FDR
Radical: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the most controversial Presidents in history. His presidency was galvanized by the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, World War II, New Deal, and most of all the creation of the United Nations. Roosevelt was also surrounded by conspiracies. He has been accused of intercepting a Japanese communiqué with details of the Pearl Harbor attacked. His third term Vice President was also accused of being involved with a Soviet artist’s mystical plans for searching for the same Aryan utopia that Hitler was looking for.
Great Depression
Almost every American has become familiar with stories of the Great Depression which lasted almost 10 years from 1930 to 1939. Unemployment skyrocketed to over 20% nationwide. Despite Woodrow Wilson’s idea that the Federal Reserve would curb any financial crisis, banks failed in massive numbers. Many monetarists like Milton Freedman believed that the Depression was actually a result of the poor policies of the Federal Reserve by failing to allow the free market to correct under the Hoover Administration. Hoover, in “The Memoirs of Hoover” admitted to ignoring Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon’s advised to let the recession correct the economy. After several years of federal spending increasing the spending by 50% for public projects, Hoover thought he could control the economy which is eventually became Roosevelt’s “New Deal”. The result was the Great Depression.
Here is a good article to read to dispel any myths:
WSJ article
Recessions are simple corrections of the market and are highly sensitive periods of time in a capitalist economy. They are necessary for the stabilize growth and minimize or eliminate bubbles. Market manipulations by monetary policy or the attempts to curb inflation are claimed to be the biggest result of economic bubbles like we recently experienced with the “Tech Bubble” and the “Housing Bubble”. As the Federal Reserve is an arm of the federal government, it is not a secret that Federal Reserve Chairmen and Secretaries of the Treasury have possibly used interest rate adjustments to control markets to control political pressure.
During the Great Depression FDR was elected as a fresh face in the White House. He promised change from the previous Republican Herbert Hoover. FDR promised “relief, recovery, and reform”. This was a system that eventual would be the proverbial relay baton handed from the failed high spending Hoover administration.
The 1st New Deal
Within the first 100 days of FDR’s administration, FDR focused on the relief portion of the new deal.
Relief
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration - to continue Hoover’s relief policies under a different name. Obviously the renaming was a way to distance himself from Hoover’s economically destructive policies.
- Civilian Conservation Corps – to employ 250,000 Americans to work on local rural projects.
- Federal Trade Commission – to provide mortgage relief to millions of Americans.
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation – to provide financing to railroads and industry.
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration – to manipulate prices by reducing farming supplies.
Reform
- National Industrial Recovery Act – to reform the economy by massive regulation to prevent future failures in the economy.
- Securities and Exchange Commission – to monitor Wall Street and set regulatory rules to prevent market crashes.
Recovery
- Stimulus Spending - $ 3,000,000,000 in stimulus money to stimulate the economy. FDR used the Keynesian model much like Barack Obama used in 2009.
- Tennessee Valley Authority – government owned enterprise which was used to launch massive projects to aid the impoverished Tennessee Valley.
- Repeal of Prohibition – to use tax funds from alcohol to pay federal deficits.
The 2nd New Deal
The results of the 1934 Congressional elections paved the way for father “New Deal” legislation. With Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, Roosevelt worked quickly to further his power grabbing agenda.
- Works Progress Administration – further national relief for 2 million Americans.
- Social Security Act – to create economic security for the elderly, the sick and the poor.
- National Labor Relations Act – provided rights for workers to organize labor unions and engage in collective bargaining.
From the beginning of FDR’s term, the national debt increased from 38% of the Gross Domestic Product to over 125% of the Gross Domestic Product.
