--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > If you haven't posted it already, here's a couple of clarifications > regarding Farben. I've given you the short version--the story is much > deeper and more complicated, but, in essence, it's the MO of the ruling > elite: install an evil dictator somewhere, get him to do your bidding for > you; bring the people and the economy under control; make money selling him > a war machine; let him play with it a little bit, and then make profitable > war against him, making the people believe you are liberating them from the > evil dude. In the process, you destroy the country and the economy, and > then make more money rebuilding it and making the place over into a > "democratic" (capitalist) society. One of the dudes that helped to "bring > Hitler to power" went on to help install the Shah of Iran and then > engineered two or three revolutions in China. > > Here's a slightly revised version of the story: > > I've been meaning to tell you this story because it's a great story (would > make a fabulous movie) and it also illustrates the point that the equation > between corporate power over government and fascism is nothing new. Naomi > Klein (in The Shock Doctrine) claims that this kind of predatory > "capitalism" is only about thirty years old. She is mistaken. I teach > American history. The debacle we are looking at was foreseen by people back > in the late seventeenth, early eighteenth centuries when the mercantile > class first began to gain power. The folks who opposed WWI (and went to > jail for it) knew that this war wasn't about making the world safe for > democracy. It was, instead, to gain capitalist control of world markets. > > But here's the story. > A year after the Federal Reserve got created, it's first chief, Paul > Warburg, was hanging out on Wall Street with a German buddy of his by the > name of Franz von Papen, a German "noble" man and a Papal Chamberlain (i.e. > an agent of the Vatican). Warburg,not so incidentally, had deep German > roots. His brother, Max, was head of the German financial system and its > secret service under the Kaiser. Anyway, Franz and Paul were hanging out and > came up with a brilliant plan. > > They sent a couple of agents to Munich to create a secret society that > taught meditation and some "advanced" techniques as well.
The "meditation" techniques are well known to be "Buddistic"
