http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
THE CITY
When people think of England such terms as 'Great Britain,' 'The Queen,'
'The Crown,' 'Crown Colonies,' 'London,' 'The City of London,' and 'British
Empire' come to mind and blend together into an indistinguishable blur.
They are generally looked upon as synonymous, as being representative of the
same basic system. During the 1950s and 1960s the author lived in England
(London for five years) without even beginning to realize the vast
difference that exists in the meaning of some of the above terms.
When people hear of 'The Crown' they automatically think of the King or
Queen; when they hear of 'London' or the 'The City' they instantly think of
the capital of England in which the monarch has his or her official
residence.
To fully understand the unique and generally unknown subject we must define
our terms:
When we speak of 'The City' we are in fact referring to a privately owned
Corporation - or Sovereign State - occupying an irregular rectangle of 677
acres and located right in the heart of the 610 square mile 'Greater London'
area. The population of 'The City' is listed at just over four thousand,
whereas the population of 'Greater London' (32 boroughs) is approximately
seven and a half million.
The 'Crown' is a committee of twelve to fourteen men who rule the
independent sovereign state known as London or 'The City.' 'The City' is
not part of England. It is not subject to the Sovereign. It is not under
the rule of the British parliament. Like the Vatican in Rome, it is a
separate, independent state. It is the Vatican of the commercial world.
The City, which is often called "the wealthiest square mile on earth," is
ruled over by a Lord Mayor. Here are grouped together Britain's great
financial and commercial institutions: Wealthy banks, dominated by the
privately-owned (Rothschild controlled) Bank of England, Lloyd's of London,
the London Stock Exchange, and the offices of most of the leading
international trading concerns. [Such as the British Invisibles, I kid you
not]. Here, also, is located Fleet Street, the heart and core of the
newspaper and publishing worlds.
TWO MONARCHS
The Lord Mayor, who is elected for a one year stint, is the monarch in the
City. As Aubrey Menen says in "London", Time-Life, 1976, p. 16: "The
relation of this monarch of the City to the monarch of the realm [Queen] is
curious and tells much." It certainly is and certainly does !
When the Queen of England goes to visit the City she is met by the Lord
Mayor at Temple Bar, the symbolic gate of the City. She bows and asks for
permission to enter his private, sovereign State. During such State visits
"the Lord Mayor in his robes and chain, and his entourage in medieval
costume, outshines the royal party, which can dress up no further than
service uniforms." The Lord Mayor leads the queen into his city.
The reason should be clear. The Lord Mayor is the monarch. The Queen is
his subject ! The monarch always leads the way. The subject always stays a
pace or two behind !
The small clique who rule the City dictate to the British Parliament. It
tells them what to do, and when. In theory Britain is ruled by a Prime
Minister and a Cabinet of close advisers. These 'fronts' go to great
lengths to create the impression that they are running the show but, in
reality, they are mere puppets whose strings are pulled by the shadowy
characters who dominate behind the scenes. As the former British Prime
Minister of England during the late 1800s Benjamin D'israeli wrote: "So you
see... the world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes" (Coningsby, The Century
Co., N.Y., 1907, p. 233).
This fact is further demonstrated by another passage from Menen's book: "The
Prime Minister, a busy politician, is not expected to understand the
mysteries of high finance, while the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Budget
Director] is only expected to understand them when he introduces the budget.
Both are advised by the permanent officials of the Treasury, and these
listen to the City. If they suspect that some policy of the government will
[back-fire]... it is no use their calling up British ambassadors to ask if
it is so; they can find out more quickly from the City. As one ambassador
complained to me, diplomats are nowadays no more than office boys, and slow
ones at that.
"The City will know. They will tell the Treasury and the Treasury will tell
the Prime Minister. Woe betide him if he does not listen. The most striking
instance of this happened in recent history. In 1956 the then Prime
Minister, Sir Anthony Eden... launched a war to regain the Suez Canal. It
had scarcely begun when the City let it be known that in a few days he would
have no more money to fight it; the Pound would collapse. He stopped the
war and was turned out of office by his party. When the Prime Minister
rises to address the Lord Mayor's banquet, he hopes that the City will put
more behind him than the gold plate lavishly displayed on the sideboard" (p.
18).
History clearly reveals that the British government is the bond slave of the
"invisible and inaudible" force centered in the City. The City calls the
tune. The "visible and audible leaders" are mere puppets who dance to that
tune on command. They have no power. They have no authority. In spite of
all the outward show they are mere pawns in the game being played by the
financial elite.