Pearl Harbor
In Robert Stinnett’s “Day of Deceit”, claims are laid out that Roosevelt was informed of the attack on Pearl Harbor through intercepted communiqués from the Japanese but failed to act in order to enter the war. After reading nearly 200,000 documents, dated around the time of the attacks, attained through the freedom of information Act, Stinnett’s claim is very compelling. The claims state that the political temperature at the time regarding US involvement in World War II was low. Americans didn’t want to fight another massive war. FDR had a political dilemma since he needed to hold his political promise of keeping American soldiers home but knew that the war was lost without American cooperation. Pearl Harbor would anger Americans and fill them with fear. It would be FDR who would later say that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”. These claims have never been accepted nationally but the information exists to make the argument in the claims favor. In 1941, the United States would enter World War II on 2 fronts.
World War
FDR entered World War II as an ally of Stalin’s Russia and Churchill’s Britain. FDR would attack on several fronts including from France, Italy, and the Pacific Realm. The war strategy would entail cutting off oil supplies to the Germans and out powering the Japanese from key islands in the Pacific Ocean. After fierce fighting against the Japanese, Italians, and the Germans, the war was won.
The United Nations
As an integral part of “The Machine”, Roosevelt contributes with radical federal policies that were simply version two of Woodrow Wilson’s apparent globalization plan. The United Nations would take over where the League of Nations left off. The formation would create UNESCO which was the UN’s body to propagate humanism in the name of world peace. The formation would create many other agencies which would structure and control the unification of nations.
During this period there were obviously many people that were against FDR’s policies. FDR’s progressive polices were very radical and were never witnessed before in the history of the United States. With the criticism came controversy and conspiracy claims. Amongst the many conspiracy theories one stands out as extremely compelling. What makes the claim most compelling is the source.
Westbrook Pegler was a Pulitzer Prize recipient and the first to receive it as a columnist. He was extremely critical of FDR despite his support for him in FDR’s first election. Pegler was extremely critical due to rising fascism and communism arising in the world during World War II. Pegler saw the “New Deal” as an international communist plot. He was extremely critical of the labor unions at the time as he believed that they were our biggest national threat. Later his views would lead him to criticize the Jews and made claims that the civil rights movement was a vehicle for war being waged on American ideals. “The Machine” will argue in favor of some of his fears.
Pegler uncovered a letter from FDR’s Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to the Roerich Pact and the Banner of Peace contributor by the name of Nicholas Roerich. Roerich was most known as an artist who came to the League of Nations with a plan to protect cultural treasures. The plans would eventually be signed by dozens of nations. What was so controversial about this letter was the heavy overtones of occult language. Here is an excerpt.
"Dear Guru, I have been thinking of you holding the casket — the sacred most precious casket. And I have thought of the New Country going forth to meet the seven stars under the sign of the three stars. And I have thought of the admonition 'Await the Stone.”
Henry Wallace
The casket is also known as the coffin of Osiris, the Pillar of Osiris, or the Tower of Babel. The New Country could be mention of Shambhala which is a Buddhist term for related to the world of Atlantis. Is there any coincidence that the Russian artist Roerich and Wallace were communicating about the home of the Aryan nation? Would this be the lands of the Hyperboreans located at the North Pole? Could this be the reason why the United Nations flag shows the North Pole? Is it any coincidences that Nietzsche began his work “Der Antichrist” (The Antichrist) with the line, “Let us see ourselves for what we are. We are Hyperboreans. We know well enough how we are living off that track.” This is all interesting speculation and must not be used other than interesting conversation as it is simply a compelling conspiracy theory… for now.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is definitely one of the most remember American Presidents. With World War II, Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression, and the United Nations all falling under his Presidency it is hard to ignore his time in office. What needs to be most scrutinized is his massive expansion of government. Regardless of the good intentions, all of the agencies and programs have been proven a failure over time. The programs that still exist today are broke and simply a slush fund for government spending. Agencies like the SEC have been proven ineffective in many cases as Social Security has been used in the biggest ponzi scheme in American History. All of the things you have read above were simply cogs placed in “The Machine” all in the name of globalization. FDR marks phase 1 in the United States Government's participation in the construction of "The Machine".
