Future Shock

By Author: Robert Bruce Baird
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FUTURE SHOCK:

Futurists like Alvin Toffler and his wife are important parts of any informed citizens reading. Naisbitt's forward to Marilyn Ferguson's The Aquarian Conspiracy was part of my introduction to other futurists. I am not sure that the New Age has advanced a great deal since he wrote that forward for her book however. Let me assure you there is nothing ‘new' about the New World Order or the New Age philosophies. From the days of the Antonines in the first century BCE the local authority and borders have been established in ever-increasing bureaucracy. The Oxford History of the Roman World goes on to say: More significant is the interference in the financial affairs of cities which became widespread during the second century AD we find a momentous departure from the traditional laissez-faire attitude toward government which had hitherto prevailed.

Toffler appears to have been right about the formation of Economic Unions and more International co-operation but I think the corporate behemoths are more responsible for it than any real effort at efficiency. Bureaucracy might ...
... be increasing a great deal more once sentient robots make it unnecessary to have people doing much of the menial labor they now perform. All in all I can assure you there are very few people who understand the Physiocrats and the Hegelian Dialectic and I am not convinced that futurists are looking into clear crystal balls. In fact the Mayans seem to be more correct. The ethical malaise that includes secret agencies and clubs for men whose nature requires more power rather than more abundance for all life on earth is not being addressed. Most people are unwilling to do any real learning about the controls that are increasing through better science and all manner of immoral attitudes. Justice is a hard thing to find in our present world.

There are many places where you can read about the French having nationalized the Rothschild banking interests including a book by Guy de Rothschild. This book is titled The Whims of Fortune and Pierre Salinger says it sets the record straight. I do not find it to be factual or informed and it is mere chest-beating gossip. I do not know if the Rothschilds lost any money and I do know they immediately continued to operate their business and won the rights to their former bank's name within a short time. I think the future will take a turn in the right direction when people start to insist that the history of the Rothschild/Bauer/De Medicis/Templar/Benjaminites is taught in all media including schools. That means that people will have to know what a Physiocrat and laissez-faire means. It cannot happen without this as I see it; barring an attack from outer space or some major catastrophe that will unify humanity, that is. I think the following report is fair and correct as it points out certain things are not publicized and the nationalization plan did not damage the Rothschilds much at all.

Two hundred years of global banking history - during which the London Rothschilds rose to dominate mercantile and money trade, while their French confreres were central to promoting the colonial interests of the French state - may not be coming to an end. But it's reached a definite bend in the road.

Baron David de Rothschild , head of Rothschild et Cie Banque in Paris (the bank was nationalised in 1981 but returned to private hands two years later) is now taking the helm at the Rothschild Bank in London from his relative Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. David will assume the chair of Rothschild's Continuation Holdings (RCH).

This Swiss holding company is the key agency that brings together the three main strands of the Rothschild businesses (in Britain, France and US) - and of course in concealing transactions the partners don't particularly want publicised.

In the new move, other French Rothschilds are also taking stakes in Sir Evelyn's holdings in the Rothschild Bank However, existing joint participation in global banking investment, between the French and the English branches of the family, is not expected to change in the short term.

RCH controls NM Rothschild, the London Bank which was the first major financial undertaking by its eponymous founder in the 18th century. NM Rothschild is the only segment of the empire to have survived without interruption since the five sons of the Frankfurter Mayer Amschel joined the European Jewish diaspora two hundred years ago, as they were sent out to make the family fortunes. [Financial Times (FT) 10/2/03]. (5)


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