The Plot to Destroy America: When and How Did It Start?

I have written several articles on postings related to politics. A list of links have been provided at bottom of this article for your convenience. This article will, however address different aspects on these political events.

The plot to destroy America can be traced all the way back to 1931 when a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the liner SS Europa and into New York. This began war of espionage initiated by Joseph Stalin. Russia was still reeling from its defeat in World War I by Germany and a series of failed wheat crops. People were starving, industry was falling behind the rest of the world. Stalin realized that the only way to catch up was to steal all the technology he needed to spring forward. And that is what he did. By the time Russia was invaded he had made remarkable inroads in industry, and new techniques for planting success crops. All at the expense of the US. Some of this technology was sold to Russia but the vast majority was stolen. By the end of the war Russia was producing weapons faster than they could use them. They were getting real time data from the Manhattan Project. And just a few years after the end of the war, they tested their first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949. The US had only recently tested their first Atom bomb on July 16, 1945. Needless to say the USA was caught off guard by the Russian success. Relations between the two super powers soon soured and led to the cold war which lasted until the Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

Russia tried everything to destroy our country, from placing sleeper agents in the United States, to infiltrating all of major industries and our government agencies, to building missile silos in Cuba, which resulted in The Cuban Missile Crisis and nearly ended in a nuclear holocaust. There was even an urban legend about the placement of suitcase bombs being smuggled into the country. We became subsequently embroiled in the Korean War and the Vietnam War both fought to stop the spread of Communism. Our Federal government almost ground to a halt during the 50’s thanks to the Red Scare and McCarthyism. Russia likes to dig her claws into the US every once in a while, but here impact on our country has certainly lessened since the Berlin Wall fell. We have negotiated a decrease in Nuclear Missiles and the testing of nuclear munitions, but we both possess way too many missiles.

After the end of the Vietnam War, President Nixon and Henry Kissinger negotiated trade deals with China. This ushered in another long history of technological thievery, this time by China. It also resulted in the loss of manufacturing jobs and subsequent trade deficits. China has been quite open about their goal to be the most powerful country in the world. Where Russia failed, China is succeeding. They learned from Russia’s mistakes. They realize that they can’t compete with our military. They watched when we fought the Two Gulf Wars. They found out what are strengths were and what our weaknesses were. Our military relies too much on Satellites for communication. They have been patient. They have worked from within our country to weaken our infrastructure. And to weaken our family structure, economy, educational system( Confucius Centers in university campuses are spy centers for the Chinese government), political system, manufacturing, technology and our communication and satellite systems. They have realized from the start that they could not beat us in a head on competition. They realized that they had to plan out a long term campaign to beat us. Here is where their style of government comes in handy. They have a supreme leader who rules for life. So it easy to develop a uniform plan of attack. While in the US the longest a President can serve is 8 years and under special circumstances close to 10 years. So unless, your Vice President runs and wins 2 terms after your 2 terms, you are at a very serious risk of having a good portion of your work reversed by the succeeding president.

China like Japan subsidizes their major corporations. This gives them a major competitive advantage. It took a few decades to be finally able to compete with Japan on an even basis. Japan didn’t want to import any products from America and they were exporting millions of cars to the USA. Resulting in trade deficits. We have since reversed that trend. Also until just recently we were dependent on the middle East for oil. Again resulting in trade deficits. You can see that we have been hemorrhaging money for several decades. So, China comes in and pumps billions of dollars into our economy, buying controlling interest in tech companies, buying off politicians through sweetheart deals. Sending thousands of students to our colleges where they have been pumping big money into them as well. They gave incentives to companies to move to China. Because of government support for corporations they were able to sell products in the US at a loss putting more manufacturing out of business. They currently control critical sectors of manufacturing. They control most of the production of pharmaceuticals, solar panels, computer chips and many critical items used by our military, computers, network and other essential components of our economy and infrastructure.

With their infusion of money into the government and educational system* for the past 30 or so years, they essentially control most of our country. The University system is basically a puppet system of China and the Liberal Democratic Party. Because of this educational control( teaching children that they are living in an evil country) many of the CEO’S of tech companies, entertainment, media were educated under this system and now lean towards socialism and the left. The Democrats control the House, and the Supreme Court system and a vast portion of the news media. Most of the social media companies are also controlled by the Left. As a result freedom of speech is almost a thing of the past.

So, in addition to China’s Impact on our country I am going to discuss the impact that the Left has had on our country. Because whether you believe it or not that is the ultimate goal, the destruction of America.

(Update 12/2/2021)

How to Destroy Society

Without America as the bastion of the free world , the rest of the countries will cave into Socialism like dominoes.

–First to destroy America is to make it a bilingual or multi-lingual and bi-cultural country. There is great tension and turmoil in these societies.

–Second, invent multiculturalism and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Where all cultures are equal with no cultural differences.

–Third, you would make it believed that the dropout rate for these minorities is due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority.

–Fourth the minorities need to be the least educated and the most antagonistic to the majority of the population.

–Fifth, get large companies to give large donations to these minority groups. Increase the belief that they are victims and that their failures are due to the majority.

–Sixth, promote dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. Celebrate diversity over unity, stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide tend to hate each other.

–Seventh, control freedom of speech, don’t allow anything negative to be said about the minority groups and the democratic party and politicians.

