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The Nexus Of Evil - Part 1
(A Pre-emptive Strike On Humanity)

By Philip Jones
8-2-9
 
 
 
(Diagram by Ivor Benson.)
 
 
"It is almost a joke now in the Western world, in the 20th century, to use words like 'good and 'evil'. They have become almost old fashioned concepts, but they are very real and genuine concepts. These are concepts from a sphere which is higher than us. And instead of getting involved in base, petty, short-sighted political calculations and games. We have to recognize that the concentration of world Evil and the tremendous force of hatred is there and it's flowing from there throughout the world. And we have to stand up against it and not hasten to give to it, give to it, give to it, every-thing that it wants to swallow."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 
Introduction:
 
It was in 2006 that I was finally able to identify those factors which had, during the course of my lifetime, turned what we call western society into little more than a `virtual prison,` the true and complete nature of which had previously been largely invisible to me. For perhaps two decades, I had felt a `nagging` discomforting sense that something wasn't quite right. But like most everyone else, I had imagined the prevailing social conditions to have evolved benignly and naturally, rather than having been orchestrated and then manipulated into being. In truth, the journey towards this discovery took some twenty six years, from my early days in the Police Force in London, to my relocation to Denmark in 1996, and then to that moment when, some three years ago, the shocking truth hit me like a hammer across the head!
 
It became apparent that since the day I was born (1958), the reality of my very existence had been indirectly controlled and dictated by a conspiratorial group of super rich and powerful individuals, working behind the scenes, manipulating the events which shaped all our lives, creating chaos all around, causing reactions from the unsuspecting majority, which then in turn enabled them to advance their nefarious agenda, by responding with their `ready made` solutions. Solutions carefully designed to advance the imposition of a Global State.
 
By making diabolical use of the Hegelian Dialectic, these conspirators have slowly but surely brought us all to the point of no return. With the much vaunted and somehow expected `Swine Flu` epidemic acting as thesis, and the world wide mandated vaccination programme and the resulting mayhem as antithesis, the desired synthesis could well be the dialectical catalyst which inaugurates the Luciferians long held dream of a New World Order; Global solutions for global problems!
 
The decision is ours now. Do we simply acquiesce? Do we go quietly into the night? Do we stand or do we fall?
 
For most of last year, as the information and knowledge which finally put most pieces of the `jigsaw puzzle` into place, came to me like an avalanche and I strived to disseminate that knowledge by writing articles. Many articles, which, through www.rense.com along with some local sites, were, judging by the international response I received, read throughout the `English speaking world,` and to a lesser degree, here at `home.' My writing brought me into contact with some exceptional and gifted individuals, nowhere more so than in Denmark, the small Northern European Country which has been my home for eleven out of the past thirteen years.
 
What may come as a surprise to many reading this article, is that of those people here in Denmark, who responded positively to my writing, many were Muslim. Through these contacts, I was able to consolidate that knowledge of the Islamic faith, I had gained whilst working in London, and learned to further appreciate how the followers of that system of belief viewed the world around them. Of course, very many Muslims are, just like their counterparts in Christianity, oblivious to what is generally termed the `Global Conspiracy.` But I also found among them some very aware, knowledgeable and sincere
individuals who like myself, understood that there was serious trouble on the horizon[7].
The truth is that we have more in common than most realise, and they, (Muslims) like the rest of us, have been abused and manipulated, herded even, into situations which suit no one except the Illuminists.
 
Having largely de-constructed Christianity here in the West, the Illuminati are now using the same tried and tested methods on the Islamic world, knowing that the only thing which stands between them and total victory, is Islam, along with those few steadfast believers who still remain faithful to the Christian faith.
 
So what can we do?
 
