“Germany … Undisputed Master of Europe”

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Among the few clear-eyed observers of the continent of Europe, the Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard observes the European Union from a true realist’s perspective. As such, he was one of very few indeed who saw the historic poignancy of two of the world’s top bankers meeting with Germany’s chancellor last week. “The heads of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund made a joint pilgrimage to Berlin, pleading with lawmakers in the Bundestag to throw their full weight behind rescue efforts before the chain reaction spreads to Portugal and the rest of the emu periphery,” he wrote. “Their presence as supplicants in Berlin marks the symbolic moment when Germany appears the undisputed master of Europe” (April 28; emphasis mine throughout).

Eight years ago, our editor in chief declared:

Germany has a master plan. We have warned about that master plan since immediately after World War ii. (Write for our free booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.)

Germany is fast becoming the fascist superpower of the West, as the U.S. collapses as a superpower. You urgently need to understand why this is happening.

How many heeded that warning then? How many really sought to understand why an imperialist spirit in Germany, seemingly vanquished in the wake of its World War ii defeat, had raised its head yet once again to dominate Europe?

How many heeded the warning of Dame Margaret Thatcher, who, with a view to Germany’s habitual behavior throughout its history, declared of Europe 15 years ago: “You have not anchored Germany to Europe; you have anchored Europe to a newly dominant, unified Germany. In the end, my friends, you’ll find it will not work.”

And how many heeded the warning of an insider at the time, ex-Eurocrat Bernard Connolly, who declared with the benefit of his own experiences working at a senior level attached to the European Union’s developing European Monetary System (ems) within the European Commission, that there he got a “feeling for the distinctly German way of approaching monetary questions” within “an environment hostile to thought”? (The Rotten Heart of Europe).

Connolly was one of the earlier whistle-blowers to publicize the truth about the European Monetary Union cemented into place via the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. He understood the German corporatist approach to monetary union as one which, following the forced devaluation of the French franc against the German deutsche mark in 1983, had “much more to do … with the Third Reich.” The approach of France, being the primary pawn at the time in the ems progress toward European monetary union, he described as a combination of “mysticism, quasi-religiosity and something approaching Aryanism,” reflecting the deeply Roman Catholic—“Holy” Roman—spirit of its elites.

It was patently obvious from the beginning that unless the members of a monetary union had the flexibility to maintain their own means of exchange, thus allowing for each member of the union to absorb economic shocks by adjusting their own exchange rate, it seemed destined to fail. To put it in another context, “history shows it is impossible to have a fully-fledged currency union without having fiscal union. Unless there is a central treasury with the power to tax and spend, at some point one or other member state will borrow too much, throwing the region into economic disarray” (Brisbane Times, May 1).

Yet these arguments would never have been accepted by German elites. Their whole idea of monetary union based on the German model was to allow the strong (read Germany) to dominate and eventually control the weak. The present case in point is Greece, which is but a harbinger of many other weak European economies that will soon be the vassals of Berlin, courtesy of Germany imposing a system that deliberately disallows for national monetary adjustments to reflect economic strength and weakness.

More than a year after our editor in chief announced that Germany caused the Greek financial crisis, the Globe and Mail has admitted that Germany is “linked to a circle of countries that have become economic colonies …. [T]he Greek crisis, and the mounting Portuguese and possibly Spanish and Italian crises, are, at their heart, and in their origin, German crises. … Through [the] constantly repeated cycle of exports, payments, surpluses and then loans to southern Europe, Berlin became an imperial center …” (May 2).

There’s the seventh and final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire in action!

Evans-Pritchard, following up on his earlier comment, wrote on the Telegraph.co.uk in words reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher’s warning: “If the aim of Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand at Maastricht was to tie down a ‘European Germany’ with the silken chords of emu, they failed. Monetary union has delivered a ‘German Europe’ after all. … What is undeniable is that Club Med and Ireland are being told to implement the same policies that crippled Europe in the early 1930s, that led … in different ways to Hitler …. Is that a good idea?”