HISTORY of the 'CITY'
From the time of William the Conqueror until the middle of the seventeenth
century the British Monarchs ruled supreme - their word was law. They truly
were Sovereign in every sense of the word.
As British strength and influence grew around the world toward the end of
the 1600s the wealth, strength and influence of the elite merchants in the
City also grew - only at a faster pace. In 1694 the privately owned Bank of
England (a central bank) was established to finance the profligate ways of
William III. The bank was financed by a group of City merchants who used
William Paterson as a 'front.' The names of the founders have never been
made public.
It was at that juncture that the Bank of England and the City began to
dominate and control the affairs of Britain. Their influence and wealth
grew in leaps and bounds in the century that followed. "The Illustrated
Universal History," 1878, records that "Great Britain emerged from her long
contest with France with increased power and national glory. Her Empire was
greatly expanded in all parts of the world; her supremacy on the sea was
undisputed; her wealth and commerce were increased... But with all this
national prosperity, the lower classes of the English people were sunk in
extreme wretchedness and poverty, having been bled dry during the struggle
of the previous twenty years.
It was at this juncture (1815) that the House of Rothschild seized control
of the British economy, the Bank of England and the City - and, through
their other branches, control of the other European nations.
Prior to this period Britain had developed colonies and outposts in the
far-flung reaches of the globe. Having been thrown out of the Western
Hemisphere, Britain now concentrated on acquiring and developing additional
possessions elsewhere.
During its heyday in the nineteenth century approximately 90% of all
international trade was carried in British ships. Other shippers had to pay
the Crown royalties or commissions for the 'privilege' of doing business on
the high seas. During these years 'Britannia Ruled the Waves' through the
domination of the most modern and
powerful navy known up to that time.
TWO SEPARATE EMPIRES
To avoid misunderstanding, it is important that the reader recognize the
fact that two separate empires were operating under the guise of the British
Empire. One was the Crown Empire and the other was the British Empire.
All the colonial possessions that were white were under the Sovereign - i.e.
under the authority of the British government. Such nations as the Union of
South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada were governed under British
law. These only represented thirteen percent of the people who made up the
inhabitants of the British Empire.
All the other parts of the British Empire - nations like India, Egypt,
Bermuda, Malta, Cyprus and colonies in Central Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong
and Gibraltar (those areas inhabited by the browns, yellows and blacks)
were all Crown Colonies. These were not under British rule. The British
parliament had no authority over them. They were privately owned and ruled
by a private club in London, England known as the Crown. The Crown's
representative in such areas held the absolute power of life and death over
all the people under his jurisdiction. There were no courts and no method
of appeal or retribution against a decision rendered by the representatives
of the Crown. Even a British citizen who committed a crime in a Crown
colony was subject to the Crown law. He couldn't appeal to British law as
it didn't apply.
As the Crown owned the committee known as the British government there was
no problem getting the British taxpayer to pay for naval and military forces
to maintain the Crown's supremacy in these areas. Any revolts were met with
terrible retribution by the British navy at no cost to the Crown.
The City reaped fantastic profits from its operations conducted under the
protection of the British armed forces. This wasn't British commerce and
British wealth. The international bankers, prosperous merchants and the
British aristocracy who were part of the 'City' machine accumulated vast
fortunes which they lavishly squandered in their pursuit of prestige and
standing in British Society. Had the wealth been spread out among all the
people in the British Isles prosperity would have abounded. [I am not
suggesting that this should have been done, the thefts from the exploited
should never have occurred to begin with - ralph].
In spite of the wealth of the world flowing into the City the majority of
the British people were barely making ends meet. Many were impoverished to
the point of despair. The elite lived in regal splendor. The poor British
peasants were never given a chance to get a cut of the action.
Simon Haxey in "England's Money Lords Tory M.P.," drew his readers'
attention to the "total disregard or open contempt displayed by the
aristocracy" towards the British people. He also asked, "What part do the
colonial people play in the battle for democracy when they themselves have
no democratic rights and the British governing class refuses to grant such
rights" (pp. 114,115) [we all know the difference between democracy and
republics I hope - ralph]
David Lloyd George, a future prime minister, emphasized the power of the
City and its total contempt for the "wretches" who were not part of the
'club.' In a 1910 speech he stated: "We do most of the business of the
world. We carry more international trade - probably ten times more - than
Germany. Germany carries her own trade largely. The international trade is
ours. Well, we do not do it for nothing. As a matter of fact, our shipping
brings us over a hundred millions (pounds) a year, mostly paid by that
wretched foreigner. I'm taxing the foreigner for all I know... You've heard
a good deal of talk here, probably, about the exportation of capital abroad.