Edmund Burke wrote this over a century ago on the subject of State Tyranny:
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
 
Prophetic words indeed and particularly pertinent to the age we now live in. Have people ever been more apathetic, more indifferent to their fate than they are today? Locked into a `mind prison` created by the illusion of affluence and instant gratification, humanity, at least here in the west, appears to have abdicated all responsibility to the `Professionals.` The Politicians, Judges, Lawyers, Bankers, Doctors and Professors, and look where this irresponsibility has led us. To the brink of a `Fourth Reich` [5] much more terrible than the previous attempt at World Dictatorship, as it has been done with the apparent consent of `we the people` in the guise of democratic elections. We have actually given our enemies permission to go ahead and enslave us.
 
In the movie `The Matrix,' the Morpheous character says this:
 
"The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many are so...hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
 
Exactly!
 
But my point is this: the primary means by which they defeat us is the old `divide and conquer.` By the relentless propagation of feminism, they have divided man from his mate, and by the use of a massive anti-Islam propaganda campaign, especially since the 9/11 `False Flag Op,` have set Muslim against Christian.
 
We must be ever aware that the Muslims and Christians I refer to here, are not those Masonic `fifth columnists` machinating and plotting within those faiths, whose sole loyalty is to Lucifer and who further the Illuminist Agenda by playing the `Agent Provocateur.` No! I speak of those who, with a pure heart, worship the same creator and try to live good and decent lives, despite all the evil which seems to pervade all of life these days. They may call him by a different name, Allah, Jehovah or Yahweh, and yes, there are certain differences in doctrine. But still, these faithful men and women have far more which binds them than which separates them. And it is that which we have in common which we must now focus on. For the sake of humanity, let it be so.
 
The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, ` Cui Bono` or 'To whose benefit?'
Who has benefited from the turbulence and fracture we have witnessed in the aftermath of 9/11? Certainly not those who live in the in the Islamic world, nor those of us here in the west, who have seen our societies developing into Police States as ever more of our personal freedoms are removed, all in the name of national security.
 
The only beneficiaries that I can see are those working within the Illuminati, in the furtherance of what Alice Bailey [6]termed `The Plan.`
The Clash Of Civilisations:
 
September 11th, 2001, provided the elite cabal known as the `Illuminati` with the opportunity to finally put into motion the plan devised by the Freemason Albert Pike,[3] and written about more recently by Samuel Huntington in his book, `The Clash of Civilizations, A Global War Against Islam.` As William Engdahl pointed out:
"If the Bush administration had been unprepared for the shock of September 11, 2001, they certainly wasted no time in preparing their response, the war on terror. Terror was to replace communism as the new global image of "the enemy."
 
On September 18, 2001, Niaz Niak, the former Pakistani foreign secretary, told the BBC he had been informed by senior US officials at a mid-July 2001 Berlin meeting, that "military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October." Ultimately, the invasion of Afghanistan was a furtherance of the initial plans devised by Zbigniew Brzezinski to gain control over Central Asia.
 
In his book, `Terrorism And The Illuminati,`[4]Canadian author David Livingstone writes:
"Islam does not pose a threat to the West. It is the contrary that is correct. Islamic terrorist organizations are hotbeds of impostors in service of the West. It is well known that there are various dubious relationships that exist between Islamic radicals and Western powers. The truth is far more sinister. Islamic terrorists are connected with Western power through an intricate network of secret societies. While outwardly claiming to adhere to disparate religions, the Islamic terrorists follow a heretical version of the faith, ultimately rooted, like their counterparts in the West, in the same occult doctrine, the worship of Lucifer, and the belief in the use of religion as a disguise to deceive the masses."
 
Many researchers believe the Illuminati plan is to unleash a Third World War in the near future, from which will emerge their New World Order. This projected confrontation is being presented as a so called `Clash of Civilizations,` between the purportedly Democratic West and Islamic fundamentalism.
 
But does Islam really pose a threat to the west? The reality is that the Muslim world has been so weakened by its own internal corruption, along with the subversive activities of the Western powers that since the demise of the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim world has been in complete disarray, incapable of uniting to even represent Islam, let alone defend itself.
 
