Badlands Media - Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 13
Episode Date: September 4, 2026CannCon and Ashe in America move on to Chapter 13 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and this one takes a hard turn into geopolitics. This week's theme is Masquerade in Moscow, u...npacking the secret society founded by Cecil Rhodes, its American offshoot known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and the surprising role outside financiers played in funding the Russian Revolution. The hosts challenge the popular narrative that the Bolshevik uprising was purely a grassroots rebellion, tracing the money and influence back to bankers in Germany, Britain, and the United States, with the Rothschild formula popping up once again. Expect a story that starts with the Russo Japanese War and spirals into one of the most consequential cover ups of the century, plus the usual candid commentary and a few detours along the way.
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We are diving into Chapter 13, Mascarade in Moscow.
Last week, we did Sinking the Lucitania, and I am still real from that chapter.
I'm still utterly pissed.
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Do you want me to start?
Yeah, you can start.
Chapter 13, Masquerade in Moscow.
The Secret Society founded by Cecil Rhodes for the purpose of world domination,
the establishment in America of a branch of that group called the Council on Foreign Relations,
the role played by financiers within these groups in financing the Russian Revolution,
the use of the Red Cross mission in Moscow as a cover for that maneuver.
One of the greatest myths of the contemporary history is that the Bolshevik revolution in Russia
was a popular uprising of the downtrodden masses against the hated ruling class of the Tsars.
As we shall see, however, the planning, leadership, and especially the financing,
came entirely from outside Russia, mostly from financiers in Germany, Britain, and the United States.
Furthermore, we shall see that the Rothschild formula played a major role in shaping these events.
This amazing story begins with the war between Russia and Japan in 1904.
Jacob Schiff, who is the head of New York investment firm Kuhn-Lobin Company,
had raised the capital for large war loans to Japan.
It was due to this funding that the Japanese were able to launch a stunning attack
against the Russians at Port Arthur and the following year to virtually death.
estimate the Russian fleet. In 1905, the Mikado awarded Jacob Schiff a medal, the second order of
the Treasure of Japan, in recognition of his important role in that campaign. During the two years of
hostilities, thousands of Russian soldiers and sailors were taken as prisoners. Sources outside of
Russia, which were hostile to the Tsarist regime, paid for the printing of Marxist propaganda,
and it had delivered to the prison camps, and had it delivered to the prison camps. Russian-speaking
revolutionaries were trained in New York and sent to distribute the pamphlets among the prisoners
and to indoctrinate them into rebellion against their own government. When the war was ended,
these officers and enlisted men returned to home to become virtual seeds of treason against the
Tsar. They were to play a major role a few years later in creating mutiny among the military
during the communist takeover of Russia. Trotsky was Schiff's agent, and I'm sure there's
going to be a lot of little nuanced details because yours mine doesn't talk about uh mine talk
specifically about this shift guy yours um so mine says trotsky was a multiple agent yeah so like earlier on
it says up here it's like uh thousands of russian soldiers and sailors were taken prisoner shift
paid for the printing of one and a half tons of marxist propaganda yours says that uh people in new york
or whatever.
The second to last paragraph.
No, the start of the last paragraph.
It starts during two years of hostilities.
Sources outside of Russia, trained in New York and sent to distribute.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So this one's, mine is more updated than yours.
Well, is it more updated or is it just we had this discussion?
Ostensibly Griffin has oversaw the updates to the addition.
of his book, right? He did. He did, but, you know.
I think he's captured now? Maybe. I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't say definitively one way or the
other. I don't think we have enough information for that, but I don't have any evidence to suggest that
he is. And I don't have any evidence to suggest that he isn't. But you would need, I would,
I agree that you would need evidence to suggest he is. So just keep that in mind. That's why I'm just
given both sides here. Schiff. So mine says Trotsky was Schiff's agent. Yeah, mine says multiple.
I'll let you know if there's anything material. One of the best known Russian revolutionaries at that
time was Leon Trotsky. In January of 1916, Trotsky was expelled from France and came to the United
States at the invitation of Schiff. His travel expenses aboard the Montserrat were paid by his host.
He remained for several months while writing for a Russian socialist paper, the Novi Mir, or the New
world and giving revolutionary speeches at mass meetings in New York City. According to Trotsky himself,
on many occasions, a chauffeur limousine was placed at the service of his family by a wealthy friend
identified as Dr. M. In his book, My Life, Trotsky wrote,
Hang on, before you read that quote, I think this is notable based on the conversation we were
just having about what the changes are. It says in mine, Trotsby was expelled from France and
came to the United States. It has been.
claimed that his expenses were paid by Jacob Schiff,
Schiff, there is no documentation to substantiate that claim,
but the circumstantial evidence does point to a wealthy donor in New York.
So it sounds like he made overt claims about Schiff that he had to walk back in this edition.
The doctor's wife took my wife and the boys out driving and was very kind to them,
but she was a mere mortal, whereas the chauffeur was a magician, a titan, a Superman.
With the wave of his hand, he made the machine obey,
his slightest command. To sit beside him, the supreme was the supreme delight. When they went into a
tea room, the boys would anxiously demand of their mother. Why doesn't the chauffeur come in?
It must have been a curious sight to see the family of the great socialist radical, defender of the
working class, enemy of capitalism, enjoying the pleasures of tea rooms and chauffeurs, the very symbol
of capitalist luxury. In any event, it was not known, it was now known that almost all of his expenses
in New York, including the mass rallies, were paid for, allegedly, by Jacob Schiff.
That's not in here at all.
Ah, see, so he took that out.
On March 23rd, 1917, a mass meeting was held at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the abdication of Nicholas H.,
which meant the overthrow of the Tsarist rule in Russia.
Thousands of socialist, Marxist, nihilists, and anarchists attended to cheer the event.
