2024 Revisions to My Book
Here are the major October 1, 2024, revisions to my book, GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK, which came out in 2021. Happy to get Hamilton’s Economics right, fix some typos, and add some things, like a new chapter at the end. Enjoy. -Bruce
Insert before Chapter 1:
Replacement paragraphs on pages 120 – 121:
George Washington was sworn in as the first president under the new Constitution on April 30, 1789. He offered the Treasury Department to Robert Morris, the Revolution’s most indispensable man after Washington, according to his descendant, Robert M. Morris, who shows in ROBERT MORRIS: Inside the Revolution that Morris “in one year put up more money for the war than all of the states combined; the spirit of risk and economic freedom that he championed – laissez-faire capitalism, a radical idea – helped us win the war and gave rise to our modern system; he coordinated the French fleet and Washington's arrival at Yorktown; he got rid of religious test laws and signed all three founding documents; his enemies won the election of 1800 and wrote him out of the story” (quoting TrineDay Publishing).
But rather than run the Treasury, Morris preferred to serve in the new Congress as one of Pennsylvania’s first senators, and he recommended Alexander Hamilton in his stead, someone well known and trusted by Washington.
As Treasury Secretary, Hamilton developed many of Morris’s ideas into what became known as the “American System of Economics,” a nation-building, wealth-creating counterpart to Britain’s economics of domination, exploitation and colonialism. It features industrialization, so a nation can make what it needs from its own resources and not rely on a nation like Britain to buy its raw material and provide manufactured goods. It uses tariffs on imports to encourage the creation and consumption of a nation’s own products. It invests in infrastructure, like ports, roads and canals, so all regions can connect and trade the fruit of their labor and grow together in commerce, wealth and fidelity to each other. And it encourages government oversight of a nation’s currency, particularly making credit available, so people are empowered to innovate and compete in quality and efficiency in a race to raise living standards – everything that Britain prevented her colonies from doing.
Authors Anton Chaitkin (WHO WE ARE: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy) and Nancy Spannaus (HAMILTON VERSUS WALL STREET: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics; AmericanSystemNow.com) show how Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy implemented the American System of Economics, to greater or lesser degrees, and how it more than anything else caused the periods of our greatest industrial and economic expansion. They also show the factions that fought the American System every chance they got; for example, the nexus of Southern slave owners, New York City merchants and London-based financiers that fought against our modernization and industrialization up to our Civil War. The opportunistic, colonizing, freedom-and-wealth-suppressing economics of empire hides today under the names of “free trade” and “globalization.”
The First Bank of the United States during the nation’s first twenty years, and the Second Bank that was chartered from 1816 to 1836, extended credit and laid the foundation for much of the prosperity of their times. But President Andrew Jackson withdrew America’s funds from the Second Bank, so by 1836 it had stopped working for the federal government and went out of business a few years later.
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Pages 126-127, replacement:
Congress passed the 13th Amendment in 1865, which ended slavery. Lincoln’s allies were committed to his plan to rejuvenate the South with Hamilton’s economics of investment, infrastructure, and industrialization and to integrate black Americans into society as quickly as possible. But they were pushed from power by the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and nearly a century of racism, oppression and poverty was inflicted on the region.
The Republican Party couldn’t get three-fourths of the states to ratify the 14th Amendment, which would establish national citizenship, so Congress, according to many, simply declared, unconstitutionally, the amendment valid by a joint resolution in 1868. It led the way to the 15th Amendment in 1870, which gave all races the right to vote and let Congress, in the 1960s, pass civil rights legislation that benefited all races.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933 and used the principles of Hamilton’s American System of economics to save America from a collapse into barbarism. About Hamilton’s system, Anton Chaitkin wrote in the Introduction to WHO WE ARE: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, From Franklin to Kennedy, Volume 1: 1750s to 1850s: “In America, the great transformation took place from the 1820s to the 1840s, then again from the 1860s to the 1880s. As the U.S. rose, it actively aided other countries’ industrial progress. During the 1930s and 1940s, Franklin Roosevelt’s America established the principle that high living standards and modern conditions were the birthright of all humanity – including the colonial sector. The U.S. defied imperialism, whose essence is to deny life-giving industrial technology to what are seen as inferior countries and races.”
New Chapter 12. 2024 Update
12) 2024 Update
Since this book came out in 2021, I’ve continued studying its topics, and I’ve had the honor of helping publisher Kris Millegan with marketing, especially his podcast, THE JOURNEY, conversations he has with his authors, 160 to date, at TrineDay.com and the usual podcast platforms. It’s an amazing curriculum, 30 to 40-minute discussions of “books that challenge official history,” and current events.