But practice freedom of speech and negative comments directed against the opposing party. Make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.

Anybody reading this article, especially the last portion of see that all of these items listed are proceeding in an orderly way, quietly but pervasively across the United States. In recent weeks there has been an concerted effort to destroy our heritage by destroying statues. However, to many on the Left, the problem isn’t with statues and memorials, it’s the existence of the American Republic and the Judeo-Christian civilization itself.

Steps To Fascism and Authoritarianism

(Update 12/8/2022)

(1) Spreading Discontent

(2) Creating a False Savior

(3) Increasing Censorship

(4) Create a Crisis like Climate Change

(5) Gain Total Control, ie destroy our Bill of Rights

These are the eight levels of controls by Saul Alinsky to transform a nation through socialism into communism.


1. Healthcare – control healthcare and you control the people.
2. Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you provide everything for them to live.
3. Debt – Increase the debt level to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty.
4. Gun control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5. Welfare – Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6. Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and take control or what children learn in school.
7. Religion – Remove belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in only the government knowing what is best for the people.
8. Class warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class.

If I wanted to destroy an enemy society, and had a long-term focus, wanted to do it stealthily, and effectively, to make the society destroy itself and the ability to defend itself, I would do the following:

1. I would destroy the religious ideals that built the country and held it together, allowing it to thrive and be exceptional. In short, I would destroy Christianity in the West.

2. I would destroy the family, the fabric of society. I would tear apart the nuclear family, that produced stable children, future contributors to the nation’s wealth and power. I would promote a “gay agenda,” one that targeted fertility and the subsequent lowering of the birth rate. I would make children not know what gender they are; I would confuse them. I would destroy the centuries-old family unit that produced generations of Americans that became the most powerful nation on earth. A society that does not reproduce is a dying society.

3. I would promote the concept “toxic masculinity” and extremist feminism. What better way to make the society less masculine, less able to field a strong military?I would push to have as many women as possible in the armed forces. I would push to put women in frontline infantry units. I would make the military conduct societal experiments rather than focus on fielding the strongest armed forces possible — the most lethal, the most dangerous. I would make officers-in-training wear high heels to feel what is was like to be a woman. In short, I would feminize the male population, making it less effective in battle.

4. I would destroy the education system. I would plant Marxist professors throughout the university system, teaching new generations nothing about American history, but filling their heads full of communist propaganda. They would know nothing of Washington, Lincoln, or Jefferson, but of Malcolm X and Lenin.



5. I would divide the races. What better way, what better method of “dividing and conquering,” than to foster a race war, filling minorities’ heads full of lies of police brutality, and developing a culture of hate towards law enforcement?

6. I would corrupt the federal government. I would fill the intelligence and security services with traitors to the nation’s founding. When any political figure arose which threatened my diabolical agenda, I would use these corrupt agencies to target and frame any rising star who loved America, even if he was a duly-elected president of the United States.

7. I would take away the population’s means to defend itself – meaning, I would take away their guns. The fear of an armed population would stop any invasion. I would get rid of this problem.

8. I would destroy self-reliance and ingenuity by making over half of the population dependent on the government, unable to take care of themselves.

9. I would use big-tech to completely remove any viewpoints or ideas that were associated with the “old America.” I would ban them from the internet. Heck, I’d take over the internet. I would work with other tyrannical powers to develop internet censorship to eventually prevent any opposing views to be heard by anyone.

10. I would corrupt the nation’s leadership with money, finding those who would sell out the country for pieces of silver. I’d make sure they were strategically placed in powerful positions. I’d shell out money throughout the legislature to make sure no laws were passed that opposed my agenda.

11. I would promote the disrespect of the nation’s symbols. I would have people kneel during the national anthem, burn the flag, tear down statues of the nation’s history. I would make people hate the very fabric of the nation that gave them such wealth and power.

12. I would find a straw man, a country who is also a malicious adversary to America, though much less powerful, and I would focus all the negative energy and recriminations towards this straw man country. In this manner, the targeted nation would be ignorant of my true intentions.

The regime that would promote all of this change in the targeted country would be the largest communist regime in the world. It would have a 100-year plan to destroy its enemies and become the dominant force on the planet. It would have millions of its own citizens in concentration camps. It would force abortions on women and the sterilization of those it didn’t want to reproduce within its own borders. Many of its workers would live as slaves, with a life of no meaning. Its factories would have suicide nets around the roofs to prevent these workers from killing themselves in despair. This nation would kill tens of thousands of its own citizens who dared stand up for a future of freedom.

(Update 5/19/2021)

Since this article was written, I came across a seminal work entitled “The United Nations Conspiracy To Destroy America” by Michael Benson. I am in the process of reading as I add this section to this article. Apparently since it’s inception, the United Nations has been a tool of communism. The UN has been from the start has been trying to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel and the rest of the world. One way that they have weakened our resolve is by attacking our educational system.

According to Education for a Free America, a watch group operating out of Chaska, Minnesota, the International Baccalaureate Organization or IBO teaches U.S. schoolchildren that they are citizens of the world and that love of country is an evil that must be abolished. It also teaches that the UN resolutions are right and just, even when they are not approved of and they are sometimes damaging to the U.S. Students are taught the International resolutions passed by the UN outrank U.S. law as interpreted by the Supreme Court. One example of teachings contrary to U.S. interests is the Earth Charter, a document not ratified by the United States that contains numerous provisions contrary to America’s nature and interests. It advocates the redistribution of wealth from rich countries to poor ones, same-sex marriage, pantheism spiritual education, military disarmament, and creation of an international agency that would make the Earth Charter binding on all nations.

