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The Man Behind the Curtain
If you've ever seen The Wizard of Oz, then you know what I'm talking about.
If you haven't, then here's a brief overview:
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton.In order to get back home, Dorothy seeks the help of the so-called 'Wizard of Oz,' the magical ruler of Emerald City, after whom the movie is named. But, he refuses to help unless she and her friends bring back the Wicked Witch's broomstick, which they can only get by destroying her.
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The film is based on L. Frank Baum's turn-of-the-century children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a resourceful American girl is snatched up by a Kansas tornado and deposited in a fantastic land of good and wicked witches, a talking scarecrow, a cowardly lion, [and] a tin man[.]
To make a long story short, Dorothy and her companions go to the trouble of getting the broomstick only to discover that the deep, penetrating and angry voice of the fearful 'Wizard of Oz' really belonged to a helpless little man behind a huge curtain.
No magic, no powers - just a megaphone and a remarkable knack for 'making believe.'
Despite his colossal impotence, the little man managed to manipulate Dorothy and her friends into doing for him that which he could not do for himself.
How? By creating illusions.
Why did it work? Because in a world based on lies, PERCEPTION is EVERYTHING.
Dorothy and her friends had everything they needed to get where they wanted, but they didn't believe in themselves.
Instead, they were duped into doing the Wizard's bidding - all because they imagined that he was bigger and more powerful than he really was.
By getting them to BELIEVE that he had the power to give them what they wanted if only they got him what he wanted, he was able to turn HIS OBJECTIVES into their objectives.
His ENEMIES became THEIR enemies.
In a similar manner, the Zionist media and the federal reserve banks work in tandem to create OUR Wizard of Oz.
The banks are 'the little man,' the media acts as 'their curtain and their megaphone,' and 'money' is the magical power that they wield to get us to do their bidding.
Despite the popular notion that a powerful elite ('illuminati') rule the world through an intricate secret network, the vast bulk of power in this world lay squarely within the control of the vast majority of the world's populations.
However, just like the Wizard of Oz used a megaphone to trick Dorothy and her friends into employing their power in his service, Zionists use the media to create and support the illusion that the legal fiction they call 'money' has the power to give us what we want - when it can't - because it's all a lie.
What Americans (and everyone else) must realize is that the power that 'money' has over our world is just an illusion.
Reject it and it becomes useless, powerless, and good for nothing.
As long as we continue to believe that it can 'solve our problems,' 'meet our needs,' and 'make us happy,' we will continue to be led by their LIES and continue to make their objectives our own, even when the 'yellow brick road' that we follow leads to our own destruction.
John Galt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiJc7yxKHg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt
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John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he does not appear in person until the last third of the novel, he is the subject of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.
As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator, philosopher, and inventor who symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism, which the novel associates with socialistic idealism. In the novel's ideology, the industrialists of America were a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the Earth, whom Galt convinces to "shrug," by refusing to lend their productive genius to the regime any longer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
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Objectivism is a philosophy defined by the Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982). Objectivism holds that reality exists independent of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest, that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights, embodied in laissez faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform man's widest metaphysical ideas, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form—a work of art—that he can comprehend and to which he can respond emotionally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_slippers
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In L. Frank Baum's original novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy wore Silver Shoes. The movie's creators changed them to ruby to take advantage of the new Technicolor film process.[1]
http://www.loti.com/fifties_music/the_payola_scandal.htm
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After a fierce battle between radio stations and ASCAP over royalty payments, stations decided to refuse to play any recordings registered with ASCAP. So, in 1940 radio stations created and began operating their own publishing company called Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI). ASCAP didn’t want to share any royalties with radio stations and they tended to ignore and refuse to play any music composed by Blacks and Hillbillies.
