The inhabitants of Earth are being systematically marshalled into a compliant state. “Globalisation” is a euphemism for a long-planned totalitarian government on a planetary scale, affecting every detail of our lives. The means of accomplishing this sweeping goal are legion and concerted. What is taking place above our heads is just one of the numerous multifunctional “weapons” designed to facilitate complete control over the bodies, minds and souls of every human being on Earth.
That aerosol spraying is taking place globally cannot be credibly denied. And that no government is willing to take responsibility for explaining the phenomenon is in itself both disturbing and revealing. The aerosol trails cannot be dismissed as “normal aviation activity” or even as benign. Neither can the proliferation of man-made clouds, spread by means of electromagnetic stroking, be explained as consistent with historic meteorological patterns. Attempts to justify it all in terms of “mitigating global warming” are futile.
Nano-technolgy has produced new phenomena that combine aerial and terrestrial components in a deadly mix that is able to decimate entire populations.
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Well-meaning activism is now too little too late, regardless of the
intensity of personal feelings about it. No amount of placard waving
or amassing of signatures will change the outcome. The issue lies far
deeper than the merely political level.
It is essential to understand the deep-laid ideology that is driving the
accelerating rush to globalism together with its historic roots if we are
to truly understand the phenomenon of aerosol spraying in Earth’s
atmosphere.
There is cogent evidence of an epic struggle for global domination
thesis
The inhabitants of Earth are being systematically marshalled on every page of history—if we are willing to look beyond the official
into a compliant state. “Globalisation” is a euphemism for a curricula of both classroom and mainstream media “education”.
long-planned totalitarian government on a planetary scale,
affecting every detail of our lives. The means of accomplishing Nonetheless, the situation is not hopeless. The entire population of
this sweeping goal are legion and concerted. What is Earth is made up of individuals. Thankfully there is much we can do
taking place above our heads is just one of the numerous as individuals to both safeguard our physical survival, and to protect
multifunctional “weapons” designed to facilitate complete our bodies, minds and spirits.
control over the bodies, minds and souls of every human being
on Earth. Some of these measures are surprisingly simple.
That aerosol spraying is taking place globally cannot be
credibly denied. And that no government is willing to take
responsibility for explaining the phenomenon is in itself
both disturbing and revealing. The aerosol trails cannot be
dismissed as “normal aviation activity” or even as benign.
Neither can the proliferation of man-made clouds, spread by
means of electromagnetic stroking, be explained as consistent
with historic meteorological patterns. Attempts to justify it all in
terms of “mitigating global warming” are futile.
Nano-technolgy has produced new phenomena that combine
aerial and terrestrial components in a deadly mix that is able to
decimate entire populations.
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1. Questions Raised High 10 “Take the adventure that lies ahead…”
contents
(Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawntreader, C S Lewis).
2. A Culture of “Conspiracy” 20
3. Roots 27
4. The Long and Winding Trail to Nascence 36
The sight of big jet tankers flying side-by-side, emptying tons of
5. What Happened? 42 man-made, toxic, chemical aerosols into the sky above our heads,
day and night, does little to inspire a feeling of security. And when
6. Back to the Future—and Back 49 we are told that we are not seeing what we know we are, by those
whom we imagine we have elected to protect us from such things,
7. Blood 56 our hearts begin to sink.
8. Unearthly Music 61 This book is for those who want the truth. But it will take real
courage to face the facts candidly. Some of our long-held—even
9. Mind Games 69 cherished—assumptions may be shaken to their foundations. I bid
you to read on with an honest heart and open mind.
10. Smart Dust 81
Carl Needham
11. Splitting History 90
12. The Other Side of the Coin 99
13. If at First 104
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Questions Raised High the world. Characteristically, these contrails maintain a fixed
distance behind the planes as they traverse the sky, much like
the wake of a boat. Contrails always disappear within a very
short time. But this new phenomenon was clearly different.
Instead of vanishing in the familiar way, these enormously-
long trails persisted, spreading out to cover huge areas, often
completely obscuring the blue sky altogether. The phenomenon
was observed by thousands of people across the USA.
The internet was peppered with photographs and video taken
one
Sometime around late 1998, unmarked jet aircraft were by perplexed citizens hoping someone would “please explain”.
observed flying over the United States of America, spraying Logical questions were asked of those who had been elected
unknown substances into the sky. It quickly became obvious to safeguard their voters’ interests. The many enquiries were
that this was something dramatically out of the ordinary. 1 consistently met with emphatic rebuttal. It became obvious that
the same “templated” pattern of handling phone-ins was being
The spray was left hanging in thick, long, parallel lines that used across the nation.
spread out to create “white-out” in what had just before been
clear, blue skies. The effect of this obfuscation was to arouse suspicion, which
ineluctably produced a grass roots movement. As people do
Other flight patterns were observed, including “chequerboard” when confronted by alarming circumstances, they began to
cross hatching and also “tick-tack-toe” random paths. The reach out for others with whom some kind of helpful dialogue
common denominator was the fact that these spray trails and collaborative effort might be established.
behaved very differently from familiar jet contrails: they didn’t
go away. In the state of New Mexico, ex-government researcher, Clifford
E Carnicom, observed the spraying taking place where he had
The activity was observed in localities where jet aircraft were chosen to live because of its pristine environment. He became
not normally known to fly. Often the altitude of the big planes disturbed by what he saw occurring over his own house. He
seemed significantly lower than that of commercial jet traffic. immediately applied his disciplined and analytical mind to the
issue and began conducting experiments to see what was being
Before long it became a frequent and widespread occurrence. unceremoniously introduced into the air he must now breathe.
Since World War II, water vapour trails from the exhaust and In due course he published his findings on a pioneering Web
airframes of high-altitude jets has been a common sight across site.2 The site immediately became the object of intense interest
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on the part of numerous government agencies. The log of A totally new illness called Morgellon’s disease is spreading
visitors to the site from the industrial-military complex is long rapidly and appears to be directly linked to the aerosol activity.
and impressive. The record of “hits” shows that intelligence Morgellon’s disease doesn’t respond to any known conventional
agencies including the CIA, FBI and the Pentagon were very medical treatment. It is characterised by disfiguring lesions that
interested to follow Carnicom’s revelations, albeit in the erupt through the skin, exhibiting synthetic, microscopic fibres.
shadows. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell Aerospace The disease is debilitating and psychologically distressing.
and most of the significant aeronautical contractors to the
military complex of the USA became regular visitors to the site. Specific substances, such as barium (forming a radioactive
Pharmaceutical organisations with heavyweight government isotope inimical to the normal functioning of the human
contracts also logged on regularly. 3 oncogene that controls cancer), found in the aerosols, have
been turning up in the annual rings of trees since 1999. Flora
Carnicom’s attempts to have his findings about the aerosols and fauna are affected. The water of Earth’s aquifers is now
confirmed by the US EPA were thwarted in a revealing display contaminated by the same toxins that have been identified in
of stonewalling that lasted two years.4 His subsequent analysis the aerosols. Rain water is far from pure anymore. 6
has shown that the aerosols contain a range of metallic
particles as well as organic substances which have been Since 1999, the phenomenon has been observed globally and
identified as pathogenic. All of the known components of copiously documented. It is happening where you live.
the aerosols are toxic. Among them are: barium, strontium,
sulphurhexaflouride, aluminium, trimethylaluminium, calcium, The amount of particulate material that has now been
metallic nano particles and other, synthetic compounds. deposited in our atmosphere since the aerial activity
commenced runs to many hundreds of millions of tonnes. Its
They also contain microscopic polymers—a substance that has effects are so significant that weather patterns have now been
a molecular structure consisting mainly, or entirely, of a large permanently altered. 7
number of similar units bonded together to form a fibre. Many
synthetic materials used as plastics and resins are polymers. A new term entered the popular vernacular: “chemtrails”. Its
intended meaning is apparent. However, officialdom has denied
New diseases have emerged coincident with the widespread the existence of any such thing. Some confusion has arisen
dispersal of these aerosols. Persistent upper respiratory tract over this issue because august establishments like NASA freely
problems in young children and older people have dramatically acknowledge the ubiquitous presence of “persistent contrails”. 8
increased. In Texas, one of the states first subjected to The “politically correct” point of distinction will not be lost on
spraying, Alzheimer’s disease has increased by more than the thoughtful reader.
