Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings

http://www.worldviewweekend.com/ ^ | January 31, 2013 | Michael Synder

[SgtHooper]

Or in lira, they could have quintillions of dollars.

[word_warrior_bob]

And so brazen about it!

[Fledermaus]

What a crock of crap.

But if true, it’s clear they are doing a lousy job of it.

[TigersEye]

That is an example that explains some corruption in elections and government but that is just a small slice of the big picture. Perhaps I misunderstood it but it sounded to me like the article was blaming all of the ills of society on these 'ultra-rich elites.' It was blaming them for private indebtedness as well as governmental debt. I don't buy that.

I don't believe in victims. Everyone seems to be pushing their own version of victimhood these days and this article is one more version of that.

[discostu]

See now you’re lying, you said this:
“Fat people get lazy and start to take days off from work.”

So yes indeed you DID mean physically fat, because large bank accounts, large homes and toys don’t make you miss work. So now that we know that you not only creatively edit, you also go out of your way to miss the point, you’re also willing to lie about what you said. So at this point there’s no use for this conversation to continue, because you’re just gonna make crap up off the top of your head.

Bye now. Don’t bother to reply, you’ve fully established that anything you write is not worth reading, and so I won’.

[PieterCasparzen]

recessions go against their needs.

Not if they're trying to destroy a nation's economy as part of a long range plan.

In order to understand, one has to look at things from the point of view of the financier of government. Every time there is a war - he and his friends lend to both sides. They then must "manage" the end of the war politically - so both sides pay back all their loans. When the war is over, their is reconstruction - which requires also more government borrowing.

The more political influence the financier of government has, the more they can cause government to spend and borrow, which earns them more money.

How could a financial downturn be used ? It provides a public appetite for more financial regulation. Financial regulation is politically sheparded through the legislature to come out helping big finance and hurting their smaller competitors.

Larry Fink of BlackRock recently said "markets love totalitarian markets".

Fink Link

Monopolists need to keep generating an ROI, which gets extremely difficult as market share gets near 100%. Decent business folks break up their companies (for real) and do not keep trying to flog higher real unit prices out of their customers using the backing of the government. Monopolists seek to stamp out all competition; the best outcome they see is actually making their enterprise the official enterprise of the state and thus eliminating all their competition.

I could not understand this up until recently because I never thought about it from the monopolist's point of view, I was thinking from a small business person's point of view, where a thriving, fair and competitive market is a great thing.

Wall Street has never had a problem with Communism; they just kept it out of the press.

[TigersEye]

I will also note that you didn’t answer a single question that I posed. I made no comment at all about whether ultra-rich money movers exist or not and whether they use their influence on government or not. Obviously that does exist to some extent on every level of society and government.

[discostu]

But they already control the world, including this country, so that doesn’t make any sense.

[PieterCasparzen]

Interesting, private indebtedness. This is a recent thing, unsecured consumer debt without personal familiarity (as in the local store). Credits are a new thing. It was marketed to the American people in many ways. It made a lot of money post-WWII for American manufacturing, where people spent out in front of their own earnings.

Is it a personal responsibility ? Yes. Was it devious to knowingly set about a campaign to make it happen, knowing that “marketing works” ? Also yes.

[Revolting cat!]

Branson, the Oak Ridge Boys Theatre, who can resist? Oompa, ah-oompa, my heart's on fire-ah with Elvirah!

[TigersEye]

Was it devious to knowingly set about a campaign to make it happen, knowing that “marketing works” ? Also yes.

Too bad. That's the consequences of irresponsibility.

[dforest]

Mr. Jeeves, you just exposed the truth that people do not wish to believe. That is why we are at where we are at today.

Actually, there have been a few of these people mention that if the sheeple knew what they were about they would be done. That is the reason they pit the sheeple against each other by race and class or ethnicity. It is a protection device to hide the truth and keep the sheeple fighting each other over claptrap rather than uniting and going after them for their crimes!

[Enough is ENOUGH]

To understand how politics and money affect our lives we need to research the industrial history of America. I chose to ignore all of the various theories and to tackle an understanding on my own.

I started by recording the History Channel’s series, “The Men Who Made America”. The series covers various industrialists, ie., Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Ford, Edison, J.P. Morgan and their interactions. The video introduced me to each character which provided me with a basis to research each person more thoroughly.

From there I learned of their interactions with the major bankers of the era, both domestic and foreign which lead to the formation of the Federal Reserve System and to the progressive era. I learned of the bankers’ influence on the presidential elections of Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson, especially. I also read G. Edward Griffin’s, “The Creature from Jekyll Island” which is a well-documented story on the formation of the Federal Reserve. Other books that I recommend reading are: “Lords of Finance” by Liaquat Ahamed, “End the Fed” by Ron Paul, “Money Mischief” by Milton Friedman, “The Road to Serfdom” by F.A. Hayek, to name a few.

