| The Changeover to Democracy |
November 21, 2011 - February 20, 2012
Author: Bart klein Ikink
| Introduction |
A growing number of people sense that democracy is failing and that banks, multinational corporations and undemocratic government institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and the European Union are becoming increasingly influential. More and more people suspect that there is a conspiracy to create an undemocratic global goverment of the elites or New World Order.
As traditional political and economic theories fail to explain what is going on, conspiracy theories fill in the gap. There are number of New World Order related conspiracy theories circulating involving freemasons, illuminati, Jews, organisations like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Comission and the Bilderberg conferences [+]. The Internet, suspicious coincidences and evidence of conspiracies have all contributed to the increased popularity of conspiracy theories. Some conspiracy theories have little substance but many are based on facts, albeit that the facts are sometimes distorted in such a way that they match the conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theories offer an explanation for facts that cannot be explained by conventional political and economic theories. As there is a clear tendency towards an undemocratic centralisation of power in the hands of banks, multinational corporations and unelected government bodies, conspiracy theories should be taken seriously. The elites appear to be taking advantage of existing developments and deals are made outside the influence democratic institutions. Democratic institutions are compromised further as they have handed over sovereign powers to undemocratic bodies.
Money and profit are the most obvious reason for many acts and events featuring in conspiracy theories, for example bankers financing both sides of a revolution or a war and corporations trading with Nazi-Germany or the Soviet Union. The development of dangerous technlogies has often been the work of governments that desired improved weapons but in recent years commercial interests often took over. Conspiracy theorists in right-wing circles often assume that the economic power elites have a long term program of nurturing collectivism in order to create monopolies to exploit the population.
Actions and policies that are meant to counter the downsides of Capitalism are seen in the same way, and the failure of those policies is often seen as planned by the elites. Laws are made to be cheated upon, and unintended consequences always come from laws and government intervention. Conspiracy theorists suspect that laws and goverment intervention are the product of malicious intent to destroy a society as their failure could be predicted in advance [+].
| Global governance of the elites |
Introduction
The global governance of the elites or New World Order is an emerging reality. A number of developments are working towards a global governance of the elites:
- Political activity is often financed by oligarchs to promote agendas that benefit them. Conflicts can be useful to the elites, even though the elites may not have the intention to create conflict. Conflicts, such as wars and legal proceedings, are an opportunity to make profits for specific interests, such as defence contractors and lawyers, while conflict also distracts the attention of the general public from what is happening behind the scenes.
- Some issues like climate change and the international financial crisis seem to require a global coordinated effort. These requirements result in more international regulation and an expansion of international governmental institutions.
- There is little democratic control over large multinational corporations and international governmental institutions. The influence of multinational corporations and international governmental institutions is growing.
- Corruption and buying political influence are important tools of the oligarchs to increase their wealth and sphere of influence.
It is often argued that there is a secret agenda to promote Communism, but the developments that appear to support this theory may have another cause. Capitalism often leads to wealth unequality and economic hardship so many peple feel the need for government intervention, legislation, benefits and entitlements to smoothen out the adverse effects of Capitalism. The measures to counter the adverse effects of Capitalism however create another class that lives at the expense of working class and small entrepreneurs. Many poor people have become dependent on benefits while some make huge profits on government contracts.
Political conflicts are a boon to the elites
The political debate tends to distract the attention away from important issues [+] and in this way politics does not solve the problems of society. As long as the political debate rages, and people remain stuck in political agendas, powers behind the scenes can profit from this situation. The control of the wealthy over society steadily increased by corrupting the political system. In this way their share of the wealth steadily increased at the expense of the rest of the population [+]. While poverty spreaded into the suburbs [+] jobs became less secure [+]. As a consequence the middle class is being wiped out [+]. More and more people end up homeless [+] and some have become so desparate that they are willing to work for free [+].
A number of oligarchs, such as the billionaire George Soros, are engaged in funding political activities [+]. George Soros has been accused by Glenn Beck from Fox News that he is a puppet master and chief architect of a shadowy group of left-wing people and organisations who are determined to destroy the current geopolitical system and replace it with a New World Order [+]. Glenn Beck also made controversial statements about Soros' experiences during the Holocaust.
The fierce debate and the trigger words New World Order and Holocaust generated emotions that distracted the attention of the public away from the fact that the owner of Fox News Rupert Murdoch is also a billionaire oligarch engaged in political activities using his media conglomerate. Furthermore there is no real difference between the current geopolitical system and the New World Order George Soros is accused of trying to create. In this way the actions of Glenn Beck and the political activities of George Soros are both helpful in implementing a global governance of the elites. Both George Soros [+] and Rupert Murdoch [+] have made billions of Dollars at the expense of the taxpayer.
Especially in the United States there are many think tanks financed by oligarchs and corporations. They spread political propaganda to keep the masses funding the oligarchy. Together with the lobbyists they guide the political debate into the direction their sponsors desire it to go. They work on progressive pet projects, libertarian agendas to remove government restrictions on corporations, starting wars or discrediting climate science.
The perceived need for global coordination
The financial crises and climate change are just a few problems that seem to create the need for global coordination. The global coordination however started a long time ago. The Bilderberg Conferences and the Trilateral Commission played a significant role in this development [+]. The President of the European Union Herman van Rompuy, who is an unelected official that also attended a Bilderberg Conference, said that 2009 would be the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis [+]. According to him the climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.
The New World Order that is emerging is dominated by multinational corporations. According to the Hera Research Newsletter of August 19, 2011 [+]:
National governments have become increasingly subordinated to international bodies, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Group of 20 (G-20) or the European Central Bank (ECB), as well as to large multinational corporations. Large multinational corporations, which are a central feature of globalization, enjoy privileged status granted to them by governments. The bailout of large multinational banks by Western governments in the face of the financial crisis that began in 2008 illustrates that the well being of sufficiently large multinational corporations preempts national interests. |
Many see the New World Order as a conspiracy, and to some extent it is, but it is predominantly a consequence of social and economic developments, and a perceived necessity by the elites. The consequences of exponential growth within a limited sphere, such as overpopulation, peak oil and climate change, appear to create the need for a global dictatorship as most people appear to be unwilling to take the measures needed to solve those problems. The intent of the Bilderbergers can be summarised in the words of Denis Healey, who has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group for 30 years:
To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing. |
The European Union is a successful example of their philosophy. The Euro is a failure and the European Union may have gained too much power, but still it has been a successful experiment that can be an example for the cooperation between nations in the future. The problem with Brussels as well as Washington is that those governments are far away from the people they govern, and therefore those governments are less likely attending to the needs of their citizens than local governments. Brussels as well as Washington are not democratic governments, as decision making in Brussels are often not democratic, while Washington is corrupt. The forces driving centralisation are the usury economic cycle and the free unrestrained movement of capital.
No democratic control
Large multinational corporations have gained signficant power because they are able to buy politicians and can evade national laws and taxes. Research has shown that a small number of conglomerates dominate the economy [+]. Those conglomerates often escape democratic control. Organisations like the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund are also not democratic. Bankers have succeeded in convincing the public that there should be no democratic control over Central Banks. As a consequence Central Banks have become powerful undemocratic institutions governed by bankers.
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The Euro has turned out to be a failure [+] and now one to two trillion Euros may be needed to keep the Eurozone afloat. The eurocrats seem not to realise that most people have to work for money at rates of five to twenty Euros an hour. They have no influence as the democratic process has been completely bypassed. Bailing out countries and banks increases moral hazard, while moral hazard is the most important cause of the situation to begin with. Europe is now ruled by unelected bureaucrats and criminal bankers. Like in the United States, Goldman Sachs has its people in the governments of Europe [+], while Goldman Sachs also helped the Greek government to hide its debt so it could enter the Eurozone [+].
There seems to be an active strategy to make the planet more profitable for the oligarchs. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins claims to have been engaged in politically neutralising developing nations for the benefit of the oligarchs ruling the United States [+]. The World Bank's former Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz revealed that corruption was part of the so called Country Assistance Strategy of the World Bank. According to him, US-backed oligarchs stripped Russia's industrial assets, with the effect that national output was cut nearly in half causing depression and starvation [+]. On this issue Naomi Klein wrote in The shock doctrine:
In his 2006 book Overthrow, the former New York Times correspondent Stepen Kinzer tries to get to the bottom of what has motivated the US politicians who have ordered and orchestrated foreign coups d'état over the past century. Studying US involvement in regime change operations from Hawaii in 1893 to Iraq in 2003, he observes that there is often a clear three-stage process that takes place. |
The oil industry whose interests are closely linked to the Bush family could profit the most from the war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein had nationalised the oil sector and kicked out foreign firms. Exploiting the Iraqi oil reserves had been on the agenda of Western leaders before the Iraq war started [+]. Defence contractors also could benefit from the wars. A consequence of the possible intimate relationship between oil interests and the defence industry may have been that the industry has become militarised. Oil industry executives sometimes hire former military psychological operations, or psy ops specialists on staff and recommend to download a copy of the Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency manual to deal with environmentalists and local citizens [+].
The failure of global coordination
Central planning has never worked and it will not work this time. The global coordination will fail. The Hera Research Newsletter explains the reasons why [+]:
The financial crisis of 2008 and the global recession that followed suggest that globalisation may fail for basic economic reasons. Globalisation, as opposed to promoting sustainable, economic communities, advances an agenda of central economic planning designed to optimize global output, mainly for the benefit of multinational corporations. Policies or regulations that benefit multinational corporations do not necessarily promote economic stability or sustainability and may run counter to the interests of local or regional commercial concerns. |
In fact there is an unstoppable force working in the opposite direction, which is the unregulated informal economy or System D [+]. The unregulated informal economy probably employs half the workers of the world, which is close to 2 billion people. This spontaneous system, ruled by the spirit of organised improvisation, may be crucial for the development in the 21st century, especially in developing nations. The importance of the unregulated informal economy will also grow in developed nations. The growth of the informal economy will open the market to those who have traditionally been shut out and it may also offer the opportunity for many to find work. Traditional formal economies will have to reorganise themselves to cope with this trend.
