(A Preamble to Part II) — “Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance…

“If you control oil, you control entire nations; if you control food, you control the people; if you control money, you control the entire world.” Henry Kissinger “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who…

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets … The most valuable ‘currency’ of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members.” W. Edwards Deming, “father of the third wave of the industrial revolution” “In the business world, the price of things is a more…

“Debt is an efficient tool. It ensures access to other peoples’ raw materials and infrastructure on the cheapest possible terms … The IMF cannot seem to understand that investing in … [a] healthy, well-fed, literate population … is the most intelligent economic choice a country can make.” Susan George “IMF…

“In our current money system, it is mathematically impossible for more than a minority of people to live in abundance, because the money creation process maintains an absolute rent extraction-based systemic scarcity. One man’s prosperity is another man’s poverty.” Charles Moore “ … the way in which the economy was…

“The financial system … has been turned over to … the Federal Reserve Board. The board administers the finance system by authority of … a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.”…