Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood

Even today, many people have trouble accepting the reality American Robber Barons helped set-up Hitler in power and funded the Communist takeover of Russia, two counter-coups that displaced democracies with fascist dictatorships masked as socialism. These were but two tentacles of what I call “The Octopus,” a global apparatus that manufactures war for profit by secretly controlling both sides of a conflict.

One insider who has spent a lifetime investigating these connections is John Loftus, author of America’s Nazi Secret (Trine Day). Loftus was 27-years-old when he arrived at the Justice Department to work as a prosecutor. On his first day, his boss informed him they were both employed by the most corrupt client in the world, the United States Government.

He soon learned the Attorney General in many cases was selected by big business, and was often considered little more than a “bag man” for Sullivan and Cromwell, the most powerful law firm on Wall Street. Loftus’ book is a treasure trove of closely-guarded secrets that have been kept under wraps for decades. For example, when the King of England abdicated prior to WWII, the reason given was he wanted to marry a commoner. The real reason, however, was that Edward was a Nazi sympathizer making secret deals with Hitler. Wiretappers from SIS discovered his dealings with the Nazis and Edward was forced to lay low for the remainder of the war. Loftus has leaked so many secrets I have to suspect he’s a spook himself, and his ops are designed as backstops, not full disclosure.

One of his most important revelations from today’s perspective, however, is Loftus’ account of the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood. Although this group worked closely with the Nazis, there was no attempt to dismantle the organization after the war, and, in fact, the Brotherhood went on to spawn all the Arab terror groups around the world today while receiving covert assistance from the CIA.

In 1953, three dozen Islamic scholars came to Washington DC, where they met with President Eisenhower. Saheed Ramahdan of the Muslim Brotherhood, son-in-law of the founder, Hassan al-Banna. Ramahdan, can be seen standing in the Oval Office during the visit (second from right).

Despite being an avowed fascist, Ramahdan would receive CIA support as he soon took over an important mosque in Munich, which became the Brotherhood’s most important recruiting center in Europe. At the time, the Brotherhood was being funded and courted because it provided a useful foil against Communism during the height of the Cold War.

We were the only nation in the world at the time that refused to designate the Brotherhood a terrorist group, and there’s a reason for that: because they were largely a CIA project. The SS forces outside of Germany had already become the foundation for NATO, so why wouldn’t SS ops in the Middle East receive the same strategic privileges?

Just as Wall Street targeted Germany and Russia prior to WWII, so also Saudi Arabia was targeted afterwards, which included installing a royal family friendly to Wall Street. Just as Russia and Germany were positioned to make war for profit, so too have Israel and Saudi Arabia been positioned to create immense profits for the military-industrial complex for decades to come. And the Muslim Brotherhood has an important role in this game.

Crusader Coins, Malta Knights & the Pentagon

Speaking in front of some students from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Seymour Hersh blew a few minds when he declared the Joint Chiefs of Staff were basically controlled by Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta, two societies that hold considerable power inside the Catholic Church.

Not only that, Hersh also claimed they were trading custom-made coins with each other (an old tradition with the Malta Knights, it seems) and the coins indicated they viewed their mission in Iraq as essentially a spiritual one to turn “mosques into cathedrals.” In other words, welcome to the Crusades!

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President John F. Kennedy meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Photograph includes: (L-R) United States Marine Corps. General David Shoup; United States Army General Earle Wheeler; United States Air Force General Curtis LeMay, President Kennedy; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell Taylor; United States Admiral George Anderson. West Wing Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
Please credit: “Robert Knudsen/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.”

One thing you notice right away with most so-called conspiracy research sites: they seem to have big agendas and a major piece of the puzzle is usually missing. Some are obviously Christian-based, and many of those don’t mention Malta Knights, Opus Dei or the Vatican.

Others seem to focus exclusively on the Rothschilds and basically “blame the jews,” ignoring the fact that the Rothschilds are part of a network of royal families and they have worked closely over the years with both the Vatican bank and the Rockefellers.

During the last year of his life, John Kennedy was seriously concerned the Joint Chiefs were going to overthrow him and assume power. In fact, the film “Seven Days in May” was not some wild fantasy, it represented very real concerns that forces inside the Pentagon were stage-managing political events for their own secret purposes.