Conspiracy theories
Introduction
Impressed by the French Revolution, the French Jesuit Augustin Barruel and the Scottish freemason John Robison published remarkably similar books in 1797 and 1798 in which they allegeed that there were secret societies undermining the current social order of church, monarchy and capital. They both pointed at the Illuminati as being one of the main political-occult fraternities, but also Freemasons and Jews were the culprits. Those works have had a great influence on subsequent conspiracy thinking. According to Arjan Nijeboer:
Conspiracy theories are hot. Since the 1970s a "cottage industry" of publishers, magazines, radio programs and commercial sites emerged primarily in America, that together produce a continuous flood of material about conspiracies. A search on Amazon.com in November 2011 on "conspiracy" gave almost 23,000 products and according to Google.com there are 110 million web pages on "conspiracy". |
Conspiracy theorists are often seen as lunatics because they ignore information that contradicts their theories. But this is normal human behavior. Many people ignore information that does not fit their political or religious views [+]. Critics of conspiracy theorists often resort to psychological explanations and ignore the evidence supporting conspiracy theories. A worldview probably is a survival mechanism [+].
Therefore having a worldview and clinging to it is a normal human disposition. Conspiracy theorists also have good reasons for their conspiracy thinking. First, it is rational to assume that there are conspiracies [+]. Second, there are many coincidences in history that indicate te existence of a hidden hand [+]. Third, there is evidence for conpiracies, such as the killing of John F. Kennedy and the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Given the number of lies and cover ups, rational human beings can consider the existence of conspiracies. Most notably in the United States conspiracies have become a line of business. A number of websites post conspiracy material on a daily bases. Needless to say, that much of this material is of low value, as there is a constant pressure to post new material. Conspiracy theories can be treated as claims to be proven or disproven based on the evidence. In this way it is possible to eliminate a number of them [+].
Freemasons
The Freemasonry has been involved in conspiracies [+] and often operates in a secretive way as it did in the past [+]. A number of freemasons have played a significant role in historic events. Among the founding fathers of the United States were theists, deists and freemasons [+]. Freemasons believe in the existence of a Creator but the freemasonry does not identify itself with a specific religion. The use of symbolism is often perceived as a sign of a hidden agenda of the Freemasons.
Conspiracy theorists claim that Freemasonic symbolism can be found in the lay out of the city of Washington DC and in the seal of the United States. However, the Eye of Providence was not a Masonic symbol at the time the Great Seal was being designed and approved. It was a common Christian symbol during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The theory that Freemasons were influential in design of the city of Washington D.C. originates from David Ovason's book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital. The writer of the book himself however wrote the following:
In view of such misunderstandings, I would like to make it quite clear that I am not for one moment suggesting that it was “the Masons who built Washington, D.C.,” or that Mason’s Lodges ever had a coordinated, formulated plan to influence the growth of the city in any way. |
Theories about the Freemasonry being Satanic appear to have been initiated by the Taxil Hoax in the 1890's. Léo Taxil intended to mock not only Freemasonry, but also the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to it [+]. Combined with the secrecy and the rites of the Freemasonry, this created a fertile ground for speculation as Satanists also made use of rites [+]. A number of sects including some Satanic sects abused children in their rites. Despite that most Satanists are not child abusers while child abuse also happened in the Roman Catholic Church.
Three world wars
William Guy Carr has worked on theories about the Freemasons. Carr's books often discuss a so called Luciferian conspiracy by a World Revolutionary Movement or the Synagogue of Satan. One of his most notable conspiracy theories was an alleged plan for Three World Wars, which he believed was developed by the Masonic scholar Albert Pike [+]. In Pawns in the Game, Carr claimed that the First World War was fought to turn Russia into a stronghold of Communism. After this, World War II was fomented by using the differences between Fascists and Political Zionists. Carr also claimed that World War III will be fomented by the agents of the Illuminati as they stir up between the Political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic world.
William Guy Carr published this theory in 1958. Even though the letter containing the prediction may be a hoax, the description of World War III is remarkably accurate. This fact further inspired conspiracy theories about the Freemasons and the Illuminati, most notably amongst groups of conservative Christians. Religion teaches that there is a plan behind all events and that forces of good and evil are at work, so Carr's theories may attract religious people more than others. Carr's prediction about World War III appears to fall in the same category as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is a hoax containing a remarkably accurate prediction of a future development.
There are more similar prophecies. In 1979 James P. O'Donnel had written an article in Reader's Digest that ended with a dream of the author about the Berlin Wall falling in 1989. At the end the author wrote the following words: "Not long ago I dreamed of Berlin. The year was 1989. The Wall was coming down. All along its hideous 165 kilometers East West Berliners were pouring out to dismantle it. [...] Canny merchants were weaving through the happy crowd selling souvenir bricks." Such coincidences are more likely caused by the program running this universe than by conspiracies [+]. Therefore accurate predictions belong into the category of prophecies.
Overthrowing Christianity and collectivist agendas
Some right-wing Christians also think that the Freemasons or the Illuminati are planning to overthrow Christianity. Tom McKenney and Jim Shaw claimed in their book The Deadly Deception that most Freemasons are deceived about the true nature of Freemasonry. Despite claims made in the book Jim Shaw has not been the master of a Masonic lodge, nor did he receive the honorary 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite [+]. By making the existence of a Creator the cornerstone of Freemasonry, while not adhering to a specific religion, the Freemasonry implicitly acknowledges that there is a truth superseding Christianity and other religions. The ideas of the Freemasons have valid grounds considering the fact that our universe appears to be a virtual reality that is run by a program [+]. Albert G. Mackey wrote in the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry:
Freemasonry is not Christianity, nor a substitute for it. It does not meddle with sectarian creeds or doctrines, but teaches fundamental religious truth. |
Efforts to unite the world under one guiding principle such as the United Nations are sometimes seen as an effort to replace Christianity and evidence of the hidden hand of the Illuminati. Unpleasant developments that may require a global coordinated effort such as climate change, are sometimes considered to be inventions of globalist conspiracies intended to create a dictatorship. As Communism has been hostile to religion, this fact may have been used to promote the argument that the Freemasons or the Illuminati have secret collectivist agendas. Karl Marx wrote about religion:
Religion is [...] the fantastic realisation of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. |
Historical materialism in Marxist thought promoted the use of science instead of religion. In the Preface to the English edition of his pamphlet Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Friedrich Engels wrote:
We, at that time, were all materialists, or, at least, very advanced free-thinkers, and to us it appeared inconceivable that almost all educated people in England should believe in all sorts of impossible miracles, and that even geologists like Buckland and Mantell should contort the facts of their science so as not to clash too much with the myths of the book of Genesis; while, in order to find people who dared to use their own intellectual faculties with regard to religious matters, you had to go amongst the uneducated, the "great unwashed", as they were then called, the working people, especially the Owenite Socialists. |
Curiously the Marxists called for a materialist society as opposed to a spiritual society and this is what Capitalism delivered to the world. Driven by the profit motive Capitalists chose for the materialist sciences as they delivered profits to them. Such perverse realities are difficult to fathom for human beings who tend to think in terms of good and evil. They may be inclined to think of this development as being the result of a conspiracy. What is also remarkable, is that a spiritual society tends to be communist in nature, as spiritually minded humans are more inclined to share their possessions. Many sects and also the early Christians did this (Acts 2:44-45, Acts 4:32-37).
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University that also features in conspiracy theories. A number of prominent families had one or more members in the order. The economist and historian Antony C. Sutton used a combination of public-domain information on Skull and Bones and previously unreleased documents sent to him by Charlotte Iserbyt, whose father was in the order to infer that the order played an important role in coordinating the political and economic relationships underlying the historical events. He published his findings as America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones [+].
CIA drug trafficking and cooperation with Al Qaeda
From time to time elements of the CIA and Al Qaeda cooperate. According to prof. Peter Dale Scott there is a cooperation between the CIA and Al Qaeda that goes on for decades [+]. A Libyan rebel commander has admitted that some of his fighters have al-Qaeda links [+]. According to a French intelligence report Osama Bin Laden has met with a CIA agent just months before September 11 [+]. A top secret military intelligence unit was ordered by senior government officials to stop tracking Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's movements prior to 9/11 [+]. These facts combined with many suspicious coincidences prove to be a fertile ground for conspiracy theories surrounding September 11.
The CIA is also accused of being involved in drug trafficking [+]. Several sources claim that the CIA worked with groups which it knew were involved in drug trafficking, so that these groups would provide them with useful intelligence and material support, in exchange for allowing their criminal activities to continue, and impeding or preventing their arrest, indictment, and imprisonment by U.S. law enforcement agencies. The consequence may have been that government officials were corrupted and became involved in drug trade [+]. In addition organisations that have been contracted by the CIA to carry out secret torture flights may also have been active in the drug trade [+]. A similar incident in 1998 in the Netherlands caused political upheaval [+].
Since the 1940s the American government has organised and supported insurgent armies for the purpose of overthrowing presumably hostile foreign regimes. Many of the US-supported groups profited, or still profit, heavily from the drug trade. During the Vietnam War the U.S. was dealing with the Hmong tribes in Laos and some of the people that were flying airplanes the agency was using were also running drugs. The Nicaraguan Contras, a confederation of paramilitary rebels sponsored by the CIA, had been funding some of their operations by exporting cocaine to the United States. For years San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [+].
