PREFACE TO Part III

A Brief History of Owed Money, Our Man-made God from Ancient Babylonia

This brief history of money is intended to outline how the underlying mechanisms and motives for what is happening today is as old as recorded civilization itself. These mechanisms first developed in what is known today as the fertile crescent. Babylonia was the epicenter of this fertile crescent and it was from Babylonia that, among many other things, the modern system of wealth accumulation was disseminated to the world.

This system of wealth accumulation essentially depends on the use of other people's labor and, even more importantly, the use of other people's money as it represents their labor. Moreover, the key and lasting features of this wealth accumulation system have always revolved around gold and its attached mythology. Today, this system is controlled by what we have been calling – for lack of a more precise term - the International banking cabal but we might just as easily call it worship of mammon. Incredibly, it is true: “the God who reigned over Babylon is the God who is reigning yet."

As the following pages reveal, there have been many, many insiders and government officials through the years who describe for us how this international banking cabal operates on a global level. But we may begin here by looking at just one extremely well-articulated contemporary example which comes from Bill Clinton's mentor and Georgetown professor Carroll Quigley in the 1966 edition of his book Tragedy and Hope, as follows:

The powers of financial capitalism have another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. The system is controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert and by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system [is] the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. . .Each central bank. . . [seeks] to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world. . .

More than 160 years before Quigley penned those words, founding father and former President Thomas Jefferson said: “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

Countless others before and after have made similar statements relating to our current money creation system and the driving forces behind it. You will learn some of them as you read this brief history.

When you look at history within the context of the history of money, and the unfathomable amounts of influence “high powered” money has been able to buy, it becomes easier to understand the manner in which our presidents - along with most leaders all around the world, no matter their walk of life - have historically served to function, knowingly and not, as puppets and pawns in a much bigger game that is played by and on behalf of the money changers - and mammon.

Meanwhile folks like you and me, the regular Joe in the trenches, not only produce the lion's share of goods and services while the lion’s share of the rewards accrue to the top 1/2% but we regular Joe's are maneuvered into fighting what is essentially the money changers' - or mammon's - battles.

One of the best books which describes some of the real reasons American wars have been fought is the 1935 book War Is a Racket by insider Major General Smedley Butler. Butler was a two time recipient of the Medal of Honor and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Excerpts from Chapters 1 and 3 provide crucial insights:

WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War [I]. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows. . . Who provides the profits [of war] – these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 per cent? We all pay them – in taxation. We paid the bankers their profits when we bought Liberty Bonds at $100.00 and sold them back at $84 or $86 to the bankers. These bankers collected $100 plus. It was a simple manipulation. The bankers control the security marts. It was easy for them to depress the price of these bonds. Then all of us – the people – got frightened and sold the bonds at $84 or $86. The bankers bought them. Then these same bankers stimulated a boom and government bonds went to par – and above. Then the bankers collected their profits.
But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill. . . His family pays too. They pay it in the same heart-break that he does. As he suffers, they suffer. At nights, as he lay in the trenches and watched shrapnel burst about him, they lay home in their beds and tossed sleeplessly – his father, his mother, his wife, his sisters, his brothers, his sons, and his daughters.
When he returned home minus an eye, or minus a leg or with his mind broken, they suffered too – as much as and even sometimes more than he. Yes, and they, too, contributed their dollars to the profits of the munitions makers and bankers and shipbuilders and the manufacturers and the speculators made. They, too, bought Liberty Bonds and contributed to the profit of the bankers after the Armistice in the hocus-pocus of manipulated Liberty Bond prices.
And even now the families of the wounded men and of the mentally broken and those who never were able to readjust themselves are still suffering and still paying.

It is within this historical context then that we might begin to see 9-11 for what it is - not as the disease but rather as a symptom - actually one of many symptoms - of a potentially lethal cancer, seeded by the man-made god of mammon, that has been eating away at the heart of America at least since the reconstruction period immediately following the Civil War.

Within the context presented in Part I, 9-11 can thus be seen as the warning bell signaling that America has gone down for the count. Or to put it another way, 9-11 marked the fact that we have entered stage IV of this cancer. What passes for public debate and government protections made supposedly necessary by 9-11 only intensifies the extreme urgency of this warning.

Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, the essence of the cancer now consuming America is really just the last phase of a long, mostly silent, but very real war against "We" the American people. And, because of our unique status as a sovereign people endowed with unalienable rights, it is also a war to destroy our original role as the beacon of hope for the whole of humanity. This was what the “silver-tongued orator” William Jennings Bryan tried to warn us about, over a century ago, when he told us: “It is the issue of 1776 all over again."

Again as argued in Part I and demonstrated in Part II, the only way out of our current, extremely serious dilemma starts with a clear understanding of the manner in which our money is created - out of debt, with unpayable interest placed on top - because the long term artificial money shortage so created is the basic mechanism which causes good men to do bad things and enables truly evil men to maintain their stranglehold on power.

History, or at least hidden history, reveals that many of those we find in leadership roles share a number of the same - or similar - fatal flaws which allows them to become corrupted, if indeed they were not already corrupt before coming into positions of leadership. We elaborate on some of these flaws in this brief history, but suffice it to say here that some few men are perhaps born to worship mammon, but most are simply enticed into the web created by it.

Part and parcel of this web is the manner in which the bulk of us are kept under control. This is done not only through artificial money shortages but also through the divide-and-conquer mechanism which has created a whole series of mammon-backed divides, including and most notably, a mostly fake left/right divide. Once adequately divided and conquered, further domination, and profit-taking, is achieved through war. James Madison put this aspect of control best:

"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. As the parent of armies, war encourages debts and taxes, the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended . . . and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people. . ."

We as individuals must work to fully comprehend how it is that this mostly fake left/right divide, like all similar divides, is in reality little more than a cleverly orchestrated, exceedingly well financed propaganda tool to keep regular citizens from knowing and naming the REAL problem, and the REAL puppet masters who are the international banking cabal and their minions - whose only true god is mammon. Otherwise, while you and I are kept busy barking up all the wrong trees, the system will continue to move relentlessly forward, toward more war, more destruction, more globalization and all that globalization entails.

It is hoped that this brief history will reveal to you many of the complex methods which have for so long been used to divide and conquer us and, moreover, to help you recognize that the unholy trinity of government, religion and banking born out of Babylonia still exists today. This our forefathers understood well, and it is why they created a secular government which kept matters of religion and the state separate, and put the federal government in charge of “coining the national money and regulating the value thereof.”