Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass Medias | The Vigilant Citizen  

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Programming Through Mass Media

Mass media are media forms designed to reach the largest audience possible. They include television, movies, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, records, video games and the internet. Many studies have been conducted in the past century to measure the effects of mass media on the population in order to discover the best techniques to influence it. From those studies emerged the science of Communications, which is used in marketing, public relations and politics. Mass communication is a necessary tool to insure the functionality of a large democracy; it is also a necessary tool for a dictatorship. It all depends on its usage.
In the 1958 preface for A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley paints a rather grim portrait of society. He believes it is controlled by an “impersonal force”, a ruling elite, which manipulates the population using various methods.

“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.”
- Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World
His bleak outlook is not a simple hypothesis or a paranoid delusion. It is a documented fact, present in the world’s most important studies on mass media. Here are some of them:

Elite Thinkers

Walter Lippmann


Walter Lippmann, an American intellectual, writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner brought forth one of the first works concerning the usage of mass media in America. In Public Opinion (1922), Lippmann compared the masses to a “great beast” and a “bewildered herd” that needed to be guided by a governing class. He described the ruling elite as “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality.” This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats. According to Lippmann, the experts, who often are referred to as “elites,” are to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen.” The trampling and roaring “bewildered herd” has its function: to be “the interested spectators of action,” i.e. not participants. Participation is the duty of “the responsible man”, which is not the regular citizen.
Mass media and propaganda are therefore tools that must be used by the elite to rule the public without physical coercion. One important concept presented by Lippmann is the “manufacture of consent”, which is, in short, the manipulation of public opinion to accept the elite’s agenda. It is Lippmann’s opinion that the general public is not qualified to reason and to decide on important issues. It is therefore important for the elite to decide ”for its own good” and then sell those decisions to the masses.
“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . . Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to deal with the world beyond our reach.”
–Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
It might be interesting to note that Lippmann is one of the founding fathers of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the most influential foreign policy think tank in the world. This fact should give you a small hint of the mind state of the elite concerning the usage of media.
“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes. The creation of the United Nations was a Council project, as well as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.”
- Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States
Some current members of the CFR include David Rockefeller, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, mega-church pastor Rick Warren and the CEOs of major corporations such as CBS, Nike, Coca-Cola and Visa.

Carl Jung


Carl Jung is the founder of analytical psychology (also known an Jungian psychology), which emphasizes understanding the psyche by exploring dreams, art, mythology, religion, symbols and philosophy. The Swiss therapist is at the origin of many psychological concepts used today such as the Archetype, the Complex, the Persona, the Introvert/Extrovert and Synchronicity. He was highly influenced by the occult background of his family. Carl Gustav, his grandfather, was an avid Freemason (he was Grand Master) and Jung himself discovered that some of his ancestors were Rosicrucians. This might explain his great interest in Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology and symbolism. One of  his most important (and misunderstood) concept was the Collective Unconscious.
“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”
- Carl Jung, The Concept of the Collective Unconscious
The collective unconscious transpires through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilizations. Archetypal symbols seem to be embedded in our collective subconscious, and, when exposed to them, we demonstrate natural attraction and fascination. Occult symbols can therefore exert a great impact on people, even if many individuals were never personally introduced to the symbol’s esoteric meaning. Mass media thinkers, such as Edward D. Bernays, found in this concept a great way to manipulate the public’s personal and collective unconscious.

1955 Time Magazine cover featuring Carl Jung. Looks a little like Avatar, doesn’t it?

Edward  Bernays


Edward Bernays is considered to be the “father of public relations” and used concepts discovered by his uncle Sigmund Freud to manipulate the public using the subconscious. He shared Walter Lippmann’s view of the general population by considering it irrational and subject to the “herd instinct”. In his opinion, the masses need to be manipulated by an invisible government to insure the survival of democracy.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.”
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda
Bernay’s trailblazing marketing campaigns profoundly changed the functioning of American society. He basically created “consumerism” by creating a culture wherein Americans bought for pleasure instead of buying for survival. For this reason, he was considered by Life Magazine to be in the Top 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.

Harold Lasswell


In 1939-1940, the University of Chicago was the host of a series of secret seminars on communications. These think tanks were funded by the Rockefeller foundation and involved the most prominent researchers in the fields of communications and sociological studies. One of these scholars was Harold Lasswell, a leading American political scientist and communications theorist, specializing in the analysis of propaganda. He was also of the opinion that a democracy, a government ruled by the people, could not sustain itself without a specialized elite shaping and molding public opinion through propaganda.
In his Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Lasswell explained that when elites lack the requisite force to compel obedience, social managers must turn to “a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda.” He added the conventional justification: we must recognize the “ignorance and stupidity [of] … the masses and not succumb to democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests.”
Lasswell extensively studied the field of content analysis in order to understand the effectiveness of different types of propaganda.  In his essay Contents of Communication, Lasswell explained that, in order to understand the meaning of a message (i.e. a movie, a speech, a book, etc.), one should take into account the frequency with which certain symbols appear in the message, the direction in which the symbols try to persuade the audience’s opinion, and the intensity of the symbols used.
Lasswell was famous for his media analysis model based on:
Who (says) What (to) Whom (in) What Channel (with) What Effect
By this model, Lasswell indicates that in order to properly analyze a media product, one must look at who produced the product (the people who ordered its creation),  who was it aimed at (the target audience) and what were the desired effects of this product (to inform, to convince, to sell, etc.) on the audience.
Using a Rihanna video as an example, the analysis would be as follows: WHO PRODUCED: Vivendi Universal; WHAT: pop artist Rihanna; TO WHOM: consumers between the ages of 9 and 25; WHAT CHANNEL: music video; and WHAT EFFECT: selling the artist, her song, her image and her message.
The analyzes of videos and movies on The Vigilant Citizen place a great importance on the “who is behind” the messages communicated to the public. The term “Illuminati” is often used to describe this small elite group covertly ruling the masses. Although the term sounds quite caricatured and conspiratorial, it aptly describes the elite’s affinities with secret societies and occult knowledge. However, I personally detest using the term “conspiracy theory” to describe what is happening in the mass media. If all the facts concerning the elitist nature of the industry are readily available to the public, can it still be considered a  “conspiracy theory”?
There used to be a variety of viewpoints, ideas and opinions in popular culture. The consolidation of media corporations has, however, produced a standardization of the cultural industry. Ever wondered why all recent music sounds the same and all recent movies look the same? The following is part of the answer:

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What Is GMO?  

