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So what is Max Keiser about?  OK, he’s the best in the media on the power and criminality of the banks.  No question.  But is he just a left-leaning enemy of the money-changers?  I think probably so.

Here is the latest offering of the Keiser Report, dated the 12th November.  Goes a bit wild over George Osborne.  Gives Mike Gravel and his Direct Democracy initiative an easy ride.

The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company’s operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.

The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world’s large blue chip and manufacturing firms - the “real” economy - representing a further 60 per cent of global revenues.

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

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Lee John Barnes, the plucky, slightly off-the-wall character who fields some of the legal issues of the BNP and whose blog proclaims itself 21st Century British Nationalism, has corrected last week’s pretty surprising piece by porn-goy Larry Flynt at Huffington Post.

Flynt appears to be picking-up the late Aaron Russo’s populist baton.  He succinctly explained the lie of the land, so to speak, to the Huffington readership.  It wasn’t a question of left vs right, he said, but of the globalist class vs the people of America.  Then he called for campaign finance reform and for a date to be set for a 24-hour national strike.  Forty-eight pages of approving comments followed.

This was interesting because it shows that the evisceration of the global elite is not, as Lee maintains, a purely nationalist interest but extends to all corners.  Of course, it’s true that the Huffington commentariat obediently profess all the positions on white American and European dispossession and racial dissolution that characterise the elite’s drive for global political hegemony.  But that’s because for the most part they are weak and suggestible conformists, not because they really hold those or any other political positions free and clear of external pressure.  In a different political culture they would conform to whatever ideology was dominant.  C’est la vie.

Lee helpfully lists the categories of elites that strangely elude Flynt, making the point that the Huffington liberals are part of the problem too:

The US Shadow Government of the Military Industrial Bloc
The Corporate Media
The Federal Reserve
The International Bankers and the international banking cartels
AIPAC and the Zionists
Liberals and Leftist Globalists
The Big Oil Corporations
The Global Corporations
The Globalist Institutions - UN, WTO, EU, NATO, Bilderbergers, Round Table Groups, Tri-Lateral Commission, etc.

I think he only left out the big political whores of the right.

Now we wait to find out if Larry Flynt has what it takes to talk revenge to the masses, and make something happen.  He describes himself as a free speech activist - the “free speech” in question being his right under the Constitution to “communicate” his business to the American public.  He clearly has the self-image of a hammer of the devout and the shocked.  Taking on the demonic elites, however …

Global media billionaire Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman and Chief executive of News Corporation, has returned to his native land to deliver the 2008 Boyer Lectures.  The series is titled “A Golden Age of Freedom”.

The Boyer Lectures are a series of six live speeches touching on politics and society, and given each year by a different major public figure in Australia.  The equivalent in the UK is the Reith Lectures.

Murdoch opened today with an offering rather oddly titled “Aussie rules: Bring back the pioneer”.  It served to outline his intentions for the rest of the series:-

My theme for these lectures is the great transformation we have seen in the past few decades: the unleashing of human talent and ability across our world, and the golden age for humankind that I see just around the corner.

... I will talk about how the opening of new markets is leading to the rise of new nations and adding hundreds of millions of people to a new global middle class.  I will address technology, education and the importance of cultivating human capital.

... Most of all I will speak of the challenges which all these developments pose for the land of my birth.  The main reason I agreed to come to Australia to deliver these lectures is that the country I see before me simply is not prepared for the challenges ahead.

One wonders what “the rise of new nations” means.  It does not sound like the rise of old nations like India and China.  Then again, “internationalisation”, as Murdoch later calls it, implies not new nations but the post-nation - essentially the MultiCult.  Is he saying that the condition of Australia is that of a post-nation, and that the advent of the artificial “new nation” awaits - if the appropriate internationalist outlook is internalised by Aussies?

I assume so.  But right away we see what Murdoch’s new nation will amount to.  The only understanding that the man who made his money from Page 3 has of human purpose is material advancement.  He is offering a life of consumerism and wage-slavery in return for the cinematic Arthur Jensen’s:-

“perfect world in which there is no war or famine, oppression or brutality.  One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock.  All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquillized, all boredom amused.”

Here it is again in Murdoch’s only slightly more prosaic version:-

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A video site I had not heard of til today.  Very varied content, some of it close to the mainstream.  The ever-present theme, however, is the hand of the powerful and corrupt.

Hat-tip to Troy Southgate.

I’ve been wondering how the unprecedented debacle in the money business impacts upon the theory of an imperiously capable global elite.  How does one explain that where there were five organisations in America bearing the prestigious title “investment bank”, now there are none?  Not even Goldman Sachs has hung on to its former status, notwithstanding its long tradition of planting its senior executives in the executive.  How did the Masters of the Universe get things so fundamentally, spectacularly wrong? 

Of course, the completely staggering quantities of public money that have been committed across the world to stave off further collapse could be said to argue for the political power of the banking elites.  Or they could if the end result had not been the hugely embarrassing nationalisation of some very old names.