Remember, this was back in the 40’s and 50’s and this association was riddled with racism and ignorance at the time, to them black music or country music just wasn’t good enough and therefore, not accepted. This allowed BMI to have complete control over songs in these two areas because many record stations supplied these songs to regional areas mostly ignored by the major networks, in particular, the Midwest and the South. BMI strengthened and enlarged its control when rock and roll music, which was at first the music of Blacks and Hillbillies, began and hit it big.
So, by the time 1960 rolled around you can see how ASCAP most have felt when BMI was increasing and becoming more powerful each year. Rock and Roll and Rockabilly – a combination of rock and hillbilly music – skyrocketed in the 1950’s and the big boys, ASCAP, had to do something to stop it. It was not surprising at all, in 1959 when urged and backed by ASCAP, the House Legislative Committee started investigating corrupt broadcasting practices.
The committee broadened its investigation, which had been focusing on the rigged TV game shows, to include the practice of payola in radio. ASCAP believed that once investigated it would show that songs copyrighted with BMI became hits dishonestly because of payola. As ridiculous and petty as this sounds, it was the way of thinking back in those days.
http://www.celeblegalissues.com/legal-jargon/celebrity-tax-evasion/
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland was one of the most popular singers and entertainers of her time. One of her best known films, A Star is Born, was a box office flop despite its critical acclaim, and Garland never received the profits she had expected. The film’s failure contributed to Ms. Garland’s financial woes. In 1962, she accepted an offer from CBS to star in the Judy Garland Show for $24 million. At the time, she owed the IRS hundreds of thousands of dollars for unpaid taxes from 1951 and 1952. The show was cancelled after only one season, and Ms. Garland’s home was repossessed by the IRS towards satisfying a tax debt of $4 million.
http://www.moneyreformparty.org.uk/money/about_money/wizard_of_oz.php
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The particular concern of both Baum and Bryan was the nature of the money supply then prevalent in the United States, and in the Mid-Western States in particular.
In America during the 1890s, as in Britain, there had been a severe depression. Many businesses had gone bankrupt, farmers forced to sell up, factories closed and workers made unemployed. True, some farms in the Mid-West were suffering from drought, but most were still capable of growing food; the businesses and factories were still capable of providing the things that people needed; the workers still wanted to work to provide those things, and people would still want the goods and services produced if they had the money to buy them.
The money in the USA then, as now, was entirely created by the private banking system. The pretence existed then that money was based on gold. (Even now some people still think that it is!) The major banks, based on the East and West coasts, could vary the amount of money in circulation, lending more to encourage commercial activity, then fore-closing on loans to put people out of business, enabling the banks to acquire their businesses cheaply.
Baum and Bryan wanted money to be based on silver, not gold, as silver was more readily available in the Mid-West, where it was mined. Such a money supply could not be manipulated by the banks. So the story of the Wizard of Oz starts with a cyclone in the form of imagined electoral success for Bryan...
Dorothy, a sort of proverbial ‘Everywoman’, lands on the Wicked Witch of the East (the East-coast bankers), killing her, so freeing the Munchkins, the down-trodden poor, but the Wicked Witch of the West (the West-coast bankers) remains loose.
To deal with her and to get back to Kansas (normality), the Good Witch of the North, representing the electorate of the North (this is less than 40 years after the civil war), tells Dorothy to seek out the Wizard of Oz (‘oz’ being short for ounce, the means of weighing both gold and silver). She also gives her a pair of silver slippers (as they were in the book - they became ruby ones in the film). Only these silver slippers will enable her to remain safe on the yellow-brick road, representing the bankers’ gold standard, as she heads towards the Emerald City, representing Washington DC.
On her journey, Dorothy encounters a Scarecrow, representing the farmers, who do not have the wit to understand how they can end up losing their farms to the banks, even though they work hard to grow the food to feed a hungry nation. If only they could think it through!
Next, she encounters a Tin Woodsman, representing the industrial workers, rusted as solid as the factories of the 1890s depression, and who have lost the sense of compassion and co-operation to work together to help each other during hard times. Also, a spell cast upon him by the Wicked Witch of the East meant that every time he swung his axe, he chopped off a bit of himself - he downsized!
