Do you believe in conspiracies?

If so, Crisis By Design by John Wolfe will reaffirm the claims of Larry Abraham and Gary Allen who wrote None Dare Call it Conspiracy  in 1972 and the current claims of Glenn Beck regarding the Progressives (Socialist) agenda to establish Socialism in the U.S. by first creating a series of crises that would overwhelm the U.S. bureaucracy to the point where the majority of voters would demand that the President fix the problem by any means.

If you don't think you believe in conspiracies, see if you can find any other plausible explanation for the time-line of events laid out by John Wolfe in Crisis By Design. I have resisted the temptation to join the conspiracy believer's club for a number of reasons -- not the least of which is that "everyone" knows that anyone who believes in any conspiracy must be a little bit looney.  Well, I guess I've just gone off the deep end into the looney bin.

My first exposure to the subject was a book called None Dare Call it Conspiracy written in 1972 by Larry Abraham and Gary Allen. I never knew Allen but I was acquainted with Abraham and considered him to be a pretty ordinary and sane individual. He certainly was not a raving lunatic by any means. But that's how the "sane" media treated him and his co-author. They were labeled as deranged. The book was denigrated by the establishment media, but it still sold over 4 million copies.

In 1985, Abraham updated the book and called the second edition, Call It Conspiracy. I don't know how successful the update was in terms of book sales, but it added a lot of details to support the original thesis.

Subject to the sin of excessive over-simplicity, the alleged conspiracy was about a cabal (a secret political clique) of top world politicians and international bankers who were collaborating to ruin the world economy for the benefit of the bankers and create a "new world order" in which there would be a single world currency. The bankers objectives were in harmony with those of the Progressive/Socialist politicians.

One thing that always bothered me about the theory was that it didn't make sense that the bankers could profit by ruining the economy. But that was before I thought about the "pump and dump" scheme used by nefarious stock manipulators to push up the price of a cheap stock and to then dump the stock at a huge profit.

Moving ahead about 25 years, a few writers have been claiming that the Obama-Pelosi-Reid (OPR) progressive/Socialist members of the political left in the U.S. have been following a plan proposed by Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and Frances Piven to implement a Socialist agenda in the U.S.  According to Wikipedia, "The two argued that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would create a political crisis that would force U.S. politicians, particularly the Democratic Party, to enact legislation establishing a guaranteed national income." 

This idea was upon by Saul Alinsky in his book, Rules for Radicals, which describes ways in which radical dissenters can overtax the system and bring about radical change. In the opening to his book he said, "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."

Over time, these ideas have morphed into a political strategy to do anything possible to overwhelm the existing bureaucracy so that the economy would tank and the majority of people who were dependent on some form of government income or subsidy would demand that the government do something to fix the problem. This would lead to a great increase in the power of government over the economy.

So now we have the OPR team and their political supporters pushing through legislation to

• vastly increase the involvement of the federal government in health care,
• secure control of the energy sector of the economy with a Cap & Trade scheme (or by means of more aggressive regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency),
• secure greater control over the entire financial and banking system,
  
• create huge increases in the federal debt by pumping borrowed money into the economy under the guise of a recession stimulus program,
  
• increase taxes anywhere and everywhere in spite of the well known fact that higher taxes will make a recession worse,
• push through a plan to give voting power to about 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants.

All of this is in addition to the high costs of fighting Muslim/Arab radicals in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere.

Wolfe describes how the stimulus money has mostly gone to the financial sector and has wound its way into the coffers of Goldman Sachs. He lays out a disturbingly logical time-line of the way that the sub-prime mortgage crisis was engineered, how it was spread from the U.S. to the rest of the world and how the bankers who profited enormously by creating the mortgage derivative bubble then burst the bubble with a mandated change in world-wide methods of valuing banking assets so that banks over the world had to write down their mortgage derivative investments to near zero, causing a banking crisis.

Lest you fail to see how the bankers who are in charge of the various central banks of the world could profit from such losses, think about the "pump and dump" stock scheme or something as basic as short selling when you know that a listed stock is going to tank. You sell high and then come back and buy low.

As described by Wolfe, the central bankers and the OPR team were nearly indistinguishable and many of the people in the Obama administration have strong connections to Goldman Sachs and to the central banks of the world.

With the help of former high level banking executives who are now part of the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve bank, a stimulus plan was devised with the apparent purpose of destroying the U.S. dollar so that it would be replaced by a new kind of world reserve currency. That would result in huge losses in the value of the dollar, which would also result in huge profits for the insiders.

Similar themes have been described by Glenn Beck on his Fox T.V. show. While Newt Gingrich's book To Save America doesn't discuss the Cloward-Piven strategy, it does discuss the Socialist objective of expanding the role of government and the role of Saul Alinsky in spreading the ideas espoused by Cloward & Piven. (But Gingrich doesn't mention Cloward & Piven anywhere in his book.)

So after reading Wolfe's Crisis By Design, I took another look at Call It Conspiracy and To Save America. I reflected about those books in the context of the daily expose's by Glenn Beck and concluded that there is simply an overwhelming amount of plausible and logical information in support of this program by the world's central bankers and the Progressive/Socialist politicians that is consistent with the events of the past two years and the past four decades.

Crisis By Design offers an assortment of suggestions for what to do. So does To Save America. Call it Conspiracy doesn't have an annotated checklist of things to do to resist this conspiracy. But it does offer one of the best first steps. That is to self-educate; to take the time and spend a few bucks to learn about the interlocking interests of the worlds central bankers and the Progressive/Socialist politicians. It's about the self discovery resulting from looking behind the curtain of the Wizard as Toto did in The Wizard of Oz movie.

John Wolfe's Crisis By Design is an easy reading but highly disturbing expose' of the sequence of events beginning with the invention of the sub-prime mortgage derivatives and the bursting of the financial bubble to create what may still become a long term depression. It's available as an e-book for $19.97 by ordering from http://www.behindthewizardscurtain.com/

When you get through with that, get a copy of Call it Conspiracy by Larry Abraham, which is available (in printed form) at Amazon.com for about $13.50. If you get this book, you don't need the original edition of None Dare Call it Conspiracy.  By seeing the connection between events written about in 1972 and again in 1985 with those described by Wolfe, I believe you will develop a different attitude about whether you "believe" in conspiracies.

Then  read Newt Gingrich's book, To Save America which is nearly hot off the press. It's available in most book stores or online. (The price at Costco was $16.29.) Gingrich was the Speaker of the House during most of the Reagan years and is credited with having created the conservative "Contract With America" that many of the Republican politicians signed off on. He offers a laundry list of thoughtful suggestions on what each of us can do to become part of the solution instead of being part of the problem.

Finally, check this web site at www.offshorepress.com/liberty/  from time to time for new material about true tax reform and personal liberty.

Vern
www.offshorepress.com/liberty/

Note: For more about the Cloward-Piven stratgegy see,
http://www.infowars.com/obama-the-cloward-piven-strategy-and-the-new-world-order/

For more information about Crisis By Design, see http://www.crisisbydesign.com/

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