1000%. Globally, the disease has moved from being just an
“old person’s affliction” to now include growing numbers of One thing remains free of confusion: the aerosols being daily
teenagers. 5 pumped into our atmosphere are not comprised of harmless
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water condensation or vapour. As such, the expression, Gabriel Stetter titled, White Skies. The article made a clear
“contrail” cannot be properly applied to them. link between the disastrous European winter of 2003—during
which a dramatic number of people died from the extreme
Around the same time as Clifford Carnicom published his conditions—and the phenomenon of aerosol spraying in the
Web site, in Ontario, Brian Holmes began observing the same upper atmosphere. 11
phenomenon over his property in Canada. He, too, published
a site showing photographs of the now-familiar, long, white Throughout the remainder of this book, the term “aerosol
aerosol trails, together with moderate, clear-headed comments. trails” will be used to describe the phenomenon that has
His “Holmstead” site was also quickly noticed by the same become ubiquitous in the skies of Earth since 1999.
shadowy organisations. Attempts were mounted to intimidate
him by sending a black, combat helicopter to hover 20 feet aerosol |ˈerəˌosôl; -ˌsäl|
above the chimney of his family home. 9 noun a substance enclosed under pressure and able to be
released as a fine spray, typically by means of a propellant.
Rosalind Peterson grew up in Mendocino County, California • a container holding such a substance.
and had a professional interest in agricultural technology with a • Chemistry a colloidal suspension of particles dispersed
focus on live stock, soil, water and flora. At noon on March 27, in air or gas.
2002, her entire life changed after a friend drew her attention Origin 1920s: from aero- + sol. 12
to the sky above her home town and asked her some pertinent
questions. She began noticing that trees on her property were The phenomenon of aerosol trails has now spread across the
dying. Her interest drew her into dedicated research and she world. Email is received daily on the BlueNoMore Web site
published a Web site with her findings. from all continents. Many are accompanied by photographs
confirming the extent of this aerial activity. And in recent
Attention was also focused on her activities and in a different times new techniques of delivery have been observed. It seems
approach from intimidation, Peterson was invited by UN that the long, white aerosol trails may now be considered too
Undersecretary General, Kiyo Akasaka to address the 60th conspicuous, and less-detectable means are being tried.
Annual DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change: How it
Impacts Us All. The conference was held at the United Nations Among these is what I have called “aerosol bursts”. From almost
headquarters on September, 5-7, 2007. The full transcript of the imperceptibly-small “puffs” of white—like anti-aircraft flack—
speech may be downloaded from her Web site. 10 odd-looking clouds rapidly appear in a blue sky. These spread
very quickly in all directions at once and join together to form a
Since then, many others have added their voices to the issue white overcast. The delivery aircraft are not easy to detect, but
forming the subject of this book. the alert observer will see them. Early morning is often the best
time to spot such activity as the low-angle of sunlight catches
In January 2004, the German magazine, Raum+Zeit (Space the aircraft superstructure, betraying its presence. It is common
and Time) published an article by Swiss freelance journalist to see a thin vapour emerging from such flights without the
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usual long aerosol trails. The vapour deliquesces and becomes This informs us significantly since many of the flights are
a thick haze that frequently turns to total white out. conducted over heavily populated areas at lower-than-normal
altitudes—often at night—and with such frequency that the
In a revealing manoeuvre, atypical of commercial practice, sheer level of sound would ordinarily draw immediate and
several jets work together, plying back and forth on parallel unwelcome attention.
tracks at the same altitude. Their emissions rapidly combine
to form what the average person may think is normal cloud. A basic fact emerges: if this activity is really for our good, it
Such flights are conducted some distance from the regular, is incongruous with all that is fair and reasonable for it to be
published, Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) tracks. It is common to conducted with such consistent stealth, and for fair-minded
see them in places where no commercial jet flights operate. enquiry to be treated with designed and patronising denial. 15
Another technique is increasingly common. With this method, With these facts on our table it is difficult to avoid the sense
the jet leaves very little visible trail. But soon after the plane that the truth about what is happening in our skies is being
has moved on, aerosol manifests remotely and at right angles deliberately withheld from us. This is an unwelcome realization.
to the aircraft’s track. Extremely long, broad layers or “sheets” Immediately, the spooks of “conspiracy” and “cover-up” begin
of aerosol may be seen to almost “shoot” from the track of the their baleful wailing in our ears. It is not comfortable. We are,
plane and spread out for 20 nautical miles or more in a straight therefore, obliged to examine the matter most carefully.
line. These aerosols also merge to form the now familiar white-
out that has robbed us of our normal weather. The stakes appear to be very high indeed.
Other, very subtle techniques are also being used. Much activity Numerous Web sites are now dedicated to the issues
takes place at night and above the white-out that has already surrounding “chemtrails”. Some, however, are less than
been laid in place or above naturally-occurring clouds. Aerosol temperate or simply gauche. This can have the effect of making
trails may often be observed in the breaks between clouds. the whole thing seem to be grist for mills turned by the
excitable, ill-informed or unstable. If I were charged with the
Examples of these more subtle techniques may be found on the dubious responsibility of disguising what is actually happening,
Blue No More Web site. 13 I would be well pleased with such an outcome.