The Malta Knights have been around since 1048 and currently have around 13,000 members worldwide. Originally headquartered in Jerusalem, the order was forced to move several times before landing at their current headquarters in Rome. Originally you had to be a member of nobility to join, and the upper ranks are probably still dominated by members of various royal families of Europe. In the modern era, Malta Knights have mostly been chosen from North America. They have long printed their own stamps and coins, and the current Malta coins are undoubtedly what Seymour was referring to as being very much in vogue and being passed around the upper ranks of the Pentagon.

According to the book “Blackwater,” Joseph Schmitz, former inspector general for the Pentagon who went to work for that sinister private company, lists his membership in the Malta Knights on his official biography. So are we fighting another Crusade or what? Rest assured, the Malta Knights have long functioned as an intelligence-gathering tool for the Vatican under the cloak of being a harmless charity. They played a major role in Operation Paperclip, which moved Nazi war criminals to safety so they could continue their work under new employers. And the Malta Knights seem to have forged a strong relationship with Israel and the neocons who took over the government under Bush II to foment the current wars in the Middle East.

Unfortunately, there’s a rabid form of Christian fundamentalism rapidly assuming power inside our military and its end-game seems to be to bring about a world war between Arabs on one side and Christians and Jews on the other. And don’t forget the real main purpose of war has pretty much remained the same throughout much of history: making profit. The average military-industrial corporation makes over ten times the profit during war they can hope to reap during peacetime. And if the war can be justified as a religious crusade, so much the better.

Even more important, Seymour Hersh is an intelligence operative and working the dialectical divide for counterintelligence operations. So whenever he reveals anything at all, it’s always a limited hangout.

The most over-looked conspiracy story in history

Although trillions of dollars in gold and precious gems were seized by the Nazis and the Japanese royal family during WWII, little of the treasure was ever recovered. Or was it? After the war, a few prominent Nazis were put on trial, while the most important scientists and spies were whisked off to work for the Allies in an operation run by OSS and the Vatican. There were no trials for the Japanese, however, even though their concentration camps were just as savagely-run as the Nazi’s.

There was a lot of funny business that went down after the war. Most notably was the creation of “The Black Eagle Fund” a project conceived by Henry Stimson, secretary of war and member of Yale’s Skull and Bones society. The Black Eagle Fund is top-secret and protected by National Security, so we’re not supposed to know anything about it. But it seems that most of that gold was recovered. And it had to be carefully “washed” and then returned secretly to the banking system, (otherwise it would have had to been given back to the people it was stolen from).

The bulk of this treasure was recovered from burial sites in the Philippines, which explains how Ferdinand Marcos suddenly became one of the richest people in the world seemingly overnight. The amount of gold buried in the Philippines was apparently greater than what they tell us exists in the entire banking system. And after it was moved into secret bank accounts around the world, special funds were created to foment propaganda, set-up right-wing dictators favorable to US corporations, and create false-flag terror around the world. These funds are still active today. They are off-the-shelf operations, completely self-funded at this point. Nobody knows who controls the funds today, although the certificates must have been passed down to someone. Apparently Nixon made a deal with the Chinese to return one of the major funds to them, which probably pissed off the CIA immensely, but may have opened up the door to economic exploitation of China.

There’s only one book on this subject, “Gold Warriors,” and it indicates Opus Dei played a role in washing the gold, which might explain why that society has pretty much taken over the Vatican. People speculate a lot about the power of the Rothschild dynasty and control of the gold market by the Bank of England, but I believe the secret gold recovery from WWII may have actually affected the balance of power in the gold industry. Someday maybe the truth will come out.

Wikileaks and UFOs

I lost all confidence in Julian Assange when he announced 911 was a “fake” conspiracy and there was no need to investigate the tragedy as a possible false-flag attack designed to lead us into war. If he was a real whistle-blower, Assange would be all over 911 because the official story is riddled with serious credibility problems that anyone with half-a-brain can see through.

