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| Sunday, 4 September 2005 |
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Freemason secret in global warlordism Solemn thoughts by Wendell Solomons In Moscow, officials who served President Boris Yeltsin are falling under the spotlight. A parliamentarian claimed that a key Yeltsin aide served "the capital of the world's freemasonry - London." Front-paged by the weekly `Moscow News' of August 10-16, 2005, this claim came from parliamentarian Alexander Khimshtein. Under Yeltsin, Western monetarists had enacted reforms that precipitated the devaluation of the currency more than 250 times. Home budgets shrank and pensioners were reduced to living on bread and milk. Meanwhile, 3 metric tons of gold, a reserve of the Central Bank meant to support the currency, were trucked out into the night. Many other materials that represented seven decades of the labour of Soviet citizens fell into the clutches of a handful of previously unknown men. The rise of these fortunes was prefaced by the release upon Moscow of a New York crime syndicate, the Jewish-led Brighton Beach mafia. The American VIP supposed to be looking after Russian affairs in those years was Vice President Al Gore. His intimacy with New York was illustrated to the world when his daughter married into the New York family of financier Jacob Schiff, a City of London mover-and-shaker with mention in the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Item 2 - In Vice President Al Gore's time again, Henry Kissinger introduced adventuress Lynn Forester to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, head of the old UK and European banking dynasty. In marrying the American woman, the 71-year-old Rothschild made it memorable for her by deciding to sleep during the wedding night on the silken sheets of the White House. Silk road We can analyse the heritage and the gamut of global power by looking at what has been built up in history. The formal opening of the transcontinental Silk Road is associated in the Far East with the name of Zhang Qian who opened up trade and diplomacy with India and Parthia and as far west as Syria where he made contact with the Greek world. Zhang's travels began in 138 BC and upon his return, the emperor made him Marquis of Bowang. He next led another expedition with 300 men and gifts of gold and silk to dazzle the west with China's riches. The fabric that moved westwards across the route was not only silk, first woven in China in 2700 BC. There was also hand-woven Indian cotton fabric. We know that the caravans of pre-Islamic Arabs, Nabataean tribes hailing from the desert city of Petra, carried cotton circa in 25 AD. As traders moved these products, what had been little noticed outside the circles of historians of finance was the rise of moneylenders along the caravan route. Market niche On the Silk Road, Buddhism (represented in the Bamien statues) and Christianity had become dominant faiths. Both cosmopolitan faiths differed from the ethic of tribalist society with its idolatory of itself as chosen nation via sky symbolism. They had absorbed behests such as that expressed in the Old Testament text - DEU 4:19 When you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars - all the heavenly array - do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. In the 7th Century, Islam fanned out from West Asia at a pace unique for the times. In 712 AD an Arab army crossed the Indus River and conquered the kingdom of Sind (in southern Pakistan). In their early and respective phases of development, adherents of the three faiths spurned moneylending (everyone was a neighbour and even a brother). The English word `usury' acquired its disrepute from this spurning. The spurning left a window of opportunity for those ethnic and social groups that allowed moneylending; the spurning created a position of privilege for them. Ready money is Aladdin's lamp; traditional moneylending clans gained the opportunity to finance the business turnover of Tom and squeeze Dick and Harry out of the market if they were less obliging or pliant. These moneylenders came from clans that dominantly professed Hinduism and Judaism and the situation allowed them to grow into major financial entities. During the course of picking and choosing pliant traders, the advantage gained by financial houses allowed them to push trading into a `step-and-fetch-it' affair (if they professed Buddhism, Christianity or Islam, merchants were kept from independently accumulating capital through pawnbroking through their own side windows.) After the 5th Century, the overland Silk Road that relied on camels, bullocks, asses and horses for haulage hit regional problems. Merchants began to find that using the Silk Road now required overcoming difficult obstacles. As a result, the weight of merchandise trade gradually shifted to sea
traffic where the Indian Ocean segment gained great importance. By then,
technology development had made ships and trade winds the more efficient
means of haulage. |
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