Most of the aircraft that are being used began their lives as
long-range, mid-air refuelling tankers. They are usually of the
KC-10, KC-135R or KC-135E type and have been adapted by
Boeing at the request of the US Air Force. Modifications include
the fitting of refurbished engines that have been engineered to
reduce their decibel output by 85%. 14
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Endnotes 8. Ibid. s
9. www.holmestead.ca s
10. www.californiaskywatch.com/news.htm s
1. “Published cloud books confirm that tests have been conducted since the
1960s. Old photographs show sporadic [aerosol trails] dating to the early 11. www.raum-und-zeit.com
1970s with the activity steadily increasing throughout the 1980s. Since 1998, The English translation may be found here:
citizens throughout the world have documented spray patterns on a nearly www.bluenomore.com/WhiteSkies.html s
daily basis, with an average of one ‘clear’ day per week” (www.rense.com/
general4/fre.htm). s 12. Apple Computers OS X system dictionary. s
2. www.carnicom.com s 13. Port Macquarie: 15, 16, 17, 27, 28, 29 (See “New” for updates). s
3. www.carnicom.com/visitors.htm 14. www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/kc135-strat/index.html s
Carnicom’s video documentary, “Aerosol Crimes”, may be viewed online at
www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2815320198655156407 The video 15. “When inquiries are addressed…the authorities envisage five stages of
displays relevant sections of the Web site’s Visitors’ Log. A link to the video response: 1. To deny that chemtrails exist. If the questioner remains
may also be found on the www.bluenomore.com Web site. s dissatisfied or probes further, one then, 2. Expresses overall doubts
about the arguments brought forward, and ridicules eyewitness
4. Ibid. The documented evidence is incriminating. www.carnicom.com s reports. If questions persist, 3. One confirms the existence of
chemtrails, but plays down their significance. Then follows, in
5. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1913178.ece The accordance with the same pattern, 4. To speak of military manoeuvres
Alzheimer’s & Dimensia [sic.] Association’s Web site provides up-to-date ‘whose purpose is unknown’, and finally, 5. To refuse to discuss
information about the trends in the evolution of the disease. the matter further owing to ‘National Security’ restrictions…The
www.alzheimeranddementia.net/ s official source itself, when questioned, only advances to the next ‘response
stage’ if and when the person seeking information refuses outright to
6. (a) www.ba-barium.info/isotopes.html (b) www.symposium.cshlp.org/ accept the answer he/she is given. The authorities in question at all times
content/53/769.extract (c) Underwood_Ferguson.doc+barium+aquifer+c operate within a framework of ‘plausible denial’ i.e. to qualify or withdraw,
ontamination with maximum credibility, any statement of agreement previously made”
A great deal of information is to be found online using the key search (January 2004 edition of the German science magazine, Raum+Zeit
words: “barium + aquifer + contamination”. s [Space and Time], Gabriel Stetter, English translation by Graham Rickett—
emphasis supplied). s
7. www.californiaskywatch.com “NASA October 2005 newsletter: increasingly
persistent jet contrails may turn into man-made clouds that are ‘trapping
warmth in the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming…Any change
in global cloud cover may contribute to long-term changes in Earth’s
climate. Contrails, especially persistent contrails, represent a human-
caused increase in the Earth’s cloudiness, and are likely to be affecting
climate and ultimately our natural resources’ ” (emphasis supplied). s
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A Culture of Conspiracy steadily inflating them, or the ads promising fulfilment from
products containing little more than air, or the artful politicians
evangelizing us with grand illusions—“marketing” deception is
part of our ethos. We even expect it to be so.
Up to a point.
Chinese general, Sun-tzu (400-320 BCE), knew how to What happens beyond that point has changed Earth. Forever.
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wage war. He ranks with the greatest Nebuchadnezzar,
Cyrus, Alexander or Caesar in history when it comes Please don’t skim lightly over the next few paragraphs. They
to military prowess. His teachings, as preserved in his describe a principle that is the very operational heart of what
prodigious and esteemed work, The Art of War, are still we are pursuing in this book. Without comprehending this, we
the close study of advanced warfare strategists. will not be able to understand what is happening in our skies.
Here it is:
At the heart of his philosophy is the principle and practice
of deception. The most spectacular instances of wholesale deception
in history have relied on the deliberate and masterful
“Without giving battle, without spilling a drop of manipulation of two factors: our human cognitive dissonance
blood, without even drawing a sword, the clever and monumental audacity.
General succeeds in capturing cities. Without setting
foot in a foreign Kingdom, he finds the means to In simple terms, if you want to get away with something
conquer them. He acts in such a way that those who egregious—unspeakably shameful—make sure you do it so
are inferior to him can never guess his intentions. He spectacularly that no-one will believe you could possibly
has them change location, even taking them to rather be that evil. We have even coined a phrase to describe it:
difficult places where they must work and suffer. “unbelievably bad.” There are many such examples in quite
When a clever General goes into action, the enemy is recent history.
already defeated. When he fights, he alone must do
more than his entire army, not through the strength Hitler burned down his nation’s own Reichstag to create
of his arm but through his prudence, his manner of the figment of an external, “real and present threat” against
commanding, and above all his ruses.” 1 whom the German nation must rise up in swift reprisal. He
orchestrated the collapse of the national money system. He
We live in a world where deception is practiced created paralysing terror in the hearts of the people by sending
routinely. Be it by Hollywood’s fanciful distortions or the out his Brownshirts—recruited from their own communities—
supermarket assuring us, “We’re Rolling Back Prices,” while to randomly assassinate innocent people, regardless of their
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status, age or gender. After a good dose of this treatment the Audacity has a twin. The principle is also used to achieve massive
desperate and terrified people cried out for a saviour—a strong deception: take the very thing you wish to obscure and hide it in
man—to rescue them. Up stood the charismatic perpetrator plain sight.
himself. And the people worshipped him.
It is human enough to discount something that logic tells us is
They simply could not believe that the one who had preached a major problem—when it is ubiquitous. We begin to doubt our
so passionately about their cherished, common dreams could own judgement when we see that “everyone is doing it” even
possibly be responsible for catastrophically destroying them. though our own reason tells us we shouldn’t. It is easier to go
His utter audacity hid the Nazis’ agenda. along with everyone else.
The people whom he abused now gratefully gave their lives for Would-be-dictators rely on the power of these principles. And on
him. Cognitive dissonance. every page of history they have been practiced to sweep whole
populations to their doom.
Napoleon did the same thing. Stalin, likewise. Mussolini did it.
We, too, have also recently witnessed such false-flag audacity—on The same principles are being practiced on us now.
a truly astonishing scale. But not everyone is able to accept that
truth. Cognitive dissonance prevents it. And it is precisely this If there is one label that is guaranteed to produce a smirk on
exploitation of the limits of our human minds that has allowed the faces of those who really have little idea of what they are
the most heinous crimes to be enacted against us, virtually reacting to, it is, “conspiracy theory”. I have friends with doctoral
without recrimination. degrees in all the sciences and arts who shrink from the words
as if they were pathogenically contagious. It is a fostered fear of
So, why do we revert so easily to preferred patterns of thinking, being socially stigmatised that causes otherwise sound minds
denying the unwelcome truth that is staring us in the face, even to fibrillate. Fortunately, there are also those among my friends
threatening our very existence? It’s the natural vulnerability whose “classical education” and immense academic peer-pressure
of our psyches, whence came the myth of the ostrich with its has not sealed their minds.
predilection for plunging its head into the sand in the presence
of danger. We laugh at such absurdity—and promptly practice it The reasoning often goes something like this: “If what you are
ourselves—sometimes with surprising zeal. 2 telling me is true, it would mean that those upon whom we
rely for our social stability and sense of personal security are
We work hard to achieve “the dream” with precious little time behaving reprehensibly. I can’t accept that, therefore, what you
left for any real enjoyment of life itself. Not surprisingly, some are saying is ipso facto false. You must be one of those ‘wild
looming threat to our fond hopes is hardly welcome. If there conspiracy theorists’…”
is no apparent way to avoid the perceived danger, many of us
choose to construct elaborate fantasies into which we try to Non sequitur.
retreat and at least feel some illusion of security.
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History is one long succession of conspiracies. Every war—and Limitations would serve no practical purpose if there was
there has been a virtual continuum of conflict for millennia— nothing to hide, at least until those complicit in the murky
relies on conspiracy. It’s no theory. It is the very substance of activities have passed safely to their graves. “State Secret” is
both ancient and modern statecraft. often no more than a convenient euphemism for “conspiracy”.