This fact was acknowledged by the primary architect of the fabricated threat: Zbigniew Brzezinski. As to whether or not Islam is a menace to the Western World today, he states:
 
"Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries."
 
Therefore, in order to negatively prejudice Western consciousness against Islam, the Illuminati, through its control of the international intelligence agencies, has artificially fomented militancy throughout the Islamic world, by the creation of terrorist groups together with the propagation of the illusion of Islam's imagined competition with the not so `democratic` West.
 
Context And Perspective:
 
In my recent five part series, `To Kill A Tree,`[1] I outlined and discussed the Illuminati `Global Conspiracy` to create a New World Order, exposing their `Modus Operandi,` and then discussing the various `theatres` of operation within which their plans to introduce their world wide `prison state` are being driven towards their diabolically illogical conclusion.
 
In `Who Rules World?`[2] I introduced the reader to the historic, mythological and scriptural background to the Illuminati's `belief system` and thereby, the ideological basis upon which they justify their conviction of their own superiority over humankind. During the three parts in that series, I hypothesised that the true ruler of the world was in fact, the master adversary, Lucifer, and feel fairly satisfied that to all intents and purposes, I proved my case.
 
In this new series, I intend to explore a new concept of Alliance between Christians, Muslims and those followers of the Judaic faith, who are sick and tired of seeing their religion used as a justification for colonialist imperialism, mass slaughter and the insidious meddling in the affairs of sovereign states around the world, in order to further the Luciferian aims of the Illuminati, many of whose leading members hide their true spiritual allegiance behind the mask of Judaism.
 
But as always, before we can get to the solution, we must first review the problem.
 
An Age Of Conflict: The Historical Facts.
 
There are two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of the world outside ourselves, the macrocosm, and knowledge of the kingdom within, the microcosm, both of which are boundless. The better we know ourselves, the easier it will be to know the world; alternatively, the better we know the world around us, the easier it will be to know ourselves and understand our deepest and most enduring needs.
 
It is not more knowledge that we need for the purpose of strengthening our position as individuals, but only knowledge of a kind that holds together and makes sense. We need a coherent interpretation of the history of the age in which we live and an insight into what it is we must have, if we are to be physically well and in good spirits. The following paragraph from a book by three university historians, published in 1949, whose summations are entirely in accordance with the prophecy of Albert Pike [3], will serve as a starting point for an exploration of what they describe as "this age of conflict:"
 
"Two world wars and their intervening wars, revolutions and crises are now generally recognized to be episodes in a single age of conflict which began in 191l and has not yet run its course. It is an age that has brought to the world more change and tragedy than any other in recorded history. Yet, whatever may be its ultimate meaning and consequence, we can already think of it and write of it as a HISTORIC WHOLE. (1) (Emphasis added)."
 
An age of conflict that must be thought of `as a whole` must also be capable of being explained and understood as a whole; therefore, it is a highly condensed and simplified synopsis of the history of our times that we must have if the seemingly interminable succession of `episodes` of conflict and tragedy is to be seen as a whole and understood. The method I have chosen is to begin with a list of categorical statements which can be developed and expanded later and supported with an extensive bibliography. Here they are:
Our age of conflict is the product of a dark alliance of `magic,` money and intellect, with intellect almost invariably subordinate to and in the service of money, and money likewise being in the service of magic; The infernal forces of magic manipulating both money and intellect to it's will, with money being since the 20th century the primary overt source of it's visible power.
 
We need to identify the changes which have occurred in the realms of money and intellect. Changes which have made our age so different from all others in recorded history.
The change which has occurred in the realm of money is this: certain groupings of finance-capitalism which had been separate and nationally oriented were absorbed into a greater international `constellation` of finance-capitalism, serving a very different set of long-term interests.
 
The change which occurred in the realm of intellect is this: in the West, Christian orthodoxy was replaced by an ideology of socialism as the basis of a consensus intellectual frame of reference and system of values. This socialism or secular religion has given rise to what the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has described as a "psychic epidemic" now afflicting the educated classes in the West.
 
