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Claims (22)
C. Wright Mills worked_for
Columbia University documented
document
“Mills, a former Columbia professor of sociology, wrote the book as a study of how America really worked.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.35
C. Wright Mills lived_in
United States documented
document
“Mills was living in a society that distinguished itself from that of its Soviet adversary by its rejection of this notion of class struggle...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.42
C. Wright Mills proposed
The Power Elite documented
document
“C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), 4.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.353
C. Wright Mills wrote
The Power Elite documented
“even as an approximate model of how American system works. Instead, Mills wrote in his masterpiece, The Power Elite, America was ruled by those who control the strategic command post of society, the big corporations, the machinery of state,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 24:45
C. Wright Mills exposed
The Power Elite book_quoted
“even as an approximate model of how American system works. Instead, Mills wrote in his masterpiece, The Power Elite, America was ruled by those who control the strategic command post of society, the big corporations, the machinery of state,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 25:37
C. Wright Mills authored
The Power Elite book_quoted
“knew that American rulers not only possessed terrifying instruments of violence, these men felt largely unrestrained by any checks and balance. The ability of American leaders to end life on the planet imbued them a dark power, according to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 9 @ 32:07
C. Wright Mills authored
The Power Elite host_asserted
“called The Power Elite, a 1956 book by a guy by the name of C. Wright Mills. Mills is a former Columbia professor of sociology. He wrote the book as a study of how America really worked. His central claim was that at the top tier of the bus…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 6:25
C. Wright Mills founded
Anglo-American Establishment host_asserted
“I don't mean to put you on the spot. I bet it is, too, which I haven't read. I have read the Anglo-American establishment. Either way, that one I have to go get back and get that on my play sheet. It is what we're seeing now, and it also co…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 10; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (2 of 2) @ 42:35
C. Wright Mills founded
State Secrets: A History of the United States Government's Secret Relations with Foreign Powers host_asserted
“And it's not just the names. It's, you know, it's one of those things I read each page two or three times. Seriously, it took me forever to get to the Anglo-American establishment. So do you think he was affirming this idea that we really d…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 10; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (2 of 2) @ 44:05
C. Wright Mills founded
Tragedy and Hope host_asserted
“decisions they made that were actually successfully building world government. So that's very enlightening that most likely he was an objective historian not weighing in either way on this. Yeah. Okay. Just a quick tip for you and your list…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 10; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (2 of 2) @ 45:01
C. Wright Mills member_of
CFR documented
“Not only was he Bill Clinton's mentor, Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar, but Carol Quigley also spent decades as the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations. And when he wrote his book, not more in peace, it's, how do I, why am I dra…”
▶ The Shadow State #17 Secret Societies Pt. 1; w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 14:38
C. Wright Mills member_of
CFR host_asserted
“Not only was he Bill Clinton's mentor, Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar, but Carol Quigley also spent decades as the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations. And when he wrote his book, not more in peace, it's, how do I, why am I dra…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 14:22
C. Wright Mills relationship_with
Bill Clinton host_asserted
“Not only was he Bill Clinton's mentor, Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar, but Carol Quigley also spent decades as the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations. And when he wrote his book, not more in peace, it's, how do I, why am I dra…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 14:22
C. Wright Mills spied_on
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, FPCC, organized a party in his honor at the hotel's ballroom. Among the guests was Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, and C. Wright Mills, whose own impassioned defense of the Cuban Revolution, Listen Yankee,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 20:41
C. Wright Mills founded
The Power Elite host_asserted
“C. Wright Mills was dead. He had an inconvenient heart attack at age 45. But his critique of the power elite and his sense of its fundamental undemocratic illegitimacy would continue to heavily influence the 60s generation. Six years after …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 32:07
CIA spied_on
C. Wright Mills host_asserted
“C. Wright Mills was dead. He had an inconvenient heart attack at age 45. But his critique of the power elite and his sense of its fundamental undemocratic illegitimacy would continue to heavily influence the 60s generation. Six years after …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 32:07
C. Wright Mills founded
Anglo-American Establishment host_asserted
“Anglo American. It was by Carol Quigley. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I do conceptually want to walk through this because it goes to the heart of what Warhamster and I have been talking about. And you see it playing out s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:27:18
Encounter exposed
C. Wright Mills documented
“Mills, one of the few prominent American scholars to have actively resisted this, was predictably attacked in all of those same circles. While Mills was coming under fire in the pages of the CIA-funded publications like Encounter, he was em…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 42:38
C. Wright Mills funded
British Roundtable book_quoted
“and the money for the organizational work came originally from the Rhodes Trust. The chief backbone of this organization grew up along the already existing financial cooperation running through the Morgan Bank in New York to a group of inte…”
▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:25:07
C. Wright Mills covered_up
American Pilgrims book_quoted
“So that's Lillian Scott Troy, but we're going to talk a little bit about that because this is really important. So McKibben writes the book. He has some other interesting things to say. Bear with me one second. Coming up. Okay. McKibben say…”