Then the growing party encounters a Cowardly Lion, representing the politicians. These have the power, through the power of Congress and the Constitution, to confront the Wicked Witches, representing the banks, but they lack the courage to do so.
Dorothy is able to motivate these three potent forces and leads them all towards the Emerald City, whence ‘greenbacks’ had once come, and an encounter with the omnipotent and wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz is initially quite majestic and apparently awesome, but he turns out to be a little man without the power that people assume he possesses. He does, of course, represent the President of the United States. With the Wizard’s illusion of power shattered, he is replaced by the Scarecrow who would ‘be another Lincoln’.
The Wicked Witch of the West, fearful for her own power, then attempts to destroy Dorothy but is herself dissolved in a bucket of water, as rain relieves the Mid-West drought, saves the farmers’ livelihoods and prevents repossession by the banks.
The Good Witch of the South, representing the Southern electorate, tells Dorothy that her silver slippers, silver-based money, are so powerful that anything she wishes for is possible, even without the help of the Wizard. Dorothy wishes to go home. There all is now well, because the land has a stable and abundant money supply.
http://djmarkdevlin.blogspot.com/2010/10/rodney-paradox-matrix.html
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Saturday, 30 October 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan
In the intensely fought 1896 and 1900 elections, he was defeated by William McKinley but retained control of the Democratic Party. With over 500 speeches in 1896, Bryan invented the national stumping tour, in an era when other presidential candidates stayed home. In his three presidential bids, he promoted Free Silver in 1896, anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, calling on Democrats to fight the trusts (big corporations) and big banks, and embrace anti-elitist ideals of republicanism. President Wilson appointed him Secretary of State in 1913, but Wilson's strong demands on Germany after the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915 caused Bryan to resign in protest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judy_Garland_Show
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Production
Judy Garland's four-year contract for the series called for 26 weekly shows, for which Garland's corporation, Kingsrow Enterprises, would be paid $140,000 per episode. Of that Garland was guaranteed between $25,000 and $30,000 per show.[11] Kingsrow Enterprises would also retain ownership of the tapes, allowing Garland to sell the series into syndication.[12] Although Garland had said as early as 1955 that she would never do a weekly television series,[2] in the early 1960s she was in a financially precarious situation. Garland was several hundred thousand dollars in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, having failed to pay taxes in 1951 and 1952,[13] and the financial failure of the film A Star is Born meant that her share of any profits from that film would be eaten up immediately.[14] A successful run on television would secure Garland's financial future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers
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The company was founded by Cecil Rhodes, who was financed by N M Rothschild & Sons.[2] In 1927, Ernest Oppenheimer, a German Jewish immigrant who had earlier founded mining giant Anglo American PLC with American financier J.P. Morgan,[3] managed to wrest control of the empire, building and consolidating the company's global monopoly over the world's diamond industry until his retirement. During this time, he was involved in a number of controversies, including price fixing, antitrust behaviour and an allegation of not releasing industrial diamonds for the US war effort during World War II.[4][5]
http://www.boer-war.com/Details2nd/Camps.html
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These camps had were originally set up for refugees whose farms had been destroyed by the British "Scorched Earth" policy (the burning down all Boer homesteads and farms to stop the aid of Boers). Then, following Kitchener's new policy, many women and children were forcibly moved to prevent the Boers from re-supplying from their homes and more camps were built and converted to prisons. This relatively new idea was essentially humane in its planning in London but ultimately proved brutal due to its lack of proper implementation. This was not the first appearance of concentration camps. The Spanish used them in the Ten Years' War that later led to the Spanish-American War, and the United States used them to devastate guerrilla forces during the Philippine-American War. But the concentration camp system of the British was on a much larger scale.
There were a total of 45 tented camps built for Boer internees and 64 for black African ones. Of the 28,000 Boer men captured as prisoners of war, 25,630 were sent overseas. So, most Boers remaining in the local camps were women and children, but the native African ones held large numbers of men as well. Even when forcibly removed from Boer areas, the black Africans were not considered to be hostile to the British, and provided a paid labour force.