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Five short videos from Jeffrey Smith provide sharable introduction to GMOs for your friends who need to know

(NaturalNews) Jeffrey Smith from the Institute for Responsible Technology has released five short videos that are perfect for sharing with friends who might be new to GMOs. These short videos tell powerful, hard-hitting stories about GMOs in just two or three minutes, and they're easy to forward to others who need to know the truth about what's happening to our food supply.

Here are the five videos, posted on NaturalNews.TV. You can also share the URL of this article if you'd like to introduce your friends to all five of these videos:

Even farm animals refuse to eat GMOs

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=C5A58...

Jeffrey Smith relates a story about how farmers test whether their farm animals will eat GMOs. Most farm animals naturally avoid genetically engineered feed if given a choice!

How GMOs turn your babies into medical experiments

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=98B87...

This short film reveals how genetically engineered foods are being widely consumed today, causing a vast assortment of side effects, including widespread infertility and damage to their sperm cells and DNA. Rats fed genetically modified soy had half their babies die. Don't let our babies become guinea pigs of the GMO biotech industry!

Jeffrey Smith - How GMOs may turn your body into a human pesticide factory

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=C3996...

Jeffrey Smith reveals how genetically engineered crops result in gene transfers into the bacteria in the human gut. It means that after eating GMOs, we may have genetically modified proteins inside our own bodies. Even worse, when BT (genetically engineered) corn is consumed, the gene that produces the BT toxin may transfer into the bacteria living in your intestines, turning you into a HUMAN PESTICIDE FACTORY.

How GMO research is rigged using fraudulent science

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=DCDDB...

Jeffrey Smith reveals some of the dirty tricks used by Monsanto and other biotech companies to twist their "science" and make GMOs look safe even when they're extremely dangerous. This is all from the same industry that said DDT was safe, PCBs were safe, Agent Orange was safe, and so on. "Corporate science" is always distorted, especially from the biotech industry.

Cap the GMO Gene Spill

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3FFF0...

Eye-opening video about the genetic pollution of our planet caused by GMOs. Featuring Jeffrey Smith from the Institute for Responsible Technology who explains how GMOs represent a planet-wide genetic contamination of the planet that's far worse than all the oil spills in the history of the world. GM crops result in widespread environmental degradation, and it's all being done based on warped, dishonest "corporate science."

Scientists under attack - video trailer

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=37BEF...

This is the trailer for a documentary available from the IRT called Scientists Under Attack. It reveals the total distortion of science being used by the biotech industry, and the way in which honest scientists who try to question GMOs are viciously attacked and discredited.

No Parental Consent Needed For HPV Vaccine Given In California Schools  

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California is undermining parental rights. No matter how you feel about the vaccine, the state taking rights away from parents is always one of the main goals of a tyrannical system where individuality is a danger to the state.


Now Law: Vaccines Can be Given to 12-year-olds in CA Without Parental Consent





P.S. Here is why the vaccine is useless and dangerous.....

Cancer vaccine warning By: Jennifer Hough









But this is about parental rights because California isn't liberating children, and giving them the ability to choose for themselves because at the same time.......

California bans use of tanning beds by minors

(Reuters) - Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

California is the first state in the nation to ban minors from using tanning beds, legislators said.

Alan Watt - PrisonPlanet.tv Interview  

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Alan Watt explores the how and why of the Matrix that surrounds us all.

The EyeOpener- Exposing ‘In-Q –Tel’: The CIA’s Own Venture Capital Firm - James Corbett  

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Here is a summary of the company In-Q-Tel, which works as a non-profit investor in companies in order to secure cutting edge technologies for the CIA.



Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs 
The EyeOpener- Exposing ‘In-Q –Tel’: The CIA’s Own Venture Capital Firm




In-Q-Tel was formed by the CIA in 1999 as a private, not-for-profit venture capital firm with the specific task of delivering technology to America’s intelligence community. Publicly, In-Q-Tel markets itself as an innovative way to leverage the power of the private sector by identifying key emerging technologies and providing companies with the funding to bring those technologies to market. In reality, however, what In-Q-Tel represents is a dangerous blurring of the lines between the public and private sectors in a way that makes it difficult to tell where the American intelligence community ends and the IT sector begins.
In-Q-Tel has generated a number of stories since its inception based on what can only be described as the “creepiness” factor of its investments in overtly Orwellian technologies.
This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett presenting documented facts and cases on the CIA’s privately owned venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, in which well-connected board members drawn from the private sector profit from the investments made with CIA funds that come from the taxpayer.

The Ultimate Revolution | by Aldous Huxley  

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Here is a lecture from the man that wrote Brave New World thirty years after writing the book. As one of the elites himself he speaks of how his own work of fiction is coming true.