▶ The Pilgrim Society wWarHamster Brady @ 42:36
Carl Oglesby cited_as_source
C. Wright Mills documented
“I agree with you that, you know, when I looked at not the Ganser book, but the Paul Williams book, I tried to run the sourcing for the Rockefeller funding for the CIA to ground. Williams cited a 1983 paper by John Judge. John Judge cited Ca…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 42:45
C. Wright Mills exposed
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Not only was he Bill Clinton's mentor, Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar, but Carol Quigley also spent decades as the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations. And when he wrote his book, not more in peace, it's, how do I, why am I dra…”
▶ The Shadow State #17 Secret Societies Pt. 1; w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 14:38
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to develop a program of reparation payments. The resulting Dawes plan, according to Georgetown University professor Carol Quigley, quote, largely a JP Morgan production, unquote, because that's who the guy worked for. The Dawes plan arrange…
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periodically took off their banker hat, put on their statesman hat, and negotiated the Dawes and the Young plan to quote-unquote solve the problem of the reparations that they, in fact, as government officials, had just imposed. Carol Quigl…
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and do things better for their people that may be against the United States and the international syndicate, it's just awful. So, Carol Quigley says, quote, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands, a…
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that are amenable to the objectives of financial capitalism and academic professors with ideas for world control are very useful to international bankers. They are kept in line with their system of rewards and penalties. In the early 30s, t…
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That actually doesn't appear to be all that true. So tossed out from time to time are odd remarks to the effect that the polarity is indeed spurious. But these are quickly dispatched out to the ether. So, for example, Carol Quigley, who mos…
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I'm blanking on the name, but like the Anglo, oh, Carol Quigley. Yes, yes. That's another version. Yep. And so back to Ukraine, because I find the information fascinating. What was your biggest takeaway in contrasting all of the information…
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I wonder. I'm saying we might not have had that technology back then, but everything about that was weird. I wonder if she had some sort of dirt on the roundtable group or something in Carol Quigley's books. Yeah. Well, the whole Earhart fa…
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Carl Oglesby. Carl Oglesby doesn't say it. He talks about the roundtable groups. And he kind of cites, I think it's Carol Quigley's Tragedy and Hope. Yeah, I have that one. So Carol Quigley has direct access to the roundtable's financials.…
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Anglo American. It was by Carol Quigley. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I do conceptually want to walk through this because it goes to the heart of what Warhamster and I have been talking about. And you see it playing out s…
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And I don't think that people understand the significance of that. And Carol Quigley, when you read his books, you get the distinct impression that he's like, because he was a part of this. He's not really criticizing them, but he is very i…
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I don't have it in here. The Anglo-American something something by Carol Quigley. The whole Fabian Society, the Milner's Kindergarten, which most people associate with South Africa, that was just kind of a stepping stone on perfecting how t…
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And that's the reason why just in a quick fashion, I want to go over Carol Quigley's book just to show you. I mean, that's the reason they fought the Boer Wars. They want control over everything. That's the reason why they fought the Boxer …
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which he referred to as powder puffs. Apparently, there was a lot of them. The Floyd McCarthy's pageant is a fascinating case study in the dynamics of Washington power. The senator was a glaring outsider from the Capitol elite salons, a har…
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all of which he thought Eisenhower should have used nuclear weapons. At various hair-raising moments of these crises, Eisenhower seemed poised to take Foster's advice. He was only dissuaded by an alarmed opposition of allied leaders. John F…
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that were the height of madness. Quote, we are at a curious juncture in history of human insanity, Mills wrote in his book called The Causes of World War III. He talked about the growing fever for a final conflict. Quote, in the name of rea…
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Utopian action by which Mills meant active diplomacy among superpowers, a ban on nuclear weapons testing, a moratorium on the production of extermination weapons, scientific and cultural exchanges, and free travel between East and West was …
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It didn't bother him because he was just wanting to punish the Chinese. Mills noted that like the Nazis before them, the national security leaders rationally planning for nuclear holocaust was characterized by moral insensitivity. Official …
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His belligerence was strategic. As he was revealing, Cable stated, this militant sense of alert was the cement that held the Western alliance together. They had to have a boogeyman. If their boogeyman was gone and they hadn't created anothe…
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preparation for war was also the main factor holding together America's power elite. They wouldn't be able to go into all of these other countries under the guise of the communist boogeyman if the communist boogeyman went away. Another auth…
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But the recipients of CIA sponsorship paid a price, their intellectual independence. It was noted by a historian, the individuals and institutions subsidized by the CIA were expected to perform as part of a propaganda war. Those who took ag…
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Mills, one of the few prominent American scholars to have actively resisted this, was predictably attacked in all of those same circles. While Mills was coming under fire in the pages of the CIA-funded publications like Encounter, he was em…
