
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 75
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THE EMPIRE OF "THE CITY"
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(Excerpts from "The Empire of 'The City'" by E.C. Knuth)
 
"The City" is an international financial oligarchy and is perhaps 
the most arbitrary and absolute form of government in the world. 
This international financial oligarchy uses the allegoric "Crown" 
as its symbol of power and has its headquarters in the ancient 
City of London, an area of 677 acres; which strangely in all the 
vast expanse of the 443,455 acres of Metropolitan London alone is 
not under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, but has 
its own private force of about 2,000 men, while its night 
population is under 9,000.
 
This tiny area of a little over one square mile has in it the 
giant Bank of England, a privately owned institution; which as is 
further elaborated hereinafter is not subject to regulation by 
the British Parliament, and is in effect a sovereign world power. 
Within the City are located also the Stock Exchange and many 
institutions of world-wide scope. The City carries on its 
business of local government with a fanciful display of pompous 
medieval ceremony and with its officers attired in grotesque 
ancient costumes. Its voting power is vested in secret guilds 
with names of long extinct crafts such as the Mercers, Grocers, 
Fishmongers, Skinners, Vintners, etc. All this trivial pomp and 
absurdity and horse-play seems to serve very well to blind the 
eyes of the public to the big things going on behind the scenes; 
for the late Vincent Cartwright Vickers, once Deputy-Lieutenant 
of this City, a director of the great British armament firm of 
Vickers, Ltd., and a director of the Bank of England from 1910 to 
1919, in his "Economic Tribulation" published 1940, lays the wars 
of the world on the door-step of the City.
 
That the British people and the British Parliament have little to 
say in the foreign affairs of the British Empire, and that the 
people of the British Empire must fight when International 
Finance and the City blow the trumpet, appears from the paean of 
praise of America by Andrew Carnegie, "Triumphant Democracy," 
published in 1886 by that American super-industrialist and 
British newspaper publisher, in the following words: "My American 
readers may not be aware of the fact that, while in Britain an 
act of Parliament is necessary before works for a supply of water 
or a mile of railway can be constructed, six or seven men can 
plunge the nation into war, or, what is perhaps equally 
disastrous, commit it to entangling alliances without consulting 
Parliament at all. This is the most pernicious, palpable effect 
flowing from the monarchial theory, for these men do this in 'the 
king's Name,' who is in theory still a real monarch, although in 
reality only a convenient puppet, to be used by the cabinet at 
pleasure to suit their own needs."
 
Edwin J. Clapp, Professor of Economics at New York University, in 
his "Economic Aspects Of The War" published in 1915, developed 
the utterly boundless authority assumed by the "Crown" in its 
commands to the nations of the world through its "Order-in- 
Council," used without restraint and without reference to 
existing usage or so-called International law, by making new 
International Law to fit any situation, as required.
 
The Balance of Power is a creation of this financial oligarchy 
and its purposes are as follows:
 
(1) To divide the nations of Europe into two antagonistic camps 
of nearly equal military weight, so as to retain for Britain 
itself the power to sway a decision either way.
 
(2) To make the leading and potentially most dangerous military 
power the particular prey of British suppression and to have the 
second strongest power on the other side. To subsidize the "Most 
Favored Nations" with financial investments, and to permit them 
to acquire political advantages under the beneficent protection 
of the Sea-Power, to the disadvantage and at the expense of the 
nations being suppressed.
 
(3) To subject the continent of Europe to the "Policy of 
Encirclement" so as to keep the nations of the continent in 
poverty and ineffectiveness, and thereby prevent the growth of 
sufficient commercial expansion and wealth to create a rival sea- 
power.
 
(4) To retain that complete control and hegemony over all the 
seas of the world, which was acquired by defeating the allied 
fleets of its only real rivals, France and Spain, in 1805; and 
which is artfully and subtly called "The Freedom of the Seas."
 
(5) To shift this Balance of Power as required so as to be able 
to strike down friend or foe in the rapidly shifting scene of 
world power politics, in that inexorable ideology that demands 
that everything and anything must be sacrificed where the future 
welfare and expansion to the eventual destiny of the Empire are 
affected; that eventual destiny outlined by its proponents as the 
eventual control of All the lands, and All the peoples, of All 
the world.
 
 
The ideology of the British Empire has been outlined in the past 
by various British statesmen and specifically by Mr. Disraeli 
(Lord Beaconsfield). The modern version which has been broadened 
to include the United States as a principal in the British Empire 
was outlined by Cecil Rhodes about 1895 as follows: "Establish a 
secret society in order to have the whole continent of South 
America, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the islands 
of Cyprus and Candia, the islands of the Pacific not heretofore 
possessed by Great Britain, the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard 
of China and Japan and, finally, the United States. In the end 
Great Britain is to establish a power so overwhelming that wars 
must cease and the Millenium be realized."
 
The secret societies of the above plan apparently came to life 
immediately after the death of Mr. Rhodes in the Pilgrims of 
Great Britain, often used by British statesmen in recent years as 
a public sounding board; and the Pilgrims of the United States, 
the latter founded in New York City on January 13, 1903, and 
listed in directories of secret societies with no indication or 
purpose. Mr. Rhodes left a fortune of about $150,000,000.00 to 
the Rhodes Foundation, apparently largely directed towards the 
eventual intent of his ideology. One admitted purpose was "in 
creating in American students an attachment to the country from 
which they originally sprang..." It appears that organizations 
such as "Union Now," subversive to the liberty and the 
Constitution of the United States of America, have a large 
sprinkling of Rhodes scholars among their staff.
 
The Pilgrims were founded in London July 24, 1902, four months 
after the death of Cecil Rhodes who had outlined an ideology of a 
secret society to work towards eventual British rule of all the 
world, and who had made particular provisions in his will 
designed to bring the United States among the countries 
"possessed by Great Britain."
 
Sir Harry Brittain (high-ranking member of the Pilgrims) records 
that he was requested to come to New York in 1915 by the Chairman 
of the American Pilgrims "in order to give him a hand" in 
welcoming Lord Reading (Rufus Isaacs). The dinner in honor of 
Lord Reading took place at Sherry's on October 1st, and was 
attended by 400 representative men prominent in the banking, 
commercial and political life of the United States.
 
The magic number of 400, once the symbol of reigning wealth and 
privilege, appears here in a new role. Men of millions here sway 
the destiny, the life or death of their fellow citizens, with an 
organization which is subversive to the spirit and the letter of 
the Constitution of the United States, an organization of which 
not one in one thousand of their fellow citizens has ever heard. 
The purpose of these men is completely interwoven with the 
dependence of their own invariably great fortunes on the 
operations of "The City," citadel of International Finance. Not 
only do these men collectively exert a planned influence of 
immense weight in utter secrecy, but they operate with the 
support of the immense funds provided by Cecil Rhodes and Andrew 
Carnegie.
 
The late Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., in the course of a speech in 
the United States Senate in March, 1908, asserted that fewer than 
one hundred men control the great business interests of the 
country. His statement brought forth a nation-wide storm of 
denunciation and ridicule, and even today any similar statement 
is invariably derided as "crackpot." Nevertheless, Senator 
LaFollette conclusively demonstrated a few days later from the 
Directory of Directors that through interlocking directorates 
actually less than one dozen men controlled the business of the 
country, that in the last analysis the houses of Rockefeller and 
Morgan were the real business kings of America.
 
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