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- From: rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns)
- Subject: The Occult Techology of Power
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.215955.3199@StarConn.com>
- Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA 415-949-3133
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:59:55 GMT
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- Quotes from Occult Technology of Power:
- 1974 Loompanics Press
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- This book is written in a style similar to "The Prince"-as a dialog
- between a fictional financial czar, his associates and his son and
- hier designate.
-
- NOTE: I don't personally endorse all the views in this book. I do think
- that the author did make an attempt to synthesize both left and right
- critiques on ruling elites in a way that is fairly rare. The book is
- amusing and provacative if nothing else.
-
- I'm posting it in hopes of raising the level of discussion around
- the issue of central banking.
-
- page 17
- "Throughout history, secure ruling elites arise through secret,
- or occult knowledge which they carefully guard and withhold from
- outsiders. The power of such elites or cults diminishes as their occult
- knowledge is transformed into scientific knowledge and vanishes as soon
- as it becomes common sense."
-
- Followed by a rather lengthy explaination of how priesthoods used secret
- knowledge of astronomy to control and influence societies in the middle
- east.
- ...................
- Page 23
- "Professor B. on the Function of Central Bank in the Mature Capitalist
- System".
- In its pristine form a Central Bank is a private monopoly of a nation's
- money and credit issuance suppored by the coercive power of the state. That
- the central bank be directly in our hands is vital until our new order is
- firmly established throughout the governmental, business, intellectual and
- political spheres of society. After our order is consolidated, formal
- nationalization of the Central Bank with great fanfare is usually advisable
- in order to dispel any lingering suspicion that it is operated for private
- gain. Of course only loyal agents of the dynasty are allowed to obtain high
- offices in the Bank and our power remains intact. Obvious private monopolies
- are always the targets of sharp reformist agitators. Only the most paranoid
- however can see through the public facade to the private monopoly of the
- nationalized or quasi-nationalized Central Bank.
-
- The Central Bank is the primarly monopoly on which all
- our monopoly power depends. The _occult_ power of the
- Central Bank to create money out of nothing is the fountain-
- head that fuels our far-flung financial and political empire. I
- will make a quick survey of a few ways this secret
- money power is brought to bear
-
- Bascially, the power of our Central Bank flows from its
- control over the points of entry into the economy of new,
- inflationary money which it creates out of thin air. Ordinar-
- il, bills of exchange, acceptances, private bonds, government
- bonds and other credit instruments are purchased by
- the Central Bank thorugh specially privileged dealers in
- order to put the new money, often only checking accounting
- entries, into circulation. The dealers are allowed a large
- profit since they are fronts operated by our agents. Our pur-
- chase of government securities pleases the government, as
- out purchas of private debt pleases private debtors. As a
- quid pro quo to assure "good management" our agents are
- given directorships, managerial posts, and offices in the cor-
- porations and governments so benefitted. As the addiction to
- the narcotic of inflationary easy credit grows and grows we
- demand more and more control of our dependent entourage of
- governments and corporations. When we finally end the
- easy credit to "combat inflation" the enterprised and govern-
- ments either fall directly into our hands, bankrupt, or are
- rescued at the price of total control.
-
- Also we ruling bankers control the flow of meony in the
- economy through the wide authority of the Central Bank to
- license, audit, and regulate private banks. Banks that loan
- to interest outside the loyal entourage are "audited" by the
- Central Bank and found to be dangerously overextended.
- Just a hint of insolvency from the respected Central Bank
- authorities is enoguht to cause a run on the disobedient bank
- or at least dry up its vital lines of credit. Soon the banking
- establishment learns to follow the hints and nods of your
- father's agents at the Central Bank automatically.
-
- Further, the periodic cycles of easy money and tight
- money that we initiate through our control of the Central
- Bank cause corresponding fluctuations in all markets. Our
- inner circle knows in advance the timing of these cycles and,
- therefore reaps windfall profits by speculating in commodity,
- stock,currency, gold, and bond markets. Monopolistic stock
- and commodity Exchanges are a vital adjunct to our power
- mad possible by our Central Bank power. We do not allow a
- fair auction market to exist, but make a great show of
- "tough" government regulation to create a false sense of
- confindence among small investors. With the aid of our regula-
- tory charade and financial power we are able to manipulate
- stock prices at the expense of independent investors. Our
- priveleged specialists on the floors of Exchanges, aided
- by the propaganda of our financial press and brokerage
- houses, continually play on naivete and greed to drain
- the savings of the unwary into our coffers. The stock, commodi-
- ties and security held in trading accounts by the Exchange
- and brokerage houses provides us with a clout far beyond our
- own actual holdings with which we can manipulate prices and
- win proxy fights for corporate takeovers.
-
- Little danger to our lucretive racket exists from public
- spirited regulation. Our manipulations are so complex that
- only the most brilliant experts could comprehend them. To
- most economists our Exchange operations appear to be
- helpful efforts to "stabilize" the market. We ruling bankers
- if able to keep peace among ourselves, become richer and richer
- as time passes with the annoyance of exerting productive effort
- of benefit to others.
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