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Mills was fortunate in other ways too. His intellectual gifts and personal fortitude allowed him to carve out a public position for himself even at the height of the Cold War. But most of those who challenged the mandatory spirit of America…
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Those CIA-approved intellectuals who dared to assert their independence soon found that once welcoming doors were closed permanently. In 1958, Dwight McDonald, a frequent intellectual sparring partner of his friend Mills, broke out of the C…
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The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, FPCC, organized a party in his honor at the hotel's ballroom. Among the guests was Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, and C. Wright Mills, whose own impassioned defense of the Cuban Revolution, Listen Yankee,…
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He said he was addicted to the habit of conversation. He rests by talking. Those were the early honeymoon days of the revolution before Castro's tendencies had hardened and before the Soviet quote unquote partnership with Cuba had begun. Th…
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You can be damn sure the CIA has their own notes and the Joint Chiefs theirs. We better make sure we have our own, JFK told him. It provided an invaluable look inside the increasingly very obvious civil war that was tearing Kennedy's govern…
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denouncing Kennedy and company for returning to barbarism and singling out JFK's in-house historian, whom Mills charged was disgraced us all intellectually and morally. But critics like Mills were not privy to the internal battles raging in…
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and their efforts set off a powerful backlash among the bureaucracy. The struggle fought between JFK and the national security elite as Kennedy attempted to lead the country out of the Cold War was largely invisible to the American people, …
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The fraternal partnership gave the Dulles brothers a unique leverage over the incoming administration, and they were imbued with a deep sense of confidence in the roles that they were destined to play. The 1952 presidential election represe…
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Power in America was not solely in the hands of the Marxist ruling class, those who own the means of production, nor was it a balancing act of competing interests, such as big business, organized labor, farmers, and professional groups. Thi…
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even as an approximate model of how American system works. Instead, Mills wrote in his masterpiece, The Power Elite, America was ruled by those who control the strategic command post of society, the big corporations, the machinery of state,…
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that had merged after the Cold War. Though political tensions could flare within the political elite, there was a remarkable unity of purpose among them. The top corporate executives, government leaders, and high-ranking military officers m…
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and social symmetry, the fraternity of the successful. Within the system of American power, Mills saw corporate chiefs as first among equals. Long interlocked with the federal government, corporate leaders came to dominate the political dir…
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More than half a century before the John Roberts era of the Supreme Court that legally sanctioned corporate control over the electoral process, Mills recognized the shift towards oligarchy and was well underway. The longtime tendency of bus…
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in explicitness the two cannot now be seen clearly as two distinct worlds the crucial task of unifying the power elite according to mills fell on a special subset of the corporate hierarchy op wall street lawyers and investment bankers thes…
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who shuttled smoothly between Manhattan corporate suites and Washington command post. Little known to the general public, these skilled executors of power constituted, in Mill's words, America's invisible elite. They were the men who forged…
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but it is an enormous impact on the lives of ordinary men and women. It was men like John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles whom Mills had in mind when he wrote about the power elite's inner core. Born in Waco to an insurance salesman and a hou…
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He could debate for hours on end with the likes of Dwight McDonald and Irving Howe. During the Eisenhower years, searching instead for a new language to explain the American colossus that had emerged in the post-war era, Mills took aim at t…
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an age he argued when war itself had become the enemy, not the Russians, and of course the overworld of American power, a realm that he believed few average citizens could grasp, even though it cast a long shadow over your daily existence. …
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quote, bloated puffery of grand theory. Soon after The Power Elite was published, it began stirring wide debate, catapulting the ivory-covered walls of academia on the bestsellers list. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, corporate l…
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but fought off his discomfort by concluding that it was essential. We had to have it. Mills also struck a sensitive chord with Cold War liberals like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., whom he accused of abandoning their intellectual independence by j…
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than on stimulating serious academic debate. Quote, I look forward to the time when Mr. Mills hands back his profit robes and settles down to being a sociologist again, unquote. Mills considered himself an intellectual loner. I am a politic…
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were soon to make their impact on history. A young Fidel Castro and Shea Cavera poured over the book in the Sierra Matras mailbox, and at home, Tom Hayden drew heavily on Mills' writing for the Fort Huron Statement, the manifesto of the eme…
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C. Wright Mills was dead. He had an inconvenient heart attack at age 45. But his critique of the power elite and his sense of its fundamental undemocratic illegitimacy would continue to heavily influence the 60s generation. Six years after …
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of the established order. Schlesinger was partly right about Mills. Though he was a rigorous researcher and careful craftsman, the power elite did indeed resound here and there with a prophet's moral urgency. Mills, who was deeply concerned…
