Talk:Conspiracy
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[edit] Ikleheimer
The earliest book I know where the letters appear is J. F. Rutherford's Vindication, Book II, Chapter 6 (1932). Although the letters are supposed to be from 1862, item 17 on the circular cites a case "Mr. Branch against the United States, reported in the 12th. volume of the U.S. Court of Claims Reports, at page 287", which wasn't decided until December 1876 (12 Fed. Cl. 281), thus the circular could not have been written before December 1876. The Supreme Court took up the case in 1879 and affirmed the decision. You can see in Branch v. United States 100 US 673 that the case didn't start until the 1870s.
[edit] Josiah Stamp
I haven't found anywhere that Stamp is called the "second richest man" or even being called particularly wealthy except in connection with the quote. He wasn't even in the top five wealthiest Brits to die in 1941. According to the probate records, as recorded in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Stamp was worth £163,548 at his death. There were at least five people ahead of him:
£880,331 Grenfell, Edward Charles
£776,220 Wakefield, Charles Cheers
£509,712 Austin, Herbert
£408,999 Smith, Lancelot Grey Hugh
£234,748 Cadman, John
And, of course, this doesn't include the much larger number of people who lived through the year.
[edit] Claiborne Pell
Source that he was advocate for the treaty:
A U.S.-Soviet Ban on Weather Use for War is Near
New York Times, Jun 24, 1975, pg. 69
"The main American advocate of an agreement banning environmental warfare has been Senator Claiborne Pell, Democrat of Rhode Island. He publicized a secret rain-making program in Indochina during the Vietnam war to increase normal monsoon rainfall and make North Vietnamese movements more difficult.
"Mr. Pell succeeded in July, 1973, in inducing the Senate to vote 82 to 10 in favor of a resolution urging the Administration to seek a treaty banning environmental warfare."
I had found an editorial where he said that most of the things banned were not yet possible, but I cannot find it now. The quote "today's science fiction is tomorrow's strategic reality" is said (on the Internet) to be from an editorial in the Providence Journal-Bulletin in 1975, but I haven't been able to verify it.
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These two are not in McFadden's June 10, 1932 speech. They may well be from McFadden, but I haven't found where or when. Also, there's already plenty from McFadden on the page.
- It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence.... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee
- The Federal Reserve (Bank) is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the international bankers.
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden
This one doesn't seem notable enough to include:
- There today exists uncontrolled in the hands of a set of men a power to make dollars from nothing.
- Thomas W. Lawson Frenzied Finance, 1905
I don't see the relevance to "Conspiracy" of the following quotes:
- This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.
- Robert H. Hemphill (Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Ga.)
- "100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government."
- Grace Commission Report, submitted to President Ronald Reagan on January 15, 1984