The following day, there was published on page two of the New York Times,
a telegram from, excuse me, from Jacob Schiff, which had been read to this audience.
He expressed regrets that he could not attend and then described the successful Russian revolution as,
quote, what we had hoped and striven for these long years, end quote.
In the February 3rd, 1949 issue of New York Journal American, Schiff's grandson, John, was quoted by columnist Cholly Knickerbocker,
as saying that his grandfather had given about $20 million for the triumph of
communism in Russia. When Trotsky returned to Petrograd in May of 1917 to organize the Bolshevik
phase of the Russian Revolution, he carried $10,000 for travel expenses, a generously ample fund
considering the value of the dollar at that time. The amount is known that with certainty
because Trotsky was arrested by Canadian and British naval personnel when the ship
on which he was traveling, the SS Christiania Ford put in at Halifax.
The money in his possession is now a matter of official record.
Because Trotsky was a known enemy of the Tsar and because Germany was then at war with Russia,
it was assumed that the 10,000 was German money given to him in New York.
The evidence, however, is that this, too, came from Coon, Loeb, and Company.
Trotsky was not arrested on a whim.
He was recognized as a threat to the best interest of England, Canada's mother country,
in the British Commonwealth.
Russia was an ally of England in the First World War,
which then was raging in Europe.
Anything that would weaken Russia
and that certainly included internal revolution
would be, in effect,
to strengthen Germany and weaken England.
In New York on the night before his departure,
Trotsky had given a speech in which he said,
quote, I'm going back to Russia to overthrow
the provisional government and stop the war in Germany.
Trotsky, therefore, represented a real threat
to England's war effort. He was arrested as a German agent
and taken as a prisoner of war.
With this in mind, we can appreciate the great strength of those mysterious forces, both in England
and the United States, that intervened in Trotsky's behalf. Immediately, telegrams began to come
into Halifax from such divergent sources as an obscure attorney in New York City, from the Canadian
deputy postmaster general, and even from a high-ranking British military officer, all inquiring
into Trotsky's situation and urging his immediate release. The head of the British Secret Service
in America at the time was Sir William Wiseman, who, as fate would have it, occupied the apartment
directly above the apartment of Edward Mandel House and who had become fast friends with him.
House advised Wiseman that President Wilson wished to have Trotsky released.
Wiseman advised his government and the British Admiralty issued orders on April 21st that Trotsky
was to be sent on his way. It was a fateful decision that would affect not only the outcome of
war, but the future of the entire world.
It ends there.
You're muted.
Mine does not end there.
So there's another, yeah, there's another half of a, there's another page.
So, but the future of the entire world.
It would be a mistake to conclude that Jacob Schiff and Germany were the only players in this drama.
Trotsky could not have gone even as far as Halifax without having been granted an American passport.
And this was accomplished by the personal intervention of President Wilson.
Professor Anthony Sutton says, quote,
President Woodrow Wilson was the fairy godmother who provided Trotsky with a passport to return to Russia to carry forward the revolution.
At the same time, careful State Department bureaucrats,
concerned about such revolutionaries entering Russia, were unilaterally attempting to tighten up passport procedures.
And there were others as well.
In 1911, the St. Louis Dispatch published a cartoon by a Bolshevik named Robert Minor.
Minor was later to be arrested in Tsarist Russia for revolutionary activities and, in fact,
was himself bankrolled by famous Wall Street financiers.
Since we may safely assume that he knew his topic well, his cartoon is of great historical importance.
It portrays Karl Marx with a book entitled Socialism Under His Arm,
standing amid a cheering crowd on Wall Street, gathered around,
and greeting him with enthusiastic handshakes or characters in silk hats
identified as John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, John D. Ryan of National City Bank,
Morgan partner George W. Perkins, and Teddy Roosevelt,
leader of the Progressive Party. Didn't we look at that cartoon at one point?
Yeah. What emerges from this sampling of events is a clear pattern of strong support for Bolshevism
coming from the highest financial and political power centers in the United States.
for men who supposedly were capitalists and who, according to conventional wisdom,
should have been the mortal enemies of socialism and communism.
Nor was this phenomenon confined to the United States.
Trotsky, in his book My Life, tells of a British financier who, in 1907, gave him a large loan to be repaid after the overthrow of the Tsar.
Arsene de Gulevich, who witnessed the Bolshevik revolution firsthand, has identified both the name of the financier and the amount of the loan.
Quote, in private interviews, he said, I have been told that over 21 million rubles were spent by Lord Alfred Milner in financing the Russian Revolution.
The financier just mentioned was by no means among the British support for the Russian Revolution with large, sorry, was by no means alone among the British to,
support the Russian Revolution with large financial donations. Another name specifically mentioned by
de Gulevich was that Sir George Buchanan, the British ambassador to Russia at the time.
It was one thing for Americans to undermine Tsarist Russia and thus indirectly helped Germany win the war
in the war because Americans were not then into it. But for British citizens to do so was tantamount
to treason. To understand what higher loyalty compelled these men to betray their battlefield ally
and to sacrifice the blood of their own countrymen,
we must take a look at the unique organization
to which they belonged.
And then we have the Secret Society,
which I can keep reading.
You read a lot if you want.
A lot of that was not in my book.
So that whole thing wasn't in your book.
No, no, no.
From nor was this phenomenon confined to the United States.
The last two paragraphs were in my book.
Where?
Because I thought you ended at the future of the entire world.
I did.
And then the shift was not alone was the next section of there.
And part of that section is in the section that you were just read.
Gotcha.
So the more was this phenomenon confined to the United States, Trotsky in his book, My Life.
That whole thing is in here.
But then there's a bunch that was not.
So gotcha.
So that whole section was just merged into the prior section and then edited.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you want me to keep going?
Yeah.
The Secret Society.