“Intelligence” organizations like the CIA, Mossad, the KGB A Swiss family and their young German guest sat at our table
(FSB) and MI5 have it as their basic stock in trade. The crafty not long ago. The discussion turned to the Third Reich. I
juxtaposition of those two words, “conspiracy” and “theory”, mentioned the burning of the Reichstag. The German lad told
was a masterful stroke. There is no theory about it. Witness Iraq us he learned about Hitler’s conspiracy in history class at high
and Afghanistan. The whole fabric of those campaigns is woven school. It appears that it is safe to now admit what would have
with the warp and weft of conspiracy. earned severe punishment for treason in the 1940s’ Vaterland.
The ropes of sand manufactured by Madison Avenue to tie At the giddy heights of geopolitics, the maxim, “The end
events in New York to the intentions of Sadam Hussein quickly justifies the means,” is gospel. Conspiracy is no theory.
disintegrated in the hands of an inept administration. However, it is critically important for us to get our facts right if
we are going to arrive at sound conclusions, particularly when
My wife and I recently dined with the Chief Information our own lives are at risk.
Officer of a major Australian Federal Government department.
I asked him what business we had sending our troops to die Only evil has cause to conspire. Truth has nothing to hide.
in Afghanistan. “As a member of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’
that’s what we are expected to do,” he offered. I pressed. Aerosol spraying is so far-reaching in its implications for you
“But what is the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ itself doing in and me that it cannot be ignored with impunity. It certainly
Afghanistan?” He had no answer. cannot be successfully denied. It is literally as big as the sky
itself, hidden in plain sight for all to see.
Daily newscasts are drenched in conspiratorial ooziness. Only
a very naïve person, or one directly complicit in the action, But be warned: the truth of the matter is stranger than fiction.
would seriously deny its reality.
Colossal frauds have been foisted on millions of people by
proscribing those who dared to speak the truth as, “Wild
conspiracy theorists.” We have recently heard presidents
and prime ministers recite those very lines with theatrical
pathos. But the truth is, ruthless men and women have always
conspired. And they will continue to do so. The Statute of
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Endnotes Roots
1. The Art of War, Sun-tzu (emphasis supplied). s
2. “The term ‘conspiracy theory’ is often used to denigrate and discredit inquiry
into the veracity of suspected State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD).
Labeling SCAD research as ‘conspiracy theory’ is an effective method of
preventing ongoing investigations from being reported in the corporate
media and keep them outside of broader public scrutiny. Psychologist Laurie
Manwell, University of Guelph, addresses the psychological advantage
that SCAD actors hold in the public sphere. Manwell, writing in American
Behavioral Scientist (Sage 2010) states, ‘Research shows that people are far And so, our quest for authentic understanding begins.
three
less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than confirms, their
beliefs…pre-existing beliefs can interfere with SCADs inquiry, especially
in regards to September 11, 2001’” (Global Research, March 4, 2010, State
The road we must travel will inevitably take us to some most-
Crimes Against Democracy, Prof. Peter Phillips and Prof. Mickey Huff). unexpected places.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17922 s
We may be tempted to think it is all just a fantasy. It will almost
certainly feel surreal at times. After all, we are dealing with
what is self-evidently a massive deception. If the highly-toxic
substances in the aerosols deposited in the air we breathe had a
transparent, appealing explanation, we would surely have been
told—indeed, triumphantly—what it is. But there is only silence
or ingenuous dismissal.
If we are willing to apply the three tests of sound logic, sound
science and sound history at every intersection we encounter
along the way, we will arrive at our destination with confidence.
The danger is that we may be tempted to discard one or more of
these three at times.
Oddly enough, we will begin by taking a backward glance.
It has been famously said that, “those who fail to learn from
history are doomed to repeat it.” A sound knowledge of human
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history enables us to project the principles we see behind us conversation they had about the American Civil War in the White
into our vision for the future, using our imaginations and innate House in August 1861.
reason. We plan for tomorrow based on our understanding of
yesterday. And it all hangs together in a mysterious medium we “I conceal what I know, for if the people knew the whole
call time. The following three points may seem so obvious that truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and at once,
they hardly warrant mentioning. But their importance is so great take a tenfold more savage and bloody character.” 2
that we need to examine the implications carefully.
There are two mighty rivers coursing through the entire
We cannot live in the past. landscape of human history: two, mutually-exclusive ideologies
Neither can we exist in the future. locked in mortal conflict. There’s just no getting around that
We have only the present. fact.3 And recognizing it is vital to an understanding of the
incredible events now taking place in Earth’s atmosphere. But
Now, here is something very important. If our understanding of more about that later.
the past is fundamentally flawed, our plans for the future will
be correspondingly misleading. But worse, our present will be The past has shaped our present. Our future will be determined
unsafe. Perhaps disastrously. by our understanding of it.
It is critically important, therefore, that we take our first steps Twenty years ago I inherited a book titled, “The Last Two Million
on this quest on the right path. There’s really nothing optional Years”. It sat on a shelf, unread, until quite recently. Then I read
here. And that’s where History enters, “stage right”. it—twice. The second time I used a pink highlighter to mark
all the references I found to subjects supernatural or religious.
We all know that historians of “other cultures than our There are only two spreads in the almost-five-hundred pages
own” have nefariously engaged in rewriting their schools’ that have no pink on them. Of the rest, many are almost covered
history texts, “correcting” inconvenient records so that future in my highlighting. Strangely, the first 1.994 million years are
generations will have a fundamentally altered view of certain dismissed in less than two-score pages of familiar “artists’
ideological issues. Nations’ futures are thereby directly shaped.1 impressions”. Significantly, the rest of the book is a discussion of
Fortunately there are reliable resources available to us and we the last 6,000 years, based on archaeology and written records.
shall identify and use these in our quest.
Human beings have had a perennial preoccupation with “the
History’s pages are soaked in human blood, spilled in never- gods” and the arcane hereafter. People’s attitudes toward these
ending conflicts. But here’s the odd thing. Very few wars things have dictated the fundamentals of every civilisation.
have been campaigns of territorial conquest alone. Almost all
have been ideological crusades. This is true of some wars we Earth is littered with great temples to the gods. Any trip through
may not even begin to suspect. Writing in his autobiography, the ancient cultures of our world reveals this fact. “Temple
Charles Chiniquy quoted the words of Abraham Lincoln in a sickness” is many a tourist’s bane. From Machu Picchu to
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Bangkok, Athens to Jerusalem, Moscow to Rome, Baghdad to This mighty iron empire has bequeathed to us its fundamental
New Delhi, Kathmandu to Palenque, Stone Henge to Egypt—we ethos, to a significant extent still shaping our laws, science,
find them. Many are massively monumental works of art and architecture, medicine, governance and together with its own
amazing feats of engineering. But one startling phenomenon Grecian legacy, our very weltanschauung. Our roots lie deep
emerges gruesomely above all others from any candid assay: in this soil of history and tell us volumes about what is shaping
human sacrifice to a universally-feared sun god. On high events in which we find ourselves reluctant participants. 6
mountain peaks facing the sunrise, or buried beneath altars and
in peat bogs, are the pathetic remains of children, captives, and The Capitol Building in Washington DC is a case in point. To
the willing, slain in hopeless endeavour to feed the insatiable be properly so named, a capitol building is first and foremost a
appetite of their gods. 4 temple to Jupiter.7 Examine, if you will, the fresco covering its
great, domed ceiling.