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." -- Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961

Smart City For A Planned Future And A Controlled Civilization  

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      The governments of the world are speaking of a sustainable future where consumption of goods and lifestyles within the society are controlled through governance. In the end it is theorized that there will have to be cities that can completely monitor efficiency of the machines and behavior of the citizens. The inevitable real world outcome of such a monitored society eventually becomes one of limited freedom among other side effects of a such techniques.


iPhone City: The 'smart' metropolis of the future will have an app for everything

  • Portuguese tech company reveals Urban Operating System
  • It will run the PlanIT Valley pioneer project due for completion next year
By Gavin Allen
When the cities of the future are portrayed on the big screen they usually present dystopian visions of urban decay.
But a city-building project underway in northern Portugal is out to overturn those concepts with a super-functional 'smart city' where the entire metropolis is run by one big computer system.
Imagine if a building could not only sense a fire, but use its lighting system to show residents a safe escape route and then interact with the traffic light grid to ensure fire engines have easier access as other traffic is directed away.
Under construction: Concept art for PlanIT Valley in northern Portugal, which is set to be functional by 2012, will be run on a giant computer operating system
Under construction: Concept art for PlanIT Valley in northern Portugal, which is set to be functional by 2012, will be run on a giant computer operating system
How green is my valley? PlanIT Valley is being built in greenbelt land to help make it more efficient
How green is my valley? PlanIT Valley is being built in greenbelt land to help make it more efficient
Integrated society: The 'smart' city will be run on the Urban Operating System, which will control everything from water and electricity to traffic lights
Integrated society: The 'smart' city will be run on the Urban Operating System, which will control everything from water and electricity to traffic lights
That is the reality of the Urban Operating System, which has been unveiled at the Machine-2-Machine conference in Rotterdam, Holland, by Portuguese technology company Living Plan IT.
The Urban OS will not be dissimilar to the type of OS that runs on Apple products - a common platform that enables new apps to be built and deployed quickly.
It is not for nothing that Steve Lewis, CEO of Living PlanIT, refers to this it as the iPhone model.
Via a system called PlaceApps, it will even allow for apps to be created and integrated into the larger system in order to control buildings, lighting or other facets of urban management.
It's hoped that eventually even our smartphones could interact with the Urban OS to operate household appliances and energy systems.
This can be done, the company says, while ensuring people’s security and privacy is protected.
Light up my life: Integrated lighting systems integrated could project adverts or scenic images onto buildings
Light up my life: Integrated lighting systems integrated could project adverts or scenic images onto buildings
All change: This is the same scene as above but with the decoration changed
All change: This is the same scene as above but with the decoration changed
Urban OS is to be tested in earnest as a management system for in PlanIT Valley, a futuristic new city which is already under construction in Paredes near Porto, Northern Portugal, in partnership with technology giants Cisco and Microsoft.
While there have already been many ideas for how 'smart cities' could look, the Urban OS is the first time anyone has produced a system capable of handling and managing the enormous volume of data that would be produced by an entire city - 50billion devices interacting.
But rather than being a prohibitively expensive project, full of cutting-edge technology, PlanIT Valley is designed to be a low cost innovation, making savings in both its construction and subsequent operation.
Living Plan IT expects to save 30-40 per cent on traditional building costs and construct buildings 30-50 per cent faster and to a much higher quality.
This will also lead to significant savings in operation costs for the buildings based on the use of new materials and designs.
Slow build? The design of the city means the company says it can save 30-40 per cent on traditional building costs and construct buildings 30-50 per cent faster
Slow build? The design of the city means the company says it can save 30-40 per cent on traditional building costs and construct buildings 30-50 per cent faster
To help run the Urban OS there will be around one million high-tech sensors throughout the city - one every square foot - that have been designed by McLaren Electronic Systems, modeled on their Formula 1 race car technology.
The various innovations from the project are sure to be examined closely by developers worldwide who are tasked with urban regeneration programmes.
Living Plan IT, which was recently selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its Technology Pioneers of 2012, expects the first residents to move into PlanIT Valley around the middle of next year.
It may be the case that the most exciting insights from PlanIT Valley will not be about how we build new cities, but how we make old ones fit for the 21st century.

History of the Rothschild Dynasty: The Why and How of The Banking System  

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Here is a great article that is a quick history lesson about the money power since the Rothschild family came into the banking system. It is essential to know the way this Dynasty runs the economy. Dynasties is how the elite of the world work, and the Rothschild Dynasty is one of the most powerful. You don't understand how banking works or how ruthless it can be without knowing this dynasty's history.
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By Aiden Cameron Sovereign Independent Contributor

