The Multipolar World Order (yes, it's coming)

[Miller]

Russia Claims More Bakhmut, Prigozhin Warns of Ukraine attack; China Russia Go For Full Integration

Russia Claims More Bakhmut, Prigozhin Warns of Ukraine attack; China Russia Go For Full Integration, West Nervous

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=n3igbb9q06I

21st March 2023

Latest reporting on Ukraine from Alexander Mercouris of The Duran.
From 1:05:34 Alex acknowledges, with dismay, the creation of a Multipolar World against the West.

[arwen]

Xi Jinping delivers a chilling message for the West as he tells 'dear friend' Vladimir Putin 'change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years... and we are driving it'



Extract:

China's President Xi Jinping told a grinning Vladimir Putin 'change is coming' in an ominous parting message as he departed Moscow last night following talks with his Russian counterpart.

'Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together,' Xi told Putin via his interpreter – words sure to set alarm bells ringing in the West.

'Please, take care, dear friend,' he added, gripping the Kremlin leader's hand warmly before being waved off by the Russian despot, who bid Xi a 'safe journey'.

After the two leaders hailed a 'new era', Xi's plane left Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Wednesday. He was seen off by a guard of honour who played the Russian and Chinese national anthems, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said.

In February 2022, the pair announced they had forged a 'no limits' friendship and Putin invited Xi to visit the Russian capital. They have since publicly talked of strengthening their 'special relationship', with Moscow and Beijing both rejecting what they say are US attempts to create a 'unipolar world' controlled by Washington.

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Russia draws in Africa with charm offensive against Western ‘neo-colonialism’

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Russia-Africa International Parliamentary Conference in Moscow, March 20, 2023. © Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Pool via REUTERS

On 19 and 20 March, some 40 African delegations travelled to Moscow ahead of the Russia-Africa summit scheduled for July in St Petersburg, to discuss cooperation and the fight against the influence of “former colonial powers”.

[arwen]

Russia Writes Off 20 Billion In Debt To African Countries

The International Parliamentary Conference "Russia - Africa in a multipolar world" has brought together 40 African nations in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia has written off debts of African states worth more than 20 billion dollars.

Putin's comments came on the occasion of the International Parliamentary Conference "Russia - Africa in a Multipolar World," where the Russian President said that the volume of mutual trade "reached almost $18 billion by the end of last year."

In this regard, the President added that the volume of trade between Russia and African countries will benefit from "the more vigorous transition to national currencies in financial settlements and the establishment of new transport and logistics chains."

On the occasion, Putin said that in case the Black Sea grain agreement is not extended, Russia will supply food to needy African nations free of charge.

"We are convinced that Africa will become one of the leaders of the new emerging multipolar world order," Putin said, and added that the role of the African continent in international affairs is steadily growing.

Russia and African countries, along with many states of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, "defend the traditional moral norms and social principles of our peoples, and oppose the neocolonial ideology imposed from abroad," the Russian President said, pointing to the global majority stance against neocolonial ideology.

Putin expressed Russia's commitment to work together with Africa "to strengthen fair and equal interstate relations and improve mechanisms of mutually beneficial economic cooperation."

[shaberon]

Pretty good day for fuming as usual:


Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, who was part of the expanded circle of Russian delegates at the talks, pointed out that he was pleased that most Westerners were furious about Russia-China high-level talks.


McGovern on Putin:


"He says, 'You know, I thought there might be some logic in it, but there isn't. They're just crazy. You know, I thought for a moment that there may be some some subtle reasons, but I no longer believe that this is a product of arrogance and a feeling of impunity'."

Russia and China "can't be sure that these 'crazy people' won't do something even crazier than they're already trying to do in Ukraine," over Taiwan, McGovern stressed. "I fear for what decisions will be made this spring when the Russians start to prevail definitively in Ukraine."


Chossudovsky re-ran something from 2008:


The article also focusses on the U.S. population control agenda as contained in the National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSSM 200) formulated during the Nixon Administration.

The U.S. Congress set up a Commission on “Population Growth and the American Future”. (See Center for Research on Population and Security).

Under the helm of Henry Kissinger, the Commission’s unspoken objective was to curb World population with a view to serving US strategic and national security interests.

It is worth noting that the NSSSM 200 has been the source of inspiration of Klaus Schwab, et al in the formulation of the World Economic Forum’s Depopulation Agenda.



He goes on to how computer-programmed trades are used to manipulate food, water, and energy around the globe. I believe the following is an example of a derivative?


According to William Engdahl;

“… At least 60% of the 128 per barrel price of crude oil comes from unregulated futures speculation by hedge funds, banks and financial groups using the London ICE Futures and New York NYMEX futures exchanges and uncontrolled inter-bank or Over-The-Counter trading to avoid scrutiny. US margin rules of the government’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission allow speculators to buy a crude oil futures contract on the Nymex, by having to pay only 6% of the value of the contract.

At today’s price of $128 per barrel, that means a futures trader only has to put up about $8 for every barrel. He borrows the other $120. This extreme ‘leverage’ of 16 to 1 helps drive prices to wildly unrealistic levels and offset bank losses in sub-prime and other disasters at the expense of the overall population.



So in that example a $120 loan is created, which is not quite tied to that barrel of oil. It is just on the trader's credit. Moreover, this debt can become the "collateral" of another loan, i. e. "re-hypothecated". And that is where most of "the money went", into these bubbles of nothingness to the tune of a Quadrillion or more, compared to the two or three trillion in cash that even exists.

Sure it was real estate derivatives that were highlighted around 2008, but this is the same kind of thing isn't it?

The article links another then-current which seems to respond fairly well:

Ian Angus, Food Crisis: “The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model”,

[shaberon]

This is notable not for the fact he didn't say it very eloquently, but for what Dr. Assad is saying:


From his side, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed Saudi Arabia’s agreement with Iran during his recent visit to Russia, and said that the kingdom was longer intervening in the war in Syria.

“Syria is no longer a place of Iranian-Saudi conflict, as it was at some stages by some parties at that time. Saudi policy took a different turn towards Syria years ago and it is no longer… I mean, it was not within the framework or was not in the process of interfering in internal affairs or supporting any factions in Syria,” the president said during an interview with RT.



For real? I wouldn't believe it from anyone else. He seems to claim the Saudis gave up. This must be "a failure of Israeli foreign policy". Well Israel had become strange bedfellows with SA a few years ago, and, one would think it was with the intent of provoking them *against* Iran and Syria. And now Syria is somewhat on speaking terms with Turkey, if not the greatest, neither is pro-US, I think that Gulenist coup had dire consequences for western and Zionist projects.

Since there is still insurgency in Syria, and, the Saudis must have been one of the most important backers, who is picking up the slack?

[Vicus]

US warns Russia and China over dollar alternative 24 Mar, 2023

The greenback will remain the world’s reserve currency, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has predicted

Russia and China will face substantial difficulty in their efforts to create an alternative to the US dollar in international trade, American Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claimed on Thursday.

Russia is conducting a rapid withdrawal from transactions in “unfriendly” currencies, against the backdrop of expanding EU and US sanctions. As part of the move, Moscow has shifted away from the dollar towards the ruble and local currencies in settlements with major trade partners such as China and India.

“I certainly want to see the dollar remain as the world’s reserve currency, and there is a motivation that Russia and China have to try to develop another system that avoids the use of the dollar,” Yellen said at a hearing of the US House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee. The Treasury official claimed it would be “tremendously difficult” for Moscow and Beijing to achieve their aims.

Russia began de-dollarizing its economy in 2014, when Western countries introduced sanctions after Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine and reunify with Russia. The process has accelerated after more than $300 billion in Russian foreign exchange reserves and other assets were frozen by the West last year.