Lord Alfred Milner was a key figure in organizing a secret society which at the time of these events was about 16 years old.
It was dedicated to nothing less than the quiet domination of the world.
The conquest of Russia was seen as but the first phase of that plan.
Since the organization is still in existence today and continues to make progress toward its goal,
it's important to have its history included in this narrative.
One of the most authoritative reference works on the history of this group
is tragedy and hope by Dr. Carol Quigley.
Dr. Quigley was a professor of history at Georgetown University where President Clinton
had been one of his students.
We should add, by the way, both of those books to our list of potential books.
Okay.
He was the author of widely used textbook Evolution of Civilization.
He was a member of the editorial board of the monthly periodical current history,
and he was a frequent lecturer in consultants.
for such groups as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Brookings Institution,
the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, the Naval College, the Smithsonian Institute, and the State
Department. But Dr. Quigley was no mere academic. He has also been closely associated with many
of the family dynasties of the super rich. He was, by his own boast, an insider with a front
row view of the world's money power structure. When Dr. Quigley wrote his scholarly 1300,
page book of dry history, it was not intended for the masses. It was to be read by the intellectual
elite, and to that select readership, he cautiously exposed one of the best kept secrets of all time.
He also made it clear, however, that he was a friendly apologist for this group, and that he
supported its goals and purposes. Dr. Quigley said, quote,
I know of the operation of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, and was permitted for two years,
in the 1960s to examine its papers and secret records.
I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have for much of my life been close to it
and to many of its instruments. In general, my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain
unknown. As mentioned, Quigley's book was intended for an elite readership composed of scholars
and network insiders, but unexpectedly it began to be quoted in the journals of the John
Birch Society, which had correctly perceived that this work provided a valuable insight to the
inner workings of a hidden power structure. That exposure triggered a large demand for the book
by people who were opposed to the network and curious to see what an insider had to say about it.
That was not according to the original plan. What happened next is best described by Quigley himself.
In a personal letter dated December 9, 1975, he wrote, quote,
Thank you for your praise of tragedy and hope, a book which has brought me headaches,
as it apparently says something which powerful people do not want known.
My publisher stopped selling it in 1968 and told me he would reprint, but in 1971,
he told me, he told my lawyer they had destroyed the plates in 1968.
The rare book price went up to $135, and parts were reprinted in violation of copyright,
but I could do nothing because I believe the publisher.
and he would not take action even when a pirate copy of the book appeared.
Only when I hired a lawyer in 1974 did I get answers to my questions, end quote.
In another personal letter quickly commented further on the duplicity of his publisher,
quote, they lied to me for six years telling me they would reprint when they got to 2000 orders,
which could never happen because they told anyone who asked that it was out of print and would not be reprinted.
They denied this to me until I sent them Xerox copies of such replies and libraries, at which point they told me it was a clerk's error. In other words, they lied to me, but prevented me from regaining publication rights. I am now quite sure that tragedy and hope was suppressed, end quote. And there's a footnote on that that says, these letters were first published in the summer, 1976, issue of conspiracy digest published by Peter McAlpine, Alpine Press, Dearborn, Michigan. The
Originals cannot now be located. However, the author was able to locate the attorney, Mr. Paul Wolf, with the firm Williams and Connolly in Washington, D.C., who represented Quigley in his legal action against the publisher, Mr. Wolf cannot vouch for the authenticity of the letters themselves, but has confirmed in phone conversations and later writing that the essential details are correct. He writes, quote, it is my recollection that they withheld from me and the professor for some time the information that they had in fact destroyed the plates.
To understand why powerful people would want to suppress this book, note carefully what follows.
Dr. Quigley describes the goal of this network of world financiers as, quote,
nothing less than to create a world's system of financial control in private hands,
able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.
This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.
Each central bank in the hands of men like Montague Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, Jean-Mar Schacht of the Reich Banks, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business.
business world. That is the information that powerful people do not want the common man to know.
Notice that quickly refers to this group as a network. That is a precise choice of words and it is
important to an understanding of the forces of international finance. The network to which he refers
is not the secret society. It is no doubt directed by it and there are members, society members
in key positions within the network. But we cannot be sure that there are many in the network who
have little or no knowledge of hidden control. To explain how this can be possible, let us turn to
the origin and growth of the secret society itself. All right, that was mostly the same in
mine. Cool. Ruskin, Rhodes, and Milner. In 1870, a wealthy British socialist by the name of
John Ruskin was appointed as Professor of the Fine Arts at Oxford University in London. He thought
that the state must take control of the means of production and organize them for the good of the
community as a whole. He advocated placing control of the state into the hands of a small ruling
class, perhaps even a single dictator. He said, quote, my continual aim has been to show the
eternal superiority of some men to others, sometimes even of one man to all others. This, of course,
is the same intellectual appeal of communism. Lenin taught that the masses could not be trusted to
handle their own affairs and that a special group of disciplined intellectuals must assume this role for
them. That is the function of the Communist Party, which never comprises more than about three percent
of the population. Even when the charade of free elections is allowed, the only the members of the party
or those whom the KGB has total control are permitted to run for office. The concept that a ruling party
or class is the ideal structure for society is at the heart of all collectivist schemes,
regardless of whether they are called socialism, communism, Nazism, fascism, or any other ism,
which may yet be invented to disguise it.
It is easy, therefore, for adherence of this elitist mentality to be comfortable in almost any of these collective camps,
a fact to which Dr. Quigley alluded when he wrote, quote,
this network, which we may identify as the roundtable groups,
has no aversion to cooperating with the communists or any other groups and frequently does so.