Since 2001, many schools throughout the U.S. use the Earth Charter Initiatives (ECI) in critical thinking/writing and discussion exercises. Students become adept at making connections from the Earth Charter to issues challenging their future across the board from social justice, environmental, democracy, and nonviolence issues. The ECI Secretariat has laid our themes for lesson plans entitled the “Guidebook for Teachers.” The Earth Charter is indoctrinating students as early as the third grade. No wonder our country and educational system is such a mess.

I have spent longer on this update than I intended. But I have done so, because I believe it is very important. Especially since we house the UN and pay a large percentage of their budget with tax payer dollars. There is nothing like paying someone to destroy your way of life.

(Update 6/13/2021)

Why has Socialism been held back despite all the efforts of the left? The answers lie what makes our country great and unique. We value our Families, Religion and our Culture. That is why these three areas are being targeted. Have you noticed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, that religion basically being attacked? Another growing trend has been taking place and that is cancel culture. They tried destroying our statutes, they are also trying to change our history and our culture by rewriting the history books. For example 1619 project. Critical race theory and gender issues are being used to destroy our families. So we need to maintain our family structure, increase school choice, keep a stable family structure and maintain a strong police force to maintain social order. We need to fight back, because we are being attacked like never before. We are be assaulted from every angle. This plan has been in effect for decades. China and Russia now we are too strong to destroy by a frontal assault, so they have to weaken us from within, by destroying us were we are the strongest. Did you ever wonder if the video game revolution was a secret way to weaken our family structure? Maybe, I will investigate this theory?

In 1923 in Frankfurt, Germany, the Institute For Social Research at the University of Frankfurt was created. This is where critical race theory was born. It was originally entitled Critical Theory. It was designed to dismantle our way of life. They discovered that the key to our success was the following: (1) go to school, (2)get a good job, (3) get married, (4) have children. They found that the order was important.

Read on in the addendum section for additional information.

(Update 11/24/2021)

Biden Regime Embraces ‘Great Reset’ Plan to Destroy Capitalism

The Biden regime is fully embracing a radical globalist plan that seeks to destroy capitalism and replace it with a socialist system.

“The Great Reset” was unveiled at the World Economic Forum (WEC) in Davos, Switzerland last June, using the coronavirus pandemic and “global warming” as pretexts to impose on the world far-left social programs like government-provided basic income, the Green New Deal, universal healthcare, and of course, massive tax increases.

In one week, Joe Biden has signed over 30 executive actions, a far-left wish list dealing with race issues, the Covid-19 pandemic, illegal immigration, “gender identity,” and the climate. Meanwhile, his Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security have been focusing on punishing political enemies under the guise of combatting “violent extremism.”

“The Great Reset,” a totalitarian project of economic and social engineering, appears to be high on the Biden administration’s agenda.

The theme of the WEC 2020 meeting was “rebuilding society and the economy in a more sustainable way following the COVID-19 pandemic,” and the Great Reset’s supporters have been open about using it to fundamentally transform societies.

As World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab wrote back in June, “the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”

“What’s unusual about this global communist takeover plan is that it originates not from some meeting of hair-shirt sociology students at Berkeley but from the World Economic Forum, which hosts the annual meeting at Davos where billionaires lecture millionaires on how ordinary people live,” wrote Breitbart  contributor James Delingpole on Nov. 1, a couple days before the election.

Delingpole noted that Schwab has written several books on his masterplan to “reset capitalism.”

His latest, called Covid-19: The Great Reset, makes no bones about the fact that the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents the perfect opportunity to accelerate the entire world towards a ‘new normal’.

At the time of writing (June 2020), the pandemic continues to worsen globally. Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the ‘broken’ sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory.

Got that? As far as your new globalist overlords are concerned, you are NEVER going to get your old life back, however much you might wish it. Also, be clear: this is being done for your own good because your old way of life was based on a ‘broken’ model.

Such is the author’s conviction that the new normal is what we need and should want, he scarcely bothers to pretend that Chinese coronavirus is anything other than a handy pretext.

Unlike certain past epidemics, COVID-19 doesn’t pose a new existential threat.

Schwab is clear in his book that coronavirus is not so much a crisis as an opportunity to be exploited – a chance to accelerate the birth of the New World Order he calls The Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Radical changes of such consequence are coming that some pundits have referred to a ‘before coronavirus’ (BC) and ‘after coronavirus’ (AC) era. We will continue to be surprised by both the rapidity and unexpected nature of these changes – as they conflate with each other, they will provoke second-, third-, fourth- and more-order consequences, cascading effects and unforeseen outcomes.

This might all seem pie in the sky — the demented ravings of a German so sinister-looking and sounding that he would have made an excellent Blofeld in the Bond movies — were it not for one major problem: lots of world leaders, billionaire businessmen and other masters of the universe are totally onboard with the project.

This includes, if we’re very unlucky, possible future President Joe Biden.

In three open letters to President Trump last year, Vatican whistleblower Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the United States, warned that The Great Reset would usher in a “one world government,” eliminating the sovereignty of nations, and crushing religious freedom.

