'The goal all along has been to increase the power and authority of the EU. Various manmade facilities such as central banking and the governments of nation-states themselves were enlisted in creating first tremendous debt and now the response, which surely shall be greater centralization. The top men have actually said as much. We figure that the global elite that apparently wants to rule the world has two scenarios in mind. The first one is to keep the EU together – with a good deal of pain and chaos. The second one is to collapse the EU – with a good deal of pain and chaos. Either scenario facilitates world government. The trap is sprung. The powers-that-be, after exposing us endlessly to "Merkozy," now reveal that they have plenty of firepower and are prepared to use it. Gone is the nonsense about the new German empire and the special relationship between France and Germany. Gone is any pretense that England stands back, wishing to disengage from the EU. The old men of the City of London are entirely in charge and always have been. They are hardly hiding their intentions now. They will do whatever it takes using the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. They will print as much as necessary. We have written consistently that this "global crisis" would involve the disbursement of US$ 100 trillion before it was over. We believe we are at the US$ 50 trillion mark if you throw in the US$ 15 trillion or so in "short term" loans issued out by the Fed in 2008. Let's see how much it costs these dynastic families (if that is what they are) to unearth the European Union, which already had one foot in the grave.'

'Increasingly, with the aid of the Internet, it seems obvious to us that what passes for "global tension" is in fact an elaborate stageplay. Just look at the 20th century. The wars that convulsed the world are nearly inexplicable. There is inescapable evidence now that Wall Street funded the Soviet Union. Someday history will show that the ChiComs were similarly encouraged by the West. This latest Greater Recession is similarly plotted. It doesn't take a "conspiracy theorist" to see it. One simply has to look at what's being erected around us. The structure of global governance is almost complete. The UN, IMF, World Bank, International Criminal Court, NATO and Interpol are all part of the New World Order. Should we deny these exist? So how do you get from here to ... there? Well, you do exactly what's BEING DONE. You dump the economies of the West to level them with the rest of the starving world. You do this through a combination of malicious treaties (NAFTA, CAFTA, etc) and via the ruinous mechanism of central banking. At the same time, you bring up the economies of the BRICs and gradually shift the business of globalist corporations from West to East. This, too, is being done.'

'...these stress tests and new rules will choke off the one aspect of fiat money that actually is positive (within the larger negative context). Not only will people have to deal with the monetary inflation that has already been created, they'll have to deal with it within the parameters of a monetary drought. Having caused a rapidly developing depression, the elites behind the world's damnable central banking system are now busily engineering a situation where further capital will not be available (without punitive interest rates) to any but the biggest corporations. How clever it is, eh? If you want to set up global governance, the first thing you want to do is gain control over money and its issuance. You do this by setting up a global network of central banks. Having created central banking and the mechanism for printing-money-from nothing, you now print a great deal of it. In doing so you set off a series of great booms and busts that culminate in the greatest boom and bust of all – leading (as it did in the 1930s) to what should be labeled a depression. Now, once the depression (or "great recession) is underway, you begin to run from bank to bank like a busy bee. You are, in fact, busily engaged in creating a credit squeeze. Having bankrupted middle classes around the world, you are determined to ensure that they will not be able to get their hands on further funds!'

'Sometimes a rose is a rose and a setback is a setback. It may be what we have here. For 50 years, the elite that wants to rule the world lied and dissembled to the British people about the EU. Step by step a union was built like a gilded cage around the British Isles – and around Europe as well. It begs common sense to maintain that this was built up so painfully and with such determined malevolence with the idea of its destruction in mind. No, the preferred plan, as is obvious and evident, is to build up "unions" of countries around the world – and then to build global governance on top of it. There can be NO doubt of this. There are now "unions" – and planned currency unions – around the world. Are we to believe it is all "coincidence"? We find them in South America, Africa, Asia, even the Middle East. Lift the blanket and you will find unions scurrying about like bed bugs. It's a big project, to be sure! One of those projects that is so big it's almost impossible to wrap your mind around it. But take a step back and the parameters become achingly familiar and shockingly – brutally – simple. Build up nation-states, convert them to regions and roll them up!'

'Here is how Cameron "rules." He goes and talks to the Queen. And then the Queen calls the top powers of London's City and asks what she should do. And they tell her. And she tells Cameron. And Cameron tells other trusted individuals. And then the UK mainstream media pretends that the policies being prescribed and followed are the product of a democratic government when they are not. This is all done on a larger scale as well. All of the great banking families' enablers and associates get their marching orders from the top ... somehow. They fall in line, implementing the strategies throughout the West. The result is that somehow major governmental decisions throughout Western "democracies" end up favoring policies that inevitably extend one-world government. -- Let the system, in all its wretchedness and excess ... COLLAPSE! It is not worth saving. It is a system run by the elites and for the elites. You, dear reader, are just an afterthought. It has nothing much to do with free markets, this obscene system. It is mercantilist, administered by an unelected power elite that got its start in the City of London and has spread around the world. This is the "vampire" that is much written about. It has nothing much to do with Goldman Sachs, however. Or not at its root. It is a central banking phenomenon.'

