ETERNAL VIGILANCE

INSIDE THE AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM
September 7, 2002
By S.R. Shearer

"... Nichts ist schwerer und nichts erfordert mehr Charakter, als sich in offenem Gegensatz zu seiner Zeit zu befinden und laut zu sagen: Nein!"

[Nothing is more difficult, and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to one's time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!]

- Kurt Tucholsky, Germany, 1934

[A good deal of the information for this article was derived from Michael Parenti's insightful book, Against Empire, published by City Lights Books in San Francisco. Please see www.citylights.com for a listing of Parenti's other books and articles. ]

AMERICA
I SIT A QUEEN!

Rev. 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I SIT A QUEEN, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

INTRODUCTION

The Bible speaks of a great "Latter Day" nation that shall rise up at the "end of the age;" a nation that will glorify herself as a dazzlingly beautiful QUEEN (Rev. 18:7), but a nation that the Bible says is -

"... DREADFUL and TERRIBLE, and STRONG EXCEEDINGLY with great iron teeth: that DEVOURS and BRAKES IN PIECES, and stamps the residue (i.e., those who remain) with its feet ..." (Daniel 7:7)

Isaiah describes this nation as an "OVERFLOWING SCOURGE" (Is. 28:18) - and the Bible goes on to say that this "BEAST-NATION" (Dan. 7:7) will gain mastery over the entire earth and establish a ONE-WORLD EMPIRE that will bring ruin and poverty to the peoples and nations of the world. [For a detailed Scriptural identification of this great "Latter Day" nation, please see our article, "In Search of Babylon What Does the Bible Say?"]

WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE?

A one-world empire that will dominate the earth and bring it under its control? - one that the Bible says will be "DREADFUL!" "TERRIBLE!" "STRONG EXCEEDINGLY!" - and one that "DEVOURS" and "BRAKES IN PIECES!" What nation is that? - Mozambique? Zambia? Costa Rica? The answer is obvious to anyone outside American Christian circles, proving once again that -

"... the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." (Luke 16:8)

Come on now, can there be any doubt that it's America? What other nation today can even come close to such a description? For example, Thomas Donnelly, Deputy Executive Director of the Project for the New American Century, writing for the magazine, Foreign Affairs [a CFR publication], writes:

"THE FACT OF A (ONE-WORLD) AMERICAN EMPIRE IS HARDLY DEBATED THESE DAYS. Even those who fear and oppose it - in this country, the libertarian right and the remnants of the new left; abroad, a variety of voices from Paris to Baghdad to Beijing - define international politics almost entirely in relation to U.S. power, and especially U.S. military power. The 'unipolar moment' has become a unipolar decade and, with a little effort and a little wisdom, it COULD LAST MUCH LONGER."

[Please see our article, "The New American Imperialism."]

WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF EMPIRES?

The word "empire" is derived from the word "imperialism," which Michael Parenti describes as -

"... a process whereby the dominant politico-economic interests of one nation EXPROPRIATE for their own enrichment the land, labor, raw materials, and markets of another people."

Think about that! - imperialism is the process whereby one nation ROBS, LOOTS, STEALS, and PILLAGES the land, labor, raw materials, and markets of another nation. And isn't that exactly what America is doing in Nicaragua, Brazil, Costa Rica, Argentina, Angola, Nigeria, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, ad nauseum? That's certainly what the great majority of people in those nations think - but I suppose they're all wrong, and Americans are right in thinking that they are only being "little angels" in these countries - and that the only purpose their multinational corporations are there for is to "uplift" these people economically and bring them "the blessings of democracy?" If you think that, I have a life-time membership in the Flat Earth Society I would like to sell you!

[Please see our article, "The American Empire: The Corporate/Pentagon/CIA/Missionary Archipelago."]

Moreover, the form of imperialism that the United States practices today is a particularly vile and cruel kind - "CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM." Parenti explains:

"Imperialism (itself) is older than capitalism. The Persian, Macedonian, Roman, and Mongol empires all existed centuries before the ... Rockefellers (and the DuPonts). Emperors and conquistadors were interested mostly in plunder and tribute, gold and glory ...

"Capitalist imperialism differs from these earlier forms in the way it SYSTEMATICALLY accumulates capital through the ORGANIZED exploitation of labor and the penetration of overseas markets. Capitalist imperialism invests in other countries, dominating their economies, cultures, and political life, and integrating (their) structures into an international system of CAPITAL ACCUMULATION."

GETTING BEYOND PAVLOV

Unfortunately, when most Christians hear the words "IMPERIALISM" and "CAPITALISM" employed in this kind of pejorative sense, they immediately reject all talk connected to these concepts as nothing more than "socialist blather," and that's the end of it insofar as they are concerned! - AND THAT KIND OF RESPONSE BY MOST CHRISTIANS IS NO ACCIDENT!

The fact is, American Christians have been carefully trained by their religious leaders (most of whom are little more than boot-lickers to the economic Right - fawners and toadies to the rich like D. James Kennedy, Robert Schueller, Tim LaHaye, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Charles Stanley, etc.) - to react precisely in this kind of unthinking manner; and so much so that over the years their reaction has become almost PAVLOVIAN!

But maybe Christians had better get beyond such Pavlovian responses, recognize the possibility that they have been cynically "PROGRAMMED" to react in this fashion, and seriously consider the question why they've been trained to respond in this way: That maybe - just maybe - they've been TRICKED to act as unthinking flunkies to the economic elites in COMPLETE CONTRAVENTION to the teachings of the New Testament. It's something to think about! - after all, the Bible says concerning the rich (i.e., the economic elites):

"... THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND PERDITION.