As the Daily Mail headlined in a commentary musing on the chancellorship of Gerhard Schröder over 10 years ago, “What Germany wants Germany will get. … [A]nyone who still not has realized who will rule the roost in the fast developing European superstate should take note” (Jan. 12, 1999).

Yet, in reality—particularly given the power of the prophecies of Revelation 13 and 17—one cannot divorce the whole European imperial project of continental elites from that “mysticism and quasi-religiosity” alluded to by Bernard Connolly. As he states in relation to Roman Catholic dominance in Europe, “the attitude of … Catholic churches in many continental countries was influenced by a desire to see a shadow Holy Roman Empire recreated in Europe” (op. cit.).

To really understand the spirit that drives the “Holy” Roman imperial vision of the elites in Europe, one must understand their deeply entrenched mindset. It is a mindset rooted in Holy Roman Empire culture that sees the 19th- and 20th-century dominance of the Anglo-Saxon nations as but an uncomfortable interruption to the thread of Holy Roman destiny.

Connolly puts it this way: “Just as the French establishment has never forgiven the Anglo-Saxon world for liberating the homeland from the Nazi occupation their incompetence and decadence had permitted, so also the [German] Christian democrats and Christian Socialist tradition in Europe has never forgiven the forces of nationalism and liberalism that in the 19th century seemed to have finally freed the church from the self-imposed chains of its pretensions to temporal power.”

Hence both French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel being so quick to point the finger at the Anglo-Saxons as being the cause of today’s global financial crisis. Hence, also, the cry of the popes John Paul ii and Benedict xvi for Europe to return to its traditional, historic, pre-19th-century “Holy” Roman roots!

Today, Europe is unquestionably dominated by Germany. Even sensible journalists are now prepared to acknowledge that. To the rapidly diminishing generation of those who experienced the bitter fruits of the last time that Germany dominated Europe, this is sobering news indeed. To the masses of ignorant Anglo-Saxons, it still does not even register—but it soon will, and—as their own Bible prophesies—much to their hurt!

The wonderful thing about being absolutely politically incorrect is that you can publish the truth without equivocation, and let the chips lay where they fall.

The wonderful thing about Bible prophecy is that, despite the railings of puny men to the contrary, it ALWAYS is fulfilled!

The wonderful thing about working for a magazine that is unfearing in its message—fearing no man, no criticism, no threat no matter from whom, only reverentially fearing the great Creator of humankind—is that one can write on both accounts—the plain, unvarnished truth and inerrant Bible prophecy—and sleep well at night knowing that your message will prove to be uplifting to some genuine seeker after truth, giving genuine God-given hope in the future, something no other publication can ever offer!

So we focus yet again on Europe, where so much Bible prophecy is being fulfilled to the letter at this very moment—where Bible prophecy is suddenly the stuff of headlines in major daily newspapers. Yes, Europe is finally making the news—even the headlines—in America! But we had to wait, inevitably, till it threatened our pocketbook, to notice that Europe does matter after all!

Some years ago, on behalf of our editor in chief, I approached America’s national radio network, National Public Radio, with the offer of having one of the clearest-minded British analysts of the European scene interviewed in an attempt to raise the general public’s interest in the pending dangers of a resurgent imperialist Germany. The response was that the interview had “no news hook” for the American public. My response was, “Just wait, it soon will!”

Now, suddenly, Europe has a news hook for America, even though this nation is still very slow to wake up to that reality. The fact is, what is happening on the European continent today, with this ever burgeoning, soon-to-be-out-of-control financial crisis, will soon slam America right between the eyes. Well, when it does, we shall be bound to say, “We tried to warn you—for over 70 years!”

There’s no point to a warning unless it comes ahead of catastrophe. In fact, the more ahead of the time that warning comes before catastrophe hits, the more successful will the effort to sound the warning be seen to be—but only with the benefit of hindsight—after the event!

