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To: Thomas M. who wrote (5652)	6/25/2004 3:54:49 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

National Review is a CFR rag. That figures. Reagan deceived us too. Say what we want to hear and do exactly the opposite. -----------------------a post----------------------------- Frederick C, Howe laid out the strategy of utilizing government in his book Confessions of a Monopolist (1906): "This is the story of something for nothing - of making the other fellow pay. This making the other fellow pay, of getting something for nothing, explains the lust for franchises, mining rights, tariff privileges, railway control, tax evasions. All these things mean monopoly and all monopoly is bottomed on legislation." Howe further explained: "These are the rules of big business. They have superceded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics; for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for it's exploitation." Robber barons of the nineteenth century, such as Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbuilt, grew rich partly by bribing government officials. "Regulation," traditional scourge of the businessman, has another face: it can be used to acquire exclusive monopolies and feed on tax revenues. The early railroad magnates were able to get public funds to foot the bill for constructing their lines. The very first US regulatory agency - Interstate Commerce Commission - was created at the petition of railroad owners, not railroad users. When the Federal Reserve was under consideration in 1912, J.P. Morgan partner Henry Davison (later a CFR member) told Congress: "I would rather have regulation and control than free competition." Anthony Sutton, in Wall Street and FDR, reviews a succession of corporate notables who have espoused socialism in speeches and books. A modern illustration of how big business uses government for its own ends is the Import-Export bank. This federal bank was established to "promote trade." Here is how it can work. An American manufacturer wants to sell his products to Poland - but the Poles have no cash to put up. So the Import-Export bank theoretically loans Poland money to buy goods. We say "theoretically" because in practice this step is cut out as unnecessary - the money goes straight to the manufacturer. The Poles then pay off the Import-Export bank in installments - but at a low rate subsidized by American taxpayers. And if the Poles default? We taxpayers pick up the whole tab! The manufacturer makes the transaction at no risk to himself, through the medium of a federal agency. (*note...this sounds exactly like the Russian wheat deals during Carter and Reagan times, and NYC bank loans to 3rd world countries that were always defaulted on and the US taxpayer bailed out the NYC banks who made the loans. This business is all under the radar now as it is not reported in the news anymore.) continued..... There is nothing on earth more powerful than government, a fact long ago recognized by international bankers. Regulation, socialism, and Communism are simply different graduations of monopoly. Who cares if the government is running everything if you run the government? In Communist countries, it bears observing, the people do not run the government. There are either no elections or sham elections. Just as many captions of Wall Street ride falsely under the banner of free enterprise, so do the communists have their own public relations myth. They are supposedly the champions of the people - the "masses". Yet, from Petrograd to Phnom Penh, genocide has been the stamp of Communist takeover. What kind of government is it that erects walls and barbed wire to keep the people in? Such a country is not a "workers paradise" but a prison. In the final analysis, there is little difference in the goals of Marxism and capitalist monopolism. And both, along with the Council on Foreign Relations, shares a common final objective: one world government. excerpt from "The Shadows of Power...The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline" by James Perloff ------------------------------------------------------------ The CFR banking elite are now using government to create for them a worldwide banking monopoly that will dwarf the Federal Reserve scam they now control. Message 20253928