In his October letter, Vigano wrote that the global élite were trying to “subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations.”

In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.

The purpose of the Great Reset, Vigano argued, was to usher in “a health dictatorship” using “tempting promises” such as a guaranteed universal income and the canceling of individual debt.

Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists” those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail. No one, up until last February, would ever have thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to want to go to church on Sunday.

Yet now it is happening all over the world, even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming cities, its characteristic villages. And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling, working and praying. The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates, told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.

During an interview earlier this month with Steve Bannon, the host of the “Bannon’s War Room,” the archbishop said he was troubled by the power of the mainstream media to suppress legitimate questions about the 2020 presidential election.

The rest of the world is watching to see if America and its democratic system will hold up, he said. “If it allows the idea to spread among the masses that the electoral choice of the citizens – the first expression of democracy – can be manipulated and thwarted, it will be complicit in the fraud, and will certainly deserve the execration of the entire world, which looks to America as a nation which has fought for and defended its freedom.”

Although Biden took no position on the Great Reset during the 2020 election campaign, former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted in mid-November that the Biden Administration would enthusiastically support the globalist scheme.

At a panel discussion about the Great Reset hosted by the World Economic Forum, Kerry, Biden’s special envoy for climate, declared that the Biden administration not only supported a great global reset, but that it “will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine.”

The host of the panel, Borge Brende, asked Kerry whether the World Economic Forum and other Great Reset supporters were “expecting too much too soon from the new president, or is he going to deliver first day on this [sic] topics?,” Kerry responded, “The answer to your question is, no, you’re not expecting too much.”

“And yes, it [the Great Reset] will happen,” Kerry continued. “And I think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine. In effect, the citizens of the United States have just done a Great Reset. We’ve done a Great Reset. And it was a record level of voting.”

Kerry later argued that the Great Reset is necessary to slow the “climate crisis” and that “I know Joe Biden believes … it’s not enough just to rejoin Paris [the Paris Climate Accords] for the United States. It’s not enough for us to just do the minimum of what Paris requires.”

Kerry also said that because of the Great Reset movement, he believes “we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time” and that “the greatest opportunity we have” to address social and economic problems is “dealing with the climate crisis.”

While  concerns about The Great Reset have been labeled a conspiracy theory, everything we know about the socialist scheme comes from the global elites themselves.

“This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a well-documented movement among many of the world’s most powerful people,” says Justin Haskins, the Editorial Director at The Heartland Institute and a leading authority on the Great Reset, “Fundamentally, this is a radical and complete transformation of everything that we do in our society,” Haskins adds, ‘It will change the way businesses are evaluated, it will coerce businesses to pursue left-wing causes.”

The Great Reset has the support of world leaders, global elites, and corporations that think they know what’s best for you.

According to Haskins, “The elites, the technocrats in society, the most educated people,” see the chance to “control and manipulate society, pull the levers in society so that it’s in their minds, perfect.”

Not surprisingly, the World Economic Forum’s slogan “Build Back Better” was also the Biden Campaign’s slogan. The slogan has also reportedly been used by Justin Trudeau, the Pope, the Prince of Wales, and other leaders around the world.

Delingpole, who has been writing about the coming New World Order for nearly 50 years, is justifiably alarmed. “You’d be amazed by how many world leaders are on board with this globalist plan,” Delingpole said recently. “Even people that claim to be conservatives, but are clearly not. This is worse than Naziism. This is worse than communism. And this is worse than fascism. These guys are planning on taking over the whole world.”

The WEF promotional video below attempts to put a positive spin on the global elites’ attempt to crush small businesses, bolster large corporations, and force ordinary people into a state of dependency on government.

The Great Reset – Designed to Destroy Capitalism and Private Property Ownership Worldwide!

The Great Reset (Financial System Revisions) encouraged by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Worldwide Elites (Cabal) is promoted as necessary due to the worldwide economic destruction from Covid-19 and the only way to move worldwide economies forward again in the wake of the covid pandemic.

However nothing could be further from the truth. The Great Reset has long been planned and is in keeping with the Cabal and the United Nations Agenda-21 Program designed to destroy capitalism worldwide and the private ownership of property (real estate) in order to usher in the cabal’s New World Order (One World Government and One World Religion).

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Incidentally their One World Religion is designed to be Satanism (and is supported strongly by Pope Francis) with the seat of its power to be located in Astana, Khazikstan.

It is all designed to consolidate power, control, and private property ownership into the hands of the 1% Elite who will control the rest of humanity (99%) as their economic slaves.

It should also be noted (a hidden truth) that the Communist Elites behind their NWO agenda and plans are the Zionists whose one true God to them is Lucifer – the Lightbearer.

Great Reset Overview
Great Reset Overview

The Great Reset is designed to destroy capitalism worldwide. All nations not controlled by the Cabal should decline joining this Marxist NWO Plan.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (speaking the hidden truth) says the World Economic Forum’s plan for a “Great Reset” is all about globalisation, losing our democracy and “pushing us towards the socialist-left Marxist view of the world”.

Ms Hanson put forward a motion to the senate calling on the Government to “boycott all World Economic Forum events in protest of their Great Reset agenda”. “It’s about globalisation, they’re pushing their own agenda, and I think it’s pushing us toward the socialist left Marxist view of the world,” Ms Hanson said.

