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Chapter 2

 

First published January 2004

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THE GREAT TRUST

 

In 1888, Edward Bellamy wrote a book entitled Looking Backward:

2000-1887 in which he predicted the future exactly as it happened:

 

The nation... organized as the one great business corporation

in which all other corporations were absorbed; it became the one

capitalist in the place of all other capitalists... the final monopoly

in which all previous and lesser monopolies were swallowed up... The

epoch of trusts had ended in The Great Trust.(1)

 

2.1 THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

 

The bankers have invested their vast fortunes in every branch of

commerce, cementing monopolies with interlocking shareholdings and

directorships. In John D. Rockefeller's immortal phrase " competition

is a sin. "

The establishment of the European-American petrochemical cartel

was achieved in 1929 with the marriage of I.G. Farben of Germany to

I.C.I. and Shell Oil of Great Britain, and to Standard Oil and DuPont

of America.(2) The cartel was formed after I.G. Farben discovered how

to make petroleum out of coal. I.G. agreed not to enter the petroleum

market so long as Standard Oil did not enter the chemical industry

unless as a partner with Farben. By the beginning of WWII, Farben had

become the largest industrial enterprise in Europe, the largest

chemical company in the world, and part of the most powerful cartel in

history. Besides the afore-mentioned companies, it had cartel

agreements with 2000 companies around the world including Ford Motor

Co, Alcoa, General Motors, Texaco, Proctor and Gamble, and virtually

every enterprise that involved chemicals.

Hermann Schmitz, president of Bayer A.G and I.G. Farben during

WWII, who also largely directed the Deutsche Bank, held a substantial

amount of stock in Standard Oil of New Jersey.(3) G. Edward Griffin's

investigation into the cancer industry found that the cartel agreement

signed between Standard Oil and Farben on 9 November 1929 involved the

exchange of some of Farben's patent rights over the coal-hydrogenation

process for $30,000,000 of Standard's stock. The Rockefeller group

concealed its Farben holdings in false fronts and dummy accounts and

when Farben's vast holdings were finally sold in 1962, the

Rockefellers were the dominant force in carrying out the

transaction.(4) Paul Warburg, another founding member of the Wall St.

banking cartel, was also a director of several Farben subsidiaries.(5)

A cartel is a grouping of companies that are bound together by

contracts or agreements designed to promote inter-company cooperation

and thereby reduce competition between them. Some of these agreements

may deal with harmless subjects such as industry standards and

nomenclature. But most of them involve the exchange of patent rights,

the dividing of regional markets, the setting of prices, and

agreements not to enter into product competition within specific

categories.(6) In 1937, Fortune magazine editorialized:

 

By and large, the chemical industry has regulated itself in a

manner that would please even a Soviet Commissar... The

industry...is... the practitioner of one definite sort of planned economy.

 

In 1973, the United States Tariff Commission observed:

 

In the largest and most sophisticated multinational

corporations, planning and subsequent monitoring of plan fulfillment

have reached a scope and level of detail that, ironically, resemble

more than superficially the national planning procedures of Communist

countries.

 

Far from the money powers fighting for free-markets and against

government regulation, the exact opposite is true. Giant cartels use

government regulation and anti-trust laws to break up smaller cartels

or to prevent competitors entering into the market. The ultimate

objective is a feudal 'comand and control' society in which the

corporations use government to diminish our freedoms.

 

2.2 FIVE MONOPOLIES

 

Corpororate monopolies over water, food, energy, medicine, and

information, are just some manifestations of The Great Trust today.

The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in

the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of

its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In

Europe and North America, analysts predict that within the next 15

years these companies will control 65 percent to 75 percent of what

are now public waterworks. The companies have worked closely with the

World Bank and other international financial institutions to gain a

foothold on every continent. A yearlong investigation by the

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a

project of the Center for Public Integrity,(7) found that world's

three largest water companies - France's Suez and Vivendi

Environnement, and British-based Thames Water owned by Germany's RWE

AG - have expanded into every region of the world since 1990. Three

other companies, Saur of France, and United Utilities of England

working in conjunction with Bechtel of the United States, have also

successfully secured major international drinking water contracts. But

their size pales in comparison to that of the big three. The water

companies are chasing a business with potential annual revenue

estimated at anywhere from $400 billion to $3 trillion.(8)

