Stop, Mr. Biggs! Would you please jump the next thirty years? … Thank you!
Let us just summarize:
You could not be extradited because there was no reciprocal extradition treaty between Britain and Brazil. Additionally, you became father to a Brazilian son, which afforded you greater legal immunity, which, by the way, a daughter would not have conferred. As a result, you lived openly in Rio for many years, untouchable by British authorities.
In May 2001, aged seventy-one and having suffered three strokes, you voluntarily returned to England. Your son, Michael Biggs, said in a press release that, contrary to some press reports, you had not returned to the UK simply to receive free health care. According to Michael, health care was available in Brazil and he had many friends and supporters who would certainly have contributed to any such expenses. Your stated desire was, according to your son, „to walk into a Margate pub as an Englishman and buy a pint of bitter“. That was not to be …
British boulevard-paper THE SUN had hired a private jet for your return from Brazil, and they paid twenty thousand Pounds for exclusive interviews. You had to answer in writing since, after the strokes, you were not able to talk.
When your jet landed, on 7th March 2001, at the air force base Northolt near London some sixty Scotland Yard officers waited for you. You were told you still had to serve twenty-eight years of your original thirty-year-sentence … the Empire wanted its revenge! Your new address: Her Majesty’s Prison, Western Way, Thamesmead, London SE 28 OEB.
When we called upon you, an agreement was made between us: we would get your voice working again and you would learn by heart a couple of phrases that could serve as the base for a new gangster-movie whose script you would write.

Now, usually it is Dag or our Herr Dunkler who cite German poets, this time it’s your turn!

„Okay! I am quoting from ‚The Threepenny Novel‘ by Bertolt Brecht — from the novel, not from ‚The Threepenny Opera‘!

³³ Grooch … you are an old burglar. Your profession is burglary. I wouldn’t think that your profession, in itself, is out of date. That would be going too far. Only in its form, Grooch, does it lag behind the times. You are an artisan, a hack, and that’s all there is to it. That class is on the wane — you can’t deny that.
What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?“ …

The text, of course, continues in Brecht’s novel, however, we have reached the correct stopping … the founding of a bank!
Please, Mr. Biggs, your catchword for your script! …
And Herr Dunkler, you provide us with some director‘s ideas, please!

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„GIVE ME CONTROL OVER A NATION’S CURRENCY AND I CARE NOT WHO MAKES ITS LAWS“ …
„Well, that was said by a certain Count Meyer Rothschild, obviously meaning: everything needed to give a farthing on any law is an instrument that lets you control the money of a given nation. Now, what instrument could this be?
… printing & distribution of money
… lending of loans
… earning of interest
A bank of the banks, of course, a Central Bank!

In Europe, it happened with the establishment of privately owned central banks, which, in times of droughts and wars, would lend money to their respective ruler — against hearty interest, of course. The model: The Bank of England.
England’s crushing defeat by France in the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, became the catalyst to Britain rebuilding itself as a global power. England had no choice but to build a powerful navy if it was to regain global power. As there were no public funds available, in 1694 a private institution, the Bank of England, was set up to supply money to the King. £1.2m was raised in twelve days; half of this was used to rebuild the Navy. In return, the subscribers would be incorporated as The Governor and Company of the Bank of England with long-term banking privileges including the issue of notes. The Royal Charter was granted on 27th July through the passage of the Tonnage Act of 1694. Public finances were in so dire a condition at the time that the terms of the loan were that it was to be serviced at a rate of 8% per annum, and there was also a service charge of £4000 per annum for the management of the loan. The charter was renewed in 1742, 1764, and 1781. The Bank’s original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building’s reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple to Mithras; Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts. It took much time until doubt emerged whether there was much sense in the system.
In 1810, Member of British Parliament, William Cobbet, said:
There is something so consummately ridiculous in the idea of a nation’s getting money by paying interest to itself upon its own stock, that the mind of every rational man naturally rejects it. It is, really, something little short of madness to suppose, that a nation can increase its wealth; increase its means of paying others; that it can do this by paying interest to itself. When time is taken to reflect, no rational man will attempt to maintain a proposition so shockingly absurd.