Watch the above videos and read these books then use them as a base in your research and I promise you that you will learn a lot.

Don’t stop at any point. Keep searching for the truth and it will be in front of you, all spelled out.

http://www.history.com/shows/men-who-built-america/videos#the-men-who-built-america-the-american-dream

[PieterCasparzen]

Well, I was just tryin’ to highlight situations where what most people (and myself included until recently) think is a “bad” situation... how that is good for international bankers who are thinking in the long term and on a “global” scale.

It’s like the Foundations. The standard “line” is that the elite wealth of 19th and early 20th century American gave away their wealth to charities.

But one has to dig deeply into what they are doing to understand the long, long term goals and how it’s quite simple techniques - once one either figures them out or someone explains it. I have not figured out or read about but a tiny fraction of the whole picture, of course, but a few basic things just stick out like a sore thumb and can’t be explained away, like the tight financial relationships between Wall Street and totalitarianism.

Mind you, when you read what the supposed “conspiracy theorists” write and they reference an old newspaper article from the early 1900’s, sure enough, it’s there. And it is shocking. Unbelieveable. But it was only news then. Now it’s long forgotten. Even Glenn Beck did not tell half of the bad stuff about Wilson - and he devoted hours of airtime to showing how bad the dude was. Amazing.

[svcw]

You do understand that there is zero evidence to support that claim - right?

[huldah1776]

Bottom line is Satan vs. God. I don’t believe any group is actually in control because of the enormity of the ego, it is the “NASH EQUILIBRIUM AND THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THEORY.”

http://home.uchicago.edu/rmyerson/research/jelnash.pdf

[PieterCasparzen]

But they already control the world, including this country, so that doesn’t make any sense.

That's what used to have me completely confused. If they "control everything" why don't they just do what they want ? "Control the world" is too generalized a statement to accurately describe the situation. They don't control what we wear every day, etc., nor do they control most things that happen. They only control a few key things that happen - because their personnel form the biggest group of experts in a few key places; at least diplomacy, banking, intelligence services, politics, education, the press, entertainment, health, food.

They do have key holdings amongst international banking firms across the world, as well as large corporations, and due to interlocking directorships (boards of directors are what has ultimate control over a coporation's actions), they wield tremendous influence over many corporations. They also use a network of non-profit tax-free foundations to a) control voting blocks of stock, b) avoid income taxes and c) avoid inheritence taxes, while d) allowing the same set of people, and their heirs and assigns and close associates, to have very tight voting control of the boards of directors of certain corporations.

They also, over a century or more, methodically sought influence of like-minded individuals and those who work for them in one capacity or another, in those "key places". They don't need every position, they start with key positions and work out from there. Most people don't even know what's going on, and there are multiple levels on which this game is played. Many leftists may not realize all of leftism's ties and backers, but those at the top do. For instance, Obama's early political ties were all to tied into one part of the international banker machine through Penny Pritzker. She is on the Board of Directors of CFR, the organization through which banking has managed the State Department and Presidents in one unbroken line all the way back to Wilson's time.

For international bankers, we have to understand that lending to governents is part of what they do; it's their business. It's like an equipment company selling a customer far more costly equipment than they need - the international banker wants "more business". If your a consultant, you want to see your clients in the most horrible mess possible, because then you can earn the most money helping them clean up the mess. Any problem can be turned around to be earnings if you're in the business of solving that problem. Now, the international bankers don't create all our problems, they specialize in just a few.

When one studies the great monopolists of America, one finds men that think they "know better", that they could run the entire nation far better than any government could. Trouble is, the public at large (and most military) would not take very well to the idea of simply setting aside our whole "government thingy" and little old Constitution, and all sign up for being part of some totalitarian business world. All these "nations" are in the way of their new world order, with the largest remaining impediment being an ever-dwindling percentage of the American population. But along the way, the international financiers can certainly continue to lie to a President here, bolster the confidence of a Prime Minister there, etc., etc., and voila ! War breaks out; ka-ching goes the register. They keep on making money in a "world" that we know nothing about.

[IronJack]

There are PACs on both the liberal and the conservative sides of the aisle. And the largest tax-exempt organization — at least in the United States — is the Church. Not exactly a hotbed of socialist change.

[discostu]

Now you’re getting closer to reality. For the most part these “secret masters” are people that are in positions of power, but most of how they maintain the power is positioning themselves to benefit no matter what happens. They really don’t control everything, heck they probably don’t even control much. They’re big in banking so most money flow through them, but how much money flow through them, and where it starts and where it lands is a lot more random than the conspiracy crowd really wants to think. And like most megacorps they’re a couple of bad decisions from seeing it all unwind. For the most part this recession is the result of misplayed hands, all the big dogs lost money, nobody kills their own margin like that on purpose. Then you get situations like Egypt, 2 years later, still a mess, nobody’s making money there.

[houeto]

It's become a scam on the people,...

And both sides like it that way.