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Thomas Fleming on Mises and Christianity

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Note (added):

Fleming is a member of what’s been called the neo-Confederate movement. While admiring many things about the  old South, I am not.  My interest is mostly in figuring out the agendas at work in various strands of political activism.  I’m also happy to have company in thinking that a lot of modernist thinking is really on shaky grounds..

And yes, that includes revered figures of vast scholarly accomplishment, like Mises and  Rothbard. Rand at least managed to write novels that still get read on their own merits, whatever her failings as a philosopher.

ORIGINAL POST

Thomas Fleming at Chronicles is a writer I’m delighted to have discovered. It seems  I really have some solid ground to find LRC libertarianism substantially at odds with Christianity.

I found this response in the comments section especially enlightening.  Fleming says his friends at Mises, including the very sharp David Gordon, have plenty of private misgivings over Mises on philosophical issues.

“I should say that I am sorry if I seem rather curt in my short responses, but I hate using my Iphone, as useful as it is, which leads to a brevity this at can sound acerbic. I have absolutely no desire to debate Mises or Rand or Walter Block. Let their followers discuss their supposed virtues. My critique is designed to show the fundamental principles and therefore failings of the liberal tradition, from its godfather Montaigne to its ugly stepchildren the libertarians.

I am not going to go into what various Misesian friends of mine have conceded about Mises privately, (Lila: David Gordon, writes Fleming elsewhere).

because I have already done enough harm by even hinting at it. Let us just be content with the statement that Mises was not a philosopher but someone who took over a body of liberal thought uncritically and turned it into a more extreme direction. He may be the greatest economist who ever lived but his philosophy is little better than a reductio ad absurdum of Mill et al. It is like the Straussians who write books on ancient literature and philosophy–not worth the time it takes to discuss.

Ordinary people should not be discussing the problems in Scripture but accepting the tradition through which we read the Scriptures. We have the central teachings of Christ as a means of interpreting the OT Scriptures and we have the epistles to clarify those teachings and the early apostolic fathers who show how they were received and taught authoritatively. This leaves a rather small area for controversy. Marx, Hegel, Locke, Mises, et al are entirely irrelevant to any serious discussion of Christian thought. One has to choose. Either follow Locke, Mises, and/or Marx or Christ, Paul, and the Fathers.

– See more at: http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2010/02/22/abuse-your-illusions/#sthash.zTqnmDlT.dpuf

Feser: Don’t concretize the abstract

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Ed Feser, summing up what is somewhat the premise of this blog:

” The irony is that while New Atheists and others beholden to scientism pride themselves on being “reality based,” that is precisely what they are not. Actual, concrete reality is extremely complicated. There is far more to material systems than what can be captured in the equations of physics, far more to human beings than can be captured in the categories of neuroscience or economics, and far more to religion than can be captured in the ludicrous straw men peddled by New Atheists. All of these simplifying abstractions (except the last) have their value, but when we treat them as anything more than simplifying abstractions we have left the realm of science and entered that of ideology. The varieties of reductionism, eliminativism, and the “hermeneutics of suspicion” are manifestations of this tendency to replace real things with abstractions. They are all attempts to “conquer the abundance” of reality (as Paul Feyerabend might have put it), to force the world in all its concrete richness into a straightjacket.”

Metrosexual messiah for the middle-class mob

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Chuckle.  A bit mean, but PiedCow blog has the best recent comments on the passing strange tale of Edward the Confessor:

High ArkaJune 16, 2013 at 4:24 AM

The hipster goatee thing Snowden has going on immediately makes his story 54% suspicious. That and the glasses pushes it over 61%.

If you were on a psychological operations planning committee, and you wanted to release a mole to make the voting public feel that liberal dissent was strong in this country, who would you choose? A white guy, of course. Hipster goatee and glasses with a sort of IT professional look–the guy you trust to fix your computer. Not in the military, because so many liberal people feel uncomfortable about military guys. But, has to have a “security” job so that he’s a confirmed insider.
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William DueckJune 21, 2013 at 3:23 PM

Also, he made nice pay (therefore he qualifies as One Of Us) and worked in exotic locales (therefore “progressive”).

I am sorta surprised they could not find a black Jewish woman to tick a few more Stuff White People Like boxes. Wasn’t Whoopi Goldberg available?
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William DueckJune 21, 2013 at 3:18 PM

It’s funny that in 2006 when Mark Klein revealed what he learned about NSA and AT&T / Verizon colluding to have warrantless NSA eavesdropping on telecommunication, Glenn Greenwald didn’t care and didn’t pay any attention to it. After all, Greenwald is an expert on civil liberties and constitutional issues, while Klein was just an expert on telecommunication network security who physically witnessed the hardware and software that enabled the NSA eavesdropping. So of course Greenwald’s paying it no mind was “the truth,” and Klein’s revelations just more conspiracy insanity.

Fast forward 7 years and a handsome metro-sexual boy named Edward Snowden approaches Greenwald with the very same news Klein shared in 2006, and Greenwald’s BS Detector (TM) didn’t sound a single alarm. Instead Greenwald dutifully reported Snowden’s story as “breaking news” (despite 7 years of age) and hurriedly wrote numerous essays and countless tweets about the heroism of that lad… (Lila: I deleted an irrelevant personal attack)

Every essay Greenwald writes confirms he’s not an expert on civil liberties or constitutional law, yet his fame grows each year and the myth of him being the Real Expert is almost bulletproof now.

It’s not like Snowden didn’t know working as an NSA contractor through BAH employment would entail eavedropping on average Joes and Janes. He’d have learned that in his job interview. So the question becomes, why did Snowden accept the job and conduct himself in that role for several years until only just recently?

Greenwald doesn’t want to know

God-father of Rothbardian libertarians was CIA source?

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Update 2:

I found this in Calvin Kephart’s writings about his ancestor Weisel (Calvin was Robert Kephardt’s father):

“Thus, the armorial insignia of the barons in the First Crusade are the very oldest in Europe, older than those of any royal family unless a king later descended from one of these barons. They were self-designed and self-adopted and were not granted by any prince. Many had the cross in the design because of the religious aspect of this adventure; others did not. All were simple in style.

