Let's Get Started: Some Of My Sources

Nowadays, in the post 9/11-era at the beginning of the third millenium of the current era, almost everyone has somewhat indulged in dealing with conspiracy theories. Either opposing them vehemently, spreading them on the internet or considering them just to be somewhat goofy and childish, with movies like "The DaVinci Code", Mel Gibson's "Conspiracy Theory" (German Title: "Fletcher's Visionen") and Jim Carrey's "The Number 23" among many others, it's become a part of pop culture, if not culture in general. It's been a while since Jack Nicholson played the "strung-out on acid" type of conspiracy theorist-lawyer in "Easy Rider", yet the character has stayed with us, apparently resembling some sort of crude archetype in the collective unconscious. But is there any goddamn truth to the whole chitter-chatter? Is there a secret group that controls the world from behind the scenes?

Well, yes and no. There undoubtedly are conspiracies. And there are rich and influential people holding meetings outside the open realm and with no or little access given to the press. Sometimes though, as the case with the later discussed Bilderberg Group, the press is given access, yet is asked not to report on the conference in return.

Oh, and without wanting to bore anyone, let me get downright scientific for a second and give you an idea on what my sources are, because I know that especially in academic circles the pressure is hard on conspiracy theories these days. So let me start off by introducing you to some of my sources:

Anthony C. Sutton

- British-born economist, historian, and writer, who studied at the universities of London, Goettingen and California.
- Economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles
- Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution (also known as Hoover Institute)
- His works were quoted by renouned authors and power-brokers such as Zbigniew Brzezinski.

He wrote, among other topics, books about the semi-secret Yale-based order "Skull & Bones", of whom both George W. Bush and John Kerry, the republican and democratic candidates of the 2004 election, were members. Other works include "Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler", in which he uncovers George W. Bush's grandfather's (and thus George Bush sen.'s father's) financing of Hitler's war machinery through accounts managed by the same elite circle that both dominated Skull & Bones as well as installed the Federal Reserve banking system, which has been running Wall Street eversince. By the way, Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather, was actually convicted of these crimes under the "Trading With The Enemy Act" in 1942 and if you won't take my word or Mr. Sutton's word for it feel free to look that one up in the New York Times Archive.

Carroll Quigley

- Attended Harvard university, where he studied history and got his B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees.
- Went on to teach at Princeton, Harvard and Georgetown University.
- After Bill Clinton was elected to the office of president of the USA in 1992, he explicitely thanked Carroll Quigley, his mentor in college, in his acceptance speech.

Carroll Quigley wrote two books of particular interest with regards to the topic of conspiracies, entitled "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time" and "The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden". In these books, Quigley admits to having been in contact with a conspiratorial group of world-wide proportions. In his own words, from page 950 of "Tragedy and Hope":

"There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."

Alfred W. McCoy

- Earned his B.A. at Columbia and Ph.D in Southeast Asian history at Yale university.
- Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Awarded the Grant Goodman Prize by the American Association for Asian Studies for his career contributions to the study of the Philippines.

Alfred W. McCoy started out doing research on opium cultivation in the Golden Trinagle in the early 70s as part of his Ph.D thesis, which resulted in the publishing of his masterpiece on CIA involvement in the international drug trade "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. CIA complicity in the global drug trade." In the new and revides edition from 2003, McCoy offers a comprehensive summary of the agency's involvement with the drug trade since its establishment, including such touchy topics as the involvement and the work of Pultizer-prize-winning journalist Gary Webb regarding a guns-for-coke trade-off deal between the CIA and the Contras, which ultimately led to the 80ies' crack epidemic and the rise of such notorious drug king-pins as "Freeway" Ricky Ross.

But well, these are my main sources. I have used these people's work among other sources to verify the information given in the videos below. However, should I have over-looked any mistakes or wrong statements made in the videos, please feel free to use the commenting option to let me know.