Lies of a Century
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Heiko Schrang
Lies of a century
Realize – awaken – change
Macht-steuert-Wissen Publishing
Heiko Schrang
Lies of a century
Realize – awaken – change
1st English Edition
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THE AUTHOR
Heiko Schrang, born in 1969, began sending out around 1,000 newsletters to interested customers in 2009. Meanwhile he publishes as an author on the well-known stock market online service wallstreet:online as well as on MMNews and has his own blog at Goldseiten.de. His articles at wallstreet:online are among the most frequently read.
His newsletters are currently being sent to readers worldwide and 500,000 people have read his publications in 2012 alone.
Further information is available at: www.macht-steuert-wissen.de
This book is dedicated to the people who have inspired me: John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Jim Garrison, the XIV. Dalai Lama and everyone who is searching truth and the meaning of life.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
My special thanks go to my assistant, Bente Rode, who has with her dedication and drive, participated substantially in the completion of this book. Many thanks also to my lectors Jens Walter and Rene Krueger for their support as well as to my children, Maximus and Aurelia Schrang, who have had to share our time together with this book.
FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MROSS
(German stock market specialist who worked as a presenter for CNBC among others)
Investigative journalism is experiencing a period of growth which I am able to easily observe in the increasing numbers of people reading my own website MMNews.
I appreciate Heiko’s work and regularly publish his articles on my website.
Heiko has a concise and easy to grasp writing style of presenting even complex economic and political relationships, which has gained him a broad reader base, ranging through all facets of society.
At first I was skeptical, as I had so far never encountered a book that was able to connect complex political topics with spiritual ones. And yet this is precisely what makes this book so enticing.
It is left to the reader whether he or she reads the entire book from cover to cover or chapter by chapter. However, those who decide to read the entire book, follows the idea of the author that the solution to the problems in our society rests within ourselves also and that it is down to the responsibility of the individual in order to change the whole.
In this way you will increase your knowledge in two areas by reading this book.
Enjoy the read! Michael Mross
PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR
My constantly growing readership has encouraged me to write a book about the topics that I tackle in my newsletter. I thought the time was ripe to inform even more people about the topics that affect us all and are, by and large, concealed by the mainstream media.
With nearly half a million readers in the year 2012 I assumed that publishing companies would greet me with open arms. In the beginning it did indeed look that way since the publishers had smelled a chance to make money. Once I had presented my manuscript however, I started much to my surprise, receiving one rejection after the other. I was told that the topics were too sensitive for the publishers. I would have had to get rid of 40 percent of the contents in order for the book to be published, according to the publishing houses.
This reminded me very much of different times when censorship existed in Germany. This has shown me once again that strong dependencies exist between politics, big business and the media, which I have often pointed out in my publications. For this reason I have decided to publish the book myself.
The research for this book has not always been easy, as the facts that really are interesting and sensitive are not usually found in the established media. They belong to the big and powerful that have no interest in the spreading of this information, as their actions would otherwise be exposed.
It is that information that has always interested me, for example with what money highly indebted nations start wars in the first place since even rebels need weapons and do not fight without pay.
The question is now who is behind those that finance the mercenaries and rebels? No guerillas or army can fight without weapons, supplies and provisions. Even the child armies from Africa we hear about need food and ammunition. When looked at closely you find the same names financing the supplies time and time again. In any war situation they usually supply both sides, to their own advantage.
That can only work if they are closely aligned with politicians, big business and the media and find their supporters among their ranks. Since the media often report about the hot spots, it seems that this occurs objectively, which is not the case.
The same game is played during elections where the citizen is given the impression that he or she really is able to influence politics.
This has the semblance of a theatre play. The protagonists on the stage play their role and can only be differentiated by the audience through colors (red, blue, green, etc.). If they play their part well, they manage to engage the audience into the play, paving the way for the crowd polarizing itself over the proceedings. Drastic disputes occur between the single audience members whether red is better than blue or yellow better than green.
There is however one person who is entirely impartial as to who the individual audience members favor and support because every audience member has paid the price of admission – the owner of the theater.
With his takings he pays the actors on the stage who act out their roles according to a script.
If elections were able to change anything they would not be permitted.
I invite you to come with me on a journey into the past in order to get to know the owners of the theater, to come out of your dream world like Sleeping Beauty in the fairy tale and – as far as you wish to do so – to change your life.
„Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.“
Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
HOW TO CREATE MONEY OUT OF NOTHING
„When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.
Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.“
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)
One of the best-kept secrets that are not taught at any university is the fact that the American FED (Federal Reserve Bank) is not a public institution, but a private bank that was founded in the year 1913.
The plan was agreed upon in 1910 at a place called Jekyll Island in the state of Georgia. The draft law of the private bankers (Aldrich Plan[1]) introduced the foundation of a central bank (Federal Reserve). Under the leadership of the high finance groups like the Rothschild’s and Rockefeller’s they succeeded in creating a private central bank with the sole right to issue its own currency, which became legal tender and which the US government still had to underwrite in the early beginnings.