Mayer Amshcel Bauer (Rothschild) from Rags to Riches

In order to understand the all-pervasive and connect the dots of the monopolistic central bankers it is necessary to excerpt from writers eminently more qualified than I to give the reader an insight to the History not taught in Schools Colleges and Universities and long suppressed by the Elite Controlled mainstream media.
Mayer Amschel Bauer (changed to Rothschild) has been credited with the founding of the Rothschild’s Dynasty[4], whose father bought and sold new and second hand goods, coins and did pawn broking under the sign of a “Red Shield,” the origin of their new name. (Rothschild:-Red Shield in German).
As a young lad he was given a small charity job in the Banking house of Oppenheim in Hanover where he became apprenticed in the Oppenheim Banking House at the tender age of 12years[5]. It must have “dawned,” on young Mayer Amschel that Banking was inextricably linked to politics and the powerful Princes and Noblemen of the times. Without criticising a 12 year olds intellect it is More likely he was coached in the art of finance by the House of Oppenheim, a name which disappears for awhile but crops up latter in the Diamond and Gold Fields of South Africa. Having saved a small sum of his remuneration over the previous years he branched out on his own thus began the path to fame and fortune.
Returning to Frankfurt from Hanover he married Gudule Schnapper in 1770 and lived on the first floor above in the house where his father traded. From the shop below he bought and sold new and used goods. Gudule bore Mayer five sons. Anselem Mayer 1713-: Salomon Mayer 1774-: Nathan Mayer 1777-: Karl 1778-: Jacob (James)-1792[6]. Through his connections Mayer Amschel was appointed Court Banker to the Landgrave of Hesse. It is from this beginning that the Rothschild fortune emanated.
On his death Mayer Amschel left five sons who established a pentarchy, Anselem Mayer Frankfort, Salomon Vienna, Nathan London, James Paris, and Carl Naples[7]. In so doing the Rothschild’s were able to establish the family business in the financial capitols of Europe at the time.
The state of the world or more importantly Europe at the time, no doubt, greatly contributed to the wealth of the Rothschild founder. Some Historians argue that it was more to do with the financial prowess and smart investments than it was to do with exploiting the circumstances of the time. This writer contends that it was secrecy of operation on the one hand and shrewdness from backing both sides in the game at the same time and exploiting those circumstances to their own benefit that enabled the near meteoric rise of the Rothschild’s Dynasty, The Most Elite!
Bakers Financiers and Economists are well aware that the greatest profits are to be made in times of war and or political and economic upheaval[8]. The events that lead to Wars, Political and Economic crises do not happen on their own they are engineered for the Benefit of the Ruling Elites[9].
Soon The Rothschild’s were lending to Nations. First Denmark’s financial position was perilous and aggravated by an undeclared war initiated by England and then a war against Sweden followed. As a consequence of their perilous financial position The Government applied to the Rothschild’s and was met with favourable assistance[10]. Financing Governments in need became more profitable than ordinary business dealings and soon became the core business. As the business of granting loans to various Governments grew so did the success that followed from these loans. This gave the firm a position of unchallenged power and standing in society so as to become the virtual dictators of Europe[11].
Through this new found power the Rothschild’s were able to excerpt hither to unknown influence on Governments requiring loans to the point of insisting that Rothschild’s appointees were installed in key Government positions. This ensured the insider information required to keep a finger on the pulse so to Speak. This has not changed to this very day.
There are writers who assert that in addition to these Government loans, Rothschild’s were involved in the embezzlement regarding the sizeable fortune belonging to the Landgrave and placed in the safe keeping of the Rothschild[12]. (Emphasis added)
In fact the Rothschild’s played both sides of every conflict, having secured some incredibly useful information, in his “partnership,” with the Princes of Von Thurn and Taxis. They never made any decision or moves without close consultation with their “communication agent” and “inside information source,” the Von Thurn and Taxis. This inside information obtained in an illegal manor gave him an edge on the other money lenders of his time that was used in the Wellington Campaign and quite probably others.
In fact The Rothschild’s had a hand in all of the following major conflicts around the globe, the American Civil War, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, then through their Proxies both Anglo/Boer Wars in South Africa[13], last but not least both the first and second world wars. All of which the House of Rothschild’s profited handsomely.
Enter the Rothschild’s into the American markets. Amschel sent a member of the family by the name of Schoenenberg to the United States under the assumed name of August Belmont. August Belmont became the “hidden hand,” that secretly pushed through the legislation to enable the Federal Reserve to become law[14]. Belmont under the watchful eye of the Rothschild’s eye he became heavily involved in Baking and Democratic Party Politics in America.
The following is a direct transcript from The Book:-The Rothschild Dynasty by Dr John Colman. (The numbering of the footnotes and citations pertain to Dr. Colman’s’ book, as can be seen these are not in sequence with the original article.)
The brothers decided to establish themselves in England; they sent Nathan to settle in Manchester, a grimy northern industrial town, rather than in London. The reason was that the Rothschild’s had important commercial plans for the cloth trade there, which they intended to exploit to the full before moving their operation to London. Most of the fabric needed to make uniforms for the British Army and Navy originally came from Germany. Thanks to the “postal intelligence” provided by the Von Thurn and Taxis mail monopoly, the Rothschild’s learned that war with Napoleon was imminent. (emphasis added) Nathan was quickly dispatched to Germany to buy up all stocks of such cloth. When the Manchester manufactures were given contracts by the British Government to make uniforms for the army and navy, they sent their agents to Germany to secure the necessary fabric stocks, as they had always done, only to learn that all production had already been sold to Nathan Rothschild, from whom they were now obliged to buy. When the news reached Manchester, there followed violent uproar. At one stage Nathan feared for his safety. After five years in Manchester, in 1805 Nathan moved to London. Actually, “fled” would be a better description as indeed he was forced to do when public wrath against his dealings began to mount. One of the principle reasons for Nathan’s great success was that he realized that fast communication was the key to beating out competitors. He employed the fastest riders, ships and even carrier pigeons to communicate. He avidly sought “inside information,” which he kept from his competitors and from governments. He had his secret agents in all of the capital cities of Europe. This loyal group never hesitated to ride through the night, winter and summer. They kept the best breed of carrier pigeons and sailed on the fastest packet boats, sometimes buying all passages between France and England to block competitors.
Dr. John Coleman (continues)
Nathan’s greatest principle of expertise was of buying government bonds that were defaulted, or about to be defaulted, at huge discounts. After a suitable time, great pressure was exerted on the governments concerned to redeem the bonds at face value, netting Nathan incredible profits. In this way he became the financial agent for more than half the governments of Europe. Some very notable people in the past declared that “civilization came to an end in 1790,” among them H.G. Wells, the famous British establishment writer who said in the New York American, (July 27, 1924) that the mental and moral progress of the human race ended with the 18th century. Wells was well thought of by the Rothschild’s, who liked his idea of the League of Nations, what Wells called “a world state,” which he said was inevitable. The Erlanger’s donated $3,000 to this purpose, as did N.M. Rothschild. George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, told Hillaire Belloc: “Something enormous happened in 1790.” This was reported in the New York Times: There is reason to believe that they were referring to the great revolutionary movements that began between the middle and the end of the 18th century when in 1779 Amschel Rothschild became the master of the richest man on Earth, the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel.[15]
At the Same time all this activity the recent discovery of Gold and Diamonds in the Northern Cape and the two Boer Republics had not escaped the attention of the Queen Victoria of England, and the Rothschild’s financed Cecil John Rhodes’s quest for the “Cape to Cairo,” Railroad to ensure expansion of and future dominions of the British Empire in Africa.
Below is a direct extract from the book entitled Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley[16].
The new imperialism after 1870 was quite different in tone from that which the Little Englanders had opposed earlier. The chief changes were that it was justified on grounds of moral duty and of social reform and not, as earlier, on grounds of missionary activity and material advantage. The man most responsible for this change was John Ruskin. Until 1870 there was no professorship of fine arts at Oxford, but in that year, thanks to the Slade bequest, John Ruskin was named to such a chair. He hit Oxford like an earthquake, not so much because he talked about fine arts, but because he talked also about the empire and England’s downtrodden masses, and above all because he talked about all three of these things as moral issues. Until the end of the nineteenth century the poverty-stricken masses in the cities of England lived in want, ignorance, and crime very much as they have been described by Charles Dickens. Ruskin spoke to the Oxford undergraduates as members of the privileged, ruling class. He told them that they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom,  decency, and self-discipline but that this tradition could not be saved, and did not deserve to be saved, unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England itself and to the non-English masses throughout the world. If this precious tradition were not extended to these two great majorities, the minority of upper-class Englishmen would ultimately be submerged by these majorities and the tradition lost. To prevent this, the tradition must be extended to the masses and to the empire.
Cecil Rhodes Sets up a Monopoly over the Gold and Diamond Mines in South Africa Ruskin’s message had a sensational impact. His inaugural lecture was copied out in longhand by one undergraduate, Cecil Rhodes, who kept it with him for thirty years. Rhodes (1853-1902) feverishly exploited the diamond and goldfields of South Africa, rose to be prime minister of the Cape Colony (1890-1896), contributed money to political parties, controlled parliamentary seats both in England and in South Africa, and sought to win a strip of British territory across Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Egypt and to join these two extremes together with a telegraph line and ultimately with a Cape-to-Cairo Railway. Rhodes inspired devoted support for his goals from others in South Africa and in England. With financial support from Lord Rothschild and Alfred Beit………..
Quigley continues
…………….Alfred Beit, he was able to monopolize the diamond mines of South Africa as De Beers Consolidated Mines and to build up a great gold mining enterprise as Consolidated Gold Fields’. In the middle 1890′s Rhodes had a personal income of at least a million pounds sterling a year (then about five million dollars) which was spent so freely for his mysterious purposes that he was usually overdrawn on his account. These purposes centred on his desire to federate the English-speaking peoples and to bring all the habitable portions of the world under their control. For this purpose Rhodes left part of his great fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford in order to spread the English ruling class tradition throughout the English-speaking world as Ruskin had wanted. Cecil Rhodes Organized a Secret Society in 1891 Among Ruskin’s most devoted disciples at Oxford were a group of intimate friends including Arnold Toynbee, Alfred (later Lord) Milner, Arthur Glazebrook, George (later Sir George) Parkin, Philip Lyttelton Gell, and Henry (later Sir Henry) Birchenough. These were so moved by Ruskin that they devoted the rest of their lives to carrying out his ideas. A similar group of Cambridge men including Reginald Baliol Brett (Lord Esher), Sir John B. Seeley, Albert (Lord) Grey, and Edmund Garrett were also aroused by Ruskin’s message and devoted their lives to extension of the British Empire and uplift of England’s urban masses as two parts of one project which they called “extension of the English-speaking idea.” They were remarkably successful in these aims because England’s most sensational journalist William T. Stead (1849-1912), an ardent social reformer and imperialist, brought them into association with Rhodes. This association was formally established on February 5, 1891, when Rhodes and Stead organized a secret society of which Rhodes had been dreaming for sixteen years. In this secret society Rhodes was to be leader; Stead, Brett (Lord Esher), and Milner were to form an executive committee; Arthur (Lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild, Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential members of a “Circle of Initiates”; while there was to be an outer circle known as the “Association of Helpers” (later organized by Milner as the Round Table organization). Brett [17] was invited to join this organization the same day and Milner a couple of weeks later, on his return from Egypt. Both accepted with enthusiasm. Thus the central part of the secret society was established by March 1891. It continued to function as a formal group, although the outer circle was, apparently, not organized until 1909-1913.


