Modern History Project

"A little learning is a
dangerous thing"

"At Columbia University, sociologist professors Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven introduced a political strategy in 1966 in an article entitled 'The Weight Of The Poor: A Strategy To End Poverty', a plan that they believed would eventually lead to the total transmutation of America into a full-fledged centralized welfare state... A condition of overwhelming tension and strain could be engineered through the [intentional] overloading of American welfare rolls...creating a financial crisis that would lead to an even greater cycle of demand for a fully socialized system... In the past decade alone, the number of people dependent on food stamps and EBT for their survival in the U.S. has doubled from 25 million people to nearly 50 million people. Those who receive some kind of payment from the government, including those on social security, disability, and veterans benefits, are approximately 100 million...

It is the Federal Government itself that is most vulnerable to the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and I believe the goal is to set fire to ALL social structures in the U.S., then assimilate them into a new globalist system...the otherwise insane policy actions of the Obama Administration and preceding puppet presidents now become perfectly logical. Obama, after all, has been a long time proponent of the methods of Saul Alinsky... Cloward and Piven were also both avid followers of Alinsky, who promoted lies, misdirection, subversion, and abandonment of conscience in order to win social power at any cost.

[It appears] that Obamacare was actually designed to fail, and that the bumbling of the Obama White House when dealing with the program was purely deliberate. When coupled with Obama's handling of the current illegal immigration conflict, I would say that the Cloward-Piven Strategy is in full force... The president does not wish to stop the flood of immigrants exactly because Cloward-Piven requires their presence."

-- Brandon Smith article

Same program, different decade. Way back in 1934, during FDR's socialist "New Deal" program, the Chigago Tribune printed a cartoon showing the central planners "from Columbia and Harvard" shovelling the nation's wealth out the back of a wagon, led by Columbia economist Rexford Tugwell and Agriculture secretary (and future Vice President) Henry Wallace. Off to the left side, the figure of Jewish revolutionary Leon Trotsky is shown printing a sign which sums up the strategy:

Plan of Action for U.S. :

Spend! Spend! Spend! Under the guise of recovery, bust the government, blame the capitalists for the failure, junk the Constitution, and declare a dictatorship.

-- Chicago Tribune, 1934-04-21

There is also a cultural and religious aspect of this onslaught. Jewish socialist Saul Alinsky, who dedicated his book "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer, was a role model for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- an avid disciple whose college thesis was based on his work. Alinsky was supported by the Campaign for Human Development -- a Roman Catholic organization which also sponsors the "Justice for Immigrants" program. This thinly disguised Judeo-Roman plan for the reconquista of America will be complete when the "latinos" comprise a majority in a few more decades, and the old Anglo-American traditions of self-government and individual liberty have been forgotten completely.

"Between Dec 2010 and Nov 2013, the Catholic Charities Diocese of Galveston received $15,549,078 in Federal grants from the Health & Human Services Dept. for the “Unaccompanied Alien Children Project” with a program description of “Refugee and Entry Assistance.”

-- Liberty News

"Organizers [in Los Angeles] say they are seeking a private audience with Pope Francis (of Argentina), to deliver hundreds of letters from children whose families face the threat of deportation. They want to ask him to address the question of immigration with U.S. president Barack Obama when the two leaders meet later this month... 'César Chavez was a man of prayer and man of peace. Learning about his life tells me that he had a deep devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe', Archbishop Gomez said. 'He fought for justice for his people... I've been also thinking a lot about César Chavez these days, as we continue to struggle for immigration reform. To me, justice for immigrants is one of the great human rights issues of our time."

-- Catholic Online

Recently, the Knights of Columbus held a massive "Guadalupe Celebration" in Los Angeles where Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights, was a featured speaker. He refers to the Americas as "the Catholic hemisphere" and has written a book praising "Our Lady of Guadalupe" who was proclaimed "Empress of the Americas" by Pope Pius XII.

"Calling the orchestrated deluge of aliens invading the nation 'refugees' simply obscures the fact that all are engaged in illegal entry... How many are actually children and how many are much older is unknown, but we do know that many are arriving with criminal intent. The children are merely pawns. The question that has yet to have been answered is how did the Obama administration know in January that the “children” would be arriving later in the year? What Americans are witnessing is a planned illegal alien invasion of the nation, orchestrated by Obama."

-- Alan Caruba article

"The inflow of youths and children traveling without parents has doubled since 2013, to 57,525 in the nine months up to July 2014. But the number of migrants who cross the border in so-called “family units” (including parents) has spiked five-fold to 55,420, according to the border patrol’s data..."

-- Daily Caller

According to Gen. John Kelly USMC, head of the U.S. Southern Command, this lack of effective immigration control is also creating an immediate security threat as drug smugglers, violent gang members and other political terrorists are allowed to infiltrate using the wave of "refugees" as cover.

"The recent surge in illegal immigration is more than just a “humanitarian crisis,” claims the top U.S. general in charge of Central and South America, it’s a threat to the United States’ very existence... 'Many argue these threats are not existential and do not challenge our national security. I disagree.' ... Gen. Kelly is also warning that the recent spike in illegal immigrants moving from countries like Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras across the U.S. border presents another level of threat. Those three countries, he noted, are all among the top 5 nations worldwide in homicide rates, in part because of their rampant gang activity."