We have not yet learned whether our Weisel ancestor was among the knights in the First Crusade. If so, then this coat-of-arms dates from that time. If not, then it was designed and adopted only a generation or two later (probably by 1150), when thousands of other noble families were finding it desirable to do so, for uses in both peace and war. With this historic setting, it is a noble heritage, distinct from all others, and is the emblem of the Weisel clan in the same way that Old Glory is the emblem of the American people as a nation. Its use today is mainly sentimental, chiefly for ornamental purposes, but because of its great age and its meaning it should be prized and be preserved among our other family traditions. ”

C. I. K.

Update 2

Several people named on the list have criticized John Young for publishing the Crowley files, claiming that since the names are often the same as those listed at the professional organization for former intelligence officers (AFIO) their publication must constitute a violation of copyright, as well as an invasion of privacy.

John Young, to his credit, has not given in to the criticism and has continued to run the files at his site.

However, Daniel Brandt, creator of the news archive, NameBase.org, says the names listed at Cryptome include many people who were not sources but simply aficionados of intelligence.  However, even on his terms (see below), Kephart’s name does seem to merit its entry.

UPDATE:

For evidence that the Robert D. Kephart listed at Cryptome.org is the same Robert D. Kephart who  was the editor of Human Events and the godfather of the organizational end of Rothbardian libertarianism, I offer the following:

1.http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/robert-d-kephart/30649469

“Robert D Kephart 1922 – 2004 was a member of the Kephart family. Robert was born on March 31, 1922. Robert died on October 14, 2004 at 82 years old. Robert D. Kephart’s last known residence is at Faber, Nelson County, VA 22938.”

Cryptome lists Kephart’s address as a PO Box in Faber, Va.

http://www.crow96.20m.com/

2. The obituaries published by Liberty magazine and  Human Events give the same death date for Robert D. Kephart.

3. Friends refer to Robert D. Kephart’s helmsmanship and days in the US navy.

4. The Crowley files themselves mention a Robert Kephart of Human Events and a US Navy Commander Kephart whom they list together. I understood this to be an aggregation of all references to the same person in the files.

5. Evaluation of the Crowley list by Daniel Brandt. Brandt says that the list cannot be considered in any way an accurate list of CIA sources and includes a number of people who were merely interested in intelligence issues or approved of the use of intelligence by the US.

He matched the names against the AFIO (Association of Former Intelligence Officers) directory and listed the ones that did NOT show up. Kephart’s name is not on his list. It follows that Kephart’s name is on the AFIO list, which has gone back behind a password.

http://cryptome.org/cia-namebase.htm

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If I am in anyway in error in identifying Robert D. Kephart of Human Events as a CIA source, I welcome you to send this blog contradictory information.  You can do so anonymously, with a request not to publish the post, which I will honor.

I do not respond to private emails.

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I’ll begin with something related.

There was a revelatory post at Lew Rockwell about how Russell Kirk, the godfather of the American conservative movement, was on the payroll of the CIA for a short while.

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“You know, Russell Kirk, his writings both before and after he went on the Buckley payroll are quite wonderful on foreign policy.  During the period he was on the payroll, unfortunately, they were just like everybody else.”

This fascinating assertion wasn’t documented in any way, although I think on its face it’s quite credible. The unpalatable fact is that almost all prominent figures in the media or academics then and even now are co-opted in some fashion by the intelligence agencies.

Some wittingly, some unwittingly.

Anyway, in looking for further evidence for the Kirk-was-CIA story, I ran into passages from Murray Rothbard’s “Betrayal of the American Right” on the history of the subversion of the old right:

“In the light of hindsight, we should now ask whether or not a major objective of National Review from its inception was to transform the right wing from an isolationist to global warmongering anti-Communist movement; and, particularly, whether or not the entire effort was in essence a CIA operation. We now know that Bill Buckley, for the two years prior to establishing National Review, was admittedly a CIA agent in Mexico City, and that the sinister E. Howard Hunt was his control. His sister Priscilla, who became managing editor of National Review, was also in the CIA; and other editors James Burnham and Willmoore Kendall had at least been recipients of CIA largesse in the anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom. In addition, Burnham has been identified by two reliable sources as a consultant for the CIA in the years after World War II.[10] Moreover, Garry Wills relates in his memoirs of the conservative movement that Frank Meyer, to whom he was close at the time, was convinced that the magazine was a CIA operation. With his Leninist-trained nose for intrigue, Meyer must be considered an important witness.

Furthermore, it was a standard practice in the CIA, at least in those early years, that no one ever resigned from the CIA. A friend of mine who joined the agency in the early 1950s told me that if, before the age of retirement, he was mentioned as having left the CIA for another job, that I was to disregard it, since it would only be a cover for continuing agency work. On that testimony, the case for NR being a CIA operation becomes even stronger. Also suggestive is the fact that a character even more sinister than E. Howard Hunt, William J. Casey, appears at key moments of the establishment of the New over the Old Right. It was Casey who, as attorney, presided over the incorporation of National Review and had arranged the details of the ouster of Felix Morley from Human Events.”

At least here, Rothbard doesn’t mention Kirk.

Nonetheless, confirmed or merely a suspicion, the story only adds more fuel to the widespread belief that most of the American media is infiltrated by intelligence.

I’ve suspected that and blogged as much, as you can see from this post which compiles a few of the relevant links.

What Rothbard and Rockwell don’t mention though is that it was not just the conservative movement.

There’s a good deal of evidence that the CIA is also behind a large part of the libertarian movement. I’ve blogged about that several times.

What I haven’t blogged until now is that one of the godfathers of American libertarianism is listed as a CIA source or informant.

That is Robert D.  Kephart, who died in 2004. He was the publisher of the conservative magazine, Human Events from 1968-1975.

He later became a very influential libertarian. Perhaps one of the most, from the point of view of organizing the movement.

You can find Kephart’s name listed at Cryptome.org in the Crowley files, as one of scores of CIA sources (a source is not an agent but a figure who keeps the intelligence services posted on what’s going on and how to keep it in line with the agenda of the Agency).