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The ability of American leaders to end life on the planet imbued them a dark power, according to Mills, one that inspired impassioned passages in The Power Elite. Here's a quote from the book. The men of the higher circles are not represent…
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they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak and dagger brutality. Elevated to the pinnacle of Washington power, they continue to forcefully represent the interest of their corporate leaders, conflat…
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The Dulles brothers would prove masters at exploiting the ancient state of permanent diligence that accompanied the Cold War, which is why it was created. For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about emergencie…
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It would be unfair to say that he likes the company of kings of finance and industry purely because they're done in Bradstreet ratings. He believes that if a man has worked his way up to become president of Ford Motor Company or script Howa…
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Cook arrived at the conclusion that America's most popular hero was America's most covert president. Eisenhower participated in his own cover-up. His presidency involved a thorough and ambitious crusade marked by covert operations that depe…
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I agree with you that, you know, when I looked at not the Ganser book, but the Paul Williams book, I tried to run the sourcing for the Rockefeller funding for the CIA to ground. Williams cited a 1983 paper by John Judge. John Judge cited Ca…
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What did you want to know about Milner? I read through the references in Cynthia Chung's book. And she talks about Milner being a member of the Fabian Society, among with a few others. If you go through the Carol Quigley book, and if you go…
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A lot of what we know about secret societies in America, especially the skull and bones, which, like I said, my research has been focused on. We get from three different people and they're very important. The first one, of course, is Carol …
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Not only was he Bill Clinton's mentor, Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar, but Carol Quigley also spent decades as the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations. And when he wrote his book, not more in peace, it's, how do I, why am I dra…
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She's a pretty remarkable person on her own because she wrote the book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. And she talked about how they infiltrated our education system. She was the pioneer in talking about that. And there's some grea…
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called The Power Elite, a 1956 book by a guy by the name of C. Wright Mills. Mills is a former Columbia professor of sociology. He wrote the book as a study of how America really worked. His central claim was that at the top tier of the bus…
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This national power elite was, and this is quoting straight from the book, composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women. They are in positions to make decisions having major co…
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And that's what's interesting about now that we know all of this information going back, because I just recently reread this Quigley book. And you definitely get that feeling when you read it. It's like they're documenting. But that's like …
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And it all flows downhill from Columbia University, the Pilgrim Society, and, of course, our good friend, Mr. Nicholas Butler. Yep. That's all I have for today. All right. So I'm going to read just to kind of push all of this together. Now,…
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is kind of kind of an apologist for him would you agree with that yeah i think if you're going to get into history you have to read quigley but you should do it with a grain of salt with a grain of salt that the colonel just described yes o…
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At the risk of some repetition, the story will be summarized here because the American branch of the Pilgrim Society, sometimes called the Eastern Establishment, has played a very significant role in history of the United States in the last…
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The head of the CIA was Alan Dulles, and his brother, John Foster Dulles, was at the time the head of the State Department. And it's no coincidence. Mike Benz, you can find him at Mike Benz' site around Rumble, does a wonderful job talking …
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Connor Watkins would call the international syndicate. I just call it the shadow state. They all pretty much describe the same amorphous entity of interested corporations, NGOs, government agencies, and private actors who really call the sh…
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The regimes that they will install through these fake elections, through popping up a dictator that will be a puppet for them. Repeat what you said, please, that last part of you. In the United States, for example, I'm going to steal some m…
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create the whole power structure, international legal and financial and banking system that sits on top of everything. I think your friend Carol Quigley had a great quote, and it says, the power of financial capitalism had another far-reach…
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I don't mean to put you on the spot. I bet it is, too, which I haven't read. I have read the Anglo-American establishment. Either way, that one I have to go get back and get that on my play sheet. It is what we're seeing now, and it also co…
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that he was a historian of this Anglo-American banking establishment, ruling elite, but he seems to not really be a, he seems to be an apologist for them or a defender. Do you know, what's your opinion of Carol Quigley? I seem to think that…
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sources and referencing of this takeover. What's your opinion? Yes, sir. Yeah, when you read his work, it's so scholarly, I have to read each page.…
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And it's not just the names. It's, you know, it's one of those things I read each page two or three times. Seriously, it took me forever to get to the Anglo-American establishment. So do you think he was affirming this idea that we really d…
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Okay. Yeah. Which he certainly did, and I don't even ever... That's interesting. I haven't read enough of him to fully develop my ideas, but I really appreciate you giving that idea. He's just an objective historian, because he is critical …