Shadow Rulers

Several books have been written in the last fifty years, revealing the involvement of secret societies with Western governments, state intelligence departments, law enforcement agencies and judiciaries. But only a handful of authors have penetrated the shields of mainstream censorship to produce best sellers.

During the sixties and seventies, Hunter S. Thompson gained a measure of success in breaking through the prohibition barriers of Main Street journalism for his counterculture, anti-establishment style. He died by an apparent self inflicted gun shot wound to the head in 2005. Before he died, he was investigating the possibly that 9/11 was an inside job and, purportedly, that paedophile links went up to the Whitehouse.

Author Stephen Knight wrote “The Brotherhood” in 1983, which became a controversial best seller in Britain – controversial, not least because the book was a source of embarrassment for Freemasons and, although the author died soon after of a brain tumour, the circumstances reported at the time were described as suspicious. Martin Short, a Cambridge University historian, completed an official sequel to Knight’s book, called “Inside the Brotherhood”, and left no doubt as to the powers of revenge by the hierarchy.

Jim Keith, best known for “Black Helicopters over America” (1995), about covert government Special Forces programs against US citizens, died in 1999 of a blood clot to the lung after filming a pagan festival at Burning Man Camp, though the coroner’s report listed the cause of death as “blunt force trauma”.

Larry McDonald, Chairman of the John Birch Society and relative of famous WWII General, George S. Patten, finished his race of life prematurely. The congressman and author who was running for the US presidency was intent on exposing the Rockefeller financial cartel, and their political instruments, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. His complaint, that this alliance was “incredibly evil in intent” and whose aim was to “create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and communism under the same tent, all under their control”. On September 1, 1983, he boarded Korean Airlines flight KL007 bound for Seoul, to attend a conference on a defence treaty, but his plane was shot down, allegedly by a Russian fighter. Although luggage and 213 items of footwear were recovered in tact, neither McDonald’s body, nor those of the passengers, were ever found.

The most well known person ever to profess opposition to secrecy was President John F.Kennedy. Before the American press in 1961, he stated:

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings”.

Although Kennedy came from a family line connected to the mob, it appears that, naively, he thought he could change the order of things from his seat of power:

“And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control.”

After this, Kennedy went on to oppose the policies of the most secretive financial institution, the Federal Reserve. He also resisted the Military Industrial Complex and their strategies in the Vietnam War, and in Operation Northwoods, which was their blue print to escalate the Cold War. Although Northwoods never happened, the assassination of Kennedy in 1963 ensured that the charismatic president would never interfere with the organised crime syndicate again.

I have stopped at five examples, but there is a litany of writers and whistleblowers that have stood against the odds and whose lives have been snuffed out prematurely. Mainstream media prefers to present these as coincidences. The purpose of this book is not to smash this claim, though the unfolding detail is sufficient natural evidence – means, motive and opportunity – to challenge all but the most intransigent minds on this.

You would think that, in any democracy, the successes of these authors would have penetrated the editorial boards of the big newspaper and media outlets, to stimulate the need for a truth and reconciliation commission. But rather it is big media’s capacity for suppression, and the untimely deaths of some, which demonstrate that truth is nearly always relegated as a casualty of the information war. The best efforts of these truth warriors were mostly resigned to become underground best sellers for almost the next two decades.

The coming of age in the late nineties of the admission of Bilderberg, whose existence had been denied by mainstream media for nearly half a century, opened the doors for a touch more transparency again. It could be argued that this coming out had been, at least in part, due to the fact that the elite had escalated their agenda to where they could no longer maintain absolute secrecy. However, the timing was no doubt hastened because of tenacious independent journalism.

Former Spotlight reporter, Jim Tucker, on his thirty year pursuit of Bilderberg had run the gauntlet of secret services more like an advert for a Bond movie – shinning drain pipes, dodging bullets, and currying favour with hotel staff whom the tough Texan said pass on left-over incriminating documents when they experience the characteristic imperious behaviour from these lords of darkness. Russian émigré and grandson of a KGB officer, Daniel Estulin, is another journalist that is no stranger to danger and who survived an assassination attempt while resident in Canada, and then relocated to Spain for his “safety”. Relying on “patriotic secret service insiders” for his information, his book, “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group”, went on to become something of an underground best seller with over 1.5 million copies sold by 2007.

If there was one event that triggered a tectonic shift in demand for honest journalism, it would have to be 9/11. Major US polls taken in 2004 revealed the majority of New Yorkers believed their Government was not telling the truth about the causes behind the apparent intelligence failings that led to the terror event. High profiled figures of academia and politics made their presence felt in raising the debate: Brigham Young University Physics Professor, Stephen Jones , published peer reviewed work on the probable causes of industrial explosives being used to assist the collapse of the World Trade Towers; AIA architect and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Richard Gage, translated his 20 years experience onto the lecture circuits, refuting the official story that structural weakness due to impact and burning aviation fuel could have been sufficient factors alone in explaining the collapse; Andreas von Bülow, former state-secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Defence (1976-80), reported that the operation could not have been carried out without the connivance of factions within American intelligence, while former Italian Prime Minister (1985-92), Francesco Cossiga, went as far as fingering the CIA and Mossad.

The subject matter for this book dropped like an expensive vase one day in 2002, after reading two very different paperbacks. They were, nevertheless, connected by an intriguing fine thread that was for me to become an epiphany of seismic proportions. It was to unveil a past that had been hidden in plain view. On one level, it appeared as if the keepers of this alternate history had decided much of the world was ready to receive their version of events.