More here on Kephart and his ties to the whole Agora Inc. – Lew Rockwell- Mises Institute world of Rothbardians.:

“He [Kephart] was a publisher of Human Events and an early supporter of Laissez Faire Books, the world’s largest publisher of books on libertarian topics. He founded Libertarian Review magazine and Books for Libertarians in the 1970s, influencing thousands of young people who became advocates of a free society. He was dedicated to the cause of liberty.”

Laissex-faire books is now owned by Agora Inc.  and it employs former Mises scholar Jeffrey Tucker and Independent Institute scholar Wendy McElroy, both also Rothbardians from a long while back.

Kephart’s father Calvin Ira Kephart was a Southern historian, reportedly of a racist bent.

Calvin Kephart is described as a fierce opponent of the civil rights movement, an opponent of racial integration, a believer in the superiority and inferiority of races and a deep believer in eugenics.

He spent a lot of time tracing his aristocratic lineage.

Son Bob, a US naval commander, was a close friend of Rothbard himself, as well as of Lew Rockwell and of leading figures in the libertarian and hard money community,  and  John Pugsley of Agora Inc’s, Sovereign Society.

Bill Bonner, owner of Agora Inc. was a close friend of Kephart and called him the father of the newsletter business.

More specifically, this is how Kephart ties in to the libertarian movement:

First, Kephart was influential in the survivalist community,  a fringe but important part of modern American anti-state thinking.

Survivalists have had their share of intelligence infiltration. A prominent survivalist, Joel Skousen, is the older brother of Mark Skousen, who is closely associated with Agora Inc. and was himself once on the CIA payroll.

Joel Skousen was formerly in the US air-force and has been an editor of various Conservative magazines. One can only speculate how free of Agency influence he could be, especially since the Skousens are  nephews of Cleon Skousen, a conservative commentator and a racist/racialist historian who was for several years a  senior FBI agent.

Interestingly, Joel Skousen was originally a Romney supporter but later switched his support to Ron Paul.

Second. Another nexus of the libertarian movement with intelligence is through Ron Paul, also a Kephart associate.

Paul has a long-standing association with Agora Inc., which published and promoted his newsletters for decades. This, rather than the over-blown “racist” news-letter business is the real untold story, since Agora Inc. has multiple ties to intelligence and intelligence-related stock operations.

Third. Kephart was also the editor of The Libertarian Review and played a prominent role in the development of American libertarianism as a movement, though he kept in the background (maybe because of his role as an informant).

A short list of the outfits to which he “provided guidance” (as a CIA informant) include:

“For many years he has generously provided guidance and funding for a long list of organizations, including Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Forfeiture Endangers American Rights, Human Rights Watch, Institute for Justice, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Post-Conviction Relief, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He has also been a benefactor to organizations working for economic liberty and general restrictions on government power. These include the Foundation for Economic Education, Cato Institute, Future of Freedom Foundation, R.A. Childs Fund for Independent Scholars, and Separation of School and State Alliance.”

Many of these outfits have played a large role in promoting both Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, to the consternation of independent bloggers and activists, who have long since concluded that the two are intelligence-related operatives.

Let’s just say the CIA continues to “give guidance.”

A fourth point tying Kephart to the New World Order, with its British Israelite and masonic underpinnings, is his father.

(Correction: While he did write a history of masonry, he seems to have repudiated British Israelism. He was also an isolationist on WW2, from what I’ve read. It’s also fair to note that eugenics was advocated by many intellectuals, right and left, from Yeats to the Fabians. And, finally, Kephart’s racial notions cannot, of course, be judged by the standards of today. They were widely held).

Calvin Ira Kephart, was, as I said earlier in this blog post, a scientific racist, a Southern historian and anthropologist of race who was a passionate advocate of eugenics to create a master race and  euthanasia for the mentally handicapped or otherwise “defective.”

He opposed the civil rights movement and wanted blacks shipped backed to Africa. He was also, fascinatingly,  a masonic historian.

That’s the toxic environment from which the god-father of the libertarian movement developed:

“By 1932 Kephart had begun this research, which culminated in his lengthy book,Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration , published in 1960 by the Philosophical Library in New York.In this work Kephart claimed to have written the definitive “ethnographic” book on the development of “advanced and retarded races.” The collection also includes advertisements for this book as well as his Concise History of Freemasonry (1964); his short pamphlets TrueChristianity andOrigin of the Name “Russia”; an article in support of eugenics, entitled “World Population Explosion”; a few reviews of his books and articles; and nine letters to the editor from 1961 to 1968, seven published in the Evening Capital of Annapolis Maryland. In most of these letters and other writings Kephart expressed his extreme right-wing views—his fierce opposition to racial integration and the civil rights movement; support for the repatriation of African-Americans to Africa; and advocacy of the forced sterilization of the insane, the mentally retarded, prisoners, prostitutes, and women who had one or more illegitimate children.”

This doesn’t mean, of course, that Bob Kephart himself believed any of his father’s theories.

But it should make anyone who finds some echoes of this kind of thing in Rothbard’s writing or his promotion of the theories of Charles Murray look very closely at the assumptions and consequences of this “anarchist” way of thinking.

To what does it really tend?

What might be the underlying agenda of anti-state capitalism which has the benediction of a CIA informant?

What might it mean that that informant was the son of a genuine scientific racist and eugenicist, not just someone exercising his first amendment right to mouth rude epithets on the fringes, but someone whose thinking was no different from that of any Nazi theorist.

Final point.

Bob Kephart also came together in the 1970s with Murray Rothbard and two individuals who have been separately linked to intelligence themselves:

1. Noam Chomsky (alleged by John Coleman and other journalists to be deep-cover CIA)

2. James Dale Davidson,  founder of Agora Inc., and founder of the anti-tax National Tax-payer’s Union,  who is alleged to have been involved in intelligence-related stock-pumping, from several accounts.

He is linked to Rothschild journalist Rees-Mogg, also of Agora Inc.

