur but a servant.
But who are these Bankers, or Banker, with their financial super empires, dominating America?
Europe after the second world war was kaput. Not only were the conquered but so were the victors like England, inclusive its bankers. After WWII, the Bank of England was flat-out broke. In England and on the continent reigned financial austerity. No Maynard Keynes policies were applied in post war Europe! Penny pinching was the recipe. After the post war mega power shift, any stories about the Rothschilds or the Bank of England still holding much sway in the US FED, must be discounted. After the second World War New York's Bankers were quiet capable to take care of their own FED and take on the world!
It was New York, that rolled out the red carpet for Maynard Keynes in Bretton Woods. The same New York, that thrives on paper and credit creation and does not care the hell about financial discipline. Bretton Woods was the authentication of the great post war power shift. It heralded the beginning of global American financial expansionism. Bretton Woods brought the IMF and the World Bank, both controlled by New York, to serve as launch pad for the post war American dollar and financial expansion.
Once the Second World War over, New York, launched its world wide dollar offensive. It is New York's financial aggressiveness which brought the wrath of the world on to America. New York's dollar imperialism wrongly has become associated with America as a whole. The outside world does not realize, that the American people themselves are likewise burdened with a heavy debt yoke imposed by the same bankers, and that the American people have no idea about the harm caused overseas by extravaganzas of American Banks.
American preaching of freedom for all, forced Europe to decolonize its overseas territories. And once decolonized, the USA stepped in, the dollar following. Only the French franc-zone did offer some resistance to the dollar tide.
Where British trade and enterprise had dominated South America with the Pound Sterling up to World War II, in the shortest time of round 15 years South America changed from sterling to dollar territory. And before we knew it the whole world was on a dollar standard.
That leaves the New York Banker in control of the world's finances, its markets, economies and its people, through a system, tighter, more efficient and binding than any dictator could ever have dreamt of, and all that in anonymity! Who was it, that Herbert Hoover called the Master of Deceit? Today we can say, that it is not the clothes of the emperor which are invisible, but it is the Emperor himself, who is invisible.
For me the United States no longer shines as a Democracy. Democracy has long been hi-jacked from the American people. For me the United States has become a Totalitarian Empire based on Fiat and Debt. New York its seat of power. Washington its bought and obedient servant. The Council for Foreign Relations, the Emperor's Council. And the Banking System, the Power of Control. For the ones in doubt, please do read Lundberg's papers on spider webbing before giving your opinion.
The great question is: how long can such a suppressive paper empire last? The answer is: only as long as alternative stores of value can be withheld from the people. And that is the very reason why the outcome of the gold and silver battle is of the utmost importance.
February 25, 2004
Hans Schicht
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