The conditions in the camps were very unhealthy and the food rations were meager. The wives and children of men who were still fighting were given smaller rations than others. The poor diet and inadequate hygiene led to endemic contagious diseases such as measles, typhoid and dysentery. Coupled with a shortage of medical facilities, this led to large numbers of deaths — a report after the war concluded that 27,927 Boers (of whom 22,074 were children under 16) and 14,154 black Africans had died of starvation, disease and exposure in the concentration camps. In all, about 25% of the Boer inmates and 12% of the black African ones died (although recent research suggests that the black African deaths were underestimated and may have actually been around 20,000).
A delegate of the South African Women and Children's Distress Fund, Emily Hobhouse, did much to publicise the distress of the inmates on her return to Britain after visiting some of the camps in the Orange Free State. Her fifteen-page report caused uproar, and led to a government commission, the Fawcett Commission, visiting camps from August to December 1901 which confirmed her report. They were highly critical of the running of the camps and made numerous recommendations, for example improvements in diet and provision of proper medical facilities. By February 1902 the annual death-rate dropped to 6.9% and eventually to 2%
http://christhum.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/south-africa-and-the-british-concentration-camps/#more-862
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South Africa and the British concentration camps16 June 2010
http://christhum.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/south-africa-and-the-british-concentration-camps/#more-862
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South Africa and the British concentration camps16 June 2010
I’m loving the World Cup, trying to watch as many matches as I can, and even like the sound of the vuvuzelas! With many others of the English tendency, I watched England’s first match against USA with nervous excitement. ITV prefaced the match with an outdoor broadcast from Roark’s Drift, and Film4 showed Zulu earlier in the day. As much as I have enjoyed the film in the past, it belongs to the odd canon of boys-own British pseudohistory.
The Boer War is a fairly forgotten piece of British Empire history, although ending only a little over a century ago. In the UK we remember Roark’s Drift (mainly because of Zulu), the Relief of Mafeking, Cecil Rhodes and Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouts. It’s far too easy to have this jingoistic comic-book understanding of British history. In some countries, lots of them, the school history books are doctored to instill a nationalistic pseudohistory in the student, but here simple, subtle mass ignorance suffices.
Britain began the 20th century with systematic mass murder in South Africa, which involved the invention of the concentration camp. Part of jingoistic history is to make evil other: foreigners are and do evil,which we boldly resist. By editing out the evil from our own history, we end up with an overinflated impression of our moral superiority. This makes it important to remember the evil our country has done.
After the Relief of Mafeking in 1900, General Kitchener arrived in South Africa to take command. Frustrated by fighting the Boer defenders, who adopted guerilla tactics against superior British forces, Kitchener ordered the transformation of the extant refugee camps into concentration camps for the internment of the Boer women and children left in the villages and townships. The British didn’t mean to murder these women and children, but simply interred them in disease infested camps with too little food and let nature take its course. About 26,000 Boer women and children died in the British concentration camps. A roughly equal number of Boer fighters were deported from South Africa during the same period.
More forgotten are the Black Africans caught up in the fighting who were interned in separate concentration camps. The liberal British media, outraged at the plight of the White Boers, said almost nothing about the Black camps. All we have is an estimate that around 14,000 died in the Black camps.
The Boer War was an important turning point in the history of South Africa and the British Empire. The violence, bloodshed and trauma of the war is the background for Afrikaner grievances and insecurities that lay behind Apartheid. The war was the moment that Britain learnt that we could not dictate political and economic terms around the globe, and perhaps that we should not.