Corporatism and the chains of Rand
Introduction
Idealists have the tendency to create a dichotomy between good and evil. If reality does not match the idealist vision then this is often attributed to conspiracies. Governments often usurp power and sometimes turn against their own citizens to retain their power. Politicians often make false promises in order to gain support and often use the power of teh state to suppress dissent [+]. The dynamic behind this development is often not completely understood as the analysis is often based on historic precedents without taking into account the effects of usury. The expansion of government and the welfare state are also consequences of failures in Capitalism caused by usury which creates relationships of dependency [+].
In the United States, the spirit of freedom is strongly influenced by the thoughts of Ayn Rand. A remarkable and possibly prophetic coincidence points at the link between Rand and perpetual war. Like Communism, Ayn Rand's ideal of laissez-faire Capitalism requires that humans behave in accordance with an idealist vision. In reality capital accumulates and as a consequence some corporations become large and some people become influential. They will over time start to assert their influence and power over others and the government. The underlying cause of the growth of corporations and governments is usury as usury favours large scale operations and creates relationships of dependency, reducing self sufficiency [+].
Clinging to the ideal of Capitalism and the rejection Marxist analysis may blind people for the shortcomings in Capitalism that supported the expansion of the government and the welfare state. Some accept conspiracy theories as an explanation failing government policies that try to deal with the shortcomings of Capitalism. The failure of those policies could be predicted on beforehand as they ignore the reality of human behaviour. Conspiracy theorists often argue that the failure of those policies is planned. Incorrect assessments may block finding solutions. In this way conspiracy thinking can further the cause of the New World Order.
RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a think tank that played a important part in the formulation of U.S. policies and strategies during the Cold War and later conflicts. Cartoonist Paul Conrad made a stature named Chain Reaction in 1991 that is placed near the RAND Corporation building. It was a protest against war, which is the main business of RAND Corporation. RAND employees became involved in presidential politics around 1960. Many at RAND were not happy with the way the Eisenhower administration was handling the so-called missile gap.
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RAND Corporation is one of the think tanks financed by private money that is used to divert public money into the hands corporations and oligarchs. In the case of RAND Corporation, it militarises of the United States for the benefit of the corporations forming the military-industrial complex [+]. The military-industrial complex exaggerates threats and even creates them. An example is Osama Bin Laden, who was trained by the CIA. Consequently the massive amounts of money spent on the military have not made the United States a safer place.
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand's thinking has a great influence on many people in the United States. Libertarism may have gained popularity because the government in the United States has been criminalised [+]. Many United States citizens see the government as evil. This evil is partly the consequence of Capitalism where rational pursuit of economic gain out of self-interest and being rich are perceived as a virtues [+]. The rational pursuit of economic gain out of self-interest badly affects government as it fosters bribery and corruption.
Like Karl Marx, Ayn Rand was an utopist. Randism and Libertarism suffer from similar deficiencies as Marxism and Communism. Like Communism, Ayn Rand's ideal of laissez-faire Capitalism, where persuasion alone can organise or coordinate human activity, requires that humans behave in accordance with an idealist vision, and therefore her vision requires a new and improved human. In reality capital accumulates and as a consequence some corporations become large and some people become influential. Therefore laissez-faire Capitalism results in a corporatist society where people are persuaded to follow the only choice they have, which is accepting the corporatist menu of different products to consume.
Absence of force then coincides with absence of choice, and if there is choice, the large corporations will try to use the state to enact and to enforce laws that are favourable to them. The same applies for linking gold to economic freedom. The use of gold as money is the root cause of economic slavery [+]. Gold can be chosen as money out of free will, but the usury that comes with it will then reduce many people to a state of servitude. Libertarism suffers from similar ills as Communism because it is an abstract ideal. It is better to base social reform on the copying of best practices [+]:
Rigor in applying a theoretical doctrinaire position is a quick route to insanity and ruin. History is littered with debris from doomed abstractionist experiments. The libertarian movement is as dangerous in this respect as communism, as the adherents of both movements are activated by a “We ALONE know best” mentality. The sane approach is to reason from empirical evidence, not to try to superimpose an abstract system upon reality. |
The ideas of Ayn Rand are a set of chains that shackle collective spirit of the United States as it helps to define the political debate. Socialism has become a trigger word that blocks a rational discussion of major economic and social issues [+]. Like the RAND Corporation, the ideas of Ayn Rand play into the hand of the big corporations. The consequence is perpetual war like in the novel 1984 of George Orwell, as both the war en de rebuilding of a country after the war, generates profits for the large corporations. The Chain Reaction statue may have more to tell than Paul Conrad had intended.
As it has happened so many times before, a peaceful ideal has been perverted into its opposite. Many Americans are so attached to their individualistic freedoms that slavery can be sold to them by labeling it freedom. Capitalism and freedom as they are promoted imply no responsibility for other people and nature. There can be no freedom without a responsibility for the collective wellbeing. It is a fundamental mistake to assume that the rights of the individual stand on their own. The individual depends on others and nature to survive. The declared rights of the individual are dangerous as they can lead to unrestrained consumerism, in this way paving the road to a collective suicide of humanity [+].
| The United States is not a democracy |
Introduction
The United States is ruled by an oligarchy
The United States is ruled by an oligarchy and the politics of the United States are often driven by the profit motive of this oligarchy [+]. It does not matter which political party is in power because both parties are corrupted. The corruption is often not unlawful as the people in office often come from large corporations and return to large corporations, creating networks of people between the government and the large corporations. Even main stream economists acknowledge that the United States is dominated by an oligarchy [+]. Europe is not much different. An important reason for creating the Eurozone and the Euro has been generating profits for the oligarchs by enabling the free movement of capital and people.
Official statistics do not show it, but the United States government is one of the most corrupt in the world. Many forms of corruption are legal in the United States. Money plays an important role in the politics of the United States. Campaigns are often costly while special interest groups and corporations fund election campaigns, making politicians serving the interest groups and corporations funding them. People that may pose a threat to the oligarchy, because they are competent and know what is going on, are often pushed aside [+]. Therefore the United States is not a democracy.
There is an intricate relationship between large corporations and the government. People that have influential positions is government are often hired by corporations. Because of their social networks they are useful lobbyists for corporations. For example, a top futures regulator became a top futures lobbyist [+]. The prospect of lucrative private sector jobs can have a corrupting influence on government. Ronald Reagan has done much to justify this practice by saying that:
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. |
This statement may have done much damage because it makes corruption appear competence. Another problem is that some bank overseers have maintained cozy ties with the institutions they monitor, treating bankers like clients because of the fees that banks pay to be regulated. According to Dennis C. Vacco, who was the New York State attorney general in the 1990s, the highest echelons of the financial institutions were in regular contact with the government [+]. The FED is even riddled with conficts of interest. Top executives of corporations and financial institutions have used their influence as Federal Reserve directors to financially benefit their firms [+].
Goldman Sachs is one of the most influential corporations that has its people in government. Goldman Sachs has contributed to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign [+]. It may therefore not be suprising that the Obama administration has many Goldman Sachs proteges within its ranks [+]. It is therefore not surprising that the Obama administration does nothing to stop the rampant fraud [+]. Goldman Sachs also had people in previous administrations, such as the Bush administration [+]. Wall Street banks and hedge funds could profit from this [+]. Bankers also donated generously to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, making more giveaways to banks likely if he is reelected [+].
Jews have a strong power base
Jews make up 2.5% of the population of the United States but according to Vanity Fair more than 50% of the 100 most powerful and influential people in American society are Jews [+]. Also forty-five percent of the top 40 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are Jewish [+]. Jews are also well organised. Organisations like the ADL and the AIPAC are effective in influencing the government and the public opinion. American Jews are important donors in political campaigns, especially for the Democratic Party.
In addition to that there is a strong support for Israel under the Evangelical Christians within the United States and they have a strong influence on the Republican Party. As a consequence US politicians of both parties disregard the interests of the United States by making unwavering support for Israel a cornerstone of the United States foreign policy [+]. As long as Israel has the unconditional support of the United States, Israel feels no need to compromise with the Palestinians on peace, and consequently there will be no peace. According to the veteran journalist Helen Thomas Jews have total control over the White House and US Congress [+].
Jews dominate the financial sector
Because Jews traditionally have an important role in the banking sector, they have a strong influence on Wall Street. Traditional banking families were the Seligmans, Lehmans, Goldmans, Sachs, Warburgs, Schiffs and Loebs. Their businesses have been merged into the banking firms that dominate Wall Street today.
For the last two decades former employees of Goldman Sachs and the FED have been Secretary of the Treasury. Goldman Sachs and other banks are also the owners of the FED. It may therefore not be a coincidence that the financial sector has captured the government of the United States and that the FED turns out to be secretive group that is deploying billions of dollars to favoured banks [+].
Because Jews dominate the financial sector, some of them worried about the consequences of the financial crisis for the Jewish community [+]. The film Inside Job about the financial crisis does not directly address the subject of Jews in the financial sector as openly discussing this subject would have made the film undistributable [+].
Dictatorship of oligarchs and Jews
Israel may not have survived if it had not the support of the United States. The Israeli government as well as the United States government know this. It may explain the strong drive of Israel to control political affairs in the United States and it may also explain why the United States government has been reluctant to end this situation. The United States can be considered as a dictatorship of oligarchs and Jews because of the following:
- US politicians are bought and paid for by special interest groups and corporations;
- oligarchs and the Israel lobby are in control of the US politicians;
- Jews determine who can be part of the United States government and who can not;
- the Israel lobby exercises thought control over public opinion in the United States;
- oligarchs and Jews control the United States media;
- the election process in the United States is flawed;
- Israeli control over security and communication in the United States;
- war and terrorism can be used as an excuse to restrict freedoms and
- the justice system serves the wealthy oligarchs.