Now comes the revelation Assange is planning to release explosive evidence regarding UFOs? Oh boy. This is big news, eh? It doesn’t take much imagination to comprehend that  UFO’s are probably the biggest rabbit hole ever created by military intelligence. Just turn on the History Channel and between shows about Hitler and Nazi Germany you’re bound to find tons of UFO specials. We’re constantly being bombarded by nonsense about UFOs and no doubt we may even experience a UFO landing some day. But in all probability, it won’t be real. It’ll be a carefully stage-managed, mind-control event.

I don’t discount the possibility there are energies from other dimensions passing through our reality here on earth. In fact, I’m sure that happens. But I also don’t believe that flying spacecraft from other solar systems inhabited by creatures like us are routinely visiting our planet in secrecy. It’s just too far to travel, and what would be the point of making such a journey in the first place? Even if craft were sent from another world to investigate us, the spaceships would most likely be unmanned drones. And if they were sending unmanned drones, don’t you think making “contact” would be on their to-do list? I mean, why snoop around and be so secretive about it? Why not just announce themselves to the world with a giant display of pyrotechnics? That’s they way our unmanned drones will likely be arriving in another solar system a hundred years or so from now.

To understand Wikileaks, you have to understand that military intelligence will always attempt to control both sides of any conflict. Right now, they have the perfect means to set-up just about anything because they can selectively “leak” fake information, have it posted on Wikileaks, and then get all hot and bothered when it shows up. Not only do I think 911 was a false flag attack, but I believe Wikileaks will probably turn out to be a similar operation.

 

Remembering JFK

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy by the CIA’s Executive Action Program, a division deep inside counterintelligence formed by James Angelton, a minion of Allen Dulles, cousin of David Rockefeller.

Right before Kennedy died, Rockefeller wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times denouncing his policies. The oil companies were especially concerned about JFK’s plans to end the oil depletion allowance that had allowed the oil companies to take over the economy. In fact, the Texas oil cartel (Hunts, Murchison) put up the money for the actual assassins, who were recruited by Johnny Roselli.

JFK was the youngest president ever elected to office, son of a former bootlegger who’d amassed a fortune running rum out of Cuba during Prohibition. During his brief time in office, JFK went through an amazing transformation and eventually went up against the most powerful forces in the country in an attempt to shift away from the cold war mentality and towards making the world a safer place to live. Peace was a popular desire at the time, especially among the young, and JFK respected that direction, even if it did conflict with plans to build a new American empire starting with Vietnam. JFK wanted to stop the war in Vietnam before it started. He wanted to end the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on the creation of money. He wanted to end the oil depletion allowance that had made the oil companies the most powerful corporations on the planet. He wanted to fire J. Edgar Hoover and bust the CIA into a thousand pieces. He wanted to establish peace with Cuba. And he wanted to dismantle the nuclear arms race and work for world peace. Any one of these would have been enough to prompt the oligarchy that really rules America to start working against his re-election. But JFK had become too dangerous to live. So they had to remove him the best way they know how. In a ritual “killing of the King” in a public area, an event that was designed to achieve as much shock and awe as possible. But we almost had a second coming. His son was poised to take his place, and complete the vision his father left undone. And then JFK’s murderers did the unthinkable: they assassinated his son. Someday, the country must address these crimes.

 

Blaming Zeitgeist

Peter Joseph
Jared Lee Loughner

The first time I saw “Zeitgest” by Peter Joseph, I assumed it was a counter-intelligence propaganda film. The second time I viewed it, I found it nearly impossible to sit through the first few minutes of shells being fired, bombs landing and general images of war and violence, which go on endlessly. (The first time you watch it, you don’t realize the conditioning involved in that opening sequence, and its importance in creating the final, fearful mood.)

Zeitgeist creates a feeling of dread and dread is the key emotion in crafting mind control propaganda. So, I assume the film is state-sponsored propaganda post-911. Of course, I could be wrong and there is a lot in Zeitgeist to love. Revealing the astrological connections behind the Jesus story, for example, even with some major exaggerations regarding other cultures. And Vanderbilt University just released a report claiming elements of astrology can be proven scientifically, so there’s yet another news hook to this blog. And, of course, I concur with the opinion of Peter Joseph that 911 was most likely an inside job designed to sweep us into war, although I also believe the so-called “911 Truth Movement” is heavily manipulated and a lot of what you find on the internet about 911 are carefully crafted rabbit holes leading off a cliff (or to nowhere).

