Volume XIX, Issue XI: Special Book Section
Apollonius
By Bob Kirchman
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Chapter 8: The False Messiah!
Dr. Kline would not oversee the care of the ship’s most prominent patient, George Apollonius, however. His personal physicians were accompanying the billionaire to the colony and would oversee the healthcare of the settlers. They were two young Russian women and had been caring for the man for some time. Kline wondered if this was a set-up for Apollonius to sire offspring on Mars, but his presumed age made the good doctor forget the thought. Surely Apollonius had wanted thousands of colonists in his original vision. That was simply unrealistic. Even adding fifty settlers a trip, that would take centuries if no ships were added to the fleet and the colonists did not rapidly produce lots of children.This wasn't like the wild places of Earth, where you simply built your dwelling and tried to farm. Survival required a fairly complex biosphere to maintain atmospheric pressure and breathable air. The settlement that would be built would be merely a prototype.
No one knew how old George Apollonius really was. There were rumors that he had been kept alive ‘past his time’ by drugs and secret technology. A photograph of World War II Nazi S. S. officer Oskar Groening once circulated, misidentified as George Apollonius. That had been pretty solidly debunked… Apollonius wasn’t even born then! He had, in fact, accompanied an uncle in his native country of Hungary as he confiscated private property from people considered ‘enemies of the state.’ He said of that time: “I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because … If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would – would — would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the — whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the — I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.”
Apollonius had made the bulk of his fortune by manipulating currencies. During one Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation’s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an “economic war criminal.” Known as “The Man who Broke the Bank of England,” Apollonius initiated a British financial crisis by dumping 10 billion sterling, forcing the devaluation of the currency and gaining a billion-dollar profit. These fortunes were used to turn the course of elections in the United States and elsewhere. Much of it was given to media organizations that perpetuated his ideas. He was a globalist and sought to diminish nations such as the United States and Britain through a variety of channels.
He once said: “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god... or I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.” He was, to be sure a megalomaniac, and a very dangerous one! He insisted it was in everyone’s best interest for powers such as the United States to become subservient to international bodies. He sought more power for groups such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, even while saying the U.S. role in the IMF should be “downsized.” Of course, he would find an ever greater role for himself. In 1998, he wrote: “Insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.”
The establishment of the Alaska Republic accompanied by a renewed vitality of Russia put a wrinkle in his plans. Private property and individual initiative figured too heavily in the fabric of the new Alaska and the North. They, not the globalists, poised themselves as leaders in a new and wonderful economic revolution.
In the end, it was the cook/stewards who be in a position to learn the most about the reclusive billionaire as they were required to serve his meals in his quarters every day. Ben Gurion, Kline and the rest of the crew could only wonder.
(to be continued)
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