The Israeli influence over politics in the United States is strong, if not unprecedented in history. First of all, Congress and many Americans support Israel because in their opinion it is the right thing to do. They also believe that is in the interest of the United States to do so as well. As many billionaires are Jews and US politicians are mostly bought, money helps politicians in being supportive of Israel.
Furthermore, the Israel lobby yields a significant influence. The influence of the Israel lobby is a delicate issue and it is rarely analysed. When two US academics, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard, tried to answer those questions, they triggered a firestorm of controversy [+].
It is also likely that Israeli helpers or sayanim are positioned in key positions in the government institutions of the United States. There appears to be an atmosphere of fear within the ranks of government officials. According to Carl Cameron of Fox News, investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide.
US politicians are bought and paid for
US Congress is bought and paid for
The campaigns of allmost every senator and member of Congress have been funded by business interests [+]. According to Senator Sanders, the US Congress is bought and paid for by special interest groups and corporations [+]:
- Wall Street and big financial institutions have spent over $5 billion in campaign contributions and in lobbying activities. It may therefore not be a coincidence that Wall Street was able to convince Congress to deregulate their industry [+].
- Since 1998 the pharmaceutical industry has spent over $1.6 billion on lobbying and they employ over 1,100 lobbyists. It may therefore not be a coincidence that citizens of the United States pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
- The United States were until recently the only country in the industrialised world that did not have a national health care plan guaranteeing health care to all people. It may not be a coincidence that since 1990, the health care industry has spent over $850 million dollars in campaign contributions.
- Over the last decade the defence industry has spent more than $447 million on lobbying and made $144 million in campaign contributions. It may not be a coincidence that the United States nearly as much as the rest of the world combined on the military [+]. Also 80% of the 158 retired generals advising The Pentagon had financial ties to defense contractors [+]. Former President Eisenhower already warned in 1961 of the danger of the military-industrial complex [+].
The financial sector has captured the government
A former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund claimed that the financial sector has captured the government of the United States [+]. According to him any recovery will fail unless the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform will be eliminated. Because US Congress is bought and paid for, this most likely will not happen without ending the current political system [+].
Throughout the financial reform debate the finance industry was spending an estimated $1.4 million per day on lobbyists to influence Congress [+] with considerable success [+] so the outcome seems to be a relief for Wall Street firms [+]. The core problem of fraud has not been touched at all [+] and even something as modest as auditing the FED was difficult to realise within the current political system [+].
Oligarchs and the Israel lobby are in control of US Congress and Senate
Lobby groups
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, DC, and its critics have stated it acts as an agent of the Israeli government with a stranglehold on the US Congress. AIPAC lobbies for financial aid from the United States to Israel, helping to procure up to three billion in aid yearly making Israel the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. Additionally, the result of AIPAC's efforts include numerous exceptional provisions that are not available to other American allies. AIPAC is not registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
The AIPAC is part of the Israel lobby in the United States [+]. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS) these exceptional provisions include providing aid as all grant cash transfers, not designated for particular projects. Given the fact that there are many wealthy Jews, there is little justification for the fact that the taxpayers of the United States pay to support Israel, a nation that has betrayed the United States several times. Israel is not the only country receiving money from the United States.
This situation goes on for decades. In 1973 Senator Fulbright, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee stated on CBS' Face the Nation that the Israelis control the policy in the Congress and the Senate. Currently Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a de facto dictator of the United States, with Soviet style approval ratings amongst Senators and Congress members [+]. The President of the United States is his captive [+]. This caused further embarrassment to the United States when Palestine requested to become a full member of the United Nations [+].
Influencing politics
There is a joke that goes like this: "Why doesn't Israel want to be the 51st state? Because then it would only have two senators." The use of money and favours is part of the activities of AIPAC and other Israel lobby groups. Jews are significant campaign donors, especially for the Democratic party. In August 2009, 56 members of the US House of Representatives traveled to Israel together with their spouses in the largest AIPAC-sponsored fact-finding visit by American politicians ever conducted. If US representatives voice opinions that do not comply with the Israeli line of thinking, the Israel lobby often uses its influence to destroy their careers.
Politicians considered unfriendly to Israel who AIPAC has helped defeat include Cynthia McKinney, Paul Findley, Earl Hillard, Pete McCloskey, Senators William Fulbright, Roger Jepson and Adlai Stevenson in his campaign for governor of Illinois in 1982. U.S. House Representative Dennis Kucinich has often been critical of Israel and the Israel Lobby forced him to withdraw as the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach County (Florida) Democratic Party's annual fundraising dinner. County Commissioner Burt Aaronson even called Kucinich an absolute horror [+].
Lawrence Davidson has analysed the distorting effect of political lobbies on the USA’s elected representatives and, using the example of the Israel lobby, he shows how politicians end up representing the lobby and not their constituents or the national interest. He uses the word lobbification for the corruptive process that bends politicians to the will of special interests [+]. The adverse consequences of lobbification are felt by the citizens who pay taxes and the poor people who have no money to buy politicians. According to Lawrence Davidson:
Only the thoroughly lobbified brain can advocate cutting 500 million dollars from federal programmes for health and nutrition for women, infants and children and simultaneously insist on continuing to give Israel 3 billion dollars a year. |
Foreign policy
Because more than 50% of the 100 most powerful and influential people in American society are Jews, while the US Congress is bought and paid for by Israel lobby groups, it may not be a coincidence that the US Congress condemned the UN Goldstone Report on Hamas and Israeli warcrimes with 344 to 36 votes [+]. The Goldstone Report has been made with the best available knowledge at the time of the making of the report and judge Richard Goldstone cannot credibly be accused of having an anti-Israel bias. Later Goldstone wrote in the Washington Post that if he had known then what he knows today, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document [+].
The United Nations may have been biased against Israel and Mr. Goldstone may have been intimidated by Jewish pressure groups into revising his findings, but the real issue is that the 344 members of Congres who condemned the report, unconditionally support a nation that has betrayed the United States several times and may have been involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11. One can call this treason. Also 76 US Senators have signed a letter of support for Israel [+], making it impossible for the United States to have an independent foreign policy. This situation already persists for decades and most likely will not change without a revolution. In 1957 former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said (p.99 of Fallen Pillars by Donald Neff):
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews..... terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen .... I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don't approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish citizens in the country. |
The situation in the Netherlands is not much different from the United States as the Dutch Foreign Ministry is promoting the interests of Israel. In recent years the Dutch Foreign Minister has repeatedly blocked EU declarations that were critical of Israel [+]. He also told the Libyan transitional government that if it wants to regain a place in the international community, the country should also invest in good relations with Israel [+].
Dual citizenship
In the Netherlands the issue of dual citizenship has come under close scrutiny. Right-wing populists alledge that citizens with a dual citizenship cannot be trusted as their allegiance to the Netherlands is doubtful. No high profile cases of treason have emerged in the Netherlands until now. The United States however, a country that has spent trillions of dollars on wars and armaments [+], and has started wars that killed millions of people in foreign countries based on disputable threat assessments, has done nothing to stop a foreign nation from taking control of the foreign policy of the country as many dual nationals now hold key government positions. Consequently, US Foreign policies serve the interests of Israel.
There are a large number of Israeli-American dual nationals, but not from other countries. Section 401 (e) of the 1940 Nationality Act provides that a United States citizen, whether by birth or naturalisation, shall lose his U.S. nationality by voting in a political election in a foreign state. This law was upheld many times but in 1967 an American Jew Beys Afroyim received an exemption that set a precedent exclusively for American Jews. In 1950 he emigrated to Israel and became an Israeli citizen. In 1951 Afroyim voted in an Israeli Knesset election and in five political elections that followed. The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government had no right to rob Afroyim of his American citizenship. As in Animal Farm, where some animals are more equal than others, a privileged group had emerged.
Jews determine who can be part of the United States government and who can not
Not only is the United States government riddled with Jews [+], but every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community [+]. This is not a democratic process. In the case of Obama's government in particular, every criticism against Israel made by a potential government appointee has become a catalyst for debate about whether appointing another leftist offers proof that Obama does not truly support Israel. For example, protests by the American Jewish community helped foil the appointment of Chaz Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council.
Some think of going further. In January 2012 the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times wrote a column in which he proposed that US based Mossad agents should take out President Obama, who he deemed unfriendly to Israel, in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States' policy includes helping the Jewish state to obliterate its enemies [+]. Even though the comment was slammed by the Israel lobby, it should be considered as a warning to any President who tries to liberate the United States from Jewish control. Iranian nuclear scientists are assassinated because they are seen as a threat to the security of Israel [+] while the CIA has been involved in the killing of President Kennedy. The September 11 attacks are also a stark reminder of what Israel and the CIA are capable of doing.
The United States is run by pro-Israeli Jews either directly, or indirectly through their Jewish lobbies and therefore the Israeli paper Ma´ariv wrote in 1994 [+]:
The U.S. has no longer a government of gentiles, but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected with the term 'government of goyim' should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the U.S. |
President Obama and a number of Presidential candidates have made a top priority of accommodating the Jews. In January 2012 Obama's team has released a video re-affirming the USA's special relationship with Israel. To be found in the video are testimonies from Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanayahu, and Ehud Barak, spelling out the extent to which the 44th President has safeguarded their interests. Newt Gingrich tried to outdo Obama by calling the Palestinians an invented people. This is not surprising considering where the money for his campaign comes from [+]. Some other Republican Presidential candidates have also stated that they intend to bomb Iran.