'More rounds of ammunition were fired off in the global currency wars today, as six of the world's central banks including the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and the European Central Bank coordinate to get cheap dollars to starving European banks. Meanwhile, across the pacific, China is cutting its reserve requirements by 50 basis points for the first time in nearly 3 years, a sign that the world's second largest economy and biggest exporter is now reversing its policy of trying to curb inflation and loan growth. We are joined by James G. Rickards, author of Currency Wars to discuss these issues, as well as the growth in gold buying and gold repatriation by foreign central banks, the world over. We also speak to Jim Rickards about the role he thinks the IMF and its global SDR will play in the years to come, and if the latest bailout 600 billion euro Italian bailout rumor may be just the opportunity for the IMF to step up as a player in the global currency war.' -- One paper currency to rule them all, One paper currency to find them, One paper currency to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

'Oh, wow, a Greek unity government. Unity. A less polite term would be "communism" in our view – for we and thee, not of course for the top Greek elites. Communism. Sure. Or close to it ... The state runs most of Greece now one way or another. And a politburo runs the state. A "unity government." Hah! This is a long held dream of the elites as they struggle to move this woeful, recalcitrant world toward global governance. The idea is to do away with messy policy questions over the STRUCTURE of government. In fact, the idea is to ensure, via such unity governments, that everyone is on board with the basics. Simple really. The elites run the government and the government runs the corporations and the corporations and government jointly run everything else. Way up at the top, the REAL power resides, with a handful of elite families and associates that own the corporations and secretly control the government. The Greeks. They've been rioting for six months and what do they get? A government that will do exactly the opposite of what they want.' -- Some dare call it communism

'Parliamentary democracy is farce. That is one of many benefits provided to us by the unraveling of the EU. The elites who have created the promotional elements of regulatory democracy and parliaments did so with the idea that that this meme would be an effective replacement for the Divinity of Kings meme. Both are equally inadequate in our view. God did not choose Kings – not any more than people nowadays choose their democratic leaders. The mask has slipped a little. We see the iron fist beneath the velvet glove. The entire mechanism of elite control is on display in Greece. We've watched it unfold, as you have, dear reader. The mechanism is NOT being driven by an ideology or vision of a unified Europe. It's being driven by a merciless power elite that wants to keep Europe together as a region in order to use it and other regions to build world government. In the future the story will be told that forward-looking leaders created the European Union and then found it worked so well that they created a Union of the World. For this reason, among others, they don't want the Union to collapse. The intelligentsia has fallen away, and this too is a problem. Without an intelligentsia willingly proselytizing directed history, its imposition becomes more difficult to maintain and mold.'

'History will record that an Arab Spring swept across the Middle East and Northern Africa and turned dictatorships into Islamic democratic republics. History will also show, we tend to believe, that the West has been challenged to reshape this radical Islamic surge along more "democratic" lines. It's all a lie, of course. It's all "directed." The 20th century appears to us to be "full on" directed history and right now the same appears for the 21st. There's plenty of evidence these modern "revolutions" were spawned by the Anglo-American elites, determined to continue their advance toward one-world government. Various groups, affiliated perhaps with the CIA, were set up to promulgate "revolution." AYM is one such American/globalist movement and obviously has ties to the US state department and large US corporations. Now the "revolution" has come to America and is masquerading as Occupy Wall Street. -- In the 20th century one could foment world war. In the 21st that's a lot harder because of nuclear weapons. It's one reason the elites have turned to the amorphous, phony war on terror. But it's not enough, not at all. They need something bigger. That's what's going on in our estimation now. They're building something bigger.'

