William Shepherd

Eleven hundred million Indians and a eleven hundred million Chinese are getting their individul economic acts together and are busy with Economic Development by Central Banking ( EDCB ). There is nothing three hundred million Europeans can do to change this...and it would be foolish wasting time and money trying. The scientific knowledge is there, technology has been transferred, the genie is out of the bottle and Pandora’s Box is wide open.

Only a few deluded fools isolated in intellectual backwaters like America’s Mid-West truly believe that it is possible to amass enough firepower to shut the lid and stop up the bottle. The economic problem has been solved in principle. Practice has pushed aside theory and got on with it. Nothing that has happened in India and China over the past decade was even hinted at in the Development Economics Textbooks of the 1970s and 1980s.

Milton Friedman was half right all along...though he preached the wrong half about Inflation instead of the right half about Output. Money does indeed work wonders. Make it available and everything goes five times as fast. Such a pity that two decades were lost...and millions of lives destroyed...because Reagan and Thatcher got the wrong end of the stick and never understood Hayek’s advice nor the implications of Ludwig von Mises scholarly tome Human Action.

Central Banking as a development mechanism can solve the money problem. Unfortunately it has a number of rather nasty side effects. Regrettably these have been neither addressed in theory nor mitigated in practice. Their presence remains invisible to those who administer the banking mechanism. And their impact is misinterpreted by the victims. Ignorance is bliss for the winners and sows confusion among the losers. It all began with a pretty piece of rascality...Thomas Robertson in The Facade of Finance...when the intrigues and secret manoeuvrings of the Whigs created a cunning plan that culminated with the formation of the Bank of England by the Bank Charter Act of 1694.

It started with William III claiming to be short of money. Big surprise! A king short of money! Kings were always short of money. It is in the nature of kingship to be short of money because they are always spending it on making war and buying off pretenders by marrying off their daughters…suitably endowed with a dowry.

This has the desirable effect...desirable for some...of recycling the golden lucre out of the Royal Coffers. Every time the money passes GO the Moneychangers grab a few ingots and trinkets and smuggle them away to safe offshore havens. To the Moneychanger the purpose of kings is to recycle money at a profit to themselves. How it was done was not their concern. Wars were as good a way as any. The important thing was to spend it...not how it was spent.

After the political upheavals of Cromwell’s Commonwealth in the 1640s there were new players entering the Banking Field. The Public...as we know it today...were not one of them. They had no money and no credit and were already being taxed to death. But there were an ever increasing number of private trading fortunes looking for safe placement.

As the 17th century drew to a close there was a twist to the everyday story of Royal Moneylending when William Paterson put together a cabal of financial adventurers after getting wind of some hanky-panky in Sweden surrounding a company called Stockholm Banco. The Swedish Court were less impressed and shut the operation down. But the wheeze popped up again in the Dutch Court so our happy band of brothers gave themselves the name of The Governor and Company of the Bank of England and came to try their hand at the Court of King William in England.

Here is how the scam worked. The company would collect from Public Subscribers the sum of £1,200,000 in cash which they would then lend to the King’s Government at 8% per annum...keeping £4,000 per annum for their own expenses. In return the Bank of England was to receive a number of privileges of which the chief was the right to issue notes equivalent in total amount to the £1,200,000 lent to the King’s Government. Notice that deception is afoot.

The Public Subscribers were anything but public. They were super rich private foreigners...who apart from a few token Englishmen...were of Dutch Huguenot stock. Three of them were brothers from the Houblon Family and cronies of the Chief Secretary of the Admiralty Samuel Pepys. The purpose of Pepys Diaries was not to illuminate but to obscure. They are not accurate accounts but disinformation. Like Pravda during the Cold War what is omitted is every bit as significant as what is included.

Thus the Bank of England was founded with the sanction of The King in Parliament...the new formula...to lend Cash to the King to spend on war while creating an equivalent sum of Financial Credit...funny money...for a private company to circulate behind a Royal Monopoly as legal tender. This is the origin of the banknotes that once promised to pay the bearer a constant amount of gold...until the promise was rescinded. The Act of 1694 effectively placed The Bank of England outside the law. The Bank of England acquired further powers by the Act of 1819 which rendered all Governments impotent and by the Act of 1844 which rendered the Joint Stock Banks impotent against the Bank of England. My instinct would be to repeal the Bank Acts of 1694, 1819 and 1844...and reopen the Local Mints.

