Biographies

It can continually be stated that entities like Deutsche Bank are solvent and that people like Josef Ackermann are financial legends, but the truth is far different. No Western banking entity is solvent. If Ackermann is to be congratulated on anything it is for his ability – for a while – to make a bank whose assets are divorced from an underlying commodity seem as if it were well run and "disciplined."

Mike Adams, known by his call sign, the 'Health Ranger, is key writer and editor-in-chief of the Natural News Network and producer of NaturalNews.TV. "The only thing that stands between a person and their own perfect health is information. Empowered with the right information, anyone can improve their health."

In the West, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been widely demonized. Various of his statements have been disseminated through the corporate media, often translated incorrectly. In perhaps the most infamous example of this, media reported Ahmadinejad said he wished to "wipe Israel off the map." It later emerged that Ahmadinejad had been mistranslated and that this is in fact not what he had said.

Bashar al-Assad has been criticized for corruption, human rights violations and economic inconsistencies. Assad has always been an outspoken critic of Israel and the United States. Bashar was expected to take a more liberal approach than his father, and had said that democracy in Syria was 'a tool to a better life,' but he also said that democracy could not be rushed.

Nelson Aldrich was a prominent businessman and Republican leader in the Senate where he served from 1881 to 1911. Aldrich did more than any other power elite controlled US politician to destroy the original decentralized republic and subvert the US Constitution. Aldrich was directly responsible for implementing a banker elite controlled fascist empire, which America still has today. 

Alexander the Third of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the state of Macedon, located in the northeastern region of Greece. By the time Alexander was 30 he had created one of the largest empires in ancient history, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas, remembered best for his cultural diffusion, settling Greek colonists with their culture and beliefs in his eastern conquests.

In 1971, Alinsky published Rules for Radicals a how-to manual for organizing the left. The opening paragraph is telling. "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be." Alinsky died on June 12, 1972, but his influence and perceptions live on. His legacy is an ugly one.

Gary Allen was a conservative journalist, certainly best known and remembered for his book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, which was co-authored by Larry Abraham, a friend of several of The Daily Bell elves. Allen's bestselling book (more than 5 million copies) introduced many Americans to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, and their plans for a new world order.

Though Louis Alphonse II, Duke of Anjou is not part of a governing class in France today, his position entitles him to respect and a great degree of stature. He is looked to for tradition and for his presence and impact in the world today. A great many people are aware of him and who and what he represents. Many of these same people follow the daily events of his life.

Aristotle, through his devotion to truth, his awareness of societal needs for a sound philosophical foundation and his many contributions to the field of logic and science – and most especially his contribution to the essence of scientific methodology – have all made him one of the most noteworthy of all philosophers. He has had a tremendous influence; novelist Ayn Rand described him as her muse.

Jeffrey Armstrong is an award-winning author of numerous books on Vedic knowledge including his 2010 book, Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar, Ancient Wisdom for a New World. Armstrong is a philosopher, practitioner and teacher of the Vedas for the past 40 years. He is the founder of VASA – Vedic Academy of Sciences & Arts in Vancouver, Canada.

It is true that Julian Assange has attracted an enormous amount of attention yet his leaks for the most part have not amounted to much. Some would speculate that the only way he would garner so much attention is if the Anglosphere elites themselves were behind him, the idea being that the mainstream media would never pay him so much attention otherwise.

Michele Bachmann is a well-known member of Congress from Minnesota's 6th District. A national leader of social conservatives and the Tea Party movement, she ran for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. She opposed the Wall Street bailouts and advocated for the break-up of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the phasing out of Social Security and Medicare.

José Manuel Barroso is the former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004), now President of the European Commission. As prime minister, Barroso slashed public expenditures to reach certain mandated EU goals. Barroso did not finish his efforts, however, as he became president of the European Commission in 2004 and then again in 2009.

Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, legislator and member of the French assembly. Bastiat championed private property, free markets and limited government. He was the author of many economic and political economic works, which were characterized by their strong argumentation, clear organization and sharp wit.

Warren A. Bechtel was the founder of the Bechtel Corporation, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world. He was a natural leader and a dependable father figure, who was known as a good provider, even in his construction camps. Bechtel incorporated his business, W.A. Bechtel Company, in 1925 and made his three sons and his brother officers of the board.

David Ben-Gurion was the first prime minister of Israel, in office from 1949 to 1963 except for a two year period in 1954 and 1955. The birth of the new nation was the culmination of Ben-Gurion's life work as a Zionist leader and Ben-Gurion helped lead Israel to victory in their war for independence in 1948. Ben-Gurion retired from politics in 1970 and lived the rest of his life in a kibbutz in the Negev desert.

C. Fred Bergsten is a political adviser, author and economist and has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the US Treasury and as director of the Washington based Peterson Institute for International Economics since its founding in 1981. Bergsten has written many books and writes for a number of influential establishment periodicals, including Foreign Affairs magazine.

Silvio Berlusconi obviously has powerful backers. He is worth some US$9 billion and in the modern age this sort of fortune is not amassed without the aid of Anglosphere elites and others supporting ever-closer global governance. Berlusconi has been accused of many crimes in his life, including connections to the mafia, false accounting, tax fraud and corruption and bribery of police and judicial officials.

Ben Shalom Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953 in North Augusta, South Carolina but Bernanke spent most of his formative years in the small town of Dillon, South Carolina. On February 1, 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Ben Bernanke to a 14-year term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and to a 4-year term as Fed Chairman.

Jeff Berwick is an anarchist, libertarian and freedom fighter against mankind's two biggest enemies: the state and the central banks. Jeff is the host of Anarchast, an anarchist video podcast, and is a contributing editor at many of the world's largest financial and precious metals related websites. Together with Ed Bugos, another respected free-market speaker, Berwick publishes The Dollar Vigilante. 

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the Vice President of the United States and was a US Senator from Delaware from 1973 to January 2009 when he was elected VP. Rising from rather humble circumstances and his surprising win in the 1972 senate election, Biden suffered personal tragedy with the loss of his first wife and youngest child in an automobile accident.

Another version – one more in line with directed history – claims that the CIA built Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda up from the remains of the resistance to the USSR. They did so to create a portable enemy that they could place anywhere in the world. The idea was to generate a pretext for attacking countries and individuals that were resistant to the planned one world order.

Ingo Bischoff, a financial educator who might be termed a neo-Austrian, is the founder and president of the San Francisco School of Economics, previously the CEO of a commercial printing and publishing company for 28 years. Under Bischoff the School has a definitive point of view on most issues that blend free-market thinking with other forms of economic analysis.

Most everything Tony Blair did within his term increased the power of government, expanded Western (banking) influence abroad and diminished civil liberties domestically. He has been rewarded by the establishment with significant advisory posts at such firms as JP Morgan. Blair's personal wealth has swelled into the millions of pounds.