'After singing the praises of China and its vibrant "free market" for years, the Economist editors have now run smack into reality, giving rise to this squib of a story that indicates the ChiComs are hitting the proverbial brick wall when it comes to their hyperactive and impossibly stimulated economy. We're not supposed to understand this, of course. It's an elite dominant social theme, after all, that the ChiComs' murderous command-and-control economy has much to recommend it that the West's anarchic and "free" economies (sarcasm off) do not. ...there's not going to be a Chinese soft landing. The rotting, empty Chinese cities and shoddy, tipsy skyscrapers, profligate and corrupt Chinese central bank, entrepreneurial flight (see yesterday's article) and rising civil violence across the country (so bad it's not being reported formally anymore) should be red flags (no pun intended) that explain what one needs to know. The Chinese miracle is dead. It never existed anyway, anymore than the West's late-20th century consumer mania was a product of Anglo-American "genius." No, the story of modern directed history is the story of elite-controlled money stimulation and central banking largess. Control tens of trillions and you can control the world. And they have. Not just in the US but in China, too. When the bust comes – and it is coming – all three legs of the stool will have been knocked away. America, Europe AND China will be no longer capable of firing the cylinders of the modern central banking economy. The world will sink into the deepest depression it has ever known. Chaos and worse will sweep across the world. And what then? Are the elites waiting in the wings with their next fancy project? And what will it be called? World government?'

'... In fact, there is no such thing as "global justice." There is no such things as a "human rights violation." But this dominant social theme is being pounded home by the elites who seek a one-world future and need global justice to accompany it. Human rights violations are an especially egregious meme. It is part of the magic trick performed by the elites in which important personal issues are to be embraced by impersonal concepts such as "countries" and "corporations," etc. The idea is always to make the specific generic and then to provide a globalist solution applied by internationalist structures controlled by this same elite. State justice – the current public paradigm – is unfortunately inequitable in every way. The state makes the rules, passes the laws, pays for the policing to enforce the laws, the lawyers who prosecute them, the courtroom that houses the judicial process and the penitentiaries that house the unfortunate victims of this monopoly of force.'

'The central banks, especially the Fed, have never allowed big businesses to go bust. Especially, the central bankers have NEVER allowed commercial banks – their distribution arm for phony money – to fail. Go to almost any major city in the West or even in the developing world and all you will see in the downtown is banks. Banks as far as the eye can see, and their signage on all the tallest and most important buildings. Banks. Banks you never heard of. Banks. Banks are the biggest bubble of all. The Western world's financial system must be salvaged, we are regularly told. Not a single bank must be allowed to fail or all else will fall down about our collective heads. It is nothing but a dominant social theme. The system is gong to fail, most likely – and perhaps that's been the plan all along. The people running the world's central banking economy aren't stupid. They put the current system in place and they know it's unstable. Thus, they knew the day of reckoning would eventually come, and perhaps now it's here.'

'"More money printing? My masters are you mad? ... According to the BBC, the Bank of England has decided to 'inject a further £75 billion into the economy'. Who knew it was that easy? I mean, why not inject £500 billion? Or a trillion? According to the BBC's logic, it would surely make us the wealthiest nation on Earth." – Daniel Hannan, UK Telegraph' -- 'Dominant Social Theme: Let the printing presses roll. It must be done. -- Central banks are inflation MANUFACTURERS. They are money-printing factories. They are set up to produce inflation, which they do by performing their designated function, which is printing money.These paper producers fix the price of money with interest rates and money printing – and fix it downward. Over time they devalue currency and ruin the savings of the middle class. Since the Anglosphere power elites are at war with the middle class – seeing them rightfully as an impediment to world government – central banking is a great way to diminish opposition. To make people so miserable that they cannot concentrate on anything but ensuring their next meal is a recipe to implement the coming new world order. It's been going on, worldwide, for at least a century with evermore velocity and malice aforethought.'

'Pre-Internet, what's happening in the EU would have been buried under mainstream media misdirection. People might not have understood the larger forces at work. But the EU unraveling along with much else has played out under the merciless glare of the alternative press, and the European tribes are aware of the manipulations that are taking place. It is realization of these manipulations that informs ... a surprisingly good piece of reporting. It is written by Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's Economics Editor, who is broadcasting regularly from Greece, and it seems to have concentrated his mind, at least for a while, on what's actually happening. The problems are happening to people, individual people, and it is these people, ultimately, who will formulate a response, not "Greece," not politicians, not "working groups" – not even the IMF or ECB. The EU was not an accident. The "crisis" that now affects the EU was long anticipated and was intended to build a closer political union.'

'If Yemen is destabilized, Bahrain and eventually Saudi Arabia itself could become embroiled in domestic turmoil, which many observers believe could eventually end the fragile Saudi regime... A failed Saud regime would likely collapse the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. The results would make the financial turmoil from the current downgrade of US Treasuries look minor, indeed. The failure of the US dollar reserve could create a world depression of the sort that has not been seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The purposeful degradation of civilization itself is apparently the aim of the elites. The goal is world government. Out of chaos, order. With secret, illegal, unconstitutional wars like the one in Yemen, this goal is advanced. The gravity cannot be overstated. The mounting recklessness and lawlessness of these actions provide evidence that opposition to freedom and civil society – embedded in mainstream Western institutions themselves – grow ever more bold.'