Herbert Armstrong’s critics often criticized him for prophesying things they claimed did not happen—at least did not happen when they wanted them to happen! Yes, he may well have been 50 years ahead of his time—but that’s just more clear evidence of the extent of his vision and of the mercy extended by God to those of His creation whom He has sought to warn of impending catastrophe emanating from this seventh and final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation!

The fact is, the Anglo-Saxons have been warned of impending catastrophe to befall their nations, literally decades in advance. Warned by the Eternal God, through the untiring efforts of Herbert Armstrong, a dedicated servant of God who devoted 57 years of his life in an effort to publish and broadcast the prophecies that forecast the destructive conditions descending on our nations today. In his latter years, Mr. Armstrong delivered that message to more heads of state than America’s own secretary of state visited in a given year, some with whom Mr. Armstrong enjoyed very close friendships.

Now the danger of which he warned is on our doorstep, hammering at the very doors of our Anglo-Saxon nations and the tiny Judaic nation of Israel, exactly as prophesied in your Bible! And the eye of the pending storm is centered, yet once again, in Germany!

The Greek financial crisis is Germany’s moment.

The crisis of crises has now been created and just cries out to German elites for them to impose their solution on it—and impose it they will! This crisis will prove to be but one more giant step toward the revival of Germany becoming the “undisputed master of Europe”!

You need to urgently read, and deeply comprehend, the message contained in our newest booklet, He Was Right. Download our editor in chief ’s latest two powerful Key of David television programs on the same theme and begin to get a firm grasp on what exactly is happening in this world and why it is happening now! The messages they contain will truly show you the reason why Europe is caught in the grip of crisis right now, and how this has led to Germany becoming, yet one more time, “the master of Europe.” But more than that, they will show you, ahead of time, where this is all leading!

If you truly have an open mind prepared to open up your Bible and face up to the provable truth, these messages could just change the direction of your life and give it a vibrantly positive, very real hope in the future! A hope that will allow you to fully realize your incredible, God-given, human potential! •

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[Horn]

Not sure you guys realize the significance in activation of the inverse side of the six pointed star occurring here?

This is all of course falling in line with major solar cycles variance. ;D

[jedemdasseine]

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[skid]

Someone should inform that clown that Anglo-Saxons are Germanic as well....

All the club Med countries wanted all the benefits and none of the responsibilities of joining the Euro. Too frigging bad for them...

[Horn]

The entirety of Europe has had designs on sapping the life blood out of the U.S. from day 1.

Thru Federal Reserve bankers, the Hidden European Royalty have remained permanently entrenched for eons.

The top requests from the bottom, until there is nothing left but a large vacuum sound coming from Greece. ;D

[Horn]

Glass-Steagall Showdown Will Decide Your Future



Lyndon LaRouche today identified the passage of a new Glass-Steagall Act as an existential issue for the United States and for the world. Unless the Senate passes the Cantwell-McCain amendment (S.A. 3884), restoring Glass-Steagall, "the world just goes to Hell. Either we wipe out the quadrillions of dollars in illegitimate assets from the books of the banks, or the United States and the entire planet have no protection against a near-term precipitous collapse into a new dark age."

LaRouche emphasized that the passage of Glass-Steagall is a pivotal first step. Once the U.S. commercial banking system has been restored, under Constitutional standards, we can next look to Western Europe and Russia. "But, the first crucial step must take place here, in the United States," LaRouche explained. "If the United States Senate forces through the Cantwell-McCain amendment and the President is forced to sign it into law, despite his own desperate efforts to kill the amendment, then this will create the opportunity for several crucial European countries to break free from the total breakdown collapse they now face."

LaRouche singled out Germany as the first continental European nation that would key off the U.S. restoration of Glass-Steagall. France would likely follow. "This would save Europe from the already onrushing collapse. This would also provide Russia with the crucial European partners, along with the United States, to break free from the current vise-grip on the Russian economy, by a British-run Caribbean network of financier pirates." LaRouche explained that, since the times of Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Gorbachov before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's monetary system has been run by the Rothschild-created Inter-Alpha Group, which is otherwise associated, today, with the so-called BRIC (Braziil-Russia-India-China) project of Goldman Sachs.