Profiting from  the Roll Of Mercenaries and market manipulation in times of war!
With insider knowledge unscrupulous business men make money on the clothing the mercenaries wear, the feeding and wages of the mercenaries, and out of the financing of the campaigns on both sides of the conflict, in addition panic is caused on the stock market by panic selling at the high price, and then through secret appointed agents, buying at the bottom making a profit Twice!, whist expanding their control of all things lucrative. Sound Familiar today?
In his book, Secretes of the Federal Reserve, Eustace Mullins illuminates on the how the Rothschild’s fortunes were increased.
“When the Elector of Hesse earned a fortune by renting Hessian mercenaries to the British to put down the rebellion in the American colonies, Rothschild was entrusted with this money to invest. He made an excellent profit both for himself and the Elector, and attracted other accounts. In 1785 he moved to a larger house, 148 Judengasse, a five story house known as “The Green Shield” which he shared with the Schiff family.
The five sons established branches in the principal cities of Europe, the most successful being James in Paris and Nathan Mayer in London. Ignatius Balla in The Romance of the Rothschilds46 tells us how the London Rothschild established his fortune. He went to Waterloo, where the fate of Europe hung in the balance, saw that Napoleon was losing the battle, and rushed back to Brussels. At Ostend, he tried to hire a boat to England, but because of a raging storm, no one was willing to 101
go out. Rothschild offered 500 francs, then 700, and finally 1,000 francs for a boat. One sailor said, “I will take you for 2000 francs; then at least my widow will have something if we are drowned.” Despite the storm, they crossed the Channel.
The next morning, Rothschild was at his usual post in the London Exchange. Everyone noticed how pale and exhausted he looked. Suddenly, he started selling, dumping large quantities of securities. Panic immediately swept the Exchange. Rothschild is selling; he knows we have lost the Battle of Waterloo. Rothschild and all of his known agents continued to throw securities onto the market. Balla says, “Nothing could arrest the disaster. At the same time he was quietly buying up all securities by means of secret agents whom no one knew. In a single day, he had gained nearly a million sterling, giving rise to the saying, ‘The Allies won the Battle of Waterloo, but it was really Rothschild who won.’”*

