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About David

Personal background: I was the owner / operator of a small corporation for many years which was sold to a telecommunications company. My businesses have included: Mortgage Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Land Development, Software Development and consulting. My Investment Analysis Software received favorable reviews in several national publications including PC Magazine and the Wall Street Computer review. Currently, I hold a PMP and do technical project and program management for various corporations.

This Sea of Ignorance

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | September 10, 2015

David Brown

David Brown

Sometimes it is a bit frustrating to debate people who have not taken the time to read Quigley’s  ‘Anglo-American Establishment’  or the many historical accounts of Antony C Sutton; but I must take the world as I find it.  Most of these people are smart and well-intentioned but lack key information.      Faced with similar frustrations, Joe Plummer would give away Quigley’s books in the hope someone would read them, only to find out the challenge was too great.   Rather than give up, however, Joe decided to write his own slimmed-down, easier to understand and updated book on Quigley called appropriately Tragedy and Hope 101.    In this sea of ignorance, how can we have an intelligent or sane conversation without 1) key information on the real players; 2) fundamental knowledge of methods and procedures and 3) the proven historical backdrop provided by Quigley and other researchers?   That is the question.   Without the historical context and an understanding of the genealogy and pedigree of the current batch of oligarchs, how can we advance our mutual understanding and how can we engage in an effective contest for our freedom as the collective noose is tightened around our collective necks?

We are encouraged by the rapid spread of information through the internet; and we are encouraged to understand, historically, the information wars can be won by as few as 5% of the populations.    I am also encouraged by the many people who have not read Quigley, yet by the sheer force of their own intellectual skills and keen observations, can impute without the direct information provided by Quigley.   Without Quigley, they point to inconsistencies in the official historical record and the official stories of finance, geopolitics and social engineering that deserve a complete accounting and then demand an explanation.   The interview below with Paul Craig Roberts is a very good example of the brilliant intellect of PCR who struggles without the benefit of Quigley.

Paul Craig Roberts Interviewed by John B. Wells, Caravan To Midnight

Another good example of brilliance overcoming ignorance without the benefit of Quigley can be seen in the excellent interview of NSA Whistleblower William Binney by Richard Grove here.
Obviously, Mr. Grove is well versed in Quigley, but the question must be asked:  How much more effective would Binney or PCR be if they had the benefit of Quigley’s and Sutton’s documented evidence?

I’ve often said …

“There are two kinds of people: Those who have read Quigley and those who have not; and it is very easy to tell the difference.” 

I didn’t say this to be offensive or elitist or to prove I’m smarter than anyone else. I said it simply because it is true. Once the truth of what Quigley said hits you, you can never go home again, you can never see the world the same way again. Your innocence is lost.   Your naive belief in the goodness of so many institutions is forever shattered by documented fact. You see with clear eyes and so you are more difficult to fool by those who build the walled-gardens of propaganda where most of your fellows live out their intellectual lives; never questioning the construction of these walls, built of ‘well-established’ assumptions which are in fact lies.

But even with the revelations provided by Quigley, Sutton and others, the picture is never complete and of course changes over time.   The old guards die, providing room for the new oligarchs and their attendant power structures; but these changes are mostly traceable and predictable. The footprints of the past are seen everywhere in the present. Today, we have a new generation of brave, brilliant investigators and heroes who have continued –sometimes at great personal sacrifice– to peel back the curtain so that we can observe those who seek to enslave the rest of us for their own selfish purposes. See the Julian Assange interview below.

Assange on ‘US Empire,’ Assad govt overthrow plans & new book ‘The WikiLeaks Files’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Published on Sep 9, 2015

Afshin Rattansi goes underground with the world’s most wanted publisher – the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. He has just co-authored a book – the WikiLeaks Files, and it paints a picture of systemic US torture and killing as well as the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of billions of people right around the world.

There are many examples of our Superstars who have read and understand Quigley and Sutton:

The history you never knew …

What you will never learn from the U.S. Public School System:

Rothschild Funding World War II – Dr Antony C Sutton Interview

Published on Nov 11, 2013

Antony C Sutton gave an interview back in 1980 discussing his research on the funding of World War II, when American and European financiers were funding both the Nazi party and the communists.

Sutton was an economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973.

In 1973, Sutton published a popularized, condensed version of the three volumes called National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union and was thereby forced out of the Hoover Institution. His conclusion from his research on the issue was that the conflicts of the Cold War were “not fought to restrain communism”, since the United States, through financing the Soviet Union “directly or indirectly armed both sides in at least Korea and Vietnam”; rather, these wars were organised in order “to generate multibillion-dollar armaments contracts”

For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton’s Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that ‘Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid’ (p.283), and that ‘at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.’ (p. 348).

Sutton died June 17, 2002 at the age of 77.

More from Sutton:

Update JFK

2015 Unfortunate Truth JFK, 9/11, and Beyond – The World We Live in.

Published on Feb 18, 2015: Length 4:37:51

The Real History – of the world from an historical perspective to the present day. This video explains the Facts of who, how & why of the JFK assassination and 9/11 complete with names and motives.