There is no way in which we can make the foreigner pay more... We get the
foreigner in four ways by that. The first way we leave to Lord
Rothschild..." ("Better Times", published 1910).
About seventy years ago Vincent Cartwright Vickers stated that
"...financiers in reality took upon themselves, perhaps not the
responsibility, but certainly the power of controlling the markets of the
world and therefore the numerous relationships between one nation and
another, involving international friendship and mistrusts... Loans to
foreign countries are organized and arranged by the City of London with no
thought whatsoever of the nation's welfare but solely in order to increase
indebtedness upon which the City thrives and grows rich... This national
and mainly international dictatorship of money which plays off one country
against another and which, through ownership of a large portion of the
press, converts the advertisement of its own private opinion into a
semblance of general public opinion, cannot for much longer be permitted to
render Democratic Government a mere nickname. Today, we see through a glass
darkly; for there is so much which 'it would not be in the public interest
to divulge'..." (E.C. Knuth, "Empire of 'The City'", p. 65).
All of the above points were stressed by Roland G. Usher on pages 80, 83 and
84 of "Pan Germanism," written in 1913: "The London and Paris bankers [the
international bankers] control the available resources of the world at any
one moment, and can therefore practically permit or prevent the undertaking
of any enterprise requiring the use of more than a hundred million dollars
actual value..."
The international bankers "own probably the major part of the bonded
indebtedness of the world. Russia, Turkey, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and
South America are probably owned, so far as any nation can be owned, in
London or Paris. Payment of interest on these vast sums is secured by the
pledging of the public revenues of these countries, and, in the case of the
weaker nations, by the actual delivery of the perception into the hands of
the agents of the English and French bankers. In addition, a very large
share, if not the major part, of the stocks and industrial securities of the
world are owned by those two nations and the policies of many of the world's
enterprises dictated by their financial heads. The world itself, in fact,
pays them tribute; it actually rises in the morning to earn its living by
utilizing their capital, and occupies its days in making them still
wealthier."
In 1946 E.C. Knuth wrote: "The bulwark of the British financial oligarchy
lies in its ageless and self-perpetuating nature, its long-range planning
and prescience, its facility to outwait and break the patience of its
opponents. The transient and temporal statesmen of Europe and particularly
of Britain itself, who have attempted to curb this monstrosity, have all
been defeated by their limited tenure of confidence. Obligated to show
action and results in a too short span of years, they have been outwitted
and outwaited, deluged with irritants and difficulties; eventually obliged
to temporize and retreat. There are few who have opposed them in Britain
and America, without coming to a disgraceful end, but many, who served them
well, have also profited well" ("Empire of 'The City,'" p. 65).
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Here is the Table of Contents of this book:
1. A Voice From the Past
2. Early Americans Understood History
3. Insidious Forces At Work ?
4. Confessions of a Noted Historian
5. Rothschild Dynasty
6. The 'Crown' And 'The City'
7. Principles of Banking
8. World at War
9. Treachery at Versailles
10. Setting the Scene for World World War II
11. 'Blood, Toil, Tear and Sweat'
12. 'Urban Renewal' Japanese Style
13. World War II - A Summary
14. 'Urban Renewal' British and American Style
15. The Science of Destruction
16. The Case of the Vanishing Dollar
17. The White House and the New World Order
Index
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| Preface | xi | |
| Part 1. | The Appeal of Mass Movements | |
| I. | The Desire for Change | 3 |
| II. | The Desire for Substitutes | 12 |
| III. | The Interchangeability of Mass Movements | 16 |
| Part 2. | The Potential Converts | |
| IV. | The Role of the Undesirables in Human Affairs | 24 |
| V. | The Poor | 26 |
| The New Poor | 26 | |
| The Abjectly Poor | 27 | |
| The Free Poor | 31 | |
| The Creative Poor | 34 | |
| The Unified Poor | 34 | |
| VI. | Misfits | 46 |
| VII. | The Inordinately Selfish | 48 |
| VIII. | The Ambitious Facing Unlimited Opportunities | 49 |
| IX. | Minorities | 50 |
| X. | The Bored | 51 |
| XI. | The Sinners | 53 |
| Part 3. | United Action and Self-sacrifice | |
| XII. | Preface | 58 |
| XIII. | Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice | 62 |
| Identification with a Collective Whole | 62 | |
| Make-believe | 66 | |
| Deprecation of the Present | 68 | |
| "Things Which Are Not" | 76 | |
| Doctrine | 79 | |
| Fanaticism | 83 | |
| Mass Movements and Armies | 88 | |
| XIV. | Unifying Agents | 91 |
| Hatred | 91 | |
| Imitation | 101 | |
| Persuasion and Coercion | 105 | |
| Leadership | 111 | |
| Action | 120 | |
| Suspicion | 124 | |
| The Effects of Unification | 126 | |
| Part 4. | Beginning and End | |
| XV. | Men of Words | 130 |
| XVI. | The Fanatics | 143 |
| XVII. | The Practical Men of Action | 147 |
| XVIII. | Good and Bad Mass Movements | 153 |
| The Unattractiveness and Sterility of the Active Phase | 153 | |
| Some Factors Which Determine the Length of the Active Phase | 157 | |
| Useful Mass Movements | 162 | |
| Notes | 169 |
It is a truism that many who join a rising revolutionary movement are attracted by the prospect of sudden and spectacular change in their conditions of life. A revolutionary movement is a conspicuous instrument of change.