Nevertheless, there was soon a British inspired proposal to introduce a similar banking system in its former colony, however … The Bank of the United States (1816-36), an early attempt at an American central bank, was abolished by President Andrew Jackson, who believed that it threatened the nation. He wrote:
The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government, the distress it had wantonly produced ... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
And Thomas Jefferson wrote:
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution ... if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.


But then:
In 1886 a group of East Coast Millionaires including William Rockefeller, Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Henry Goodyear, and Edwin and George Gould bought Jekyll Island, Georgia, for $125,000. They named themselves the Jekyll Island club. The activities of some of the members changed world events. By the early 20th century Jekyll Island Club members represented 1/6th of the world’s wealth.
On 13th March, 1907 a financial panic was triggered by rumours that the Knickerbocker Bank, and The Trust Company of America were about to become insolvent. The rumours were started by the House of Morgan. There was a run on the banks. Morgan helped to avert the panic he had helped to create. Morgan imported $100 million worth of gold from Europe to stop the run on the banks. This exercise was a Round Table psycho-political operation. It provided America with the perception and rationalization that what the United States needed was a central banking system.
‚The Senate created the National Monetary Commission to study the problem. Senator Nelson Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller’s father-in-law, headed the commission.

Oh, oh! … This movie sounds familiar!

To investigate the matter the Commission toured the continent of Europe to study the European central banking system. Aldrich didn’t have any banking experience. It took nearly two years and $300,000 of tax-payer money to wine and dine the men of the European central banking system before the committee was able to complete their study. Towards the end of 1910, a group of men held a secretive meeting on Jekyll Island, Georgia. The purpose of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting was to write the final recommendations for the National Monetary Commission report. Senator Aldrich arranged the meeting. The men who attended included:
Henry P. Davison (House of Morgan - J.P. Morgan and Co.)
Benjamin Strong (House of Morgan - Bankers Trust Co.)
A. Piatt Andres (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury)
Paul Warburg ( House of Warburg and House of Khun-Lobe & Co.)
Frank A. Vanderlip (House of Rockefeller - National City Bank )

Frank Vanderlip wrote in his memoirs:
„Despite my views about the value to society of greater publicity for the affairs of corporations, there was an occasion, near the close of 1910, when I was as secretive — indeed as furtive — as any conspirator … I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.“

Congress acted on the report and created the Federal Reserve act which President Woodrow Wilson signed on 23 December 1913 …
… though completely unconstitutional, as only:
„The Congress shall have Power … To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof.“… (Article I, Section 8, U.S. Constitution)

… the Federal Reserve Act was passed; ostensibly to stabilize the economy and prevent further panics, but as Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr. warned Congress:
This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth ... the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized.


Although called Federal, the Federal Reserve System is privately owned by member banks, makes its own policies, and is not subject to oversight by Congress or the President. The major shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank System are:

Rothschild: London and Berlin;
Lazard Brothers: Paris;
Israel Seiff: Italy;
Kuhn-Loeb Company: Germany;
Warburg: Hamburg and Amsterdam;
Lehman Brothers: New York
Goldman and Sachs: New York
Rockefeller: New York. ...
The balance of stock is owned by major commercial member banks.


By authorizing the Fed to regulate and create money (and thus inflation), Congress gave private banks power to create profits at will. As Lindbergh put it:
„The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation … they can unload the stocks on the people at high prices during the excitement and then bring on a panic and buy them back at low prices … the day of reckoning is only a few years removed.“

That day came in 1929, with the Stock Market crash and Great Depression.