In 2002, the American retailer Wal-Mart was the biggest company

in the world, with turnover of $219 billion ahead of Exxon at $191

billion and General Motors at $177 billion. Five retailers- Wal-Mart,

Safeway, Kroger, Albertson's and Ahold- take 33% of American grocery

sales.(9) In the U.K. there is even more consolidation: 60-75% of

groceries are purchased in the top 5 supermarkets.(10)

The oil industry is dominated by five companies: ( In order of

size) ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch-Shell, British Petroleum-Amoco,

Chevron-Texaco, and TotalFinaElf. Interestingly the recent Exxon

-Mobil merger reunited the two biggest chunks of John D. Rockefeller's

Standard Oil monopoly dismantled by the U.S. government 90 years ago.

Mobil was Standard Oil of New York and Exxon was Standard Oil of New

Jersey. (11)(12)

The world's drug industry is dominated by 10 companies whose

total market value at the time of writing exceeded (U.S.) $ 1.1

trillion.(13)

 

Rank in (U.S.) $ billion:

 

Pfizer $244

Johnson and Johnson $161

Merck $124

GlaxoSmithKline $119

Novartis $113

Amgen $83

Roche $ 72

AstraZeneca $70

Eli Lilly $ 67

Wyeth $58

 

In 1985, there were 50 substantial media conglomerates in the

U.S. By Year 2000 there were six: AOL Time Warner, The Walt Disney

Company, Bertelsmann A. G, Viacom, Newscorporation, and Vivendi

Universal. Vivendi Universal is the parent company of Vivendi

Environment, the water conglomerate. Recently legal rulings in Europe

clearly indicate that there is more trans-Atlantic consolidation to

come. The London Financial Times reported on 21 July 03:

 

The passage into law of the Communications Bill closes a

turbulent chapter in the history of UK media...allowed the lifting of

the bar on investments in ITV or Channel Five by non-European

interests, the largest of which are US media conglomerates... the bill

is, by international standards, extremely liberal on ownership but

highly structured for content regulation, to be applied by Ofcom, the

new media regulator. (14)

 

This followed a European Court of Justice ruling in favour of

mergers and acquisitions. On 4 June 2002, the BBC reported that the

European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that restrictions by some

European governments on foreign ownership of privatized companies are

illegal. The decision makes it more difficult for governments to block

foreign investment in former state-owned firms on national interest

grounds, paving the way for more cross-border takeovers and mergers.

The decision has also boosted a planned overhaul of E.U. takeover law

aimed at making it easier for firms to launch cross-border mergers and

acquisitions. The reform is an important element of E.U. plans to

create a single European market for investment services by 2005.(15)

 

2.3 WHO OWNS THE STOCK?

 

Relevant articles >> 1

 

A recent article in the London Financial Times indicates why it

is impossible to gain an accurate estimate of the wealth of the

trillionaire banking elite. Discussing the sale of Evelyn Rothschild's

stake in Rothschild Continuation Holdings, it states:

 

..[this] requires agreement on the valuation of privately

held assets whose value has never been tested in a public market. Most

of these assets are held in a complex network of tax-efficient

structures around the world. (16)

 

Queen Elizabeth II's shareholdings remain hidden behind Bank of

England Nominee accounts. The Guardian newspaper reported in May 2002

 

... the reason for the wild variations in valuations of her

private wealth can be pinned on the secrecy over her portfolio of

share investments. This is because her subjects have no way of knowing

through a public register of interests where she, as their head of

state, chooses to invest her money. Unlike the members of the Commons

and now the Lords, the Queen does not have to annually declare her

interests and as a result her subjects cannot question her or know

about potential conflicts of interests... In fact, the Queen even has

an extra mechanism to ensure that her investments remain secret - a

nominee company called the Bank of England Nominees. It has been

available for decades to all the world's current heads of state to

allow them anonymity when buying shares. Therefore, when a company

publishes a share register and the Bank of England Nominees is listed,

it is not possible to gauge whether the Queen, President Bush or even

Saddam Hussein is the true shareholder. (17)