Robert Higgs: Love your neighbor, don’t use the courts or dollars

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Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute has a great, great piece on how, like Jesus, society should give up its allegiance to violence:

“Love turns us in the opposite direction. It seeks to build up, whereas the state seeks to overawe and kill in the service of the self-interested elites who control it at the expense of the people at large. Love has no need to flex violent muscles or seek vengeance time and again. Love intends the good of the other for its own sake, not as a means toward the end of one’s own aggrandizement. Love is patient and long-suffering; power is impatient and easily provoked.

Love does not keep score; international rivals do so in numerous dimensions. Love leads to inner peace and cordial relations with others, whereas the state remains always at war, if not against other states, then certainly against its own subjects, on whom it preys ceaselessly in order to sustain itself and to gratify the rulers’ insatiable ambitions for personal acclaim and unchecked power.”

Obviously,  this rules out the court system (upheld by violence); as well as the current dollar regime (enforced by violence); the sub-national state and municipalities (upheld by violence); private security forces (upheld by violence); as well as corporations (created by laws upheld by violence)….

Of course, to be a bit more searching, Jesus himself never told the Roman Centurion to leave his position in the Roman army, nor did he tell Peter to get rid of his sword altogether.

And  he struck a fig tree sterile when it didn’t yield figs for him to eat.

Of course,  Jesus himself said that the next time he came, it would be with a sword.

Still, I’m all agog.

When is The Independent Institute going to get rid of copyright and put my name on its books (or at least, not take me to the courts should I do some such thing)?

When is it going to stop using blood-drenched dollars?

(Just to be clear, I’m in favor of copyright laws and I hold dollars, not from love but necessity).

When is the Independent Institute  going to run a piece calling out Edward Snowden as a CIA psyop?

Except for Ivan Eland (props to him), Independent Institute scholars were out promoting Assange, an obvious New World Order mouthpiece.

So, is the national (American Christo-Zionist) police-state evil, but the international (pagan-anti-Zionist) police -state just fine?

Is a War on Terror re-branded  as “defense of private property” a different game?

Is violence the only thing Jesus was against, or was this teaching part of a complete morality that proscribed lying (including false advertising), stealing (including market fraud), greed, covetousness, murder (even of statists), bribery (even of public officials), licentiousness (even masked as women’s reproductive rights), blackmail, condemnation of others (even of evil statists), blasphemy, and many other things not mentioned  (or heartily approved of) by some Rothbardian libertarians?

(Not all).

Did Jesus preach only mercy and not also justice?

That would set him in opposition to the Jewish law.

But he said he came to fulfill Jewish law.

To put it another way, does Jesus hate lies and the father of lies, but make an exception for  CIA psyops?

Just asking…

NWO Psyop? Reserve Bank Governor affirms Indian citizenship

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On looking through the website from which I got the information about the new RBI governor,  I began to have a few second thoughts. Although, it appears to be an anti-NWO website, some of  the information on it (besides the story about Rajan)  seems baseless or exaggerated.

I don’t know enough to say, but caveat lector.

ORIGINAL POST

I posted earlier that the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, has been described by the English language media itself as an Indian and US national, and asked how that could be, as India doesn’t allow dual citizenship.

On October 29 Rajan came out clearly with a statement that he was and is an Indian citizen and only holds a US Green Card (work and permanent residence permit).

That was in The Hindu, which I’ve said before, has been very left-leaning and sympathetic to globalism, both under the chief editorship of N. Ram and under ex-editor,  Siddharth Varadarajan, brother of Tunku Varadarajan, contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal and vocal neocon.

Now, notice the comments under The Hindu piece, attacking those media outlets that raised the question of Rajan’s nationality.

The idea is that any criticism of Rajan must come from the BJP and anti-foreign xenophobes. They are dismissed as paranoid because they jumped to the conclusion that Rajan was a US citizen when he clearly wasn’t.

The implication is that everything else the BJP claims – including conspiracies about the globalists –  must be nonsense too.

Well, BJP or not,  Rajan’s citizenship is a very legitimate issue to raise, especially, as it was the Rothschild media that put out that information in the first place.

Let me show you.

Go back to my earlier blog post.

The piece I posted before linked to an anti-NWO blog,  GreatGameIndia.wordpress.com. The graphic accompanying the post clearly described Rajan as an Indian and an American national.

That makes it a legitimate question for people to raise.

Take a look at the graphic here:

http://greatgameindia.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/raghuram-rajan-new-world-order.jpg

It was taken from The New Indian Express:

http://newindianexpress.com/business/news/Rajan-says-RBI-governorship-not-meant-to-win-Facebook-likes/2013/09/05/article1769127.ece

Since the globalists (British imperialists) like to leave their signature on their capers, they also had Rajan quoting Kipling (the premier poet of the British Empire):

“But I hope to do the right thing, no matter what the criticism, even while looking to learn from the criticism,” Rajan said.

“Rudyard Kipling put it better when he mused about the requirements of an ideal central banker in his poem ‘If’: If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: Kipling’s reference to “men” only dates these lines, but his words are clear.”

Check out the picture in the New Indian Express, which is the one carried at GreatGameIndia.

It clearly carries a description of Rajan as an American national. It also carries the logo PTI on the side of the picture.

That’s the Press Trust of India.

Now, what is the Press Trust of India?

It’s board of directors is comprised of editors of some of the leading publications in India, including The Hindu.