Meet Lee Harvey Oswald, Sheep-Dipped Patsy from James Corbett – short and to the point.

Peace Revolution episode 080: JFK 50 Years Later / QUI BONO?  Richard Grove’s excellent 20 hr podcast from his Tragedy and Hope web site.  Enjoy!

 

The Federal Reserve, a collection

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug 22, 2015

Seal of the Federal Reserve System

Seal of the Federal Reserve System

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” -Woodrow Wilson – In The New Freedom (1913) Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 13

Below is a short collection of videos on the Federal Reserve.  I decided to list them here for educational purposes and to have a central repository on this site to document this secretive and clandestine organization which has inserted itself into the U.S. Government without the common knowledge of the American citizen.  These videos are representative of some of the best available.  I have listed the lengths of each video so that you can determine how much time you have to invest in learning about this important topic.  Enjoy.  –David Brown

The Federal Reserve Explained In 7 Minutes (Length – 00:07:06)

The Birth of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank – How usury destroyed America (Length 01:11:12)

Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve (Length 01:30:11)

The Money Masters – Full Documentary (480p) (Length 03:29:20)

Money As Debt – Full Length Documentary (Length 45:56)

Additional Reading…

 

Your chance to read a secret Pentagon document

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug 18, 2015

Mark Twain, detail of photo by Mathew Brady, February 7, 1871

Mark Twain, detail of photo by Mathew Brady, February 7, 1871

“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” — Mark Twain

Let us not forget that Saddam was supported by the U.S. in his war against Iran (500,000 Iraqi dead and 750,000 Iranian dead) and was given the green-light to invade Kuwait … but this green-light was a calculation by the U.S., designed to provided political cover for the Gulf War codenamed Operation Desert Shield:

On July 25, 1990, Saddam Hussein entertained a guest at the Presidential Palace in Baghdad: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. Glaspie told the Iraqi president: “I have direct instructions from President (George H.W.) Bush to improve our relations with Iraq. We have considerable sympathy for your quest for higher oil prices, the immediate cause of your confrontation with Kuwait.”

AND let us not forget about “The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies – LIE ” Behold the lie that put the public behind the war – The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies…LIE. This entire story was manufactured. The “innocent” girl who testifies “tearfully”, is, in reality, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family and her “story” has been given to her – she was coached.

Behold the former head of the CIA and then current President of the United States, George H.W. Bush,…LIE…through his teeth, about the incubator babies. Do you think that the former head of the CIA would make up such a story?

Joe Plummer: I would add that US aid to “ISIS” also keeps the “war on terror” meme rolling along. It “justifies” the illegal / unconstitutional expansion of government power at home, while maintaining the pretext for continued intervention in the Persian Gulf. This quote from PNAC in 2000 (taken from “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”) provides further insight:

“In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along with British and French units, has become a semipermanent fact of life.

Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq, they represent the long-term commitment of the United States and its major allies to a region of vital importance. Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security.

While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”

from DownsizeDC.org August 17, 2015 By Jim Babka
Your chance to read a secret Pentagon document

Additional Reading on this topic:

U.S. Vs. Iraq: 25 Years and Counting. Who Triggered the 1991 Gulf War?
Global Research, August 16, 2015 |By Mickey Z

James Joyce

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug 18, 2015

Joyce in Zurich, c. 1918

Joyce in Zurich, c. 1918

Joyce is not for everyone –especially my High School English teacher! I did my high school thesis on ‘Finnegans Wake’ by the Irish writer James Joyce and received a big, fat ‘F’ from my unimpressed teacher; thus my interest in this podcast from Corbett and Thomas Sheridan on Joyce’s ‘A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man‘. Despite my early failure at literature, I persisted, and found our lives can be much richer than we can imagine by experiencing the amazingly fine literature that is always just a single book away. One of my favorite courses at the University was two semesters of ‘The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vols 1 & 2.’ What an amazing class!!!! Broadened and enriched my life in ways I cannot explain, yet has impacted my life every day since.  Reading fine literature is like doing interior decorating to magically turn your house into a home; only here,  your mind is the interior and the decorating is done with literature.

 

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – FLNWO #29 | Corbett • 08/17/2015 •

Corbett Report: In this edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order James is joined by author, artist, podcaster and researcher Thomas Sheridan of ThomasSheridanArts.com. Together they tackle James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man…and the entirety of the Joycean ouevre. Is Joyce the ultimate anti-imperialist, post-colonial, iconoclastic exile hero? The smith of the uncreated conscience? A literary magician? A man whose hand did many other things as well? All and none of the above? Yes I said yes he will yes.

 

Hillary Prison 2016

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug 18, 2015

Hillary Prison 2016

Hillary Prison 2016

What ever happened to those 30,000 emails about Hillary’s yoga classes that were deleted? Haven’t heard a peep about that in a while?