As we now have official admission that British soldiers killed 14 unarmed civilians without warning in Derry almost 40 years ago, that their commanders put them in that high-pressure position, and that the authorities have led the denial and coverup ever since, we realise that the need to question authority in order to keep it accountable and responsible for its actions.
http://www.usa-exile.org/news/0306/02/elitefedfamilies.html
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"HUSH MY DEAR. DON'T SPEAK SO LOUD OR YOU'LL BE OVERHEARD AND I SHOULD BE RUINED. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE A GREAT WIZARD. I HAVE FOOLED EVERYONE FOR SO LONG THAT I THOUGHT I SHOULD NEVER BE FOUND OUT. IT WAS A GREAT MISTAKE LETTING YOU INTO THE THRONE ROOM." From L. Frank Baum's classic the Wizard of Oz, written during the depression of the 1930's. Do you think Baum knew the truth? We have entered into their throne room. The Great Wizard of Oz has been exposed. He is alive and well and calls himself the Federal Reserve Corporation.
From: "John Galt"
http://www.africaresource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246:blood-diamond-russell-simmons-de-beers-and-genocide&catid=111:hip-hop&Itemid=327
http://www.ewtn.com/library/BUSINESS/ANTDEBRS.HTM
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/1994/211749.htm
http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/the-new-warlord-of-oz
The Boer War is a fairly forgotten piece of British Empire history, although ending only a little over a century ago. In the UK we remember Roark’s Drift (mainly because of Zulu), the Relief of Mafeking, Cecil Rhodes and Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouts. It’s far too easy to have this jingoistic comic-book understanding of British history. In some countries, lots of them, the school history books are doctored to instill a nationalistic pseudohistory in the student, but here simple, subtle mass ignorance suffices.
Lizzie van Zyl, victim of Britain's concentration camps.
After the Relief of Mafeking in 1900, General Kitchener arrived in South Africa to take command. Frustrated by fighting the Boer defenders, who adopted guerilla tactics against superior British forces, Kitchener ordered the transformation of the extant refugee camps into concentration camps for the internment of the Boer women and children left in the villages and townships. The British didn’t mean to murder these women and children, but simply interred them in disease infested camps with too little food and let nature take its course. About 26,000 Boer women and children died in the British concentration camps. A roughly equal number of Boer fighters were deported from South Africa during the same period.
More forgotten are the Black Africans caught up in the fighting who were interned in separate concentration camps. The liberal British media, outraged at the plight of the White Boers, said almost nothing about the Black camps. All we have is an estimate that around 14,000 died in the Black camps.
The Boer War was an important turning point in the history of South Africa and the British Empire. The violence, bloodshed and trauma of the war is the background for Afrikaner grievances and insecurities that lay behind Apartheid. The war was the moment that Britain learnt that we could not dictate political and economic terms around the globe, and perhaps that we should not.
As we now have official admission that British soldiers killed 14 unarmed civilians without warning in Derry almost 40 years ago, that their commanders put them in that high-pressure position, and that the authorities have led the denial and coverup ever since, we realise that the need to question authority in order to keep it accountable and responsible for its actions.
http://www.usa-exile.org/news/0306/02/elitefedfamilies.html
Excerpt:
"HUSH MY DEAR. DON'T SPEAK SO LOUD OR YOU'LL BE OVERHEARD AND I SHOULD BE RUINED. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE A GREAT WIZARD. I HAVE FOOLED EVERYONE FOR SO LONG THAT I THOUGHT I SHOULD NEVER BE FOUND OUT. IT WAS A GREAT MISTAKE LETTING YOU INTO THE THRONE ROOM." From L. Frank Baum's classic the Wizard of Oz, written during the depression of the 1930's. Do you think Baum knew the truth? We have entered into their throne room. The Great Wizard of Oz has been exposed. He is alive and well and calls himself the Federal Reserve Corporation.
From: "John Galt"
http://www.africaresource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246:blood-diamond-russell-simmons-de-beers-and-genocide&catid=111:hip-hop&Itemid=327
http://www.ewtn.com/library/BUSINESS/ANTDEBRS.HTM
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/1994/211749.htm
http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/the-new-warlord-of-oz
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