 

By this method, the trillionaire masters of the universe remain

hidden whilst Forbes magazine poses lower ranking billionaires like

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the richest men in the world. Retired

management consultant Gaylon Ross Sr, author of Who's Who of the

Global Elite, has been tipped from a private source that the combined

wealth of the Rockefeller family in 1998 was approximately (U.S.) $11

trillion and the Rothschilds (U.S.) $100 trillion.(18) However

something of an insider's knowledge of the hidden wealth of the elite

is contained in the article, Will the Dollar and America Fall Down on

August 19?.. " on page1 of the 12th July 2001 issue of Russian

newspaper, Pravda(19). The newspaper interviewed Tatyana Koryagina, a

senior research fellow in the Institute of Macroeconomic Researches

subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development

(Minekonom), on the subject of a recent conference concerning the fate

of the U.S. economy:

 

Koryagina: The known history of civilization is merely the

visible part of the iceberg. There is a shadow economy, shadow

politics and also a shadow history, known to conspirologists. There

are [unseen] forces acting in the world, unstoppable for [most

powerful] countries and even continents.

 

Pravda: Just these forces intend to smash America on August 19?

 

Koryagina: There are international " super-state " and

" super-government " groups. In accordance with tradition, the mystical

and religious components play extremely important roles in human

history. One must take into account the shadow economy, shadow

politics and the religious component, while predicting the development

of the present financial situation.

 

Pravda: Still, I don't understand what could be done to this

giant country [the U.S.], whose budget is calculated in the trillions

of dollars.

 

Koryagina: It is possible to do anything to the U.S... whose

total debt has reached $26 trillion. Generally, the Western economy is

at the boiling point now. Shadow financial activities of $300 trillion

are hanging over the planet. At any moment, they could fall on any

stock exchange and cause panic and crash. The recent crisis in

Southeast Asia, which touched Russia, was a rehearsal.

 

This is a startling revelation: $300 trillion of wealth is

secretly controlled by an unspecified cabal of the world's richest

families.

The power of Rothschild family was evidenced on 24th September

2002 when a helicopter touched down on the lawn of Waddedson Manor,

their ancestral home in Buckinghamshire, England. Out of the

helicopter strode Warren Buffet, - touted as the second richest man in

the world - and Arnold Schwarzenegger, candidate for the Governorship

of California. They'd come to rub shoulders with James Wolfensohn,

President of the World Bank and Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De

Beers at a two day conference hosted by Jacob Rothschild. Arnold went

on to secure the governorship of one of the biggest economies on the

planet a year later. The fact that he was initiated into the ruling

class in the Rothschilds' English country manor is more evidence of

the international nature of the cartel and the location of its centre

of gravity. (20)

 

2.4 WHO OWNS THE MEDIA?

 

Relevant articles >> 1, 2, 3

 

The New World Order would be in serious trouble, if for one day,

the mainstream media put the pieces together and told the whole truth,

'the story behind the story'. Editing certain news out of the press

has been just as important as putting propaganda in, probably more so.

Westerners receive relatively little news about the atrocities

committed in the socialist dictatorships especially in the former

Soviet Union and communist China which continue to this day. The last

thing they want the public to hear on the evening news is the fact

that its our money which has kept these regimes afloat, or to find out

who helped them into power.

In 1917 Congressman Oscar Callaway told the House that, in 1915

JP Morgan interests and their subsidiary organizations purchased the

editorial policies of the 25 most important newspapers in the U.S. By

controlling the policy of the most important, they were able to

control the general policy of the whole media. They used this power to

turn public opinion in favour of entering the First World War.(21) The

Rockefellers took over the Morgan empire, and in the 1950s they had

one of their pharmaceutical company directors and publisher of the New

York Times, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, appointed as Director of the

Associated Press. They also owned the trend setting magazines Time,

Life, Fortune, and Newsweek.(22) Laurance Rockefeller was a director

of The Reader's Digest, a barometer of orthodox thinking, especially

on the medical issues in which his family had enormous financial

interests. (23)

Forbes Magazine's recent bio' of media tycoon, Conrad Black read:

 

67% ownership in Ravelston Corp., a privately held company,

gives him control of a 78% stake in Hollinger Inc., a publicly traded

Canadian holding company with real estate and other investments.