So it comes as no surprise Zeitgeist is trailing into the shooting incident involving Jared Loughner. Apparently, it was Loughner’s favorite film, which may be bad news for Peter Joseph since he has recently started the worldwide “Zeitgeist Movement,” which someday may rival Scientology considering 50 million people have watched the film so far.

Will “Zeitgeist” become the first internet movie to be censored and/or banned from existence? Or will the NRA band together with Joseph to save our guns AND our dread-amplifying conspiracy theories?

Then again, this is probably just a public relations coup designed to increase the Zeitgeist brand immensely.

A final point worth noting: the lawyer who has emerged from the shadows to represent Loughner also represented the Unibomber, a man who participated in CIA-sponsored MKULTRA experiments while at Harvard before becoming a violent psychopath. If Loughner is one day revealed to be a Manchurian Candidate, it seems possible “Zeitgeist” could have been used in his conditioning, the same way Lennon’s shooter may have been programmed with “Catcher in the Rye.” The smiling face of the long-haired Loughner from High School seems is a long, long way from the shaved-head psycho taken into custody after the shooting. And if this is the case, what a clever move, to brand that film (and conspiracy theory in general) as being one of the biggest problems we face, why isn’t it obvious that this horrible conspiracy research is encouraging a wave of psychopathic violence through depressing factoids about the Federal Reserve! Pretty soon, anybody known as a “conspiracy theorist” better duck and cover. And that means you, Jesse Ventura.

And, by the way, if you want to watch a really good film about MKULTRA and mind control, check out “Human Resources” by Scott Noble. It covers some of the same ground as “Zeitgeist” but is a much better film. You can watch it free here: http://www.openfilm.com/videos/human-resources

The Importance of John Cage

Some people wonder how I turned out the way I did growing up in a middle-sized town in Central Illinois. They don’t seem to realize Urbana, Illinois was a hotbed of counterculture activity during the 1960s. And I think I know a possible reason why.

After Jasper Grootveld launched the Provo movement and started creating “happenings” in Amsterdam, a handful of other artists in the world began pursuing similar concepts. There was Andy Warhol on the east coast, doing multimedia happenings with the Velvet Underground as his house band. There was Ken Kesey on the west coast doing acid-drenched multimedia happenings with his house band, the Grateful Dead. And then there was John Cage, artist in residence at the University of Illinois, who, for a few years, was organizing the biggest and best multimedia happenings in the world in my hometown of Urbana.

In order to understand the impact this undoubtedly had, consider the way energy fields work. For example, if a forest is attacked on its perimeter by a predator insect, hundreds of miles away, trees on the other side of that forest will almost instantly start producing chemicals to fight the insect invasion. Similarly, if a group experienced with meditation technique holds a meditation in a town square, violent crime can go down in that town for several days after the meditation. This has been proven by science. Similarly, the events (ceremonies) John Cage instigated in Urbana helped turn my hometown into a haven for counterculture thinking and creativity.

Cage staged a “happening” at the Stock Pavilion that included one of Smitty’s Blasters.

On March 19, 1965, “Concert for Piano and Orchestra,” was performed, the first John Cage production at the U of I. It was conducted by Charles Hamm, with Ellsworth Snyder on piano. (Snyder would go on to become the first person to write a PhD thesis on Cage five years later.)  At one point during the performance, Snyder crawled under the piano and began banging the bottom with a mallet. Some conservative members of the audience began screaming with rage. One even began throwing folding chairs onto the stage in an attempt to stop the performance. Suddenly, the violinist smashed her violin over her music stand, an act worthy of a Who performance. From there the concert turned into a complete melee, with the audience out of their seats and the performers improvising general chaos.