The latest data from the Bank of Russia shows that the Chinese yuan has become a major player in Russia’s foreign trade. Its share in Russian import settlements had jumped to 23% by the end of last year, from only 4% in January 2022. The yuan’s share in export settlements also surged, from 0.5% to 16%.

In contrast, the share of the US dollar and euro in Russia’s export settlements dropped substantially last year, from 65% in January 2022 to 46% in December.

In February, the yuan overtook the dollar as the most traded currency on the Russian stock market for the first time ever, according to data from the Moscow Exchange.


https://www.rt.com/business/573507-y...na-altenative/

[shaberon]

Does this constitute an official statement?



Saudi state television mocked US President Joe Biden at length this week in a scathing portrayal that paints the head of state as senile and foolish.

In the video, which was widely shared online, a horrified 'Kamala Harris' attempts to escort an actor playing Joe Biden off stage as he tries to greet imaginary people.

On social media, a number of alarmed viewers said the satire as painful, but reflective of reality.
“It's accurate. It's funny. It's not going to end well,” wrote one Twitter user.

Others pointed out that there was almost no need to produce a new video showing a doddering Biden attempting to shake hands with people who don’t exist, given that he’s repeatedly been documented doing just that.




Or this?


In a speech to a US corporate lobby group, Ukraine's Zelensky thanked Black Rock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Elon Musk's Starlink, promising:

“Everyone can become a big business by” buying up Ukrainian assets

“We are defending freedom and property”



That is from a larger article explaining how over the past year, most of Europe's productivity versus GDP has not gone particularly well, whereas the one in Russia does not seem terribly hampered.





Then we can add a few names to the dirt from, what appears to be one of the same chapters from undervalued assets:



The main goal of the corrupt Ukrainian authorities was to get rid of inhabitants of the rural part of the region, consolidate large volumes of highly fertile and irrigated agricultural land, and then sell or lease it to Western corporations, either directly or through Ukrainian oligarchs.

The same went for the industrial complex. Most of the largest enterprises owned by the Ukrainian state were systematically driven into bankruptcy, and sold for peanuts, with companies backed by Anglo-Saxon capital as the ultimate beneficiaries.

Kiev achieved the desired result by lowering the level of social welfare of the inhabitants of the region, ruining infrastructure, while blocking access of products of medium and small farms to the mass market, etc.


According to official Ukrainian statistics, from 2000 to 2020, the total population of the Zaporizhzhia region decreased by 300,000 people. Other unofficial sources claimed that in fact the population decreased by about 500,000, mainly due to the departure of inhabitants of the countryside.

The new owners began using unmanned harvesters and tractors, instead of local labor. It was much more expensive to maintain these machines than hire the locals, but it wasn’t about money. It was about politics.


One of the explicit examples of the Western-Kiev strategy, which was designed to consolidate large tracts of land to facilitate their sale to Western corporations, was the operation of the Agroprosperis. This was one of the largest agricultural holdings in Ukraine in 2020, with a land bank of 300 thousand hectares. The beneficiaries of this agrarian giant are the US citizens, and owners of the NCH investment fund, George Rohr and Maurice Tabasinik.

In the same year, the Americans intensified their financial and credit activity through their Agroprosperis Bank. It began to provide financing secured by agrarian receipts, thereby providing Ukrainian farmers with access to fast, but expensive, money. The true goal of this programme was to burden small and medium-sized farmers with debt, and drive them to bankruptcy. The end goal was to buy up their agricultural products and land at a price well below market value.

This is very similar to the way global financiers are squeezing small and medium-sized farmers in the southern U.S. states.



It probably is. Works in the midwest too. I thought everybody knows this. Something is wrong with this picture. As for the petrol industry:



At the end of 2021, the only personal owner of AZMOL was a British citizen, Dicken Terence William who owned 24% of the company’s shares.

Today, this plant is nationalized and belongs to the Zaporizhzhia Region Administration of the Russian Federation.




And from a much larger article on the Pentagon or DoD from Zuess, there is also a good criticism of the following mouthpiece:


Mick West, who blogs as metabunk, is a propagandist for the “Establishment” or the billionaires’ preferences of what the public should believe; and, on 16 May 2018, he headlined “Debunked: Missing $21 Trillion / $6.5 Trillion / $2.3 Trillion – Journal Vouchers”.

The only way for an authentic progressive political candidate to deal with this is to declare publicly (and to document it by means of linked-to-evidence news-reports online, like the present one) that ‘our’ Government and media are controlled by the organized mega-crooks, who are this nation’s wealthiest individuals — the only group of individuals who benefit from it — who are this nation’s actual enemies: its corrupters. But, of course, no billionaire will fund such a campaign, and any news-medium that reports on it (except by lying against it) will likewise get no investors.


Article is somewhat in-depth about no audit, can't pass an audit, and offers meaningless slogans about "accounting". It is only many trillions of dollars or something. If I recall this was one of the plausible motives for 9/11 to destroy one of the Pentagon's financial vaults so even these early mistakes would be erased. Twenty years later even more is more missing for less reason.

I would admit there was no way I would expect a moderate Saudi Arabia to be one of the first observable shifts. I would not expect the DoD policies in Ukraine to be viable in the long term, but that seems an unusual consequence that such an almighty pillar of the dollar is no longer "pure".

[Ewan]

Posted by shaberon (here)

The main goal of the corrupt Ukrainian authorities was to get rid of inhabitants of the rural part of the region, consolidate large volumes of highly fertile and irrigated agricultural land, and then sell or lease it to Western corporations, either directly or through Ukrainian oligarchs.

The same went for the industrial complex. Most of the largest enterprises owned by the Ukrainian state were systematically driven into bankruptcy, and sold for peanuts, with companies backed by Anglo-Saxon capital as the ultimate beneficiaries.

Kiev achieved the desired result by lowering the level of social welfare of the inhabitants of the region, ruining infrastructure, while blocking access of products of medium and small farms to the mass market, etc.

And it worked so well they are rolling it out to pretty much every western nation and the frogs can't stop the water slowly boiling because they don't realise the heat has been turned on already.

Holland has a dedicated thread.

(local info: Here in western Ireland I hear plenty of criticism of the EU agricultural policies being dicated from Brussels, but it is just typical moaning so far - no plans for action that I'm aware of.)

Also don't forget Bill Gates buying up land in America like it was going out of fashion. He won't be hiring labourers, too busy getting the laboratories set up for Frankenstein Foods Inc.

[shaberon]

I stirred the proverbial honeypot by mentioning Cagliostro in relation to the Knights of Malta. Might have been in the WWIII thread. But it is exactly this era which casts the "mono-" and "multi-" orders that we are discussing. And particularly because the other day we also looked at how the Bank of Prussia became the Reichsbank, which was almost the sole source to copy for Nelson Aldrich, whose idea moved forward to become the Federal Reserve.


These are a few notes on the historicity surrounding such a Bank.


Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was herself Prussian. Born as "Sophie", we will find her an attempted pawn or tool in shifting allegiances:





The choice of Princess Sophie as wife of the future tsar was a result of the Lopukhina affair, in which Count Jean Armand de Lestocq and King Frederick the Great of Prussia took an active part. The objective was to strengthen the friendship between Prussia and Russia, to weaken the influence of Austria, and to overthrow the chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, a known partisan of the Austrian alliance on whom the reigning Russian Empress Elizabeth relied.



When Sophie was married in 1745 to the future Tsar Peter III, he was then:


Duke of Holstein-Gottorp


and when he became Tsar in 1762:


Peter III could hardly speak Russian and pursued a strongly pro-Prussian policy.