At this point the most important shareholders of the FED[2] were:
- The Rothschild banks in Paris and London
- Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank in New York
- Goldman Sachs Bank in New York
- Lazard Brothers Bank in Paris
- Israel Moses Seif Bank in Rome
- Warburg Bank in Amsterdam and Hamburg
- Lehman Bank in New York
- Kuhn Loeb & Co. Bank in New York
This enterprise must have been unconstitutional. Article 1, Section 1 and Section 8 of the US constitution says very clearly: The sole right to print money rests with the state!
With the founding of the FED, the US politicians of the time have, as minions of a consortium of international bankers, handed over their power to them.
Also in 1913 the 16th amendment to the constitution[3] was passed, allowing the government to tax the personal income of the citizens of the US.
This is how the international bankers have granted themselves indirect access to the private wealth of American citizens. The private bank FED functions according to a very basic principle: They produce “Federal Reserve Notes” = Dollar bills, these are then loaned to the US government for obligations (certificates of indebtedness) to the US government, which then serve the FED as a security.
The FED who in turn receives annual interest on them holds these obligations. The interest payments by the US taxpayer increase steadily while the FED has merely loaned money to the US government and earned high interest rates for itself. Their service in return: Cotton printed on in color called dollars. The member of congress Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. (1907-1917), the father of the famous pilot, called this law: “The worst legislative crime of the ages”. The finance system was handed to a group that is only after profits. The system is private and is only used for the purpose to generate the highest possible profit from the use of other people’s money.”[4]
On November 21st, 2002 even the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Benjamin Shalom Bernanke admitted candidly: ”The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at no cost.”[5]
This system that is very lucrative for its initiators has as a result that since the founding of the FED the purchasing power of the dollar has been reduced by 98 percent.
The amount of money in circulation “M3”, determined by the FED itself, is no longer published since March 2006. It became an obvious problem: While in the last 30 years the amount of goods has only quadrupled, the amount of money in circulation has gone up by a factor of 40.[6]
The interesting part here is that this scam has hardly been noticed by anyone. Add to that the fact that the FED has a lien, private and public, on all property of the entire United States of America through obligations of the US government. Countless trials to reverse the FED law have remained without effect.[7]
The first person that tried was John F. Kennedy. Shortly before his murder by a supposedly crazy lone gunman, he wanted to lay the foundation for the US government to issue its own debt-free currency. Had he succeeded, the US government would no longer have been dependent on money created through public borrowing.
On June 4th, 1963 John F. Kennedy signed a presidential document “Executive Order Number 11110", replacing and repealing the previous document "Executive Order Number 10289", which enabled the creation of the “Federal Reserve”. President Kennedy wanted to return the production of bank notes under the powers of the state. He intended to return the natural power to produce state money for the benefit of the entire nation and without interest, for the circulation of money in the USA back to US congress.[8]
There are assumptions that the first legal act of office of his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, was to repeal "Executive Order 11110“ on his way back from Dallas to Washington while still on the presidential plane.[9]
Meanwhile, an increasing number of nations are trying to withdraw themselves from this fraud by conducting their trade in Euro currency. In the year 2000, Iraq started to sell its oil in exchange for Euros instead of US dollars. Further, he exchanged his foreign currency reserves to Euro by selling all of the dollars he held. If other oil producing nations had followed the example of Iraq, the USA would have experienced significant losses.[10]
This fact explains the conflicts with Iran and Syria.
Meanwhile, we have come to the point that even the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan explained openly: “The US banking system is a complete fraud, and we need much tougher regulations against this fraud. Things have been done which were surely illegal and in some cases even criminal. Fraud is a fact. Fraud creates great instability in competitive markets.”[11] By saying that, he expresses what the US member of congress Ron Paul has stated years ago about the FED: “it’s an immoral institution, because we have delivered to a secretive body the privilege of creating money out of thin air; if you or I did it, we'd be called counterfeiters, so why have we legalized counterfeiting?”[12]
That is why Ron Paul is right: If any citizen prints money it is called a forgery and punished with the full force of the law. If central bank does it, it is called “increasing the money supply”.
Interestingly, the printing of a $100 bill only costs the FED a few cents. The state in turn accepts a loan from the FED over the value of $100. Furthermore, the state and along with it its citizens are responsible for paying back this loaned sum along with the accumulated interest.
There were times when politicians showed remorse over their wrong decisions, if only shortly before their death. President Woodrow Wilson, who helped introduce the Federal Reserve System, later regretted when he said: “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.”[13]
Shortly before his death he was reported as having said that he was deceived and had betrayed his country.“[14]
The servitude through the credit system that Wilson spoke of, rests on compound interest and therefore on exponential growth.
