Fighting Global Tyranny: Where Are The Women?

By Francesca de Bardin

BOOK INTRODUCTION

Fighting Global Tyranny asks who controls the global empire and the role women must play in fighting this tyranny . To change a system, one must understand how it works. This book explains how the system is set up and how it operates and controls almost all aspects of our lives. It examines its origins and evolution: historically, politically, philosophically, financially, and, most important, who’s pulling the strings. This exposé is not for the fainthearted. It will challenge most people’s deeply held beliefs of how the world works. It is meant to be shocking.

The purpose of this book is to awaken, inspire, and motivate more men and women to find solutions to the problems facing us wherever they live, whatever their religious or political worldview.

Women, in particular, have a major role to play in this battle. The value systems of our institutions are inequitable: they operate strictly on masculine values, and the results are disastrous for both human beings and the environment. Women’s feminine values have been generally sidelined. Our institutions must evolve to include values of equity, fairness, and justice also. This evolution is beginning to take place now as women are reaching a critical mass in most institutions. This book challenges these women to acknowledge their feminine values and to persist in articulating them. To have balance and equilibrium, feminine and masculine values must be equally considered.

Today, men and women around the globe are engaged in social activitism touching millions of lives. Their stories are seldom told. Yet they are today’s heroes and heroines. This book examines many of their stories.

"A provocative interpretation of history and assessment of world-wide oligarchy today, Fighting Global Tyranny will present you with facts and figures that you will find hard to refute. Francesca de Bardin challenges women to understand that world and to step up to the task of shaping the future in a more humane way. She doesn’t leave us in a utopian no-[wo]man’s land as so many books do; instead she provides a rich array of inspiring role models in all fields of endeavor that will leave you with a renewed hope for what is possible."

Carol R. Frenier, Author of Business and the Feminine Principle: The Untapped Resource (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Francesca de Bardin
• Release date: Jul 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311438058

Francesca de Bardin

Francesca de Bardin was founder and CEO of three businesses headquartered in New York City. Born in California, she has lived in New York City, East Hampton and Paris and currently resides in France. Francesca has traveled internationally throughout her life. She has researched and studied the global oligarchy for 30 years. This book is the culmination of that research.

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PROLOGUE

While reading The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins, I became inspired to write this book. He recounted a meeting with the Shuar of the Amazon, an indigenous people of Ecuador and Peru.

They believe men and women are equal, yet have different roles. Men kill animals for food, cut trees for firewood, and fight other men. Women rear children, grow crops, tend the household fires, and have the very important job of telling men when it is time to stop. The Shuar explain that men hunt animals and cut trees even when there is enough meat and wood, unless women rein them in.¹

He found the same sentiments among other Amazon tribes as well as among the nomads at the top of the Himalayas. He began to think that perhaps to change the world all we had to do was bring the male and female into balance. Not an easy task considering the stereotyping of our gender roles for millennia, but a worthwhile endeavor.

For about thirty years, I have studied and researched the workings of the global oligarchy. It always seemed to me that it was a system dynamic that could not be changed given the enormous power, influence, and control it had obtained over hundreds of years. It then became clear to me that the only way to influence the system was by encouraging and inspiring women to rein them in.

While writing this book, I discussed the premise with men and women, young and old, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim. They all agreed: only the women can change the system.

I was reminded of a personal experience I had in doing just that.

In 1975–1976, I was living in New York City, working in marketing. I had many friends who worked at the United Nations (UN), and through them I learned that several Middle Eastern countries were looking to invest in medical equipment. I researched many countries, located importers/distributors of products, and decided to take a trip to the area to research the possibilities that existed for American corporations not currently doing business in the Middle East.

I visited Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. At the same time, I had established contacts with American companies who might be interested in these markets. I met with government officials and business people in all these countries, many of them several times.