Despite intense opposition from some elements of the faculty, Cage would continue to stage performances at the University for several years, culminating in his grand finale, “HPSCHD,” which was held at the Assembly Hall, the largest indoor venue in Central Illinois. It involved 208 tapes running through 52 tape-players, 59 amplifiers and loudspeakers, 6,400 slides (5,000 from NASA), 64 slide projectors, 40 films, 8 motion-picture projectors, 11 100’x40′ silk screens, and a 340′ circular screen made by Calvin Sumsion. The show included a lot of black light and fluorescent astrological designs. It lasted about five hours and the audience was encouraged to participate in the show in every way possible. About 8,000 attended, many of whom stayed for the entire five hours.

If you go to Urbana, you won’t find much counterculture activity today. But thanks in large part to John Cage, this wasn’t the case between 1965 and 1969.

43rd Anniversary of 420

A  group of students at San Rafael High School in California became known as “The Waldos” because they could be frequently found sitting on a wall in the school yard they’d made their regular hangout spot. They could also be frequently found imbibing cannabis and were widely known as the school’s biggest potheads.

One day in late spring 1971, someone approached the Waldos in the schoolyard during lunch hour with a piece of paper on which had been scrawled a map of Point Reyes Peninsula. “My cousin is in the Coast Guard and he planted this patch of marijuana,” he said. “But he thinks his commanding officer is onto him, so he says anybody can go pick the patch.” The Waldos were very excited indeed. This called for an almost immediate “safari,” which is what they called road adventures. They especially loved Mexican safaris as they almost always produced weed. But it was never free like this! One or two Waldos had an after school activity, so they couldn’t meet immediately after school. And they had to meet as close to the parking lot as possible, so they could quickly pile into one car and head for the patch. So it was decided to meet at 4:20 pm at the statue of Louis Pasteur at the entrance to the parking lot. And for the next few hours, whenever they spotted each other in the hallway, they gave a little salute and said the words, “Four-twenty, Louie,” to remind each other not to miss the appointment. When they met at the statute at 4:20, they smoked a joint, piled into their car and headed off to seek the pot patch.

Younger kids in the high school picked up on the ceremony and began holding annual events at 4:20 at the top of Mt. Tam, but when they began making flyers and distributing them at local Dead shows in the Bay Area, the rangers shut down the April 20th ceremony.

But one of those flyers came to my attention when I was editor of High Times, and I immediately made 4:20 a central part of everything I was doing, which included The Freedom Fighters, the Cannabis Cup, the WHEE! festivals, and my daily routine at High Times.

Charlie Manson’s OM War with Wavy Gravy

After serving 22 months in the Army, Hugh Romney attended Boston College on the GI bill and ended up studying the newly emerging improvisational theater movement (created by Viola Spolin). After college, he moved to Greenwich Village to become a comedian and was initially managed by Lenny Bruce while sharing an apartment with Tom Paxton and becoming close friends with Bob Dylan.

Before long, Romney moved to California and joined Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. But when Kesey fled to Mexico under threat of arrest, fellow prankster Ken Babbs hijacked the magic bus Further, leaving the rest of the Pranksters stranded in Los Angeles. Romney soon discovered a nearby hog farm in the mountains was looking for a caretaker. In other words, a free place to stay. He set up a commune and called it The Hog Farm, which overnight became one of the most famous of the 1960s hippie communes.

Charles Manson drove out to the Hog Farm one day in the late 1960s. He arrived in his all-black tour bus. Manson had already made contact with one of the Hog Farmers, Shirley Lake, whose daughter Diane would eventually join the Manson family. After arriving at the commune, Manson gave Romney the title to his black bus and then tried to seduce Romney’s wife Bonnie Jean (today known as Jahanara) in a nearby shed. He was undoubtedly planning on merging his family with the Hog Farm and usurping Romney as the leader of the commune. Romney managed to break up the seduction and Manson retired to his black bus with his female followers in tow. Sensing Manson was channeling the wrong vibes, Romney gathered his troops and began an OM circle next to the bus.

The OM circle is an ancient ceremony from Afghanistan that may have originated with the original Soma cults, or perhaps it was part of Manichaeism. As it traveled down the road to the Middle East, it became shortened as “amen.” I believe the original OM circle is the best way to harmonize a group of people. It initially became popular with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in Laguna Beach, and was later taken up by Allen Ginsberg, who used it as a force field to protect himself and others during the riots in Lincoln Park during the Democratic convention in 1968.

