Do
you think armies are something only nation-states raise and maintain? Do not believe it. Large private transnational companies have
also fielded them. Dr Joseph Farrell
mentions this here:
But consider: we're told
over and over by Mr. Globaloney that the nation-state is obsolete, and that
mega-transnational corporations are doing end runs around national sovereignty,
and that the world should be run by these corporations. In effect, they are
saying that these corporations are the "new sovereignties" in the
world. If so, then it stands to reason that they will start doing what
sovereign nations have always done: they will spy on each other, they will
infiltrate long-term sleeper agents into each other's organizations as agents provocateur, and seek to
influence their competition's policies and decisions to the detriment of their
competition, and to the advantage of themselves. They will raise mercenary
armies and do battle with each other; they will hire assassins, and do all the
other covert things that sovereign nations have done and still do.If you don't
believe me, just recall the first example of such behavior, when the bankers of
the Rialto helped to manipulate the crisis that put an end to the 14th century
Florentine "mega-companies". So perhaps, just perhaps, some major
global competitor of Bayer infiltrated such agents
provocateur into the very top echelon of that company's leadership,
and that leadership in turn bought, or was advised to buy, Mon(ster)santo,
effectively hanging a millstone around Bayer's neck, and taking much needed
funds from its R & D and shoveling them into non-productive,
non-competitive activities like defending against lawsuits... It's a
stunningly efficient way to take out a competitor and use up its liquidity.
Mike
Adams details Monsanto’s ‘black ops’ division here:
And
Vladimir Moss details some of the activities of the Dutch megacorporation armies
as well:
The Dutch Republic was the first political
creation of Calvinism. Its main weakness was that its root was “the root of all
evil” – money. Already in 1599, writes James Shapiro, eight Amsterdam ships had
returned from Java with a huge cargo of spices and luxury goods, and had made a
400% profit, stimulating the English to found the East India Company – probably the most powerful private
corporation in world history, since at one time it controlled most of India and
had a private army of up to 350,000 men.
. . .
“The most famous Dutch joint-stock company,
the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC for short, was chartered in 1602,
just as the Dutch were throwing off Spanish rule and the boom of Spanish
artillery could still be heard not far from Amsterdam’s ramparts. VOC used the
money it raised from selling shares to build ships, send them to Asia, and
bring back Chinese, Indian and Indonesian goods. It also financed military
actions taken by company ships against competitors and pirates. Eventually VOC
money financed the conquest of Indonesia.
“Indonesia is the world’s biggest
archipelago. Its thousands upon thousands of islands were ruled in the early
seventeenth century by hundreds of kingdoms, principalities, sultanate and
tribes. When VOC merchants first arrived in Indonesia in 1603, their aims were
strictly commercial. However, in order to secure their commercial interests and
maximise the profits of the shareholders, VOC merchants began to fight against
local potentates who charged inflated tariffs, as well as against European
competitors. VOC armed its merchant ships with cannons; it recruited European,
Japanese, Indian and Indonesian mercenaries; and it built forts and conducted
full-scale battles and sieges. This enterprise may sound a little strange to
us, but in the early modern age it was common for private companies to hire not
only soldiers, but also generals and admirals, cannons and ships, and even
entire off-the-shelf armies. The international community took this for granted
and didn’t raise an eyebrow when a private company established an empire
“Island after island fell to VOC
mercenaries and a large part of Indonesia became VOC colony. VOC ruled
Indonesia for close to 200 years. Only in 1800 did the Dutch state assume
control of Indonesia, making a Dutch national colony for the following 150
years. Today some people warn that twenty-first-century corporations are
accumulating too much power. Early modern history shows just how far that can
go if businesses are allowed to pursue their self-interest unchecked
. . .
This
doesn’t even touch on the British East India Company and all its abuses.
Now,
given such a past and present (and given the globalist plan for them in the
future), it would be reasonable to look askance at megacorporations and
especially their ability to raise armies, navies, and the like. However, this is not the view of one
prominent historian amongst the Evangelicals:
Bill Federer. In a couple of
recent posts, he praises these tools of globalism with glowing words:
When Muslim Turks
conquered the land trade routes from Europe to Asia, Europeans began to look
for sea trade routes.
These attempts were
relatively few as the only ones who could afford to finance them were wealthy
individuals, or kings, such as Ferdinand and Isabella who underwrote Columbus'
voyages.
These trips were
extremely risky, being subject to piracy, storms, shipwrecks, starvation,
disease, wars, and native attacks.
This changed the
invention of "companies."
"Companies"
have a significant history.
During the Middle
Ages, there were no companies.
There were:
·
tradesmen,
·
partnerships,
·
merchant
guilds,
·
craft
guilds, and
·
religious
guilds.
But these groups did
not have large amounts of capital to finance major sea ventures.
The main reason there
were no companies was that during the Middle Ages there was the "sin of
usury."
It was considered a
sin to pay or receive interest.
After the
Reformation, Protestant countries formed the first "joint–stock"
companies.
A joint–stock company
was much like modern-day crowd–sourcing or crowd–funding.