I also encountered others like myself from European and Middle Eastern countries, and we shared information and contacts. One Lebanese man gave me the name of a businessman in Cairo where I had no contacts at all. This Egyptian had a large business representing primarily European manufacturers of medical equipment. His staff prepared bids based on government specifications, submitted them to their clients, and waited for the final decision from the government. At the time, only the Egyptian government could import directly. Once the equipment was purchased, the detail men installed and serviced it. I shall call the owner of this business Khalid (not his real name). Historically, Egypt has had very high rates of birth and infant mortality. I believed the availability of birth control products should be investigated. Egypt was still heavily influenced by the Soviet Union, so relations with the United States and its corporations were minimal. Egypt’s economy was socialist; only the Egyptian government could import goods, and the military was a top priority.

As I got to know Khalid and his family better, he became more open about himself. He was educated in the West, spoke perfect English, and had a very important role in the government, albeit without portfolio, and he was a colonel in the Egyptian army. He kept me busy contacting American corporations that he wanted to represent in Egypt.

I kept struggling with the high birthrate issue, and he continually told me there were clinics all over Egypt offering every kind of birth control product. I found it hard to believe that women would not take advantage of birth control products if they could, so I continued to press the issue. Eventually, he offered to have one of his doctors accompany me to visit five medical clinics in Cairo to see for myself. We did that, and each one we visited had no contraceptives available. Everywhere, everything was out of stock. Nothing was available. I was confused and angry.

That night we met for a dinner I will never forget—pizza at the Cairo Hilton. He asked me about my day and what had transpired. I told him we had visited the five clinics and no birth control products were available. I then said, Khalid, you and your government don’t give a damn about your women and children. Babies are sick and dying and mothers are unable to control pregnancies, contrary to the propaganda you promote. All you and your government care about is more men to increase the size of your military. The hypocrisy is monumental.

The words just came out without any thought. It was rage. A calm, profound, and fearless rage—rage at the injustice and inhumanity that was affecting millions of women and children.

He stopped eating and sat back in his chair as if I had plunged a knife into his chest. He stopped talking for several minutes. I knew I had gone too far. I then told him I was leaving right away to go back to New York. This conversation took place in 1976.

He called me the next morning as I was packing and offered to drive me to the airport. He was very cheerful when he arrived. He said to me, You really upset me last night. So much so that this morning I had a meeting with President Sadat. The minister of health has been fired, and President Sadat signed a law allowing the private sector to import medical equipment and pharmaceuticals directly. The government sector responsible for health care was the first thing President Gamal Abdel Nasser socialized, and it’s the first sector that will be de-nationalized. You should be happy. I was.

I left for New York City that day, and on my return, many of my contacts called me to see if I had heard the news about Egypt’s allowing free enterprise in the health sector. I just said yes.

Recent statistics from the World Bank show the improvement in women’s and children’s health care:

Infant mortality rate in Egypt was last measured at 20 in 2015, down from 120 per 1,000 live births in 1980. Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year.

Fertility rate: Total (births per woman) in Egypt was last measured at 3.3 in 2015, down from 5.8 in 1980. Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates.

Contraceptive prevalence (percentage of women ages 15–49) in Egypt was reported at 59 percent in 2015 up from 25 percent in 1980. Contraceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, any form of contraception.

Clearly, Khalid and President Anwar el Sadat saw the problem as I did or they would not have acted to remedy the situation as quickly as they did. Were they unaware of the situation? Did none of their Egyptian officials ever bring up the issue? Was it simply that one woman’s perspective opened their eyes? Apparently. How many other men are unaware of what’s happening? How many other eyes can be opened? How many others can be influenced?

INTRODUCTION

Extraordinary industrial, scientific, and technological achievements have taken place in the West over the last several hundred years. The standard of living in the West has never been higher. We are living longer and healthier lives. We have shelter, clean water, electricity, paved roads, and health care. Most of our children are educated, and most of us have ample leisure time.

The developing world has rarely benefited from the West’s achievements: billions of people live in abject poverty, without food, shelter, electricity, potable water, sanitation, paved roads, or adequate health care. In these counties, the high infant mortality rates, hunger, poverty, and disease condemn the people to lives of hopelessness. With all the technological advances and achievements, the developing world is still plagued with wars, social injustice, poverty, hunger, and disease. This condition has persisted for hundreds of years. This book explains why.

