From Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”1966:
The Money Power Seeks to Create a World System of Financial Control in Private Hands Able to Dominate Every Nation on Earth:
The powers of financial capitalism had 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. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, 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 Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar 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.
(pgs. 242-243)
It must not be felt that these heads of the world’s chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers (also called “international” or “merchant” bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks.
These formed a system of international cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful, and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks. This dominance of investment bankers was based on their control over the flows of credit and investment funds in their own countries and throughout the world. They could dominate the financial and industrial systems of their own countries by their influence over the flow of current funds through bank loans, the discount rate, and the re-discounting of commercial debts; they could dominate governments by their control over current government loans and the play of the international exchanges.
Almost all of this power was exercised by the personal influence and prestige of men who had demonstrated their ability in the past to bring off successful financial coupe, to keep their word, to remain cool in a crisis, and to share their winning opportunities with their associates.
(pg. 245)
These [international] organizations have some of the aspects of sovereignty from the fact that their decisions do not have to be unanimous, are binding on states and on citizens who have not agreed to them, and can he financed by funds that may be levied without current consent of the persons being taxed. On the whole, the supranational aspects of these institutions will be strengthened in the future from provisions in the treaties themselves. All this is very relevant to the remarks in the last chapter on the disintegration of the modern, unified sovereign state and the redistribution of its powers to multilevel hierarchical structures remotely resembling the structure of the Holy Roman Empire in the late medieval period. (pg. 930)
From PresentWitness:
The most important framing that you need to have right now is that we are living through the consequences of what happens when corporations and international influence groups supplant national governments.
This takeover was primarily accomplished though lobbying and through the establishment of a revolving door between corporations and governments. You cannot look at Google, Raytheon, or Tesla as separate entities from the US Government.
We’re so deep into this game that it doesn’t even stop at national governments. National governments are dominated by international influence groups that control populations through central banks and trade agreements. There is probably more to this angle, but I’ll leave it there.
Let’s start with the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry supplanted the US Government with the passage of Obamacare. Obamacare was a law that mandated citizens, companies, and the USG pay healthcare, insurance, and pharmaceutical corporations every month.
Because the healthcare industry exists above the government, it can seize tax dollars to fund its own research and development (NIH). It can decide to pursue extremely dangerous and unethical research. It can even use the gov to obscure its culpability for mistakes or intentions.
The military industrial sector has also supplanted national governments, and has access to the same level of extra-legal abilities that the healthcare industry has. They seize your tax dollars in order to advance their own agenda. And it isn’t just about maximizing profits.
What do you think the recent UFO phenomena is? It is very clearly a marketing campaign organized by the military industrial sector to justify the seizure of billions of dollars in taxpayer money. It also creates a ‘free option’ for the foundation of a global military alliance.
Does that sound a little bit like the ‘Green New Deal’? All of these movements are to create entities that are larger than governments. They are control structures being built on top of and out of governments in the same way that the Catholic Church was supplanted by governments.
The purpose of the ‘green energy movement’ is to globalize energy supply chains in order to permanently disable national sovereignty. Tesla received 520 million in tax credits last quarter and ‘made’ 438 million. We are literally subsidizing the destruction of our own countries.
I can go on and analyze every single industry under this lens, but I will spare you. The takeaway here is that the modern world is actively being reshaped in the image of global capital mediated by powerful influence groups that have supplanted nation-states.
The means by which they get to their ultimate goal will continue to seem bizarre, disjointed, and illogical because the information structures that you are accustomed to use to interpret the world around you are being actively subverted and repurposed in real time.