“The ancient people of Middle America believed that their
destiny lay in the hands of the gods, each of whom Constantino Brumidi was commissioned by Montgomery C
demanded his offering, often in human blood. In Meigs, on behalf of Congress, on December 28, 1854, to paint
ceremonies in honour of the Aztec rain god, priests poled a The Apotheosis of Washington—the “American St Peter’s”.8 The
canoe containing human hearts out into a lake, and let it impressive panoply depicts an assembled Roman pantheon of
sink beneath the waters. When emperor Ahuitzotl gods surrounding the central figure of George Washington on his
consecrated the temple of Huitzilopochtli it took four days way to becoming himself, a god (that’s what apotheosis means).
to slaughter the 20,000 prisoners of war offered to win the
god’s favour . . . There are still people who understand the You can see the fresco here.9
ancient calendars, keep the old social traditions alive, and
burn incense to pre-Spanish gods who are only thinly Atop the dome of the Capitol Building, standing with emphatic
disguised as Roman Catholic saints. After more than four propriety, is the bronze statue of a lady. She has quite a history.
centuries of European influence, the gap between the two Her name is Persephone, (or Proserpine) and she was the
civilizations has not yet closed.” 5 queen-consort of Hades, son of Saturn, god of death and the
underworld.10 She is the Greaco-Roman goddess of the psyche,
When we investigate the historical drivers of our own culture an or soul and officially remains the “only authorized Symbol of
apparent paradox emerges. A casual sweep of our thoroughly- American Heritage”. 11
postmodern, technocratic, “scientific”, rational, humanistic,
Western ethos seems to admit little of things mystical. But the It is very important to understand that these gods didn’t just pop
facts are otherwise. Western civilization was conceived and up from nowhere. The Romans inherited them from the Greeks,
gestated in the womb of a civilization deeply committed to the who got them from the Persians. And those Mesopotamian
gods, their temples, and their influence over affairs of love, potentates (including the Medes) didn’t “suck their gods out of
fortune and the state: the Romans. their thumbs”, either; they inherited the same set of capricious
deities from the mighty Babylonian culture that straddled the
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known world before them. Where did the Babylonian priests Western state architecture and trappings, you may be sure there
learn their craft? From the builders of pyramids and obelisks is a reason. If you travel to virtually all the Western nations of
on the Nile delta from Memphis to Thebes. Only their names Earth and gaze at their great architectural symbols of power
changed; the gods’ characters and roles remained constant. you will see the same Greco-Roman influence. Examine their
laws and practices of governance and the propinquity is clear. 13
Stand, as do thousands annually, in the Washington Mall and
look over the rectangular pool toward the buildings of state, Heritage—our roots—is very important. You are who you are
and you will see in the water before you the reflection of the because your parents were who they were, and they, because
world’s tallest, free-standing, masonry structure: the 555-feet they inherited their characters—and values—from your
(169 metres) high Egyptian obelisk known as the Washington grandparents. Certain television shows are popular because
Monument. From the records of the debates during the design adopted children want to know who their parents were.
process it is clear that the symbolism is no accident. Knowing where they came from empowers people’s lives. It
helps us to understand who we are. And, of great importance,
In bold scale, on either side of the Speaker’s podium in the it allows us to confidently chart a meaningful future for
Senate building, are two conspicuous symbols of Roman ourselves and our children. Your personal nascence has shaped
totalitarian power—bundled, leather-strapped, wooden your entire life. The same principle applies to all the great
rods with their protruding axe-heads—the fasces.12 The very cultures on Earth.
architecture of government buildings in Washington DC (and
virtually every state of the union) is deliberately Roman. Even The antipathy between Jews and Arabs, for example, simply
NASA’s mighty engines bearing men in their modern pursuit cannot be grasped without understanding the history of
of some elusive Golden Fleece reflect this theme: Atlas, Apollo, Abraham, Sarah and her handmaiden, Hagar. Their ancient
Mercury, Saturn. choices continue to send shock waves around the planet. Roots.
We may think this is all just some whimsical fascination by the If it really is true that Persephone “remains the only official
founding fathers with the “romantic and glorious past”. Maybe symbol of American heritage”—with all that implies—we may
it is nothing more than a fanciful ploy on the part of early need to reexamine some of our basic presumptions.
“perception makers” to invest ordinary citizens, who follow the
democratic path to government, with a status their constituents Though, presently, this brief historic ramble may appear to be
may respect. Or is it a question of greater identity? oddly out of place, it will become apparent, as we proceed, just
how significant this backward glance has been.
Of course, not everyone who displays fleur-de-lis on their
haberdashery is signalling membership in some arcane lodge. And right here is where things get very interesting.
But when you see certain heraldic icons carefully embedded in
official seals and symbols, you have good cause to ask why. And
when we see such universal use of Roman iconology in major
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Endnotes 8. “It’s like St Peter’s!” Words of a tourist quoted in the official Capitol
guidebook, We, The People, 1999. s
9. http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm s
1. Michael Parenti’s, History as Mystery (City Lights Publishers, 1999) is 10. http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/persephone.html
illuminating on the dark subject of historical distortion in the interests of The Romans changed their gods’ names from their Greek originals to their
the controlling élite across the centuries. own, while retaining their essential characters, hence Persephone became
Proserpine. In the US, Proserpine is sometimes referred to as Freedom. s
“No country that values its safety should allow what the Milner group
accomplished in Britain—that is, that a small number of men would be 11. http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/freedom.cfm s
able to wield such power in administration and politics, should be given
almost complete control over the publication of documents relating to 12. http://www.images.google.com/images?ndsp=21&hl=en&client=safari&
their actions, should be able to exercise such influence over the avenues of rls=en-us&um=1&q=us+senate+fasces+flag+picture&start=0&sa=N
information that create public opinion, and should be able to monopolize http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HouseofRepresentatives.jpg s
so completely the writing and the teaching of the history of their own
period” (The Anglo-American Establishment, Carroll Quigley). s 13. Winner of the Society of Architectural Historians’ 1994 First Annual
Spiro Kostof Book Award for Architecture and Urbanism, Lawrence J.
2. Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Conversion of a Priest, Vale explores parliamentary complexes in capital cities on six continents,
originally published, London, 1886 by Protestant Literature Depository. s showing how the buildings housing national government institutions are
products of the political and cultural balance of power within pluralist
3. “Religion has been one of the great shaping forces in human history, societies. By viewing architecture and urban design in the light of political
transforming the way of life of entire peoples. The collision of rival faiths history and cultural production, Vale expands the scope and cogency
or of different versions of the same faith, has split empires and destroyed of design criticism by tracing the evolution of the modern designed
nations” (The Last Two Million Years, New York, 1974, page 284). s capital—from Washington, D.C., Canberra, New Delhi, and Ankara, to the
post-World War II capitals of Chandigarh and Brasília, and of Abuja and
4. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_ Dodoma. s
culture http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/worlds/sacrifice1.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/275881/human-sacrifice s
5. The Last Two Million Years, New York, 1974, pages 196, 197. s
6. “In the tumult of change that has resulted from the drive towards national
self-determination, frontiers have been revised, names of countries altered,
new forms of government adopted. But even the newest states are heirs
to the past, through the histories of the individual peoples who inhabit
them. These histories stretch back through successive civilizations to the
beginnings of human society” (Ibid., page 353). s
7. http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/324684
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/us.capitol/s0.html s
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The Long and Winding Trail to Nascence question bears directly on our present journey. We have set out
with a clear purpose in this book. By very definition, Chance
cannot guide us on our quest.
