We Are Entering a New Age

Marianne Williamson recently found it necessary to declare, “I’m not a not a wacky new-age nutcase.”  She is spiritual advisor to Oprah Winfrey and one of the many Democrats contending for the Democratic nomination for president.  If you ever feel it necessary to announce that you are not a “wacky new-age nutcase” you have a problem.  Hundreds of thousands of people have psychiatric issues.  That is not the problem.  The problem is that a large number of Democrats believe she is a viable candidate. 

However, Williamson does have some interesting foreign policy initiatives.  It is surprising that the conflict in Syria has not already been resolve due to her efforts.  She has been at work: “Just spent time in silence showering the President of Syria with a love so great that his insanity could not stand in its presence,” and “Mentally quarantine the government of Syria.  See them and their minions surrounded by a golden egg that their malevolence cannot penetrate.  Within the egg, let’s see them showered with light to awaken them.”  She may not get the Democratic nomination but I’m sure she’d be a big hit at the State Department.  

It does not appear that Williamson’s showering had much effect on Bashar Assad.  Perhaps she will be more successful with President Trump.  She has thrown down the gauntlet: “Mr. President, if you’re listening, I want you to hear me, please. You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out. So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you’re doing. I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field. And sir — love will win.”  The Love Bomb!  Alert the Secret Service. 

I hear angels singing, or maybe its just the Beatles.

In Defense of the Detestable Alexander Acosta

While he was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alexander Acosta oversaw the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.  Epstein is a child molester, a sex trafficker and a blackmailer.  The Department of Justice had a 53 page indictment prepared that could have put him in jail for life.  Instead Epstein served 13 months in the Palm Beach jail where he was allow to spend 12 hours a day six days a week on “work release” where he could continue his sexual depredations.  His young victims were labeled prostitutes and were lied to about the disposition of the case.

Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald reported that Acosta “not only broke the law . . . he conspired with Epstein and his lawyers to circumvent public scrutiny and deceive his victims in violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.”  This was the conclusion of Judge Kenneth A. Marra of the US District Court for the Southern district of Florida.  Marra stated, “While the government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the (agreement) with Epstein’s attorneys, scant information was shared with victims.  Instead, the victims were told to be ‘patient’  while the investigation proceeded.”

The prosecutors were actually on Epstein’s side.  Acosta’s lead federal prosecutor, A. Marie Villafaña, suggested how to minimize press coverage.  She wrote one of Epstein’s lawyers, “On an ‘avoid the press’ note ... I can file the charge in district court in Miami which will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly. Do you want to check that out?’’

Much of the criticism Acosta faced stems from an October 2007 West Palm Beach meeting he had with Epstein’s attorney Jay Lefkowitz.  Here an “extraordinary plea agreement” was produced that shut down the FBI investigation and gave immunity to Epstein and four of his alleged co-conspirators.  Acosta denies that this meeting resulted in an agreement, however, Lefkowitz wrote him, “Thank you for the commitment you made to me during our Oct. 12 meeting. You ... assured me that your office would not ... contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses or potential civil claimants and the respective counsel in this matter.’’

The definition of conspire is “to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal.”

Acosta had several explanations for his failure to prosecute Epstein on federal charges.  In 2017 Acosta claimed Epstein’s punishment, “At the end of the day . . .  is a good thing.” He had made the best deal possible.  At one point he was told “leave it alone” because Epstein was involved with intelligence.  Acosta also claimed there was “… a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors. I use the word assault intentionally, as the defense in this case was more aggressive than any which I, or the prosecutors in my office, and previously encountered.  Defense counsel investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification.”

There is no mention of witness tampering or obstruction of justice.  Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who is conducting the present prosecution, has not mentioned attempts to influence his decisions.  Undoubtedly pressure has been applied.  It is not just Epstein, with his millions, who has an interest in keeping matter contained.  The entire Deep State elite wants to shut this down.  Epstein’s activities were no secret in elite circles.  Like the BBC’s Jimmy Savile the behavior was excused because it was “Jimmy just being Jimmy.”  Likewise Roman Polanski drugging and assault on a 13-year-old was not rape-rape according to Whoopi Goldberg.  Donald Trump was aware of Epstein’s behavior and he banned from Mar-a-Lago.  After his conviction he was still palling around with people like Katie Couric, Chelsea Handler and George Stephanopoulos.