We learn:
The profit of all shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank System is growing the higher the debt of the state is and the longer the period lasts over which interest has to be paid. Thus, it is in the interest of these shareholders that a state will be in debt for as long as possible. Wars and catastrophes are events to achieve this …
… and the internationalizing of the system by establishing of:
A World Bank
An International Monetary Fund
As many international agreements on development aid against loans as possible
Congressman Louis McFadden, House Committee on Banking and Currency Chairman (1920-31), stated:
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists ... acting together to enslave the world ... Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is, the Fed has usurped the government.


We learn:
The internationalization of the system, combined with the granting of international development aid against loans made it possible to exploit the southern world by using rates of interests instead of bayonets.
³⁴ Swiss sociologist and UN-advisor Jean Ziegler wrote in „Bankers and Bandits“:
„Swiss banks have within the worldwide imperialistic system an indispensable function: that of a receiver of stolen goods. Imperialistic oligarchs within countries in the centre together with their local accomplices in countries of the periphery need a location that offers: fitting banking laws, free convertibility of currencies, stabilized political conditions and facilities in a communicative and administrative sense that will allow them to store their booty at a safe place and to re-invest from there with additional profit.“
Jean Ziegler summarized the conditions of granting international development loans as follows:
„A developing country has usually a currency that is too weak to be changed into the hard currency of a developed country. Once it accepts financial aid with the condition to pay interest for it attention has to be given to two pre-conditions. Firstly, its national economy must be in a position to earn foreign currency as early as possible in order to pay the interest rates in this currency. Exports earning foreign currencies and production of local goods to replace imports to be paid in foreign currencies must grow very fast. Secondly, the loan-receiving country must have available at the end of the agreed loan-period the total amount of the loan, that is after having served already all rates of interest in foreign currency. … Since this is practically impossible, all receiving countries have fallen into the trap of growing indebtedness. One gap had to be filled with the next loan. Earnings from export went into the payment of interest.“


Pre-condition for profits of participating banks within this system is a method that guarantees that debts will be paid back in real money over an extended period of time. That happens in an international context, as we have learned, through continuous payment of interest on loans given to developing countries.

The banks were, of course, interested to achieve this in a national context as well. How was this done?

One of the most important powers given to the Fed was the right to buy and sell government securities, and provide loans to member banks so they might also purchase them. This provided another built-in mechanism for profit to the banks, if government debt was increased. All that was needed was to give the government an instrument to pay off the debt in real money. This was accomplished through the passage of the income tax in 1913.

A national income tax was declared unconstitutional in 1895 by the Supreme Court, so a constitutional amendment was proposed in Congress by none other than … Senator Nelson Aldrich …

Who?

Correct: the Father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.!

As presented to the American people it seemed reasonable enough: income tax on only one percent of income under $20,000, with the assurance that it would never increase. Since it was graduated, the tax would „soak the rich“, it was argued … but the rich had other plans, already devising a method of protecting their wealth.

Introducing: Gary Allen and his 1976 book THE ROCKEFELLER FILE:

„By the time the 16th Amendment had been approved by the states, the Rockefeller Foundation was in full operation ... about the same time that Judge Kenesaw Landis was ordering the break-up of the Standard Oil monopoly … John D … not only avoided taxes by creating four great tax-exempt foundations; he used them as repositories for his „divested“ interests … made his assets non-taxable so that they might be passed down through generations without … estate and gift taxes … Each year the Rockefellers can dump up to half their incomes into their pet foundations and deduct the „donations“ from their income tax.
Exchanging ownership for control of wealth, foundations are also a handy means for promoting interests that benefit the wealthy. Millions of foundation dollars have been „donated“ to causes such as promoting the use of drugs, while degrading preventive medicine. Since many drugs are made from coal tar derivatives, both oil companies and drug manufacturing concerns — many Rockefeller owned or controlled — are the main beneficiaries.“

CONTROL! LET THE TEXT ROLL!

„I grabbed it!“

Thanks, Ronnie Biggs, for the work on this script!
We have heard something through the grape vine: Next Valentine’s Day, that is in February 2008, the prison‘s doors may be opened for you.

„A cell would be available then!“

Optimist! When did a banker ever end up in prison?