The Cults of Empire

by Susan V. Ferguson
October 2013
from InannaReturns Website

 

In every Kali Yuga throughout endless Cycles of Time, tyrants have sought to dominate the world - and failed. They will fail again.

According to author Charles R. Morris, in December of 2007, the chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States, Ben Bernanke began the experimental practice of exchanging illiquid assets that were weighing down bank balance sheets for safe-haven U.S. Treasuries.

These illiquid assets, which normally cannot be sold or exchanged without a substantial loss, are called CDOs, collateralized debt obligations. Foreign governments and pension funds have long perceived U.S. Treasuries as stable safe trusted investments.

Thus began the unraveling of the world economy. This 'experiment' was based on the current cult of financial ideology, the Chicago school of economics, a brand of financial capitalism.

This economic 'experiment' is now failing. Depressions are cyclical. Over the next two years the world will be thrown into deep depression - and wipe out the wealth and savings of millions who never heard of CDOs and know nothing of financial cult ideologies.

When the American people begin to fully realize, as many now are, how their life savings, the security and safety of their families, and their future have been gambled away and squandered by the fanatical arrogance of an elite effectively cut off from the everyday real struggles of ordinary lives, there will be terrible and as yet unknown, perhaps violent consequences.

I suggest that the elite fears public reaction - and the bizarre attempts to monitor and control any and all communications are symptomatic of their fears.

They are afraid...
 

No one wants chaos

No one wants to be pushed to violence.

In the despair of utter helplessness, the idea of revolution may stir the blood and call brave hearts to action, but the consequences can be catastrophic. Civil wars are heinous in this regard as the absence of law brings out the worst in humanity. Historical accounts offer evidence of rampant atrocities committed during and in the name of such movements. The innocent, young and old, suffer.

As world governments have grown, the common people have been left behind, shut out of any possible responsible participation in our own destinies. In despair people have turned to conspiracy cults that offer explanations, participation and community. Developing alternative ways to live beyond consumerism, the new age, channels (the modern oracles), and conspiracies give the disenfranchised and disconnected the sense of belonging we all need.

Many of these groups are positive, creative, and have born constructive ideas based on sound research. We need new thinking, new ways to understand disease, our relationship with Nature, and consciousness.

However there are numerous cults that are simply taking advantage of a large group of people who feel totally alienated from the leaders they once trusted. The disenchanted and lonely make easy pickings for carnival sharks.

I believe that many of these cult groups began in absolute sincerity. Like all of us, they were seeking answers. Their initial efforts were of real value to many, or they would not have succeeded in attracting followers. But success carries its own seeds of decay.

The pressure on even the best of leaders to keep their followers interested may encourage them to produce the more and more bizarre and titillating, to the point of absurdity.

The followers and closest disciples can and do corrupt their teachers and gurus. Stars are 'owned' by their fans.

The End of an Empire

We are living in the end of another Kali Yuga empire. Cults also flourished as the cracks began to appear in the Roman Empire.

A plethora of alternative religious cults and practices found popularity with those who felt powerless, not only slaves, but also the wives of aristocrats.

"…the anguish, the general insecurity and feeling of precariousness which silently undermined the Roman world supplied further ammunition to the mystery religions (Dionysian cults), which while tightening the solidarity of the sect's members, guaranteed them the firm hope of divine protection in this world and the next."

[The Cults of the Roman Empires]

We have often been told that all empires are alike and the American Empire has been compared to the Roman Empire.

"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

(George Santayana)

As we stand on the precipice of world collapse, are we really any different?

As we have lost faith in our cultural traditions and religions, have we not turned to questionable sources?

"When the condition of a citizen…lost a large part of its importance, the individual sought another status…by way of his integration…members of 'diaspora' create new bonds for themselves in another place another way…

Where the individual no longer plays an active, direct and personal part in the running of the city, he inevitably loses interest and seeks responsibilities elsewhere, in other solidarities, other 'fraternities'… assure him a kind of reintegration and existence, when traditional frameworks and institutional authorities are in decline or failing in their mission."

[The Cults of the Roman Empires]

I suggest that our ruling elites have been happy to keep us, the common herd distracted in rubbish conspiracy cults and new age channelings, just as the Roman aristocracy was pleased to keep their populace distracted in various religious cults.

The Praetorian Guard didn't have the media, TV, and the Internet to use as a control mechanism.

Financial Cults

Our institutional authorities have not only failed us, they have disregarded us as human beings and betrayed our trust.