I’m glad you wrote this because I was going to comment on your prior post (“a white pill”), but you said a lot what I was going to. I read the blogpost you linked to, which compared modern America to post Republican Rome. These comparisons are fun thought experiments, and obviously America resembles Rome to some extent (government structure, multiethnic population, imperial overreach, etc). But I think it’s not very helpful for the reasons you describe here. America the nation state is clearly weak, weakening, incoherent, dysfunctional, at war with itself. But unlike in Ancient Rome (or any other empire I can think of), the institutions that wield power in the United States do not seem to be weakening as the nation does. If anything, the (largely intentional) weakening of the nation state seems to favor the interests of global, transnational organizations like BlackRock, Google and Goldman. The question is whether it favors their interests in the long term, or only in the short term looting of peoples, markets and resources. One would think there would be no one left to loot, and that we are approaching that point. But as men smarter than me have pointed out for a long time, our system has an incredible capacity for adaption. I could easily envision a sort of technocratic feudalism (think Bladerunner but more boring) without any official collapse or civil war. I think we might be more than halfway there.
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I’m trying to make a materialist analysis here.
World Empire has been the dream of every tin pot dictator since the time of Alexander the Great. When the early Americans discovered the Pacific coast, they believed their destiny was manifest; Manifest Destiny, a nation from “sea to shining sea.” The natural borders of the oceans made it inevitable.
By the end of the Age of Discovery, I suppose the discovery of Antarctica, the whole earth was known and military and economic thinking was now always global. However, the logistics were simply not there.
This changed with the rise of computing, the Internet, and satellites. Now, the entire earth is mapped, in detail. The communications infrastructure, the Internet, is there. I’ve actually used satellite internet before – slow – but perfectly useable. So they don’t even need to run wires anymore.
But crunching all that data is hard, but the rise of “Artificial Intelligence” – really, “machine learning,” neural networks or just “fast statistical number crunching” – is again making a truly global system, a true totalitarian technocracy, not just possible, but basically inevitable.
I have two “projects” so to speak. The first is anti-whiteness, and this is where the Jewish problem is the number one issue. Without Jewish power in America, we could mount resistence to the low wage immigration programs of e.g. the Koch brothers. But we can’t even approach the issue because of groups like the ADL, and the Jewish donor class subverting groups like the Sierra Club. The cowardice over this issue in the not very “dissident” right, other than the “White Nationalist” types, is why we can never really push on this issue. People like Colin Liddell are just too cowardly to admit who was the actual force was against the “Alt Right,” and at Charlottesville. That was Jewish power, and not anyone else.
However, my second project is the rising global technocracy. Colin Liddell actually used to be honest about this, Jews have for a long time been an “international people.” So, absolutely, Jews are quite in the very center of the rise of the global technocracy.
However, global empire is not, and has never been, just a “Jewish thing.” Again, every tin pot dictator wants a world empire, and the material conditions – satellites, the Internet, computing – make our global Destiny Manifest.
So, the WNs – like, say, Fash The Nation, miss this because they are too focused on Jewish anti-whitness. Global Technocracy will, in fact, destroy Israel and probably even Jewish solidarity.
FTN’s analysis of BlackRock and China is a bit off, because of their own ideological blinders. What is really going on is a fight over the new Artificial Intelligence system, and BlackRock – as international capitalists, not as Jews, but as globalists, want desperately to merge with China, but the US Empire cannot just give up its military dominance, materially, they cannot do it.
See Whitney Webb here:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/08/reports/the-real-reason-why-blackstone-is-courting-the-pentagon/
I often point to this book, called the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century” as an example of how the Left is not just on board with Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, they will be the enforcement arm to keep the “multitude” in line. Just follow Aimee Terese on Twitter, as she exposes them literally in the act of doing exactly that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(Hardt_and_Negri_book)
The anti-whiteness issue in America can be solved once anti-white groups like the ADL are defanged – and we see that happening, with Tucker Carlson, the rage at “Critical Race Theory” and the decline of Zionism.
But the global technocracy is very must not just a Jewish thing, it’s a broader problem that has material roots.
I saw all of this long ago, but I totally didn’t see the bio-engineering aspect and this Medical Mafia, experimental gene therapy, coming so fast, so quickly. As for the creep factor – off the charts:
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Exactly.
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I’ll also add Alice McDowell (philly852) on twitter and Corey Morningstar (Elleprovocateur) on twitter as well as the list of people you should read if you want to know anything about the Technocracy and the financialisation of nature.
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Reblogged this on Muunyayo .
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