excerpts from the book
Shadow Masters
How Governments and Their Intelligence
Agencies are Working with Drug Dealers and Terrorists for Mutual
Benefit and Profit
by Daniel Estulin
Trine Day LLC, 2010, paperback
p2
The Bilderbergers were founded by circles associated with a former
Nazi Party member, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (who resigned
from the Nazi Party as a qualification for marrying the Dutch
princess). It was an agency sponsored by the Anglo-Dutch monarchy,
under e explicit patronage of the British and Dutch royal consorts.
It a significant, and typical part of a network overlapping the
same financier interests associated with the same Synarchist International
concert of financier interests that had been behind the installation
of fascist regimes in Europe during the interval 1922-1945. Its
activities have been in the direction of sundry efforts attempting
to establish a world-system of international fascism under the
mantle of "globalization."
p3
The media use the epithet 'conspiracy theorist' to discredit anyone
who discusses the criminal activities of real people.
p8
When the financial system creates bubbles, it drives up the cost
of assets far beyond their worth. When the bubble bursts, the
value of these assets plummet. Those with ready cash buy up everything.
p9
Without the kind of intervention that the [global elite] launched
in the attempt to slow down the rates of economic growth, the
nation-states whose commitment is to scientific and technological
progress would become dominant. That would signify the death of
oligarchy... Nations which foster the creative mental development
of their population produce a people which will not tolerate oligarchic
forms of rule indefinitely. Illiterate, technologically and intellectually
backward populations will.
p9
Ignorant people, uninformed people, can not participate competently
in self-government: they do not know what the issues of government
are.
p9
For the African-American slaves of the nineteenth century United
States, literacy was the first condition of freedom.
p10
The Empire of money depends upon the suppression of generalized
scientific knowledge by keeping us backward and dumb.
p12
Those who tell the truth in ordinary conversation take it for
granted they will be believed. Liars, on the other hand, more
often than not instinctively look at you attentively after they
speak, to see if you bought it or if they need to do more in order
to persuade you.
p12
The European Parliament, the only elected institution in the EU,
is no more than an assembly, with no legal powers to initiate
legislation: its sole legal recourse is to ask the Commission
to do so. Moreover, the number of proposals is so large that Members
have to vote on many with little or no knowledge of what they
truly involve. Debate is virtually non-existent, and the strict,
five-minute time limits favor most legislative proposals going
through virtually unchallenged. The European Parliament has no
control over moneys, nor can it impose taxes. The money supply
is the domain of the synarchist-controlled European Central Bank,
which orchestrated the 1922-1945 spread of fascism throughout
much of Europe, and which exists today in the form of a network
of private banking houses.
p13
[European Parliament members represent] the interests of a supra-European
state, regions on earth and not independent countries. This was
made sure through the signing of the Treaty of Amsterdam in October
1997, which removed the border controls between EU states. The
next step in the wholesale dismantling of independent nations
comes in the form of the Nice Treaty. This is the foundation that
is about to strip the people of Europe, of basic individual human
rights under the guise of a charter of fundamental rights.
p13
EU Commissioners, all of whom have attended Bilderberg meetings
in the past, campaign a great deal for the charter of fundamental
rights, supposedly enshrined in the European Constitution, to
protect all of its citizens from malice, until you read the fine
print of the Constitution and realize that the only rights you
are entitled to are the ones specifically mentioned in the charter.
What you shall never hear from these people is that all rights,
under article 51 of the European Constitution can be suspended
if "the interests of the Union" so require.
p21
F. William Engdahl
The US power elites are increasingly desperate
to maintain their control of a global parasitical empire, called
deceptively by their media machine, "globalization."