How then is it possible to say anything in defense of Alexander Acosta?  Alexander Acosta was a member in good standing of the Deep State Nomenklatura. He was informed by higher-ups that Epstein had to receive only token punishment.  Reports indicate that Epstein’s lawyer Ken Starr went over Acosta’s head to appeal to the Justice Department.  Robert Mueller was the FBI Director at the time and may have been involved with Epstein’s “intelligence” activities.  If Acosta is quietly falling on his sword it reveals a certain nobility.  On the other hand he may feel that if he talks he will suddenly suffer from a fatal disease.

Investigative journalist Nick Bryant told Vanity Fair, “If Epstein talks, there’s gonna be a lot of powerful people who could go down.”  The Deep State will not permit this.  They may allow a few token sacrifices but the real powers will escape.  There power resides in the “power of the Purse.”  They distribute trillions of dollars.  Yet, not one of the 535 members of Congress has been mentioned in this scandal.  If Epstein was not collecting video tapes on this group he was totally incompetent.  I think he was smarter than that.   

The Second Quebec Conference

President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met at the Second Quebec Conference, the Octagon Conference.  It took place between 9 and 21 September 1944.  The public was informed that the primary purpose of the meeting was to discuss military matters.  According to Alexander Cadogan, the British Foreign Office Undersecretary, the President stated, “Quebec is to be entirely military; if any other subject come up I shall call Cordell right away.”  It would therefore be unnecessary to have State Department representatives.  The President not only deceived the public but his own State Department about the purpose of the conference.  The intended purpose of the Conference was to gain Churchill’s acceptance of the Morgenthau Plan.

On September 12 Morgenthau requested he be allowed to attend.  Churchill was interested in Morgenthau attendance because he wanted to discuss Lend Lease.  Roosevelt discussed the Morgenthau Plan with Churchill over lunch on the 13th.  Morgenthau and White arrived after lunch.  The President met with Morgenthau after lunch and told him he wanted him to talk with Churchill’s advisor, Lord Cherwell.  He informed Morgenthau that Churchill was not very enthusiastic about the Plan.

The following day there was a dinner meeting.  After dinner Morgenthau began to explain his plan.  According to Morgenthau Churchill was violently opposed to the plan.  He looked upon it as he would on chaining himself to a dead German.  Churchill was aware that the plan would cause economic chaos throughout Europe.  The three hour long discussion did not change his mind.  The meeting ended with the President saying, “Let the Prof (Lord Cherwell) go into our plans with Morgenthau. 

In the morning of the 14th of September Morgenthau and White met with Lord Cherwell.  Cherwell explained that Churchill’s opposition stemmed from the fact that he did not understand the plan.  At 11 A.M. Roosevelt met with Churchill.  The were joined a half hour later by Morgenthau and White.  Cherwell recorded that Churchill “was converted” to the agrarian plan.  He had made a 180 degree change.

That afternoon Anthony Eden and Alexander Cadogan arrived  That evening there was another dinner meeting.  It was at this meeting that Anthony Eden expressed his strong opposition to the plan.    

Morgenthau and White met with Cherwell on the morning of the fifteenth to prepare for their meeting with the President and Prime Minister. At noon Morgenthau and Cherwell met with Eden, Cadogan, Churchill and Roosevelt. The first matter of discussion was an agreement to provide Britain with six and one half billion dollars in Lend Lease assistance.  this assistance was Churchill’s primary goal in attending this conference.  Morgenthau and Roosevelt did not make it easy for Churchill. At one point Churchill stated, “What do you want me to do, stand up and beg like Fala?”  Churchill was referring to Roosevelt’s dog Fala.

Immediately after the agreement on Lend Lease Churchill turned to Morgenthau and Cherwell and asked, “Where are the minutes on this matter of the Ruhr?”  There was no memo describing the plan so Churchill took the initiative and dictated his interpretation of the plan:

At the conference between the President and the Prime Minister upon the best measures to prevent renewed rearmament by Germany, it was felt that an essential feature was the future disposition of the Ruhr and the Saar.

The ease with which the metallurgical, chemical and electrical industries in Germany can be converted from peace to war has already been impressed upon us by bitter experience. It must also be remembered that the Germans have devastated a large portion of the industries of Russia and of other neighboring Allies, and it is only in accordance with justice that these injured countries should be entitled to remove the machinery they require in order to repair the losses they have suffered. The industries referred to in the Ruhr and in the Saar would therefore be necessarily put out of action and closed down. It was felt that the two districts should be put under somebody under the world organization which would supervise the dismantling of these industries and make sure that they were not started up again by some subterfuge.

