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welcomed them. This is something that you don't read in your history books. There was an attempt by the Asians to prevent being colonised. They looked at the Europeans as like the Borg in Star Trek: only one way of thinking is correct. Can you imagine this giant pyramid of a society with this eye at the top: "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." It's how they looked at it, and there's something to it. There's a sense that if it's not done the western way, it's wrong... Americans are, what, four per cent of the world's population with 20-some per cent of world GDP but 50 per cent of the world's lawyers and 50 per cent of the world's military expenditures. So, too much time is spent arguing and fighting, as far as the Asians are concerned. [He laughs.] Remember, they look at things very differently and it takes a long time to understand their perspective. welcomed them. This is something that you don't read in your words, it's like... you go to a bar and you say: "Put it on my tab." history books. And then, after a few years, you say: "Well, look, forget about There was an attempt by the Asians to prevent being half my tab." And so the idea is: "We'll just keep taking money colonised. They looked at the Europeans as like the Borg in Star from you forever." It's like tribute payments to the Roman Trek: only one way of thinking is correct. Can you imagine this Empire. They send cars and they send TVs and they get nothing giant pyramid of a society with this eye at the top: "You will be ack except paper. This is how they look at it, and it's right. For assimilated. Resistance is futile." It's how they looked at it, and 34 years, the Americans have been getting stuff from all over the there's something to it. There's a sense that if it's not done the world and not paying for it. western way, it's wrong... Bill: Why have the Japanese then tolerated that for so long? Americans are, what, four per cent of the world's population BF: First of all, after World War II they truly and genuinely with 20-some per cent of world GDP but 50 per cent of the fell in love with the United States. They were told they were world's lawyers and 50 per cent of the world's military gonna be tortured... I remember this guy [talking about] expenditures. So, too much time is spent arguing and fighting, as shivering in fear about the war, when American soldiers were far as the Asians are concerned. [He laughs.] Remember, they coming. And the [soldier] guy gives him a Hershey bar, right? look at things very differently and it takes a long time to This was symbolic. They were really well treated. Up until the understand their perspective. fall of the Soviet Union, they also really felt that they needed the Americans to protect them. They [the Americans] had created Postwar Japan this illusion of fear: "If you don't KC: But you wrote a book about have us, you're going to be Rockefeller and his role. " conquered." BF: Okay. What happened was, So, the source of poverty [The Japanese] ave been once I started to understand all this, and environmental problems subjected to very intense propaganda T realised that, after World War IT in the world is the people who since the end of World War II. There ended, control of Japan went from was a Dr Funai who had a senior the Rothschilds to the Rockefellers. own the Federal Reserve Board American officer stay at his house And at first they said to the and their policies of prioritising after World War II. The officer said Japanese: "You just go ahead and to him: "We're going to change your develop your economy any way you the rich and everything to education system so you don't get want. Rebuild your economy and as . . any more geniuses." And they did. long as you're militarily allied to the the rich. That Is the essence The propaganda the Japanese have US, that's all we care about." [That of the problem." been subjected to is that they've been was] until the 1980s, when Japan given an inferiority complex, they've had these huge trade surpluses and been told that America's a wonderful this made them [the Rockefellers] country, and they've been told that very, very nervous. And I now realise why, because they [the without American protection they're doomed. Their education Japanese] thought they had won World War III without firing a has been deliberately "dumbed down" so they don't know how to single shot, because they had managed to control most of the argue, they don't know how to debate. They've been trained not world's financial assets. And money is power. If you have that to have opinions. money, you can hire the soldiers, you can hire the intellectuals, KC: But isn't this also part of the Oriental mindset that even you can... the emperors kind of push down to the people? KC: So how are you saying Japan did this? BF: In the traditional Confucian model, the key is that the BF: By working hard and generating trade surpluses— people at the top have to be...very morally upright and treat their electronics, cars, you know, nice products that people want to country like their family, like their kids, and be nice to them. So buy. And they [the Japanese] had the control of the money. This that's the difference in philosophy. It's not just one of blind is where they [the Rockefellers] started to get worried. They set obedience to a tyrant, but rather, ideally, it's like a generous and out to put the Japanese back in their place. They managed to get gentle father-figure. What you see in North Korea is a remnant. them with this bubble, which was basically on US orders. They What you saw with the Maoist thing was this traditional sort of said: "First of all, we want you to raise your yen." Right? kinship system of Asia. Because they didn't want the Japanese to have control of the KC: Your explanation has to be a little bit simplistic in terms money. And the yen went from 360 to the dollar to, at one point, of why they would accept this kind of "dumbing down" of 79 to the dollar. But all that happened was the Japanese moved Japanese society across the board. What was in it for them? their industrial base to China and South East Asia and got them BF: Well, when you enslave a person, you beat the hell out of rich. So that didn't work. Finally, what they were doing was them and then you be really nice to them. In effect, you say: bullying and killing Japanese politicians. "Hey, if you do what I say I'll be really nice to you and treat you KC: Who were? well, but, remember, if you don't..." That's what those nuclear BF: The Rockefellers, I would say, at the end of the day, in bombs were about. But also, the Japanese were able to develop order to make sure they [the Japanese] never were presumptuous their economy. They were left alone for a long time. It's only in enough to use their money the way they wanted to, but rather just recent years that it's become kind of really bad, noxious. Okay? hand it to the Americans. There's an illness at the heart of the American system. And And I still haven't checked this out, but I'm pretty sure if you what it boils down to, if you look at financial flows, is that add up all the Japanese trade surpluses and the numbers and then money has been going from the poor countries to the rich compare it to what is now officially recognised as Japanese assets, you'll find that the trade surplus is much bigger. In other Continued on page 79 "So, the source of poverty and environmental problems ee Oe eet ae have in the world is the people who own the Federal Reserve Board and their policies of prioritising the rich and everything to the rich. That is the essence JUNE — JULY 2008 NEXUS 17 of the problem." Continued on page 79 www.nexusmagazine.com