In arcane secrecy, their cults of financial ideologies have eviscerated the middle class and destroyed our beloved democracy. Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and many others have warned again and again that this 'experiment' will end in suffering and tragedy.

The collapse of the USD as the world currency can occur slowly, perhaps over the next two years as James Rickards suggests. But no one knows.

What we do know is that the massive tsunami of printed money issued as quantitative easing (QE) by the Federal Reserve has placed the very safety and sovereignty of America at risk - and left people around the world vulnerable.

When banks fail and we see breadlines, the majority of Americans will begin to understand how we have been robbed, that,

"the greatest transference of wealth in the history of mankind" has taken place in the guise of the fanatical beliefs of an elitist financial ideological cult.

The consequences will be terrifying.

The external world is a perfect reflection of our inner consciousness. What is needed is a change in consciousness.

Yes, it is time to clean house, to examine the political and moral corruption that has overwhelmed us. Yet we must be very careful to act in considered, accurately informed, intelligent wisdom - lest in the process of liberating ourselves from these sociopathic thieving narcissists, we become the enemy.

A recent example of a productive alternative is the march against secret government surveillance by thousands of activists. Legal courts have condemned J. P. Morgan and fined them billions of dollars.

These are better approaches.

Those who have gained in wisdom will find that Wisdom-Knowledge is now more than ever, a crucial necessity. Ill-considered violence is not of value, and perhaps not even a lasting solution to the greed paradigm.

We may ask,

• What are the real motives behind those who are encouraging such acts?
• Do we really want to unleash dangerously destructive energies with the potential for unpredictable unforeseen consequences?

Remember the sober conclusion of the French Revolution in the 1790s:

"The Revolution eats its own!"

The choice is up to us. Only we are responsible for the future.

Waiting for a change in our Consciousness

Consider the idea that the off-world beings that did in fact colonize our little planet are simply waiting, observing us, hoping that we will move into maturity - and take responsibility for our own actions as individuals, participate with Wisdom & Knowledge in our governments and in the care & protection of planet Earth herself, our Mother.

Perhaps these off-world beings, of which there appear to be countless numbers of multiple races, are indeed hoping that one day soon, we earthlings will come to the realization that we don't need tyranny in any form, and that we are capable of assuming an intelligent informed participation in our future.

Indeed they watch, hoping that one day we will lose our childlike interest in ever more bizarre fear-loaded tales, which render us useless. Could it just be that what the ETs are waiting and hoping for is for us, earth humans to grow up?

Because unless we demonstrate that we have become responsible adults here on Earth, we cannot and will not be allowed to join and participate in the larger Universe.

Enlightenment is not escapism.

Enlightened beings naturally develop compassion and engage in activities that contribute to the well-being of the world.

Sources

• The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown, by Charles R. Morris; Public Affairs, New York, 2008.
• The Cults of the Roman Empire, by Robert Turcan; Blackwell Publishing, 1992.
• Currency Wars, The Making of the Next Global Crisis, by James Rickards; Portfolio/Penguin, 2011.
• The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, by Chalmers Johnson; Metropolitan Books, 2004.
• NSA Washington march: Anti-secrecy activists marched in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Saturday, protesting NSA spying. US citizens and world leaders are rattled at reports of vast surveillance of phone and Internet communications - http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/1026/NSA-Washington-March-against-surveillance-and-a-call-from-Edward-Snowden-photos
• JPMorgan Chase has reached a $5.1 billion settlement over alleged violations related to mortgage securities it sold in the lead up to the financial crash - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/jpmorgan-deal_n_4164907.html 

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India - Selling Out to Monsanto - GMOs and the Bigger Picture

by Colin Todhunter
August 08, 2014
from GlobalResearch Website

On 15 August, India will mark its 67^th anniversary of independence from Britain.

 

It may seem strange to some that a nation would publicly celebrate its independence while at the same time it less publicly cedes it to outsiders. The gleaming façade of flags and fly-pasts will belie the fact that national security and independence do not depend on military might and patriotic speeches.

 

Eye-catching celebrations will take place in Delhi and much of the media will mouth platitudes about the strength of the nation and its independence. The reality is, however, an ongoing, concerted attempt to undermine and destroy the very foundation and security of the country.

The bedrock of any society is its agriculture. Without food there can be no life. Without food security, there can be no genuine independence. A recent report by the organization GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world's food and are more productively efficient than large farms ^[1].

 

Facilitated by an appropriate policy framework, small farmers could easily feed the global population.