To hold that dominance it is essential that they be able to break
up any emerging cooperation in the economic, energy or military
realm between the two major powers of Eurasia that conceivably
could pose a challenge to future US sole Superpower control -
China in combination with Russia.
p23
The [January 11, 1993] Soviet report declared unequivocally that
both William Casey and G.H.W Bush had met secretly with representatives
of Ayatollah Khomeini before the presidential election to urge
delaying the release of the [American] hostages. It named specific
individuals and provided the specific locations in Paris and Madrid
and dates. Also present, according to the Soviet report, was Robert
M. Gates ... who would become Director of Central Intelligence
under George H.W. Bush and Secretary of Defense under both George
W. Bush and Barack Obama. None of this information was made public,
and the report was quietly buried among the task force documents.
To this day, the Russian report remains "classified,"
and its contents have never been officially released.
It was discovered in 1994 among the stored
raw documents of the [Iran-Contra] task force by a Washington
journalist, Robert Parry, who had broken a number of the Iran-Contra
stories for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His 2004 book Secrecy
and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq
discusses the matter in detail.
p24
Warfare in today's world is primarily information warfare. Control
of the very terms in which discussions are framed, and more so,
even the "facts" which underpin the discussions, yields
control of the outcomes of those discussions.
p24
"Beliefs: The Power Behind Unending War" by Jeff Gates,
Veterans Today [Internet article]
In unconventional warfare, manipulated
beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war
by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.
... First and foremost are the consensus
shapers and thought manipulators who target perceptions and opinions
until a critical mass of agreement is reached. Then comes war.
... Unconventional warfare is waged with
the assistance of those with the means, motive and opportunity
to massage consensus opinion. Where are modern-day battles fought?
Not on the ground nor in the air nor on the seas.
The mindset is the primary theater of
operations. The first battlefield is the public's shared field
of consciousness. The death and destruction come later.
Deceit is not new to warfare. What's new
is the reach of the technologies-including modern media technologies-that
now enable deception on a global scale.
p49
The Russian mob, known as the Vorovskoi Mir, or "Thieves'
World," a loose federation of Soviet mobsters, immediately
grasped that the "retreat" of Communism heralded a glorious
new world criminal order for them.
Within one year of Mikhail Gorbachev's
ousting, over 2,600 "crime clans," employing more than
three million criminals, had appeared and spread like wildfire
throughout the former Soviet empire, according to a research paper
written by a group of Fellows for the prestigious Hoover Institute."
Forty of them equal or surpass the size of both the Sicilian and
American Mafias. Taken together, they comprise the most powerful
criminal enterprise on earth.
p49
Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard, 1997
It was in Russia's backyard, the central
Asian republics of the old Soviet Union, where Brzezinski saw
that the move would have to be made to corner the world's energy
reserves. The history of mankind has always shown that controlling
the heart of Eurasia was the key to controlling the entire globe.
p50
Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard, 1997
A power that dominates Eurasia would control
two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive
regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over
Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination,
rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral
to the world's central continent. About 75 percent of the world's
people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth
is there as well, both in its enterprise and underneath its soil.
Eurasia accounts for 6o percent of the world's GNP and about three-fourth
of the world's known energy resources.
p51
Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard, 1997
The Eurasian Balkans are important as
a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural
gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to
important minerals, including gold.
p52
In the mid-1990s ... "shock therapy" privatization and
the creation of the Russian oligarchy overnight left 40% of Russians
penniless and starving. The term "shock therapy" refers
to the sudden release of price and currency controls, combined
with the withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization
within a country, all the necessary ingredients for impoverishment
of the Russian society.
p52
US efforts [1990s under Bill Clinton] were intended to move large
amounts of wealth from the region and debilitate Russia. What
happened was that Russia, in the words of Yeltsin himself, became
a "superpower of crime," a "mafiocracy," not
merely because of the absence of adequate laws ... but because
of the inherently corrupt nature of its law enforcement, security
organs, and intelligence services.
p52
Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard, 1997
Understandably, the immediate task has
to be to reduce the probability of political anarchy or a reversion
to a hostile dictatorship in a crumbling state still possessing
a nuclear arsenal. But the long-range task remains: how to encourage
Russia's democratic transformation and economic recovery while
avoiding the re-emergence of a Eurasian empire that could obstruct
the American Geostrategic goal ... But, in the meantime, it is
imperative that no Eurasian challenger [Russia] emerges, capable
of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America.
