BEATING THE NEW WORLD ORDER

By: JOHN GALT (condensed version)

CHAPTER ONE: THE JOURNEY

The spiritual roots of the New World Order can be traced back to the biblical stories of the expulsion of Lucifer from heaven and the building of the Tower of Babel in Babylon. The economic and political roots can be found in the great empires of the ancient world--Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, and others. All of these were based on conquest by force of arms, and all eventually perished.

The modern history of the New World Order is based on a different concept--obtaining control of the world by first gaining control of human minds and then gradually expanding economic and political control until domination of the masses by the elite is complete.

Let's begin our journey in the year 1776, when three significant events took place. Adam Smith wrote his classic treatise, The Wealth of Nations, which advocated economic freedom and free trade. In America, the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which declared the colonies to be politically free from England and which formalized the Revolutionary War, begun the previous year by the fighting at Lexington and Concord. On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt formed a secret society called the Order of the Illuminati.

The Order of the Illuminati

Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811) was born to Jewish parents but ostensibly became a Roman Catholic. He became Professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt, Munich, Bavaria, a Jesuit school. He was interested in occult religions and was really a Satanist, rather than a Jew or Christian. He conceived of an idea for world domination by way of the mind control process mentioned earlier. Being a Freemason, he adapted the Masonic concept of progression through a series of secret rituals to higher levels of inner secrets. He received financing from Meyer Amschel Rothschild, scion of the financial dynasty which has been consistently at the center of the New World Order ever since.

The Order of the Illuminati (which means illuminated or enlightened ones) had six basic objectives in its plan of world conquest:

1. abolition of all existing governments and the establishment of a one-world super-government

2. abolition of inheritance

3. abolition of private property

4. abolition of patriotism

5. abolition of the family

6. abolition of freedom.

The Order was exposed in 1785 by a curious event. One of the members, Jacob Lang, was struck and killed by lightning when he was on his rounds to infiltrated Masonic organizations. Secret papers were found on his person. The Elector of Bavaria launched an investigation of the Order and banned it in 1786. The conspirators went even deeper into hiding and their plans were carried on by other secret societies. One of these was the Jacobin Society in France, which played a key role in the French Revolution in 1789 and its infamous Reign of Terror.

A later branch of the Order is the League of the Just, of which Karl Marx was a leading member. It is no coincidence that his Communist Manifesto (1848), which we will discuss later, is remarkably similar to the objectives of the Illuminati.

The present-day successor to the Order of the Illuminati is the Committee of 300, an outgrowth of the British East India Company, which today is the central coordinating organization of the New World Order.

The Rothschild Dynasty

Meyer Amschel Bauer (1743-1812) was a goldsmith in Frankfort, Germany. Goldsmiths minted and stored gold coins for their customers and gradually became merchant bankers. They developed the concept of fractional reserve banking, by which they made loans far in excess of their gold holdings, knowing from experience that only a few customers would want to take possession of their gold at any given moment of time. The symbol outside of Bauer's shop was a red shield. Bauer changed the family name to Rothschild, the German word for red shield. Thus began the largest financial dynasty in the history of the world.

Meyer had five sons. He set them up with banking businesses in five large European cities. The Rothschild family specialized in making large loans to governments, usually to finance wars and gradually came to exert enormous influence in political affairs. Their power was magnified by their influence over, or control of, central banks. They have a passion for secrecy and usually work behind the scenes through various agents. Meyer Amschel Rothschild once commented ``Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.''

International bankers operate on a variation of the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, rules. Throughout history, you will see the central importance of money in the big picture. A good rule for keeping track of the inner workings of the conspiracy is this: follow the money.

Events in America

Returning to our review of early American history, the Declaration of Independence in 1776 formalized the Revolutionary War with England, the world's most powerful military force at the time. George Washington lead a poorly-equipped militia which consisted of about 3% of the colonial population. He was a very devout man and prayed to God for an hour or more every day. Actually most of our founding fathers were very religious.

On November 15, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation to coordinate the efforts of the thirteen sovereign colonies.

In 1781, the Continental Congress chartered the Bank of North America. This was our country's first central bank. Due to the exigencies of war, the bank issued paper money far in excess of its holdings of gold. The resulting inflation lead quickly to a nearly worthless currency and the expression ``not worth a Continental.''