Mullins Continues
In The Profits of War, Richard Lewinsohn says, “Rothschild’s war profits from the Napoleonic Wars financed their later stock speculations. Under Metternich,  Austria after long hesitation, finally agreed to accept financial direction from the House of Rothschild.”47
46 Ignatius Balla, the Romance of the Rothschilds, Everleigh Nash, London, 1913
* The New York Times, April 1, 1915 reported that in 1914, Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild went to court to suppress Ignatius Balla’s book on the grounds that the Waterloo story about his grandfather was untrue and libelous. The court ruled that the story was true, dismissed Rothschild’s suit, and ordered him to pay all costs. The New York Times noted in this story that “The total Rothschild wealth has been estimated at $2 billion.” A previous story in The New York Times (May 27, 1905) noted that Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, head of the French house of Rothschild, possessed $60 million in American securities in his fortune, although the Rothschilds reputedly were not active in the American field. This explains why their agent, J.P. Morgan, had only $19 million in securities in his estate when he died in 1913, and securities handled by Morgan were actually owned by his employer, Rothschild.”
47 Richard Lewinsohn, The Profits of War, E.P. Dutton, 1937
Mullins continues:-
After the success of his Waterloo exploit, Nathan Mayer Rothschild gained control of the Bank of England through his near monopoly of “Consols” and other shares. Several “central” banks, or banks which had the power to issue currency, had been started in Europe: The Bank of Sweden, in 1656, which began to issue notes in 1661, the earliest being the Bank of Amsterdam, which financed Oliver Cromwell’s seizure of power in England in 1649, ostensibly because of religious differences. Cromwell died in 1657 and the throne of England was re-established when Charles II was crowned in 1660. He died in 1685. In 1689, the same group of bankers regained power in England by putting King William of Orange on the throne. He soon repaid his backers by ordering the British Treasury to borrow 1,250,000 pounds from these bankers. He also issued them a Royal Charter for the Bank of England, which permitted them to consolidate the National debt (which had just been created by this loan) and to secure payments of interest and principal by direct taxation of the people. The Charter forbade private 103
goldsmiths to store gold and to issue receipts, which gave the stockholders of the Bank of England a money monopoly. The goldsmiths also were required to store their gold in the Bank of England vaults. Not only had their privilege of issuing circulating medium been taken away by government decree, but their fortunes were now turned over to those who had supplanted them.*
In his “Cantos”, 46; 27, Ezra Pound refers to the unique privileges which William Paterson advertised in his prospectus for the Charter of the Bank of England:
“Said Paterson
Hath benefit of interest on all the moneys which it, the bank, creates out of nothing.” (Emphasis added)
The “nothing” which is referred to, of course, is the bookkeeping operation of the bank, which “creates” money by entering a notation that it has “lent” you one thousand dollars, money which did not exist until the bank made the entry.
By 1698, the British Treasury owed 16 million pounds sterling to the Bank of England. By 1815, principally due to the compounding of interest, the debt had risen to 885 million pounds sterling. Some of this increase was due to the wars which had flourished during that period, including the Napoleonic Wars and the wars which England had fought to retain its American Colony.
Mullins continues
* NOTE: In the United States, after the stockholders of the Federal Reserve System had consolidated their power in 1934, our government also issued orders that private citizens could not store or hold gold.
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William Paterson (1658-1719) himself benefited little from “the moneys which the bank creates out of nothing”, as he withdrew, after a policy disagreement, from the Bank of England a year after it was founded. A later William Paterson became one of the framers of the United States Constitution, while the name lingers on, like the pernicious central bank itself.
Paterson had found himself unable to work with the Bank of England’s stockholders. Many of them remained anonymous, but an early description of the Bank of England stated it was “A society of about 1330 persons, including the King and Queen of England, who had 10,000 pounds of stock, the Duke of Leeds, Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Pembroke, and the Earl of Bradford.”
Because of his success in his speculations, Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, as he now called himself, reigned as the supreme financial power in London. He arrogantly exclaimed, during a party in his mansion, “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”
His brother James in Paris had also achieved dominance in French finance. In Baron Edmond de Rothschild, David Druck writes, “(James) Rothschild’s wealth had reached the 600 million mark. Only one man in France possessed more. That was the King, whose wealth was 800 million. The aggregate wealth of all the bankers in France was 150 million less than that of James Rothschild. This naturally gave him untold powers, even to the extent of unseating governments whenever he chose to do so. It is well known, for example, that he overthrew the Cabinet of Prime Minister Thiers.”48
The expansion of Germany under Bismarck was accompanied by his dependence on Samuel Bleichroder, Court Bankers of the Prussian Emperor, who had been known as an agent of the Rothschilds since 1828. The later Chancellor of Germany, Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, was the son of Moritz Bethmann of Frankfurt, who had intermarried with the Rothschilds. Emperor Wilhelm I also relied heavily on Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt, and Sir Ernest Cassel of Frankfurt, who emigrated to England and became personal banker to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. Cassel’s daughter married Lord Mountbatten, giving the family a direct relationship to the present British Crown.
The House of Windsor connection
1901, when Queen Victoria’s son, Edward, became King Edward VII, he re-established the Rothschild ties.
Paul Emden in Behind The Throne says,
“Edward’s preparation for his metier was quite different from that of his mother, hence he ‘ruled’ less than she did. Gratefully, he retained around him men who had been with him in the age of the building of the Baghdad Railway…there were added to the advisory staff Leopold and Alfred de Rothschild, various members of the Sassoon family, and above all his private financial advisor Sir Ernest Cassel.”50
The enormous fortune which Cassel made in a relatively short time gave him an immense power which he never misused. He amalgamated the firm of Vickers Sons with the Naval Construction Company and the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition Company, a fusion from which there arose the worldwide firm of Vickers Sons and Maxim. On an entirely different capacity from Cassel were businessmen like the Rothschilds. The firm was run on democratic principles, and the various partners all had to be members of the family. With great hospitality and in a princely manner they led the lives of grand seigneurs, and it was natural that Edward VII should find them congenial. Thanks to their international family relationships and still more extended business connections, they knew the whole world, were well informed about everybody, and had reliable knowledge of matters which did not appearden 1901, when Queen Victoria’s son, Edward, became King Edward VII, he re-established the Rothschild ties.
Paul Emden in Behind The Throne says,
“Edward’s preparation for his metier was quite different from that of his mother, hence he ‘ruled’ less than she did. Gratefully, he retained around him men who had been with him in the age of the building of the Baghdad Railway…there were added to the advisory staff Leopold and Alfred de Rothschild, various members of the Sassoon family, and above all his private financial advisor Sir Ernest Cassel.”50
The enormous fortune which Cassel made in a relatively short time gave him an immense power which he never misused. He amalgamated the firm of Vickers Sons with the Naval Construction Company and the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition Company, a fusion from which there arose the worldwide firm of Vickers Sons and Maxim. On an entirely different capacity from Cassel were businessmen like the Rothschilds. The firm was run on democratic principles, and the various partners all had to be members of the family. With great hospitality and in a princely manner they led the lives of grand seigneurs, and it was natural that Edward VII should find them congenial. Thanks to their international family relationships and still more extended business connections, they knew the whole world, were well informed about everybody, and had reliable knowledge of matters which did not appearfeldt Guns and Ammunition Company, a fusion from which there arose the worldwide firm of Vickers Sons and Maxim. On an entirely different capacity from Cassel were businessmen like the Rothschilds. The firm was run on democratic principles, and the various partners all had to be members of the family. With great hospitality and in a princely manner they led the lives of grand seigneurs, and it was natural that Edward VII should find them congenial. Thanks to their international family relationships and still more extended business connections, they knew the whole world, were well informed about everybody, and had reliable knowledge of matters which did not appear on the surface. This combination of finance and politics had been a trademark of the Rothschilds from the very beginning. The House of Rothschild always knew more than could be found in the papers and even more than could be read in the reports which arrived at the Foreign Office. In other countries also the relations of the Rothschilds extended behind the throne. Not until numerous diplomatic publications appeared in the years after the war did a wider public learn how strongly Alfred de Rothschild’s hand affected the politics of Central Europe during the twenty years before the war (World War I).”
With the control of the money came the control of the news media. Kent Cooper, head of the Associated Press, writes in his autobiography, Barriers Down,
“International bankers under the House of Rothschild acquired an interest in the three leading European agencies.”51
Thus the Rothschilds bought control of Reuters International News Agency, based in London, Havas of France, and Wolf in Germany, which controlled the dissemination of all news in Europe.
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50 Paul Emden, Behind The Throne, Hoddard Stoughton, London, 1934
51 Kent Cooper, Barriers Down, pg. 21
Recommended Reading:- John Reeves-The Rothschild’s Financial Rulers of Nations, L. Fry-Waters Flowing Eastward, Carroll Quigley-Tragedy and Hope, Anthony Sutton- Wall street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Eustace Mullins- Secrets of the Federal Reserve, John Coleman-The Rothschild Dynasty, The Committee of 300 & Diplomacy By deception, Zbigniew Brzezinski-Between Two ages, The Choice & The Grand Chessboard Daniel Estulin-The Bilderberg Group, Paul Findley-They Dare to Speak out, Ian Douglas Smith-The Great Betrayal, Michel Chossudovsky & Andrew Gavin Marshall-The Global Economic Crises, Michael C. Rupert-Crossing The Rubicon,  John Perkins-Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Peter Dale Scott-The Road To 911 & Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Fletcher Prouty-The Death of JFK & The Secret Team, Baigent Lee & Lincoln-Holy Blood Holy Grail, Henry R. Pike-History of Communism in South Africa, Judy Wood- Where did the towers Go, Webster Tarpley- Synthetic Terror, Lorna Siggins-Once upon a time in the West, Dearbhail McDonald-BUST, Scandal Nation-Michael Clifford & Shane Coleman, Robert Service-Stalin A Biography, Terror On The Tube- Nick Kollerstrom, Meeting minutes from Council on Foreign Relations, Meeting Minutes from the Bank of England and the Meeting Minutes from The Bank of England, to name but a few important ones.
Internet Sites:- The Daily Bell, Global Research.ca. The Sovereign Independent.ie, Voltairenet.org, UK Column, Veterans Today, Ian R. Crane, Edge Media, David Ike, ParadigmshiftTV, Cutting through the Matrix, Council on Foreign Relations, Bank of England, Federal Reserve-USA, drjudywood.com, The July 7 truth campaign.
DVD’s:-The Panama Deception, Super Power, Project Zion, From Freedom To Fascism, Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist Addendum, Loose Change Final cut, 7/7 The Ripple Effect, Mind The Gap-7/7, The Final Melt Down, and many more.