Stop there for a second. That's such an important point. The ideal structure for a society is at the
heart of all collectivist schemes, regardless of which ism. This is, I think, what we see and why
these words have come to mean nothing, right? Like if somebody calls you a Nazi now, it doesn't
mean anything because the totalitarian, the flavor of totalitarianism that is Naziism has lost all
of its meaning. Same with communism. I generally refer to all of these collectivist movements as
global communism because I think it's, depending on where you are in the world, it will have a
different label attached to it, but it ties back always to the global regime, kind of the good,
twin-twin-twin theory of Chris Paul's.
Well, and they're not even truly communists, the people that are trying to push the particular
movement. And when they talk about Trotsky earlier on, having $10,000 and a chauffeur and all that,
it's the same thing here. The same people that are pushing communism from the very top are elitist,
are multi-multimillionaires and people that have fancy cars and big mansions and everything else.
And they just, that is, that is, they take naive.
weak-minded people and latch them onto some sort of a hope that somehow this person knows how to
get them out of the depression that they're in. Yeah, or give them what they want, right,
depending on. And I think, I think that's right, but that's not to say that communism is good,
right? No, I'm not saying, no, no, no, no. I know you're not. I know you're not, but I think that's
the next logical step of, you know, when Colonel Towner talks about how every anti-communist narrative has been
a creation of the CIA, the next logical thought pattern is, well, you know, is communism not
what we've been told? It is, is that actually something we should look at? And the answer is,
no, all of this is about decision rights. And the authoritarian's will use whatever labels that
they have to, that they can, in order to take the decision rights. It doesn't matter what flavor
of authoritarianism we're talking about. Agreed. Returning to the subject of the origins of this group,
However, Dr. Quigley tells us, quote, Ruskin spoke to the Oxford undergraduates as members of the privileged ruling class.
He told them that they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency, and self-discipline,
but that this tradition could not be saved and did not deserve to be saved unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England itself and to the non-English masses throughout the world.
Ruskin's message had a sensational impact.
his inaugural lecture was copied out in long hand by one undergraduate cecil rhodes who kept it with him for 30 years
cecil rhodes made one of the world's greatest fortune with the fortunes with the cooperation of the bank of england and financiers like the ross shields he was able to establish a virtual monopoly over the diamond output of south africa and most of the gold as well the major portion of this vast income was spent to advance the ruling class ideas
of John Ruskin. Dr. Quigley explains, quote, the Rhodes Scholarship established by the terms of
Cecil Rhodes' seventh will are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five
previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the
preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that
the secret society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and continues to exist
to this day. In his book on Rhodes' wills, he, Stead, who was a member of the inner circle,
wrote in one place, quote, Mr. Rhodes was more than the founder of a dynasty. He aspired to be the
creator of one of those vast semi-religious quasi-political associations, which, like the
Society of Jesus, have played so large a part in history of the world. To be more strictly
accurate, he wished to found an order as the instrument of the will of the dynasty.
In this secret society, Rhodes was to be the leader.
Stead, Brett, Lord Escher, and Milner were to form an executive committee.
Arthur Balfour, Lord Balfour, Sir Harry Johnston, Lord Roshield, Albert, Lord Grey, and others were listed as potential members of a quote-unquote circle of initiates.
While there was to be an outer circle known as the Association of Helpers, later organized by Milner as the Roundtable Organized.
organization. The Association of Helpers was probably behind the Help America Vote Act.
The pattern of conspiracy. Here then was the classical pattern of political conspiracy.
This was the structure that made it possible for Quigley to differentiate between an international
network and the secret society within that network. At the center, there is always a tiny
group in complete control, with one man as the undisputed leader. Next is a circle of secondary
leadership that for the most part is unaware of an inner core. They are led to believe that they
are the most inner ring. In time, as these conspiracies are built from the center out,
they form additional rings of an organization. Those in outer echelons are usually idealists
with an honest desire to improve the world. They never suspect an inner control for other purposes,
and only those few who demonstrate a ruthless capacity for higher leadership are ever allowed to see it.
After the death of Cecil Rhodes, the inner core of his secret society fell under the control of Lord Alfred Milner, Governor General and High Commissioner of South Africa.
As director of a number of public banks and as corporate precursor of England's Midland Bank, he became one of the greatest political and financial powers in the world.
Milner recruited into his Secret Society group of young men, chiefly from Oxford and Toinby Hall, and according to quickly, quote,
through his influence, these men were able to win influential posts in government and international finance
and became the dominant influence in British Imperial and Foreign Affairs up to 1939.
In 1909 to 1913, they organized semi-secret groups known as Roundtable groups
in the chief British dependencies in the United States.
Money for the widely ramified activities of this organization came chiefly from the Rhodes Trust itself
and from wealthy associates such as the Bight brothers from Sir Abe Bailey and after 1915 from the Astor family
and from foundations and firms associated with international banking fraternity,
especially the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and other organizations associated with J.P. Morgan,
the Rockefeller and Whitney families,
and the associates of Lazard brothers and of Morgan, Grenfell, and Company.
At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended.
Once again, the task was entrusted to Lionel Curtis, who established in England and each dominion,
a front organization to the existing local roundtable group.
This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
had at its nucleus in each area the existing submerged roundtable group.
In New York, it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations,
and was a front for J.P. Morgan and company in association with the very small American roundtable group.
The Council on Foreign Relations was a spinoff from the failure of the world's leaders at the end of World War I
to embrace the League of Nations as a true world government.
It became clear to the master planner that they had been unrealistic in their expectations for rapid acceptance.