After an assassination you can follow the Motive, the Man or the Money...and with enough resources you can run all three investigations in parallel. The methodology for the Motive Investigation is to begin with a Who? Whom? Analysis (WWA) to establish who wins and loses by removal of the turbulent priest. The best people for this are insiders intimate with the work flowing across their desk, the phone calls made and the meetings scheduled.

Anna Lindh may have been Sweden’s Foreign Minister but she was also a long-standing Social Democrat Party Member. It is easy to look the wrong way. As one example Anna Lindh understood Stockholm and would have realised that replacing the long-established Tenancy System with a Bostadsrätt System would further impoverish the poor and benefit only the rich...many of them from outside Sweden in Germany, Russia and elsewhere.

Anna may have set herself against allowing local residents to work four days a week to pay mortgage interest to the banks when they could continue working just one day a week to pay rent to their Housing Association. Most Social Democrats would have opposed a Clearance Policy in Stockholm’s inner suburbs. Anna Lindh with leadership ambitions may have made this issue her rallying point for the Party Faithful. Hers would have been a powerful voice.

Stockholm Property Mafias with billions of kronor at speculation would have no qualms in paying for her removal. They might threaten her children first. Perhaps they did? Who would she tell? Perhaps the modern way is to kill first to avoid questions later. It would be a bonus that investigators would be looking elsewhere for her killers. After the assassin is back under your control the next task is to lay false trails across the path of your pursuers. Investigative websites spring up after most assassinations...some may be disinformation sites. Scepticism is required.

This example is not intended as a subtle hint...there are no whistleblowers whispering in my ear...but as a way to explain and illustrate the Motive Search Process (MSP). In practice this particular Suspect Scenario is on my C-List...an ABC Analysis being an extension of the Pareto Principle where list allocation criteria is action-oriented.

A common policy would be applied to investigating C-List Suspects. A fully resourced team would be set to work investigating each A-List Suspect while the investigative focus for B-List Suspects would be to assess whether to treat them as A-List or C-List. These Desk Studies are similar to the Profiling Approach used by Terrorism Prevention and are unlikely to overlap with Police Investigations. In general the police can be thought of as being interested in the greasy rag while the Who? Whom? Analysis is looking for the engineer...and the command structure behind him.

A cursary glance at Conspiracy Theory Websites suggests that the Usual Suspects in any high profile assassination are Mossad and the CIA. But I tend not to put the American and Israeli Governments very high on my list. They both appear to have Assassination Procedures in place. Israel may hunt down the Munich killers of their Olympic Athletes and go after the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas for instance. And the Wiesenthal Centre pursues Nazi Holocaust Perpetrators to the ends of the earth.

But in general my sympathies are with the Israelis. I believe they weigh these steps carefully. But the notion that an Israeli Government Committee should sit around a polished cherry-wood conference table in Tel Aviv and approve the assassination of Anna Lindh because she was in the habit of criticising Israel and siding with the Palestinians seems rather far-fetched. So neither the CIA nor Mossad are on my Anna Lindh A-List or B-List.

I tend to put the Supra-Government Groups (SGG)...those who anoint governments...and Global Interest Groups (GIG) much higher on my list. Governments are just one of many potential assassins. The Moscow or Washington Governments may come under suspicion when their interests are threatened. And Black-Ops seem to be something that Stupidity Services delight in telling us they carry out. But I suspect much of this is posturing to bolster their own flagging self-esteem. The world according to Grahame Greene and John Le Carré rings true...with cock-ups galore.

My Anna Lindh A- and B-Lists consist of seven Supra-Government Groups and three Global Interest Groups. Top of the A-List is One World Order followed by Guns, Gold, US Imperialists and Austro-Hungarian Supremecists. On the B-List are the Fear Factory (Politico-Legal-Media Complex & Bank-Industry-Government Complex), TransNational Corporations (Drugs, Chemicals, Energy etc), Zionists, European Union and the EuroBankers.

Nowadays the Hollywood Studio System...not its Rogue Actor-Directors like Robert Redford, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner etc...is doing good Conspiracy Genre films. Obviously for them the bottom line is good. But they are not pulling punches and directors are not being leaned on to take a party line. Lord of War with Nicholas Cage and John le Carré’s The Constant Gardener with Ralph Fiennes are good examples of this genre...and I would expect Michael Crichton’s State of Fear to get fair treatment. In each case Global Interest Groups are portrayed as the Bad Guys...Global Arms Trade, Global Drug Companies and Environmental Groups respectively.