On October 19, 1781, General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. As time went on, it became apparent that the Articles of Confederation did not give the national government enough powers to be effective. A convention was called in 1787 for the purpose of amending these Articles. The convention met in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. It went far beyond its assigned task and drafted what is now known as the Constitution of the United States of America. This document increased the powers of the federal government, giving it the power to raise certain taxes but still left most of the power in the hands of the states and ultimately the people.

Our Constitution was ratified by the ninth state on June 21, 1788, and was declared to be effective on March 4, 1789. George Washington was inaugurated as our first President on April 30, 1789.

Congress submitted the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, on September 25, 1789. They were adopted on December 15, 1791. It should be emphasized that these rights were the unalienable rights granted to the people by God, not by the government. The Bill of Rights expressly prohibits the government from infringing on these rights.

Also in 1791, the Coinage Act of 1791 was passed. This Act established the exact amounts of gold or silver in each denomination of coin. This Act was never repealed.

Another event in 1791 was the chartering of the first Bank of the United States for a 20-year period. This was promoted by Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of Treasury, one of the first advocates of big government. Actually this was our second central bank, the Bank of North America being the first.

In 1792, the Coinage Act of 1792 was passed. This allowed free coinage, by which citizens could bring their gold or silver bullion to a U. S. mint to have it made into coins for a nominal charge. It also set the relative value of gold to silver at 15 to 1.

On September 19, 1796, President Washington gave his farewell address. Prophetically, he gave strong warnings against permanent alliances with foreign powers, big public debt, a large military establishment and the devices of a small, artful, enterprising minority to control or change our government.

Judicial Imperialism

The first major attack on the Constitution was the U. S. Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison, decided on February 24, 1803. Chief Justice John Marshall and his Federalist colleagues declared that the Supreme Court had the authority to declare the acts of Congress unconstitutional. No Constitutional authority was cited for this opinion and for good reason -- there is none. Actually this power remains with the people in accordance with the Tenth Amendment and is supposed to be implemented by citizens in their capacity as grand jurors or trial jurors.

The Founding Fathers were men of great wisdom and political experience. They were especially aware of the many abuses of government and clearly had no intention of letting nine non-elected lawyers overrule a much larger elected Congress. The proper function of courts is to serve in a capacity similar to umpires in a baseball game, making decisions as things happen rather than making up the rules of the game as they go.

If you stop and think about it, the whole idea of ``case law'' is rather silly. What you end up with is a huge body of ``law'' consisting of mutually contradictory opinions of different judges on almost every point, resulting in an incomprehensible mess rather than a guide to proper behavior.

Banking and the War of 1812

In 1811, Congress refused to renew the charter of the first Bank of the United States, so the nation was once again free of a central bank. This greatly displeased the international bankers in London and lead directly to a British attempt to recapture her former American colonies.

The War of 1812 began on June 18, 1812. In this same year, Napoleon invaded Russia and was ultimately forced to retreat. The war continued until December 24, 1814, concluding with the Treaty of Ghent. The United States survived its first major challenge.

In America, the Federalists continued to press for a central bank. In 1816, the Second Bank of the United States was chartered for twenty years. Thus we had our third central bank.

On March 4, 1829, Andrew Jackson was inaugurated President. He was a strong opponent of central banks and all of their financial shenanigans. Being aware of the growing popular opposition to their activities, the bankers persuaded Congress to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States for another twenty years in 1832, even though the current charter then had four more years to run. President Jackson vetoed that bill and Congress did not override him. As a result, the Bank continued on until its charter expired in 1836.

From 1836 until 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act was snuck through Congress, the United States did not have a central bank. It is no coincidence that this period of time marked the greatest real economic growth in the history of our nation. There was sound banking, virtually no inflation and very little unemployment.

The Communist Manifesto

In 1848, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels published The Communist Manifesto. It expanded on the objectives of the Order of the Illuminati, described earlier.

Its ten main points were as follow:

1. Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communications and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands and the improvement of soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools.

It is scary how much this sounds like the Democratic and Republican party platforms today and President Clinton's recent Executive Order 12919, which establishes a virtual dictatorship on the American economy at the whim of the President.

The Civil War

British intrigues continued behind the scenes for many years, with the aim of regaining control of America. Using the age-old ploy of divide and conquer, strains were created between the northern states and the southern states over the issue of slavery. More significant were the underlying economic issues, with most of the manufacturing being concentrated in the north and most of the agriculture in the south. Equally important was the issue of federal government versus state political powers.

Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated President on March 4, 1861. Less than a month earlier, on February 8, 1861, the Confederate States of America was organized for the purpose of seceding from the united States to become a separate nation. This created a major dilemma for the federal government: should it allow the southern states to secede peacefully and hopefully become a friendly foreign nation or should it go to war to preserve the existing nation? The former option was chosen. The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumpter. Thus began the most tragic war in the history of our country. In the midst of the Civil War, the National Bank Act of 1863 was passed on February 25, 1863. This Act established a system of nationally- chartered banks, rather than one central bank.

In 1864, the First International was formed in Europe. This was a Communist international trade union.

The Civil War continued until April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomatox Court House.

Five days later, on April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. Many researchers believe that the tragedy was the result of Lincoln's refusal to borrow money at high interest rates from the international bankers, electing instead to issue United States notes to finance the war.

The Round Table Groups

In the 1870's, John Ruskin started teaching at Oxford University. The central theme of his teachings was that the students at Oxford represented the most gifted group of people in the world and that it was their proper place to be the rulers of the world.

One of Ruskin's students was Cecil Rhodes, who went on to gain control of the gold and diamond mines in South Africa and to amass a vast fortune.

On February 5, 1891, Cecil Rhodes established a secret society called the Circle of Initiates. Like most secret organizations, it had one individual or a very small group at the center and was surrounded by a series of concentric circles of outer members who were not privy to the secrets of the core but who supported its objectives. Rhodes later established the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford, which today are the principal training ground of the leaders of the New World Order.

Our current President, Bill Clinton, is an Oxford Scholar.

Other members of the Circle of Initiates were Alfred Lord Balfour, Lord Rothschild, Lord Roseberry and Lord Curzon. There was an outer circle called the Association of Helpers, also called the Round Table Groups. These groups were formed in every nation of the English-speaking world. They in turn formed the larger Institutes of International Affairs. In England, the present group is the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

In America, it formed the American Institute of International Affairs in 1919, which incorporated and changed its name in 1921 to the Council on Foreign Relations and is today the secret government of the United States.

The Boer Wars

The Boer Wars in Africa (1899-1902) were primarily a series of battles by which the British Empire was expanded in Africa at the expense of other European nations, primarily Germany. Cecil Rhodes and his Round Table Groups were at the forefront of these wars. By this means, the conspirators were able to gain control of the vast mineral resources of much of Africa, especially the gold mines and diamond mines of South Africa.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidency (1901-1909)

Following the tragic assassination of President William McKinley on September 14, 1901, Vice President Theodore ``Teddy'' Roosevelt became President. He was reelected in his own right in 1904.

The international bankers were actively plotting to reestablish a central bank under their control in the United States, the last one having been vigorously opposed by President Jackson in 1832, its charter being allowed to expire in 1836. On March 13, 1907, the bankers engineered a financial panic which led to a depression.

In 1908, Congress passed the Aldrich-Vreeland Act. It authorized national banks to issue emergency currency. It also created the National Monetary Commission, whose task it was to develop a plan to deal with the periodic financial crises.

The Taft Administration (1909-1913)

In November 1910, a small group of international bankers, together with Senator Nelson Aldrich and Asst. Secretary of the Treasury A. Piatt Andrew met in a very secret meeting at J.P. Morgan's Jekyll Island Hunt Club, a private island preserve off Brunswick, Georgia, for the purpose of planning a private banking cartel in America similar to the ones in Europe controlled by the bankers. This soon became the Federal Reserve System. Baron Alfred Rothschild was the mastermind behind the plan. Paul Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Company, was Rothschild's representative at the meeting. A fascinating picture of this important cabal is presented in G. Edward Griffin's book, The Creature From Jekyll Island, which is also one of the best books available to explain money and banking in a clear and entertaining fashion.

Having drafted the architecture for a privately-owned banking system, the challenge was to figure out a way to get the U.S. Congress to approve it. Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, was fairly popular with the voters, seemed likely to be reelected, and was considered highly unlikely to support the bankers' plan. His Democratic opponent, Woodrow Wilson, under the strong influence of Rothschild agent ``Colonel'' Edward Mandel House, was much more agreeable to the globalist agenda. So the conspirators persuaded Republican Teddy Roosevelt to run on the Progressive Party (Bull Moose) ticket, giving him considerable financial support. As a result of the splitting of the Republican vote, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected President.