'Dominant Social Theme: US politicians have got to act responsibly. Free-Market Analysis: The problem with this article is that it spins the theme that central planning works and that America's "wise leaders" need to do a better job of managing their country. Well ... they cannot. Central planning doesn't work. Regulatory democracy doesn't work. Socialism doesn't work. And fraudulent fiat- money-based monetary systems do not last. Russia and China are both members of the IMF, and as such, will likely be pushing hard for a new global reserve currency – one that will undoubtedly be managed by the IMF. This is not about America narrowly escaping a default on its debt and its politicians' weakness at addressing the debt ceiling sooner, this is about a collective attempt by Money Power to consolidate the world's monetary system under one roof and replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. This is about power consolidation and a final push towards a new world order.'

'Why does an article like this appear in the Telegraph? It is a "Tory" paper that supports the royal family and serves as a foil to papers like the leftist Guardian in the UK. The elites evidently and obviously control both papers, but the Hegelian Dialectic being employed allows an occasional yelp of truth to emerge. This is one of those cases. It is written by Janet Daley who is something of a neocon columnist; the paper's brief, which includes an ongoing campaign to extricate Britain from the EU, means that there is room for the kinds of sentiments voiced in this article. For a mainstream article, it's pretty strong, fairly surprising. Daley does not of course put what's going on in its proper context. She characterizes the EU as socialist, when the truth is more brutal... There is no "British moral view." There is only a tired, confused and harassed population, endlessly videotaped, incarcerated and taxed as they are gradually shoved toward the mind control of world government.'

'These economic crises cannot be pure happenstance. We've suggested they can spin out of control, and perhaps they will; but they are all manmade events, the direct outcome of economic constructs and policies of enormous wealth and control. Somebody set up the 100 central banks around the world that report directly to the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. These are quasi-private entities, many of them. Are we supposed to believe that no one takes a profit on them? That there is no way they compensate their creators? The money and power is unimaginable. The BIS controls the central banks that in turn control the big banks around the world. Constitutions mean nothing. Promises are made to be broken. Treaties are talk for children, merely incremental markers trailing in the wake of global governance. By their actions ye shall know them. As with sharks, their momentum must be never stilled. The shadow play continues.'

'Tribal culture is resistant to Westernization. Somalis, Pashtuns, Bedouins and Punjabis (if one includes Pakistan) are tribes with millennial cultures. Uprooting persistent cultural trends is a long-term project. First violence is applied to fracture the culture and then massive amounts of foreign aid to rebuild it. What looks like generosity is actually self-interest. The powers-that-be use aid like gesso, whiting over what once was to paint an entirely new picture. Look back in time and we think there is plenty of evidence the ongoing and expanding wars may be part of a long-term project. World War I we could speculate was designed in part to overwhelm German culture. World War II shattered Japanese culture. The Korean and Vietnamese wars did the same in Asia. Only the Middle East and Africa are left. Is it a coincidence then? Engaging with Iran and the former Persian Empire would likely bring a kind of regional World War III to fruition.'

'Gone are the days when there was a great philosophical divide between East and West, or between the West's so-called democracies and "communism." Jiabao's speech could have been given by any functionary of the (hopefully tottering) EU. Or even have been delivered by someone from the US State Department. It tends to confirm once more the idea that the powers-that-be are working hard to smooth out differences between major powers. The rhetoric, philosophical overtones and ambitions are statist, but couched in the rhetoric of the marketplace. The idea is that the state sets parameters for capitalism, which then functions within that defined space. It is a kind of soft fascism, though one is never supposed to use the word "fascism." Additionally, in practice, it is not necessarily soft at all. The state is actually in charge of almost every facet of life and corporations, also artificial, statist entities, are merely the receptacles of state power and deliver it to "consumers."'

'If the mainstream media news actually reflected the reality of world events, every news broadcast would start with an update on BIS policies and then discuss the economic moves of some of the larger central banks. ...the power elite that has quietly seeded – that's right, "planted" – these central banks around the world in the past century know quite well what they are capable of and how they operate. Every few years, central banks cause economic collapses by printing too much money. The Anglosphere elites further consolidate their power and wealth each time one of these collapses occurs under the guise of "Democracy." We are aware that Money Power is established via chaos and draws its order from a planned response to social unrest. From chaos, therefore, springs forth a "New World Order." Is this really what the elites have in mind in the short term? We entitled this article "A Planned Depression." But we will end it with an alternative title: "A Planned Revolt?"'

