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THE HIDDEN WORLD -The Matrix of the System THE HIDDEN WORLD -The Matrix of the system- Part 2 John H. Baselmans - Oracle Curaçao, 2015 This book is written / compiled by John H Baselmans-Oracle Layout and drawings by John H Baselmans-Oracle Free translation: Amy Mcintosh and Jeffrey Josef With special thanks to those people who have helped me. Copyrights Included all writers who have contributed to this anthology. This reference is to show from the widest possible spectrum, how the matrix of this system works. Personally I do not believe in these rights because as a free man of flesh and blood you own nothing. ISBN 978-1-326-03645-4 THE HIDDEN WORLD -The Matrix of the system- Part 2 - Whether it is the criminal or rapist - Or the murderer who is still out there. - Or the police, the courts or the judiciary who abuse their power. - Or Politicians - Presidents of royal houses who believe they are inviolable. - Or the faiths with their churches and their popes high on a throne. They play the game of the matrix, the game what they are told, the game where they are enslaved, the game from which they are unable to escape. Don’t be upset, have no feelings of revenge and see them as pathetic weak energies who do not know the way out and still wandering in a suppressed matrix. Fear and revenge are not the tools to change their minds. Act as a human being, connected to the absolute and do not let them affect your life with their search in a stifled matrix. Namasté john from the baselmans-oracle family -The matrix of the system part 2 5 INDEX -The hidden world- Part 1- Introduction 24 CHAPTER 1 Public opinions and letters 26 1-1 Who is john h. baselmans-oracle 28 1-2 Who is our Governor? 30 1-3 Apology to Andy Melaan and Nozaï Thomas 31 1-4 Open letter to Mr. de Brabander 35 1-5 Master of your own life 37 1-6 Political fluoride 38 1-7 Letter to Mr. Piar concerning action of Mr S. / Public Prosecutor 40 1-8 Letter to all departments concerning my guardianship 45 1-9 An exceptional sign 55 1-10 Aruba Bank 56 1-11 Whistleblowers 58 1-12 Cpost is Czero 60 1-13 UTS account-free 62 1-14 UTS defrauding / blackmailing? 63 1-15 My warm thanks to UTS, Cpost and Minister Balborda 65 1-16 Our patron for sport at Bandabou 66 1-17 The Royal Navy 68 1-18 Barberian gossip 74 1-19 Are the inhabitants of Curaçao legally sovereign? 76 1-20 A strange message 78 1-21 Letters to our recently Attorney- General 1-21a Letter 1 79 6 - THE HIDDEN WORLD - 1-21b Letter 2 81 1-21c Letter 3 82 1-22 Oil and gas 85 1-23 Published documents related to oil and gas 1-23a Kingdom strengthens its ties with Venezuela 86 1-23b Some quotes 87 1-23c Sea borders of the Caribbean, part of the Kingdom 89 1-24 Closing public opinions 91 1-25 Modern Slavery 93 CHAPTER 2 Poison, Philips, Bunker and Freemasonry 96 2-1 Report dumping Poison February 6, 2014 97 2-1a My secrets 97 2-1b The 60-years-old secrets 100 2-1c My grandfather as chief purchaser Philips 100 2-1d Smits van Ooyen and Freemasonry 102 2-1f A strange building, the bunker 102 2-1g The dumping of poison by Philips 103 2-2 Response March 31, 2014 Waalre Municipality 108 2-3 Follow-up 109 CHAPTER 3 The case Wiels continues slumbering 110 3-1 Some interesting articles 111 3-1a Individual Terror as Pattern of Washington”s Foreign Policy 111 3-2 KPMG, ABN / AMRO, UTS, Wiels family 115 3-2a Curriculum Vitae Mavelyne Wiels 116 3-2b External