“They’re using this Forum now to push that when the pandemic is on, the government can use the people to push them toward their own agenda. I’m totally opposed to that.

“It’s about getting rid of capitalism, and so if you’ve got a company you shouldn’t have shareholders, you should be sharing the wealth around – that is total socialism.

“These elites have their own little world they live in, they don’t have anything to worry about. So these people want to control the rest of the populous and push their own agenda on the rest of the populous.

“We’ve seen it here in Australia. “It’s losing our democracy, who we are, and it’s about slowly losing our sovereignty.

“I put this up on the floor of parliament, and the whole parliament voted against it bar Malcolm and I.

This shows that, in effect, the NWO Cabal controls most politicians worldwide through their Secret Societies, blackmail, etc.
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Conclusion:

The Great Reset and its Marixst Agenda (for economic control and power over the world) will be an absolute Nightmare for all of humanity except for the the 1% Elite who will retain all power (political and econmic), private ownership, and control over the remaining 99% of the world – who will become in effect their slaves.

References

themichiganstar.com, “Biden Regime Embraces ‘Great Reset’ Plan to Destroy Capitalism.” By Debra Heine; hidden-truths.com, “The Great Reset – Designed to Destroy Capitalism and Private Property Ownership Worldwide!”; fee.org. “If There Were No Capitalism: Capitalism Stimulates Revival and Progress.” By William Henry Chamberlin;

Addendum:

If There Were No Capitalism

Capitalism Stimulates Revival and Progress

(Update 11/241/2021)

If there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”

Thus the witty and skeptical Voltaire’s phrase could also be applied to the economic system known as capitalism, often buried with much pomp and circumstance by communist, socialist, and assorted left-wing theorists, but so resilient that it will most probably outlive the memory of most of its critics.

It is a familiar theory among collectivists on both sides of the Atlantic that capitalism is a luxury which only a rich country like the United States can afford. Advocates of this theory usually leave in obscurity the question of how America became rich in the first place. They simply assert dogmatically that poor countries can become rich only by following roads with signposts pointing to communism or socialism.

This line of thought was once being expounded by the late Harold Laski, one of the most persuasive of British Labourite spellbinders. It was very neatly punctured by William Yandell Elliott, one of Harvard’s few outspokenly conservative professors. “Isn’t it a boon to the collectivist economies of Europe,” said Professor Elliott, “that there is an individualist economy in the United States with enough surplus wealth to cover all their deficits and give them an annual subsidy of several billion dollars a year?”

Laski was normally quick and nimble in the cut-and-thrust of debate. But that question left him gasping for air.There simply was no convincing retort.

Now the question as to which economic system an impoverished nation, struggling for recovery, can best afford has been put to a decisive test in Europe. The war which ended ten years ago left behind an unprecedented amount of physical destruction because of the indiscriminate use of bombing against cities. Vast areas of large cities were turned into wastelands of shapeless rubble. Factories, port installations, railway stations were special targets of attack.

An outlook that was already bleak was made still darker by the rancorous spirit of the Morgenthau Plan which seriously affected American occupation policy in the first postwar years. With the contemplated dismantling of industrial plants and the forbidding of some industries and the severe limitation placed on the output of others, there seemed every likelihood that Germany would be reduced to a vast slum in the heart of Europe, dragging down the rest of the continent in its poverty and destitution.

Europe in 1955 looks like another planet.The scope and depth and sweep of the recovery have confounded the prophets of gloom and doom, who seemed to have only too many arguments on their side ten years ago. Germany today is quite unrecognizable.

When I visited Munich for the first time after the war, in 1946, the city was so wrecked by bombing that one could hardly make out the shape and direction of the principal streets. The physical restoration in Munich now is little short of miraculous, even though many beautiful medieval and baroque buildings have perished forever. And it is the same story in Frankfurt, in Hamburg, in all the cities and towns of West Germany. The old episcopal town of Wurzburg, up the river Main, east of Frankfurt, was so completely destroyed by war bombings that it was called “the grave on the Main.” It was proposed to rebuild the town on a new site. Now there are almost as many dwellings in Wurzburg as there were before the war. And the city has remained where it was.

“It is remarkable how fastidious people are becoming,” said a Frankfurt banker.“In the last years of the war and the first years of the occupation they were glad to get coarse bread and potatoes. Now they shop around, discussing whether Spanish olives or California olives are better.”

Only a few years ago the new German mark, created out of thin air by fiat of the occupation powers and without gold backing, sold at a 40 percent discount on the Swiss free market. Now the mark is backed by some three billion dollars of gold and dollar reserves and travelers may freely bring the mark into Germany and take it out. It has become one of the hardest currencies in Europe.

Submerged by a tidal wave of refugees and expellees, people who had fled from their homes or been driven from their homes in the eastern provinces of Germany (now annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union), in the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia, and in other German settlements in Eastern Europe, it seemed that the Federal Republic might face permanent heavy unemployment. But unemployment has now been reduced to a minimum of a few hundred thousand, in a population of fifty million. In the booming Ruhr, industrial heart of Germany, there is a shortage of skilled labor.

Germany is now building new housing units at the rate of 550,000 a year, more than any other country except the United States. Wherever there are ruins—remains of war bombing—bulldozers and other wrecking apparatus are apt to be on the spot, clearing the ground for new building.