'...what if the "Awakening" in all of its chaos was meant to set up a more polarized Middle East that would confront Israel in an regional war? We know the elites like to follow the road map of religious texts (which predict this sort of thing) because it provides a kind of cover. (Religious texts in this regard may act as a kind of predictive programming.) A war between Israel and the "rest" of the Middle East might entail nuclear weapons and the amount of people killed would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like minor skirmishes. Yet, the drumbeat for war continues. And would the result be a resurgent Israel that won new territory through enormously superior firepower? Would such a war, then, put the West in charge of the Middle East in a way it's never been before? Would it provide the fuel for even more Draconian rights crackdowns at home? Would it somehow place the elites closer to their goal of global governance?'

'In 1971, the Anglosphere elites created the world's first fully fiat reserve currency – the US dollar – by instructing their Saudi surrogates to accept payment for oil only in dollars. Since this meant that every other country in the world had to hold dollars to purchase oil, the US could print as much money as it needed to fund whatever global adventures it wished to undertake. It used much of its windfall to further build out the military. Eventually, this money-printing capacity helped undermine – or at least provide the justification for the collapse of – the Soviet Union. Everything was going well for the elites in the late 20th century. Russia was westernizing, Israel's power was advancing and world government was gradually moving forward as well with the expansion of the West's various globalist instrumentalities. Even the dollar was holding steady. But then came the Internet. People know too much, or at least are beginning to learn. And they are angry.'

'The City of London has a big problem. Once you have fallen back on the immoveable rigor of brute force you have to make sure that people understand that you will not back down. Not now. Not ever. If people cannot be frightened into supporting one-world-government (the point of it all) by fear-based memes, then they must be panicked into supporting it via military power. They must be made to feel that they have no other choice. But what if the biggest war – the most important war of the past 100 years – is also the war that you are evidently and obviously LOSING? What then? Well, if you are the top honcho of the Pentagon or Hillary Clinton, you will do ANYTHING to make sure your pending defeat does not become common knowledge and tabloid fodder. No, you cannot admit it! No how, no way! It will lead to a chain reaction, or so you fear. If people begin to understand that the entire Western world HAS LOST ITS MOST IMPORTANT WAR TO A BUNCH OF GOAT-HERDERS AND POPPY GROWERS ... what then?'

'The elite's modern genealogy is said to include Venetian bankers who arrived in Britain and intermarried with English royalty. Today, the world's most powerful families make the City of London either their home or base of operations. Even the Queen of England bows before she enters the City of London and when she walks in ceremonial parades, her place is a few steps behind the Lord Mayor. Today, the City of London is the epicenter of central banking worldwide. It is the place from which world wars have emanated and plans for global conquest are apparently hatched there even today. The fear-based dominant social themes that the power elite uses to extract wealth and power from Western middle classes have their home in the City of London. The UN and League of Nations were given birth there. The EU was likely conceived there. Every centralizing influence in the world today of any note has its roots in the City of London or its sister-municipalities – Washington DC and the Vatican.'

'What happened in the heart of Greater London in 1694 under the direction of King William III of the House of Orange? Well, that would be when King William privatized the Bank of England, established the City of London, and turned control of England's money over to an elite group of international bankers. Like Vatican City, London City (not to be confused with Greater London) is a privately owned corporation operating under its own flag, with its own constitution and free from the legal constraints that govern the rest of us. And it was King William III in 1694 who paved the way for a private cartel of international bankers (money elite) to embark on a plan of implementing world governance, albeit secretly (that is until now, thanks to the Internet Reformation). Find out more about how the power elite has built their base of global infrastructure for controlling world economies, media, politics and religion. Watch this telling video presentation.' -- http://youtu.be/PGhl7ysL_1U

'...the Anglo-American power [elite's] fear-based promotions are not having the intended effect and thus it seeks to offer the impression that its strategies are unstoppable. But this has its drawbacks. When one wishes to impress upon the people the inevitability of one's designs, then not even one failure can be countenanced, nor one question can be raised. This is an almost impossible burden because the promotion retains no elasticity and sooner or later there shall be some sort of breach. The stance the EU is now adopting with its constant emergency agitation seems to us to be counterproductive. If the EU survives, then EU leaders look as if they were too pessimistic. If the crisis triggers a much larger one, then they run the risk of looking as if they have lost control. Why, we ask, are those running the EU program, purposefully placing themselves in this trap? Either they are panicking or they are in some sense inviting the crisis. These are risky games indeed.'