Links 117 3-2c KPMG in connection with UTS Curaçao 118 3-2d Consideration 119 -The matrix of the system part 2 7 3-3 Readers’ letter 120 3-3a The case Helmin Wiels 120 3-4 What’s going on 122 CHAPTER 4 Drawings 126 4-1 Gilberto François “Betico” Croes 128 4-2 Differences 132 4-3 Eye 133 4-4 Barack Obama (Jeffery Henderson) B 0 (zero) 134 4-5 Willem Alexander 137 4-6 Note 141 CHAPTER 5 Major case of corruption Hoensbroek (Heerlen, Limburg) 143 5-1 The major case of corruption Hoensbroek 144 5-2 Corruption only in banana republics? 145 5-2a Corruption as fundamental problem 145 5-2b Corrupted dominance 146 5-2c Corruption in the south 147 5-2d Often away 148 5-2e Mapping 149 5-2f Opposition 150 5-3 Comments 152 5-4 Postscript 155 CHAPTER 6 The Jewish community 157 6-1 Which role the Jews play in this world? 158 6-2 Jews described in Wikipedia 158 6-3 History 160 8 - THE HIDDEN WORLD - 6-3a History of the Tanakh 160 6-3b Jews during the Second Temple Period 161 6-3c Jewish land during Herod the Great 162 6-4 What does the Jewish community want to achieve in this world? 165 6-4a Quotes 167 6-4b Reflection 171 6-5 In the beginning: European black nobility 175 6-5a Black Nobility 175 6-6 Founding European banking dynasty 178 6-6a Meyer Amschel Rothschild / Nathan Mayer Rothschild 178 6-7 Anglo-American empire builder 180 6-7a Cecil Rhodes 180 6-8 International bankers 184 6-8a JP Morgan/ Paul Warburg/ John D. Rockefeller/ Jacob Schiff 184 6-8b Reflection 191 6-9 Global dynastic oligarchi 193 6-9a European dynastic families / Rotschilds / Vatican / Rockefellers 193 6-10 House of Windsor 195 6-10a Queen Elizabeth II 195 6-11 House of Rothschild 198 6-11a Evelyn de Rothschild 198 6-12 Vatican 202 6-12a The Pope 202 6-13 Rockefellers 206 6-13a David Rockefeller 206 6-14 Masters of influence 208 6-14a John Ruskin / Alfred Milner / Edward Mandell House / Bernard Baruch 208 6-14b Conclusion 214 6-15 Covert global power centers 215 -The matrix of the system part 2 9 6-15a Round Table Groups 216 6-16 Committee of 300 219 6-16 a Quotes 219 6-17 Council on Foreign Relations 222 6-17a Quotes 222 6-18 Trilateral Commission 227 6-18a Quotes 227 6-19 Bilderberg Group 229 6-19a Quotes 229 6-20 Club of Rome 233 6-20a Quotes 233 6-21 Chatham House 236 6-21a (Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)) 236 6-22 Pilgrims Society 238 6-22a Quotes 238 6-23 Club of the Isles 241 6-23a Quotes 241 6-24 Business Roundtable 245 6-24a Qoutes 245 6-25 Global banking cartelbankers / debt / wars / crashes 246 6-25a Warburg / Rockefeller JPMorgan Chase / Rothschild / Kuhn Loeb / Lehman / Goldman Sachs / Lazard 246 6-26 American agents of the global oligarchy 254 6-26a Henry Kissinger / George Soros / Zbigniew Brzezinski / George HW Bush 254 6-27 Global money centers 260 6-27a Wall Street 260 6-27b Conclusion 1 262 6-27c Conclusion 2 264 6-28 City of London / The City / The Square Mile 265 6-28a Quotes 265 6-29 Central banks 268 10 - THE HIDDEN WORLD - 6-29a Quotes 268 6-30 Bank of International Settlements 272 6-30a (BIS) - Basel, Switzerland 272 6-31 Bank of England 274 6-31a London, England 274 6-32 Federal Reserve 276 6-32a Washington, DC 276 6-33 Global shadow government 282 6-33a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) / United Nations (UN) / International Monetary Fund (IMF) 282 6-34 Too-big-to-fail banks 288 6-34a Quotes 288 6-35 Supra-national corporations 291 6-35a Quotes 291 6-36 Tax-exempt foundations 