In Part One of the Beginnings, I reviewed Jacob Nordangård’s The Global Coup d’État which is a first-class account of the world events of 2020-2024. However, if you don’t fancy paying for Dr Nordangård’s book, a resource that is just as good and probably has considerable overlap is Derrick Brose’s The Pyramid of Power.
The Pyramid has been a five-year project which has been crowd-funded specifically so that it can be free for all. It has been produced in four “seasons” of episodes, sixteen in all so far with the seventeenth and final episode being finished as I write this. Most episodes are between 20 and 30 minutes with some up to 40 minutes long. Each episode offers the choice to watch a video, listen to the audio only or to read the transcript and finishes with some suggested solutions. Once complete, there will be a book which brings it all together.
Brose begins his thesis with an examination of ‘Big Education’. He starts with the following:
Public schooling is a ritual that most children endure during the most impressionable years of their lives. While the assumed goal is to educate children to become future doctors, teachers, artists and leaders, some suspect a more sinister agenda is at play. Some believe that mandatory public education has become the tool for the governments of the world – and the educational organisations advising the governments – to influence and manipulate the opinions of the youth.
In ancient times there were plenty of examples of mass education from the philosophies of Plato onwards, but the compulsory school model which gradually spread all over the World is based on the Prussian model of education established in 1763. It was commonly known as the industrial or factory model and was presented as ‘free’ but, in reality, it was based on general taxation, just as it is today.
In the last decade of the 19th century, John D Rockefeller was one of the wealthiest and most hated men alive. Many people will already be aware of the Rockefeller take-over of medicine and medical schools, but John D and his family were into education before medicine. In 1902, he founded the General Education Board (GEB) with an initial donation of $1 million and the help of Frederick T Gates (no relation of Bill Gates). The stated objective was the support of higher education and medical schools in the USA. Eventually Rockefeller and his family would donate over $180 million and after a few years the GEB was absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation.
But the Rockefellers were not the only family interested in whitewashing their reputations in the early 20th century. Andrew Carnegie got involved in 1905. Both he and Rockefeller were keen to alter their public images from those of rich, robber barons to kind, magnanimous, elderly gentlemen who cared about the poor and unfortunate. Thus, they created their foundations and supposedly philanthropic organisations to spread their wealth and, more importantly, their influence. The Prussian model of education was the perfect means to inculcate the masses with their messages of choice, making sure that their private ideologies were embedded in “appropriate’ learning material and structure for the youth.
Here are the words of Reverend Frederick T. Gates, the business advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped him found the General Education Board. In his book, The Country School of To-morrow Gates explains the vision of the board he co-created:
“In our dream we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.
For the task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are.”
In other words, where they are both in locality and in socio-economic status. People should not be helped to rise above their station in life lest some challenge the pre-eminence of the already rich and powerful.
In the episode dealing with the Foundations and the “Non-profit Industrial Complex”, Brose also refers to the findings of the Reece Committee. “Non-profit Industrial Complex” is not his own choice of words, it is what had been coined by others to describe the great grant-givers. It is a misnomer because they do actually have to make a profit in order to pay those who administer them and to prevent the invested capital from dwindling over time.
Attorney at Law Rene Wormser was counsel to the Reece Committee and he drafted the final report and published it in the 1958 book “Foundations, Their Power and Influence”. He had this to say:
Some of our largest foundations, established before the introduction of Federal income and estate taxes, were created largely to glamorize a name not previously identified as conspicuously charitable,….for example, if the Ford Family hadn’t created a foundation they would have been forced to sell a large part of their ownership of the Ford Company to pay hundreds of millions in estate taxes on the deaths of Henry and Edsel Ford. By creating a Foundation, they were able to escape estate taxes on 90% of their fortune and retain voting control of the company
He further noted:
“The increasing tax burden on income and estates has greatly accelerated a trend toward creation of foundations as instruments for the retention of control over capital assets that would otherwise be lost”.
In other words, from the very beginning of the creation of these foundations, very wealthy families were using them to avoid taxes, redistribute their wealth and influence and control the public. Philanthropy had nothing whatsoever to do with it and the recipients of grants usually had to spend them in ways that benefited the foundations and their owners.
The investigation also dug into the then-emerging field of “social sciences” and the ways in which the foundations were influencing education and political affairs.
“It is in the fields of education, international affairs and what are called, the “social sciences” that the greatest damage can be done to our society. For this reason, the Reece Committee confined its inquiry almost entirely to these areas,” wrote Congressman Reece.
In the end, Wormser believed the main contribution of the committee was to “expose instances in which the promotion of political ends, favored by foundation managers, had been disguised as charitable or educational activity.”
When the report was released to the public it was largely ignored or derided. Critics accused the committee of falling into paranoia and wasting time and money. Most major media failed to report on the actual conclusions of the Reece Committee and their warnings of attempts to promote oligarchical collectivism.
The only journalist who bothered to report on the topic in a substantial manner, was G. Edward Griffin who is known for his work exposing the Federal Reserve System and the Medical Cartel. He interviewed Norman Dodd, who was the congressional Director of Research for the Reece Committee, regarding his work for the Committee and the final report. The recording of the interview can be heard via this link from Episode 10.
Griffin is also the journalist who conducted the now famous interview with KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov in 1984. He is still alive and active at the age of 93.
The Pyramid series can be found at https://theconsciousresistance.com under Exclusive Content > Documentaries or directly at https://thepyramidofpower.net
The range of topics laid bare is comprehensive. As well as Big Education, Season 1 covers Establishment Media, Big Tech and the Hollywood-Military-Industrial Complex. Season 2 comprises Big Wireless, The Oiligarchy, Big Pharma and The Medical Cartel, and Food as a Weapon. Season 3 has in addition to the Foundations, the Prison-Industrial Complex, The Banking Cartel and Future of Money, and The Crimes of the Intelligence Community. Season 4 has as a finale the Technocratic State, False Flag Deception, The Paedo-Class and Religion and Secret Societies. We wait to see what the seventeenth and final episode will comprise.
While much of this has focussed on the activities of the tax-exempt foundations in the USA because it is they who have the financial clout, we mustn’t think that the guilt all lies on the other side of the Atlantic. The City of London and the British security services were up to their necks too, the former in supra-national banking and the latter in the close involvement of MI5 and MI6 in the creation of the CIA.
Derrick Brose hopes that his work will endure as a reference. Its utility is obvious for informing those who are beginning to realise that something is wrong. But it can also form an integral part of education for those parents who home-school their children, or for those who simply wish to inoculate them against the conditioning and propaganda constantly hosed at them in schools and in the mainstream media. Both Derrick Brose and Jacob Nordangård have certainly performed a service to the peoples of the nation states of the West.
The information revealed in these concentrated works is in the public domain and much of it has been so for a very long time. It has to be said that it hasn’t been very well disseminated hitherto but now, with the internet available, that has changed in spite of all the recent efforts at censorship and cancellation. The questions for us all now are how are we to deal with this and what are we to do with this tiny minority of hyper-rich people who imagine they have the right to play God with the lives of billions of their fellow humans? All in the name of a highly dubious aim of “saving the planet” from fake, invisible “emergencies”. For whom are they saving it exactly?