Hollinger, in turn, owns 32%of the equity and 73% of he voting control

of Hollinger International, the Big Board media company that owns the

newspapers. There is also a hefty dose of debt financing in this

chain. Thus does Black, with a mere $13 million of his own equity

money in the till, control $2 billion in media assets. The assets are

impressive: Black's 129 newspapers include the Chicago Sun-Times, the

fifth-largest paper in the U.S.; the Jerusalem Post, with a

circulation of 110,000; and the London Daily Telegraph, which has 40%

of the market for national broadsheet newspapers in the

U.K...Directors include such illuminati as Henry Kissinger; former

Illinois Governor James R. Thompson; financier Henry Kravis' wife,

Marie-Josée Kravis; former ambassador to Germany Richard Burt; and

Richard Perle, the controversial member of the Defense Policy Board. " (24)

 

Forbes ranks two media billionaires, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert

Murdoch, at numbers 3 and 4 in the world in terms of power and

influence even though their wealth is ranked 45 and 54 respectively.

Italy's Prime Minister owes much of his influence to Fininvest, his

investment firm that owns 49% of Mediaset, Italy's largest television

network. He also has interests in banking, insurance and

publishing.(25) Murdoch's media empire includes NewsCorporation and

its U.K. subsidiary News International, British Sky Broadcasting

Group, Sky Global Networks Inc. and Fox Entertainment Group. Besides

T.V. networks and newspapers, this group also owns the publisher

HarperCollins.(26)(27)

Two sisters Anne and Barbara Cox own 98% of Cox Enterprises which

controls 17 daily newspapers (including flagship Atlanta

Journal-Constitution), 15 TV stations, 78 radio stations and cable

systems (6.5 million users). Their personal wealth is estimated to be

$11billion each.(28)Two thirds of Viacom's voting stock is controlled

by Sumner Redstone whose personal wealth is estimated at $9.7

billion.(29)Viacom now owns CBS, Infinity Broadcasting, Paramount,

Nickelodeon, MTV, and Blockbuster. In 1980 Ted Turner launched

America's first 24 hr. cable news service, CNN. Turner Broadcasting

Systems was bought by Time Warner in 1996 but Turner remains Time

Warner's largest individual shareholder (only 1% at June 2003) and

sits on its board.(30)

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild used to sit on the board of The Daily

Telegraph (31) and Edouard de Rothschild bought the controlling stake

in French left-wing newspaper, Liberation, in December 2004. (32)

From July 1999 to March 2002, The Carlyle Group, an $18 billion

private equity firm, held a 40% stake in the French daily Le Figaro.

Carlyle Group investors have included Frank Carlucci, former U.S.

Defense Secretary and Deputy Director of the CIA; the Bin Laden

family; and former heads of state, George Bush Sr. and John Major. In

March 2004, Le Figaro was purchased by Serge Dassault, head of

Dassault Aviation a major military contractor.(33)

However, ownership, directorship and censorship is not the whole

story of media manipulation. Much of what appears in the press is

shaped by the education of journalists and their sources. The roots of

the 'psychological operation' are in the schools, universities,

charities, think-tanks and policy institutes - the subject of the next

chapter.

 

Chapter 2 End Notes

 

 

1. Dr. Stanley Monteith, The Brotherhood of Darkness, Hearthstone

Publishing, 2000, p.15

 

2. G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17,

American Media, second edition 1997, p.183

 

3. Manning P, Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle

Stuart, 1981, pp. 29, 56, 69, 116-17; 134-35. see article by Dr

Leonard Horowitz at

http://www.lightstreamers.com/horowitz/Solving_The_Anthrax.html

 

4. G. Edward Griffin, op cit.,p.236

 

5. G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island, American Media,

Fourth Edition, 2002, p.482 and Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the

Rise of Hitler, CSG and Associates, 1976 p.164

 

6. Griffin, World Without Cancer, pp.187-189

 

7. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ),The

Water Barons, a report for The Center for Public Integrity, 2003. See

http://www.icij.org/water/default.aspx

 