The Wilson Fiasco (1913-1921)

The election of globalist puppet Woodrow Wilson paved the way for three major abominations: The Income Tax, the Federal Reserve System, and World War I.

In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was supposedly adopted. This amendment is known as the income tax amendment. Actually, it did not repeal the existing constitutional provisions relating to taxes and thus created no new taxing powers. Furthermore, as proved by the exhaustive research of Bill Benson and Red Beckman, the alleged amendment was not properly approved by any of the 48 states then in existence, much less than by the required three-fourths of them, so the Sixteenth Amendment was never ratified. Their book, The Law That Never Was, gives the details of their findings. The bottom line is that the income tax has been a massive fraud from the outset, totally lacking in a legal basis.

Also in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed. The final vote occurred in the U.S. Senate on December 22, when most members of Congress were home for Christmas and only five selected senators were present at an evening session. This act created a private banking cartel entirely owned by the bankers which allows them to create money out of thin air, to expand it further by means of fractional reserve banking and to totally control our economy. The only connection to our government is that the President nominally appoints members to the Federal Reserve Board for 14-year terms but in practice the bankers' candidates have always been appointed. Paul Warburg, a German national, and one of the Jekyll Island conspirators, became the first Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1914. His brother Max was financing Germany's involvement in World War I at the same time.

All wars in modern times have been instigated by the greed of the international bankers (who lend vast sums of money at usurious interest rates to governments) and the international businessmen (who profit handsomely from the sale of war material). World War I was no exception. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia on June 23, 1914, was the excuse for war in Europe. In 1916, President Wilson was reelected, largely on the basis of the campaign slogan, ``he kept us out of war''. Actually he was planning to get the United States into World War I all along. On April 6, 1917, shortly after his inauguration and the deliberately provoked sinking of the munitions-carrying passenger liner Lusitania by a German submarine, the United States declared war on Germany.

In the meantime, the international conspirators were plotting to overthrow the Russian government. In 1915 American International Corporation was formed by the bankers to finance the Communist revolution. Leon Trotsky was sent to Russia with American diplomatic assistance to foment the revolution. Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in February, 1917, and a provisional government under Kerensky was set up. This is commonly known as the February revolution. On October 25, 1917, a Bolshevik coup occurred under Lenin, commonly known as the October Revolution or Communist Revolution. The international bankers in New York confiscated some $100 million worth of the Tsar's gold on deposit with them. The Russian royal family was executed.

On January 8, 1918, President Wilson announced his 14 Points for future international relations. On November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, Germany surrendered, thus ending the hostilities.

The Versailles Conference was held from January through June, 1918, to set peace terms. The League of Nations was also established, although the United States Senate never ratified it.

The globalist conspiracy then stepped up its operations. The Round Table Groups

which Cecil Rhodes had initiated in 1891 formed various larger groups throughout the English-speaking world. In England, the Royal Institute of International Affairs was formed on May 30, 1919. In America, the American Institute of International Affairs (later the Council on Foreign Relations) was formed. In Canada, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs was created and so forth.

On March 19, 1920, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the League of Nations Covenant, fearing (correctly) that it would make us subordinate to the British Empire.

The Harding Presidency (1921-1923)

In the elections of 1920, Warren G. Harding was elected President. His administration was embarrassed by the Teapot Dome scandal, which involved preferential treatment of insiders regarding our national oil reserves. Harding became gravely ill and died on August 2, 1923. He was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.

The Coolidge Years (1923-1929)

Calvin Coolidge's administration was quite straightforward but two major developments took place behind the scenes, of which he was probably unaware.

The first of these was the incorporation of the Council on Foreign Relations on July 29, 1921, as an outgrowth of the American Round Table Group and the American Institute of International Relations. The insiders were very upset that the United States did not join the League of Nations. Our country's freedom, economic prosperity, strong Constitution and spiritual values were the largest barrier to their plans of world domination. The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) was created for the purpose of gaining control of the United States economically, politically and spiritually in slow, gradual steps, using the principles of Fabian Socialism. Over the years, the CFR has become the hidden government of the United States, implementing its socialistic policies regardless of the political party in power.

The second major event was the formation of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations at Oxford University, London. This group was formed to conduct behavioral research and opinion formation (also known as brain washing) on an international scale.

