Maintain your Independence ..

"The Borrower is a Slave to the Lender, and the Debtor to the Creditor...

Preserve your freedom, and maintain your independence.

 Be industrious and free; be frugal and free."

Bankers who loan to governments all over the world are called "international bankers." And like all bankers, their success in business depends on their ability to have their loans repaid by the borrower.

A local bank loans money on a house by having the debtor pledge the home as collateral. The banker can "foreclose" on the mortgage and become the sole owner should the payments not be made as promised.

The international banker faced a more complex problem than the local banker, though. What could he secure his loan with when he loaned money to the leader of a government? The head of the government had one power not shared by the homeowner: the right to "repudiate" the loan.

Repudiation is defined as: "The refusal of a national or state government to pay real or alleged pecuniary obligations."

The bankers had to develop a strategy by which they could make certain that the government they loaned to did not repudiate the loan that the bankers made to the governments.

The most successful tool of insuring compliance with the terms of payment was the threat of war: the banker could always threaten the defaulting government with a war as a means of forcing it to make their payments. This act of repossessing the nation would almost always work as the head of government, anxious to keep his seat of power, would agree to the terms of the original loan, and continue making his payments.

The Unseen Hand 

Allah is a Master-Artist in his Creation

" وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ خَلْقُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَانِكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّلْعَالِمِينَ "
"And of His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colours. Indeed there are Signs in this for the wise."

Although your vocal chords are similar, and there is no difference in the structure of the mouth, the tongue and the brains, yet people speak different languages in different regions of the world. Even in the regions where the same language is spoken different dialects are spoken from city to city and from town to town. Moreover, the accent and pronunciation and the style of speech of every person is different from the other. Similarly, although the semen and the formula of your physical structure is the same, yet your colours are so different , even the colour of the two sons of the same parents is not exactly the same. In this verse, attention has been drawn only to two aspects, but if one looks around they will notice an unite variety everywhere in the world. One will find countless differences in the species of man, animals, plants and other things in spite of the basic uniformity in their different members; so much so that no member of the species is exactly identical with the other.

Anyone who sees this wonderful phenomenon with open eyes, can never be involved in the foolish misconception that the Maker of the universe has gone to sleep after having made it go.

Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad

[Nature] does not combine both illness and genius to no effect. Had the great of the world been free from maladies and defects, the whole human race would never have stepped outside the confines of jungles and caves.

— 

 Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad

No sadness lasts forever, nor any felicity

No sadness lasts forever, nor any felicity 

Nor any state of poverty or one of luxury. 

If you are the owner of a heart that is content 

Then you and the owner of the world are equivalent. 

— Imam Al-Shafi‘ee

"will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest ?"

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. Becket benefited from his family's status first by being sent to Paris for his education and from there to England where he joined the household of Theobold, the then Archbishop of Canterbury.

Becket's big break came in 1154, when Theobold introduced him to the newly crowned King, Henry II. The two hit it off immediately, their similar personal chemistries forming a strong bond between them. Henry named Becket his Chancellor. Archbishop Theobold died in 1161, and Henry immediately saw the opportunity to increase his influence over the Church by naming his loyal advisor to the highest ecclesiastical post in the land. But Why would Henry do this ?

In Henry’s reign, the Church had its own courts and any member of the Church could decide to be tried in a Church court rather than a royal court. Church courts usually gave out easier punishments to churchmen who had done wrong. Henry believed that this undermined his authority. As king, he was concerned that England was becoming too lawless - there was too much crime. He believed that Church courts did not set a good example as they were too soft on offenders. Henry hoped that by appointing his good friend Becket, he might have more of a say in how the Church punished offenders.

Becket did not want the job. As chancellor, he was as powerful as he wished to be. Becket wrote to Henry that "our friendship will turn to hate." However, Henry persuaded Becket and he agreed in 1162 to the appointment.

In 1164,Henry passed a law which stated that any person found guilty in a Church court would be punished by a royal court. Becket refused to agree to this, and knowing of Henry’s temper, he fled abroad for his own safety. It took six years before Becket felt safe enough to return to England. However, they quickly fell out again when Becket asked the pope to excommunicate the Archbishop of York who had taken sides with the king.He is said to have shouted out "will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest ?" Four knights heard what Henry had shouted and took it to mean that the king wanted Becket dead. They rode to Canterbury to carry out the deed. 

On December 29th 1170 they killed Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. After killing him, one of the knights said "Let us away. He will rise no more."

Becket’s body was still on the cathedral floor when people from Canterbury came in and tore off pieces of his clothes and then dipped these pieces in his blood. They believed that they would bring them luck and keep evil away. Where Becket died quickly became a place of pilgrimage. The pope quickly made him a saint. Henry II asked the pope for forgiveness and he walked bare foot to Canterbury to pray at the spot where Becket was killed. Monks flogged him while he prayed.

People left valuables at the spot of his death. It became a shrine to him and people claimed that a visit to the shrine left them free of illness and disease. No-one dared to touch the valuables there until Henry VIII shut down the monasteries and churches and took away any valuables he wanted. It took 21 carts to remove the valuables from Becket’s shrine at Canterbury Cathedral.

Russian revolution of 1917

John D. Rockefeller was one of the early refiners of oil, as he started in 1863 with two partners. Rockefeller's interest was not satisfied with just one refinery, however. As author William Hoffman observed: "What he wanted was to be the largest refiner in the world, the only refiner in the world."

By 1872, Rockefeller controlled twenty-five percent of America's refining capacity and by 1879 he controlled ninety-five percent.His goal shifted now from national control to international control. His company, Standard Oil, was supplying ninety percent of America's foreign oil sales and America was the sole source of an exportable surplus. But something was happening to his international market. "The wall of Standard's international oil monopoly had been breached with the opening of Russia's great Baku field on the Caspian Sea. By 1883, a railroad had been built to the Black Sea, and the Czar had invited the Nobel brothers and the Rothschild family to help develop these great oil riches."

By 1888, this new oil source had overtaken Standard Oil as the international seller of crude oil.

The traditional explanation of Russia's economy at this time was that the nation was an agrarian economy, far behind the other European economies. However, during the period of 1907 to 1913, Russia's increase in its industrial production rate exceeded that of the United States, England, and Germany, long believed to be the industrialized giants of the day.

The following is typical of the conclusion of many researchers who have examined this period in history: "The Russian revolution of 1917 came not at the end of period of stagnation and decay, but rather after more than a half century of the most rapid and comprehensive economic progess."

False flag operations

"False flag operations " occur when elements within a government stage a secret operation 

whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own 

forces or people.The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to

 war against that enemy. 

The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of

 its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy's flag was

 hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a "false flag"

 attack.

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign

 enemy." 

- U.S. President James Madison

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country 

who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,

 whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 

dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the

 leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and 

denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works

 the same in any country." - Hermann Goering