Not so obvious is the fact that religious and nationalist movements too can be vehicles of change. Some kind of widespread enthusiasm or excitement is apparently needed for the realization of vast and rapid change, and it does not seem to matter whether the exhilaration is derived from an expectation of untold riches or is generated by an active mass movement. In this country the spectacular changes since the Civil War were enacted in an atmosphere charged with the enthusiasm born of fabulous opportunities for self-advancement. Where self-advancement cannot, or is not allowed to, serve as a driving force, other sources of enthusiasm have to be found if momentous changes, such as the awakening and renovation of a stagnant society or radical reforms in the character and pattern of life of a community, are to be realized and perpetuated. Religious, revolutionary and nationalist movements are such generating plants of general enthusiasm.
In the past, religious movements were the conspicuous vehicles of change. The conservatism of a religion — its orthodoxy — is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. A rising religious movement is all change and experiment — open to new views and techniques from all quarters. Islam when it emergedwas an organizing and modernizing medium. Christianity was a civilizing and modernizing influence among the savage tribes of Europe. The Crusades and the Reformation both were crucial factors in shaking the Western world from the stagnation of the Middle Ages.
In modern times, the mass movements involved in the realization of vast and rapid change are revolutionary and nationalist — singly or in combination. Peter the Great was probably the equal, in dedication, power and ruthlessness, of many of the most successful revolutionary or nationalist leaders. Yet he failed in his chief purpose, which was to turn Russia into a Western nation. And the reason he failed was that he did not infuse the Russian masses with some soul-stirring enthusiasm. He either did not think it necessary or did not know how to make of his purpose a holy cause. It is not strange that the Bolshevik revolutionaries who wiped out the last of the Czars and Romanovs should have a sense of kinship with Peter — a Czar and a Romanov. For his purpose is now theirs, and they hope to succeed where he failed. The Bolshevik revolution may figure in history as much an attempt to modernize a sixth of the world's surface as an attempt to build a Communist economy.
The fact that both the French and the Russian revolutions turned into nationalist movements seems to indicate that in modern times nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated. One wonders whether the difficulties encountered by the present Labor government in Britain are not partly due to the fact that the attempt to change the economy of the country and the way of life of 49,000,000 people has been initiated in an atmosphere singularly free from fervor, exaltation and wild hope. The revulsion from the ugly patterns developed by most contemporary mass movements has kept the civilized and decent leaders of the Labor party shy of revolutionary enthusiasm. The possibility still remains that events might force them to make use of some mild form of chauvinism so that in Britain too "the socialization of the nation [might have] as its natural corollary the nationalization of socialism."
The phenomenal modernization of Japan would probably not have been possible without the revivalist spirit of Japanese nationalism. It is perhaps also true that the rapid modernization of some European countries (Germany in particular) was facilitated to some extent by the upsurge and thorough diffusion of nationalist fervor. Judged by present indications, the renascence of Asia will be brought about through the instrumentality of nationalist movements rather than by other mediums. It was the rise of a genuine nationalist movement which enabled Kemal Atatürk to modernize Turkey almost overnight. In Egypt, untouched by a mass movement, modernization is slow and faltering, though its rulers, from the day of Mehmed Ali, have welcomed Western ideas, and its contacts with the West have been many and intimate. Zionism is an instrument for the renovation of a backward country and the transformation of shopkeepers and brain workers into farmers, laborers and soldiers. Had Chiang Kai-shek known how to set in motion a genuine mass movement, or at least sustain the nationalist enthusiasm kindled by the Japanese invasion, he might have been acting now as the renovator of China. Since he did not know how, he was easily shoved aside by the masters of the art of "religiofication" — the art of turning practical purposes into holy causes. It is not difficult to see why America and Britain (or any Western democracy) could not play a direct and leading role in rousing the Asiatic countries from their backwardness and stagnation: the democracies are neither inclined nor perhaps able to kindle a revivalist spirit in Asia's millions. The contribution of the Western democracies to the awakening of the East has been indirect and certainly unintended. They have kindled an enthusiasm of resentment against the West; and it is this anti-Western fervor which is at present rousing the Orient from its stagnation of centuries.