-- World Net Daily

Those three nations, where illiteracy, crime and poverty are rampant, are also overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. According to the "CIA World Factbook":

"Guatemala is the most populous country in Central America and has the highest fertility rate in Latin America. It also has the highest population growth rate in Latin America... Almost half of Guatemala's population is under age 19, making it the youngest population in Latin America. The majority are Roman Catholic." -- World Factbook, Guatemala

"Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and has the world's highest murder rate. More than half of the population lives in poverty and per capita income is one of the lowest in the region. The country is 97% Roman Catholic." -- World Factbook, Honduras

"El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America... At least 20% of El Salvador's population lives abroad. The 'remittances' they send home account for close to 20% of GDP [sic]. The country is 57% Roman Catholic." -- World Factbook, El Salvador

America is a country which was built by immigrants and their descendents. However, such immigration has always been selective and restricted -- until recently.

Any individual who attempts to bypass the normal immigration procedure (including requirements for literacy, job skills, criminal record, financial resources, etc.) should be immediately deported, along with a hefty bill for all expenses sent to the home country government. Those governments should not be allowed to continue using the U.S. as a no-cost "dumping ground" for their unwanted populations, including criminals and freeloaders. No social benefits of any kind should be provided to illegal migrants or their children, especially at taxpayer expense. All "remittances" sent to support foreign citizens should be taxed at a 50% rate.

Any employer who hires illegal migrants is an accessory to criminal activity, and should have its business license revoked, its assets seized, and its officers prosecuted. Any other organization that promotes or assists illegal migrants should also have its assets seized, including Roman Catholic "charity" groups and racist groups such as "La Raza".

Exxon vs. Chavez

Energy
2008-02-09

"Exxon Mobil Corp has moved to freeze up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around the world as the U.S. company fights for payment in return for the state's takeover of a huge oil project last year... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took over Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips stakes in multibillion-dollar heavy oil projects in Venezuela's oil region last June. The move was part of the left-wing leader's drive to nationalize key industries including utilities and telecommunications companies owned by private companies." -- Reuters

See our previous commentary on Chavez. It will be interesting to see if the "Vohzd of Venezuela" can take on the Rockefeller oil monopoly and win, or whether this is just another bit of Masonic theatre to justify jacking up the oil price.

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged soldiers to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States... Dressed in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke yesterday inside Tiuna Fort, Venezuela's military nerve-centre, before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armoured vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!

"It's not just armed warfare", said Chavez, a former army officer who is leading what he calls the Bolivarian Revolution, a socialist movement named after 19th-century independence hero Simon Bolivar. "I'm also referring to psychological warfare, media warfare, political warfare, economic warfare." Under Chavez, Venezuela has recently purchased some 3 billion dollars worth of arms from Russia, including 53 military helicopters, 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 24 SU-30 Sukhoi fighter jets."

-- Evening Echo

Note that Simon Bolivar was a Mason, and Chavez himself served under Gen. Victor Higuera, former Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Venezuela. Perhaps the so-called "Bolivarian revolution" is yet another example of Ordo ab Chao.

In addition to seizing the Orinoco oilfields from the corporations that developed them,

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday threatened to nationalize the country's banks and largest steel producer.... 'All of those who voted for me backed Socialism, and that is where we are heading.' " -- Associated Press

The proles may think they are heading for the worker's paradise, but it's not where they will wind up. The "leader of progressive humanity" and the central committee have a somewhat different destination in mind. Is Venezuela's bureaucracy really more efficient or its politicians less corrupt than all the others in latino land? Buena suerte!

Peak oil advocate Mike Ruppert has bailed out and headed for the Venezuelan jungle:

"As the human race enters the first stages of inevitable collapse resulting from Peak Oil, I left the United States with one large suitcase, my laptop, and a backpack... My country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny... I would cry tears of joy today to see just one campus overrun by a modern equivalent of the [Marxist] Students for a Democratic Society... Because Venezuela has become the singular world leader in resisting US domination under the courageous, intelligent, and inspired leadership of Hugo Chavez, I want to begin the rest of my days here." -- Mike Ruppert

Venezuela is a charter member of OPEC. The oil cartel promotes the "peak oil" myth to justify the inflated price. Bush and Chavez, like other tools of the cartel, are a Punch and Judy show to distract the rubes.

Adios, comrade Ruppert! Please take your whiny collectivist propaganda with you.

"Smartmatic International [has acquired] California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, whose machines serve millions of U.S. voters. Smartmatic...has been accused by Venezuela's opposition of helping [president] Chavez rig elections in his favor. Yet somehow Smartmatic International and its Venezuelan owners were able to purchase Sequoia last year without the deal receiving any scrutiny from federal regulators. Smartmatic International is owned by a Netherlands corporation, which is in turn owned by a Curacao corporation, which is in turn held by a number of Curacao trusts controlled by proxy holders who represent unnamed investors, almost certainly among them Venezuelans Mugica and Anzola [the company founders] and possibly others." -- Richard Brand

"Uruguay's socialist President Tabare Vazquez is a Mason, and according to certain sources so is Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's leftist president...

"We don't appear in public like a political party..." IPS was told by Victor Higuera, the grand master of the [Masonic] lodge in Venezuela. President Chavez, a former lieutenant-colonel, served in the army division headed up by Higuera, a retired army general.

Masonic leaders meeting at the Bolivarian Masonic Confederation in Panama in August [2005] proclaimed that "Masonry as an order is essentially progressive, and therefore it is one of our vital concerns to participate in the vanguard of processes of social change."

In the 18th century several Masons were prime movers in the struggle for independence from Spain, including Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, Bernardo O'Higgins of Chile, and Jose de San Martin of Argentina."

-- Diego Cevallos, IPS News