There is a passionate hunger for the truth out there, for freedom, and for justice. I reached out to podcasters and have been interviewed dozens of times. After five or six appearances, I asked TNT Radio about having my own show, and it launched in January 2023 and ran for 15 months. I interviewed about 170 authors and experts, three every Saturday, sometimes four, before budget cuts ended it. In March 2024 I launched my own show, Reality with Bruce de Torres, on Rumble and the usual audio platforms. In May I spoke at a rally near the UN protesting against the World Health Organization.
I continue to journal in the morning. GOD AND COFFEE: We Write at Dawn! This morning (July 31), I wrote, “Now through eternity, feel the fullness of eternity, infinity, peace, joy, love, presence. The okayness of everything. That’s what eternity feels, for eternity is safe. Unharmable. Bruce, every moment is your scene partner. The scene IS YOUR SCENE PARTNER. Make sure it’s your SEEN partner! Collaborate. Interact with it. See what it shows you. Hear what it says. The scene, or view, literally changes as you move. Movement is the actor inside everything. Why does eternity move as so many temporary things? For the fun of it? Is temporariness the price or condition of movement? Is duality a – the – requirement of movement? Because movement is perceived or experienced only in relation to an “other?” Are others the gift that lets us perceive existence, that lets us perceive our self? Do we give each other to each other? Do others give us to ourself?”
Eternal and infinite, I like to think, is the true nature of our soul. What would eternity think about the temporary things it sees? “How long will this thing last?” Would it be patient and loving and kind? What would infinity think about the individual things that appear from the infinite things that could appear? “What’s so special about this?” Would it be fascinated?
I highly recommend MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. Like near-death experiences, the past lives recounted therein help me imagine our eternal safety. (Do we incarnate countless times, to learn lessons of love, lessons of identifying with and loving all others?)
My love of spirituality and for President John F. Kennedy combined in a synchronicity of awesome proportions. Husband-and-wife authors Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould brought Kris Millegan their tale of Afghanistan which led them into Paul’s Fitzgerald family history, which is JFK’s Fitzgerald family history, and it led them to see JFK’s assassination as part of a revenge-and-retribution cycle centuries old, which they have explored with Kris in monthly Zoom Roundtables, with me moderating, which can be seen on YouTube, on the channel “Valediction Vision.”
There is so much to say about the crime against humanity that was the Covid-19 experience, the lockdowns, the separations, the masks, the neurological and developmental delays in toddlers, the murderous hospital protocols, and especially the injuries and deaths mounting from the shots. See for yourself the evidence that it was an attack on par with – many say surpassing – the Nazi Holocaust. Edward Dowd’s CAUSE UNKNOWN: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022. Dr. Naomi Wolf’s DailyClout.io, her Substack, and her books, especially FACING THE BEAST: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age and THE PFIZER PAPERS: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity. ChildrensHealthDefense.org and the book you can find there, TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Vaccine Science and Myth. Dr. Meryl Nass’s DoorToFreedom.org and her Substack. Steve Kirsch’s Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, VacSafety.org. I interviewed all of them except Edward Dowd – so far!
Where is the hope? Well, there’s hope if you imagine that life goes on! And it does. And the ideals of the American Founding are the gift that keeps on giving. They challenge every generation to live up to them. Also waiting to be used again is the life-and-freedom-and-wealth-creating power of Alexander Hamilton’s American System of Economics. See Anton Chaitkin’s Substack and Nancy Spannaus’s AmericanSystemNow.com. See also the political economy of Henry George, the 19th Century American who was the most popular public speaker in the late 1800s but for Mark Twain. His cure for wealth inequality causes communities to prosper and advances the cause of economic justice. Search for information about him at The International Union for Land Value Taxation, THEIU.org. “Established in 1926, the purpose of the IU is to promote sustainable prosperity for all via public finance policy reform. We seek to address wealth inequality and harmonize individual freedom with rights to the commons by reducing taxes on labour and production while collecting for beneficial public purposes the unearned income – the ‘economic rent’ – of land, natural resources and other nature and community created values.”
July saw the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Biden leaving the race under unusual circumstances, nothing like the usual processes or procedures, and Israel, early this morning, July 31, missile-killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran, Iran, with as yet unknown consequences.
Will Kamala Harris be the Democratic nominee come the election? Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr. surprise everyone with a victory? Will bird flu be the excuse for another life-destroying lockdown and pressure to take new chemical injections?
It’s enough for me to have my fingers on this keyboard, thinking of the last words to add to this book, the labor of love of my life, a surprise after thinking it done, getting to make some revisions, getting to relive all those years, all those days originally writing it.
Someone’s cooking downstairs. This scene is my partner. I love it as if it were a conscious, loving person, my companion. What does it need me to say? I love you? I see you? I’m glad you’re here?
Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
This image was intended to follow BEGINNING BY STUDIES by Walt Whitman on page 9, but couldn’t fit:
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