[1] Taken From the Global Research e-mail newsletter-author unknown
[2] Attributed to Joseph Stalin-From the Memoirs of Stalin’s former secretary-loosely translated from Russian-Ch. 5- published in Russian- full transcript available on the internet.
[3] Dr John Colman- The Rothschild Dynasty-“the hidden Hand: French Foreign Minister wrote 1778
[4] The Rothschild’s-The Financial Rulers of the World-John Reeves
[5] The Rothschild’s-The Financial Rulers of the World-John Reeves
[6] The Rothschild Dynasty- Dr John Colman
[7] The Rothschild’s-The Financial Rulers of the World-John Reeves
[8] The Global Economic Crises-Michel Chossudovsky Gavin Marshall
[9]Anthony Wile- Editor The Daily Bell
[10] The Rothschild’s-The Financial Rulers of the World-John Reeves
[11] The Rothschild’s-The Financial Rulers of the World-John Reeves
[12] The Rothschild s Money Trust-Armstrong-Dr John Coleman-Rothschild’s Dynasty
[13] Tragedy and Hope-Carroll Quigley
[14] Dr John Coleman-Rothschild’s Dynasty
[15] The Rothschild’s Dynasty-Dr John Colman
[16] Tragedy and Hope-Carroll Quigley
[17] Tragedy and Hope-Carroll Quigley