It would be inaccurate to convey the impression that Germany has been transformed into an earthly paradise. The social and economic wounds of the war are deep and some can be healed only after many years. Although Germany gives the impression of working at a feverish pace, there are many old people, widows, war cripples who must eke out a living on small pensions. In spite of the pace of building, housing is still very short; several years will be needed before the war destruction can be fully made up, to say nothing of providing for the needs of a larger population.

The German “Miracle”

But what has been achieved, measured against the bleak background of the end of the war, is nothing short of miraculous. The average German with whom one talks recognizes this. The German voters placed their stamp of approval on what has been done when they gave Chancellor [Konrad] Adenauer a decisive majority over the Social Democratic opposition in the election of 1953.

There are two points of special interest about this German recovery. First, it has been a triumph for the ideas of capitalism, for the free-market economy over socialistic planning. The man most identified with economic policy since the German recovery began is chubby dynamic minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, a passionate believer in the ideal of the competitive free-market economy which he defends with equal energy against collectivist planners, rapacious trade unionists, and monopoly-minded businessmen.

It required no small amount of courage and determination to make the big wager on economic freedom at the beginning of the German economic revival, in 1948. There had been nothing like a free economy in Germany in fifteen years. Social Democrats at home, New Dealers in the American and Labourites in the British occupation administration raised warning voices against the prospective dire consequences of a scrapping of wage and price controls. But these controls and many others were scrapped, and Erhard went on to throw German markets open to foreign goods, luxuries as well as necessities.

Sitting in his office in the Ministry of Economics, puffing endlessly on Cuban cigars, one of the fruits of his trade liberalization, Erhard briefly outlined in a talk with me last summer the main lines of Germany’s recovery and the prospects for the future:

“My first concern was to restore competition, the urge and the incentive to work. Foreign goods appearing on the market were a spur to German manufacturers to produce more efficiently. Freer trade meant more goods in shop windows, more for people to buy with the new money.And I was sure that the more we bought the more we could and would sell. It seemed to many a risky thing to bet on economic freedom. But the bet has been won.

“Now we would like to see the widest possible convertibility of currencies. We have already dropped most restrictions on the use of the mark, and we are ready to make it fully convertible as soon as Great Britain takes the same step with the pound. Of course, convertibility begins at home. A currency must be sound, with the water squeezed out, before it can stand the test. And there must be some unity of aim and purpose before convertibility or more ambitious forms of ‘integrating’ national economies will work successfully. One cannot merge a free with a planned economy, any more than one can mix oil with water.”

The second point worth noting about the economic revival in West Germany is the tremendous object lesson which it offers in the relative merits of individualism and collectivism, when compared with what has happened in what is officially called the German Democratic Republic. This is the dictatorial socialist-communist regime installed by force in the Soviet Zone.

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov at Geneva expressed much solicitude about maintaining “the social and economic accomplishments” of the workers in the Soviet Zone. But the effect of these “accomplishments” has been to induce over two million people, sometimes at the risk of their lives, and always at the price of losing all their possessions except what they could carry with them, to flee to West Germany during the last ten years. To start from scratch in the overcrowded Federal Republic, where housing is a desperate problem, looked better to this host of fugitives than to endure life under Soviet conditions of political tyranny and economic rationing and other hardships. I have traveled extensively in West Germany on several trips since the end of the war, and I have yet to meet one German who had a favorable impression of conditions in the Soviet Zone.

On my most recent trip, last summer, I found myself on a train bound for the Soviet Zone. In my compartment was a forester with his wife and child, returning to his home in the East after a holiday in the West. To a question of how the two regions compared he replied: “Like day and night.” He went on to emphasize the vastly greater quantity and better quality of goods available in the West, the fact that most workers could buy motorcycles and some automobiles, and the freedom from fear and espionage. He was returning to the East himself, he said, only because he hadn’t been able to find housing in the West.

What makes this German informal plebiscite especially impressive is that here two sundered groups of the same people, with the same former standard of material well-being and education, have been living for a decade under two contrasting social and economic systems. The result: a difference “as great as day and night” and a mass migration, that at times has almost assumed the proportions of a stampede from East to West.

The Case of Austria

It is not only in Germany that capitalism has proved itself a dynamic motor of economic recovery and progress. In one European country after another one finds that the pace and vigor and promise of the general economic revival (Europe outside the Iron Curtain is today far and away more prosperous than at any time since the war) has been in clear and direct proportion to the degree to which such socialist measures as rationing,“fair shares” (which are always very low shares), rigid planning, and artificially cheap money have given way to reliance on the free market, flexible interest rates, and liberalization of international trade. The case of Austria deserves special mention. Here living conditions are better than they were between the two wars, better than they have been since the dim, far-off days when Vienna was the capital of an empire with fifty million inhabitants, not of a little mountain republic with seven million.

Much of the credit for Austria’s present ability to remove currency restrictions and straighten out the chronic deficit in its balance of international payments belongs to the old-fashioned economic medicine prescribed and administered by Dr. Reinhard Kamitz, minister of finance. It was a popular theory in American foreign-aid administration circles that Austria could never pay its way, that some means would have to be found to continue subsidies even when grants to other countries were terminated.