The program for eliminating the war-making industries in the Ruhr and in the Saar is looking forward to converting Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in its character. 

Churchill’s addition of the them “pastoral” was a nice touch making this genocidal plan sound like a plan to create a utopian agricultural community.  

Churchill’s physician Lord Moran, was “bewildered” by Churchill’s abrupt change.  He recorded that Eden “flew into a rage” and stated the plan would not work.  Churchill lost his temper and they had a “heated Discussion.”  Churchill responded, “I’ve no patience with people who are always raising difficulties.”  Eden recorded this incident in his memoirs: “This was the only occasion I can remember when the Prime Minister showed impatience with my views before foreign representatives.” 

Secretary of State Cordell was shocked by the news from Quebec.  He wrote:

On the same day, Sept. 15, that the President sent me the memorandum embracing the Morgenthau plan and the decision on the zones of occupation, he sent me another memorandum which informed me that Morgenthau had presented at Quebec in conjunction with his plan for Germany, a proposal of credits to Britain totaling six and a half billion dollars. This might suggest to some the quid pro quo with which the Secretary of the Treasury was able to get Mr. Churchill’s adherence to his cataclysmic plan for Germany.  

A few pages later Hull is more specific when he writes, “The British at Quebec had joined in on this extreme starvation plan in order to get Morgenthau’s help in obtaining six and a half billion dollars credit proposed by the Secretary of the Treasury.”

The Quebec Conference is a classic example of the deceptiveness of the Roosevelt Administration.  The purpose of the conference had to be concealed from the public and even the President’s own State Department.  Henry Morgenthau III commented, “In order to obscure the true nature of Octagon, spokesmen told the press that the discussions were exclusively concerned with military matters, particularly the war in the Pacific and Asia, and so the highest-ranking uniformed personages were put on display.”

It is understandable that the public and press would accept the press releases of the Administration.  It is far less understandable that respected historians would continue this pretense.  With few exceptions the unbelievable credulity of professional historians is on display when covering President Roosevelt’s policies. 

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Epilogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiKyzE_4mMI  Provides a 1944 newsreel of the 

Quebec Conference 1944 - Octagon, WWII, 28870.   Produced by The National Film Board of Canada it provides a view of the military "put on display.”

THE ORIGINS OF THE MORGENTHAU PLAN

This installment on the Morgenthau Plan deals with its origin.

On July 6, 1944, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau spoke with President Roosevelt.  He requested permission to go to France to evaluate plans for U.S. occupation currency.  The President gave his permission and Morgenthau and his team departed for Europe on August 6.  Harry Dexter White sat next to Morgenthau on the flight and according to Josiah DuBois they discussed getting reparations from Germany.

White had given Morgenthau a copy of a report on the current state of planning by the Washington Interdepartmental Foreign Economic Policy Committee.  Morgenthau was shocked.  He did not feel that it was punitive enough.  On their arrival in Scotland they were briefed by Bernard Bernstein the financial adviser at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF).  Bernstein, a former Treasury lawyer is described by Morgenthau's son as, "My father's principal on-the-spot agent in the European theater of operations.” 

Bernstein provided Morgenthau with a draft of the SHAEF Military Handbook for Germany.  This handbook emphasized building up the German economy in order to prevent the army from being "bogged down in a morass of economic wreckage." 

SHAEF’s financial section was staffed by Treasury officers at the direction of President Roosevelt.  General Clay, the future military governor of the U.S. Zone in Germany, (1947–1949), complained that these officers “were either members of the Communist party or tended in that direction.”  Clay commented that Bernstein was “very smart and energetic but is somewhat warped in his judgment of the problem as a whole." 

On August 7, 1944 Morgenthau and his team met with General Eisenhower.  Fred Smith of the Treasury commented that it was Eisenhower who inspired the Morgenthau Plan.  His notes made immediately after the meeting record Eisenhower saying, “The ringleaders and the SS troops should be given the death penalty without question, but punishment should not end there.”

Morgenthau’s team stayed in Europe for over a week.  They met with members of the European Advisory Commission, Winston Churchill, the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and several other government officials.  Eden gave the impression that he supported Morgenthau’s approach.