p53
Today, US world domination is based largely upon its near hegemony
in the world oil economy.
p53
a NSC official told Congress in 1997
[Official US policy in Central Asia was
to] break Russia's monopoly control over the transportation of
oil and gas from that region, and to promote Western energy security
through diversification of supply.
p53
In mid-December 1999, US officials participated in a formal meeting
in Azerbaijan in which specific programs for the training and
equipping of mujaheedin, Muslim guerrilla fighting forces, from
the Caucasus, Central and South Asia and the Arab world were discussed
and agreed upon.
p77
The Kosovo War [1996] and the subsequent overthrow of the Yugoslav
president [Milosevic] occurred because of political strategies
secretly conceived at the 1996 Bilderberg Group conference. Their
agenda was clear. When the time was right, they intended to implement
their plan to solve the "political problem" that Milosevic's
political survival and continued socialist policies created in
his rejection of their capitalist goals: to turn all of Europe
into a "free market."
p78
Sara Flounders, an activist and journalist aligned to the Workers
World Party, 1998
Throughout the 90s, as the capitalist
market has swept over the former socialist countries of Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union, socialist Yugoslavia has attempted
to resist privatization of its industry and natural resources.
To break this resistance, the Western countries have played a
major role in the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia.
p78
Sara Flounders, an activist and journalist aligned to the Workers
World Party, 1998
The lending and credit conditions of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank require the break-up
of all state-owned industries. This is true for the oil and natural
gas wealth in the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea as well as the
diamond mines of Siberia. The decision on who will own or have
controlling interest ... will be made by whoever wins the armed
struggle raging in Kosovo. NATO domination on the ground would
have put US corporations in the best ownership position.
p80
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University
of Ottawa in Canada
The fate of Kosovo had already been carefully
laid out prior to the signing of the 1995 Dayton agreement. NATO
had entered an unwholesome 'marriage of convenience' with the
Mafia ... the narcotics trade enabled Washington and Bonn to 'finance
the Kosovo conflict' with the ultimate objective of destabilizing
the Belgrade government and fully re-colonizing the Balkans.
p94
Michael Ruppert in his book "Crossing the Rubicon"
Drug money became "an essential part
of the world banking and financial system because it provides
the liquid cash necessary to make the 'minimum monthly payments'
on huge stock and derivative and investment bubbles in the US
and Britain.
p95
Michael Ruppert in his book "Crossing the Rubicon"
The drug trade now has power because it
is underwriting the investments of the largest corporations in
the world. It underwrites politicians... Wall Street cannot afford
to let the drug barons fall. Congress cannot afford to let the
drug barons fall. Presidents and their campaign finances cannot
afford to let the drug barons fall. Why? Because our top down
economy, controlled by one per cent, cannot take the risk of letting
competition (business or political) have the edge of using drug
money. And for every million dollars of increased sales or increased
revenues from a buyout, the stock equity of the one percent who
control Wall Street, increases twenty to thirty times.
p95
Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard, in an article "Crime,
The World's Biggest Free Enterprise", Le Monde Diplomatique,
April 2000
By allowing capital to flow unchecked
from one end of the world to the other, globalization and abandon
of sovereignty have together fostered the explosive growth of
an outlaw financial market. It is a coherent system closely linked
to the expansion of modern capitalism and based on an association
of three partners: governments, transnational corporations and
Mafias... Big business complicity and political laisse faire is
the only way that large-scale organized crime can launder and
recycle the fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationals
need the support of governments and the neutrality of regulatory
authorities in order to consolidate their positions, increase
their profits, withstand and crush the competition; pull off the
"deal of the century" and finance their illicit operations.
Politicians are directly involved and their ability to intervene
depends on the backing and the funding that keep them in power.