'This is an old elite problem. You can control all the money in the world but if a few hundred million—even a few million—are dead set against your solution, then it is probably a non-starter. This is one of the reasons Western elites have operated in secrecy and used fear-based promotions (dominant social themes) to put into place the building blocks for one world government. But the Internet itself has ended that secrecy. It is an era of internationalist transparency now, and the elites are stuck with it like everyone else. They grind on however. We've compared elite strategies to the walking dead in the past. No matter how exposed a dominant social theme becomes (see global warming) nothing kills it. It lurches ahead, brain dead and missing a limb or two, but it continues on. You see, elite programs involve many complex moving pieces and literally billions of people. Plans once laid are almost impossible to change. Manufactured crises give way to equally stage-managed solutions.'

'When the Anglo-American elites do something big (like destabilizing the entire Middle East with CIA-supported "youth movements") it is often necessary to follow along for a while to figure out what's really going on. [The Responsibility to Protect (R2P)] principle explains that the primary purpose of a nation-state's government is not to rule but to protect civilians. So now it comes together. The UN has established a new precedent and Middle Eastern turmoil – to a large degree engendered by Anglo-American mischief – has provided a proving ground. This sends a direct and threatening message to the leaders of other nation states throughout the world. It is a new era, perhaps. If these leaders, no matter how thuggish or freedom minded, are not inclined to agree with Western power elites on any one of a number of issues they too could find themselves first destabilized, then attacked and finally brought in manacles to the Hague. The New World Order proceeds?'

'Own much?' -- None dare call it COMMUNISM.

'We think that Western central banking policies may have deliberately introduced raging price inflation in developed and developing countries. We believe the sudden advent of food scarcity (to be followed by water scarcity) may be no accident either. All these factors are controllable via money power and we it would seem to us, arguably anyway, that this controlled – and expanding – chaos is meant to be. In America, Barack Obama has added trillions to the national debt and made George Bush's profligacy look almost modest by comparison. Again, we believe that this may be a deliberate destabilization of the nation's fiscal and monetary situation. Homeland Security's authoritarian depredations are acting as deliberate incitements as well. ...we would not put it past this shadowy cabal to purposefully begin to destabilize the euro as they have evidently destabilized the dollar. Far-fetched? Sure. But no more than many other events occurring in the world today.'

'Hosni Mubarak has resigned. The Egyptian "color" revolution (ie: a peaceable one), carried out by heroic people risking life and limb, has been apparently been a success. I only wish it were that simple. But there is ample evidence the revolution has been manipulated and that the Anglo-American elite plans to replicate the Egyptian revolution not just in the Middle East but worldwide via the use of the Internet and swelling youth demographics. The Youth Movements may offer us insights into how the elite intends to build a new world order, one regulatory democracy at a time. For the most part one may need pliable candidates in seats of power. And certainly the elite wants to be seen as participating in the transformative power of the ‘Net. It may even be that they’ve realized the inevitability of convulsive change and are trying to get out ahead of it and to control it via such artifices as AYM.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'Mercantilism, especially in its initial phases, is not very evident to the body public, and this makes it a most useful tool. The regulatory strategies that it adopts can be disguised as mechanisms implemented for general welfare. Even mercantilism's inevitable consolidations can be presented as necessary for social and industrial "efficiency." Central banking partakes of this justification as does globalized securities trading. It is this trend that is currently in play in a post-crash global economy. The unification of markets and products proceeds apace... It is the Anglo-American power elite that evidently and obviously stands behind these ever-vaster consolidations – the same players that have developed and propagated central banking. It aims ultimately at creating a single market that can trade every kind of available instrument (including derivatives and carbon credits) under the watchful eye of a single super-regulator.'

'Mercantilism, especially in its initial phases, is not very evident to the body public, and this makes it a most useful tool. The regulatory strategies that it adopts can be disguised as mechanisms implemented for general welfare. Even mercantilism's inevitable consolidations can be presented as necessary for social and industrial "efficiency." Central banking partakes of this justification as does globalized securities trading. It is this trend that is currently in play in a post-crash global economy. The unification of markets and products proceeds apace... It is the Anglo-American power elite that evidently and obviously stands behind these ever-vaster consolidations – the same players that have developed and propagated central banking. It aims ultimately at creating a single market that can trade every kind of available instrument (including derivatives and carbon credits) under the watchful eye of a single super-regulator.'

'Dominant Social Theme: Beware of militant Islam. We fight against it to exhaustion and offer global governance in its place. – Contemplate the larger pattern. The Anglosphere has built up militant Islam piece by piece throughout the 20th and 21st century. Israel is as much of creation of the Anglosphere as militant Islam. ...the process of Islamic radicalization is neither surprising nor unexpected. It is part of a larger design that seems to be intended to pit the Western world against radicalized Islam. Even the purposeful introduction of Muslims into Europe and America has perhaps been calculated to inflate Western sentiment against Islam... the goal of the Anglosphere is world government, the idea of creating an ever-more troubled Middle East ...globalism can then be offered, inevitably, as a solution to nationalism and religious animosity, perhaps after a long, (but somehow non-escalating) military conflict. None of this is preordained, however. The Internet has revealed much...'