In November, 1924, Calvin Coolidge was reelected. This was a period of great prosperity in America - The Roaring Twenties.

The Hoover Administration (1929-1933)

Behind the scenes, the elitists were plotting their next major moves toward world domination. Through the Federal Reserve System, which they owned, they created the stock market crash on October 29, 1929. The insiders made millions of dollars of quick profits by selling short, while ordinary investors were wiped out. This lead to the Great Depression, which persisted through most of the 1930's decade.

By 1932, 12,000,000 were jobless. The CFR now brought forth its first member to become a presidential candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Due to the economic collapse engineered by the globalists, Roosevelt defeated Hoover by a wide margin in the election of November 1932.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Years (1933-1945)

Immediately after his inauguration on March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt launched his socialistic New Deal program, along with a direct frontal assault on the United States Constitution. The excuse was the Great Depression, which of course his elitist colleagues had created.

On March 6, 1933, Roosevelt ordered all U.S. banks closed, the so-called Bank Holiday, to prevent runs on the banks.

On March 9, 1933, Congress passed the Emergency Powers Act, which was based on the War Powers Act of 1917, and which gave the President virtually dictatorial powers in times of ``national emergency''. The United States has been under a state of national emergency under one pretext or another continuously ever since.

Also on March 9, 1933, Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act. This allowed Federal Reserve Bank notes to be issued, eventually replacing silver certificates and required all local banks to be licensed.

On April 19, 1933, the gold standard was dropped. Gold coins were withdrawn from circulation - a polite way of saying confiscated from the public. Dollars could no longer be redeemed for gold.

Roosevelt issued a series of Executive Orders in this time frame (E.O. 6073, 6102, 6111, 6260), the effect of which was to declare the United States Government bankrupt. Our government in effect became a bankrupt corporation controlled by its creditor, the Federal Reserve System and subject to the Law Merchant (later the Uniform Commercial Code), rather than by the Constitution.

On July 12, 1933, the Internal Revenue Tax and Audit Service was formed as a Delaware corporation for the purpose of collecting taxes for the Fed. The corporation was dissolved in 1936 so that it could not be audited. It exists today as the Internal Revenue Service, part of the Treasury Department, still collecting income taxes for the Fed.

In 1934, the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 was passed. This made it illegal for citizens to own gold bullion or coins, other than rare coins with numismatic value.

In Europe, meanwhile, Coudenhave-Kalergi wrote Revolution Through Technology, a blueprint to return the world to a medieval society, in 1932. Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Also in 1933, the Humanist Manifesto was written as a direct challenge to all religions of the world. It asserted that man has the power to be god-like. It promoted atheism, evolution (rather than creation), communism, and moral relativity. Thus we are told that there is no God, that the Bible and the Ten Commandments are meaningless hoaxes and that anything we do - even murder - is okay, as long as it is for a ``good reason''. John Dewey, one of the prime influences in America's government (public) school system, was a major advocate of humanism.

On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act was passed. This is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. Unlike private pension plans, which have contractual guarantees and substantial investment earnings, Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system with no guarantees, which will eventually go broke leaving millions of people in desperate straits.

In November, 1936, President Roosevelt was reelected to his second term. There had been many pieces of New Deal legislation declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Roosevelt tried unsuccessfully to pack the court with his own people by doubling the number of justices on the court but he was able to appoint a number of justices during his 15 years in office. Eventually the court challenges withered away.

Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, thereby starting World War II. The vast majority of Americans were opposed to becoming involved in another European war, so the globalists had to wait for a while.

In 1940, the Buck Act passed. This created the rebuttable presumption that we are citizens of Federal government, rather than citizens of our respective sovereign states and thus slaves on the federal plantation who are liable for the Federal government's ever-expanding debt.

In November, 1940, Roosevelt was reelected to an unprecedented third term. On January 6, 1941, he gave his Four Freedoms speech.

On March 11, 1941, Congress passed the Lend Lease Act. Initially it approved ``lending'' of war materials and equipment to Great Britain. In November it was expanded to include Russia. Eventually many of our nuclear warfare secrets were given to the Russians covertly under the authority of this act.

On August 14, 1941, the Atlantic Charter was signed by FDR and Winston Churchill. It was an 8-point declaration of principles.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt knew of the planned attack in advance but deliberately did nothing to prevent it or even warn the fleet. The attack aroused anger and pro-war sentiment in the American public, exactly as Roosevelt had planned. Congress declared war. This was the last time they did so.