Thought control over public opinion in the United States
Opinion groups
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an international non-governmental organisation based in the United States of America. Describing itself as the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, the ADL states that it fights Anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all. Also it advocates for Israel with policymakers, the media and the public and defends the security of Israel and Jews worldwide. However officially stated goals often obscure real intentions [+].
The goal of protecting democratic and civil rights enables the ADL to gain a moral high ground which then is used to defend Israel, a country that has violated those principles on several occasions. The ADL has opposed resolutions like the 1975 United Nations resolution that had equated Zionism and racism, despite obvious similarities between them. The situation in Israel and Palestine is similar to the apartheid that existed in South Africa, where blacks had to live in designated areas.
It is therefore striking that Israel was the only country that was prepared to help the apartheid regime in South Africa to obtain nuclear weapons [+]. The Simon Wiesenthal Center states to have similar goals as the ADL, such as promoting tolerance, but some of their actions are not always helpful to achieve this [+].
Freedom of expression
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Outside the fringe there is little freedom of expression in the West on the subjects of Jews and Israel. At the University of California Santa Barbara, the ADL started a campaing against sociology Professor William Robinson. The disciplinary action dragged on until June 24th when 100 professors and 20 department heads demanded an end to all proceedings. The ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles coordinated the actions against Robinson after he shared with students from his globalisation website a photo essay critical of Israel [+].
CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez a day after he questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority because they seem to dominate the media. He also called the host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview [+]. Telling in public that Jews dominate the media and the financial sector in the United States can ruin your career.
Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters was accused of Anti-Semitism after making a video in which he had mixed different religious signs with dollar signs and corporate logo's [+]. The religious signs used were the Star of David alongside with the Christian Cross and the Crescent Moon of Islam. According to the ADL mixing them with dollar signs could dredge up antisemitic stereotypes about Jews and their supposed obsession with making money. Roger Waters has modified the animation video.
Helen Thomas, a veteran columnist for Hearst Newspapers had to resign shortly after the White House condemned her remarks about Jews as offensive and reprehensible. Thomas caused an uproar with her remark that Jews should get out of Palestine and go home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else [+]. If she had said that the Palestinians should move to Jordan, because it is their home country, this would not have caused so much commotion. She certainly would not have been forced to resign for such a comment.
Controlling thoughts
Jewish pressure groups like the AIPAC, the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center operate like packs of hyenas that single out and hunt down individuals that do not meet their standards before they are able to reach an influential position in the government, the media or the scientific community. Their methods include gathering data to be used against people [+], pressure campaigns, smear attacks by giving a distorted representation of facts or taking words out of context [+]. Many activists and pressure groups use these methods, but the AIPAC and the ADL are powerful organisations with spies on many places. Their methods resemble of those of the Stasi, the former East German secret police. According to Noam Chomsky:
It’s hard to nail this stuff down in a court of law, but it’s clear they essentially have spies in classrooms who take notes and send them to the ADL and other organisations. The groups then compile dossiers they can use to condemn, attack or remove faculty members. They’re like J. Edgar Hoover’s files. It’s kind of gutter stuff. |
The Israel lobby uses tactics of fear to suppress opposition, including threatening Members of Congress [+]. The ADL also published a blacklist of organisations supporting Palestinian rights. It probably is not a coincidence that in 2003 the ADL awarded the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi the ADL's distinguished statesman award at the Tribute to Italy Dinner. Like the ADL Berlusconi used his power to silence criticism [+]. Silvio Berlusconi is embroiled in a number of corruption affairs [+] while bribes, such as trips to Israel, are used by Jewish interest groups to influence politicians in the United States.
The ADL also has positioned itself as an important liaison between American police forces and the Israeli security-intelligence apparatus. This is quite worrisome, not only because of the corruptive nature of the ADL, but also because of their Stasi methods. One of the most prominent Israeli government figures to have influenced the practices of American law enforcement officials is Avi Dichter, a former head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service and current member of Knesset, who holds questionable views on democratic values and human rights. Through the ADL’s Advanced Training School course on Extremist and Terrorist Threats, over 700 law enforcement personnel from 220 federal and local agencies including the FBI and CIA have been trained by Israeli police and intelligence commanders [+].
The Office To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism is a part of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) at the United States Department of State. It is headed by the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (SEAS). The office advocates U.S. policy on Anti-Semitism both in the United States and internationally, develops and implements policies and projects to support efforts to combat Anti-Semitism. The United States government has a department to combat Anti-Semitism specifically while other forms of racism are not specifically targeted.
Thought control does not always work. The results of a poll commissioned by the European Commission show that Europeans consider Israel to be the greatest threat to world peace, which is not just an opinion [+]. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is voicing its outrage to European Commission President Romano Prodi and sees no place for Europe in the Middle East peace process [+]. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center the poll indicates that Europeans have bought into the vilification and demonisation campaign directed against the State of Israel and her supporters by European leaders and media. In reality the Israel lobby in Europe has also considerable influence in Europe. A leaked email shows that the Israel lobby briefed journalists of Sky News and the BBC before stories are published [+].
Oligarchs and Jews control the United States media
The corporations
Currently only a few giant corporations own nearly all the media in the United States [+]. Most media in the United States are under Jewish ownership. The only large media conglomerate in the United States that is not in Jewish hands is News Corporation owned by the oligarch Rupert Murdoch. However Rupert Murdoch’s support for Israel is well known. The Los Angeles Jewish Times therefore wrote the following in 1999:
Four of the largest five entertainment giants are now run or owned by Jews. Murdoch's News Corp (at number four) is the only gentile holdout -- however Rupert is as pro-Israel as any Jew, probably more so. |
Hollywood is also for a large part in Jewish hands and can be used as an instrument of propaganda. Hollywood films shape the minds of Westerners but also but also have a global reach. In Hollywood movies Jews are depicted as friendly and innocent victims of the Nazi's. There has never been a Hollywood movie about the tactics of the Israel lobby, the Mossad facilitating the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Neocons planning a war in Iraq or Jewish settlers taking Palestinian land. The Jewish grip over the US media is nearly complete. The research staff of National Vanguard Books investigated the ownership of the US media in more detail [+].
Coverage of controversial subjects
Of all major corporate media networks, Fox News has put the most effort in investigating 9/11 and Israeli spying in the United States. It may not be a coincidence that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the only major corporate media conglomerate that is not under Jewish ownership. Fox News however was silenced and the reports about Israeli spying in the United States were taken offline.
The corporate media in the United States are blacklisting important stories [+]. The media also do not inform the public about the strong grip of the Israel lobby [+]. The Jewification of the media may also explain why information about the 9/11 conspiracy and Israeli spying is supressed. Also the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian confict by the corporate media is often distorted [+].
Israel had clandestine programs for paying editors, the placement of suitable articles in major consumer magazines as well as reporting about sensitive subjects [+]. The main stream media often published stories planted by Israeli PR campaigns. Consequently, when Israeli interests are involved, even the most respected American media like the New York Times cannot be trusted [+].
The Internet
Hasbara or public diplomacy for Israel are public relations efforts to disseminate information about Israel. Hasbara means explanation and can be seen as an effort to repackage propaganda using a different label. The term is used by the Israeli government and its supporters to describe efforts to explain government policies and promote Israel in the face of what they consider negative press about Israel around the world [+].
In recent years volunteers have been recruited to create a more favourable picture of Israel on the Internet [+]. The hasbara actvity also targets sites like Wikipedia where activists edit, change and remove articles which they consider to be unfavourable to Israel. They are not alone as other activists, governments and corporations also try to influence their publicity on the Internet. Sometimes hasbara activists succeed. A notable incident was that the Wikipedia entry for sayanim was deleted.
A number of corporations that are important for the Internet are completely or partially in Jewish hands. Sergei Brin and Larry Page who own Google are both Jewish. Facebook is owned by the Jewish founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. The founders of Wikipedia James Wales and Larry Sanger are both Jewish. One can hardly blame them for creating useful websites like Google and Wikipedia. They have made information available to everyone at low cost, enabling information sharing and democratic developments all over the world. Apparently only Jews were able to create those websites. Resourcefulness and entrepreneural spirit appear to be part of Jewish culture.
There is a downside. Google and Wikipedia have become important sources of truth. Consequently the jewish tribal allegiance combined with the drive of Israel and the Israel lobby to control thoughts and to curb the freedom of expression are cause for concern. In Israel itself the government uses its legitimate powers for political ends. Recently a liberal radio station has been taken out of the air and critics suspect that it is an attempt to silence criticism of the government [+].
Wikileaks
Wikileaks has been helpful in the battle against media disinformation. Wikileaks has published material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya, toxic waste dumping in Côte d'Ivoire, Church of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer. In 2010 Wikileaks published war documents which showed that the United States are losing the war in Afghanistan and that civilians are murdered on a regular basis. Wikileaks has revealed official government documents that prove U.S. leaders are hiding the truth [+]. The reality in Afghanistan does not resemble the official statements of the government [+]. The whistleblower Bradley Manning who provided many documents to Wikileaks may be sent to prison for life, while the people that started the wars are still free. Furthermore, if he had been a Jew selling those documents to Israel, he may still have been a free man.