If their plan were to be carried forward, it would have to be done on the basis of patient gradualism symbolized by the Fabian Turtle.
going to go to the quote in a second, but this is, so it's really not hard to, to accept when
you think about the fourth turning. I was just going to say that. Yeah. Rose Martin says,
Colonel House was only one man where a multitude was needed. He had set the pattern and outlined the
goals for the future and he still had a scheme or two in mind. In particular, he foresaw it would be
necessary for the Fabians to develop a top level angle American planning group in the
field of foreign relations, which could secretly influence policy on the one hand and gradually
educate public opinion on the other. And remember that Edward Bernays wrote propaganda in
1928. To the ambitious young Fabians, British and American, who had flocked to the peace conference
as economists and junior officials, it soon became evident that a new world order was not about
to be produced at Paris. For them, Colonel House arranged a dinner meeting at the Hotel Majestic
on May 19, 1919, together with a select group of Fabian certified Englishmen, notably Arnold
Toinby, R.H. Tawny, and John Maynard Keynes. They were equally disillusioned for various reasons
by the consequences of the peace. They made a gentleman's agreement to set up an organization
with branches in England and America, quote, to facilitate the scientific study of international questions.
As a result, two potent and closely related opinion-making bodies were founded.
The English branch was called the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
The American branch, first known as the Institute of International Affairs,
was reorganized in 1921 as the Council on Foreign Relations.
It is through this front group called the Council on Foreign Relations
and its influence over the media, tax-exempt foundations,
universities, and government agencies that the international financiers have been able to
dominate the domestic and foreign policies of the United States ever since.
We shall have more to say about the CFR, but our focal point for now is Great Britain,
and in particular, the help given to communism in Russia by Lord Alfred Milner and his web of
secret societies.
Roundtable agents in Russia.
In Russia, prior to and during the revolution, there were many local observers, tourists,
and newsmen who reported that British and American agents were everywhere, particularly in
Petrograd.
providing money for insurrection. One report said, for example, that British agents were seen
handing out 25 rubble notes to the men at the Pavlovsky regiments just a few hours before it
mutinyed against its officers and sided with the revolution. The subsequent publication of various
memoirs and documents made it clear that this funding was provided by Milner and channeled
through Sir George Buchanan, who was the British ambassador to Russia at that time. It was a repeat
of the ploy that had worked so well for the cabal many times in the past roundtable members were once
again working both sides of the conflict to weaken and topple a target government czar nicholas had
every reason to believe that since the british were russia's allies in the war against germany british
officials would be the last persons on earth to conspire against him yet the british ambassador himself
represented the hidden group which was financing the regime's downfall the roundtable the roundtable
agents from America did not have the advantage of using the diplomatic service as a cover and therefore
had to be considerably more ingenious. They came not as diplomats or even as interested businessmen,
but disguised as Red Cross officials on a humanitarian mission. The group consisted almost entirely
of financiers, lawyers and accountants from New York banks and investment houses. They simply had
overpowered the American Red Cross organization with large contributions and, in effect,
just a franchise to operate in its name.
Professor Sulton tells us, quote,
the 1910 Red Cross fundraising campaign for $2 million, for example,
was successful only because it was supported by these wealthy residents of New York City.
J.P. Morgan himself contributed $100,000.
Herrari, or is that Henry?
Henry in my book.
Okay, it's H-E-R-I-R-Y in mine.
So I figured it was Henry.
Henry P. Davidson, a Morgan partner, was chairman of the chairman of the,
the 1910 New York fundraising committee and later became chairman of the world war council on the
of the American Red Cross the red cross the red cross was unable to cope with the demands of
World War I and in effect was taken over by these New York bankers for the duration of the war the
Red Cross had been made nominally a part of the armed forces and subject to orders from the proper
military authorities it was not clear who these authorities were and in fact there were never any
orders but the arrangement made it possible for the participants to receive military commissions and wear
the uniform of american army officers the entire expense of the red cross mission in russia including
the purchase of uniforms was paid for by the man who had appointed who was appointed by president
wilson to become its head colonel william boyce thompson colonels in quotes
thompson was a classical specimen of the roundtable network having begun his career as a spectacular
in copper mines, he soon moved into the world of high finance. He refinanced the American
woolen company and tobacco products company, launched the Cuban cane sugar company, purchased
controlling interest in the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, organized the submarine boat
corporation and the Wright Martin Aeroplane Company. He became a director of the Chicago,
Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, the Magma, Arizona Railroad, and the
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company MetLife.
Was one of the heaviest stockholders in the Chase National Bank and was the agent for J.P. Morgan's
British Securities Operation and he became the first full-time director, the Federal Reserve Bank
in New York, the most important bank in the Federal Reserve system, and of course contributed
a quarter million dollars to the Red Cross. Wow. When Thompson arrived in Russia,
he made it clear that he was not your typical Red Cross representative, according to Herman Haggard
Dorn Thompson's biographer, quote,
He deliberately created the kind of setting,
which would be expected of an American magnate,
established himself in a suite in the Hotel de lao Europe,
bought a French limousine,
went dutifully to receptions and teas,
and evinced an interest in objects of art.
Society and the diplomats,
noting that there was a man of parts and power,
began to flock about him.
He was entertained at the embassies,
at the houses of Kerenzky's ministers,
the houses of Kerenzky's ministers,
it was discovered that he was a collector,
and those with antiques to sell fluttered around him,
offering him miniatures,
Dresden China, tapestries,
even a palace or two.
When Thompson attended the opera,
he was given the imperial box.
People on the street called him the American Tsar,
and it is not surprising that,
according to George Kennan,
quote, he was viewed by the Kerenzky authorities
as the quote unquote real
ambassador of the United States. It is now a matter of record that Thompson syndicated the purchase
on Wall Street of Russian bonds in the amount of 10 million rubles. In addition, he gave over
two million rubles to Alexander Kerensky for propaganda purposes inside Russia and with J.P. Morgan
Chase gave the rubble equivalent of $1 million to the Bolsheviks for the spreading of
revolutionary propaganda outside of Russia, particularly in Germany and Austria. A photograph of the
cablegram from Morgan to Thompson, advising that the money had been transferred to the National
City Bank branch in Petrograd is included in this book.