Suddenly, Manson burst out of the black bus, holding his throat, choking, followed by his female followers who were quite alarmed. They tried to stop the OM circle, as they believed it was killing their leader. Manson began leading his group in an evil OM to ward off the vibes coming from the Hog Farmers. Eventually, Romney was able to persuade Manson to drive away and not return. The following year, Romney would change his name to Wavy Gravy and become famous as the emcee of the first Woodstock festival. Manson’s family would soon become the most famous serial killers in the world.

Today, Wavy remains a master of improvisational theater, which involves a deep understanding of spirituality (telepathic energy). Improvisation can unblock energy clogs and release deep inner insights. If you ever get a chance to attend a Wavy Gravy improvisational workshop, jump at it. You won’t be sorry.

Manson, meanwhile, died on November 19, 2017, in a maximum security prison after numerous parole hearings refused to release him. When he entered prison, Manson listed his religion as “scientologist.” He kept an E-meter at his ranch. Some believe Scientology was created by military intelligence as a brainwashing and mind control operation.

Manson was directed into Haight-Ashbury by his probation officer Roger Smith (who strangely had no other paroles other than Manson). The neighborhood had been flooded with cheap speed. A “free clinic” had been set up in the neighborhood to monitor hippies and their drug use. The clinic was run by David Smith, who had recently conducted the first major study on the effects of meth on mice and discovered it enhanced violent behavior.

Another similar data-gathering operation was set-up two blocks away on Frederick Street. Dr. Jolly West rented a house where over 30 hippies resided, and paid them $1.50 an hour (a considerable sum at the time) for interviews and testing. Personality quizzes and IQ tests were funneled to West, who could have easily culled victims for MK/Ultra experiments. West was strangely predicting the emergence of violent cults from the hippie peace and love movement, something he undoubtedly was fomenting as he’d already mastered the art of erasing memories and planting false ones with drugs and hypnosis.

Ron Stark, Charlie Manson, Mark Chapman.

The British offshoot of Scientology (The Process Church of Final Judgment) ran an operation to capture prominent rock bands into their fold and became perhaps the creepiest of all the creepy vibe masters that infested the counterculture immediately after the new zeitgeist took hold.

Ron Stark was affiliated with The Process Church and he went on to become the biggest connection for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which flooded the world with Orange Sunshine, while Charles Manson moved to Los Angeles and launched a series of murders seemingly designed to foment race war, but which only served to brand the hippie movement as crazed and violent, driving middle America away from a non-threatening, non-violent spiritual awakening, while disarming and deflecting that culture’s attempts to end the war in Vietnam, something that could have saved millions of lives across Indochina.

 

Ghost Tokers in the Sky

The author performs an early version of “Ghost Tokers” at the 4:20 am ceremony in the Quentin Hotel lobby in Amsterdam during the 1996 Cannabis Cup.

(To the tune of “Ghost Riders in the Sky”)

A wake’n’ baker went walking one dark and windy day
He rested on a ridge, he passed along the way
A giant hookah came flyin’, o’r the hills above the town
He saw the smoke a comin’ and heard the strangest sound

hippie hi o, hippie hi a, it’s the ghost tokers in the sky

The buds had just been fired, and still looked nice and green
They dripped with oily resin, just like High Times magazine
His heart was stuck by fear as the hookah thundered by
‘Cause he saw the tokers comin’ and heard their mornful cry

hippie hi o, hippie hi a, it’s the ghost tokers in the sky

Their faces gaunt, their eyes all red, their shirts all soaked in sweat
They’re tryin’ hard to catch a buzz, but they ain’t caught one yet
They’re doomed to toke forever, but never will get high
chained to a fire-snorting hookah, as they fly by hear ’em cry

hippie hi o, hippie hi a, it’s the ghost tokers in the sky

As they flew on by he heard, one call out his name
“If you want to save your soul from hell, you better change your ways!
Cut down on constant smoking, or with us you will ride
And you will toke forever, and never will get high!”

hippie hi o, hippie hi a, it’s the ghost tokers in the sky

(copyright Steven Hager 2011)