In a new book about Assange written by the Guardian journalists with whom he worked closely, Assange is quoted as saying that negative cables concerning the United States and Israel were deliberately omitted from initial Wikileaks releases to prevent the organisation being stereotyped as anti-American. This probably caused Benjamin Netanyahu to say that the Wikileaks revelations were good for Israel [+]. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange thereafter called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an example of a world leader who believes the publications will aid global diplomacy and the peace process in the Middle East [+]. This is curious because Netanyahu has not been a strong supporter of the peace process in the past. He opposed the Oslo peace accords and has called U.S.-backed peace talks a waste of time. He also refused to cooperate on a two-state solution until recently.
Julian Assange also compared the persecution of Wikileaks to that endured by Jews in the United States in the 1950s [+], while in reality following the Second World War and the American Civil Rights Movement, anti-Jewish sentiment waned. The United States after the Second World War was the largest, richest, and healthiest center of Judaism in the world [+]. Furthermore Assange denied that there was a 9/11 conspiracy despite facts pointing at Mossad involvement [+]. Sometimes things are not what they appear to be so some conspiracy theorists speculated about a hidden agenda behind Wikileaks.
The election process in the United States is flawed
Shortcomings
The election process in the United States has serious shortcomings which makes the elections in the United States prone to fraud and manipulation. The most important shortcomings are:
- The process of districting offers opportunities for special interests to influence politics for a longer timeframe.
- Cases of election fraud in the United States that can be proven are not seriously investigated by the authorities.
- Registration of voters in the United States offers opportunities for fraud.
- The use of computerised voting machines makes the election process unverifiable and prone to fraud.
- The media sometimes play an important role in eliminating candidates that could be harmful to the ruling oligarchy.
Redistricting
Electoral districts are remapped every ten years, and the process of redistricting can have a great influence on the outcome of elections. Skillful redistricting can help create Republican or Democratic districts, but it can also grace incumbents with virtually guaranteed reelection or leave them with nearly no chance at all. In the process, it can also create seats almost certain to be held by minorities or break those same groups apart, ensuring that they have almost no voice.
Influencing redistricting is costly and therefore it is often financed by corporations and other outside interests. They can provide the cash for voter data, mapping consultants, and lobbyists to influence state legislators, who are in charge of redistricting in most states. Outside interests can also fund the lawsuits that contest nearly every state's redistricting plan after it is unveiled. Reshaping an elections map offers the opportunity to have influence at the state level and the congressional level for 10 years [+].
Elections fraud
Both political parties in the United States have committed elections fraud but this issue has never been seriously investigated by the authorities. For example Tea Party activists allegedly discovered a voting fraud in Texas [+].
James and Kenneth Collier investigated the issue and published a book about the subject in 1992. Registration of voters in the United States often leads to controversy and offers opportunities for fraud. Excluding certain categories of citizens from voting complicates the registration process. Apparently dirty tricks are used to mislead citizens so they are not able to vote and it appears to be possible to vote more than one time.
Elections fraud may have decided Presidential elections in the United States. Many Republicans including Nixon and Eisenhower believed that Kennedy had benefited from vote fraud, especially in Texas, of which Lyndon B. Johnson was Senator, and Illinois, home of Mayor Richard Daley's powerful Chicago political machine [+].
Americans may think that elections fraud is unavoidable but it is not. Elections fraud is not a serious issue in other Western democracies and therefore the problem must be easy to solve. It will not be solved as long as the election process is not changed. Money plays an important role in US political campaigns so the financial stakes in US politics tend to be higher than in other Western democracies. Furthermore the persecution of elections fraud in the United States is a partisan issue and many Americans only feel an outrage when the other party is the culprit.
Computerised voting machines
The Florida recount in the 2000 Presidential elections drew much attention because of faulty voting machines. In the fall of 2001 an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center found that Al Gore may have won Florida and could have been President [+].
Computerised voting machines are used in the United States and some other countries. Most voting machines leave no paper trail and are therefore unverifiable. Some voting machines may have been secretly programmed to make election fraud possible. In the United States the software of voting machines was not open to scrutiny by election officials or computer experts. Many countries and some states in the United States have banned voting machines because they make elections unverifiable.
The Republican ties of several leading executives in the companies providing the voting machines cast further doubt on the integrity of the voting machines used in the United States. It is therefore probably not a coincidence that a voting machine was found in Ohio with a glitch that gave Bush extra votes during the presidential elections of 2004 [+]. Ohio was a crucial swing state that determined the outcome of the election. How the Ohio election results may have been altered, was revealed years later in a court filing [+].
In the Netherlands, and in a number of other European countries voting machines have been banned, not because there was a suspicion of voting fraud, but because the machines left no paper trail. If computerised voting machines are to be used, their software and hardware should be part of the public domain, and as such verifiable by everyone.
Role of the media
The media sometimes play a role in eliminating candidates. For example, Howard Dean had been the Democratic front-runner during the 2004 presidential election campaign. At the same time the media depicted him as unelectable, angry and gaffe-prone [+]. He did not belong to the political establishement and he opposed the war in Iraq. He also intended to break up the large media conglomerates. His campaign was already falling apart, possibly due to his media coverage, but it was finally destroyed when a rallying cry to inspire his supporters was taken out of context and was repeated endlessly on the American media [+].
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Ron Paul supporters also think that media networks remove opinion polls if Ron Paul comes out on top. The media networks like CNBC suspect that Ron Paul supporters distort poll results [+]. Fox News host Chris Wallace argued that if Ron Paul would win the Iowa caucus it doesn’t mean much because the GOP establishment does not believe he can win [+]. A CBS report did not mention him at all while he came in second in New Hampshire (see picture to the right).
Ron Paul has been accused of being a racist. One or more unknown writers have placed racist comments in newsletters authorised by him [+]. Ron Paul denied being a racist himself citing that he admired Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Gandhi. He is also accused of being an enemy of Israel as he has been critical of Israel. Ron Paul once said that the situation in Gaza was almost like a concentration camp [+]. The views of Ron Paul on Israel have often been distorted as he merely thinks that the United States should pursue its own interests [+]. His conservatism and non-interventionist stance indicate that there will be less profiteering by the oligarchs that fund the Republican Party if he becomes President [+].
Ron Paul
There is no compelling reason to assume that Ron Paul is a racist or an anti-Semite. He thinks that minorities should not have more rights than others. American voters may have to choose between a candidate who holds uncommon views and candidates that intend to perpetuate the current economic and imperialistic policies, which probably will mean more deficit spending and more wars. Ron Paul has an open mind towards conpiracies, while the other candidates are naive in this respect. Ron Paul appears to be prepared to take unconventional measures and to look after the interests of the United States, even when it is not in the interest of Israel. This may explain why the media conglomerates do not want him to become President.
The Republican Party is part of the corrupt political order. Ron Paul can succeed when he bypasses the corrupted political system and runs as an independent and he has a chance to win as a third party candidate [+]. If Ron Paul becomes President, he will face a difficult task, unless he has a comprehensive plan. His libertarian and conservative views may handicap him, as the economy also a demand side, a fact conservatives and Austrian economists tend to ignore. The powers behind the scenes will do everything to turn his presidency into a failure. The people that facilitated the September 11 attacks and started the resource wars are not easy to deal with.
Ron Paul also needs to bypass the Congress and Senate as they have proven to be completely inept and corrupt. Probably the last thing Ron Paul wants to become is a dictator, but this makes him the best candidate for the job, as he will use his powers with restraint. This situation should be temporary, and it should be based on a contract with the nation which should be written down before the elections, so it is known on beforehand what the President is up to. This situation should be combined with a referendum law so the President can be overruled by the citizens. It will improve democratic conditions in the United States immediately [+].
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Israeli control over security and communication in the United States
According to Max Blumenthal, the Israelification of America’s security apparatus has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed. The process of Israelification began in the immediate wake of 9/11, when national panic led federal and municipal law enforcement officials to beseech Israeli security experts for advice and training. The Israel lobby exploited the climate of fear by providing thousands of police officers with paid trips to Israel and training sessions with Israeli military and intelligence officials. In 2007 Israel’s Minister of Public Security and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security signed a joint memorandum pledging security collaboration between America and Israel on issues ranging from airport security to emergency planning [+].
Israel also has set up government subsidised telecommunications companies which operate in the United States. One of these companies is Amdocs, which provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the USA. Amdocs' main computer center for billing is in Israel and allows those with access to do what intelligence agencies call traffic analysis, which is making a picture of someone's activities based on a pattern of who they are calling and when [+]. Odigo, which had offices near the World Trade Towers, is the company which received a two hour advance warning of the attacks of September 11.
Another Israeli telecom company is Comverse Infosys, which was founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer in 1984. The company subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America. Comverse maintains its own connections to all this phone tapping equipment, insisting that it is for maintenance purposes only. The technology can however be used to tap into communications unobtrusively, in real time, all the time [+]. Converse has been named as the most likely source for leaked information regarding telephone calls by law enforcement that derailed several investigations into espionage and drug running.
In the Netherlands Israel alledgedly has uncontrolled access to data from wiretapping rooms [+]. The Dutch intelligence service had come to the CIA very concerned about what the Israelis were doing. The Dutch had discovered that the Israelis were uploading and downloading information out of the switches, remotely, and apparently using it for their own wiretap purposes. The seriousness of this situation was further stressed when in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake suspicious Israeli activity pointed at a potential security breach in the police computer systems of New Zealand [+].
More than two dozen U.S. intelligence, counterintelligence, law-enforcement and other officials have told that the FBI believes Israel has intercepted telephone and modem communications on some of the most sensitive lines of the U.S. government on an ongoing basis. The worst penetrations are believed to be in the State Department. But others say the supposedly secure telephone systems in the White House, Defense Department and Justice Department may have been compromised as well. The White House phones were open to tapping. The Ken Starr report on Whitewater describes how Bill Clinton informed Monica Lewinsky that their phone sex conversations may have been recorded [+].