The two countries were on opposing sides of the Seven Years' War, and Russian troops were threatening Berlin at the time of Peter's accession to the throne. He immediately switched sides in the war and withdrew his troops from Prussia, undoing hard-earned gains.

The things that St. Germain is known to have said, are quite accurate in terms of the situation around the Seven Years' War, in which, the main powers, Britain and France, were both submerged heavily in debt to the banks--and that debt was hugely influential to both the American and French revolutions.



As for the King of Prussia:


However, he never gave up and on 3 November 1760 the Prussian king won another battle, the hard-fought Battle of Torgau. Despite being several times on the verge of defeat Frederick, allied with Great Britain, Hanover and Hesse-Kassel, was finally able to hold the whole of Silesia against a coalition of Saxony, the Habsburg monarchy, France and Russia.


Russian troops withdrew from Berlin and marched against the Austrians. This dramatically shifted the balance of power in Europe, suddenly handing the delighted Frederick the initiative. Frederick recaptured southern Silesia.



After "rescuing" King Frederick, Peter planned war against Denmark in order to restore parts of Schleswig to his Duchy.


In June 1762, 40,000 Russian troops assembled in Pomerania under General Pyotr Rumyantsev, preparing to face 27,000 Danish troops under the French general Count St. Germain in case the Russian–Danish freedom conference (scheduled for 1 July 1762 in Berlin under the patronage of Frederick II) failed to resolve the issue. However, shortly before the conference, Peter lost his throne (9 July [O.S. 28 June] 1762) and the conference did not occur. The issue of Schleswig remained unresolved. Peter was accused of planning an unpatriotic war.


That refers to Claude-Louis St. Germain. It is a relatively common name, with at least three minor fiefs similar to counties also bearing the name. So we see what he was up to at the very moment he was deposed. What is thought to have happened is that he fled, realized that the military, the nobles, and the Senate had defected to his wife, and abdicated. He perhaps became ill and died within about two months.

Ever since her marriage, Sophie or Catherine had been approached by "strong political groups" that did not like her husband. From a young age he would have been expected to inherit the Russian throne. In itself that may not have been a big deal, but, his character.

In Russia, this intensified.

Peter was soon gotten rid of, by, among others, Dashkova:


The couple was close friends with Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alexeyevna and disliked the Grand Duke Peter, fearing for the future of Russia under the rule of the pro-Prussia future tsar. In December 1761, Empress Elizabeth became severely ill and died January 5, 1762. Her nephew ascended the throne, began undoing her policies and kept a submissive position towards his idol and Russia's enemy, Frederick the Great, much to the displeasure of his court and military. Yekaterina, along with several nobleman and members of the Imperial Guards, lead a coup d'état against him on June 28, 1762, that put his wife on the throne.

She also met Benjamin Franklin in the French capital on February 3, 1781 and the two became close friends, corresponding frequently and showing mutual respect and admiration.

...the first woman in the world to head a national academy of sciences, the first woman in Europe to hold a government office and the president of the Russian Academy, which she helped found.




Considering the land grab that Peter tried to do, the same conflict proceeds through the nineteenth century:


When the Danish government tried to integrate Schleswig, but not Holstein, into the Danish state, Prussia led the German Confederation against Denmark in the First War of Schleswig (1848–1851). Because Russia supported Austria, Prussia also conceded predominance in the German Confederation to Austria in the Punctation of Olmütz in 1850.

Bismarck realised that the dual administration of Schleswig and Holstein was only a temporary solution, and tensions rose between Prussia and Austria. The struggle for supremacy in Germany then led to the Austro-Prussian War (1866), triggered by the dispute over Schleswig and Holstein, with Bismarck using proposed injustices as the reason for war.

German provinces unified in 1871, under two opinions as to whether Austria was also Germany.

In 1875, the Bank of Prussia becomes the Reichsbank.

In 1908, Nelson Aldrich copies this privately-owned central bank as the blueprint for the Federal Reserve.


In mentioning St. Germain above, then, for one thing he was quite close to Marie Antoinette, and, was almost certainly around for the removal of Peter III. What may be misunderstood about him was that he was never a member of a Masonic Lodge. He was occasionally welcomed as a guest. What also seems to be the case is that he had provided a map, which showed the then-future changes which would come through the French Revolution and Napoleon, and it extended out to the 1870 Franco-Prussian war. There is a single copy of it in Russia.

It seems he got his knowledge by meeting with the powerful banking houses and realizing the consequences of their intent.

He was not really a Mason, whereas Cagliostro tried to get people to defect out of Strict Observance.

In Austria, Maria Theresa suppressed Jesuits as well as Masons and Rosicrucians. This was a culmination because Jesuit offices had been shut down by most of the countries. They were almost unilaterally held to be political meddlers.


Being largely unemployed in 1773, the Jesuits set about to infiltrate Masonry and Rosicrucianism.


Masonry was not a Jewish phenomenon until post-Napoleon.


1807: A French Masonic Strict Observance Lodge is charted in Frankfurt named Loge St. John de L’aurore Naissante or Chabrath Zereh Boqer Aour, unlike other German Lodges of the time this one admitted Jews; rechartered as Loge zur aufgehenden Morgenrothe by the Duke of Sussex in 1817 (1812-1842, His Royal Highness Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of King George III, the Duke of Sussex united the rival lodges, the Ancient and the Modern, into a single, potent force). Under the German name, they had applied with Karl of Hesse Kassel, but he refused. Jews are then able to become Craft Masons, but they are seeking an alternative to the Scottish Rite, which is Christian only. Interest would have naturally flowed towards Strict Observance.


The Golden Dawn is similar to Masonry, having got its hands on the Cipher Manuscript and materials of Fratres Lucis such as Crata Repoa.


Fratres Lucis is another kind of "recycled" name, i. e. it was picked up again around 1770 for a new organization in Germany. This is similar to "Rosicrucian", i. e. being applied in various ways by new organizations which are not that connected to their namesake. Knights of Malta could be called an organization that remained intact, but, post-Napoleon, battered and twisted beyond recognition and moved to Italy.


If we turn to the original precursors for these names, it does, indeed, make an arc which leads to--something like an alliance--but also of monarchs opposite the Money Power.


Around 1348, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV granted a charter for the University of Florence. 1438 was the opening of the Platonic Academy there involving Pico della Mirandola who found manuscripts in the Etruscan town Perugia. And 1530 was the beginning of the Maltese Falcon wherein H. R. E. Charles V (the last papally confirmed or crowned emperor) granted that country to those who became known as Knights of Malta.

Later, Pinto in fact kicks the Jesuits out and uses their wealth to start the University of Malta. He also used St. Germain to rebuff an infiltration from Adam Weishaupt with bankers and priests. We can find a bloc forming here of Prague--Florence--Malta even prior to the famous Rudolf II (r. 1576–1612).

The Theosophists (Isabel Cooper Oakley, Theosophical Review vol. 22) got their information out of the estate of Count Wilkorski of Poland. Within the material it specifically uses the term Theosophist and states its headquarters are in Asia, and that Blue or St. John's Masonry is the only authentic. The year they give to Fratres Lucis Florentine birth is 1498. Isabel's version of the Hidden Tradition in Masonry also refers to Crata Repoa, in the 1770 German version, which may have had a Venetian original, published by Humberto Malhandrini in 1657--which unfortunately is only known to HPB and the name does mean rogue or trickster.


Crata Repoa was a hugely influential ritual manual being Egyptian, which no one understood at the time as the Rosetta stone had not been found. Nevertheless, it is a seven degree system with planetary correspondences and so forth.

Mentioned in Traces of the Mysteries.