Though the desire for change is not infrequently a superficial motive, it is yet worth finding out whether a probing of this desire might not shed some light on the inner working of mass movements. We shall inquire therefore into the nature of the desire for change.
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Simple: Restore
Human Robots to being Human Beings via use of Real Robots now available
Challenge:
email any objection you
have to sysop@TeamInfinity.com
so it can be dispelled post haste.
You really must get on board and quick, your life
depends on it, literally, tick tock...
Be a part of the future now, or vanish into history, it is
your choice valuable blessed friend.
If Communism is merely Capitalism perfected, which it clearly
is in the minds
of the Capitalists who in fact created Communism, where EVERYTHING & EVERYONE
becomes "plant
& equipment" owned by a small group of Ultra Capitalists:
what does that say about Capitalism, Socialism & Communism
?
Not much... These 3 faces of Capitalism share a common
track record littered with destruction...
and Now for something
completely different...
See,
be,
say:
the
better
way:
ROBOTISM© Will Succeed for PRECISELY the Reasons Communism
Failed...
...People
Intelligently
CHOSE to NOT Work as
Human-Robots
under Communism,
real ROBOTS will have no such choice under
ROBOTISM©
Capitalism
= Socialism
= Communism,
always fail without lies
and deception,
because the TRUTH
is, no one wants to do the work each system requires,
repeat...
Therefore, the current systems, all just different forms of
Capitalism as demonstrated above,
ALL clearly incentivize anti-social, hypocritical
& criminal behavior by implicitly punishing innocent
behaviors.
Only The
RWE© can
incentivize
innocent
behaviors,
because
no one in
their right mind would risk their ability to bask in its
splendor, freely available to all: via systemically
eliminating the perceived need to engage in risk for
advantage, advantage that is available without risk to anyone
in a virtual sense,
without harming anyone else in reality, i.e. if your ego
requires it, that illusion will be granted to the illusion you
have of yourself, you can experience
that experience until your need to feel superior without being
superior becomes apparent to you too. In other words,
feeling and being superior are
not the same thing, yet many fool themselves into believing
they are superior to others by harming others to the point of
actually becoming superior in a physical
sense, this is not fair, and now we have a way of dealing with
it, without harming anyone, even those with such dangerous
illusions of grandeur.
In fact ALL criminal
behavior today and in the past can be thought of as premature
selfish attempts to create & horde
precisely the circumstances we will ALL be blessed to be living in once The
RWE© arrives
in
all
its
resplendent
glory: said
behaviors were indeed counter-productive in getting us there
sooner, despite being the "right" idea, i.e. the goal was
laudable, only
if shared with all, otherwise the methods were, well you know
enough history to know what keeps happening over and over
again.
Especially today, when we are so close, we must all insist on
fairness & mercy in all matters
without exception, including, of utmost importance, honest pay
with real money, i.e. inherently
valuable money, which is essentially barter, until The
RWE© is
completed, making money irrelevant.
Ironically, real money is only necessary to create The
RWE©,
for once it is built, the make-believe money we use today is
fine,
but not before then, or The
RWE©
may never arrive for all, only those who have already achieved
one using real people as their robots.
It is obvious that many feel we do not need The
RWE©
but
that
is
only
because
they either already
have one based on human robots, or
are one of the human robots
and do not understand
they are
one
.
Leopards break into the Temple and Drink the Sacrificial Chalices dry...
This occurs repeatedly, again and again...
Finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony...
KAFKA the Magnificent
BOTH "Faith" and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect.
Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, while "Faith" obtains its more or less voluntary surrender.
In both cases the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is -automatism.
BOTH "Faith" and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be
manipulted at will.
Eric Hoffer

Obviously we do not want to
get quite that close to punching all the way through the
earth's crust, there is no need to.