War and terrorism can be used as an excuse to restrict freedoms
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War on Terror
In the United States the Patriot Act was enacted to combat terrorism but the threat of terrorism may have been exagerated [+]. The fear of the public is a boon to the oligarchs that profit from the defense and security spending. Similar antiterrorism legislation had been enacted in the 1996 Antiterrorism Act and a number of provisions had been declared unconstitutional [+]. The war on terror may have been overdone as most terror plots have been set up by the FBI [+].
The entrapment of people that would otherwise commit no crimes appears to have become an acceptable method for gung ho American law enforcement officials. A retired British businessman faces extradition to the US for allegedly plotting to export missile components to Iran [+]. The businessman allegedly had been set up by American customs agents who established a fake company to ensnare unsuspecting importers. There are a number of similar cases.
Restricting freedoms
Should the US government come under serious pressure, then it may use its policing powers to further restrict the freedom of its citizens. The United States dropped 27 points to the 47th place on the press freedom rankings, due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests [+]. The US government is preparing for social unrest by creating legislation to implement martial law while bypassing the Constitution [+]. From time to time there are drills to round up and imprison American citizens who are deemed to be national security threats [+]. Slowly the United States is turning into a police state. The technology to make George Orwell's 1984 a reality is available as Christopher Ketcham noted [+]:
For those who have followed the revelations of the NSA’s "warrantless wiretapping" program in the New York Times in 2005 and the Wall Street Journal last year, what Bamford unveils in "The Shadow Factory" is only confirmation of the worst fears: "There is now the capacity," he writes of the NSA’s tentacular reach into the private lives of Americans, "to make tyranny total." |
The Patriot Act gave the US government increased policing powers such as the following:
- The government can search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
- The government can jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
- To assist terror investigation, the government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity.
- The government can monitor conversations between attorneys and clients in federal prisons and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
- The government can prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
- Americans can be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
Police brutality
In the United States complaints about police brutality are on the rise [+]. It is possible to be arrested for taking pictures [+]. Police departments have become increasingly militarised [+]. After September 11, many police officers in the United States received Israeli training on anti-terror tactics. One of the consequences of widespread police violence is the death of 500 people following police use of tasers since 2001, according to Amnesty International [+].
Adding to police brutality is the Israelification of American domestic security. Karen Greenberg, the director of Fordham School of Law’s Center on National Security and a leading expert on terror and civil liberties, said the Israeli influence on American law enforcement is so extensive it has bled into street-level police conduct. Max Blumenthal noted [+]:
Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year experience of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous population, local police forces have adapted them to monitor Muslim and immigrant neighborhoods in US cities. Meanwhile, former Israeli military officers have been hired to spearhead security operations at American airports and suburban shopping malls, leading to a wave of disturbing incidents of racial profiling, intimidation, and FBI interrogations of innocent, unsuspecting people. The New York Police Department’s disclosure that it deployed “counter-terror” measures against Occupy protesters encamped in downtown Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park raised serious questions about the extent to which Israeli-inspired tactics have been used to suppress the Occupy movement in general. |
Indefinite detention
More recently the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the executive branch unlimited powers to indefinitely detain terror suspects without trial, whether they are Americans or not. Some Senators noted that America is part of the battlefield. Critics have warned for the fungibility of the law [+]. Officially the bill only pertains to a person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.
The National Defense Authorization Act may turn out to be useful as it provides the United States the tools to solve its most pressing security issues. The definition of terror suspects can be expanded to the Israel lobby as Israel most likely facilitated the September 11 attacks. It can also be expanded to financial terrorists, who have assisted Al Qaeda in achieving its objective of destroying the United States economically. The top 1% can also be included, as the United States is a battlefield of a class war, waged against the bottom 99%. It can also be applied to politicians who supported the wars and the top 1%.
In the Netherlands a man is imprisoned for more than a year for throwing a glass waxine candle holder at the Golden Coach of Queen Beatrix because he opposes the Dutch royal family. He will be locked up in a mental institution after his imprisonment. The royal family costs the Dutch taxpayer over 100 million Euro per year and according to the Dutch Quote 500, the queen's personal fortune amounts to one billion Euros. At the same time many Dutch can hardly make end meet and have to live on giveaways from food charities.
The legal system serves the wealthy
Corrupted legal system
The legal systems of developed nations help the ruling class and the rich. Law has become increasingly complex because society has become increasingly complex. This situation tends to favour people that have the best information or the best advisors and lawyers. Justice is often not done because of procedural issues or political pressure. Over time the connection between law and justice has become increasingly remote, and sometimes even completely lost. War criminals walk free and financial criminals are not procecuted [+], while ordinary citizens without criminal intent are harassed and sometimes arrested for small offenses [+].
The United States are more legalised than any other country. Legal requirements and court proceedings dominate the daily life of many Americans. The more people depend on laws, the less they depend on morals, as laws create a disconnect between rules and morals. Court proceedings are often started to make money. Many lawyers have a disconnected sense of morality [+]. As Jews generally are more disconnected from society than other people, higher levels of education may not be the only reason why a disproportionate number of American Jews have become lawyers [+].
Conflicts of interest can influence the decisions of lawmakers and judges. Some judges are blatantly corrupt without being punished [+], making it appear that corruption of judges is business as usual. Corruption may explain remarkable court rulings [+]. Most states allow judicial candidates to raise campaign funds, and huge sums are often involved, leading to suspicions that judges will pass judgments that favour their benefactors [+]. As top justice officials have ties with the banking sector, it is also unlikely that financial criminals will face justice [+].
Corruption may also partially explain why the United States have a relatively high number of prisoners [+]. Living conditions in prisons are bad [+] and there are now more people under correctional supervision in the United States than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. Private correctional corporations have lobbied over 3.3 million dollars to the political establishment since 2001 in order to increase the prison population [+]. Recently Corrections Corporation of America has sent letters to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for challenging corrections budgets. In exchange the company asked for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prisons would remain at least 90 percent full [+].
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Oligarchs commit crimes with impunity
In some high profile cases like Enron and Madoff perpetrators of fraud have been jailed and those cases did get a lot of media attention. However most crimes committed by the oligarchs are not properly investigated. Many Wall Street bankers may have been in prison if the system set up to regulate Wall Street is dismantled [+]. That has happened because because the banks have bribed politicians into deregulating the banking sector, while the SEC has destroyed potential evidence of their criminal activities [+].
The government seems to cover up financial crimes [+]. According to Matt Taibbi a mountain of evidence proves that, when it comes to Wall Street, the justice system not only fails to punish financial criminals, it has actually evolved into a highly effective mechanism for protecting them. This has absolutely nothing to do with politics or ideology and it takes place no matter which party is in power [+].
If you are a whistleblower then you can end up in jail. For example, Bradley Birkenfeld who exposed a tax evasion scheme in the United States was the only one sentenced to prison [+]. Whistleblowers also have the curious tendency to die [+]. In the Netherlands a construction fraud that may have costed the Dutch taxpayer billions of Euros came to light because the whistleblower Ad Bos provided a shadow bookkeeping system of a construction company. Ad Bos was the only person sentenced in the construction fraud case.
Supreme Court ruling
A recent Supreme Court ruling removed all restrictions on corporate spending on political elections and lobbyists [+]. This completed the coup d'etat of the oligarchs in the United States. The consequences will be significant. It is expected that the money spend on the 2012 elections campain will top $8 billion [+]. President Obama expects he needs one billion to get reelected. Favours must be returned and ultimately the public will pay the price.
In the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group, regardless of size, organized to elect political candidates or to advance the outcome of a political issue or legislation. After the court ruling allowing corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to spend as much as they want on elections, the groups have quickly evolved into de facto shadow operations of the traditional campaigns. Super PACs are funded by wealthy benefactors and a group of approximately 100 oligarchs fund 90 percent of the political campaigns in the Republican primaries [+]. Fearing that he would be outspended by the Republicans, President Obama gave his blessing to a Democratic Super PAC despite calling those outside groups a threat to democracy just a year before [+].
The ruling may have come as a surprise by those who expected the judges to defend the public interest, but in the United States Surpreme Court appointments are politically motivated. Most of the judges have been appointed by Republican presidents and therefore they tend to promote the interests of corporations as the Republicans generally do. Some Supreme Court judges appear to have breached judicial ethical practices [+].
The Netherlands
The Dutch television program RTL Nieuws revealed that misbehaving judges are often not fired. In recent years a high profile corruption case involving judges came to the surface [+]. Another disturbing case is the Joris Demmink scandal [+]. In 1998 the Dutch prosecutors in Amsterdam were working on the Rolodex Case, in which a number of high-ranking officials were suspected of being member of a gang of abusers of children. Among those people were a former minister of the cabinet, the personal counsel of Queen Beatrix and two leading criminal prosecutors. The police were already preparing to make arrests and to search houses when the operation was canceled.
The Dutch television program Netwerk obtained the telephone taps from the Rolodex Case. In these taps a high ranking official from the Ministry of Justice named Joris was ordering children for the weekend. The identity of Joris has never been officially clarified, although it is now publicly known that it is ahigh official in the Deparment of Justice in the Netherlands. In October 2003 two Dutch magazines published long and detailed stories about him abusing under-aged prostitutes in a public park in Eindhoven. Despite that he remained in office. According to Micha Kat, an activist blogger in the Netherlands, the elites of Dutch politicians and Dutch law-enforcement have been blackmailed.