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DC Police Are Taking The Scum Off Of The Street One Expired Vehicle Registration At A Time  

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    In a country where the economy is falling apart and subsequently crime rising it is disgusting to think of a police department using it's time, money, and resources to process arrests of people with expired vehicle registration. The nations capital is clearly becoming a police state. A quote from the article sums up the ridiculous state of mind a police department would have to have in order to operate in such a fashion. the traffic offender said he was transported from the precinct to another holding cell in the basement of a separate courthouse. His detainment lasted hours. Confused, at one point he asked an official whether the department processes a lot of people for registration violations. 

According to his account, after the official replied yes, he made a crack about "hardened criminals." The official then snapped that he wouldn't be saying that if someone he loved got hit by someone else with an expired registration. 
"That argument really does not make much sense to me," he told FoxNews.com. "An expired registration really has no bearing whatsoever on your ability to drive a car." 
So if your in the DC area beware police are afraid of you if you don't have all your papers in order!

Auto Owners Beware -- D.C. Cops Throw Drivers in Jail for Expired Tags, AAA Cries Foul

In a city that hosts its fair share of murders and terror plots, Washington, D.C., police are cracking down on another threat to the nation's capital -- expired vehicle registrations. 
To the frustration of forgetful drivers, Metropolitan Police Department officers are throwing people in jail for letting their tag renewals lapse. The practice provoked somewhat of a backlash last year after a local mother from Maryland was jailed for what in many places would be a routine traffic offense punishable by fine. But the department continues to reserve and exercise the right to throw drivers in the clink for missing the DMV deadline, no matter where they're from. 

Will Americans Be Targeted By It's Own Government?  

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     Regardless of the who is the target or why this brings the U.S. into dangerous territory. Those who are totally committed to the ideas of the dangers of terrorists may see this as a victory, but how far will such powers be taken in the future. Always remember that this is a power that the executive branch of government has taken upon itself without any direct authority granted by the legislative branch of government. Another solid example of America being turned over to the ideals of tyranny due to fear(a fear mostly paid for and originally trained by our own government). It would be one thing to take these matters into their own hands if it was done by those elected by the people of America, but this is a secret panel that decides if citizens should be put on the "kill list".  If there is (and probably will be) another terrorist attack on American soil will this extra judicial power be expanded to be used within our own borders. Is this chipping away at the idea of  America having a fair judicial system that gives everyone the right to a trial. It may seem ridiculous to those who are constantly in fear of the next terrorist, but who will be the enemy next?

Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'


(Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.
Current and former officials said that to the best of their knowledge, Awlaki, who the White House said was a key figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, had been the only American put on a government list targeting people for capture or death due to their alleged involvement with militants.
The White House is portraying the killing of Awlaki as a demonstration of President Barack Obama's toughness toward militants who threaten the United States. But the process that led to Awlaki's killing has drawn fierce criticism from both the political left and right.
In an ironic turn, Obama, who ran for president denouncing predecessor George W. Bush's expansive use of executive power in his "war on terrorism," is being attacked in some quarters for using similar tactics. They include secret legal justifications and undisclosed intelligence assessments.
Liberals criticized the drone attack on an American citizen as extra-judicial murder.
Conservatives criticized Obama for refusing to release a Justice Department legal opinion that reportedly justified killing Awlaki. They accuse Obama of hypocrisy, noting his administration insisted on publishing Bush-era administration legal memos justifying the use of interrogation techniques many equate with torture, but refused to make public its rationale for killing a citizen without due process.
Some details about how the administration went about targeting Awlaki emerged on Tuesday when the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, was asked by reporters about the killing.
The process involves "going through the National Security Council, then it eventually goes to the president, but the National Security Council does the investigation, they have lawyers, they review, they look at the situation, you have input from the military, and also, we make sure that we follow international law," Ruppersberger said.
LAWYERS CONSULTED
Other officials said the role of the president in the process was murkier than what Ruppersberger described.
They said targeting recommendations are drawn up by a committee of mid-level National Security Council and agency officials. Their recommendations are then sent to the panel of NSC "principals," meaning Cabinet secretaries and intelligence unit chiefs, for approval. The panel of principals could have different memberships when considering different operational issues, they said.
The officials insisted on anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
They confirmed that lawyers, including those in the Justice Department, were consulted before Awlaki's name was added to the target list.
Two principal legal theories were advanced, an official said: first, that the actions were permitted by Congress when it authorized the use of military forces against militants in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001; and they are permitted under international law if a country is defending itself.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005