 

But small farmers are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world's farmland and the world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands big agribusiness and the rich and powerful. If nothing is done to reverse this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.

By definition, peasant agriculture prioritizes food production for local and national markets as well as for farmers' own families.

 

Corporations take over scarce fertile land and prioritize non-food commodities or export crops for profit and markets far away that cater for the needs of the affluent. This process impoverishes local communities and brings about food insecurity. GRAIN concludes that the concentration of fertile agricultural land in fewer and fewer hands is directly related to the increasing number of people going hungry every day.

The Oakland Institute in the U.S. recently stated that the first years of the 21^st century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale ^[2].

 

An estimated 500 million acres, an area eight times the size of Britain, was reported bought or leased across the developing world between 2000 and 2011, often at the expense of local food security and land rights.

 

This trend could eventually result in the permanent shift of farm ownership from family businesses to institutional investors and other consolidated corporate operations.

 

Monsanto in India

In India, small farms account for 92 percent of farms and occupy around 40 percent of all agricultural land.

 

They form the bedrock of food production. However, there is a concerted effort to remove farmers from the land. Hundreds of thousands of farmers have taken their lives since 1997 and many more are experiencing economic distress or have left farming as a result of debt, a shift to (GM) cash crops and economic liberalization ^[3].

Monsanto already controls the cotton industry in India and is increasingly shaping agri-policy and the knowledge paradigm by funding agricultural research in public universities and institutes.

 

Its practices and colonization of institutions have led to it being called the 'contemporary East India Company' ^[4], and regulatory bodies are now severely compromised and riddled with conflicts of interest where decision-making over GMOs are concerned ^[5].

In the meantime, Monsanto and the GM biotech sector forward the myth that GM food is necessary to feed the world's burgeoning population. They are not.

 

Aside from the review by GRAIN, the World Bank-funded International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge and Science for Development Report stated that smallholder, traditional farming (not GMOs) can deliver food security in low-income countries through sustainable agri-ecological systems ^[5].

The Standing Committee on Agriculture in Parliament unequivocally concluded that GM seeds and foods are dangerous to human, animal and environmental health and directed the former Government of Manmohan Singh to ban GMOs ^[6].

 

Despite such evidence and the recommendations to put a hold on open field GM trials by the Supreme Court-appointed Technical Expert Committee, the push is on within official circles to give such trials the green light. 

Monsanto cannot be trusted

The GM biotech sector cannot be trusted.

 

As its largest player, Monsanto is responsible for knowingly damaging people's health and polluting the environment and is guilty of a catalogue of decades-long deceptive, duplicitous and criminal practices ^[7].

 

It has shown time and again its contempt for human life and the environment and that profit overrides any notion of service to the public, yet it continues to propagate the lie that it has humanity's best interests at heart because its so-called GMO 'frontier technology' can feed the hungry millions.

The sector attempts to control the 'science' around its products by carrying out inadequate, secretive studies of its own, placing restrictions on any independent research into its products and censoring findings that indicate the deleterious impacts of its products ^[8].

 

It has also faked data ^[9] and engages in attacking scientists who reach conclusions not to its liking ^[10,11].

 

It cannot demonstrate that yields are better, nutritional values are improved, health is not damaged or that harm to the environment does not occur with the adoption of GMOs.

 

Independent studies and evidence, not inadequate industry funded or back ones, have indicated yields are often worse and herbicide use has increased ^[12,13,14], health is negatively impacted ^[15,16], soil is damaged ^[17] and biodiversity is undermined ^[18], among other things.

GRAIN found that around 56 percent of Russia's agricultural output comes from family farms which occupy less than 9 percent of arable land.

 

Russia does not need or want GM crops, which the Russian Prime Minister has described as amounting to little more than a form of biological warfare weapon ^[19]. And here lies the real heart of the matter.

 

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said that if you control oil you control nations, but if you control food you control people.

 

GMOs are not needed to feed the world. Science cannot justify their use. They are a weapon.

In India, there is a drive to remove small/family farms, which are capable of ensuring the nation's food security, and eventually replace them with larger biotech-controlled monoculture farms with GM crops for Western styled processed-food supermarkets and export ^[20].

 

It is no surprise that the likes of Syngenta, Monsanto and Walmart had a direct hand in drawing up the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, which was in turn linked to the U.S. sanctioning the opening up of India's nuclear power sector.

Despite India not being a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, U.S. corporations are now actively involved in helping India develop its civil nuclear capabilities.