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH – IS INTEREST UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
„ Now, money was invented chiefly for the purpose of exchange, and, consequently, the proper and principal use of money is its consumption or alienation, whereby it is sunk in exchange. Hence, it is by its very nature unlawful to take payment for the use of money lent, which payment is known as interest.“
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Our monetary system is based on the principle of interest and compound interest and only very few ask themselves the question as to what implications this system has on them personally. When we look at the exponential interest growth model, we will soon realize that it cannot grow to immeasurable proportions. Further still, such a system by definition will inevitably experience a total collapse.
Let us illustrate this with an example: If Joseph had deposited for Jesus in the year 0 A.D. $0.01 at an interest rate of 5 percent p.a., he would have gathered a grand total of $10,000 after only 297 years. In the year 439 A.D. it would have been $10m dollars. After 1466 A.D. the deposited sum could have only been measured by an amount of gold with a mass equal to the entire sphere of our planet. After the year 1749, it would already have come to 1 million times the sphere of our planet and today his inheritance would amount to 2 billion times of our planet’s volume in gold.[15]
We realize that every system based on interest can work for some time, but also that it through the compound interest effect eventually leads to an exponential build-up of the amount of money in circulation in the late phases of this system. This is true for both, wealth and debt. Since the development tends toward the direction of infinity while there cannot be infinite debt, a collapse of the system is inevitable. The fact that a system based on interest leads to a crash, crises or wars - which is sufficiently documented in our history books. Paul C. Martin details an impressive summary of this phenomenon in the appendix of his book with the title “3000 years of history – 3000 years of revolution and crash”.[16]
Another example of illustrating this exponential growth better is the following:
Let us assume that the amount of water lilies in a lake, starting with only one, had doubled every year.
After 30 years a quarter of the lake’s surface is covered by water lilies.
When will the water lilies cover the entire lake? The answer is: After only two years! When the number is doubled every time, then after one year half of the lake is covered and a further year later all of it.
For 30 years the water lilies could be seen as an adornment of the lake, but after only two further years there is no more free space on the lake’s surface.
By using this example we are able to observe the immense explosiveness inherent to exponential growth. Unfortunately, most economists do not accurately assess this.
An exponential curve develops, which is only slow in the beginning and then picks up pace very rapidly. This is why compound interest must be seen as dangerous.
The time for a doubling of a debt due to compound interest is (at least approximately) easy to calculate: One only needs to divide the number 72 by the current interest rate to get to a time specification. At 6 percent interest, debt doubles every 12 years. After 24 years the original debt has already quadrupled. The American economic historian John L. King for example called interest “the invisible wrecking machine” of the so-called free market system.[17]
Interest in its truest sense of the word is a heavy burden on any national budget. We are able to see this in the interest payments that Germany has to pay on its debt which have become the second largest item on the federal budget.[18] Good for the creditor banks, but bad for the taxpayer.
The tax promises given by politicians – usually before the election – about the reduction of debt, or the proposed lowering of the budget deficit are nothing more than lip service that are, due to the described compound interest effect, impossible to put into action. As long as the monetary and economic structures are not changed significantly, they are doomed to fail. The relentless growth of interest and capital normally overtake them and gobble them up.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Suhr, professor for public law, legal philosophy and computer law, judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court, researched the question of whether interest is unconstitutional. He presented suggestions that significantly swayed from mainstream thinking. He continued in the economic theories by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Silvio Gesell and John Maynard Keynes.[19]
Professor Suhr investigated the question as to whether the fact that property is transferred from the debtor to the creditor (bank), the guarantee of ownership written into German basic law is violated. Our constitution however, especially protects that property that arises from personal work and effort. This is why the current interpretation of § 950 BGB is by implication no longer compliant with our constitution.[20]
It positively turns the protective priorities on their heads since it grants more protection to that property which is created from ownership through interest than the one created through hard work.
Professor Dr. Margrit Kennedy summarized the revolutionary achievements of Professor Suhr as follows:
„If a constitution guarantees equal access of individuals to all services of the government – and the monetary system can be seen as such – then it is illegal, when in this system 10 percent of the population continue to receive more out of this service than they pay into it while at the same time 80 percent of the population continue to receive less of it than they pay into it.”[21]
Since high finance shows no interest in changing the prevailing monetary and economic system, whose beneficiaries they are, the theses of Professor Suhr are heavy attacks against the foundations of their profits.
Professor Dieter Suhr was not able to pursue his theses further because he just so happened to die a rather strange death during a hiking and sightseeing holiday in Crete on August 28th, 1990 at the age of 51. It is interesting to note that other important business leaders like Mr. Herrhausen and Rohwedder between 1989 and 1991 also “happened to die”. There is one connecting thread linking the three, it is the fact that they after the fall of the Berlin wall and long before the introduction of the Euro created alternative concepts to the prevailing monetary and economic system. They became a danger to the beneficiaries of the existing concept and the powers that had no interest in a strong Deutsche Mark currency.