Eden showed Morgenthau the minutes of the Teheran Conference, a meeting where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin discussed postwar issues.  It  demonstrated that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin envisioned a stern postwar treatment of Germany.

When Morgenthau returned to the U.S. he met with Secretary of State Cordell Hull who appeared to be in agreement with Morgenthau’s plans.  Morgenthau told Hull about the minutes of the Teheran Conference.  Hull commented, "Henry, this is the first time I have heard this.  I have never been permitted to see the minutes of the Teheran Conference.”

On 19 August Morgenthau met with the President.  He informed the President that Prime Minister Churchill, Ambassador Winant and the Army all favored a policy of rebuilding Germany after the war.  Morgenthau commented, "Nobody has been studying how to treat Germany roughly along the lines you wanted.” Obviously The two had discussed this matter on at least on previous occasion.  This is significant because it contradicts the “Without much thought” assertion that will be described later.

Morgenthau recorded that the President stated “Give me thirty minutes with Churchill and I can correct this.  We have got to be tough with Germany and I mean the German people not just the Nazis.  We either have to castrate the German people or you have got to treat them in such a manner so they can't go on reproducing people who want to continue the way they have in the past.”

After this meeting Morgenthau formed a Treasury committee to draw up the details for the MP.  On 21 August the President directed Secretary of War Stimson to speak with Morgenthau.  On 23 August Stimson met with the President and discussed occupation policy.  Morgenthau had lunch with the President on the 25th of August. Here Morgenthau provided the President a memorandum on his ideas for postwar planning and a copy of the SHAEF Military Handbook.  Morgenthau requested that the President return the memo and Handbook but the President stated, "No. If you don't mind, I would like to keep it and read it tonight and then I will return it to you." That night the president carefully read through the Handbook and Morgenthau's memorandum according to Morgenthau.  After lunch Roosevelt and Morgenthau visited the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson.   Roosevelt said that the Germans should have simply a subsistence level of food.  When he was asked if he wanted the German people to starve, he replied, "Why not?"  It was at this meeting that the President proposed a cabinet committee to study the problem along the lines he had outlined.

That weekend Morgenthau left Washington on the same train as the President.  They traveled to Hyde Park where they stayed overnight "all the while discussing his plan." When President Roosevelt sent Morgenthau a report from Office of Strategic Services chief William Donovan explained that most of prewar Europe’s farm machinery had been produced in Germany and that destroying German industry might force all Europeans to starve,  “Morgenthau scrawled back, ‘I would like to say in the words of your son Johnny, 'So what?’"

The State Department’s James Riddleberger sent a memorandum claiming: if put into effect, it will bring about extensive and important changes in European economy as a whole.  Germany is a deficit country in foodstuffs and it is doubtful if a plan of making Germany predominantly agricultural can be put into effect without the liquidation or emigration of x-millions of Germans.  It was clearly obvious that the plan was impractical.

The President and Morgenthau spent the weekend of the second of September at Hyde Park.  Here Morgenthau provided the President with the newest draft of his plan.  One of the provisions Forced German labor outside Germany was included under Restitution and Reparation.  Morgenthau recorded his impressions of this meeting in his presidential diary:  "The President listened very closely and seemed to be in complete sympathy with what I was saying."

The cabinet committee met again on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 6, in the White House.  After Morgenthau and Stimson had presented their views the President addressed most of his comments to Stimson, "reverting to his proposition. . . . that Germany could live happily and peacefully on soup from soup kitchens."    Morgenthau requested a rehearing before the President and another full cabinet committee meeting was scheduled for the 9th of September. On 7 September the President met privately with Henry Morgenthau where they obviously discussed the plan.  At this last cabinet committee meeting before the President departed for the Quebec Conference the president gave the impression that he had not made up his mind about the two opposing views on postwar policy.  

The President left the White House that evening. He was accompanied by Secretary Morgenthau, He arrived at Highland, New York at 7:30 A.M.  At this point Morgenthau left the train for his estate.  The President continued on to Quebec.

In closing it is important to note that the president held 18 documented meetings dealing with the Morgenthau Plan.  It is claimed that he read reports on the plan “very slowly and very carefully.”  This is important in light of the fact that respected historian accept the excuse that the president initialed the plan “without much thought.”

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