Chapter 13

Money Creators And Political Control

The ground floor of the private money grift is detailed through the use of ancient accounts, most notably of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus of Persia as discussed in Herodutus. Croesus suffered his horrible fate for the crime of nationalizing coinage in his father’s realm, when he ascended the throne. This was done at the expense of at least four named bankers, one of whom made Croesus the prince stand at his door while the young man sought a loan in order to hire troops for a campaign ordered by his father, the King. The loan was not given. The banker was deposed by Croesus, and when he became king, he was horribly dealt with by Cyrus, whose ascension to the throne of King of Kings was facilitated by loans out of Babylon.

Before going on to describe these ancient versions of the Fractionary Reserve System, Astle makes some general observations:

“In their inception, so-called political parties were [an] other expression of the principal of rule by tyrant or dictator… Each of these groups of persons in the case of so-called political parties, or each of these persons in the case of tyrants or dictators, could not but be the instrument of private money creative power… Herein was corruption and venality enthroned… Such ‘politicians’ as turned to look a little too closely at the hand that fed them, promptly found their ‘perks’ or ‘Political Rewards’ cut off.”

This is painfully obvious in our day as pauper politicians have mansions by late middle age. In the supermarket business, I often found that the inventory problems, the massive amounts of stock that could not be sold, but were purchased by men many steps up the ladder, were the results of corruption. I might end of throwing out a pallet of post dated frozen dinners and earn a black mark on the quarterly inventory, only to discover that a supervisor had received tickets to the ball game for making a purchase from a wholesaler that could not be redeemed through retail.

“Therefore the cost of instituting that total control of any state so ‘captured’ by private money creative power, i.e., the bankers, was virtually nil, since clearly such state financed its own lamentable condition.”

Astle notes that any sign of inflation, and devaluation itself, in history is the smoking gun that tells of the art of banking having been at work secretly raping the tax herd through the various government programs supposed to benefit that mewing tax herd.

“Thus, the creation and issuance of money constitutes free gift to the issuer when such issuer be a private person [or entity.] It automatically and immediately despoils he who thinks himself to have money or to be a person of worth. It is an indirect and hidden form of taxation no less than any other indirect or hidden tax… this person would not extend his preferment to those who instinct told him might be able to come to understand the real truth of the emptiness of those shadowed vaults from which his hand reached forth.”

Thus Phillip had the teacher of bankers, Aristotle, tutor his son Alexander, in their ways. Alexander and his right hand man would both be murdered as they were punishing priests and governors found to be looting temples, even the tomb of Cyrus, at the behest of the Chaldeans. That party, who had elevated Cyrus 250 years earlier, looted his tomb, and warned Alexander that their gods would strike him dead if he continued his audit. And so he died by poison, as had his allies Longarus and Hephastion, the last warriors to oppose the bankers. Like wise, in America the three presidents who fought the banks, Jackson, Lincoln and JFK, and hopeful president RFK after his brother fell, were dealt with by assassins. Jackson beat the piss out of his assassins and was punished by character assassins and denied a second term. Note that the consistent reign of imperial political systems, before they fall into ruin or are rebooted, according to Sir John Glubb’s essay, is 200 to 250 years. These do not relate to cycles of nature, as things like little ice ages and warm periods do not occur at such regular and short intervals. Glubb’s cause, assumed to be some natural decadent, perhaps pyschological, cycle, of races of men rising and declining, seem, under consideration of Astle’s thesis, to indicate an imposed managerial cycle.

The names of some ancient bankers of Cyrus and Croesus’ time were Sadyattes, Theochardes, Pamphaes and Pytheas, by name three Hellenes and one Asiatic. The treasure of Sadyattes was not stolen by Croesus for his own use, but dedicated to Artemis at Ephesus. This was an ancient form of nationalization, as temple treasures were for saving the community, should barbarians arrive at the gate and demand a ransom for the city.

Astle discusses the fall of gold, “the burning metal” from grace as ancient civilizations looted their sacred images and stores for coinage, such as the Incas and Aztecs only did at the point of a gun in a later age. This corruption went from Britain to China, where a colony of Near Eastern bankers survived into the 1600s, to be discovered speaking Hebrew, yet having forgotten their religion, by Jesuits, whose order, founded by a converso, knew whom they had found. [1]

The authors lyric quality strikes boldly into the past with the following:

“… money in circulation arrived there created and issued by private persons of a class stranger to the whole world, and whose only guide was never more than their indifference to the miseries of mankind.”

The money system run by Aramaic speaking races out of the Middle East, unknown to Astle, extended to his own Canadian shores of the Great Lakes where most of the copper used in the Bronze Age that built the banking houses, was mined. It was easier to sail copper across the Atlantic and Middle Sea, then to march it out of Afghanistan, where it was also mined. The scrap copper and bronze was used to devalue silver and gold coins, as men such as Pericles of Athens placed their city in war and debt, even for stage plays, in order to satisfy the need of banker greed.

Astle takes this practice down to Herod and Hadrian in a discussion of the later Roman problems with coinage devaluation. This chapter is his capstone argument demonstrating an economic cycle imposed from within and reminds this reader, that Agricola, was poisoned in his capacity as a civic minster, and suffered studied neglect on his death bed, his family not to permitted to visit him. This was the price he paid for restoring the temple treasures in Rome. Even his master, the Emperor, was powerless to save him, for he was owned, like all, ALL, Roman emperors, by the bankers. Dozens of Roman generals declined elevation to emperor, and like Diocletion, son of a slave, only accepted coronation at the point of the sword.

Why did so many generals fear kingship more than battle?

Perhaps, because they were most likely to be murdered in office to facilitate a new emperor. For, the first act of every emperor, was necessarily, to put the state in debt in order to bribe the army not to kill him right off. This Roman debt-deposing cycle is brutally clear in the historical record. [2]

Expect these realities to be denied by every establishment historian, left, center and right.

Notes

-1. William C. White, Jеws in Kaifeng; Toronto, 1966

-2. Gibbon, the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.