On my last evening in Totnes my daughter and I watched Lord of War. The film highlights the enormity of the task of eliminating war...Yes Virginia, eliminating. Very very few ordinary people want war...and those tiny minorities that do can be educated to see the errors of their ways. Democratically war should be a complete non-starter.

Vested interests are vast. The world is awash with hundreds of Military Industrial Complexes consuming more manpower...mind workers & manual workers...more mined & manufactured resources and more piped energy than most small non-belligerent nation-states like Sweden, Switzerland or New Zealand. The challenge could overwhelm the small-minded and mean-spirited. Yet the job must be tackled. It is the next great Adventure of Civilisation.

The top five global gunrunners are the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Yet only three reforms are needed at the United Nations...although a second body like a League of Real Nations will be needed to make it happen. The first United Nations Reform should be to agree a name swap with the United States of America.

Secondly a ceiling of twenty million should be placed on the population of each member of the renamed United States...previously the United Nations. Ten million would be better but we want Californians and Texans on our side. Weightings could be devised to encourage members to maximise the voting power of existing confederations...China, India, the rebranded United Nations of America, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia...by minimising the size of each applicant.

Thirdly a Disarmament Treaty should be drawn up...with time frames...for removing from the UN Security Council any member state with Weaponry Inventories indicating Warlike and not Peaceful Intent. Drawing up permitted target inventories for each Weapon of Mass Destruction category...missiles, warheads, kalashnikovs etc...would be the first step in this third reform. After that Killingry Factories Quotas KFQs) can be handed out...and traded.

At the national level Simultaneous Policies can be put in place...simultaneous with International Action. The English for instance have their own very special international responsibilities in the Abolition of Militarism. The Axis of Evil does not run through Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the One World Order Conspiracy Theorists would have us believe but through Wall Street and Threadneedle Street and the Armaments Manufacturers wherever located.

The Newnham Common Women and the G8 Protesters have shown us how to challenge the overweening might of militarism. You do not write to your Member of Parliament and delude yourself that you are getting involved. Instead you engage in direct action against an identifiable enemy. And you go into battle base by base, factory by factory, arms fair by arms fair, official junket by official junket, bank account by bank account, mind worker by mind worker.

But you do not stop there. In this the Animal Rights Activists have shown the way...which is why their effectiveness has spread such panic and fear. What if their tactics were applied to something that really mattered...to missiles instead of lipstick? You go for those who give the orders too by following the money...stock exchange by stock exchange, company director by company director, shareholder by shareholder.

The first modern English Political Party will be the one that recognises England’s failure to abandon her 19th Century imperial pretensions and sets about breaking England up into Swiss-style cantons. We could do worse than start with the country’s 17th century county structure before the East India Company and the Bank of England Company set up its own Poodle Parliament in Westminster to do its bidding and abolished Magna Carta...by stealth.

The economic goal of each canton should be Economic Self-Sufficiency. This will entail a major restructuring of its work and employment base as it disengages from imperial activities and refocuses its economic energies on the wealth of its villagers, the purpose of its port towns, market towns and other urban villages and the manner whereby dwellers throughout the canton can meaningfully pursue happiness. This might take a decade. Why let it take longer?

During the Decade of Transition subsidies will be needed from the Confederation of Cantons...the residual English National Body charged with redistributing national assets and liabilities to the cantons...to encourage particularly devastated regions like London and the South-East to restructure their economies and diversify away from the English 20th Century obsession with Global Money Laundering, Weaponry Development and Killingry Exports.

The Labour Party of Kier Hardy and the Fabian Society of Sidney & Beatrice Webb with their roots deep in doctrinal disputes with scholarly Liberals, Communists, Syndicalists, Anarchists and Social Democrats...and with university professors of the calibre of R.H.Tawney and deep socialist thinkers like G.B.Shaw and J.B.Priestley to advise them...understood the immensity of their task. By comparison our modern Career Socialists...schooled in the Inns of Court (created for the Merchants of London) instead of the Taverns of the Real World...and devoid of any sense of Real History... as they act their parts in their fake 1066 and All That historical world...are frighteningly ignorant.