'...the Chinese government has "liberalized" – allowed the average Chinese to earn a living and even to become rich so long as these activities do not threaten government power. Chinese do not own their real estate but lease it from the government. And the government censors at will, using a gigantic force of employees to monitor the Internet for anti-government sentiments. ...the Chinese government controls most if not all of the larger country's larger financial and industrial institutions, often behind the scenes. The real free-market is to be found much farther down on the street for the most part where Chinese entrepreneurs compete against each other within a retail context. The ChiComs therefore retain control of the means of production, including the Chinese central bank. Only within carefully monitored parameters, is the Chinese economy a competitive one. This is actually similar in many ways to the growing EU superstate and to the way America is evolving as well...'

'It is part of a larger dialectic, and one we have mentioned many times before. In Afghanistan a war is being fought to initiate Western-style governance in that region of the world. But elsewhere in this region, the West is supporting various sociopolitical movements in countries that have already been subjected to Westernizing influences. The idea is to create a spectrum, apparently, of Western governments that may range the gamut from Islamic radicalism (Iran) to secular Islamic democracy (the Emirates and Qatar) – with or without sharia law. Ultimately, the Anglosphere seeks world governance and the boiling political cauldron that this area of the world is becoming must somehow further this goal. By continually agitating and Westernizing or Islamifying the countries of Africa and the Middle East, the power elite is in the process of creating a larger war on terror. It allows for continual warfare—or at least political tension—in the area and facilitates authoritarianism at home.'

'Dominant Social Theme: The Jasmine revolution spread unexpectedly. -- Could it be that the power elite itself is inciting these disturbances? Is the idea, eventually, to crash the dollar and set up a global currency in its place? We have already hypothesized that these manipulated revolutions (if they are fully realized) will give rise to Islamic states. Now we will further explore the idea that the West is hoping to install a variety of "democratic" regimes – many of them perhaps "national unity governments," with Islamic overtones. These overthrows might accomplish numerous purposes, including the furtherance of elite globalism. The power elite has always had an affection for national unity governments ... The idea is that by reasoning together, opponents can build better and more efficient governments – that do more things for more people. All these revolutions coming at once are almost too good to be true. And perhaps they are.'

'While Super Stagflation will no doubt afflict the West's and the world's economies, whether the elite can transform crisis into "opportunity" and then into a global currency is questionable indeed. Suggestions from elite spokespeople are already being circulated by the mainstream media. The IMF floats the idea of a bancor; Alan Greenspan speaks of a gold standard. But the truth-telling of the Internet may already have rendered such suggestions moot. It is perfectly possible that people will be resistant to elite suggestions this time around. It is possible that a second Bretton Woods is simply not going to be acceptable to a mass of people radicalized by austerity and educated about money by the Internet. ...it could be – as we have suggested – that the system itself simply breaks down and gold and silver begin to be used spontaneously. The world, or at least the West, begins to function with private money and free-banking. The precedents are there.'

'A new feudalism is being born. It is a quite deliberate effort of the power elite in our view, but people don't notice it – or haven't verbalized it – because it is difficult to analyze something when one is in the middle of it. But the feudal evolution is surely occurring. There is a sense of entitlement, even arrogance, among TSA employees, or so it seems; and this is evidently and obviously shared by other government workers in the US, including law enforcement officials. There are endless reports in mainstream media of inappropriate use of tazers, and of outright shootings; the drug-war has been especially corrosive to American civil rights, encouraging government "takings" of private property without due process. Government service is increasingly glorified, if not rhetorically than through compensation. The average government worker apparently makes up to 50 percent more than the average individual in the private sector. Gradually a two-tier society is created.'

'It sounds bizarre doesn't it, dear reader? The idea that a small group of elite families with a power-base in London's City has managed to accumulate all the wealth in the world and – like the hydra-headed leader of million-man orchestra – played the tune to which the world has danced for at least 100 years. And yet ... gaze at the 20th century without flinching (if that is possible) and take calm stock of history as it is commonly recited. Central banking – price fixing of the price and amount of money – spread throughout the world despite the ruin it inevitably causes. Two world wars were fought, neither one with very clear antecedents. One great depression engulfed the world, again without a very clear causation. Somehow the world drifted away from honest money – gold and silver – which people had depended upon for millennia. New ‘isms" sprang up, seemingly out of nowhere – Communism, Nazism, Socialism – and somehow, somewhere, found fertile soil and were adopted by governments.'

