An iphone moment as Rhodes’s statue is “removed” – but the “secrecy” remains.
The students at the University of Cape Town might have started something that they don’t really even understand. I reported from Cape Town (10/4/15) that one student, Chumani Maxwele, had flung human excrement over Rhodes, and that this started a movement calling for the monument to be taken down.
“As black students we are disgusted by the fact that this statue still stands here today as it is a symbol of white supremacy…” said Maxwele.
The students are calling for transformation of the university’s infrastructure, including the renaming of campus roads and buildings (to correct past racial discrimination).
But this is only the tip of the Rhodes iceberg.
Three British Imperialists met in London February 1891 – Cecil Rhodes, William Stead and Lord Esher. They were soon joined by Lords Rothschild, Salisbury, Rosebery and Milner. From the outset they operated in secret and were determined that history would not reveal their influence or intentions. At the time Cecil Rhodes was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and master and commander of a vast area of Southern Africa.
The man who exposed the secret society and its intentions was Carroll Quigley (1910 – 1977) – a professor of history at Georgetown University and a lecturer at Princeton and Harvard.
In an article (26/4/15) by Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor (authors of Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War) they conclude:
“These Founding Fathers, the Secret Elite, began with Rhodes’ secret society and expanded across the Atlantic , always away from the public eye. They were deniers of democracy, men who always pursued their own malevolent agenda, who used this very process to advance their power. What they achieved in causing the First World War was but the first step in their long term drive to a new world order.”
This is an extract from Dicherty and MacGregor’s article in globalresearch entitled: New World Order: The Founding Fathers
“Another member of the inner core, Lord Alfred Milner, offers cause for greater scrutiny because he has been virtually airbrushed from the history of the period…
Milner deliberately caused the Boer War in order to grab the Transvaal’s gold and use the economic resources of South Africa to extend and perpetuate Secret Elite control. He had the grace to confess in a letter to Lord Roberts, Commander in Chief in South Africa, that
Lord Milner
“I precipitated the crisis, which was inevitable, before it was too late. It is not very agreeable, and in many eyes, not very creditable piece of business to have been largely instrumental in bringing about a big war.”
…The Secret Elite’s war against the Dutch settlers began in October 1899 and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902. The Boer Republics were annexed to the British Empire. The Transvaal ’s gold was finally in the hands of the Secret Elite at a cost of some 70,000 dead on the battlefields, plus 32,000 dead in British concentration camps, including more than 20,000 children of Dutch descent.
…W. T. Stead, former member of the inner core of the Secret Elite who had resigned in disgust over the Boer War, was overcome by the evidence presented to him. He wrote,
“Every one of these children who died as a result of the halving of their rations, thereby exerting pressure onto their family still on the battle-field, was purposefully murdered. The system of half rations stands exposed, stark and unashamedly as a cold-blooded deed of state policy employed with the purpose of ensuring the surrender of men whom we were not able to defeat on the field.””
The poo that Maxwele threw on Rhodes’s statue represents much more than racial discrimination and the shame of white affluence. It only scratches the surface of an exclusive cabal devoted to taking and holding power on a world-wide basis.
Great information Dee. This is the thread of power that is hidden from most, but, as you have referenced, is solid information that can be cited and calculated in any honest conversation of our political realities.
Would be interesting to know if the present day ‘Rhodes Scholars’ are part of the continuing agenda.
Of course, the proposed ‘New World [ fascist] Order; exposed by Dr Day, [in 1988-91] from a lecture on 20th March 1969 to over 60 fellow paeditricians, appears to have the old Rhodes golden hallmark.
For the curious, go back to 1954 and research the conference at the Bilderburg hotel which has led to the ‘Bilderburgs’ who the mass media does not even admit exist and have “never heard of them” …….. well, not until recent times due to internet exposure.
Dear Dee, when you returned from Africa yesterday, did you have any trouble getting through Customs with all these nuggets?
===From Great Games, Come Great Wars===
Excellent piece Dee. I have just ordered the Hidden History book you name-checked and will be taking the phone off the hook to devour. I was not aware of this so thanks for bringing it to my attention.
As a writer and researcher on such matters (and as a former – now reformed – history teacher), understanding the real origins of the Great War to End all Wars (until The Next One Gets Here) is crucial to understanding what is happening now geopolitically with the U.S. (or more broadly, the unholy Anglo-American alliance). It is also crucial to seeing where things might be heading in the not too distant future, and what is likely to transpire in the process.
Since Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, the British Empire began playing the “Great Game”* in earnest, but of course it all went pear-shaped for them post-1945 as a direct result of imperial overreach brought on by monumental hubris and an absolute, insatiable – and ultimately corrupting – lust for power even Lord Acton himself might never have imagined.
Now with Uncle Sam playing his own version of the “Great Game” (substitute China, Iran and Russia for that of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) – with the remnants of the British Empire playing second fiddle – we’re clearly heading for another Great War scenario. Of this there can be little doubt. One does not need Nostradamus’ DNA coursing through one’s veins to see this. And this may well be the Great War to End all Wars. To paraphrase Einstein, “it’s uncertain if we will have a World War III, but if we do, World War IV will be fought with stick and stones.”
I suspect Hidden History might well be the very book that all teary-eyed Australians who so readily extol the ‘virtues’ of our so-called baptism of fire as a nation at Gallipoli and on the Western Front without understanding the real history behind the war and Britain’s hitherto hidden, yet wholly reprehensible, role in triggering that catastrophic conflict, actually need to read. Even in its current decrepit, decayed state, the ancien regime of “Perfidious Albion”** that was the British Empire still has a lot to answer for. And then some!
The big question here for us is this: Will this current generation of Australians buy into the Great Game 2.0 again? Given our history of unstinting, obsequious support of the two Empires in question and the execrable wars that inevitably result from their recidivistic hegemonic ambition, the answer to that query appears obvious. Whether it was in the Boer War or the War in Iraq, the best way for us to truly honour those who paid the ultimate sacrifice is to both understand – and then come to terms with – the real reasons why our forbears were fighting and dying. Otherwise “Lest we Forget” becomes a meaningless, hollow, empty chant.
Hopefully, Docherty and Macgregor’s book will go a long way toward presenting for us all, that crucial understanding.
Greg Maybury,
Perth Australia
N.B. Readers, see link below for an interesting yet highly relevant variation on the theme of Dee’s piece and on the Hidden History of WWI.
Robert Newman’s History of Oil.
Also see explanatory links
* “The Great Game”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
** “Perfidious Albion”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion
I think the fact that Milner was a Knight of the Garter is key here.