I have stood by the graveside of my young and very lovely wife
and, later, a devoted, married son and voicelessly asked the
quintessential question, “Why!” No “mathematically unified
theory” can possibly respond. Sooner or later we must all stare
this tiger in his burning eye. And intuitively we sense there is
an answer somewhere well beyond the arbitrary descriptors of
natural science. After all Science is only capable of observing
Revered theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking’s, A Brief the observable—that which is accessible within the limits of
four
History of Time, is a popular book among sincere seekers after finite, human comprehension.
truth. In starkest contrast with all things mystical, it is based on
the premise that the entire universe came into being—in the Human beings invented Science, debated and defined its
total absence of everything—by no cause and for no reason. boundaries. It is arbitrary because we said so. And like all
It is hoped that the unified theory seeking to explain it all things human it is both finite and fundamentally flawed. It has
will ultimately be a mathematical equation, thus doing the proven to be wonderfully useful, however. I am typing these
metaphysicians out of their jobs.1 Men like Richard Dawkins words on a powerful computer, which wouldn’t have been
(The God Delusion) are working assiduously to convince us. possible without Science.
Other, no-less-erudite people have concluded otherwise. 2 But if there is a greater reality beyond our cherished ideas
and limited observations (and, surely it would be the veriest
Actually, we have no business asking Chance for answers. There naïveté—or arrogance—to imagine otherwise), Science is
can be no reason-able answers if we and our planet exist for especially unqualified to comment. To her, all things beyond
and by literally no reason. the quantifiable must always remain opaque—by definition. The
most that “natural” science can do is to discover what is already
And yet, we are deeply troubled by the unsolicited, toxic there, naturally, and to report the findings to other creative
whiteness in our air. We want answers. Very good ones. minds. And I thank them heartily for my computer.
Beatle, George Harrison, echoed the elemental question for all No-one invented electricity. Antibiotics were found. The
of us with his last breath, “Who am I; where did I come from; principles of flight were not designed by the Wright brothers.
where am I going?” 3 And there are only two categories for all Neither did Marconi—nor indeed, Tesla—create electromagnetic
possible responses. One is Chance, the other, Purpose. His energy. Scientists didn’t put the universe out there. We can
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at best struggle to observe it and marvel at its staggering against their own species—and all life. Nowhere is this more
immensity and complexity. The Hubble telescope’s powerful significant than in the many-layered, womb-like enclosure of
successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is merely planet Earth called the atmosphere—as the work of Rosalie
another and better eye to look at what is already there. 4 Bertell amply demonstrates. 6
The ambitious Large Hadron Collider 5 at Cern will—if it If you consider carefully, you will notice that when it comes
succeeds in its ultimate purpose—only allow us to peek into to the greatest issues of life—those beyond the mere dance
what has always existed. The brilliant minds who conceived of atoms—the question, “Why?” itself holds a vital key. The
and engineered the 27-kilometer long, racetrack-shaped very substance within the word relies on the preexistence of
instrument located ~150 metres underground, straddling the Purpose. Science is necessarily mute. And herein is our first
border between Switzerland and France, will have originated tenet: to find the answers we are seeking we have no option but
nothing from their $US10 billion budget and 15 years of effort. to take the path signposted, “Purpose”. “Chance” has literally
Champagne flutes aloft, they will but be able to stand in awe of nothing to offer us on this quest.
what their focused energies have discovered about their “God
particle”. But the “why” of it all is beyond the finite measuring
of human Science.
Celebrating the first successful collisions on March 30, 2010,
CERN physicist Dave Barney says he does not know how big a
leap forward this will be for scientists, but it is exciting.
“What we know is that there are lots of unanswered
questions about the universe, about why it is here in the
form it is,” he said. Why we are here, what actually is the
universe made of. We only understand the tiny fraction of
what the universe is really made of” (ABC News Australia,
March 30, 2010).
The meaning within the words, “Natural Science”, admit that
whatever caused human existence has always been there—
naturally—irrespective of human opinion.
Inexplicably, there have always been those who have taken the
great discoveries of Science and forthwith used the knowledge
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Endnotes the questions, Wherefore? Whither? and Whence? to his mind…Pascal—as
we may recall—‘suggests that men only endeavour to work hard at their
1. The Big Bang did not arise from nothing. To assert so is to render businesses and sciences with the view of escaping those questions of
nonsensical the most fundamental observation it is possible to make: greatest import which every moment of loneliness or leisure presses upon
“Nothing comes from nothing.” Words become useless and we collapse into them—the questions relating to the wherefore, the whence, and the whither
a semantic black hole of our own manufacture. The laws of physics that of life’” (Does God Exist?, Hans Kung, University Press, Oxford, page 351). s
make it possible to speculate and to extrapolate backward to the instant of
the primordial explosion must have preexisted the Bang itself for the event 4. “Clearly we need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time
to have happened. And so must have the colossal energy supply to drive it to see the very birth of the Universe” (Edward Weiler, director of Nasa’s
all (regardless of the theoretical, physical size we may wish to reduce it to). Goddard Space Flight Centre).
If we point to anything at all that exists now, something has always existed http://www.jwst.nasa.gov
before it. There is much more to the universe than the greatest human http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6645179.stm s
mind has ever conceived. For us to think we can reduce it to the level of
our understanding—a unified mathematical equation—is to imagine that 5. “The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near
we are God. The new conventional wisdom claims otherwise, however: Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about
100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study
“The best modern scientific understanding of the Universe reveals that the smallest known particles—the fundamental building blocks of all
it was born in fire, a Big Bang of creation some fifteen billion years ago. things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world
Cosmologists can now explain how the Universe got from a superhot, deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe” (http://public.web.cern.
superdense fireball into the stage we see today…They can, thanks to the ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html). s
very latest work by researchers such as Stephen Hawking at Cambridge, at http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
least suggest how and why the Big Bang itself occurred” (In Search of the http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc
Big Bang, John Gribbin, Heinemann, London, page 4). http://www.lhc.ac.uk
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc%2Dmachine%2Doutreach
“The kind of unified theories that physicists are now groping toward, and http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/30/2860696.htm
may discover (or invent) before the end of this century [20th], ought to be
able, combined with Hawking’s universe, to explain every phenomenon 6. Rosalie Bertell is a distinguished research scientist who has written
that has ever happened or ever could happen in the Universe…Our search extensively about Earth’s atmosphere with a particular interest in the
for the Big Bang, and back before the Big Bang to the moment of creation experimentation with and militarization of this essential and very delicate
itself, is over. Hawking’s universe holds out the prospect of combining “womb” within which we are all cocooned.