"If we can free Russia and the key nations of continental Europe from the present doomed financial system, through a Glass-Steagall bankruptcy reorganization, starting in the United States, then we can proceed to establish a new, global fixed-exchange-rate system. China is already prepared to enter such an agreement, and the freeing of Russia from the 'pirates of the Caribbean' is vital for China's ability to join this new global arrangement," LaRouche explained.

"With such a worldwide fixed-exchange-rate system secured," LaRouche concluded, "we can proceed with the vital infrastructure projects—high-speed transportation, nuclear energy, and water management—that are pivotal for the survival of mankind, as we reach the 7 billion population level.

"This is the existential issue for all of humanity. Passage of Glass-Steagall in the United States is the pivotal first step, without which humanity is doomed."
The Battle Lines

In the past 24 hours, the Obama White House, along with the big five Wall Street financial institutions—Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo—have embarked on a desperate drive to kill the Glass-Steagall amendment.

Following a May 17 status report from his White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, President Obama reportedly flew into a blind rage over the fact that the Cantwell-McCain amendment had not been repudiated by its sponsors. The President demanded that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) use every dirty trick in the book to kill the Cantwell-McCain initiative, and get the Dodd bill rammed through the Senate before the end of the week.

However, the President's demands do not necessarily translate into deeds, as Reid and Dodd are facing an enraged electorate, and a growing resistance to White House pressure from a number of Senators. On the night of May 17, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the co-sponsor of the amendment to restore Glass-Steagall, threatened to join Republicans in opposing cloture, unless the amendment is debated and voted upon. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) made a similar threat, if his amendment, barring certain kinds of speculative instruments, is not allowed to reach the floor for a vote.

Key to the whole process now unfolding in the U.S. Senate is the mobilization, led by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC), which has activated thousands of local and state elected and other officials. Many of these officials had been staunch backers of LaRouche's 2007 Homeowners and Bank Protection Act (HBPA), which would have frozen home foreclosures and imposed a Glass-Steagall bankruptcy reorganization of the U.S. banking system—before the $24 trillion Wall Street bailout by the combined Bush and Obama administrations.
Senators Get the Message

The LaRouche PAC mobilization began in earnest on May 12, led by the three LPAC Congressional campaigns—Rachel Brown of Massachusetts, Kesha Rogers of Texas (who is the Democratic nominee), and Summer Shields of California. The campaigns all took to the streets of the major urban areas in their districts, demanding that citizens take up their responsibility to "ram through" the Glass-Steagall amendment.

The campaign soon escalated into a drive to get patriots to call their Senators, and demand that they join Senators Cantwell and McCain in fighting for Glass-Steagall. Buttressed by an LPAC video on the significance of the act (see below), and by the reverberations of LaRouche's May 8 webcast, the LPAC membership went into high gear in a way it hadn't done since the successful mobilization to pass resolutions endorsing LaRouche's Homeowners and Bank Protection Act in dozens of local and state jurisdictions in 2007-08.

As of May 17, the impact was being strongly felt. In Boston, Sen. John Kerry's (D-Mass.) office is telling callers that they have been "flooded with" calls in support of Glass-Steagall. In Washington State, Sen. Patty Murray's (D) office reports the "phone ringing off the hook" with calls demanding she support Glass-Steagall. In both cases, however, the Senators had not yet committed themselves to vote for the McCain-Cantwell amendment, so LPAC is upping the pressure on them, as well as on most other Senators, most of whom have not publicly committed themselves one way or another.
Cantwell Optimistic

While Internet media coverage of the Glass-Steagall legislation has been dominated by LaRouche PAC for the last weeks, this began to change since May 12. Most importantly, Senator Cantwell herself was interviewed by Bonnie Erbe of PBS, and declared that she expected the legislation to pass. Asked by Erbe about her view of Glass-Steagall, she said:

Well, I certainly am a big supporter of Glass-Steagall, which would be to go back to what we had prior to 2000, which is the separation of commercial banking from investment banking.