An object lesson in South Africa. At first, it may seem incongruous that the Morgan group would
provide funding for both Kerenzky and Lenin. These men may have both been socialist
revolutionaries, but they were miles apart in their plans for the future and, in fact, were
bitter competitors for control of the new government. But the tactic of funding both sides in a
political contest by then have been refined by members of the roundtable into a fine art.
And I'm sure they stopped, right?
I'm sure that's not still our current reality.
Sure.
A stunning example of this occurred in South Africa during the outset of the Boer War in 1899.
The British and Dutch had been active in the settlement of South Africa for decades.
The Dutch had developed the provinces of Transvaal and the Orange Free States.
state, while the British had colonized such areas as Rhodesia, Cape Hope, Basuto land, Swaziland,
and Buquequana land. I mean, a better country naming convention. Conflict was inevitable
between these two groups of settlers whenever they found themselves in competition for the
resources of the same territory. But it was the discovery of gold in the whitewater area
of the Transvaal and provided the motive for war. Politically, the
Transvaal was in the hand of the Boers, who were the descendants of the Dutch settlers, but after the
discovery of gold in that area, the minefields had been developed primarily by the British,
that had been developed primarily by the British and became solidly under their control.
Not surprisingly, one of the largest players in that game was Cecil Rhodes, who already
had monopolized the diamond fields under British control to the south.
Historian Henry Pike tells us, quote, with the discovery of gold at the Transvaal, Rhodes agreed
Rhodes' greed became passionate. His hatred of Paul Kruger, the African or president of the Transvaal, knew no limits. He was bitterly opposed to Kruger's independent Transvaal and viewed it as the main obstacle to his efforts to sweep all Southern Africa under British rule.
In 1895, Rhodes set in motion a plan to overthrow Kruger's government by organizing an uprising among the British inhabitants of Johannesburg. The uprising was financed by himself.
and was to be led by his brother, Frank, and other loyal supporters.
This was to be followed by a military invasion of the transvaal by British troops from
Becuana Land and Rhodesia led by Sir Leander Jameson.
The uprising fizzled and ended in Jameson's arrest and public disgrace.
But Rhodes was determined to have the transvaal and began immediately to prepare a second
more patient ploy.
Through Rhodes's influence, Lord Alfred Milner was appointed as the
the British High Commissioner of South Africa.
In London, Lord Escher, another member of the Secret Society,
became the chief political advisor to King Edward
and was in daily contact with him throughout that period.
That took care of the British side of the contest.
With regard to the Boers side, Professor Quigley tells the amazing story,
quote,
By a process whose details are still obscure,
a brilliant young graduate of Cambridge, Jan Smuts,
oh, Jan Smuts, who had been a vigorous,
supporter of Rhodes and acted as his agent in Kimberly, South Africa's largest diamond mine,
and as late as 1895, and who was one of the most important members of the Rhodes-Milner group
in the period 1908 to 1950, went to the Transvaal and, by violent anti-British agitation,
became state secretary of that country, although a British subject and chief political advisor
to Paul Krueger, President Krueger. Milner made provocative troop movements on the board,
frontiers in spite of the vigorous protests and his commanding general in south africa who had to be
removed and finally war was precipitated when smootz drew up an ultimatum insisting that the british troop
movement cease and when his and when this was rejected by milner and so as a result of careful
engineering by roundtable members on both sides one making outrageous demands and the other responding to
those demands and pretended indignation, the war finally began with a British invasion in October of
1890. After two and a half years of fierce fighting, the Boers were forced to surrender and Milner
administered the former Republic as a military occupied territory. Roundtable members, known to the public
as Milner's kindergarten, were placed into all key government posts and the gold fields were
finally secured. That story that Quigley tells there reminds me of the movie Sicario.
Just go in there and mess some stuff up, make a conflict. I mean, all of it, all of it is that.
I mean, so, you know, when we when we talked, I think it was during the book that we shall not
mention. I'll mention that. I think that was when Colonel Towner called the intelligence,
the Praetorian Guard. I think that's where she officially coined that. And,
you can see it throughout this like all of these people they're not the now they're still at this
point in time there's still secret societies and everything else like that and and very much so still
to this day but they also are are operating under the guise of of uh well maybe not the guys of
but under the the umbrella of intelligence um it's it's i mean to see it historically in color more
Right. Right, but to see how far back it goes and how it was defined back then is fascinating.
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Placing bets on all horses.
On the other side of the world in New York City,
the same tactic of playing both sides against each other
was being applied with brilliant precision
by roundtable member J.P. Morgan, Chase, or J.P. Morgan.
I automatically want to say Chase.
Professor Quigley tells us, quote,
to Morgan, all political parties were simply organizations to be used,
and the firm always was careful to keep afoot
in all camps. Morgan himself, Dwight Morrow, and other partners were allied with Republicans.
Russell C. Leffingwell was allied with the Democrats.
Grayson Murphy was allied with the extreme right and Thomas Lamont with the allied with the left.
Although it is true that Thomas Lamont was the father of Corliss Lamont, a well-known communist
and was himself widely regarded as a man of leftist persuasions, it must also be remembered that
he felt equally at home among the fascists and, in fact,
serve as an unofficial met business consultant for Mussolini in the 1920s.
If it wasn't for-
Strategic advisor to Mussolini is definitely going on the CV.
If it wasn't for bad morals, you'd have no morals at all.
At the same time that Morgan was funding pro-Bolshevik groups,
he founded that what was probably the most virulent,
that's another one that's always hard for me to say,
most virulent anti-Bolshevik organization,
ever to exist in america it was called united americans and it said about the frighten everyone
into believing that a red mob was at that very moment poised to capture new york city that's right
around the time that the last president was written it issued shocking reports warning about a
pending financial collapse widespread starvation and a desperate working class being maneuvered into
accepting communist slogans and rhetoric as a last resort ironically the officers of this organization were
Alan Walker of the Guarantee Trust Company, which was then acting as the Soviet's fiscal agent in the U.S.
Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, which was then active in the development of the Soviet railways,
H. H. Westinghouse of Westinghouse Airbrake Company, which was then operating a major plant in Russia,
and Otto H. Khan of Coon, Loeb and Company, which was one of the principal financial backers of the fledgling Soviet regime.
what year was this because in the at the same time does it say what year it is because that is right at the same time
that engersaw lockwood wrote the last president which is all about the communist uprising the
antifa essentially uprising so they're in 1890 in the prior section and it says on the other side
of the world the same tactic in this section so maybe around then um i think the point about the
1920s is just referring to Lamont's background.
This is right around the same time as...
You're in the turn of the century.
Yeah.
Even inside Russia itself, the roundtable was spreading its bets.
In addition to the funding previously mentioned, which was given to the Bolsheviks and to their opponents,
the Mensheviks.
Morgan was also financed the military forces of Admiral Colchak, who was fighting against the Bolsheviks
in Siberia.
Not surprisingly, Colchak also received funding from a consortium of British financiers, including Alfred Milner.
It is commonly stated that the original intent of the Red Cross mission to Moscow was to prevent the Russian government from making a separate peace with Germany, which would release German troops to fight against England and France.
According to that version of the story, which portrays the actors as patriots merely doing what was best for the war effort, the first goal was to support the Tsar.
When the Tsar was overthrown, they supported the Mensheviks because they had pledged to stay in the war.
When the Mensheviks were ousted, they continued to support the Bolsheviks in order to gain sufficient influence to convince them not to give aid to Germany.
It takes a great deal of gullibility to swallow that line.
A far more plausible reading is that the Morgan interests were merely doing what they had always done,
placing bets on all horses, so no matter which one cross.
the finish line, the winner would be obligated to them.
It's Hydra.
Yeah.
Definitely describing Hydra.
It's that scene in The Last Jedi, you know, terrible movie, but it's the scene where
Benicio del Toro's character goes on the yacht, the space shuttle, the exclusive one.
He's like, let's see who they're funding.
And they're war contractors.
And he's like, oh, they're funding the bad guys.
And then he clicks through and he's like, oh, look, and the good guys.
Every time.
Mm-hmm.
British agent of the roundtable.
After the Bolsheviks had seized power in Russia,
Sir George Buchanan was recalled as the British ambassador
and replaced by a member of Milner's kindergarten,
a young man by the name of Bruce Lockhart.
In his book, British agent,
Lockhart describes the circumstances of his assignment.
Speaking of a meeting with the Prime Minister,
Lloyd George, he wrote, quote,
I saw that his own mind was made up.
He had been greatly impressed,
as Lord Milner told me afterwards, by an interview with Colonel Thompson of the American Red Cross,
who had just returned from Russia and who had denounced in blunt language the folly of the allies
and not opening up negotiations with the Bolsheviks. Three days later, all my doubts were put to rest.
I was to go to Russia as the head of special mission to establish unofficial relations with the Bolsheviks.
I had been selected for this Russia mission, not by the Foreign Secretary, but by the war cabinet,
actually by Lord Milner and by Mr. Lord Lloyd George.
Lord Milner I saw almost daily.
Five days before my departure, I dined with him at Brooks.
He was in his most inspiring mood.
He talked to me with charming frankness about the war,
about the future of England,
about his own career and about the opportunities of youth.
He was, too, very far from being the jingo
and the conservative reactionary,
whom popular opinion at one time represented him to be.
On the contrary, many of his views on society were startling modern.
He believed in the high organized state in which service, efficiency, and hard work were more important than titles or money bags.
American agent of the roundtable. When Thompson returned to the United States, the man he selected to replace himself as head of the American Red Cross mission was his second in command, Raymond Robbins.
Not much is known about Robbins except that he was the protege of Colonel Edward Mandel House.
and he might have remained an obscure player in this drama had it not been for the fact that he became one of the central characters in Bruce Lockhart's book.
It is there that we get this inside view.
Quote, another new acquaintance of these first days in the Bolshevized St. Petersburg was Raymond Robbins, the head of the American Red Cross Mission.
He had been a leading figure in Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign for the American presidency in 1912.
Isn't that funny how they always get rewarded upwards?
Although a rich man himself, he was an anti-capitalist, hitherto.
two, his two heroes had been Roosevelt and Cecil Rhodes. Now Lenin had captured his imagination.
Robbins was the only man whom Lenin was always willing to see and whoever succeeded
in imposing his own personality on the unemotional Bolshevik leader.
In a less official sense, Robbins had a similar mission to my own. He was the intermediary
between the Bolsheviks and the American government and had set himself the task of persuading
President Wilson to recognize the Soviet regime.
One amazing revelation is contained in those words.
First, we learned that Robbins was the leader in the team effort that threw the election of 1912 to Woodrow Wilson.
Yep.
Then we learned that he was an anti-capitalist.
Third, we discover that an anti-capitalist can hero worship Cecil Rhodes.
Then we see the tremendous power he wielded over Lenin.