Here is a list of everyone on the Board, taken from the PTI’s own website (my descriptions are colored and in caps):

Mr K N Shanth Kumar     Chairman (The Printers,Mysore)

PUBLISHER OF THE DECCAN HERALD,  SOUTH INDIA, ENGLISH

Mr Mahendra Mohan Gupta    Vice Chairman (The Jagran)

DELHI  E-PAPER – HINDI

Mr R Lakshmipathy     Dinamalar

TAMIL NADU, SOUTH INDIA,  TAMIL

Mr Vineet Jain    Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd

INDIA’S LARGEST PRESS CONGLOMERATE, OWNS THE TIMES GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES THE FLAGSHIP, “TIMES OF INDIA” PAPER; FORMERLY, FOREIGN-OWNED

(ENGLISH)

Mr M P Veerendra Kumar    Mathrubhumi

KERALA,  SOUTH INDIA  – MALAYALAM

Mr Sanjoy Narayan    Hindustan Times

NATIONAL PAPER – ENGLISH

Mr N Ravi    The Hindu

NATIONAL, TAMIL NADU, SOUTH INDIA, ENGLISH

Mr Riyad Mathew    Malayala Manorama

KERALA – SOUTH INDIA –  MALAYALAM

Mr Aveek Kumar Sarkar    Ananda Bazar Patrika

NATIONAL – HINDI

Mr Shekhar Gupta    Indian Express

NATIONAL, SOUTH INDIA – ENGLISH

Mr Hormusji N Cama    Bombay Samachar

BOMBAY –  PARSI (PARSIS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN AFFILIATED WITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE ROTHSCHILDS)

Mr Vijay Kumar Chopra    Hind Samachar

NORTH INDIA – HINDI

Mr S P Bharucha    Former Chief Justice of India

Mr Fali S Nariman    Legal Luminary

Prof E V Chitnis    Scientist

So,  The Hindu’s editor and a dozen other leading press men are on the board of directors of the very outfit that put out the information that Rajan was an American national (which means citizen).

And what is the rest of the board like?

Out of 12 newspapers or media outfits represented there, fully SIX are based in South India, and all six belong to just two states in the South (Kerala and Tamil Nadu).

Both states are closely tied to the West

1. Through ideology – communist Kerala and corporatist Tamil Nadu

2. Through history – British intervention in South Indian secessionist movements

3. Through the English language – more prevalent in the South than in the North

4. Through finance –  especially in Chennai and Bangalore, the site of massive Western investment

5. Through religion – the church and church related organizations are both wealthy and powerful in Kerala and in Tamil Nadu.

Six newspapers from two states, while the rest of India’s 28 states are represented by one Delhi urban  paper and one Bombay paper run by a Parsi (Parsis as a community have historically been affiliated with the British empire); one international outfit (Bennett Coleman); and just TWO Hindi papers.

The weighting toward Tamil Nadu, the home of the globalist-funded Afro-Dravidian secessionist movement, is striking, and it bolsters Rajiva Malhotra’s thesis in “Breaking India.”

After the issue was raised by politicians, Rajan gave an interview in The Hindu (owned by the same N. Ram on the PTI’s board) affirming that he wasn’t an American citizen.

Comments from readers at The Hindu (and you know how they can be manipulated) claim it’s the paranoia, incompetence, and bigotry of the right-wing BJP that’s behind the whole issue.

So how could the  Press Trust of India be associated with any kind of globalist agenda?

Isn’t it just a national outfit?

Back to Wikipedia:

“It [PTI] exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such as Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times and Bloomberg L.P.. Major Indian subscribers of PTI include The Hindu, Times of India, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, the All India Radio and Doordarshan. PTI has offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dubai, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, New York and Washington D.C..[3]

In other words, PTI has a  thoroughly global network, with a distinctly international point of view, at the very least. At worst, it’s a regional mouthpiece for the “international community.”

Whichever the case,  PTI is hardly a disinterested vendor of “news.” After all, what is deemed to be news is, in the first place, a very value-laden and political choice.

More from Wikipedia:

“PTI correspondents are also based in leading capitals and important business and administrative centres around the world. It also has exchange arrangements with several foreign news agencies to magnify its global news footprint.”

In other words, PTI is in business with foreign news agencies, which are, as anti-NWO activists have shown, owned by a small group of Anglo-Zionist business interests, just six companies, in fact.

These are the six, with their most notable properties:

1. General Electric  or GE (owns Universal Pictures, Focus Features)

2. Viacom (owns MTV, NICK JR, BET, CMT, Paramount Pictures)

Majority owner – Sumner Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein)

Wikipedia:

“Viacom is one of the companies that uses the services of Wiki-PR, a public relations firm specialized in editing of Wikipedia that is accused of subverting Wikipedia content for business interest.[27]”

3. Disney (owns ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Miramax, Marvel Studios)

Disney is publicly owned and its CEO was until recently Michael Eisner.

4. Time Warner (owns HBO, Time, Warner Bros, CNN)

Owned by Edgar Bronfman, who until recently (2011) was the CEO.

5. Columbia Broadcast Corporation or CBS (owns Jeopardy, Sixty Minutes, NFL.com (National Football League), Smithsonian Channel, Showtime, Simon & Schuster)

Majority owner – Sumner Rothstein

6. News Corp (owns Fox, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Dow Jones & Co., HarperCollins)

Created and owned by Rupert Murdoch, in 2012 turned into publicly traded companies, with Murdoch as CEO and with controlling shares.

News Corp owns the top newspapers on three continents (including but not limited to The Wall Street Journal in the US, The Sun in the UK, and The Australian, in Oz.

The 232 executives at these companies control the views of about 277 million people in the US alone, not to mention their enormous influence over the world.

In addition, there are powerful single individuals like Samuel Newhouse, who owns 2 dozen daily newspapers, the publishing companies like Random House, Knopf, Crown, Ballantine, and the Conde Nast group of magazines (including Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker)

The de facto ownership of almost all of these media conglomerates is, at the risk of coming across as anti-Semitic, Jewish and Zionist.

Murdoch, as is well-known, rose to his position with help from the Rothschilds.

[Bronfman has Rothschild ties

The Bronfman family is very active in Zionist causes:

“”The Bronfmans still move in an elegant world where the fabulously rich mingle with the powerful and famous. Edgar Jr.’s aunt Minda married a French banker with Rothschild ties and became a baroness. His father belongs to that small circle of New Yorkers who can get Presidents to answer their telephone calls. Edgar Jr.’s friends include the director Steven Spielberg and Senator Thomas Daschle.

One of the reasons the Bronfman dynasty has retained a glittering aura is that family members, though rich, have never been content to sit on their wealth and watch the world from afar. Edgar Sr. became president of the World Jewish Congress and exposed former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi past. His brother, Charles, is one of the founders of Birthright Israel, which pays for young Jewish people to visit the country. Now, however, the family may have to scale back its philanthropic endeavors because of what happened to Vivendi. “It hasn’t [affected my charitable giving] yet,” says Edgar Sr. darkly, “but it will.”