Then Kamitz stepped into the picture in 1952 and proved that there is no help like self-help and a good deal of virtue in certain old-fashioned economic remedies. He set the Austrian currency, the schilling, at a realistic exchange rate and pushed through a balanced budget, at the same time squeezing a good deal of inflation out of the national economic system by stern measures of credit restriction. There were wails of protest, caused by a temporary rise in unemployment. But Kamitz, like Erhard in Germany, held firmly to his course and he has been abundantly vindicated by later developments. The low exchange rate of the schilling stimulated exports and the potentially valuable tourist trade. Investments at home were made with more confidence because of the feeling that the schilling had become “hard” money again. Now Austria has full, almost over-full employment, and the index of industrial output has been going up substantially from year to year.

It is not only in the free countries of Europe that capitalism has proved its pragmatic value as a stimulus to revival and progress. The best testimonial to the proposition that if it did not exist, it would have to be invented is the growing application in communist countries of certain elements of capitalist technique.

I still remember blinking a little in Russia 20 years ago when I read Karl Marx’s description of the horrors of the piecework method of payment and then the glorification of this method in Soviet newspapers. One of the casualties of the Soviet drive for high-speed industrialization, along with the kulak and the private trader, was the last vestige of Lenin’s original ideal of substantial material equality.

Every conceivable device was used to stimulate individual effort: piecework payment for the workers, bonuses for engineers and industrial managers. As the personal income tax in the Soviet Union is very low, with a top rate of 13 per cent, the distribution of salaries and wages shows greater variation than in Western countries. In the collective farm system it was found necessary to leave the peasant at least some “capitalist” incentive in the form of his garden plot and household animals. A silent “cold war” has been going on ever since between the peasants, who wish to devote most of their time and work to these personal possessions, and the state authorities, who want to make them work harder on the collective farm land.

Last summer I found, on visiting Yugoslavia, a communist country politically independent of Moscow, still more acknowledgment of the merits of capitalism, even of the free-market system. There, collective farming has been reduced to small proportions because of the bitter resistance of the peasants. And a high state-planning official with whom I talked, Mr. Kiro Gligorov, expressed preference for indirect methods of taxation and credit policy over rigid centralized planning orders. Yasha Davicho, an editor of an economic magazine, and a communist since his student days, declared: “We are trying to practice capitalism—but without private capitalists.”

When the doctrinaire extreme communism of the Russian civil war years led to famine on a gigantic scale and the Soviet leaders, militarily victorious, saw themselves confronted with complete social and economic collapse, Lenin sounded a retreat to certain elementary capitalist principles in his New Economic Policy.

So, in the countries which deliberately set out to destroy capitalism, as well as in those where it has survived, more or less eroded by socialistic and welfare state encroachments, there is abundant evidence that such features of capitalism as individual incentive, stable currency, monetary discipline, and some use of the free-market principle have been found valuable in keeping industrial production going. Capitalism has proved itself a pretty tough old bird, even in an age when it has come in for rough handling.


The Four Steps for American Subversion

(Update 6/13/2021)

A warning from a former KGB agent.

By Tim Bryce

The premise behind Hitchcock’s 1935 movie classic, “The 39 Steps,” was not about a staircase, but rather a series of clandestine tasks to ultimately overthrow the government. It was an intriguing movie but as it turns out, it actually takes considerably fewer steps to subvert a government, four to be exact, at least according to Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB agent. Throughout the 1960s, Bezmenov served the KGB primarily in India where he spread Soviet propaganda and disinformation to the Western world. He eventually defected to the West in 1970 and settled in Canada where he lectured and wrote about the KGB’s techniques for subverting the West.

In 1985 he was featured in a television interview which is still available on YouTube. During the interview, Bezmenov explains the KGB’s activities are less about espionage in the classic James Bond sense (only 15 percent), and more concerned with “Ideological Subversion” (85 percent) which is used to secretly undermine the American government through psychological warfare. Key to this program is to change the perception of reality using subliminal brainwashing techniques over an extended period of time. As I’ve written in the past, people act on their perceptions of reality, regardless if it is correct or fallacious. They are not so much concerned with facts as they are in perspectives and self interests. By controlling the perceptions of people, they become more prone to make erroneous conclusions thereby simplifying the manipulation of the masses. The objective of the KGB program, therefore, is to program people into dismissing true facts as fallacious even in spite of the obvious.

As Bezmenov explains in the interview, there are four steps to transform the thinking and behavior of the population:

1. Demoralization – this is a process which can take about 15-30 years to perform (a generation). During this stage, the moral fibre and integrity of the country is put into question, thereby creating doubt in the minds of the people. To do so, manipulation of the media and academia is required to influence young people. As the younger generation embraces new values, such as Marxism and Leninism, the older generation slowly loses control simply through attrition. Again, true facts no longer matter during this stage, but rather creating perceptions are of paramount importance.

2. Destabilization – the purpose of this step is to change the status quo, particularly the country’s economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. The intent is to create a massive government permeating society and becoming intrusive in the lives of its citizens. This can take from two to five years to perform, again with the active support of academia pushing youth in this direction. Here, entitlements and benefits are promised to the populace to encourage their support. Basically, they are bribing the people to accept their programs.

Bezmenov claims after this stage is completed, the naive college professors are no longer needed and since they will undoubtedly protest government policies when they discover the truth, they will be disposed of quickly. He cites examples of this occurring in Nicaragua, Grenada, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.