This collusion of interests is an essential part of the world
economy, the oil that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning.
p110
According to the US DEA and Department of Justice Intelligence
reports, about 80% of heroin entering Europe does so through Kosovo.
p110
Jane's Intelligence Review editorial "Unhealthy Climate in
Kosovo as Guerrillas Gear Up for a Summer Confrontation",
January 3, 1999
Albania has become the crime capital of
Europe. The most powerful groups in the country are organized
criminals who use Albania to grow, process, and store a large
percentage of the illegal drugs destined for Western Europe.
p110
If the KLA were "allowed" to sell drugs and to profit
from the sales, it is reasonable to infer that the entire operation
was approved from the top down; that is, by the Bilderbergers
themselves through
the usual set of intermediaries such as the US Government, the
British, German and the US secret service agencies, the UN bureaucracy
pertinent NGOs, European Commissions and NATO, all of which they
control.
p111
Dennis Dayle, a senior DEA supervisory agent - in a written statement
to the Select Intelligence Committees of both houses of Congress
submitted by Michael Ruppert in 1997
In my thirty year history in DEA, the
major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out
to be working for the CIA.
p
Michael Ruppert submitted a written statement to the Select Intelligence
Committees of both houses of Congress, 1997
The CIA did not just deal drugs during
the Iran-contra era; it has done so for the full fifty years of
its history... the CIA, and many figures who became known during
Iran-Contra ... have been selling drugs to Americans since the
Vietnam era.
p113
Monaco ... is the world's most important opium-processing center.
p114
If governments really wanted to eradicate the vile drug trade,
they could make laws that would oblige manufacturers of acetic
anhydride, the most essential chemical in the manufacture of heroin,
to keep meticulous records showing who buys the chemical, for
what purpose and where it is going. But such unilateral action
on the part of any maverick government would greatly displease
the oligarchic families of Europe and the United States Establishment
because these people are turning hundreds of billions of dollars
each year from the drug trade.
Needless to say, the leader who truly
dared to really "take the fight to the drug pusher"
would become a target for immediate assassination.
p114
The Bilderbergers are not physically responsible for moving drugs
and laundering drug profits. This task is charged to the CIA.
p115
What do international terrorism, the world's financial markets,
empire building and capitalism have in common? Their utter dependence
on drug profits for their very existence.
p115
The war on drugs is a sham. It has always been a sham and for
as long as there is money to be made, it will continue being a
sham, while our political classes pay lip service to the dangers
of substance abuse.
p115
Professor Carl Trocki in his book "Empire and the Global
Political Economy"
The existence of monopoly [capitalism]
resulted in the concentration of vast pools of wealth in the hands
of a relatively small group of people. Wealth led to accumulation
of power. The accumulation of wealth and power created by a succession
of historic drug trades have been among the prima foundations
of global capitalism and a modern nation-state itself.
p115
Professor Carl Trocki in his book "Empire and the Global
Political Economy"
Two major effects are the creation of
mass markets and the generation of unprecedented cash flow. Over
time, drugs came to be an essential element in the finances of
every criminal structure from the sixteenth century European empires
up until the present. All depended and depend on enormous profits
that come from monopolizing the world's most lucrative business.
p117
Today when we refer to "narco-states" such as Colombia
and Afghanistan, we should remember that the first true "narco-state"
was run and operated from London.
p117
Drug money is an inherent part of the American and world economy...
the amount of profit generated annually by the drug trade is somewhere
around $700 billion. This figure includes heroin, opium, morphine,
marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine and hallucinogens.
p117
Drug money is now "an essential part of the world banking
and financial system because it provides the liquid cash necessary
to make the 'minimum monthly payments' on huge stock and derivative
and investment bubbles in the US and Britain.
p117
Some of the world's wealthiest people [are] eight to ten generations
of men who built their empires around the opium trade.
p118
[The International Drug Trade is] the most highly organized, top-down
political machinery in the world, enjoying the logistical support
of a $700-billion-per-annum international cartel, and the protection
of every political entity Britain and the US have created through
these vast invisible earnings. This protection applies not merely
to growing and distribution, but to providing political, intelligence,
land ideological support as well.