Every one of these media conglomerates is thus ultimately associated with the Rothschild (imperial British) entity.

Do you suppose PTI, alone among major international media,  defies the diktat of the press barons of the world? I don’t think so.

Not only that, PTI has its own satellite network according to Wikipedia:

“Press Trust of India is the only news agency in South Asia which operates its own communication satellite , an INSAT , to broadcast news and information.”

So PTI is not just a national outfit. It is a powerful international news outfit, the post-Independence heir to the Rothschild media in India. It has a bevy of Indian editors on board, with a heavy concentration from South India (the locus of foreign investment, as well as of foreign intervention), with strong business ties with the international (that is, Rothschild) press; it has its own satellite network.

Any chance PTI is NOT a globalist mouthpiece?

I’d say none whatsoever.

Now, who is the chairman of PTI?

Wikipedia again:

I”ts current chairman is R Lakshmipathy.“

An Economic Times piece describes R. Lakshmipathy, as the publisher of the Tamil daily, Dinamalar, and twice earlier the chairman of PTI.

The chairman before him was M. P. Veerendrakumar, also from a southern state, this time,  Kerala (Matrubhoomi newspaper).

There’s yet another South Indian connection.

All these Tamil papers are strongly supportive of Tamil secession.

Vice chairman Shankthakumar also represents the south, in his case, the Deccan Herald and some Kannada papers.

So PTI is tremendously slanted toward the south and to corporate investment (Chennai and Bangalore).

Tamil Nadu, as I’ve said repeatedly, is the locus for the globalist intervention intended to fracture India. Whatever one thinks of secession, it must be voluntary, not covertly manufactured by people with their own agenda.

Otherwise, its proper name is manipulation and aggression.

Given all this, is the Rajan story just an innocent blunder by the media?

No. To me it looks like a Rothschild psyop intended to discredit any criticism of Rajan as Hindu fundamentalist obfuscation.

The story looks just like the Obama birth certificate story, where the object of the media psyop was to discredit anyone who “fell” for the word of a  racist sheriff, deliberately inserted into public debate by the major media.

[Another example of this kind of media psyop was the Trayvon Martin business, where dozens of libertarian and conservative sites rose to the bait and looked like racists as a result. Of course, a few of them really are, but that’s another story.]

Edward Feser: How democracy gives rise to bull-shit

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Edward Feser on why democracies gives rise to a higher proportion of bull-shit:

“…. as any reader of Plato’s critique of democracy in The Republic knows, the democratic ethos — with its pretence that all the views and ways of life prevalent in a pluralistic society be regarded as worthy of equal respect — inevitably tends toward bullshit.  A politician who spoke with complete frankness — who said exactly what he thought about those views and ways of life among his fellow citizens that he didn’t share, which is bound to be most of them — would never get elected, and would no doubt tick off most of those people who claim they want politicians to speak frankly. Frankfurt calls attention himself to one way in which democracy breeds bullshit:

“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic are more excessive than his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled — whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others — to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant. Closely related instances arise from the widespread conviction that it is the responsibility of a citizen in a democracy to have opinions about everything, or at least everything that pertains to the conduct of his country’s affairs. The lack of any significant connection between a person’s opinions and his apprehension of reality will be even more severe, needless to say, for someone who believes it his responsibility, as a conscientious moral agent, to evaluate events and conditions in all parts of the world.”

Libertarian Sillies….

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The Judean People’s Front delivers an ultimatum

The People’s Front of Judea.

(oops, forgot to h/t the originator of this analogy – Jeffrey Tucker, editor of Agora Inc. owned Laissez Faire Books. The h/t is not an endorsement of any views expressed on that site, or of the owners of the site. Quite the contrary.  In fact, I thought I came up with the above on my own.  However, I try to be as scrupulous as possible, and this morning, I suddenly recalled reading an essay in which Tucker expressly made this joke.  We’ll give the devil his due..

Note 2: And Bryan Caplan at Econlib seems to have  noticed the similarity to Life of Brian before Tucker)

Oh dear.

So much fun and me with no time to bone up on my synthetic a priori judgments …or I’d join in.

Some people like their libertarianism (or, in my case, classical liberalism) ala Rothbard.

Other people don’t.  Intellectual tastes differ. Why is that a problem?

Word to the wise.

Tempting as they are, these kinds of intellectual food-fights are better left to what Bruce Charlton calls “clever sillies.”

“Preferential use of abstract analysis is often useful when dealing with the many evolutionary novelties to be found in modernizing societies; but is not usually useful for dealing with social and psychological problems for which humans have evolved ‘domain-specific’ adaptive behaviours. And since evolved common sense usually produces the right answers in the social domain, this implies that, when it comes to solving social problems, the most intelligent people are more likely than those of average intelligence to have novel but silly ideas, and therefore to believe and behave maladaptively. I further suggest that this random silliness of the most intelligent people may be amplified to generate systematic wrongness when intellectuals are in addition ‘advertising’ their own high intelligence in the evolutionarily novel context of a modern IQ meritocracy. The cognitively-stratified context of communicating almost exclusively with others of similar intelligence generates opinions and behaviours among the highest IQ people which are not just lacking in common sense but perversely wrong.” [1]
AND
“Yet, whatever else, to be a clever silly is a somewhat tragic state; because it entails being cognitively trapped by compulsive abstraction; unable to engage directly and spontaneously with what most humans have traditionally regarded as psycho-social reality; disbarred from the common experience of humankind and instead cut-adrift on the surface of a glittering but shallow ocean of novelties: none of which can ever truly convince or satisfy. It is to be alienated from the world; and to find no stable meaning of life that is solidly underpinned by emotional conviction. Little wonder, perhaps, that clever sillies choose sub-replacement reproduction.” [2]
AND
“If some humility could be taught to the clever silly before he begins to form an idea about a matter of widespread social and political importance, perhaps then he could be persuaded to bear in mind a paraphrase of a line by Groucho Marx: Any idiot could understand this matter; fetch me an idiot!”
[1] Bruce G. Charlton, “Clever Sillies: Why High IQ People Tend to be Deficient in Common Sense”, Medical Hypotheses, in press, 2009, p.1. (For more of Dr Charlton’s works, see here and here.)

