
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 80
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THE FIVE IDEOLOGIES OF SPACE AND POWER
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Excerpts from chapter XIII of *The Empire of "The City"* by E.C. 
Knuth. (Written 1946. Reprinted in 1983 by The Noontide Press, PO 
Box 1248, Torrance, California 90505.)
 
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[Concluded from CN 6.79]
 
In this extremity, President Lincoln appealed to Britain's 
perennial enemy Russia for aid. When the document with this 
urgent appeal was given to Alexander II, he weighed it unopened 
in his hand and stated: "Before we open this paper or know its 
contents, we grant any request it may contain. On the day on 
which your President was inaugurated, we, Alexander II of Russia, 
signed the protocol which liberated twenty-three million serfs. 
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, has freed four 
million slaves. Therefore, whatever he asks of Russia, Russia 
will grant, for Alexander II will not be a factor in the 
enslavement of any man." Unannounced, a Russian fleet under 
Admiral Lisiviski steamed into New York harbor on September 24, 
1863, and anchored there; while the Russian Pacific fleet under 
Admiral Popov arrived at San Francisco on Oct. 12th. Of this 
Russian action, Gideon Wells said: "They arrived at the high tide 
of the Confederacy and the low tide of the North, causing England 
and France to hesitate long enough to turn the tide for the 
North."
 
The British interference had caused a furious resentment in the 
United States, and when a demand for payment of direct and 
contingent damages due to this interference was rejected by 
Britain in 1869, war again was close. [After several years of 
controversy], on September 6, 1872, [the U.S.] was awarded very 
nominal damages of fifteen and one-half million dollars.
 
Napoleon III withdrew his troops from Mexico shortly after the 
end of the Civil War upon demand of the United States; and the 
Mexican Emperor placed on the throne created by him, Archduke 
Maximilian of Austria, was executed June 19, 1867.
 
[During the "giant depression of the 1890's", former Congressman 
Towne condemned] American participation in the grand plan of 
International Finance to immediately eliminate Germany and Russia 
from the markets of the Far East with the aid of Japan. [This 
plan urged that America abandon the Monroe Doctrine and join 
itself with the aforementioned Ideology No. 1 with the promised 
reward of the "Full Dinner Pail".]
 
Further comment on the desperate expedient adopted by the 
exponents of the "Full Dinner Pail" to fulfill their campaign 
promise and to overcome the terrible depression of the '90s 
appears in an article written by the late Samuel Gompers, 
President of the American Federation of Labor, in which he 
stated: "A 'foreign war as a cure for domestic discontent' has 
been the device of tyrants and false counselors from time 
immemorial, but it has always led to a Waterloo, a Sedan, to 
certain decadence and often utter ruin."
 
The above statements are to be found among over thirty great 
speeches and articles against the great intrigue of 1897 in 
William J. Bryan's "Republic or Empire?" published in 1899; and 
the American statesmen and educators whose they are, proved to 
have been great and true prophets in the crucible of 45 years; 
but they are prophets without honor in their own country, for to 
revive their words is to expose facts that those in interest want 
forgotten.
 
There is no interval in American history so obscure as that 
between the secret agreement of 1897 and the tipping of the 
scales in favor of the British-French division of Africa by 
Theodore Roosevelt at the Conference of Algeciras in 1906. The 
second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, one of the greatest political 
horse-trades of history, was concluded November 18, 1901, in 
order to obtain the British-French "permission" to build the 
Panama Canal; but writers and historians of this era are, in 
general, very vague as to the nature of the deal by which the 
noxious British restrictions were eliminated from the first 
treaty of Feb. 5, 1900.
 
John K. Turner in "Shall It Be Again?" published in 1922, covers 
the fact that secret diplomacy was employed by our presidents in 
precisely the same manner as our allies and enemies employed it; 
and there is little question that the two presidents who have 
deplored secrecy and hypocrisy the loudest, Theodore Roosevelt 
and Woodrow Wilson, were among the most prolific users of secret 
diplomacy.
 
[The] American ascendancy in the affairs of the British Empire 
has so far cost the American people a vast sum of money, but this 
money seems to be in the nature of a purchase of an interest in 
that Empire, for exuberant American post-war planners are openly 
making plans which seem to proclaim them the successors of those 
controlling the British Empire; themselves the jugglers of world 
power which would make certain that the American people would not 
only be the principal participants in the major wars of the 
world, but would also take a part in all the minor wars of the 
British Empire and the world; that borrowing the words of the 
English Professor Cramb: "Scarcely a sun will set in the years to 
come, which will not look upon some American's face dead in 
battle -- dead not for America -- dead to satisfy the ambitions 
of power-crazed men."
 
The American people lead the world in science and invention, but 
their geopolitical sense has not kept in step with developments, 
so there is cause to fear that in that respect the United States 
is in the precarious predicament of the prehistoric dinosaur 
whose body grew too large for its head. Instead of ascribing the 
marvelous prosperity of the United States to its self-sufficiency 
and its isolation from the wars and the crushing burden of 
armaments and taxation that have kept the people of Europe in 
endless and hopeless poverty, a false theory has been created 
that this prosperity depends on eliminating other peoples from 
the markets of the world; a resurrection of the barbarous 
conceptions of biblical times in which conquering hosts put whole 
peoples to the sword.
 
It is said that only a few dozen men in the world know the nature 
of money; and therefore these few men are allowed to practice the 
manipulation of money and of that mysterious commodity known as 
credit as a mystic rite, despite the fact that their machinations 
cause recurrent giant depressions in which many of the life 
savings of the people are lost, and cause recurrent gigantic 
bloodshed in which the people must sacrifice their lives to 
protect the manipulators from the fury of those nations and 
peoples who have been their victims; and despite the fact that 
eminent students of high business, financial and social position, 
such as Vincent C. Vickers and Arthur Kitson, have condemned this 
money system as a fraud; have condemned the men who manipulate it 
as super-criminals and traitors to their own lands and peoples, 
and have condemned the recurring economic depressions and wars as 
the deliberate products of the money power.
 
The power of International Finance rests upon the doctrine of 
government advanced by Niccolo Machiavelli, which holds that any 
means, however unscrupulous, may be justifiably employed in order 
to maintain a strong central government; and this doctrine has 
always been used as a vindication and the mandate of imperialists 
and dictators, and it cannot gain a foothold unless the forces of 
freedom have become undermined and are no longer able to offer 
open opposition.
 
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