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Introduction
The economic and political system in the United States are broken. The oligarchy has corrupted the government, the political system, the media and the legal system in the United States. By taxes the government extorts money from the citizens in order to make the oligarchs even richer. The top 1% owns nearly everything. The US Secret services appear to cooperate with terrorists to start wars in order to pillage natural resources in other countries while at the same time waging a War on Terror. They are also involved in drug trafficking while at the same time waging a War on Drugs. It is therefore safe to say that United States government has much in common with a criminal operation like the mafia. Because of the legitimacy of the federal government has been undermined.
Crucial to survival is self reliance, having realistic expectations and understanding that actions have consequences. Iceland was able to turnaround by doing this [+]. It is time to face the inconventient truth. Jews have played an important role in this process. Humans tend to act stupid and look for scapegoats when being confronted with the consequences of their own stupidity. It is not smart to allow Jews to occupy positions of power and influence and then blame them for abusing the trust put into them. The allegiance of many Jews is with their own tribe and not with the nation they are living in. No American in his or her right mind would allow the Chinese or the Russians to run their government.
The United States government and the affiliated institutions, such as the Wall Street banks, corporate media, think tanks and secret services have become partially criminalised. The oligarchs and the Israel lobby will try to perpetuate the situation. Despite that the government and the affiliated criminalised institutions have a serious problem. The people who they have hired are for the most part not criminals. Most of them want to serve their country. In the course of their work they have learned details that make them a potential threat to their employers at the day of reckoning.
The United States probably will be the first country to change
The usury financial system will be ended because it is less efficient than Natural Money. The end of usury and a changeover to the Natural Financial System will help to achieve the following:
- the rebuilding of the economy and the strengthening of the middle class;
- the end of the stranglehold of oligarchs, banks and governments on the country;
- a reduction of the use of natural resources and the end of the destruction of the living conditions on the planet;
- a reduction of poverty and the end of the exploitation of poor people;
- ending the worldwide wage competition of everybody against everybody;
- a reduction of migration of poor people to rich countries.
The United States government seems to be out of touch with reality and social unrest is brewing [+]. The election of President Obama in 2008, the rise of the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement are all expressions of a desire for profound change. This change probably will not come from politicians and demonstrators, but from an informed minority that knows that the current usury financial system is the core of the problem, and also knows that the current world order will collapse and that societies need to be rebuilt from the ground up [+]. The revolution probably will start by issuing local Natural Money currencies in small rural towns like Wörgl, Austria, without backing of the central government. The new currencies may have to be introduced as gift certificates to avoid legal issues [+].
The situation the United States is in has happened before and most people in the top 1% (or 10%) are not even been willing to give up a small portion of their wealth. On the contrary, they desire even more, even if it means suffering for the other 99% (or 90%). This is a forebode of a revolution [+]. As the economist John Kenneth Galbraith already noted:
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. |
Popmusic lyrics that appear to contain messages from God indicate that a change is coming [+]. The songs Democracy of Leonard Cohen [1], First we take Manhattan of Leonard Cohen [1] and Long road out of Eden of the Eagles [1] suggest that the United States will be the first country to change. Because the economy of the United States is at the verge of a debt collapse, while the political system and the legal system are corrupted, the United States is a good candidate for being the first country for such a change.
A revolution without a realistic plan is likely to have an outcome that most participants do not like to see, which can be violence or a new elite emerging that will replace the old one. A good revolutionary plan must take into account all the relevant issues at play, and it must have a realistic path towards a realistic goal:
You say you want a revolution... well, you know... we’d all love to see the plan. |
The super rich may argue that they are productive but in reality most of them are just parasites [+]. They have corrupted the political system and gamed the financial system to their advantage [+]. Many oligarchs make money without producing a good or service someone needs [+]. Others bring products and services that harm people and humanity [+]. They are not needed like their schemes to make money at the expense of others.
The song Sleepwalking of Gerry Rafferty suggests that the Natural Financial System will be implemented [3]. The Natural Economy will address social needs better while at the same time it rewards economic achievement more. In the Natural Economy there is full employment and constant economic growth without the need for government intervention [+]. Therefore the Natural Financial System will replace the current financial system because of its higher efficiency.
The need for unconventional measures
The introduction of the Natural Financial System will help to end the control of the oligarchic and Jewish interests over the United States. Their control is largely based on the usury financial system. Their power structures will crumble because they cannot adapt to the new economic model. If the United States is willing to implement the Natural Financial System, then those power structures should be eliminated on beforehand because otherwise they will use all means at their disposal to frustrate and block the change. Legal proceedings and political debate will only drag down the process. We have to face the fact that the United States is not a free market democracy but can be considered as a dictatorship of oligarchs and Jews.
The ruling oligarchy cannot be toppled using a conventional approach. Efforts to reform the financial system and criminal investigations into the acts of Wall Street banks do not make a serious dent into the existing power structures. A new President alone cannot change the system. Politicians have proven to be unable to solve the problem as most politicians are either corrupt, incompetent or both. Therefore an unconventional approach is needed that is also comprehensive.
The oligarchs have acquired their wealth because the usury financial system favoured them [+]. The Jewish and oligarchic interests corrupted the political system to tax the public for their private profits and start wars to support Israel. Therefore their wealth is unrightfully taken [+]. 43% of financial wealth is controlled by the top 1% of the country and the richest 1% of all Americans has a greater net worth than the bottom 90% combined [+].
It will therefore be a good idea to redistribute wealth more evenly, otherwise there may come a violent revolution of desparate citizens [+]. This money can be used to reduce debts and to fund social security. The super rich are not wealth creators but wealth destroying parasites. They were just lucky to have the talent and the opportunity to become rich and that their wealth undermines democratic institutions via bribery and corruption [+]. Personal debts should be reconsidered. A debt forgiveness can be helpful in getting the economy back on track [+].
National Emergency
The US President can proclaim a National Emergency [+] on the basis of the extreme economic conditions and because the national integrity and security have been compromised by corruption and treason. Democracy has already been eroded by executive orders. The emergency can then be used to restore democracy. This probably is less bloody than an outright revolution. When the National Emergency is proclaimed, a national referendum law should be enacted immediately. This law must ensure that from that point on the United States is a democratic country in which the citizens have the final say, even in a state of emergency. It will then be possible by referendum to proclaim any law or repudiate any government decision.
After proclaiming a National Emergency, the US President may take the following steps:
- Disbanding Congress and the Senate as they are corrupted traitors to the nation.
- Reorganising public finances to balance the budget.
- Annulling the police state (Homeland Security) and the Israeli control over the security apparatus in the United States.
- Removing people from government that have ties to the Jewish and oligarchic interests.
- Reorganising the Secret Services by removing traitors and people of dubious allegiance.
- Detaining all NWO related personnel (Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations, Neocon think tanks, Israel Lobby, Wall Street).
- Investigating the September 11 attacks properly [+].
- Bringing traitors, war criminals, corrupt politicians, fraudsters and financial criminals to justice.
Priority should be given to rebuilding the economy and restoring democracy. Rebalancing the wealth distribution is needed as wealth inequality undermines the economy as well as democratic institutions. It is better to bail out people instead of banks. It may seem rewarding stupidity but it is the system rewarded stupidity by allowing people to go too far into debt and therefore the system has failed. Debt forgiveness is needed. It has been practiced in the past and is also advised in The Bible [+]. Iceland fares relatively well after implementing a form of debt forgiveness [+].
It may be a good idea to write a new constitution and subject it to a referendum. Following the example of Iceland, building blocks of the new constitution can be written using crowd sourcing [+]. The wisdom of crowds often surpasses that of experts, the result of crowd sourcing may be superior to that of the work of experts. The outcome of the Icelandic process could be used to speed up the process. After the new constitution is written, and the essential reforms are implemented, new elections for Congres and Senate can take place. After that the National Emergency must be ended.
It may be necessary to temporarily exclude Jews from key positions in the government and the secret services. This is a matter of national security. Israel has taken similar measures to protect itself [+].
The Wall Street firms that own the FED should be liquidated and their assets should be confiscated. The banks have used the FED to enrich themselves at the expense of the public. Among gold bugs there is much speculation about the whereabouts of the Fort Knox gold reserve. An audit of the Fort Knox gold depository may offer proof for fraud because there may be less gold in Fort Knox than officialy stated [+]. Traders and executives from banks that have been involved in fraud or in deals that were harmful to their counterparties should be punished. Not dealing with the fraud in the banking system proliferates the moral hazard as there is an incentive to commit more crimes [+].
Since the Nuremberg trials many war criminals have been brought to justice but until now the war criminals of the ruling oligarchy have escaped trial. Just like Nazi Germany, the United States started wars on false pretexts in countries that did not pose a threat, such as Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Millions of people were killed during those wars. The war criminals should face justice [+]. As the United States war crimes have often been committed in foreign countries, bringing war criminals to The Hague may be a good solution.
This is only the beginning
There is need for a profound change around the world. The revolution started with the Arab Spring, but there is also civil unrest in Europe, Russia and China. The econonomic development of China has made the population more critical of their government and the Chinese may demand more freedoms [+]. The Chinese want more secure property rights. Recently a Chinese village ousted party officials after a property dispute [+]. But property disputes can be handled better when the citizens make the laws, which will ultimately require democracy. Also in Russia there is a growing dissent with the current political order.
Based on copying best practices from other countries, social and economic conditions can be improved [+]. The introduction of Natural Money and local currencies can help to solve many social, economic and ecological issues. It is possible to make economic development less harmful, and it may be possible to block the emergence of new elites. It is possible to have full employment, while at the same time respecting nature. The Natural Financial System will organise society so less government will be needed. The Natural Economy will make it possible to achieve a reasonable standard of living and a sustainable future.