Trump's real challenge? Addressing the influence of the Federal Reserve
WHILE I am not clear as to Donald Trump's true motives in political terms, or whether, like the Berlin Wall, his new wall will serve to keep people in more than out, I agree with him that a nation without borders is not a nation. Some people quite wrongly associate nationalism with elitism, and to view Ukip, for example, as 'right wing' is incorrect. A group of people in Guernsey, along with similar thinking individuals in other countries, saw fit to demonstrate against Donald Trump's policies in February 2017. Other than in London, where the protests were against the UK government's decision to allow a state visit by the new president, these protests were ill-timed. I imagine that DT will provide plenty of ammunition for people to protest as time goes on, but for now he has only done, or attempted to do, what he said he would on the election trail. So the demonstrations now, whilst they may be against DT's policies, are simultaneously demonstrations against democracy.
In any case, whilst one correspondent didn't expand on his comment that DT's policies are not likely to be important to Guernsey, he's largely correct. As Laurie Queripel shrewdly observed a couple of months ago, if DT is to significantly change the direction of America, he needs first to address the influence of the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal nor a reserve and has so far issued the USA with $3,000bn worth of debt. With the US owing that sum to the owners of the Federal Reserve, and an unimaginably large amount to China too, it is hard to see how DT can steer the USA in a direction which is contrary to their view for the world. Perhaps the fact that Mr Trump has already had several of his policies blocked is early evidence of that. Additionally, numerous elected US politicians who have opposed the system of privately owned central banks, including presidents, have been victims of usually-successful assassination attempts. (http://www.rense.com/general86/pres.htm).
This has been attributed to David Rockefeller speaking in 1994: 'We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the light of publicity during these years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries.'
MATT WATERMAN,
Flat 2, 3, Burnt Lane,
St Peter Port,
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