p119
If 700 billion dollars a year in illegal drug money is moved and
laundered through the American and world economy, that money benefits
financial markets and especially Wall Street. That's the reason
for maintaining the illegal drug trade.
p121
Le Monde Diplomatique in an in-depth investigative report, found
US intelligence services, banks, and other multinational corporations
at the top of a huge global network of organized crime and money
laundering.
p122
The Vietnam War was about drugs. The French were pushed out, and
the ensuing vacuum was immediately filled by the Agency [CIA]
which took over the drug trade, its processing and distribution.
p122
Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard, in an article in Le Monde
Diplomatique, April 2000 "Crime, The World's Best Free Enterprise"
By allowing capital to flow unchecked
from one end of the world to the other, globalization and abandon
of sovereignty have together fostered the explosive growth of
an outlaw financial market. It is a coherent system closely linked
to the expansion of modern capitalism and based on an association
of three partners: governments, transnational corporations and
Mafias. Business is business: financial crime is first and foremost
a market, thriving and structured, ruled by supply and demand.
Big business complicity and political laisse faire is the only
way that largescale organized crime can launder and recycle the
fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationals [corporations]
need the support of governments and the neutrality of regulatory
authorities in order to consolidate their positions, increase
their profits, withstand and crush the competition, pull off the
'deal of the century' and finance their illicit operations. Politicians
are directly involved and their ability to intervene, depends
on the backing and the funding that keep them in power.
p122
Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard, in an article in Le Monde
Diplomatique, April 2000 "Crime, The World's Best Free Enterprise"
By allowing capital to flow unchecked
from one end of the world to the other, globalization and abandon
of sovereignty have together fostered the explosive growth of
an outlaw financial market. It is a coherent system closely linked
to the expansion of modern capitalism and based on an association
of three partners: governments, transnational corporations and
Mafias.
p122
Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard, in an article in Le Monde
Diplomatique, April 2000 "Crime, The World's Best Free Enterprise"
Big business complicity and political
laisse faire is the only way that largescale organized crime can
launder and recycle the fabulous proceeds of its activities. And
the transnationals [corporations] need the support of governments
and the neutrality of regulatory authorities in order to consolidate
their positions, increase their profits, withstand and crush the
competition, pull off the 'deal of the century' and finance their
illicit operations. Politicians are directly involved and their
ability to intervene, depends on the backing and the funding that
keep them in power.
p123
Drugs are big business, run, controlled and protected by very
powerful people who work alongside leading banking institutions
on both sides of the Atlantic, members of various governments
and principal corporations whose stock is traded on the world's
leading stock exchange.
p126
The secret Sykes-Picot Treaty was drafted in 1916 by the soon-to-be
"victors" of World War I, France and the British Empire,
in which they divided up the Ottoman Empire between them as the
spoils of war, with Britain controlling Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine,
and France ruling Syria and Lebanon. Their aim has been to prevent
at all costs the economic development of a region that is at both
the crossroads of Europe and Asia and of Eurasia and Africa. Their
intent is to maintain it as trigger for global war by manipulating
ethnic, religious, and tribal groups against one another, and
against central governments, to create perpetual war.
... Perpetual conflict destroys progress
and severely limits the rights of the individual. Stability is
bad for business, drug business that is. The drug trade thrives
on weak central governments and strong sectarian leadership.
p128
A smallish group of people sustaining a conspiracy over hundreds
of years requires a powerful sort of ideological motive.
In the case of drug-funded oligarchs and
their cohorts, beginning with the British East Indian Company,
the ideological motive is the hatred of the ideal of sovereign
nation-state republics, of individual liberties and the pursuit
of happiness, and of technological progress.
p215
In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere
of politics or business, our social conduct or our ethical thinking,
we are dominated by a relatively small number of persons ... who
understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.
It is they who pull the wires, which control the public mind,
and who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind
and guide the world.
Daniel
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