295 6-36a Quotes 295 6-37 Genetically engineered food 298 6-37a Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) 298 6-38 Vaccines 302 6-38a Bill Gates / David Rockefeller 302 6-39 Drugs / banks / spooks / guns 306 6-39a International drugtrade opium poppy 306 6-39b Conclusion 1 307 6-39c Conclusion 2 309 6-40 Drug-money laundering banks 310 6-40a Quotes 310 6-41 Western intelligence agencies 316 6-41a Israel’s Mossad / Britain’s MI6 / United States’ CIA 316 6-42 NATO 322 6-42a Quotes 322 6-43 Big oil 323 6-43a British Petroleum / Royal Dutch Shell / ExxonMobil / ChevronTexaco 323 -The matrix of the system part 2 11 6-44 Saudi Arabia and the persian gulf dictatorships 325 6-44a Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia 325 6-45 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 327 6-45a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) 327 6-46 Weapons manufacturers 329 6-46a Quotes 329 6-47 Zionism 331 6-47a Quotes 331 6-48 Man-made climate change global warming 337 6-48a Al Gore 337 6-49 American global empire 355 6-49a Pax Americana 355 6-49b Conclusion 1 360 6-49c Conclusion 2 362 6-50 Messengers 363 6-50a News Corp Fox / WSJ) / Comcast NBC / MSNBC) / CBS / Disney ABC / Times Warner CNN / Viacom / BBC / New York Times 363 6-51 New World Order 368 6-51a Quotes 368 6-52 Salesmen for the New Wold Order / Obama / Margaret Thatcher / Tony Blair / Nicolas Sarkozy 374 6-53 Globalists 378 6-53a Claude Trichet / Paul Volcker / Milton Friedman / Mikhail Gorbachev 378 6-54 Media stars 381 6-54a Charlie Rose / Thomas Friedman / Walter Cronkite 381 6-55 The endgame 388 6-55a Quotes 388 6-56 Is Putin’s Russia? 392 6-56a Quote 392 6-57 Chinese World Order? 393 12 - THE HIDDEN WORLD - 6-57a Mao Zedong / Deng Xiaoping 393 6-58 Closing quotes 393 6-58a Conclusion 393 CHAPTER 7 Jesuits, their origin and their purpose 395 Introduction 396 7-1 The Jesuits 397 7-2 Description Crypto Judaism by Wikipedia 399 7-3 The Jesuits 400 7-3a Data 400 7-3b Regimini militantis Ecclesiae 401 7-3c History 402 7-3d Establishment 404 7-3e Assignment 404 7-3f Critical intellectuals 405 7-3g Famous Jesuits 406 7-3h General superiors of the Society of Jesus 409 7-3i Training 411 7-3j Reflexion 411 7-4 The Black Pope 412 7-4a The Black Pope is the “President of the World Bank” 413 7-4b How the Vatican is organized and how the forces are divided 413 7-4c The current “Black Pope” 415 7-4d The “New World Order” 415 7-5 The Oath of the Jesuits 418 7-6 We start with the many quotes 425 7-6a The Jesuits - 1540: their purpose and their oath 425 7-6b Extract from Jesuit Oath 425 7-6c Secreta Monita 429 7-6d “La piste jésuite” 430 -The matrix of the system part 2 13 7-7 The secret instructions of the Jesuits 432 7-8 Jesuit power 443 7-8a Quotes 443 7-9 The Jesuits -1776 445 7-10 John Adams, 1816 449 7-11 President Abraham Lincoln 450 7-12 The Jesuits - 1868-1872 450 7-13 The assassination of president Lincoln 451 7-14 The Jesuits - 1945-1990 453 7-15 The Jesuits -1963 456 7-15a The assassination of president Kennedy 456 7-16 The Mossad 469 7-16a Description 469 7-17 Jesuits and Islam 471 7-18 Summary 483 7-19 Diocese of Willemstad 485 7-19a Bishops 486 7-19b Diocese of Willemstad connection Freemason 487 CHAPTER 8 The Oranjes 489 8-1 The family tree of this family 493 8-1a The family tree Oranje -Nassau 493 8-2 We will follow the line of Willem van Oranje.
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