The Satori and the New Mandarins [Paperback]

Adrian H. Krieg (Author)

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Publication Date: February 10, 1998

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About the Author

Adrian Krieg was born in Switzerland in 1938. He was educated in Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. He is a certified manufacturing engineer and has a doctorate in that field. He holds over 25 US and foreign patients. From 1962 until 1986 he was a corporate executive, and for the last 20 years of his business career was CEO. In that capacity he was involved in manufacturing, importing and exporting (exporting to over 40 different nations). He has written over 100 technical articles dealing with engineering, and several books about marketing and machine tool design. Krieg has wide experience in international affairs as a government advisor (CT & RI Export Council, co-Chair CT for Fair Trade).

Product Details

• Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: Hallberg Pub Corp; illustrated edition edition (February 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873190440
• ISBN-13: 978-0873190442
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #519,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Our Ruling Elite Hate Us, December 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Satori and the New Mandarins (Paperback)

OUR ROYALTY

by Steven M. Barry

The Hidden Organizers

Do people really sit around and plot our destruction? Sure they do. Take for example the Environmental Grantmaker's Association. The officers of several interlocking (Rockefeller funded) foundations assemble annually to study opponents of the federal government's Western land grab and recommend policies to the Bureau of Land Management about how to discredit property owners and keep them tied up in court until they are bankrupt. Not surprisingly, the Bureau of Land Management is beginning to arm themselves to the teeth in the face of opposition from property owners to having wolves and Grizzly bears reintroduced into areas where humans had eliminated them in favor of more productive food animals, and amazingly (to the feds), property owners are objecting to having their property confiscated to create a "migration corridor" for buffalo. The plan is to depopulate the entire high plains. Ideas like "sustainability" and "wilding" are thought out well in advance, and not by minions like the foundation officers of the Environmental Grantmaker's Association. That is the point of Dr. Krieg's book, The Satori and the New Mandarins.

In the introduction Dr. Krieg describes the "Satori" as his "designation for the ruling elite." The word "has its origins in feudalistic Japan and means 'the hidden organizers'" (xv). The "Mandarins" on the other hand "were the people and organizations which attended to day-to-day operations for the Satori" (ibid).

Dr. Krieg hit upon an observable fact regarding the steady erosion of our liberties:

"First, the desired outcome of the dialectic is generated. Second, two radically opposite concepts are structured and presented to the public. Third, the two opposing radical views are moderated so as to become the Satori outcome" (xvii).

This is the essence of "pressure from below, pressure from above." No revolutionary change, just calculated, methodical compromising, "playing the citizenry like marionettes, one against the other, through the vehicles of Class Envy, Racial Strife, Political Separation, Kulturkrieg and Gender Conflict, we are separated and played against each other" (xvii). Dr. Krieg illustrates this process throughout Chapter 1, "Manipulation," using such examples of NAFTA and the attempt to nationalize medical care.

An important theme that runs throughout Dr. Krieg's work, is that those whom he describes as the Satori are the guiding force behind the United State's maneuvering to become the "New World Order." The bromides about "democracy" and "free markets" that dominate U.S. foreign policy are little more than propaganda and deception to distract public attention away from what are, in the balance, socialist policies. He also describes the manipulation of the American population through incessant Kulturkrieg, which pits growing numbers of Balkanized groups against each other as they jockey for political favor and increasing government handouts through judicial activism.

Environmentalism, according to Dr. Krieg, is one of the key vehicles of Satori manipulation of legislative regulation of business and industry. He makes the observation that businessmen and industrialists are among the largest contributors of donations to "Green" foundations that disburse funds to groups who then turn around and use the money to attack business and industry. For example, Dwayne Andreas, who through Archer Daniels & Midland contributed $250.000 to underwrite the Gorbachev Foundation's State of the World Forum in 1995, is also a member of the "Council of the Wise" that includes such eco-illuminaries as George Bush, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, and Allan Cranston.

Dr. Krieg points out that the so called "Free Trade" hyped by the Establishment media and economic pundits bears no resemblance to free markets described by laissez faire and Austrian School economists. What is shopped to the public as "Free Trade" is "government managed trade, free of import/export tariffs... it would be more accurate to term NAFTA etc., as State Monopoly Capitalism, the beneficiaries of which are a favored elite" who are deliberately transferring American business and industry overseas while imposing crippling environmental and "safety" regulations on their competitors in the United States. Quoting South Carolina industrialist Roger Milliken:

"Middle America is being transformed into an underclass by trade policies that benefit only Wall Street and ignore the well being of small town America. I reject arguments that free trade can create jobs to offset those lose to overseas competition and dismiss suggestions that if an American turns to protectionism it will provoke retaliatory acts by other nations. No one can retaliate, we have the market in which everyone wants to sell." (69)

In other words, foreign markets need us, we don't need foreign markets. Then why would the Satori, through the offices of their minions, the Mandarins, deliberately push for policies that are specifically designed to destroy American businesses and industry? It's really very simple. They hate us. They consider themselves a ruling class beholden to nothing save their "divine right" to rule and have no other aim than to rule us as our "postmodern" feudal aristocracy. To do that, they must reduce us to peasants.

Closing

The Satori and the New Mandarins contains several insightful connections between the activities of our self anointed nomenklatura and the disintegration of American society in general and American sovereignty in particular. Dr. Krieg reluctantly admits that a comprehensive listing of just who the "Satori" (let's call them our Central Committee) are would be mere guesswork, although he does include an acceptably comprehensive listing of the "Mandarins" (our nomenklatura). But Dr. Krieg does provide us with clue to their identity:

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." Franklin Delano Roosevelt 23 November 1931 letter to "Colonel" Edward Mandel House

In all, The Satori and the New Mandarins is worth the price for its comprehensive treatment of the interlocking activities of the "Mandarins" and the fresh insight Dr. Krieg brings to a difficult and often maligned subject.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Demonstrates the details of a conspiracy in our government, January 16, 1999

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This review is from: The Satori and the New Mandarins (Paperback)

Adrian Krieg's The Satori And The New Mandarins surveys current American and world history demonstrating the details of a conspiracy in our government -- and does this out of the mouths of the conspirators themselves. "The Satori" is what Krieg calls the elite who lead the conspiracy, while the "Mandarins" are the active participants. Listed by name are 3,400 Mandarins who are presently involved in world government, as well as the most important international participants. By reading this book, you will discover why the American government really bailed out Mexico; why you can't seem to find an American-made product in your local stores; why America's Middle East policy makes no sense; why the government institutes more gun laws; who are the stockholders of the Federal Reserve; why congress approved the NAFTA agreement without one single congressman having read it; who really controls the American government; what organization completely dominates our U.S. State Department; what the relationship is between the CFR, TC, Bilderbergers and Bones; how the EC and NAFTA are the same thing, and much, much more. After reading The Satori And The New Mandarins you will never look at American politics or governance in quite the same way again. James A. Cox Editor-In-Chief The Midwest Book Review

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Stellar, January 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Satori and the New Mandarins (Paperback)

Most are troubled with the idea that a "conspiracy" lies behind government action and major events. This author does a stellar job outlining and defining the conspirators agenda and just who is involved. A must for freedom loving Americans. A+