„Well, Mr. Hammarskjöld will
know that this idea is much older!”
„Indeed! The man who came up with it
describes at the beginning of his
philosophical essay a painting which he
once saw outside a Dutch inn.”
 LET ROLL THE TEXT, PLEASE:
 ZUM EWIGEN
FRIEDEN
Ob diese satyrische Ueberschrift auf dem
Schilde jenes holländischen Gastwirths,
worauf ein Kirchhof gemalt war, die
Menschen überhaupt, oder besonders die
Staatsoberhäupter, die des Krieges nie
satt werden können, oder wohl gar nur
die Philosophen gelte, die jenen süßen
Traum träumen, mag dahin gestellt seyn.
That was in his German of the
year 1795. We offer a rough translation
in modern English:
AT THE ETERNAL PEACE
Whether these satirical words on the
outside-board of a Dutch innkeeper, which
were written above the painting of a
cemetery, were meant for Heads of State
or for ordinary people who never get
tired of war, or for the sweet dreams of
philosophers, we shall never know.
„The man was Immanuel Kant. His
essay ‚Critique of Pure Reason‘
is marking the central point of change in
the history of philosophy towards a
modern approach. Kant chose those words
on the inn’s PR-board, which refers
to the eternal peace of the dead on a
cemetery, as headline for his reasoning
regarding the need of a League of
Peoples.”
AGAIN, ROLL THE TEXT, PLEASE:
ZUM EWIGEN FRIEDEN
Ein philosophischer Entwurf
Von Immanuel Kant, Königsberg
bey Friedrich Nicolovius, 1795
Well, Dag, we have listened to
you — Mr. Rockefeller, we listened
to you as well …
From your dialogue we deduct, you both
seem to have a pretty good idea what this
worldwide cosmopolitan federation means,
drafted by Immanuel Kant, supported by
you, Mr. Rockefeller, with the
contribution of a home for the first
trial to found a League of Nations in
1920.
Did we understand everything correctly so
far? Peace on earth — that was the
goal?
Are we allowed, please, to forward a
question as well to Mr. Hammarskjöld?
... Did Africans participate in any way?
„Liberia and Apartheid-South Africa
were founding-members of the League.
Abyssinia was added later-on … the
rest of Africa was still dominated by
European settlers and colonialists —
but not anymore by Germans! German
colonies had been taken over by the
victorious powers of World War I, mostly
as mandatory territories. The German
follow-up, the Weimar Republic, became
member of the League only on 10th
September 1926, but Hitler took Germany
out of it on 14th October 1933.”
The League of Nation disbanded
in 1946 — it failed to prevent the
Second World War! Mr. Rockefeller, you
had invested in the idea — what went
wrong?
„Well, the idea had been developed,
as we have learned, by European
philosophers in a time when the old
Europe was overwhelmed by the so-called
enlightenment. Kant’s essay ETERNAL
PEACE described, for the first time, the
idea to establish permanently a peaceful
society of peoples.
Something comparable was then, triggered
by the horrors of the First World War,
introduced by President Wilson’s
Program of Fourteen Points in 1918. It
proclaimed the ‚Right of Peoples to
Self-Determination‘ and it called
for a ‚Peace without Conquerors and
without Conquered‘.
Unfortunately, Wilson then sped up
ratification of the League’s statute
without proper consultation with the
Senate. The statute was part of the
Versailles-Treaty, which was rejected by
the Senate. Alas, my United States of
America never became a member of the
League of Nations ...”
Your father brought light to the
world; you wanted to bring peace to it?
And then such a management-failure?
CONTROL! PROJECTOR, PLEASE!
What do we see on this black and white
picture? — Tristesse!
A forest, trees without leaves.
Rail-tracks are leading towards the
centre of the picture. In the background,
two trains are meeting. We see the tail
of the left one, obviously parked in a
long left bend; of the right train, we
see the head with its steam engine. It
must have stopped shortly before the
points, which lead to the main track.
What we really see is the switching of
points of world history … We watch
the frame in which on 11th November,
1918, in the forest of Compiègne, an
armistice was signed which ended World
War I.
On the left, the train of Marshal
Ferdinand Foch, on the right the train of
Germany’s negotiator Mathias
Erzberger.
And now, have a look on another picture,
taken roughly twenty-two years later,
already in colour — the same frame,
the same train-coach … Hitler
insisted on it.
On 22nd June 1940, the armistice between
Germany and France is being signed in
Compiègne by General Wilhelm Keitel on
the German side and by General Charles
Huntziger on the French one.
What we really see is the switching of
points towards … the TOTAL WAR,
which — as we already have learned
— has been rather useful for ...