If you think about it, they are two different functions. Investment banking is about taking risks. But with commercial banking, you want your deposits to be secure. But when you let your deposits—yours and mine—be used by those investment houses, which are huge risk-taking ventures, it really does put those savings and those deposits at risk.

And we should go back to separating them. I think the American people know this. They get it intuitively. They know that there was a reason in the last Depression that we got to this point.

So, what's taking you so long?! Go back to separating it. So, we'll have a vote on that.

But we also need to regulate these derivatives, these new financial tools that came into the marketplace in the late '90s, and make sure that they have the oversight of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

Right now, hamburger in America—beef futures—has more oversight than some of these derivatives!

Cantwell's interview was picked up by U.S. News and World Report May 12, and, in the wake of the coverage, others have come forward. Most prominent, is Nouriel Roubini, a New York University economist, who is given credit for being the main prognosticator of the 2007-08 crash. (The major media are under orders to ignore LaRouche.) Roubini has given numerous interviews arguing that the Glass-Steagall separation is the only solution to problems such as derivatives speculation, and exposing as phony, half-measures such as the "Volcker Rule," which purports to limit proprietary trading, but would do nothing to eliminate the rot.

While former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who nominally heads Obama's economic team, had, at one point, proposed a separation of commercial and investment banking, he is now kowtowing to his banker friends, including his former employer, Inter-Alpha Group head Jacob Rothschild. On a trip to London May 13, the former Fed chief gave an off-the-cuff interview to BBC in which he went so far as to attack Glass-Steagall. Volcker has also written letters and campaigned personally against control of derivatives, especially the measure associated with Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D), which is in the Dodd bill. LaRouche has insisted that Volcker is intelligent enough to know better, but he is refusing to act like a patriot, and is propitiating Obama.
London vs. the Patriots

As LaRouche and various of his interlocutors pointed out during his May 8 webcast, the Glass-Steagall issue is not just one of banking. It cuts to the center of the strategic battle between the British financial empire, and the American System of economics, which is a model for all truly sovereign nation-states.

It is lawful that the center of this battle would be Wall Street. Wall Street has been a center of treason throughout the history of the United States, and functions, in fact, as an army of the British empire. The sophism that the health of "Main Street" (the physical economy on which the standard of living of the American people is based) depends upon the health of "Wall Street," as President Obama has argued, is more than ludicrous—and most of the American people know it.

In fact, the rage of the U.S. population against Wall Street's rip-offs, and the bailouts given to the international banks, is only growing. As a result of the collaboration of a network of prosecutors, such as New York State's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Securities and Exchange Commission head Mary Shapiro, and others, Goldman Sachs's crimes were brought up before public hearings. Now, prosecutions are multiplying, with Federal criminal investigations of virtually all the big Wall Street banks, for trading against the interests of their clients—and, one might honestly say, their country.

Over just the last week, Attorney General Cuomo announced several new probes, including of U.S. branches of several major European banks. He is also looking into manipulation by the rating agencies, a criminal practice, well known from the outbreak of the current breakdown crisis in 2007. (Remember, AAA ratings for junk?)

Under Glass-Steagall regulations, the problem of these banks can be easily taken care of. Entities such as JPMorgan Chase and Citibank will have to decide whether they will be commercial banks, or investment (gambling) houses. If the latter, they will no longer have government protection—and they, and their illegitimate debts, will disappear. Legitimate banking functions, however, will be protected—and banks that practice those will be opened up to be lenders for the kinds of massive infrastructure projects we so desperately need.

This is the only pathway to recovery, and it lies within the grasp of the American people, if they listen to Lyndon LaRouche. Restoring Glass-Steagall is the first step toward realizing the prosperity, at home and abroad, which Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned after World War II. The British sabotaged that vision then; they must not be allowed to do so again.