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Although the GSG depicts future global scenarios, similar transformations and transitions including barbarization and reform scenarios as well as the creation of new paradigms could be observed over the course of the past five centuries. Such changes do not always happen purely accidentally, but are often artificially triggered or steered by ambitious and influential individuals, dynasties, and powerful entities. Looking back in history, dramatic transformations in several parts of the globe were mainly influenced by Western powers. Sometimes, those who have the networks and the money to steer transformations have studied history profoundly enough to provoke certain patterns. Frequently, invisible driving forces and players hide behind visible transformations; transformations themselves are sometimes largely invisible, carefully hidden from the public eye. Notwithstanding, there is a certain dynamics in human relations and reactions, partly depending from cultural characteristics, so that envisioned transformations can succeed, fail, or end up with a compromise. In many cases, hidden power players steered and still steer transformations and transitions by economic means.
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Among them Nelson W. Aldrich, Benjamin Strong, and Paul M. Warburg (Griffin 2002).
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The grandfather of the so-called “Lindbergh baby”, a 20-month-old infant, who was kidnapped on March 1, 1932 and found murdered on May 12, 1932. The circumstances of the case and the real perpetrators are still controversial (Vogt 2001).
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Born in 1957, Cathy O’Brien, whose father led a Blue Masonic Lodge, was chosen for “Project Monarch” in 1963, describing this project as “…a U.S. government Defense Intelligence Agency TOP SECRET project … ‘recruiting’ multigenerational incest abused children with Multiple Personality Disorders for its genetic mind-control studies.” (O’Brien and Phillips 2005).
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Defense Intelligence Agency, a U.S. military intelligence service.
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According to O’Brien, Education 2000 was designed to increase the children’s learning capacity while destroying their ability to critically think for themselves.
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In this affair consisting of different covert operations, into which also the then CIA director William Casey was involved, the National Security Council (NSC) was used to circumvent congressional restrictions in raising private and foreign funds for the Contras (the Nicaraguan contra rebels, who were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua). These funds included profits from the arms sales to Iran, which were done in exchange for the release of American hostages held by Iranian allies in Lebanon (Draper 1991; GlobalSecurity.Org.Intelligence 2013).
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Schwarz-Herion, O. (2015). Lessons Learnt from History: Analysis of Past Transitions and Transformations. In: Schwarz-Herion, O., Omran, A. (eds) Strategies Towards the New Sustainability Paradigm. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14699-7_7
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