The unworkability in the world is due to cultural, political, and financial evolutions that have undermined ancient truths that guided Western civilization for centuries: secularism has elevated the state (or nation) with laws created by man above the historical values embraced by the world’s religions and the philosophies of the ancients concerning natural law and ethics. This, in turn, has created a culture of relativism where right and wrong, or good and evil are decided by the individual, not by the values and ethics that guided our sociocultural evolution for centuries before. These evolutions also permitted the creation of the vast global oligarchy that now controls our world—a world that values the extension of power and control over the natural rights and natural laws of humanity and the environment. This book examines how these evolutions have brought us to this point in time and what we can do to bring more balance and equilibrium to the world.

Thousands of courageous men and women around the world are engaged in the fight against global tyranny. The purpose of this book is to awaken, shock, inspire, and motivate more men and women to find solutions to the problems facing us wherever they live, whatever their religious or political worldview. Women, in particular, have a major role to play in this battle. It is the duty and responsibility of women to participate fully. Women should and must continue to come forward as leaders, to take our places alongside men, knowing that our values are critical to creating a world of more equity and balance. Women’s participation in fighting global tyranny is needed now more than ever. This book examines how women can influence the direction of our institutions to bring about a more equitable world.

The Global Oligarchy

The world is waking up to discover the complex, mysterious and secret machinations of the world’s elite in creating a global system under their total control. Contrary to being a conspiracy theory, there is documented evidence of its existence.

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time is a scholarly work of history written by Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), B.A., M.A., and PhD from Harvard, which covers the period of roughly 1880 to 1963. Quigley taught at Princeton University, Harvard, and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 1941 to 1976. According to Quigley, I know of the operation of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records.²

To fight a tyrannical system, one must understand how it works. This book explains how this system is set up and how it operates and controls almost all aspects of our lives. It examines its origins and evolution: historically, politically, philosophically, financially, and, most important, who’s pulling the strings. This exposé is not for the fainthearted. It will challenge most people’s deeply held beliefs of how the world works. It is meant to be shocking. It is meant to wake people up.

While some may be tempted to blame men for the current state of our planet, this book is not meant to be an indictment of the men who currently control and manage the institutions in question. The premise of this book is to hold both men and women responsible for the current state of affairs and to encourage the evolution of a balanced, integrated fusion of their characteristics and values. The value systems of our institutions are inequitable: they operate strictly on a male value system, and the results are disastrous for both human beings and the environment.

Women’s values have been generally sidelined. Our institutions must evolve to include values of equity, fairness, and justice. This evolution is beginning to take place now as women are reaching a critical mass in most institutions.

Men, primarily, have led the organizations that have created the great technological advances and high standard of living the West has enjoyed. These accomplishments were a result of masculine ambition, focus, and competitive drive, without which they would not have succeeded to bring these advances into the world. These masculine characteristics are to be applauded, respected, honored, and encouraged.

Simultaneously, primarily men lead the global oligarchy, which has perpetuated lives of misery and hopelessness around the globe. Unchecked ambition and competitive masculine drive are the causes of the injustice that is pervasive today. Women have a profound role in balancing the valuable masculine traits to create a more just, humane, and inclusive world. Their feminine traits will bring an equilibrium that is now missing.

Few people realize that there are only a few hundred individuals, primarily men, who control our destinies in the West and in the developing world. This oligarchy is also actively engaged in controlling the major institutions of the world: governments, central banks, universities, media, religions, and multinational corporations. The oligarchy’s goal is to control the production, consumption, media, education, finance, and governments of the world. This book explains how the matrix is designed and how it works. By connecting the dots, this book illustrates the carefully planned and executed system that controls our lives today.

This global oligarchy and the corrupt political leaders in both the developed and developing world have plundered the earth for minerals, oil, timber, and other valuable natural resources in the developing world for hundreds of years. The global oligarchy’s financial institutions have indebted the developing world to such a degree that their financial viability is almost impossible. The West continues to export (dump) subsidized products to the developing world, which puts small farmers in the developing world out of business, while simultaneously prohibiting them from exporting their own products and crops by imposing import tariffs. As a prince of Lichtenstein noted,

The biggest help one can give to any developing country is free trade–allowing them to export their products. This is especially true when one thinks of Africa, for instance, where there is very rich agricultural land. The people of the African nations would be much better off if they could compete on the international market. The main reasons they can’t do this is because we in the more economically advanced nations subsidize all our agricultural products and construct import barriers of all sorts.

—Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (1947–)3

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SOLVING THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES OF TODAY

THE ROLE OF WOMEN

Most people are aware of the many unresolved problems not only in the world’s poorest countries but also in the developed nations. Women and men have been working as social activists all over the world to find solutions to the suffering and inequities that exist everywhere.

Opportunities to contribute exist everywhere. It is our right and our responsibility to participate fully. Women should and must come forward as leaders to take their place alongside the men, knowing that their values are critical to creating a world of more equity and balance.

Women are linked around the globe by the heart-centered values they all share: their concerns for the well-being of their children and families; their desires for a world in which their children can have better lives than they have had; their worries about war, disease, education, justice, and the destruction of the environment.

All women have the same heart-centered values wherever they live and whatever they do: women farmers in Bangladesh, Central Africa, and China have the same values and are linked by these values to women working in the developed and lesser developed nations no matter what their profession or religious worldview may be. These are values of peace, justice, compassion, and inclusion. They know their values are sometimes different from men’s values. They are aware that only by bringing their values and principles to the forefront can we work together to create a more balanced, humane, inclusive world.

Individuals, governments, and organizations around the globe have made great progress. Much more can be done if women at all levels begin to realize the tremendous achievements that can be made if they choose to step into leadership roles to correct the inequities that face us all at every level, whether it be international, national, or local.

Women may not choose to exercise leadership roles, but they can use their influence behind the scenes, which is just as effective. As women, we must first acknowledge and embrace our feminine values and acknowledge that these values have a primary role in balancing the values of men in our lives. Only when there is a mutual acknowledgment of the complimentary roles we both have, will there be a chance to heal the imbalance that has created so much suffering.

Both men and women are victims of the tyranny of the global oligarchy. Men and women need to make peace with their gender differences—acknowledge, respect and celebrate them. This peace will empower men and women to collaborate rather than compete with each other and will create powerful partnerships in which both partners are empowered to express their full potential as individuals and partners together. It must start with women. It must start in our homes and places of work. We cannot have peace in the world if there is no peace between men and women.

Male and Female Roles and Responsibilities

Gender roles evolved from the division of labor required to create, protect, and sustain human life. Men’s physical strength enabled ancient civilizations to advance. Men hunted, felled trees for firewood, protected women and children, plowed the fields, and herded animals. Without their physical strength, our species would have become extinct.

The traditional role of women in human history (and in the developing world today) was to give birth, look after helpless infants and children, prepare food, participate in farming activities, and look after small domestic animals. Without women’s innate compassion and nurturing, our species would have become extinct. These independent roles were complimentary and interdependent. A balance, or equilibrium, that sustained the development of the human race was created. Their separate and equal but different roles and responsibilities created a dynamic interdependent unit. Today, this equilibrium between the genders has almost entirely disappeared. Today, our primary values are based on masculine ideals or characteristics. These masculine values drive cultures, businesses, governments, churches, universities; every type of organization is based on a masculine value system only.

Although both men and women share the same aspects or characteristics, men are considered to be more assertive, focused, competitive, action oriented, ambitious, and driven to achieve material success. Women, on the other hand, are perceived as having diffused awareness, being more empathetic, nurturing, compassionate, process oriented, focused on personal relationships, and concern for justice. Both aspects have equal value and are necessary to achieve equilibrium—a dynamic interdependence of both male and female aspects.

Patriarchal systems, both religious and secular, have dominated almost all societies for thousands of years. As a result, the predominately male characteristics have become society’s prized aspects, and female characteristics and ideals are perceived to have little or no value. Male characteristics, such as assertiveness, competitiveness, ambition, and desire for material success, when taken to the extreme, can lead to domination, greed, exploitation, and corruption. These male values pervade the world’s cultures today. The feminine aspects, which