by zjurhgvc » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:31 pm
Well, if you want extrememly deep power structures, and I mean centuries of continuity in black ops, my candidates would be the 'Catholic Church' and the 'City of London'--understanding these to represent investment capital/occult/Christian/imperialist/possibly bloodline-oriented conglomerations. Freemasonry has often been mentioned, because it has been used so often as cover for revolutionary movements (and that is, indeed, what we are experiencing right now--the birth of a New World Order by men and women with 'fire in their minds').<br><br>Of course, the Chinese secret societies are centuries-deep and based in extended family networks. Sterling Seagrave's 'Lords of the Rim' is an excellent primer. But the overseas Chinese are implicated in many of the US's projects in Asia, and their massive capital has poured back into China since Deng, with admirable results.<br><br>Probably the most amazing claims to contuinity and influence are held by the Garduna of Spain--1200 years--including being the secret police of the Inquisition; birthing the Sicilian Mafia and Carbonari; spreading to the Americas in the 1800s; 20th-century Fascism in Spain (Franco) and elsewhere; Opus Dei. Even if we discount their claims to be descended from those who fought against the Moors, they still have 500 years of continuous existence (at least from the beginning of the Inquisition).<br><br>The point about the Garduna, and another group, the Knights of Malta (SMOM), is that they always thought and continue to think of themselves as Holy Warriors, soldiers of Christ--very much like the heavily SMOM-weighted CIA during the height of the Cold War. Indeed, that's a large part of what the War on Communism was all about; today, we hear less about Catholics and more about Fundamentalist Xtians, but they're out there for the same reasons. And, as we know from the Templars, capitalism is also a big part of what they do. People often forget that the origins of modern international finance capitalism were with Templars--the Jews were used as scapegoats, of course, but they have only very recently been remade into Holy Warriors themselves.<br><br>In terms of corporate globalism, I tend to see the Wall Street-City of London finance capital nexus as at the top of the pyramid. In this I definitely follow Quigley--so in a sense I guess I see the continuity of the ages-old priest/warrior equation (Mitra-Varuna); banks, temples...what's the difference? <p></p><i></i>