I admit to being puzzled.  Are we to model a system where Lazard et Freres conspired, while the rest played their juvenile games with money they did not have, and only went to Bilderberg, Davos and the Grove to add to their collection of hotel towels?

Anybody care to explain?

Two book reviews by Dr K R Bolton FCIS

An online survey on the beliefs of 5700 New Zealanders showed that 22% believe it “likely” that “a secret elite cabal controls world affairs”, with 21% responding that they don’t know, and 57% stating “unlikely”. (Sunday Star Times, C2, 31 Aug. 08).

Given the ridicule attached to “conspiracy theories” the percentage is encouraging, indicating that a significant proportion of New Zealanders are aware of political realities, or at least discern intuitively that something is amiss.

While such beliefs are lumped in by the Sunday Star Times with superstitions and whether Elvis faked his own death (to which very few responded positively) etc. the ongoing success of alternative news -stand magazines such as New Dawn from Australia, and in particular Jon Eisen’s Uncensored (NZ) show that many New Zealanders are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with what had been described as the ‘village idiot theory of history’ - that stuff just happens at random - as portrayed by the mass media.

The following are two book reviews on conspiracy theories, adapted from an article originally appearing in the first issue of Restoration Magazine.

Cyclicity of Conspiracy Theory

The popularity of conspiracy theories follows cyclic trends after periods of crises. The French Revolution gave rise to the modern theory of conspiracies in general, ascribing the subversion and breakdown of the traditional order to the influences of Masonic coteries, including the Illuminati, from whence other conspiracy theories have followed, often encompassing communism, Zionism, international finance, and such groups as the Bilderbergers, Council, on Foreign Relations, Lodge 322 and Trilateralists.

The 1905 Russian Revolution popularised the hitherto obscure Protocols of Zion, again with a Masonic theme, but with a Jewish façade, although doctrine of the Protocols has nothing of the nature of Zionism per se about it.

Since such theories were generally of a ‘right-wing nature,’ and often linked to ‘anti-Semitism’, World War II drove them into disrepute.

The Cold War revived conspiracy theories, and 9/11 has given impetus to a revival of interest in covert cabals such a Masonry not seen since the Russia Revolution. Impetus has been added with the revival of alternative religions and the questioning of mainstream religion, including the popularity of books such as those about the alleged Prior de Sion by Baigent, et al. They have also revived an interest in the role of the Illuminati.

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The story in yesterday morning’s Telegraph was unambiguous and damning:-

Old boy network is obstructing police investigation

An “old boy network” of officials is deliberately obstructing police investigating decades of alleged abuse at care homes in Jersey, according to the police officer who spearheaded the inquiry.

Deputy Chief Officer Lenny Harper angrily hit out at the figures who he says have engaged in a “day by day attack” on the inquiry team and the alleged victims of abuse at Haut de la Garenne and other island institutions.

In his most outspoken criticism of the Jersey authorities, Mr Harper told the Telegraph: “I can quite clearly say that the investigation is being held up. There are people on the island who just don’t want us going down the route of this inquiry.”

... More suspects would have been charged by now, said Mr Harper, if it hadn’t been for delays in the island’s legal system.

“We are walking through treacle at the moment,” he said. “One file has been with the Attorney General’s office since April 29 and it’s still showing no signs of moving at the moment. It’s been very frustrating.

“I don’t think they are involved in child abuse, it’s more like an old-boy network.

“The ordinary people of Jersey are overwhelmingly in favour of the inquiry, but how many expressions of support and sympathy for the victims have we heard from the politicians? None. They don’t do sympathy for the victims.”

This situation of the investigator obstructed at every turn by shadowy Establishment forces crops up with alarming regularity in large-scale child abuse cases.  In Jersey the obstruction takes the form largely of an official code of silence.  Since Jersey is a family holiday destination, one could charitably conclude that these are the machinations of a pack of Larry Vaughn types (Vaughn being the “don’t-rock-the-boat” Mayor of Amity artfully played by Murray Hamilton in both Jaws and Jaws 2: “I’m only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. Now, if the people can’t swim here, they’ll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island ...”)

Jersey, however, is a highly successful if no longer entirely off-shore banking centre.  Its wealthy residents are perfectly content to avoid prying eyes - indeed, that’s the whole point of being there.  There is, then, a darker materialism at work on the island than a mere interest in ice cream sales and beach balls, and this interest is surely what Harper means by “an old boy network”.  The implication for any revelations damaging to the zeitgeist of confidentiality, never mind allegations of child abuse, are plain.  There will all too probably be an outbreak of “official incompetence”.  As the News of the World reported on 13th July:-

An inside source told The News of the World: “There’s a strong suspicion that the files are being held on to until Lenny Harper goes and a new team is in place.

“No one will be surprised if the truth about what happened in the care home never surfaces and once more the evidence gets swept under the carpet.”

Lenny Harper has now gone from the enquiry.

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