Nevertheless it is seen as almost spurious. However both Crata Repoa and the F. L. document are the spine of Golden Dawn. Well, it could be semi-spurious, in the sense of not being transmitted directly from Egypt. The 1770 version is often thought to be the result of those Germans combing all the neo-Platonic sources such as Plotinus and Iamblichus, taking every note about initiation they can find, and assembling it together.

What seems likely now is that it appears, up to a certain point, the original Knights of Malta or Knights of John the Baptist were, similarly to the Templars, initiated into the Johannite tradition and operated a magical college as demonstrated by Pinto initiating Cagliostro. This obviously was in conjunction with the Holy Roman Empire or at least Hapsburgs and Medicis. After the Knights of Malta's defeat by Napoleon, the Jesuits were back in power. This leads to a complicated situation wherein HPB fights the pope in order to help Garibaldi put the monarch Victor Immanuel back in power in Italy (Metana 1867).


Grand Master Pinto (in office 1741-1773) initiated Cagliostro (ca. 1765) and was seen as of the same caliber with St. Germain, with whom he was personal friends, and used to dupe the bankers with an alchemical preparation of temporary gold.

Malta since 1734 was nominally a fief under the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, from 1759 under Ferdinand III. Bernardo Tanucci pressured Pinto to follow the Bourbon policy of suppression of the Jesuits.


So if we review the turbulence of the French Revolution, we may notice that later books on Judeo-Masonic conspiracy do not mention the Jesuits. In Bavaria, Baron Knigge was an influential personality who was a devotee of the Strict Observance Rite, and we can only suggest that not all those around him supported all his views.


In 1782, Count de Virieu, sensed a conspiracy neither church nor monarch will withstand. He didn't write a book, he just made one statement, so there are no further details. But then in 1786, Ernst von Gochhausen created a book called "Revelations about the cosmopolitan political system" (or World Citizens' Republic) which predicted the French Revolution by Masons, Illuminati, and Jesuits. A brief page on him states that his view is that when the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773, they were working on the Enlightenment and ways to destroy society so people would flock to the pope. Implication is they hooked the Bavarian Illuminati to start this.

Now we will suspend the Illuminati for a moment and propose that some members were against state and church domination, but to them, the concept of revolt did not extend to the destruction of society for that purpose. This view is the same as restoring the King of Italy, to keep it from going to pieces.

The most direct way it appears to have translated into the French Revolution is when Nicholas Bonneville, impressed by J J C Bode of the Bavarian Illuminati, started a newsletter called "The Tribune of the People" which called for a citizens' militia, and was among the first to offer to take the Bastille. He was a disciple of St. Martin and friend of Thomas Paine, and opposed to the Terror. He also wrote "The Jesuits expelled from Masonry" and "Broken Dagger by Masons" from an experience in English Masonry, where he denounced the Jesuits as promoters of the Templar myth and doctrine of revenge. In the revolution, the Terror was not the original plan, but even this, represented by Maximillien Robespierre--who said something warning of a conspiracy that none dared mention--was then sent through changes.

As well as Bonneville, Prince Karl of Hesse also looked towards J J C Bode instead of Weishaupt or Baron Knigge. This is who St. Germain protected by going against the emperor of Russia, and with whom he spent the end of his official life.

After Russian forces were removed, those northern provinces became the domain of Prince Karl of Hesse, Landgrave of Schleswig-Holstein. Karl of Hesse was a devout Protestant Christian, who never gained a good understanding of mysticism, although he had joined German Masonry, the Jacobins, and the Bavarian Illuminati and attended the big masonic conventions.

He did not think that Adam Weishaupt and Baron Knigge had the greatest ideas, and mostly admired J J C Bode, whom he thought believed in a Rousseau-ish philosophy mixed with moral religion. He also found that seeds of the revolution were present at the 1782 Wilhelmsbad convention, without going into much detail. Prince Karl left his own book of memoirs, a lot of which is available in a Google translation.


If anything, the confusion of new ideas seems mystically clearest in the lodges around Savalette des Langes.


Well, it is not inconceivable that, in Europe, one might wish to rebel against tyranny or Catholicism. But if you start going to meetings, you discover that rented antifa mobs are in the plan, and there are vested interests renting them. Basically the same as now. Many of the countries headed for the Multi-polar order found out first hand.


The significance here is such that it has its own page as financial costs:


The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) brought great financial burdens on Great Britain, Kingdom of Prussia, Austria, France, and Sweden. The costs of fighting a protracted war on several continents meant Britain's national debt almost doubled from 1756 to 1763, and this financial pressure which Britain tried to alleviate through new taxation in the Thirteen Colonies helped cause the American Revolution.


In America, it worked, whereas in Europe, most countries were plowed under by an already-standing private central bank. Around 1760, a tripartite faction of Austria, France, and Russia became aware of the nature of the Money Power, viz., The Seven Years' war is being experienced. On another side, Prussia and UK, major centers of the private central banking idea.

What became the United States was friendly to the Russian side for similar reasons.



What we see is a shift from Austrian power to the ascendancy of the families of the Knights Teutonic called Junkers:


While Austria was traditionally considered the leader of the German states, Prussia became increasingly powerful and by the late 18th century was ranked as one of the great powers of Europe.

For the brief Austro-Prussian War:


Bismarck maintained that he orchestrated the conflict in order to bring about the North German Confederation, the Franco-Prussian War and the eventual unification of Germany.

Bismarck had an entirely different view after the war in 1866: he was interested only in strengthening Prussia through the eyes of a staunch realist. Uniting Germany appeared immaterial to him unless it improved Prussia's position.


It did; they dominated the other Germans. He agitated the next conflict by scaring the non-unified Germans and insulting the French:


These discussions, leaked by Bismarck to the German states in the south, turned former enemies into allies almost overnight, receiving not only written guarantees but armies that would be under the control of Prussia.

King Wilhelm then sent a message to Berlin reporting this event with the French ambassador, and Bismarck shrewdly edited it to make it "like a red tag to the bull" for the French government.



Easily connecting the dots, when Bismark put this together, the UK knew they had to have it. Voila!





Suppressed in Bavaria, Bode (1731-1793) was the collector of the Illuminati Files.

With Nicolai and Biester, Bode was charging that Jesuit infiltration would reduce the Enlightenment to violence so that people would flock to the Catholic shelter. In 1795, he was accused of opening an Illuminati club in France, and this goes on to a dissertation which seeks to prove that this is simply a reverse tactic, possibly fictional. This becomes popularized through several new books. But it is a Jesuit tactic. There is a several year gap between the original writers and then this perpetual wave of Judeo-Masonic conspiracy writers highly popular in Germany.



An original Vienna 1788 Rosicrucian manual in Munich:


...is registered with as the author Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, whereas this name is neither on the title page, nor on the subtitle page.


Part of the point is that while disbanded, the Jesuits did not drop dead. At least some of them were able to find patronage. Comparatively, through the time of Napoleon, at Malta:


During the French Revolution in 1792, the Order’s property in France was confiscated by the revolutionary government, which caused financial trouble for the knights.

Desperate for assistance, the knights looked to the Russian empire and the tsar, Paul I.

While Grand Duke, Tsar Paul I had developed an interest in the Catholic Church and also the Order of St. John. He was greatly intrigued by the knights and entertained the idea of becoming the Grand Master himself. Fortunately for Paul, the Order and Russia enjoyed improved relations from 1796. On 10 December 1797 the Russian Tsar became “Protector of the Order of Malta .” The Tsar would later be awarded the title of Grand Master. In the end, the knights’ decision to accept the Tsar’s patronage ended badly for both sides. The French used the Russian alliance as cause to invade Malta and end the Order’s tenure on the island [1798].


The Society of Jesus was restored by Pope Pius VII, a Benedictine, on August 7, 1814.

