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HISTORY…THE ORIGINS OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
HOW BIG OIL CONQUERED THE WORLD
From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself.
HOW SAUDI ARABIA FUNDED GLOBAL TERROR
Funding Jihad? (2003) – Did the Saudi Royal Family really finance 9/11? Although a key Middle Eastern ally of America and Britain, the Wahhabist Saudi regime is nevertheless suspected of financing terror groups around the world.
HOW THE ORDER CONTROLS EDUCATION
The 1st volume of this series introduced THE ORDER, presented three preliminary hypotheses with examples of the evidence to come. We also asserted that any group that wanted to control the future of American society had first to control education, i.e., the population of the future. This volume outlines the way in which education has been controlled by The Order.
It all began at Yale. In the 1850s, three members of The Order left Yale and made a revolution that changed the face, direction and purpose of American education. It was a rapid, quiet revolution, and eminently successful.
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The revolutionary trio were: ‘ Timothy Dwight, Prof. Yale Divinity School and then 12th President of Yale University. ‘ Daniel Coit Gilman, 1st President University of California, and John Hopkins University, 1st President Carnegie Institution. ‘Andrew Dickson White, 1st President Cornell University, and American Historical Association. They were all initiated into The Order within a few years of each other (1849, 1852, and 1853). They set off for Europe to study philosophy at the University of Berlin, monopolized by post-Hegelian philosophy. Notably at Berlin University in 1856 was none other than Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology in Germany and the later source of the dozens of American PhDs who came back from Leipzig, Germany to start the modern American education movement. At the time Germany was dominated by the Hegelian philosophical ferment. There were two groups of these Hegelians. The Right Hegelians, were the roots of Prussian militarism and the spring for the unification of Germany. There were also Left Hegelians, the promoters of scientific socialism. Most famous of these, of course, are Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Heinrich Heine, Max Stirner and Moses Hess. Both groups use Hegelian theory of the State as a start point, i.e., the STATE IS SUPERIOR TO THE INDIVIDUAL. Prussian militarism, Nazism and Marxism have the same philosophic roots.
HUMAN RESOURCES: SOCIAL ENGINEERING IN THE 20TH CENTURY
This documentary explores the rise of mechanistic philosophy and the modern role of humans in technologically-driven society. The 20th century saw the introduction of the technocracy as an organizational framework, including behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation. This systemization of mankind is a fundamental transformation in human experience – one which many people today are still struggling to articulate and understand. David Ker Thomson’s review of the film describes it as follows: “It answers the significant events of the last century the way a glass answers the implicit questions of a man who peers into its reflective surface, point for point. It corresponds, in short, to reality.
Human Resources – Social Engineering in the 20th Century explores the rise of mechanistic philosphy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarhical systems. Topics covered include behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation.
The film includes original interviews with: “Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Rebecca Lemov (“World as Laboratory”), Christopher Simpson (“The Science of Coercion”), George Ritzer (“The McDonaldization of Society”), Morris Berman (“The Reenchantment of the World”), John Taylor Gatto (“Dumbing us Down”), Alfie Kohn (“What does it mean to be well educated?”) and others