The changes which heralded our century of conflict were first seen in South Africa in in the late 1890s, producing the Anglo-Boer war (the first of three great fratricidal wars in the west), the beginning of the end of the British Empire and the beginning of a new and unprecedented kind of world `imperium.`
 
These changes in money and intellect have drawn the peoples of the West into a dialectical trap, with money as thesis, socialism as antithesis and the new imperium as synthesis; money incessantly concentrates power, socialism promises the total dispersal and distribution of power; the resolution of this contradiction supplies the new imperium with its dynamic.
The process of the transference of financial power to the new imperium was only completed in the 1930s when J.P. Morgan and the great American pioneering families lost their dominance in Wall Street.
 
The immediate cause of the great increase in conflict all over the world: external interference with the natural hierarchical system or `pecking order` within and among AMONG ethnic groups, as everywhere states were set up and regimes established, which had no local or NATURAL right to exist. This interference by `third parties` is what makes episodes of conflict in the 20th century, and since quite different from conflicts in other ages, conferring on all of them a shared meaning.
 
All these developments are linked to the moral evil of a system of money creation and debt in which the nations of the West are at the same time offenders and victims.
We can therefore consider our age of conflict as one historic whole, but what reason do we have to believe that it is the product of a uniform and continuous set of identifiable causes?
 
Students of history can provide innumerable examples of major influences, baffling to all at the time of their occurrence, which yielded finally to quite simple elucidation and explanation. It is not only in history that events widely separated in space and time can be found to have a combined meaning. For example, a few years ago when over a period of many months there were visitations of freak weather all around the world, in many cases with disastrous consequences, the meteorologists were soon able to trace them all to a single cause or set of causes: they were able at least to show that the storms, floods, hurricanes, droughts, etc. belonged together and had an intelligible combined meaning.
 
Suffice to say, these meteorologists were not obstructed in their investigations by `no-go` areas of inquiry, of the kind to be expected by those who seek to understand worldwide events of freak `political` weather. If conflict is as easy to present and understand as spells of freak weather, we still have no reason to suppose that we shall find satisfying explanations, but we are encouraged to hope that where we see globally, over many decades, a recognizable pattern of evil consequences, we can expect to find evidence of a uniform pattern of causes. What is required is an interpretation of the history of the past one hundred and ten years or so, which will explain and render intelligible the major developments and changes which have occurred - changes which brought more conflict and tragedy than at any time previously in recorded history.
 
Tragedy And Hope:
 
Among the few history books in which any attempt has been made to interpret recent history as a whole are Oswald Spengler's `The Decline Of The West,` and Carroll Quigley's `Tragedy And Hope.`
 
Spengler's main contribution to historiography is his theory of the morphology of history in which he assigns to our present civilization in the West a condition of irreversible decline. Paradoxically, he does not regard this as a pessimistic view. One fact emerges very clearly in Spengler's analysis: What happened in the 20th century must be seen and studied as an alliance of money and
intellect with money, rather than pure politics, as the main moving power in world affairs. Quigley leaves many things unexplained - he may have done so intentionally - but he supports with a good deal of documentary evidence the thesis that much of what has happened in our century has been deliberately `Made To Happen.`
 
He offers us a conspiratorial theory of history involving a number of secret and semi-secret organizations like the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, the Round Table movement, the Royal Institute of' International Affairs and the American Council on Foreign Relations, all under the umbrella of what he calls an "Anglo-American network" of businessmen, educators, politicians and journalists.
 
Carol Quigley, who was a Professor of History and of International Relations at the Georgetown Foreign Service School, Washington DC, supplies much other well documented information which no one has yet tried to fit into a general inter-interpretation of the history of our century. His book, `Tragedy And Hope` was hastily withdrawn by its publishers, the Macmillan Company, almost certainly because it was found to have contributed too much to a fully coherent interpretation of the history of our time ­ much to the chagrin of those who prefer to work under a cloak of secrecy.
 