[Vicus]

Brazil and China sign pact to abandon dollar 30 Mar, 2023

The two BRICS nations will now reportedly trade in their own currencies



Beijing and Brasilia have signed an agreement on trade in mutual currencies, abandoning the US dollar as an intermediary, and are also planning to expand cooperation on food and minerals.

According to media reports, the deal will enable the two BRICS members to conduct their massive trade and financial transactions directly, exchanging renminbi for real and vice versa, instead of using the US dollar for settlements.

“The expectation is that this will reduce costs... promote even greater bilateral trade and facilitate investment,” AFP quoted the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency as saying on Wednesday.

The countries also reportedly announced the creation of a clearinghouse that will provide settlements without the US dollar, as well as lending in national currencies. The move is aimed at facilitating and reducing the cost of transactions between the sides, and getting rid of dollar dependence in bilateral relations.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced earlier that such arrangements will boost the usage of the renminbi for cross-border transactions between enterprises and financial institutions in the two countries, and further facilitate bilateral trade and investment.

China has been Brazil's largest trading partner for more than a decade, with bilateral trade hitting a record $150 billion last year.

According to the Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil, Tatiana Rosito, 25 countries are already making settlements with China in yuan.


https://www.rt.com/business/573852-b...bandon-dollar/

[Vicus]

West’s labeling of Russia as ‘imperialist’ disgusts most Africans – senior diplomat to RT

Many on the continent are aware of Moscow’s role in liberating them from colonialism, says Oleg Ozerov

African countries are beginning to recognize their own national interests and are breaking away from the Western-dominated world order, Oleg Ozerov, the head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum has claimed in an exclusive interview to RT.

Speaking to RT host Oksana Boyko, Ozerov noted that African-Russian relations have been on a significant upswing in recent years and that Russia is treating its African partners in a dramatically different manner than Western countries, which have retained a colonial mindset in their dealings with the continent.

This mindset “manifests itself in the form of patronizing attitudes, lecturing and moralizing, insisting that the Western model alone should be accepted as a gift from the gods by our African friends” the diplomat explained, adding that this “aura of arrogance” is backed by a desire to keep African nations dependent and subservient to the West.

Meanwhile, Ozerov pointed out that many African people are “aware of the role Russia has played in liberating them from colonial bondage,” which is why the majority of Africans feel nothing but “disgust and revulsion” when they witness attempts to label Russians as imperialist or claims that Russia aims to plunder the continent.

According to Ozerov, contrary to the West’s belief that its political model is the only acceptable one, Russia, as well as China, is promoting a new model of international order that recognizes different forms of political governance and treats them with respect.

Ozerov noted that while Russia uses the same diplomatic tools to negotiate with Africa as the West, what sets it apart is that Moscow has no hidden agendas in its dealings.

One example provided by Ozerov is the West’s attempts to impose green energy policies on the African continent while simultaneously “sucking out” its natural resources such as oil, gas and coal to use back in Europe. The diplomat argued that African nations are beginning to realize that this approach is ultimately meant to prevent real industrialization on the continent.

Russia, however, is instead offering its extensive expertise in nuclear power to help the continent establish a reliable source of clean energy and further develop its industry, Ozerov said.

The diplomat also touched upon the issue of hunger in Africa, stating that Russia has a large amount of agricultural and fertilizer products that it is willing to offer to the continent, but noted that such exports are currently blocked by the West’s “illegal” sanctions.

https://www.rt.com/russia/573746-rus...est-relations/

[Bill Ryan]

This is centrally relevant to everything we see happening round the world today. Chris Martenson takes just 20 minutes to explain how when the US froze (and tried to seize) Russian assets this time last year. that broke the trust in the current dollar-based global financial system. Now, the rest of the world is responding fast.

(The answer to the video title question below is YES. )

Are we approaching the END of US DOLLAR hegemony?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfDXnNpQQgs

[Gwin Ru]

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[Bill Ryan]

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/51974

[arwen]

I'll just leave this little gem here......

For those not on Twitter, the full text of the above Tweet:

Astounding statement from White House official talking head Karine Jean-Pierre:

“We are deeply concerned about the transition of Brazil and China to national currencies when conducting mutual settlements. This is a violation of the rights of our citizens who rely on a stable dollar exchange rate on the world market .

America will not allow other countries to dictate their terms to it in mutual trade. We want to warn that the violation of the rights of ordinary Americans will not remain without consequences for these countries".

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by arwen (here)
I'll just leave this little gem here......

Wow.

