The History of Ruling Elites

**Due to several more factors the class has changed location once more, now to be held at Uprising Bookstore in Kensington Market**

* Note: The handouts for each class can be read if you go to the course outline below; each reading is linked to it's class *

10-15 people Wednesdays from 7pm until 9pm

email Chris - tha_method@hotmail.com

Location: Uprising Bookstore 6A Kensington St., one block west of Spadina just north of Dundas on the west side of the street

This course will examine not only ruling elites but also the nature of hierarchy, power and class, and the relationships between those who rule and those who are ruled.

Throughout human history there have been oligarchies which have wielded undue power in comparison to their numbers. From the military oligarchy in Sparta, the dynasties of Egypt and China, to the plutocracy of our modern world, ruling elites have controlled governments and economic systems to the detriment of populations across the globe. Are there some who will always rule, and others who will always be ruled? Is hierarchy, power and class a part of human nature?

Further, who are the members of the ruling elite now in power in our Western (and non-western) countries? How far back does the immense family wealth of many in the upper class go? Are there a select few who control the fate of much of the world and control not only the financial systems, but also the so called democratic systems of government? What kind of systems of control have they placed in our societies to remain in power, and in what ways have they profited and manipulated wars, crime and crisis to gain more power and wealth?

Due to the extremely broad nature of this course, all the areas that I want to cover will be done briefly, allowing students to investigate further for themselves all the intricacies of the subject being discussed. I will provide an extensive list of readings through the site, but will prepare a one to two page synopsis on the topic for that particular week. Further readings will be available online.

ClassOne^?

Define - Hierarchy - Class - Power Early Social systems e.g. hunter gatherers Early ruling elites - Greece (Sparta) - Egypt - China

ClassTwo^?

Europe during the Middle-Ages Power of the Roman Catholic Church, aristocracies, royal families Transition from the Feudal system to Imperialism

ClassThree^?

Money Masters: banking theory, Central Banks, founding of the Bank of England, Rothschild family history

ClassFour^?

American Elite, the Southern plantation families and the families of the industrial north. American Civil War and elite war profiteering

ClassFive^?

American Robbery Barons: John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and others.

ClassSix^?

1900-1913 banking crisis and the story of the foundation of the Federal Reserve System

ClassSeven^?

Wall St. involvement in the arming of the Nazis and Russian Communists. Prescott Bush (George Jrs grandfather) personal connection in the funding of Hitler

ClassEight^?

The creation of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Rhodes scholars and the Bilderberg group

Class 9

Secret societies of the elite: the history of the Freemasons and Knights Templar, Illuminati and discussion on the idea of conspiracies

Class 10

Secret societies continued, Skull n’ Bones and the 2004 election

Readings

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

Ancient Greece: Sparta http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM

Secret Societies of Americas Elite by Stephen Sora

Rule by Secrecy by Tex Mars

The Architecture of Modern Political Power http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm

Robber Barons http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/carnegie/delong_moscow_paper2.html

Fractional Reserve Banking http://econwpa.wustl.edu/eps/mac/papers/0203/0203005.pdf

Creation of the Bank of England http://mypage.direct.ca/l/lbouchar/chapter2.htm

Rothschild Trust http://www.rothschildtrust.com/history/

Rothschild Dynasty http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/slavery.htm

Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins

John D. Rockefeller Page http://voteview.uh.edu/entrejdr.htm

Robber Barons http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/carnegie/delong_moscow_paper2.html

The Richest Dynasty in History? http://www.businessweek.com/1998/49/b3607071.htm

History of Wealthy Families http://www.raken.com/american_wealth/other/sitemap.asp

The Beast of Property http://members.verizon.net/~vze3f2cj/beast.html

The Order of Skull and Bones http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm

The Knights Templar http://www.crystalinks.com/templars.html

The Brotherhood and the Manipulation of Society http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/brotherhoodindex.shtml

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Anthony C. Sutton http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/index.html

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony C. Sutton http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/index.html

The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Anthony C. Sutton http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/best_enemy/index.html