[2] Ibid., pp.3-4. David Stove was also good on clever sillies. See, for instance, his “Righting Wrongs”, in On Enlightenment, ed. A. Irvine (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2003), and “The Oracles and Their Cessation: a Tribute to Julian Jaynes”, in Cricket versus Republicanism, and Other Essays (Sydney: Quakers Hill Press, 1995).

Illuminati announce their party platform

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I ran into a British blog called armageddonconspiracy.uk that purports to be the platform of  Illuminism.

Instead of bashing the illumined ones and the rationalist enlightenment, the blog claims that Illuminism is the ONLY answer to the Old World Order.

It’s message is that no thinking person should fight the New World Order, since it’s infinitely preferable to fight the Old World Order. That would be the Old World Order of the Satanic Abrahamic god and  Zionist capitalism.

The site addresses itself to everyone who hates the monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity, Judaism).

It addresses itself ostentatiously to the pagan world.  It tells you to stop looking for God and become God yourself.

Wake up your inner Lucifer.

What, according to the blog, is the Illuminati platform?

First, it abhors democracy, which it calls dumbocracy.

It ridicules monarchy.

It claims Star Wars as its inspiration.

It calls itself MERITOCRACY and it proposes a 100 percent inheritance tax as the means by which society is leveled.

In essence, the Illuminist platform demands that society proceed to a total technocracy, ruled by those who win the meritocratic race.

Undefined, of course, is how merit will be defined.

And who will define it.

All inheritance taxes will go to educate the public, which has the right to any surplus you’ve accumulated at the time of your death.

The blog decries Occupy Wall Street as ineffectual street theater, yet its language (1% versus 99%) comes straight out of Occupy.

The blog claims to propose a new revolution, yet its proposals sound like the old revolution,  the communist revolution.

100% taxation is just nine percent more than what Mark Ames  of the commie rag eXile called for a couple of years ago.

If Mark Ames is the New World Order, go back to sleep.

The blog uses the short-hand of populist anger at the 2008 bail-outs, short-hand  like “too big to fail,” “casino capitalism,” and “the richest 400.”  It co-opts that anger.

It makes “the people” (the social collective) the judge and jury of everything.

The blog decries the testosterone of  “free-racket” capitalism and praises the oestrogen-laden future world of “social capitalism”  – which is the best of socialism and capitalism combined.

Maybe that’s why the Daily Mail, a middle-class tabloid with a long history of war-mongering on behalf of imperialism came out recently with a piece entitled, “Why men need women’s hormones’ too,” Sept. 12, 2013.

But it was the Mail which also ran reports that oestrogen from the Pill was finding its way into the water supply and contributing to the decline of the male libido. That was in a piece that ended with dire warnings about global warming (“Fertility time-bomb found in drinking water”)

The Daily Mail is owned by Viscount Rothermere, a big supporter of David Cameron.

Under the current Viscount’s grand-father, the Mail was a supporter of Oswald Mosley and Hitler and urged ordinary Britons into war repeatedly.

Meanwhile, Rothermere himself, like his predecessors,  pays not a dime in taxes to the government on whose behalf he propagandizes.

So that’s who wants  oestrogen to be the chemical of the NWO.

And maybe that’s why we have  books announcing the rise of oestrogen, like Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men.”

This is eco-feminism, the goddess caper.

And sure enough,  there’s also the mandatory bit on the blog about “oxytocin,” the cooperative chemical. The bonding chemical.

Oxytocin was branded the “emotional super-power” of women, in Naomi Wolf’s NWO advertisement, “Vagina.”

[Wolf branded   “dopamine,” the “Goddess” chemical.]

Diagnosis?

Yet another Rothschild-funded website, telling you what to think and where to go.

What’s the joke?

See how easy it is to get from “the Illuminati are evil” to “Come, sign up with the Illuminati.”

The joke is also how many of those anti-Illuminati anti-NWO activists were always just NWO fronts…

If this blog states its case plainly,  it’s because fronts aren’t needed anymore.

The mask is off.

You are now officially in the Illumined world.

That was what that recent Salon piece was all about, “The elite’s strange plot to take over the world,” Sept. 20, 2013

It admitted that the conspiracists were right all along…..

Globalist Rajan chairs Reserve Bank of India (Updated)

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Update 2:

On October 29, in response to a firestorm around his appointment, Rajan denied he’s an American citizen and says he only has a green card. For my analysis of the whole episode as a psyop, see this post.

Update:

I noticed that the picture of Rajan on the blog describes him as an American and an Indian citizen. This is spurious.

While the US allows dual citizenship, India does not. Rajan could not be an Indian citizen and still be an American citizen. The description is intentionally misleading.

India offers the category of OCI or Overseas Citizen of India, which is NOT citizenship proper, since it does not let you have an Indian passport or an Indian vote. It just gives parity in the field of employment and investment and obviates the need to register with the police every year.

Rajan is a US citizen, not an Indian, and he’s in charge of the RBI! That is simply incredible.

Original post:

GreatGameIndia..com describes how the American who heads the Reserve Bank of India is being given rock-star treatment by the Rothschild media.

Why not? He’s on a mission for the globalists – driving Indians out of the agricultural sector to make way for the multinationals:

“Welcomes don’t get much warmer than this—especially not for central bankers. But Raghuram Rajan, the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is being treated like a Rockstar by the media and a savior by the markets.

In his first briefing since taking office as governor on Sept. 4, Rajan announced plans to bolster the financial sector and support the rupee. None of the measures were ground-breaking, but the reaction was exuberant. The Economic Times, India’s leading financial newspaper, sketched Rajan as James Bond, replete with a sharp suit and a gun made out of rupee notes.