Most people with an IQ above that of a stalk of broccoli can agree Hillary is a phony; and so, find some enjoyment in her getting caught illegally transferring Top Secret emails via her own private server. Her justification? It was, as she explained, for “convenience” …. OH PLEASE! Are we that stupid? More likely her motivation was to hide her criminal activities. But my question goes deeper and concerns the legitimacy of the government classifying TOP SECRET anything they seek to hide from the public. “National Security” is always the excuse, as though the entire country would explode if any of this secret information ever saw the light of day. We have found out that this is just not true. Think Snowden, Sibel Edmonds, William Binney and other whistle-blowers. We have seen time and again when some of this very top secret information leaks out that the country does not explode, but rather some embarrassing and illegal activity is revealed. Activity that we really need to know about! Is there anything these evil three letter agencies have that is even worth hiding? What I mean by this, is that: it is an irrefutable fact that the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. are all engaged –as Hillary was— in illegal and unconstitutional activities. So wouldn’t our nation be much better off turning on the lights to see just how many cockroaches are sleeping in our bed? So maybe rather than seeing if Hillary transferred Top Secret information on her server, maybe we should be more concerned with finding out what exactly was sooooo Top Secret in the first place and why.

Bet Valerie Jarrett has her own private email server.

Will Hillary receive any jail time? Doubtful. The head of the NSA lied under oath to Congress (a crime punishable for up to 5 years: TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 > § 1001), yet his only punishment was an increase to his budget and a re-affirmation of his tenure as Director of National Intelligence. What these continuing un-prosecuted criminal actions by government officials (DoJ, IRS, State Department, NSA, CIA) represent is a complete and utter disdain for their oath of office, the citizens of these United States, and for the documents upon which this country was founded. Federal officials break the laws and shred our constitution daily without fear of penalty or prosecution; and in complete violation of their oath of office. I hate to interrupt your daily programming brought to you by the MSM, but it is clear –based on the facts everywhere in front of us– that the U.S. Federal Government no longer even bothers to give lip service to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore by definition illegitimate.

CIA Gun Runner: Hillary’s Benghazi Crimes Confirmed
Published on Aug 20, 2015
Alex Jones talks with Robert Tosh Plumlee about why the media is focusing in on Hillary Clinton’s latest scandal and how it’s diverting attention from a much, much larger issue.

Debbie Downer

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug 18, 2015

Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds

I debated whether or not to post the dreary forecast from Tyler Durden below, since most of the news we consume is already very negative; and what, after all, can one more dire prediction contribute? Well, what it can contribute is the answer to a burning question we have all had on our minds since the U.S. Federal government decided to monetize our debt, which historically is the kiss of death to any economy. I guess they thought this time would be different, eh? Or maybe they believed in the magic of Keynesian economics as promulgated by the Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman. It seems fitting that Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, since it was the ‘Progressive’ Wilson who brought us the Federal Reserve and the 16th Amendment. Anyway the question is “when will the economic collapse begin?” I think the answer is in the article below. What the article does not address is the incredible mountains of wealth transferred from those of us who make the economy work to those who are in the rarefied position of shuffling paper around.

23 Nations Around The World Where Stock Market Crashes Are Already Happening
by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2015

 

 

The Law of Corruption

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug  18, 2015

The Big Four Bridge from various angles in May 2013

The Big Four Bridge from various angles in May 2013

Most systems (bridge, car engine, computer program) can withstand a certain amount of corruption; but all systems will fail at some point, when and if the corruption becomes too great.  For example, if Jeffersonville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky can’t decide who will paint the Big Four Bridge spanning the Ohio River, it will become corrupted by rust and fall into the river of its own weight.  Likewise, here in the U.S.A., if we don’t get control of the corruption that is running rampant in all three branches of the Federal Government, it too will fail.  We can argue on the details of the causes and the fixes, but the underlying problem is unconstrained lawlessness and corruption by our Federal officials. Until this is addressed head-on, the system upon which 321,512,481 American souls depend is destined to fail.

NOTE:

A system is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole
Some systems share common characteristics, including:

  • A system has structure, it contains parts (or components) that are directly or indirectly related to each other;
  • A system has behavior, it exhibits processes that fulfill its function or purpose;
    A system has interconnectivity: the parts and processes are connected by structural and/or behavioral relationships;
  • A system’s structure and behavior may be decomposed via subsystems and sub-processes to elementary parts and process steps;
  • A system has behavior that, in relativity to its surroundings, may be categorized as both fast and strong.

 

NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET (Video)

by Joe Plummer | JoePlummer.com | July 31, 2015

Joe Plummer

Joe Plummer

I‘m guessing many of my friends “lean left,” yet they aren’t rabid “gun grabbers.” That’s one reason why I wish pieces like this simply dropped the divisive tone; it doesn’t add any value. Present the facts and give people an opportunity to reconsider what they’ve been led to believe, without ridiculing them, whenever possible. …Now, all of that said, this is a nice, short video on the correlation between our “gun culture” and murder.

NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET (Video)
Source: YouTube.com         Submitted: 07/31/2015
The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. Progressives will tell you that this is what makes America the Murder Capitol of Planet Earth. But we’re not, and in this devastatingly effective Firewall, Bill Whittle shows why the center of Gun Nut Nation is in fact one of the safest places in the world.