The theory that much of what has happened has been orchestrated and manipulated into being, is further supported by another consensus historian, Arnold Toynbee, not in his monumental `A Study Of History,` but in his other public utterances, of which the following example is taken from a paper read at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Institute for the Scientific Study of International Relations at Copenhagen in June 1931 (published in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:)
 
"We are at present working discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or a publicist can be,
perhaps not quite burnt at the stake, but certainly ostracised and discredited."
 
Quite clearly, the denudation of the national states of much of their sovereignty during the 20th century represented for Quigley and Toynbee part of the progressive fulfillment of their ideal of an elaborately planned `Brave New World` to be raised on the flattened ruins of the old - for Quigley a world of `hope` with which to replace a world of `tragedy,` a world of planned revolutionary change to replace a disorderly world of slow revolutionary change.
 
So where and when did this `age of conflict` begin? The three co-authors quoted above maintain that it began in 1914 with World War I; but there are sound reasons to believe that in truth, it began earlier with the Anglo- Boer War of 1898-1902, which we can now recognise clearly, as being the `beginning of the end` of the British Empire and the inauguration of another imperium of a far more mysterious kind.
 
The Anglo Boer War:
 
If we agree that our `Age of Conflict` began with the Anglo- Boer War, then it is in South Africa that we may have the best chance of seeing more clearly the crucial historical change that was to spark off a great chain reaction of change involving the whole world. Prior to that time, the record of the British Empire had been one of continuous progress, marred only by the ostensible loss of the American colonies. Great Britain had `out paced` all it's rivals in the 19th century's scramble for colonial possessions, and could boast by the turn of the 20th century to possess an `empire on which the sun never set.`
 
However, things were about to change. The Afrikaners ­ or Boers, as they were called, who had `trekked` from Britain's Cape Colony into South Africa's virtually unpopulated hinterland, found themselves the owners of the world's richest gold fields. Therefore, the subsequent zeal displayed by British `race-nationalists,` like Cecil John Rhodes and Alfred Milner, to add the new Boer Republic of the Transvaal to the British Empire, which when placed in context, is totally characteristic. In fact, considering the climate of thought and sentiment prevailing at that time, not to have done so with such a valuable prize at stake, would have been virtually unthinkable.
 
The Boer War proved unexpectedly costly both in lives and money. Britain succeeded in adding to its empire both the Transvaal and its ally in the struggle, the Orange Free State republic, but all this happened in circumstances mysteriously different from those that had attended all previous imperial conquests. The British people themselves had been sharply divided on the issue, until the first shots were fired by the Boers. General Sir William Butler, then Commander- in-Chief of British forces in South Africa and one of the empire's most loyal servants, had voiced his opposition to the prospect of war against the Boers in the sternest of terms. It was also a war which gave rise to a greater outpouring of false communication than at any other in British colonial history.
 
In his book, `The War In South Africa: J.A. Hobson writes:
 
"We are fighting in order to place a small international oligarchy of mine-owners and speculators in power in Pretoria. Englishmen would do well to recognize that the economic and political destinies of South Africa are, and seem likely to remain, in the hands of men most of whom are foreigners by origin whose trade is finance and whose trade interests are not British."
 
Thomas Pakenham, in his book, THE BOAR WAR, published in 1979, concurred and had this to say about the causes of that war:
 
"First there is a thin golden thread woven by the 'gold bugs', the Rand millionaires who controlled the richest mines in the world. It has been hitherto assumed by historians that none of the 'gold bugs' was directly concerned in making the war. But directly concerned they were ... I have found evidence of an informal alliance between Sir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner, and the firm of Wernher-Beit, the dominant Rand mining house. It was this alliance, I believe, that gave Milner the strength to precipitate the war."
 