Never mind his American citizenship nor the various prestigious organizations he is associated with such as University of Chicago, World Bank, US Federal Reserve Board, Swedish Parliamentary Commission, American Finance Association, International Monetary Fund (IMF) etc. However, one distinct accolade that he has earned is the entry into an elite group of economist czars called the Group of Thirty or just G30 very recently last year just before becoming the Bank Boss of India. For the scope of this article we’ll need to dwell a bit on the background of G30.

History of Group of Thirty G30

The Group of 30 is a Rockefeller-sponsored group of leading Central Bankers and academics a Washington, D.C. based institution which counts as its members many of the more powerful banks and financial institutions in the world. The Group of Thirty, chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul VoIcker, includes the current heads of the Bank of France, the Bank of Tokyo, the Bank of Italy, the Bank of Israel, the former head of the German Bundesbank and now even the Reserve Bank of India. Also represented are many of the top commercial and investment banks, including Citicorp, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, the Industrial Bank of Japan, and J. Rothschild International Assurance Holdings.

The Group of Thirty is, in short, a mouthpiece for the international financial operatives who created the speculative bubble that is now exploding. It is a sort of vampires’ club – an elite group which is planning the reorganization of the world monetary system.

Since late 1981, the IMF and the multinational financial oligarchies have realized that the developing countries would not be able to pay their debts under their original terms. The Group of Thirty, designed a strategy to use the debt crisis to smash sovereignty. Their perspective is to create a world council with executive powers to dictate and supervise financial policies of each “sovereign” nation to allow free reign for nation-less capital. This entity would be made up of the IMF and the central banks, act independently from national governments and be coordinated by the Bank for International Settlements, based in Basel, Switzerland.

(Lila: That is why End the Fed is an empty slogan, as I blogged here. The money is being conjured at the BIS).

This is the same group that outlined the plan for changing the laws and regulations of nations, in order to protect their derivatives trading and perpetuate the bubble as long as they can. One of the G30 benefactors is the Open Society Foundation, with upon further examination is a George Soros founded organization. Another of the G30 benefactors is the Whitehead Foundation, which was started by John C. Whitehead, the former managing partner for Goldman Sachs, and Deputy Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration.

G30 and more specifically former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker was the major player in moving the USD off the gold standard under Nixon and was the prime mover at the Treasury in establishing Bretton Woods II. Volcker and his buddies at the G30 have not only known about but have methodically planned the global monetary regime that was instituted in response to the Global Financial Crisis caused by the derivatives time bomb (see G-30 manual on derivatives published in 1993).

Now it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you when our Pied-Piper Raghuram Rajan played the tune on how the world will fall into a hole; one of the few who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. The question is – to what end ?

With the world’s financial system in the midst of the biggest blowout in modern history, it is useful to take a look at the latest proposals from the so-called financial experts, as a way of demonstrating their incompetence to devise a solution to a crisis for which they themselves are largely responsible.

In an interview given to The New York Times Mr Rajan explains his definition of growth and provides his solution to the ailing economy :

“In terms of where will growth come from, it doesn’t need to come from fancy stuff like extraordinary innovation of one kind or another. Just getting people from agriculture into services and industry itself is growth.

[Lila: India has now lost food self-sufficiency altogether and prices are rising across the board on all grocery items, which cost nearly as much as they do in the West, at salaries far far lower.}

I think India’s medium-term future is moving people out of agriculture into industry and services. Services, you know, some extent we have a sort of a sense of what it takes. And India’s service sector is disproportionately large for a country of its income. Where we have had less success is industry, and the question is can we sort of find a way to free the path for small and medium industry, and not just keep them forever as small and medium industries but allow them to grow into large industries.

In another interview given to The Economic Times he extrapolates it further :

“There is a tremendous amount of value-add that can be created in services. In India, especially, financial services as also IT and others are where most value-add is created. Unfortunately, even though services account for 60% of the GDP, they don’t account for nearly as much for jobs. They account for just 15% of the jobs. What we need to focus on is perhaps thinking broadly about how we create services that will generate many more jobs.

Highlighting sectoral disparities building up in the economy, Rajan said in another interview to The Hindu Business Line that while agriculture’s share was declining, that of services had gone up. Manufacturing had remained flat.

“This is not surprising. As countries grow, agriculture declines. What is special about India is that the exit of people from agriculture has not kept pace. (no you’re not delusional; read again)

Increasingly, people in agriculture are impoverished relative to those having jobs in industry or service”.

We managed to move the States together, but perhaps we need to do more on the sectoral side to move people out of agriculture into other areas

The ridiculousness of these statements is only complemented by the audacity with which it is said considering the fact that these conclusions are derived with a conviction and in full cognizance of their effects and consequences.

What is striking to me however is that I had heard this tune before. It’s enigmatic melody is so familiar to my ears that it’s been ringing in my head ever since. I had heard it play in what is called the Mecca of Book Lovers – the Jaipur Literature Festival by another piper that goes by the name of Ruchir Sharma; head of Emerging Markets and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and author of the international bestselling tune Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles.

I remember this distinctly because when questioned by me about the very definition of growth and the solutions for development he was talking about I received the very same answer from him. So similar was the tune that I had to sit up and take notice. Remember that these two are the top Indian thinkers on the Forbes list. So when they speak people listen to them unquestioned like words of God.

Never mind that the Forbes family made their fortunes off of the Opium trade that was forcibly grown in India after ruining the agricultural lands and pushing the farmers into opium cultivation that was sold to the Chinese making their entire generations addicted onto it that made them unable to resist and fight when the time came during the Opium Wars; ultimately losing Hong Kong to the Rothschild gang-controlled East India Company.

Hong Kong became the hub of Opium trafficking and later Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC Bank) was founded on the trafficking money to better launder and manage the booty. Forbes was one of the directors of HSBC and later founded the Forbes magazine as we all know. These are respected family names now.”

For the American connections to the opium trade see this lengthy blog post by Linda Minor, “Why Would the Harvard Corporation Protect the Drug Trade?”

And in case you dismiss all that as history, here are stories about the advent of the opium trade and mass addiction to India. Only two decades ago, they were unheard of.

See the following:

“Indian Farmers, Maoists Team Up In Drug Trade” (Stopthedrugwar.org)

“Drug trafficking: Money Funds Terror Acts in India”