General Relativity and cosmology in one grand theory of creation… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9062737295949774810
There is no need to invoke miracles, or new physics, to explain where the Recommended reading: Planet Earth the Latest Weapon of War, Rosalie
Universe came from” (Ibid., pages 391, 392). s Bertell, Black Rose Publishing. s
2. A vast body of material exists on the subject. Brilliant minds such as
C S Lewis (Mere Christianity, God in the Dock) and Hans Kung (Does God
exists? Eternal Life?), Francis Schaeffer et al are in no degree less intelligent
or erudite than the best from the opposing camp. s
3. “The heir of but a few hours, [Strauss] sees himself encompassed by
yawning abysses, terrible to behold; and every step he takes should recall
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What Happened? our time. Its author was Professor William Carroll Quigley—the
man Bill Clinton identified as his academic mentor. From his
domain at Georgetown University in the District of Columbia,
Quigley profoundly influenced a succession of bright young
men like Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. It is said
by those who know: “The Capital of the USA—and NATAO— is
Georgetown University, not the White House”. 1
Within weeks of my purchase, the book, Tragedy and Hope:
A History of the World in Our Time, was suddenly withdrawn
from circulation. Writing later of the censorship, Quigley said,
When I was a boy growing up in the country our house had “I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed.”
five
an electric fence on one side to keep Coronation Dandy, the
neighbour’s prize bull, inside his paddock. As boys are wont Why is the book so remarkable? It provides information about
to do I answered the insistent call of Nature standing where I our past that is critically important to our understanding of
happened to be, admiring the beast’s impressive physique. what is happening now and that is not generally known by
I discovered that urine is an excellent conductor of electricity. the average person—especially if that person relies on “news”
My memory of the event remains distinct. provided by Rupert Murdoch et al. It is a valuable navigational
chart for us who now find ourselves on very stormy seas.
That experience has guided my choices in all my future
encounters with electric fences. We depend on access to reliable Its lucid pages identify and describe the various networks of
facts from the past to navigate the future—just as a ship’s power, their histories and intentions for the people of planet
captain trusts the experience of others before him who drew Earth—today. Quigley gives detailed facts and figures that
his charts. make it abundantly clear what is planned for us by those who
wield the real power and authority. It lifts the lid on things
All good education is a process of filling developing minds that would stagger the ordinary citizen. Little wonder it was
with factual data useful to their futures. An excellent reason for suppressed.
providing truthful history in schools.
“In this case we shall undoubtedly get a Universal Empire
I bought a book in the late 1960s that is truly remarkable. in which the United States will rule most of Western
It was written by one of the most influential academics and Civilization.” 2
educators of the twentieth-century in America. A ponderous
tome of 1,348, meticulously-documented pages, it describes the Just how it is intended that this will be achieved is deeply
seminal events—and their architects—that moved, shook and troubling. All conquerors seek totalitarian power in three areas:
shaped the world geopolitically and that bear very much upon
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1. Military (physical compulsion) working in New York on a new book titled, Guide Book to
2. Economic (social servitude) the End Times, Martin died unexpectedly under mysterious
3. Intellectual (ideological domination) circumstances. As a “consummate Vatican insider and
intelligence expert” he reveals some startling information. 6
General Douglas MacArthur’s oft-quoted truism, “The war isn’t
over until we have won the hearts and minds of the people,” “The pope and the grizzled men who run the Vatican are
admits the ultimate objective of all the conflicts, revolutions not quixotic idealists living in a dream world of
and uprisings of the past two hundred years (at least) and that superstition and irrational fantasies. In fact, their realism
will occur in the future—brief though that may be. can be numbing” 7
Quigley identifies the organisations that have effectively The very first text page lays out the situation unambiguously.
created, issued and controlled the world’s money supply, thus
establishing a feudalistic dependency of the masses on a few “Willing or not, ready or not, we are all involved in an
privileged lords of the manor. But beyond the mechanisms of all-out, no-holds-barred, three-way global competition
control, Tragedy and Hope gives a glimpse of the ideological [now reduced to two]. Most of us are not the competitors,
world that is planned for us to inhabit—in our lifetime. 3 however. We are the stakes…No holds are barred because
once the competition has been decided, the world and all
In 1990 I bought another book that suffered the same fate at that’s in it—our way of life as individuals and as citizens of
the hands of the Establishment’s censors as did Tragedy and the nations; our families and our jobs our trade and
Hope. Another prodigious tomos of over a thousand pages, commerce and money; our educational systems and our
Professor Malachi Martin’s Keys of This Blood fits like a hand in religions and our cultures; even the badges of our national
Quigley’s glove. Many of the same pivotal events are expanded. identity, which most of us have always taken for granted—
But of enormous significance is the insight Martin offers on the all will have been powerfully and radically altered forever.
religious component of what is taking place. No one can be exempted from its effects. No sector of our
lives will remain untouched.” 8
The book has an arresting subtitle: “The Struggle for World
Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and It is perfectly clear that profound changes are being strategised
the Capitalist West.” 4 Time magazine’s cover for its February behind the scenes. It is anything but a democratic process. And
24, 1992 issue trumpets the collusive victory of Washington and the objective is total control of planet Earth. Global dominion,
Rome over their Soviet geopolitical rival. 5 pure and simple. In the Grand Design, freedoms as we have
known them will no longer exist. “No sector of our lives will
With earned doctorates in Semitic Languages, Archeology and remain untouched.” Everything germane to our lives will be
Oriental History from Louvain, Martin subsequently studied “powerfully and radically altered—forever”. Is it possible to be
at Oxford and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. While more plain?
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Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, perhaps inadvertently, Endnotes
confirmed this intention in an address to the prestigious Press
Club in Sydney. 9
1. “The civilian chief of the world’s only, and history’s first, self-proclaimed,
As to the religious ramifications, Martin reveals the stated global, military bloc is having a busy month. North Atlantic Treaty
intention for the “winner takes all” leader of the Grand Design Organization [NATO] Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen delivered
to preside over a universal religion from which no deviation an address in Washington, DC on February 23, [2010] on the military
will be tolerated. alliance’s new 21st century Strategic Concept along with U.S. Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her predecessor
twice-removed Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser James
“There will come a day when Islam…will receive the Jones, the last-named a former Marine Corps general and NATO Supreme
illumination it needs.” 10 Allied Commander.
All faiths—including Atheism—will be “integrated”, either At the seminar and on the preceding evening at Georgetown University
willingly or by coercion. in what is arguably NATO’s true capital, Rasmussen sounded familiar
themes: Highlighting the need to prevail in Afghanistan, NATO’s first
ground war and first armed conflict outside of Europe…” (US-NATO
“Nevertheless it is axiomatic…that no one has the right— “Strategic Concept”: Global Warfare, Missile Shield and Nuclear Weapons,
democratic or otherwise—to a moral wrong; and no Rick Rozoff, globalresearch.com emphasis supplied). s
religion based on divine revelation has a moral right to
teach such a moral wrong or abide by it.” 11 2. Tragedy and Hope, A History of the World in Our Time, Carroll Quigley,
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966, page 10. s
The definition of “moral right” will be the exclusive province 3. “…[T]he powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing
of the Leader. As for the conscientious objectors, either as less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able
individuals or members of all other “Evangelical sects”, they to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the
“will surely be integrated into a profession of the full faith…” 12 world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion
by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements
What has all this got to do with aerosol trails? A great deal—as arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of
the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle,
we will soon discover. Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central
banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in
the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin
Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Eist of the Bank of
France, and Hhalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought 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 (Ibid., page 324). s
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4. The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope
John Paul II, Mikail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West. Malachi Martin, Back to the Future—and Back
Simon and Schuster, 1990. s
5. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974931,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19920224,00.html s
6. “Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert,
could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican’s role in today’s winner-
take-all race against time to establish, maintain, and control the first one-
world government…It presents a compelling array of daring blueprints for
global power, and one of them is the portrait of the future” (Cover notes
on The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between
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There has been a succession of great dominions on our planet.