Here's the full text of the tweet:

~~~

Astounding statement from White House official talking head Karine Jean-Pierre:

“We are deeply concerned about the transition of Brazil and China to national currencies when conducting mutual settlements. This is a violation of the rights of our citizens who rely on a stable dollar exchange rate on the world market.

America will not allow other countries to dictate their terms to it in mutual trade. We want to warn that the violation of the rights of ordinary Americans will not remain without consequences for these countries.

[shaberon]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
“We are deeply concerned about the transition of Brazil and China to national currencies when conducting mutual settlements. This is a violation of the rights of our citizens who rely on a stable dollar exchange rate on the world market.

What a caterwauling catechumen.

What she means is she want to protect the gears the Fed shifts by adjusting interest rates, and blot out these cycles so no one pays attention to how fiscal policies cause catastrophes. When the public becomes aware, for example, that adjusting the value of Treasuries makes them dangerously unreliable, the world is less interested in collecting them, as in Not by Yuan Alone:


"Asian countries, and in part also African countries, depend less on the US dollar than was the case in the recent past. The US economy is, therefore, in a much weaker position than used to be the case with regard to the US public deficit and the possibility to finance it through the purchase of US government bonds by foreign countries’ financial institutions – such as the People’s Bank of China. The US is thereby losing its ‘soft power’ across the global economy and financial markets, as it is clear that the world is becoming multipolar, which rebalances this ‘soft power’ with, among other things, some sort of a multicurrency international monetary regime," Rossi continued.



They presume they should be able to get cash unlimitedly at will. If not, how could they ever do all this deficit spending? They are trying to defend a big negative. But as the pieces slip away:



According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the share of US-dollar-denominated foreign exchange reserves stood at 59.8%, as of Q3 2022, down from 72% in 1999. International players are continuing to switch from the greenback to other currencies for their reserves, overseas trade, and banking services.

For instance, Moscow not only adopted the yuan – also referred to as renminbi – as a reserve currency, but also pledged to use the Chinese means of payment "between Russia and countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America."

The yuan also appears to be ready to dethrone the petrodollar: last year, Beijing called on Gulf leaders to settle their gas and oil deals with China in yuan. The US and China remain the world's top two consumers of crude, using 18.7 million and 15.4 million barrels per day, respectively. Energy settlements in yuan are likely to deal a heavy blow to the greenback.


Moreover, earlier this week, China's national energy giant CNOOC and France's TotalEnergies completed their first yuan-settled liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal through the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange.



According to another analyst:


They help to bypass the SWIFT Banking network, the need for US dollars, the need to have US secondary banks as an intermediary and all the related charges. If trade between two countries does not involve the United States, there is simply no reason to use the United States as an intermediary."

Indeed, the trend of cutting the dependence on the dollar and switching to national means of payment in international settlements is gaining steam. India and Tanzania have recently concluded a deal enabling them to use their respective currencies in bilateral trade.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has gone even further by seeking to reduce dependence not only on the greenback but also on euros, yens, and British pounds in financial transactions.




And because countries already have Treasuries, those are loans, for which we owe them a lot of debt:



"The US dollar is a debt based currency," Devonshire-Ellis explained. "If you look at the debt of the United States, it's significantly higher than its annual GDP. It is going to lead to problems in terms of how you value the US dollar when faced with a debt larger than our own production. That is going to spur arguments around the US dollar value (…) The US owes a lot of countries a lot of money, the viability and the sustainability of that is going to be called into increasing question."


Nonetheless, the problem is that the United States has abused its position leading to a significant erosion of trust in the US and now as a result, the American dollar's role as the global reserve currency is being challenged and rolled back, Devonshire-Ellis concluded.



What a deadly game, right? One doesn't exactly have a "national currency", since the closest effective thing is these Treasury Bonds, which means one borrows money for the opportunity to use money that is authored by a private bank. Such scenarios lead politicians into egregences such as Covid and military conflict.



The rest posted here is not current, but a historical platform that, inasmuch as there has been this running Capitalist scheme, there has also been a resistance. And if we were to symbolize that, there is the hero of two countries:


Marquis de Lafayette


M. de Lafayette was actually a Monarchist who liked Benjamin Franklin and Marie Antoinette. He did not like Robespierre, the Jacobins, Jesuits, Napoleon, or slavery. He fought in the American and French Revolutions, and later worked with the Charbonniers and the Italian and Greek Carbonari. More specifically he was a Constitutional Monarchist, which was the idea behind the Bourbon Restoration.


In speeches, Lafayette decried those with connections at court who had profited from advance knowledge of government land purchases; he advocated reform.

As leader of the National Guard, Lafayette attempted to maintain order and steer a middle ground, even as the radicals gained increasing influence. He and Paris' mayor Jean Sylvain Bailly instituted a political club on 12 May 1790 called the Society of 1789 whose intention was to provide balance to the influence of the radical Jacobins.


He never accomplishes much in French politics and winds up in prison. They did also use Nine Muses Lodge where you can find the first Jesuit book mixes it up with Jacobinism. Having posted about the dawning differences of "the West" in secret societies here, in general, Masons are not the same as Rosicrucians, which are not the same as Orders of Knighthood. These frequently have dissension and differences of opinion in different branches, if not in the same room.

Europe has difficulty forming an identity around the ethical issues of Christianity and Judaism, and most of these orders and societies fail to progress into mysticism very effectively.

During the late 1700s, the first conspiracy books were on Jesuits; after the death of J J C Bode, literature is seized by Jesuitry and counters with Judeo-Masonic conspiracies. This vein is continuous through the Anti-Masons, Whigs, and Republicans, the British Union of Fascists, and the John Birch Society.


Note that the Jesuits had inherited the power of an institution which had already been in the business of dominating Europe for a thousand years.

Bode is more or less making the accusation that they use Enlightenment societies to inflame violence, so they will be seen as the solution.

Such societies are where you go if you want to talk about anything outside of mainstream diktat. There are individuals such as Lafayette and Bode who believe that revolution is the only way to justice, and others who have more extreme ideas.




The closest thing to Humanism and Pythagoreanism attempted to rise in the Medici Renaissance, was swept through some changes, and essentially banished to Russia.


One of the oldest universities in the world is Florence, and also HRE Charles IV was behind openings at Pavia and Prague.


Charles V granted that settlement of the Knights Hospitallers known as the Maltese Falcon, 1530.


The capital was even moved to Prague by Rudolf II:

In 1607 the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II created the Grand Master [of Malta] a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst).

Rudolf gave Prague a mystical reputation that persists in part to this day, with Alchemists' Alley on the grounds of Prague Castle a popular visiting place and tourist attraction.

Rudolf was a patron of the occult sciences, along with this and his practice of tolerance towards Jews; it was during his reign that the legend of the Golem of Prague was established.



Almost simultaneously:


Malta and the Order of St. John played an important role in Catherine's plan: the island of the knights was to serve as a bridgehead for a permanent Russian presence in the Mediterranean. Already in 1698 Tsar Peter had sent delegations and diplomats to Hospitaller Malta to negotiate a Russo-Maltese alliance against the Ottomans


That never quite came to be. Napoleon's victories trashed this order and it became whatever it is today. However:


Since the days of Catherine the Great (1729–1796), the Romanov rulers had been considered by Russian lamaists as the incarnation of White Tara, a female bodhisattva typically associated with Buddhist tantric practice and considered an emanation of Chenresig (the bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas), and the protectress of the Tibetan people.





So, there was something known as Rosicrucianism in the early 1600s, and, there was something called Fratres Lucis from Florence, ca. 1498. This is before you could say there was such a thing as Freemasonry, although there was Craft Masonry. And then these, original, orders, or more likely underground brotherhoods, sort of dissipate into nowhere, and the names are recycled later.

The important example is Fratres Lucis being used again around 1780 by von Ecker. Is this exactly Masonic? According to an article on Rosicrucianism:


First, the founder, Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhoffen, was an ex-member of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz. Secondly, the order drew on the same well of symbolism and esoteric tradition as the Gold- und Rosenkreuz. Thirdly, the initiates to the highest of the five grades of the order, the grade of Melchisedeck, were known as “Royal Priests” or “True Rosicrucians.”

...the most prominent member of the Gold- and Rosenkreutz, King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia.


And he is also claimed by something even older but still current, the Order of St. Joachim:


The Gold Rosicrucians was headed by Johann Karl Baron von Ecker und Eckhoffen, who in 1787 was Chancellor of The Order of Saint Joachim. Baron von Ecker und Eckhoffen is named as a member of several other mystic societies, including the Christian Masonry of Bohemia in 1756, and the Asiatic Brethren.



Considering its patrons:


The Dukes of Württemberg were known as patrons of the arts, but also were key figures in the beginnings of Rosicrucianism. In the late 1500s and early 1600s, the court of a previous Duke of Württemberg was well known as a centre of alchemical and occult activities, with Simon Studion and Johann Valentin Andreae as its most notable Rosicrucian figures.


That is fairly original, and later there is confusion:


Albert Pike, a controversial but influential American Freemason and American Civil War general, carelessly and wrongly lumped The Order of Saint Joachim in with many of these Illuminati-related Enlightenment societies.


As is generally known:


Thomas Jefferson wrote a tribute to Weishaupt’s ideals and reformist zeal.


The specific ban hammer:

Increasing Jesuit animosity and anti-clerical sentiment from the Illuminati brought the unwanted attention of the Catholic Elector of Bavaria, who was already in confrontation with the Protestant Germanic states to the north. As a result the Elector of Bavaria issued edicts for the suppression of the Bavarian Illuminati on June 22, 1784, which were repeated in March and August, 1785 (the same year as Catholic Bavaria and Austria’s German ambitions were thwarted by Frederick the Great and the Germanic League).


And how disconnected such Masonry is:


An active man, he was also the Commander of the Priory of Bohemia for the Sovereign Order of Malta. In 1789 Kollowrat founded the first Masonic Lodge in Malta itself – St. John’s Lodge of Secrecy and Harmony – until it was ordered closed by the Inquisition in 1792.


Masonry is not a part of the Hospitallers like it was not of the Templars. However neither one of these groups was strictly Catholic either.



Concerning the Brothers or Knights of Light, or Asiatic Brethren, the fact that it is different and was never popular because it is too difficult is shown from the manuscripts of Count Wilihorski or Wieligorski of Warsaw. It refers to its Fathers as Heads of the Seven Churches of Asia. It has three degrees of Knights, then Levite and Priest. Unlike most other systems, it simply says the Knight degrees take seven years. The body had a total probation of fifteen years before you could even vote in it.

What happened was that when Austria and Russia shut down all these lodges, they simply dragged the library contents back to St. Petersburg and Moscow. From this one Polish count came fifteen hundred occult books and innumerable manuscripts. The Theosophists managed to find the Fratres Lucis manuscript in all that stuff. This is perhaps their most unique piece of evidence, and if the system can use the number seven or a multiple of seven, it does so.


Von Ecker's opinion of the typical Rosicrucian in his time is pretty much the same as what the G. D. looks like today, i. e., offer and promote wealth and power.

Poland was being invaded and divided in the 1770s. The first map for the partition of Warsaw includes "...a coat of arms and white eagle, with a dedication to Count Michal Wielhorski, who was then in Paris making a last ditch effort to preserve Poland's "Republic." One very curious element to this example of the map is the use of a modified version of the Kierdeja coat of arms, used by several Polish families, including the Wielhorski family...Count Michal Wielhorski (1730 - 1794), a Polish noble, official, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the Lithuanian "Grande Maitre d'Hotel" (Master of the Kitchen) in the years 1763-1774, Lithuanian Great Quartermaster in 1758-1762, who served as the starost and envoy of the Bar Confederation to France up to the First Partition. Count Wielhorski traveled to Paris in 1770, where he consulted with both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, to submit suggestions for the reformation of Poland's unique "Golden Liberty", which had deteriorated from a semi-republican, semi-democratic political system, into a state of virtual anarchy. This map was prepared during Wielhorski's stay in Paris and undoubtedly reflects the prevailing French Enlightenment sympathies toward Poland's efforts to preserve its independent republic status." (BLR Antique Map information)



Ecker, with the help of certain collaborators, founded the order of the Ritter des Lichts in Vienna in about 1780 or 81.


It is uncertain whether he immediately formed an association for such secret work in Vienna or whether Justus had already founded one. Ecker, however, brought it fully to life, initially under the name of the Brothers of Light. Its ritual was kabbalistic; thus, for example, the two pillars bore the sephirotic names of Netlzach and Hod. When this form was found no longer suitable the order was given a different one and emerged under the name of the Asiatic Brethren of Saint John in Europe.




Ecker hoped to present his new order to the masonic world at the Wilhelmsbad convention of 1782. To this end he travelled to Schleswig early in 1782 to visit the Landgraf Carl von Hessen-Kassel, a prominent freemason and an avid explorer of mystical and esoteric rites who will be encountered again. Whatever took place between Ecker and the Landgraf, he did not succeed in his aim, since a protest against his appearance at Wilhelmsbad was registered by a group of leading members of the Berlin lodge Friedrich zum goldenen Moewen, headed by Woellner. Curiously, it is reported that Woellner later became a member of Ecker's order, along with Bischoffswerder and Crown Prince Frederick William, but at the time he and his co-protestors clearly felt acute resentment against Ecker.

“We know that Satan's emissaries are coming there to work their mischief We know that a totally new bogus order, the Knights of the True Light..."


In 1784 Ecker took up residence in Vienna, and the following year he and Hirschfeld reorganized the order as the Asiatic Brethren.

This was just the time when the Freimaureredikt was being promulgated (it came into effect early in 1786), and Ecker was now hoping that his order would find new protection in the north.

Under the protection of Carl von Hessen, Ecker and Hirschfeld now moved to Schleswig, which became the headquarters of the Asiatic Brethren.


As a Christian rebuke of them:


In the foreword Muenter laments the theosophical, magical and Rosicrucian strains in Freemasonry which had become stronger in recent years, threatening to turn people away from philosophy and enlightenment. He affirms the link between these strains and the suppressed Jesuit order, and goes on to attack the Rosicrucians for the way in which they nonsensically mix alchemy and theology and for the hierarchical nature of their system and the blind obedience and belief that they demand of their followers.


So the Asiatic Brethren sought to admit Jews, although it was recruiting Masons. In France and England, Jews could become Masons. To make a local system:


These Melchisedeck lodges were a device to enable the Asiatics to admit Jews while at the same time insisting that they be already initiated as masons. Since nearly all regular masonic lodges in Germany administering the Craft (or St. John's) degrees were exclusively Christian, it was necessary to claim the existence of an alternative Craft-degree system for Jews. In fact, the Melchisedeck lodges existed only in name, and the conferring of the Melchisedeck degrees was probably a formality. Mueinter, in a footnote, deplores this practice: "It is, as every Entered Apprentice knows, the first rule of a regular working lodges of all systems, that only Christians can be accepted." And he adds, quite incorrectly, that no lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of London admit Jews. In fact, as already mentioned, the English lodges were at pains not to be exclusively Christian.


Meanwhile the order had spread far and wide, and there are records of lodges in Prague, Innsbruck, Berlin, Frankfurt, Wetzlar, Marburg and Hamburg.


In his defense about whether his order was compromised by Jesuits and the like, von Ecker says:


By the old order we mean the one which was not constituted as a systematic body but, as I have said, was passed on by word of mouth to those who were worthy.


von Ecker died in August 1791.



What happened is that their use of a French Masonic charter became highly unfavorable in the climate of German nationalism. German Lodges were compelled to relinquish it, which means they had to find a new authorization. Prince Karl of Hesse was not "anti-Semitic" in the idea of forbidding Jews, but, he would only grant a charter that kept them out of high offices and so forth because:


While Carl was willing to recognize the importance of the Jewish tradition of esoteric wisdom, he still clung to the belief that Christianity was the ocean into which all true initiatory traditions flowed.


He was an alchemist who belonged to every secret society and accepted Kabbalism, and remained a devout Christian above all. His friend St. Germain was an alchemist who had no interest in Jesus.

Even at that level, they only have so much in common.


As a consequence of that, here is what gets accepted and rejected:



After the break with Carl von Hessen the Judenloge succeeded in obtaining authorization from the English Grand Master, the Duke of Sussex, to operate under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of London. Henceforth its position was secure, but it remained isolated and ostracized by the mainstream of German Masonry.

Meanwhile Hirschfeld had tried to introduce the rites of the Asiatic Brethren into the Frankfurt lodge, but the lodge would have none of it. When an anonymous pamphlet, Das Judenthum in der Maurerey, was published in 1816 attacking the lodge in venomous terms and pointing to its links with Hirschfeld, the members published a rebuttal of the pamphlet's allegations, stating that the lodge had never pursued alchemical speculations and denying that anyone called Hirschsfeld had ever been a member.


It also happens to be said:


The ostensible reason that German masons give for rejecting Jews is that the latter cannot swear on the Gospel, but in fact the real motive is commercial jealousy.

The four signatories of the letter include the Jewish founder Geisenheimer and F.J. Molitor, both of whom sign themselves "S P R", Souverain Prince RoseCroix.



Understanding that the Bank of Prussia is about to eat the other German banks, some dangerous information is routinely confessed on anything about German banks:



Germany’s first commercial bank was established in Hamburg in 1619. The Giro bank lasted until its takeover by the state-run Reichsbank in 1875.

By the early 1800s Frankfurt am Main was a banking center under the House of Rothschild.



True enough, and it is still in headlines over the issue of Restitution:


In September 2011, the Foundation handed over three paintings from the Alte Nationalgalerie to a society called “Freimaurerloge zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe” (Dawn Twilight Freemasons’ Lodge). “Zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe” was a Masonic lodge founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1807. During the first decades of its existence, it served as the central forum for the progressive Jewish bourgeoisie in Frankfurt. At the time, Jews were still excluded from membership of most clubs. Although it was committed to the ideal of religious tolerance, the lodge had a predominantly Jewish profile until 1935, when freemasonry was finally suppressed by the Nazi regime.


From the history of Jews in this area:

...its first lodge master was Siegmund Geisenheimer, an associate of the Rothschild family. The historians Jacob Katz and Paul Arnsberg have shown that its members included almost all the leading families of the old Jewish community in Frankfurt along with those who had rapidly climbed the social ladder—such as the Hanau, Goldschmidt, and Rothschild families, and in particular their younger members.

But with the conservative, nationalist reaction that followed 1815, the Morgenröte became an almost exclusively Jewish lodge, continuing in vain to denounce the exclusive Christianization of German Masonry. The other lodges refused to have any further contact with it.


So, you see a post-Napoleonic English authority being applied in Frankfurt, moreover, considering its name, the place thought to be the inspiration for the English Golden Dawn:


The Golden Dawn was founded on the discovery of a manuscript in cipher that, when subsequently deciphered, formed the basis of its ritual. Where this ritual ultimately originated is a mystery as is the role of an address that was found with the manuscript, an address of a Rosicrucian adept in Germany who was to give permission for the ‘re-establishment’ of an English branch of the Order.


Eventually in 1817 Morgenrothe found the full recognition it was seeking through August Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, who empowered the lodge to operate as a Masonic lodge without any restrictions, with the added assurance that ‘parallel degrees would be instituted for them’. . Morgenrothe eventually left UGLE for membership in the Eclectic Covenant of Frankfurt in 1870.



From that point it becomes more obvious. German nationalist Nazis probably do not understand international finance Nazis. The Jesuits do understand the playbook of false flags, Antifa, cointel, and so on, which, so to speak, maintains a threat against themself. Of course this becomes most manifest through the Allied countries.

Whatever is going on through these Lodges that administer and unite German and English Capitalism has nothing to do with the Illuminati or St. Germain. Instead, the latter attempted to counter some of the unfluences around Beaumarchais:


Beaumarchais assisted him in gaining the King's approval for the new military academy he was building, the École Royale Militaire, and in turn Duverney promised to help make him rich.

Beaumarchais went to Madrid with a letter of introduction from the Duc de Choiseul, who was now his political patron.

Last night poor, wealthy today:


Not everyone at Versailles turned their envy of Beaumarchais into insults or injury.

The great financier Joseph Pâris-Duverney had made a fortune with his two brothers as arms merchants to the French army during King George’s War between France and England from 1740 to 1748. He doubled the size of his fortune supplying arms to the French army in the great Seven Years’ War from 1756 to 1763, the world conflict which, as noted, began in the American wilderness when Lieutenant Colonel George Washington ambushed a squadron of French troops and killed its commander.


Coming from the liquidation of John Law:


For the following five years, they played an almost governmental role. This period is decisive in understanding the rise to power of the Pâris brothers, who began by supplying provisions to the armies, then consolidated their position with building projects, and finally strengthened it through a constant search to obtain the protection of princes and sovereigns using an unusual approach of systematically exploiting the influence of women close to the seat of power. These ranged from Mme de Maintenon to Queen Maria Leszczinska and the Marquise de Pompadour, and included Alexandrine de Tencin, Mme de Prie and the Duchess of Châteauroux.

When the four brothers went their different ways in 1726, it was only for a short period, after which the two younger brothers, Duverney and Monmartel, came back to take centre stage where they would remain. From this date onwards, through the royal mistresses, Duverney reached the height of his power. He was initially appointed director and general administrator of food supplies, distinguishing himself in provisioning, and indeed the strategic management of the armies, and taking an active part in the economic and financial policies of the kingdom, before devoting most of his time to the École Militaire. Right up until his voluntary retirement, his influence continued to grow, supported at first by the Duchess of Châteauroux and later by the Marquise de Pompadour, the goddaughter of his brother Monmartel, who was the court banker.



Conversely, the friend of St. Germain, Karl, was of the House of Hesse-Kassel, not the lord of the fief, who was his father. It is with this individual that "Bauer" becomes "Rothschild", i. e. starting its lucrative services for in Hesse:


The Landgrave Frederick II (1720–1785) ruled Hesse-Kassel as a benevolent despot, from 1760 to 1785. He combined Enlightenment ideas with Christian values, cameralist plans for central control of the economy, and a militaristic approach toward diplomacy. He funded the depleted treasury of the poor government by loaning 19,000 soldiers in complete military formations to Great Britain to fight in North America during the American Revolutionary War, 1776–1783. These soldiers, commonly known as Hessians, fought under the British flag. The British used the Hessians in several conflicts, including in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. For further revenue, the soldiers were loaned to other places as well. Most were conscripted, with their pay going to the Landgrave.


His son Karl held power and resided at Schleswig, 1769. In 1803:

The Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was also elevated to the status of Prince-Elector (Kurfürst), with his state thereby becoming the Electorate of Hesse or Electoral Hesse (German: Kurhessen, Kur being the German-language term for the Empire's College of Electors).

On 25 January 1805, Charles was granted the title "Landgrave of Hesse" by his elder brother, who had assumed the higher dignity and title of Imperial Prince-Elector.

The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in August 1806, rendering Hesse-Kassel's electoral privilege meaningless. Hesse-Kassel was occupied by the French in October 1806...


The more sordid details are with the next ruler of the province, older brother William:


Upon the death of his father on 31 October 1785, he became William IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. He was said to have inherited one of the largest fortunes in Europe at the time.

William looked for help in managing his estate. He hired Mayer Amschel Rothschild as "Hoffaktor" in 1769, to supervise the operation of his properties and tax-gathering. The wealth of William's estate provided a good living for Rothschild and the men had a strong relationship; he founded the Rothschild family dynasty, which became important in financing and banking in Europe. Although they had been acquainted since 1775, William IX did not formally designate Rothschild as his overseer until 1801.

The early fortunes of the Rothschild family were made through a conjunction of financial intelligence and the wealth of Prince William. During the Napoleonic Wars, William used the Frankfurt Rothschilds to hide his fortune from Napoleon. This money then saw its way through to Nathan Mayer, (N.M.) in London, where it helped fund the British movements through Portugal and Spain. The interest made from this venture was reaped by the budding banker barons, who used it to swiftly develop their fortune and prestige in Europe and Britain. It was not long before their riches outweighed those of their benefactor, William of Hesse-Kassel.


He was a member of the Tugendbund, a quasi-Masonic secret society founded after the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt in June 1808 at Koningsberg.

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The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon's short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.

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Malaysia and China Team up With ‘Asian Fund’ to Take on the U.S. Dollar

April 4, 2023

More bad news for the Biden administration.

According to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, China is willing to engage in discussions about establishing an Asian Monetary Fund, resurrecting a proposal from decades ago that aimed to decrease dependence on the US dollar. Anwar put forth the idea of creating the fund, emphasizing the importance of reducing reliance on the International Monetary Fund or the US dollar.

Anwar said, “When I had a meeting with President Xi Jinping, he immediately said, ‘I refer to Anwar’s proposal on the Asian Monetary Fund’, and he welcomed discussions.”

“There is no reason for Malaysia to continue depending on the dollar.”

The proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund is not a new idea. It was first suggested in the late 1990s as a way to reduce Asia’s dependence on the International Monetary Fund and the US dollar following the Asian financial crisis.

The proposal failed to gain traction at the time due to opposition from the US and concerns about regional rivalries. However, with the rise of China as a major economic power and increasing trade tensions with the US, there has been renewed interest in the idea in recent years.

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A very interesting and illuminating half hour discussion mostly featuring Jeffrey Sachs, an academic and unaligned diplomat of great experience, who has just returned from China.

The Chinese are apparently a little bewildered, he says, about all the recent American warmongering rhetoric. And he reports that all the Chinese really want is to do business in a multipolar world of sovereign nations, while he and Alexander Mercouris observe that while Russia may have all the commodities (oil, minerals, food) that the rest of the world needs, the really major emerging power bloc will be that of China+India.

BRICS rising as neocons destroy the west

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BR4IErrOQhU