Among the financial pioneers were Englishmen Rhodes, Rudd and J.B. Robinson. These had all made their fortunes in South Africa, but the others, "the small group of international financiers, chiefly German in origin and Jewish in race," were wealthy when they arrived in the country and had appeared to have access to limitless funds in Europe, including the German Dresdner Bank, believed to be largely owned by `Wernher Beit.` Cecil Rhodes turned to the London Rothschild's for money with which to buy out his rivals and gain complete control of the diamond industry in Kimberley.
 
General Sir William Butler was emphatic about who he considered to be the decisive sources of power and motivation in precipitating the war, `the train-layers` setting the political gunpowder, as he called them. In a despatch to the War Office in June 1899 he wrote:
 
"If the Jews were out of the question, it would be easy enough to come to an agreement, but they are apparently intent upon plunging the country into civil strife ... indications are too evident here to allow one to doubt the existence of strong undercurrents, the movers of which are bent upon war at all costs for their own selfish ends."
 
Noticed by few, and understood by fewer, effective control of the British Empire, at a decisive point in history, had momentarily passed out of British hands. Or, put another way, the centre of gravity of real power in the world had shifted significantly. That was the `mysterious` change that was to inaugurate a chain reaction of more change, initially for the British Empire and then for the whole world. More precisely, it was the first clear sign of the commencement of a process of change in the realm of finance-capitalism which was not to be complete before the middle of the 1930s.
 
The other changes which occurred are less readily noticeable. One of the most important of these being radical transformational changes in warfare methodology. It was at this point and time in human history that the human mind itself became a battleground for warring interests as never before.
 
Political Warfare:
 
Von Clausewitz's `war by other means` - there has always been but never before on the scale practised after the turn of the 20th century. The use of `persuasion` as a means by which a population was made ready for war there had always been; but the world was to encounter in the late 1890s something unprecedented in the quantity and audacity of the lying propaganda that was used to drag the British people, evidently against their will, into the Anglo-Boer War.
 
This new evil, or the reintroduction of an older evil on a massive scale, came as a great shock to General Butler, who wrote this to the Colonial Secretary on December 18, 1898:
 
"All the political questions in South Africa and nearly all the information sent from Cape Town are being worked by what I have already described as a colossal syndicate for the spread of false information. South Africa presents a unique example of a large press, owned, controlled and operated by a small body of men with the direct aim of bringing about a conflict which shall serve their business interests."
 
For the purposes of this series, we need only mention a few of the major historic changes which ensued. They are: the Anglo-Boer War; the Two World Wars; the Bolshevik Revolution and the setting up of the Soviet Union as an industrial and military super-power; the dismantling of the colonial empires and conversion of the former colonies into new nations, few of them economically viable; the delivery of mainland China and other vast areas in the Far East to totalitarian socialist rule; the setting up of the United Nations with its innumerable agencies as the prototype of some form of world government; and the progressive undermining of the national sovereignty of all the Western nations.
 
In order to understand the forces at work which brought humankind to it's current woeful state, we need to examine what were those deep-seated changes in human affairs at the end of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th Century, which gave rise to a worldwide chain-reaction of conflict and catastrophe.
 
In Part Two, I will try to show how these deep-rooted changes occurred primarily in two quite separate realms; those of money and intellect, and how this `Nexus Of Evil,` in the service of the darkest of forces, has here in the first decade of the 21st Century, built a global control grid around all our lives, and how by using its hegemony over money, politics, religion, the media, big business, and education, has subverted culture, rewritten history, falsified science and manipulated and coerced humanity to the very precipice of disaster.
 
 
Comments to : true_brit58@hotmail.co.uk or directly to
http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/2009/08/nexus-of-evil-pre-emptive-strike-on.html
 
 
Reference:
 
 
1] http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/2009/07/to-kill-tree-part-one.html
 
 
2] http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/2009/07/who-rules-worldthe-origin-of-evil.html
 
 
3] http://www.rense.com/general86/pikeknew.htm
 
 
4] http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/node/35
 
 
5] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/rise_fourthreich/rise_fourthreich.htm
 
 
6] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_lucytrust.htm
 
 
7] http://www.missionislam.com/nwo/index.htm
 
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