Pope John Paul II, Mikail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West. Malachi
Martin, Simon and Schuster, 1990). s Some of them with sophistication in the arts, mathematics,
astronomy and socioeconomic prowess easily rivalling the best
7. Ibid., page 633. s we have managed to achieve. The interesting thing is that they
were all kingdoms under the “benevolent despotism” of one
8. Ibid., page 15. s person. In other words they were totalitarian states.
9. Jonathan Winston Howard: March 13, 2003 in a National Press Club
address: “The decade of the nineteen nineties was meant to have been one An outstanding example ruled the known world from an
in which a new international order, free of the bi-polar rivalry of earlier architecturally magnificent city not far from what is left of
days, was to have been established.” Note the euphemistic portrayal of Baghdad today—Babylon.
totalitarian power by use of the soft phrase, “free of the bi-polar rivalry”.
Akin to describing a commercial monopoly as one “free from the rivalry” of King Nebuchadnezzar reigned from 635 to 561 BCE. He was
free-market competition.
john_howard.rm s son of the founder of the Chaldean dynasty, Nabopolassar. His
golden kingdom stood without peer. It operated on precisely
10. The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope the same principles that are in store for us—if the architects of
John Paul II, Mikail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West. Malachi Martin, the Design succeed in their plans—one supreme sovereign and
Simon and Schuster, 1990, page 285. s one state religion—combined. No wall of separation allowed.
11. Ibid., page 287. s
Babylon was militarily dominant and fiscally absolute. Its
12. Ibid., page 287. s subjects were required to worship the god Marduk, whose
origins may be traced through to Ea and Enlil and beyond. 1
Nebuchadnezzar was a polymath genius. Archaeological
evidence of his prowess may be seen in the great museums and
all accepted histories attest to his unchallenged greatness.
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History records that one night the king had a disturbing dream. And we are rapidly being marshalled to the place where we will
Apparently it brought the monarch to the edge of distraction have no capacity to resist. And where it is intended that authors
because the next morning he issued his intellectuals, along of books such as this will be “integrated”.
with the custodians of the state religion, an urgent directive
to not only tell him what the dream meant, but also to tell Since 9/11 all the important personal safeguards—civil
him what the dream was. It seems Nebuchadnezzar couldn’t liberties—of the Western world have been legislated away by
remember the content of his nocturnal escapade. He only knew sleight of hand. 3 Naomi Wolf’s observations are pertinent. 4
that it scared him half to death—which was quite something for
the battle-hardened conqueror of many bloody campaigns to It may take only one more catastrophe—false flag 5 —to tip
admit. Remember, we’re talking history here, not fantasy. 2 us into the maelstrom of totalitarianism that will remove
whatever personal liberties may remain. Malachi Martin’s
Not surprisingly, they were nonplussed. He offered them words ring in our ears. “…[O]ur way of life as individuals and
an incentive, “Do it or I will have both you and your entire as citizens of the nations; our families and our jobs our trade
households executed by herding you all into your own houses and commerce and money; our educational systems and our
and burning them to the ground after first tearing you limb religions and our cultures; even the badges of our national
from limb.” They huddled. identity, which most of us have always taken for granted—all
will have been powerfully and radically altered forever. No one
When they were unable to deliver the king’s demand, can be exempted from its effects. No sector of our lives will
Nebuchadnezzar issued the “Signing Order” to carry out his remain untouched.”
threat. Now, it may seem to us that this was the behaviour of
a primitive potentate of an uncivilized society—some Pol Pot. These are not the speculative words of some spring chicken.
Not so. This was a “world” empire that is still renowned for They come from one who was indisputably and intimately
its cultural and scientific achievements. The Commander-in- acquainted with the plans of each of the players committed to
chief’s word was law—just as it was with the Roman Empire’s the “End Game”. 6
Imperatores—and as it is intended that it will be for us.
Nebuchadnezzar had not long returned from a grinding
We may need to catch our breaths a little here. This book is military defeat of the resisting kingdom of Judah, three-months’
about finding answers to the question marks in our skies, laid march to his west. He carried off the glittering icons of their
out as chemical aerosols by military jets in the twenty-first unique, monotheistic religion and installed them in his own
century, not an ancient history lesson. But our past is the key temple as trophies of his prevailing power and the superiority
to our future. Human nature has not changed. Absolute power of his gods. The symbolism of the act was deeply significant
had its known effects in millennia gone and will do so again. to a pagan people. And then in a rather clever departure from
precedent, he brought home with him the brightest young
Unfortunately, we now have instruments of destruction that are members of the subjugated nation’s royal bloodline and had
capable of things undreamed of by the great men of past ages. them promptly castrated to ensure there would be no future
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challenge from a resurgent remnant. As if there had not been This was no vague, hit-and-miss, Nostradamus affair. The
drama enough, something sensational now happened. The details were specific and concrete, not open to speculative
king’s execution order was interrupted in its very downstroke. interpretation. Here’s what Belteshazar told Nebuchadnezzar to
expect:
Arioch, the military officer charged with responsibility for the
execution, arrived at the door of the Judean captives to arrest The golden Chaldean dynasty would be overrun by a successor
them. In a test to see what they were made of, Belteshazzar had under the combined administration of the Medes and the
not long before these startling turn of events, demonstrated Persians, whose silver domain would, in its turn, fall to the
such superior intellectual qualities that he, along with three hegemonic ambitions of Alexander the Great. The young
of his fellow captives from Judah, had been appointed by Greek’s brazen military conquests swallowed all the territories
Nebuchadnezzar himself to his elite inner circle. of the former great empires.
Belteshazzar was understandably stunned by this dire news Then would come the Romans whose iron might smashed the
and prevailed upon Arioch to take him to the monarch. then-known-world and integrated everything. Their way of life
Belteshazzar convinced the smouldering king to give him 24 as individuals and as citizens of the nations; their families
hours to come up with an answer. and their jobs their trade and commerce and money; their
educational systems and their religions and their cultures;
The next morning a pivotal event in the long and troubled even the badges of their national identity, which most of
history of Earth took place. It is of such profound significance them had always taken for granted—all were powerfully and
that it has polarized people ever since. Wars have literally been radically altered forever. No one was exempted from its effects.
fought over it. Belteshazzar not only told the Supreme Leader No sector of their lives remained untouched. Its Caesars—
every detail of the dream, he also gave an interpretation that Pontifex Maximus—would be worshipped as gods—or else.
has proven to be one hundred percent accurate in every detail.
“Thus, Mespotamia was conquered by…Babylonia about
This is immediately problematic to a system governed by a 1700 B.C., while the whole of Mesopotamian civilization
Darwinistic world view. It is literally impossible. Nonetheless it was conquered by Assyria about 725 B.C. (replaced by…
happened. Much ink has been spilled over it, but when it has all Persia about 525 B.C.). In Classical Civilization the core
dried, like it or not, it is a historic fact. area was conquered by Macedonia about 336 B.C., while
the whole civilization was conquered by peripheral Rome
And why is it so interesting to us who want to know what’s about 146 B.C.” 7
happening above our heads?
Quigley very clearly described what happened after the
The dream of Nebuchadnezzar was a condensed, chronological Romans. It is exactly as Nebuchadnezzar saw it—in every
depiction of the geopolitical story of planet Earth from his time surprising particular—as if William Carroll Quigley was present
to ours—and beyond—before it happened. in the royal chambers in 633 BCE.
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