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was formed under the guidance of British Military Intelligence Division 6 (MI-6), the super-secret agency portrayed in the James Bond stories. General William ``Wild Bill'' Donovan was its leader. OSS became part of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.

On June 10, 1943, Roosevelt signed the income tax withholding bill effective July 1, 1943, by which a small income tax was withheld from all worker's paychecks to help finance the war, supposedly for a two year period. For some strange reason, this process is still in operation today, notwithstanding the fact that it is unconstitutional.

In July, 1944, a secret meeting of international financiers and politicians was held at Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The Bretton Woods conference was officially named the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, although the United Nations was not yet in existence. Among the leaders were John Maynard Keynes (a Fabian Socialist), Henry Dexter White (communist, CFR member, Asst. Secretary of the Treasury) and Virginius Frank Coe (communist). They created the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a world central bank, and the global counterpart to the Federal Reserve System. They also created the International Bank For Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), commonly called the World Bank, as the lending agency. Its objective was to make un-repayable loans to war-torn and third world nations, secured by real estate, which the bankers would ultimately possess by foreclosure.

In November, 1944, Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term. This could never happen again, thanks to the Twenty-Second Amendment.

From February 3 to 11, 1945, Roosevelt, who was in failing health, met with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea, to discuss post-war plans. Stalin was given control over the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, a deal we soon came to regret. President Roosevelt passed away on April 12, 1945. He was succeeded by Vice President Harry Truman, another CFR member.

The Truman Presidency (1945-1953)

In the closing days of World War II, General Patton was advancing rapidly across Germany and could have occupied the entire country. However, General Eisenhower (CFR), on orders from the White House, ordered Patton to hold back so that the Russians could capture eastern Germany. This resulted in the division of Germany into two countries, with East Germany becoming a soviet-block state and Berlin becoming an international zone completely surrounded by East Germany. Adolf Hitler committed suicide, after which Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945.

On June 26, 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco. This was a major component of the New World Order. The Council on Foreign Relations had been working on this plan before the United States entered the war. The socialists and communists in America were well represented at this conference.

On August 6, 1945, the world entered the age of nuclear warfare. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, causing enormous death and destruction. Three days later, on August 9, Nagasaki was devastated by the second atomic bomb. On August 15, Japan surrendered, bringing World War II to an end.

In 1946, Congress passed the Administrative Procedures Act. This allowed the administrative agencies of the Executive branch of the Federal government to write regulations, enforce them and judge them. Here we have another clearly unconstitutional act, violating the principle of separation of powers. The Constitution does not permit Congress to delegate its exclusive legislative powers. Today we have more than 50,000 pages of new rules promulgated every year by this mechanism.

In 1947, the National Security Act was passed. This created the Department of Defense and made the Air Force a separate organization on the same level as the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps. The act also created the National Security Council, which later lead to the cover-up of all manner of illegal activities in the interest of ``national security''. Finally, the Act created the Central Intelligence Agency, incorporating the notorious OSS as its Directorate of Operations to continue covert, clandestine operations and political intrigue throughout the world.

In March, 1947, the Truman Doctrine was announced, the substance of which was U.S. aid to foreign countries. On June 5, 1947, the Marshall Plan was proposed, with the same objective.

In April, 1948, the Organization of American States (OAS) was formed in order to coordinate certain activities of the nations of North, Central and South America.

On May 14, 1948, the nation of Israel was formed.

Also in 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was organized under the United Nations. In 1994, this lead to the creation of the World Trade Organization.

The Cold War escalated when the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin.

The Berlin Airlift ensued in 1948 and 1949.

Harry Truman was reelected in November, 1948.

On August 24, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed, supposedly to counter the efforts of the Soviet Union. In 1949, the Soviet Union countered by forming Comecon to coordinate the Soviet Block economies. NATO's continuing existence and current expansion after the collapse of the Soviet Union belies the true purpose for its existence.

On June 25, 1950, the United Nations requested troops to restore order in Korea. The Korean War began on June 27. U.S. troops participated in great numbers for the next three years, even though the Congress had not declared war, as required by the Constitution. This was the first of many such illegal wars.

On November 1, 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was detonated at Eniwetok Atoll.

In November, 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a CFR member, was elected President, defeating Adlai Stevenson.

The Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961)

On