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Tim. 6:9-10)

SANCTIFYING GREED AS A MORAL IMPERATIVE

TRICKED! - that's exactly what has happened to Christians in this country! - they've been "programmed" as sycophants to the elites! They've been suckered into the perverse notion that spiritual success with God can be measured by the material things they possess, and in "buying off" on that notion, American Christians have somehow or other "bought into" a belief system purveyed by the elites THAT HALLOWS THE HUMAN QUEST FOR PROSPERITY, AND SANCTIFIES GREED AS A MORAL IMPERATIVE.

[Please see our article, "Capitalism And Christianity."]

Of course, it isn't as if the Scriptures had not anticipated this condition of things at the "end of the age" - i.e., this perverse alliance between the church and the elites of this world. It has - in the figure of a woman (the church) riding a beast (the state; specifically, the economic elites of America's "New World Order System"). [Please see Chapter 15 of the Antipas Papers, "The Woman Of Revelation 17."]

A WOMAN RIDING A BEAST AND CEASELESSLY SEARCHING OUT THE WORLD FOR WAYS, as Parenti puts it, FOR "MAKING ... MONEY IN ORDER TO MAKE STILL MORE MONEY" - that's what the "end of the age" is all about. If you once understand that, you are close to understanding everything there is to know about the "end of days."

THE UNHOLY TRINITY

At the very heart of America's New World Order System is the unholy trinity of (1) the World Bank, (2) the World Trade Organization (WTO - i.e., the GATT system) and (3) the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - ALL AMERICAN-CONTROLLED INSTITUTIONS DESPITE THEIR INTERNATIONALIST FACADE.

OF COURSE, LURKING IN THE BACKGROUND IS THE UBIQUITOUS AND LOOMING PRESENCE OF THE U.S. MILITARY READY TO POUNCE ON ANY NATION OR GROUP OF NATIONS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO CHALLENGE THE AUTHORITY OF THESE GLOBALIST INSTITUTIONS

It is precisely this "coterie of pernicious institutions" - i.e., the World Bank, the WTO, and the IMF (backed up, of course, by the guns of the American military) - that creates and maintains the economic environment necessary to make the American New World Order System work.

THE RACKET THAT UNDERGIRDS
THE NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM

The "RACKET" - and that's exactly what it is - that this system is based upon approximates the same kind of loan-sharking racket redevelopment agencies use to get control of properties slated for genteel, yuppie-land "redevelopment" projects in places like Georgetown in Washington D.C., or business redevelopment projects in Manhattan; for instance, in Lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center was built.

The first part of this kind of "redevelopment" scheme entails, naturally enough, getting control of the property slated for "redevelopment" by evicting or dispossessing the current owners. Often this involves sending in unscrupulous loan sharks offering residents money in the form of loans - loans that most of these people would never qualify for in a million years. Once the residents "buy off" on these loans, they're hooked.

Inevitably - because of their poverty - most of them begin falling behind on their payments. Now under most conditions, one would think that this is not something the banks would want - but in this case, that's EXACTLY what they want. The banks will then offer to refinance the loans - at higher interest rates, of course - and while this eliminates the immediate pressure on the borrowers, it inevitably leads to greater pressure down the road - until, finally, they are forced into DEFAULT, at which time the bank seizes the property and evicts the occupants.

THE RACKET AS IT IS APPLIED
TO "HOOK" THE THIRD WORLD

In the 1970s and early '80s a loan racket analogous to the one described above was pressed on Third World countries by private American banks like Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Morgan, Chase, etc. So massive was the effort that when finance ministers of these various nations occasionally met in Washington D.C. for conferences, they were literally accosted on the street by loan hawkers from one bank or another. Indeed, on the short walk between the Shoreham and Sheraton hotels the finance minister from one poor Latin American republic was stopped by five separate loan officers all hawking loans at high interest rates for projects of dubious value. One former Latin American minister of finance recalls how -

[Please see our article, "Globalism, Free Trade, Illuminism & The 'Interantional Moneyed Elite'."]

"... the bankers tried to corner me at conferences to offer me loans. They wouldn’t leave me alone ... It’s terribly tempting to borrow money ..."

THE TRAP IS SPRUNG - ENTER THE WORLD BANK

By the mid-'80s most of the Third World nations that had accepted these loans were beginning to reach a point where they were in danger of default. It's then that the private banks passed the baton to the World Bank (the first member of the "unholy trinity" in America's New World Order System), AND THE TRAP WAS SPRUNG! - and it was a very elegant trap indeed.

The World Bank offered to loan money to "bail out" the Third World. Now one needs to be clear here about what these loans by the World Bank to the debtor nations were (are) really all about. To hear the mainstream press tell it, one would think that the money being loaned is going to help the poor in these countries. NOT SO! The money is being loaned so that the various debtor nations can continue to service the "INTEREST" on their original loans from the PRIVATE banks that loaned the money in the first place.

So it's NOT the poor in these countries that are benefiting from the money loaned by the World Bank, but the PRIVATE BANKS - Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, Morgan, etc. - AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THESE PRIVATE BANKS ARE BENEFITING IS ENOUGH TO TAKE ONE'S BREATH AWAY! The interest on the loans coupled with the "conditions of repayment" are structured in such a way that the original amount borrowed is paid back over and over and over again. It's like borrowing money from the Mafia. One never gets out from under the crushing burden of these loans. Naturally, the private banks love it - IT IS A