8. Bill Marsden, Cholera and The Age of The Water Barons, The Center

for Public Integrity, 2003. See

http://www.icij.org/water/report.aspx?sid=ch & rid=44 & aid=44

 

9. Impact of Wal-Mart on Retail Consolidation and Standardization,

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

See http://www.infosys.com/knowledge_capital/

thought-papers/WalMart_Impact_on_Retail-Consolidation.pdf

 

10. What's Wrong With Supermarkets? CorporateWatch.

See http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/pages/whats_wrong_suprmkts.htm

 

11. James A. Paul, Iraq: the Struggle for Oil , Global Policy Forum,

August, 2002 (revised December, 2002). See

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2002/08jim.htm#4

 

12. Jobs slashed at new oil colossus, BBC news, London, 1 December

1998. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_company_file/222402.stm

 

13. The 2003 Global Scoreboard, BusinessWeek Online, November 2003.

See http://bwnt.businessweek.com/global_1000/2003/index.asp?

sortCol=ind_code & sortOrder=ASC & pageNum=19 & resultNum=25 & country=

 

14. The United States of Television, Global Policy Forum.

See http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/mergers/0721tv.htm

 

15. EU Court Boosts Foreign Mergers, Global Policy Forum.

See http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/mergers/eucourtmerger.htm

 

16. French Rothschild is set to take helm in London, Charles Pretzlik,

Banking Editor, The Financial Times, London, 10 February 2003.

 

17. Horses, stamps, cars - and an invisible portfolio, The Guardian,

London, 30 May 2002. See

http://www.guardian.co.uk/jubilee/story/0,11550,724327,00.html

 

18. Robert Gaylon Ross Sr.

See http://www.4rie.com/index.html#Anchor-51540

 

19. Dr. Alexandr Nemets, Expert: Russia Knew in Advance, Encouraged

Citizens to Cash Out Dollars, Newsmax.com, 17 Sept. 2001. See

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/16/103951.shtml

 

 

20. Arnold and Buffett's Loaded Elephant Gun? Buffett's Back with the

Terminator!, Reuters

24 Sept. 2002 .

See copy at http://www.infowars.com/print/nwo/schwartz_roths.htm

 

21. Monteith, op cit., p.31

 

22. Hans Ruesch, The Drug Story.

See http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/

new_world_order/Rockefeller_Drug_Censor_Empire.html

 

23. Dr Leonard G. Horowitz, Death In The Air, Tetrahedron Publishing

Group, 2001 p.364.

See http://www.tetrahedron.org/index.html

 

24. Robert Lenzner, Press Lord Pressed, Forbes Magazine, 26 May 2003.

See http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0526/052.html

 

25. The 10 Most Powerful Billionaires, Forbes Magazine, 17 March 2003.

See http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0317/115.html

 

26. Keith Rupert Murdoch, tearsheet, Forbes Magazine, November 2003.

See http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/

FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=130391

 

27. Who Owns What: News Corporation, Columbia Journalism Review, 21

July 2003.

See http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/newscorp.asp

 

28. Star Power, Forbes Magazine, 10 June 2003.

See http://www.forbes.com/global/2003/1006/048.html

 

29. Sumner M Redstone, World's Richest People 2003, Forbes Magazine.

See http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2003/

LIR.jhtml?passListId=10 & passYear=2003 & passListType=

Person & uniqueId=KJHY & datatype=Person

 

30. Robert E. (Ted) Turner, World's Richest People 2003. Forbes Magazine.

See http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2003/LIR.jhtml?passListId=

10 & passYear=2003 & passListType=Person & uniqueId=ETX7 & datatype=Person.

 

31. Dominic Rush, Black narcissi, The Times Business section, 28 March

2004

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-1055652_2,00.html

 

32.Colin Randall, Banker sets sights on Left-wing newspaper, The Daily

Telegraph, 15 December 2004

http://www.policestateplanning.com/rothschild_buys_left_wing_newspaper.htm

 

33. Dassault Buys Le Figaro from the Carlyle Group,

policestateplanning.com

http://www.policestateplanning.com/dassault_buys_le_figaro_from_the_carlyle_grou\

p__.htm