3. Crisis – this is a major step lasting up to six weeks and involves a revolutionary change of power. This is where a cataclysmic event upsets and divides the country thereby creating panic among the citizens. Recent examples include the 2011 upheavals in the Middle East, most notably Egypt and Libya. To Americans, symptoms would include circumventing the Constitution and altering the checks and balances of government, and possibly martial law.

4. Normalization – the final stage is where the populace finally acquiesces and begins to assimilate communism. This can take up to two decades to complete.

Bezmenov claimed the first step, Demoralization, was completed well before his 1985 interview. In fact, the Russians were surprised how easily it had been performed. One clear indicator of the moral decay of the country is the decline of organized religion which, historically, has been a beacon for morality, but now it is in retreat. He also thought step two was nearing completion in 1985 but I believe he underestimated the rise and popularity of Ronald Reagan as president, which led to the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union in 1991, and the shift to the War on Terror following 9/11. Nonetheless, many would argue America is now realizing Bezmenov’s scenario in 2012, particularly as the November elections loom ahead. This means the third step is in the offing which has a lot of people frightened for America’s future.

Yuri Bezmenov died in 1993 never realizing his prophecy, and hopefully it will never come to fruition, that we will remain a free and democratic Republic bound to the U.S. Constitution. However, as Bezmenov reminds us, communism requires simple patience and perseverance to alter the perceptions of the people. The only way to thwart it is to practice due diligence and not let it go unchallenged.

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
– Joseph Stalin

Unfiltered: Dan Bongino

How to Destroy The U.S. from within

  1. Get people to hate everybody, using critical race theory. Judge by superficial means, like skin color, this creates chaos.
  2. Defenestrate the Police to keep chaos going.
  3. Allow outside enemies to use propaganda and our own media against us to cover up anything negative.

Clarifications and Questions about the Destruction of America

1) After much research and fact checking, I don’t believe George Soros is behind the plot to destroy American. While it is true he has donated money to BLM, he has donated billions of dollars to charities across the world. And there is the fact that he is Jewish. They don’t usually become involved in that type of behavior. I know as a people they can be quite militaristic. Many of them spent decades hunting down Nazi War Criminals. And they have also been kicking butt in the middle east for decades. Besides the Jewish think of as their ally. I seriously doubt the would spend billions of dollars to destroy our country. If we fall so does Israel. I will continue to research the matter, and if warranted I will write an article dedicated to the subject.

2) While I don’t believe China designed the Wuhan Virus, they are certainly using the Pandemic to achieve its goal of supplanting the U.S. as the world’s leading, diplomatic and military power. They are trying to seize the global market share in key industries, furthering dependence on Chinese manufacturing and to reverse efforts by the U.S. to separate from China. After covering up the infection and unleashing it on the world, they bought up the world’s supply of protective gear and respirators. Then they went ahead and sold them back to needy countries at a substantial profit. China’s factories are coming back on line as the west’s factories close down. Allowing them to tighten their grip on the global supply chain. China plans to target the very industries hit hardest by the pandemic. They are also push their information technologies across the world, which is essentially techno-surveillance Trojan Horses.

3) I remember when I was in elementary school there was a push in the early 1970’s to end the daily Pledge of Allegiance in all Public schools. To give a time frame, I was born in 1963. The last year I remember standing up for the Pledge was in my third Grade Class, which was in 1970. Now that I think back, this was an attack on our country and our nationalistic spirit, by the left. There was nothing wrong with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was not geared towards any one religion. It was a pledge to stand up and protect our country in public schools paid for by American tax payer dollars. This is just one more example, of how long the attack on America has been going on.

4) Additional information on how to destroy America from within. First take control of the education system, undermine police, law enforcement and military by defunding. Divide people by race, religion and class. Attack churches, teach children that there is no God. You would convince people that abortion is a human right ( I am not sure about this, especially in cases of rape and incest).

5) “The destruction of the family, the destruction of one’s private property, the destruction of religion, the destruction of education, the destruction of morals, the destruction of sexual responsibility, and the destruction of the very nations where they exist are the goals of communism and Marxism”. (Purposeful Deception by Sean M. Brooks)

6) I know that I stated that the plot to destroy our country began in 1931. I want to clarify that a little. I believe it began even earlier. The actual date can be set at 1913. How can I be so specific you ask? That was the year Woodrow Wilson became president. He was a devote socialists and with the Help of the Rockefellers (they controlled a major portion of the publication of school text text books in the country during this time) and John Dewey, who was instrumental in educational reform at this time. Socialist conspirators have been chipping away at our country for a very long time.

I have included below a very powerful and illuminating speech by Kruschev given to the United Nations:

Reminder of what Russian leader Khrushchev said at a United Nations meeting 60 years ago (Sept.29, 1959) ….”Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you. We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not”
Remember this. Socialism leads to Communism. How do you create a Socialist State? There are eight levels of control:
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government . That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education – Take control of what people read, listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8)Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the rich with the support of the poor.
WE ARE THERE! Why can people not see what’s going on in this country? Want something more recent. Look up the recent history of Venezuela.

8 Levels of Control For Creating A Socialist State:

+Debt

+Poverty

+Healthcare

+Gun Control

+Welfare

+Education

+Religion

+Class Warfare

(Updated 3/23/2021)

This quote by Horace Mann shows that the individuals and institutions that are working to destabilize our country are students of history. Having read this quote you cannot be see the parallels.

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