CONTROL! REPLAY, PLEASE!
... Standard Oil and the Chase Bank,
both controlled by the Rockefellers.
Business-connections lasted beyond the
beginning of war; Standard Oil provided
the Nazis with petrol still in 1942 via
Switzerland and collaborated with the
German I.G. Farben, which produced Zyklon
B-gas for the death-chambers of the Nazis
…
„We are now within Chapter 19, and I
wish to know who the voices are which use
the train’s public address system
for their defamatory statements!”
Patience, Mr. Rockefeller —
you don’t get rid of the ghosts you
called for! …
CONTROL! ATTENTION:
TUNNEL CONNECTION BETWEEN POINTS IN
HISTORY!
Does the name Carl Leonhard Reinhold mean
anything to you, Mr. Rockefeller?
„A contemporary of Immanuel Kant!”
Of course, you know him!
And Dag, he is not a stranger to you as
well, is he?
The greatest promoter of Kant’s
ideas?
• Without him no worldwide spreading
of the idea of peace, of joy and of all
the other niceties!
• Without him no conspiracy theories
— from Umberto Eco to Dan Brown!
CONTROL! LET ROLL THE TEXT, PLEASE!
Reinhold was
born in Vienna. At the age
of fourteen, he entered the Jesuit
college of St. Anna, on the dissolution
of which in 1773, he joined a similar
college of the order of St. Barnabas.
Finding himself out of sympathy with
monastic life, he fled in 1783 to North
Germany, and settled in Weimar, where he
became Christoph Martin Wieland's
collaborator on the German Mercury, Der
Teutsche Merkur, and eventually his
son-in-law. In the German Mercury, he
published, in the years 1786-87, his
Letters on the Kantian Philosophy, which
were most important in making Kant known
to a wider circle of readers. Because of
these Letters, Reinhold received a call
to the University of Jena, where he
taught from 1787 to 1794.
Already in 1783, Reinhold had become an
illuminate; he received the name ,Decius’
and in 1787, he was the ‚Prefect‘
of the order in Jena.
Oh — oh!
The Order of the Illuminates had been
founded on 1st May 1776 by the
philosopher and canonist Adam Weishaupt
in Bavarian Ingolstadt as a secret
society. It was his goal to achieve,
through enlightenment, a situation in
which the dominance of humans by humans
would be redundant.
Enlightener Goethe, enlightener
Herder, enlightener Knigge — all of
them were illuminates! Goethe called
himself Abaris after a Skythic magician,
Knigge — to most European better
known as lecturer of decent behaviour
— was Philo like a Jewish
philosopher ... cover names as it is
common with secret undertakings!
The Order of the Illuminates was
prohibited in Bavaria in 1784/1785 and
stopped to be active. Unfortunately,
nobody believes it, isn’t it, Mr.
Rockefeller?
Countless myths and conspiracy theories
are winding themselves around the alleged
continuation of this order and its
supposed activities — from the
French Revolution to the struggle against
the Catholic Church and the striving for
world-dominance.
CONTROL! REVERSE THE TUNNEL!
Comrade Trotsky, what is your opinion?
The „Red Church” has somehow
abandoned its struggle, at least on the
territories of the former USSR and of the
GDR. In these former real-socialist
states the term „cosmopolitan”
was used by the relevant communist
authorities as a synonym for „Jew”.
Cosmopolitan thinking was seen as
offensive Jewish ideology …
Ah, you knew it?
LET ROLL THE TEXT, PLEASE!
28  The
ideology of the German communists in
times of the Nazis, the so-called
ideology of the Peoples’ Front saw
„cosmopolitan” negatively,
somehow as a Jewish fiction. The GDR
printed in its „Meyers Neues Lexikon”:
Cosmopolitan = unscientific, most
reactionary ideology of the imperialist
bourgeoisie which appears in different
modes. C. demands to abandon the right of
nations to self- determination, the
independence of the state and its
sovereignty … C. is being propagated
especially by the American imperialism
which tries to screen its drive for
expansion apologetically with a „general
human interest”. C. is a demagogic,
historically untrue critic of the alleged
„out-dated” and „egoistic”
ideas of national sovereignty … The
reverse of C. is the middle-class
nationalism. C. and Nationalism are
completely opposite to the
proletarian-socialist Internationalism
and Patriotism.
„To abandon the right of
nations to self- determination, the
independence of the state and its
sovereignty ...”
When you started in your job, Dag, did
you see yourself as the boss of a kind of
world-government!
2 Somebody
handed to me the weaver’s shuttle;
somebody arranged the threads.
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