Any individual, such
as a carpenter, blacksmith, baker, or mason, could invest in a ship sailing to
the Far East, and when it returned full of valuable spices, they would receive
a profit.
. . .
In
1602, the Netherlands formed the most financially successful joint-stock
company - the Dutch East India Company.
It
is considered the first multinational corporation in the world, with more trade
in Asia between 1602 and 1796 than all other European companies combined.
Several
Dutch companies approached the Pilgrims to settle New Amsterdam on behalf of
Holland, but they decided to sail with a patent from the London Company.
"Companies"
were a novel development.
In
Medieval Europe, it was forbidden to pay or receive interest. It was called the
sin of "usury."
As
a result, there were no companies.
If
someone wanted to attempt an expensive endeavor, such as sailing around the
world looking for spices, they had to approach a rich person or a monarch to
underwrite it.
After
the Reformation, Amsterdam was where some of the first corporations were
started, such as the Dutch East India Company.
Common
individuals could invest in a company expedition of ships going around the
world in search of spices, and when the ships returned, interest or
"dividends" were paid from the profit to the stockholders.
Just
as disturbing as Mr Federer’s cozy embrace of multinational corporations is his
flippant dismissal of usury as a sin. Dr
Matthew Raphael Johnson has noted on many occasions how unnatural (fertility
from infertility) and exploitative usury is.
The Orthodox Church has been and remains opposed to it. Her canons declare it a sin for both clergy
and laity (see Canon V of the Council of Carthage, 345-8 A. D.). Holy Fathers like St Basil the Great strongly
denounce it:
Saint Basil writes:
If he had been able
to make you richer, why would he have sought your doors? Coming for
assistance he found hostility... It was your duty to relieve the destitution of
the man, but you, seeing to drain the desert dry, increased his need.
Just as is some physician, visiting sick, instead of restoring health to
them would take away even their little remnant of bodily strength, so you also
would make the misfortunes of the wretched an opportunity of revenue... Do you
know that you are making an addition to your sin greater that the increase to your
wealth, which you are planning from the interest?
Christ tells us, "do
good, and lend, not hoping for any return" (Luke 6:35). When we
follow this commandment we gain true interest, benefits in heaven.
Saint Basil writes:
Whenever you have the
intention of providing for a poor man for the Lord's sake, the same thing is
both a gift and a loan, a gift because of the expectation of no repayment, but
a loan because of the great gift of the Master who pay in his place, and who,
receiving trifling things through a poor man, will give great things in return
for them. "He that hath mercy on the poor length to God." (Prov.
19:17)... Give the money,... without weighing it down with additional charges,
and it will be good for both of you.... The Lord will pay the interest for the
poor... The interest, which you take, is full of extreme inhumanity. You
make a profit from misfortune, you collect money from tears, you strangle the
naked, you beat the famished; nowhere is there mercy, no thought of relationship
with the sufferer...
We expected are to
give freely with love and compassion to help those in need. The Lord has told
us, "And from him who would borrow of thee, do not turn away"
(Matt 5:42).
Saint Basil says,
...Do not give your
money at interest, on order that, having been taught what is good from the Old
and the New Testament, you may depart to the Lord with good hope, receiving
there the interest from your good deeds, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be
glory and power forever.
See
also
Michael
Hoffman shows briefly how it crept into the post-Orthodox West:
And
what, now, is the West left with after all this loving acceptance of
multinational megacorporations and usury?
The further corruption of her soul.
She worships Plutus, the god of wealth, not the Holy Trinity, although
she still feigns some affection for the Christian God. Returning to Dr Moss’s article above:
. . . From now on, commercial profit became a
driving force in Dutch society. “Holland is a country,” wrote Claude de
Saumaise, “where the demon gold is seated on a throne of cheese, and crowned
with tobacco”. This commercial character of the new Dutch state was caused,
writes Pieter Geyl, by the fact that it was “the urban lower middle classes”
who were mainly inspired to act against the Spaniards, while the town
oligarchies “felt themselves… the guardians of the privileges and welfare of
town and country, rather than the champions of a particularly new religious
faith. In other words, they regarded matters from a secular standpoint, and,
while the new Church had in their scheme of things its indispensable place,
they felt it incumbent on them carefully to circumscribe this place. From one
point of view… the great European movement of the Reformation was a revolt of
the lay community under the leadership of their rulers – a revolt, that is to
say, of the State against priestly influence.” And so the purpose of the Dutch
Republic was not so much to protect or spread Calvinism as to protect and
increase the material prosperity of its citizens. Their attitude to the state,
therefore, was, as Ian McClelland puts it, that it “had better stop trying to
interfere with the serious business of making money.” Although the
Calvinist-Puritans did not make money their goal, and profit-making was
encouraged only in order to be more effective in doing good, the decay of Puritan
religion tended to leave mammon in its place. As Cotton Mather said: “Religion
begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.”
This
is another one of those instances, so numerous in the Modern Age, where we must
go backward in order to go forward, reinstating the ban on usury, placing
greater restrictions on the powers of corporations (i.e., the immortal
joint-stock companies so much praised by Mr Federer), and giving greater power
to those old-fashioned, ‘unprogressive’ guilds.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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