 

Payback appears to come in the form of handing over the control of India's agricultural land and food system to the U.S. via that country's biotech companies. 

GMOs and the bigger picture

Russia is correct to conflate bio-terror and GMOs.

 

The oil-rich Rockefeller family set out to control global agriculture via the petrochemical-dependent 'green revolution'. The destruction of traditional farmer-controlled agriculture was actively supported by the U.S. government and its Trojan horse agritech corporations under the agenda set out by Kissinger.

 

GMOs now represent the ultimate stranglehold over food via 'terminator' seed technology, seed patenting and intellectual property rights.

Moreover, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Gates Foundation - which have teamed up with Monsanto in Africa - have long-standing concerns about overpopulation in 'third world' countries and how they could develop and threaten resources that the West has used to enrich itself with ^[21].

 

In fact, Monsanto now own the Epicyte gene, which causes sterility. What will be the 'final solution' for the likes of 600 million in India or millions in Africa or elsewhere who are to be removed from agriculture ^[22]?

 

The eugenicists are knocking at the door.

Despite compliant politicians and officials in high places who seem hell-bent on capitulating to Monsanto and the U.S., many recognize the dangers associated with GMOs and are working hard to resist their introduction.

 

However, they are attacked and accused of slowing down growth because of their resistance to GMOs ^[23].

 

Certain activists and civil organizations are also accused of working against the national interest by colluding with foreign interests to undermine 'development'. The hypocrisy is blindingly obvious: the state itself has for a long time been colluding with foreign interests to undermine the basis of traditional agriculture.

The political backing for GMOs by the U.S. State Department, the strategic position of the U.S. GM biotech sector in international trade agreements and the push to get GMOs into India and to contaminate agriculture via open-field trials with the compliance of key officials and official bodies does not bode well.

 

Independence is much more than military might, patriotic slogans and a self-congratulatory media-induced frenzy on a designated day each year.

 

In terms of GMOs, Russia is aware of this. It is actively committed to putting the GMO genie back in the bottle ^[24].

 

Why isn't India?

"It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity…

The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us.

Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?… A new star rises, the star of freedom in the east, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes.

May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!".

Jawaharlal Nehru

from his "tryst with destiny" speech at Parliament House

New Delhi in 1947

Notes

[1] http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland

[2] http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OI_Report_Down_on_the_Farm.pdf

[3] http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-evidence-of-suicide-epidemic-among-indias-marginalised-farmers

[4] http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/monsanto-a-contemporary-east-india-company-and-corporate-knowledge-in-india/

[5] http://www.countercurrents.org/rodrigues120813.htm

[6] http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/03/13/leaving-a-scorched-india?tempskin=basic

[7] http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/06/20/complete-history-monsanto-worlds-evil-corporation/

[8] http://www.globalresearch.ca/gmo-scandal-the-long-term-effects-of-genetically-modified-food-on-humans/14570

[9] http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Monsanto+'faked'+data+for+approvals+claims+its+ex-chief/1/83093.html

[10] http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12715-seralini-vs-fellous-a-gmo-libel-case-over-independent-expertise-and-science

[11] http://www.globalresearch.ca/gmo-researchers-attacked-evidence-denied-and-a-population-at-risk/5305324

[12] http://naturalsociety.com/breaking-new-usda-report-proves-environmental-impact-gmo-questionable/

[13] http://www.alternet.org/food/why-monsanto-wrong-about-gm-crop-promises

[14] http://fieldquestions.com/2013/02/09/bt-cotton-is-failing-blame-the-farmers/

[15] http://www.globalresearch.ca/potential-health-hazards-of-genetically-engineered-foods/8148

[16] http://www.gmoseralini.org/republication-seralini-study-science-speaks/

[17] http://www.psrast.org/soilecolart.htm

[18] http://gmo-journal.com/2011/06/17/loss-of-biodiversity-and-genetically-modified-crops/

[19] http://bodhita.com/russia-labels-gmo-foods-as-biological-warfare-weapon/

[20] http://www.bhoomimagazine.org/article/cash-food-will-strike-very-foundation-economy

[21] http://farmwars.info/?p=11879

[22] http://reimagining.cepa.lk/index.php/en/development-news/item/229-corporate-power-women-and-resistance-in-india-today-an-interview-with-arundhati-roy

[23] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ngos-stance-on-development-projects-to-hit-growth-ib/article6105289.ece

[24] http://rt.com/op-edge/159948-gmo-food-russia-law/

Monsanto - A Multinational Factory of Death