And finally, we are told that although he was part of a private group financed by Wall Street bankers,
he was in reality the intermediary between the Bolsheviks and the American government.
government. One will look in vain for a better summary. The fact that Cecil Rhodes was one of
Robin's great heroes was special significance for this story. It was not merely an intellectual
infatuation from college days. On the night before he left Russia, Robbins dined with Lockhart,
describing the occasion, Lockhart says, quote, he had been reading Rhodes' life and after dinner,
he gave us a wonderful exposition of Rhodes' character, end quote. Thus, both Lockhart and
Robbins were dedicated disciples of Cecil Rhodes and both were undoubtedly part of the
international network to which Professor Quigley alluded possibly even members of the
roundtable Lockhart reported to the British group while Robbins reported to the
American group but both were clearly working for identical objectives and
doing the work of the unseen hand the Bolsheviks were well aware of the power
these men's represented and there were and there was no doork
were closed to them. They were allowed to attend meetings of the central executive committee and were
consulted regarding important decisions. But perhaps the best way to appraise the extent of the
influence these quote-unquote capitalists had over the quote-unquote anti-capitalist is to let Lockhart
tell his own story. In his memoirs, he wrote, quote, I returned from our interview to our flat to find
an urgent message from Robbins requesting me to come see him at once. I found him in a state of great
agitation. He had been in conflict with Salkind, a nephew of Trotsky, and then, and then assistant
commissioner for foreign affairs. Salkind had been rude and the American who had a promise,
who had a promise from Lenin that whatever happened, a train would always be ready for him at an
hour's notice, was determined to exact an apology or to leave the country. When I arrived,
he had just finished telephoning to Lennon. He had delivered his ultimatum and Lennon had promised to give a
reply within 10 minutes. I waited while Robbins fumed. Then the telephone rang and Robbins picked up
the receiver. Lennon had capitulated. Salkind was dismissed from his post, but he was an old member of
the party. Would Robbins have any objection if Lenin sent him a Bolshevik emissary to beam?
Robin smiled grimly. Oh, it says beam here. So, okay, to burn. Robin smiled grimly.
quote thank you mr lennon he said as i sent as i can't send the son of a bitch to hell
burn is the next best thing you can do with him and then it's bum so it's beam first and then it's
bum but i'm assuming it's in my text b-e r n e is how it's spelled which i don't know was that in
switzerland i don't know but then it's b um quote unquote b um switzerland yeah yeah
such was the raw power of the leaders of communism that was concealed behind the
innocent facade of the American Red Cross mission. And yet the world, even today, has no inkling of
its reality. It has been a carefully guarded secret, and even many of those who were close to it
were unable to see it. The assistant to William Thompson in Russia was Cornelius Kelleher.
In later years, reflecting on the naivete of Dr. Franklin Billings, who was head of the mission's
medical team, Keller wrote, quote, poor Mr. Billings believed he was in charge of a scientific
mission for the relief of Russia. He was in reality, nothing but a mask.
The Red Cross complexion of the mission was nothing but a mask.
The purpose of a mask, of course, is to conceal.
And so we are led to ask the question, what was behind that mask?
What were the true motives and goals of the masqueraders?
We shall turn to that subject next.
Wow.
Summary.
The Bolshevik Revolution was not a spontaneous uprising of the masses.
It was planned, financed, and orchestrated by outsiders.
Some of the financing came from Germany, which hoped that internal
problems would force Russia out of the war against her, but most of the money and leadership came
from financiers in England and the United States. It was a perfect example of the Raw Shield
formula in action. This group centered mainly around a secret society created by Cecil Rhodes,
one of the world's wealthiest men at the time. The purpose of that group was nothing less than
world domination and the establishment of a modern feudalist society controlled by the world's
central banks. Headquartered in England, the Rhodes' innermost directorate was called the
Roundtable. In other countries, they were established subordinate structures called Roundtable
Groups. The Roundtable Group in the United States became known as the Council on Foreign Relations.
The CFR, which was initially dominated by J.P. Morgan and later by the Rockefellers, is the most
powerful group in America today. It is even more powerful than the federal government because
almost all of the key positions in government are held by its members. In other words, it is the
United States government. Agents of these.
two groups cooperated closely in pre-revolutionary russia and particularly after the czar was overthrown the
american contingent in russia disguised itself as a red cross mission allegedly doing humanitarian work
cashing in another close friendship with trotsky and lenin they obtained profitable business
concessions from the new government which returned their initial investment many times over
and then we have some pictures which we're out of time so folks can read those can read those descriptions
the pictures on their own time.
So when they say that, you know, the roundtable group, the Council and Foreign Relations,
it is the American government.
These people are, I mean, they're groomed in these positions, right?
They grow up in these positions.
It's like a right of passage for them in that regard.
Groomed is a good word.
Yeah.
Pedigree is another one.
Right.
It's their right of passage.
It's their, it's an heirloom to them.
You got to wonder, man.
Again, all shows are why we vote. It all comes down to elections. If you can't get past these people and get into people that aren't already predetermined to be in those positions, you never get past it. All shows are why we vote.
Yeah, we have to have accountability or we can't, we can't get out of this dystopia. And it's not voting, you know, it's not like, oh, well, we'll hold them accountable by voting them out of office. There needs to be actual accountability for what has been done to the American people by these.
globalist monsters. It's been going on for generations. Their goals are at odds with the protected
liberties of the United States of America, but the citizens of the United States of America are being
exploited because of, you know, the globalist influence. I think globalism is treason. I think
this book proves it. And I think there must be accountability. Yeah, the last thing I'll say before we
get out of here, Ash and I on Tuesday had a law professor from my alma mater down
here in South Florida, Professor Tim Kanova on to talk about his election experience. And then
we find out that he's a constitutional lawyer while constitutional law professor, First Amendment
and- First Amendment and board governance. And board governance and the Federal Reserve.
We should see if between now and when we leave for Gart, we can get him for like 30, 45 minutes and
just do a special that we could air Gart Week in, you know, in the position of where this show is.
that'd be fun.
In place of Badlands.
Yeah, he's written a ton about the Federal Reserve.
It's an area of expertise for him.
And he's really fun to talk to.
Yeah, let's do it.
I'll text him and ask him.
He texted me after the show and said he thoroughly enjoyed it.
Okay.
Yeah, so.
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