Did that come as a surprise?
Actually they think they run the world, but they don’t. The world at present is run by Satan - he owns it (for a time). “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12.
I get that you are probably serious, however.....this is what my grandparents thought, this is what my parents thought (although they added additional groups), then when I was younger that’s what my friends talked about (still more groups added), then my kids talked about it (more groups)and now my oldest grandkids are talking about this.....
The theory’s are not new or unique and they still just remain theories.
It will be interesting to see what replies to your thread will be.
Walter Lippman was one of the Wilsonian progressive propagandists.
Early on Lippmann said the “bewildered herd,” his way of referring to the masses, must be governed by “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality.” This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats. The experts, who often are referred to as “elites,” were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann
There are about 300 families in the world that are worth about $300T and pull a lot of strings to get what they want. Lots of wars and disasters world wide are just games that they play.
‘Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world?’ Probably, and so the f’ what?1 How really does this effect my life? IT DOESN’T! Not really.
I am not a huge conspiracy guy. Let’s be honest, people are people and most of us would screw up a wet dream. The rich are no different. Most of them are simply inbred swells with more money than brains. It is similar to the theory of a Jewish cabal that runs the World. They don’t, nobody really runs much of anything.
It’s a well known fact that there’s a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows. In the Pentavirate:
The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. “Oh, you’re gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!”
I suggest everyone watch this: “The Soviet Story”
It’s very good. Well worth the time to watch. Goes into the Progressive movement in the US and UK and what it spawned. The Soviets and Nazis were inseparable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4isNVjO0o
The problem with this kind of stuff is it ignores certain basic implications.
1 - if this handful runs the world why does so much unexpected stuff happen
2 - if this handful was smart enough to take over the world why are they so dumb in how they now control it, constantly allowing bad things to happen. This is especially obvious in this recession, a fat comfortable populace is much easier to control, why allow recessions
3 - and this is the biggest one, if all this is true what can we do about it, and since the answer to that is so obviously nothing why are people wasting effort on it
The author says these “ultra-rich” own or influence whole nations, then, in the next sentence says the same people have to hide their money away in the Caymans to avoid taxes. If these boogeymen are so powerful, why wouldn’t they just exempt themselves from taxes, like John Kerry? Why go through all the cloak-and-dagger of squirreling money away in foreign banks when you own the banks right here at home?
I can be as paranoid as the next guy, but there’s too much vague innuendo in this screed to make it anything more than a primal howl.
I just keep thinking that it would run better if the Conspiracy was actually in charge...
The Golden Rule. Those with the Gold make the rules.
Government debt is a way to "legitimately" take money from all of us, transfer it to the government, and then transfer it into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.
No. This reason we have massive debt is because voters are casting ballots for socialists. Period. The blame is squarely on the people - not some nefarious "globalist" plot. Debt is exploding because people continue to vote for politicians that tell them we don't have to change our ways. Oh sure, the banks are enablers and are allowing populations addicted to socialism to kick the can of irresponsibility down the road further and further - but banks and big multinationals aren't the core of the problem.
Our federal government is run by organized criminals. There is no honor among thieves. Even if they are bought and paid for they would gladly sell out to the next highest bidder. Do they do the bidding for multinational corporations? Probably. However, a crooks number one priority is self preservation. No organization will ever trump their criminal nature and lust for power.
Name one instance where he or his Administration opposed the interests of the Federal Reserve or the international bankers - in any way.
Or we can study the case of one George Walker Bush. Social conservative. Patriot. Supporter of American values, and ostensibly a believer in the American system of free enterprise and liberty.
Name one instance where he or his Administration opposed the interests of the Federal Reserve or the international bankers - in any way.
The Republican/Democrat puppet show is one of the global governing coalition's most effective theatrical devices.
But you, O Lord, laugh at them;
you hold all the nations in derision.
O my Strength, I will watch for you,
for you, O God, are my fortress.
My God in his steadfast love will meet me;
God will let me look in triumph on my enemies...
...For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,
consume them in wrath;
consume them till they are no more,
that they may know that God rules over Jacob
to the ends of the earth.-- Psalm 59:8-10,12-13
Key sentence
“Have you ever wondered why things never seem to change in Washington D.C. no matter who we vote for?”
LOL!
Waaaaay to many words to simply say GEORGE SOROS