'Colonialism is alive and well. The World Bank is to encourage carbon trading in developing countries. Too bad. This will make it even harder for developing nations to grow up; and the ramifications are simple. It means more sickness, more starvation, more deprivation. The Anglo-American power elite has learned through harsh experience that slavery does not pay in the modern era – or not open slavery anyway. Thus carbon trading (to alleviate non-existent global warming) is used to cement yet more intergenerational servitude. Africa is not to escape Western-induced poverty any time soon. What do we have against carbon markets? The same thing you should have, dear reader. They are nothing more than an elaborate plot to increase the Anglosphere's ability to suck funds from the world's staggering middle class and poor while increasing control over energy usage. ...slavery-by-another-name. What is being prepared for Western societies is a special kind of hell.'

'A slowing economy in a country that has just recently experienced prosperity after many years of great hardship is going to cause unrest in our view. The country already seems to be experiencing a continual low-level civil insurrection; and a serious economic slowdown will make it much worse. How does all this play out internationally? Some have suggested that domestic disturbances would make China more aggressively militarily. We wonder if it would not quickly push China in a more authoritarian direction, once again. But we wonder as well if China's eventual problems won't engender further global centralization. ...Foundation X indicates that it has the funds to recreate Bretton Woods, but on an international scale, including one common currency. People faced with "the end of the world" as they know it from the Americas, to Europe, to Asia are immediately enthusiastic. Would it then take one man, a leader—the face of Foundation X, shall we say—to inspire trust and "close the deal?"'

'It is true, as we have maintained in the past, that the dollar will be hard to dislodge as the world's reserve currency so long as the Middle East continues to demand dollars for oil – and as the US is the world's leading military power, with a predominant strategic base in the Middle East, it is hard to see how that state of affairs will be upended. And yet ... as we have asked recently, what if the Anglosphere itself wants to dislodge the dollar? What if it does have strong relationships with China (and Russia) – and much of the apparent tension is so much shadow play? We asked these questions after the failure of the US to impose its will on the G20 regarding the dollar-yuan relationship. ...we will even make the argument (in support of this article's hypothesis) that the various yuan swaps are designed not only to destabilize the dollar (thus creating a demand for a new currency like the IMF's hypothetical bancor) but are providing building blocks as well.'

'Does the Western power elite actually intend to aggravate the current crisis? Is it ready for the troubles that will certainly arise from such a development? Does it have agreements in place with China for a deepening New World Order? ...we will end this article by concluding as we have before that we see significant cracks in the elite's ability to operate efficiently. We think it perfectly feasible that the Internet's truth-telling has caused Western elites to speed up whatever plans were laid in advance, but that this has not necessarily guaranteed success. On every front, we see trouble for Western elites, anyway. Scarcity memes are not believed anymore, financial systems are failing, central banks are held in increasing disrepute and even NATO's serial wars are misfiring. It could be, therefore, that the hegemony of King Dollar is maintained for a longer rather than shorter time as reality forces Western elites to take a step back even though their preference is to move forward.'

'The G20 seems to be confirming our perspective that a formal, international realignment of control giving rise to additional institutions controlled by the Western elite is not going to happen easily or quickly, if at all. We return to a previous question, then: How does one build an "new world order" without fully dominating the world? And if one is willing to give up control for this goal, then the power-sharing itself invalidates the result. Either someone "rules the world" ... or not. A consortium would seem to be a contradiction-in-terms. There are perhaps potential solutions: a new world war, a massive false flag event that would jolt the world into a new crisis mode and demand solutions that only the Western elite is in the position to provide. And yet even these seem to us not to address the fundamental problem of Western weakness in the face of a new century and a new communications technology that is undermining the secrecy of money power.'

'...neither the Tories nor Labour can afford politically simply to come out and say that the Anglo-American power elite, a handful of extraordinarily wealthy and dominant families and banking groups (among others), has decided to trade Britain in for Europe. But it has. The Brussels' based EU judiciary now has the power to try British citizens in abstentia and apparently to arrest them at will. Of course, through it all, the British political classes continue to make the right sounds about sovereignty... They've been making the same noises for 50 years, however, and one would think the British might start to see through it. The power of the Anglo-American elite remains pernicious when it comes to mainstream politics. There is only one true policy, which is increasing amounts of authoritarianism and globalization. In both Britain and America, the Left consolidates and nationalizes the economy while the Right pursues increasingly authoritarian policies at home and serial wars abroad.'

'The Anglo-American elite is a formidable and persistent foe of freedom. We have read recently that their agenda is "communism." But if there was any "ism" that might describe the leanings of the elite it is probably "feudalism," in which those who are left on the planet after the elite has fully realized its world-spanning ambition will cluster around the mile-long mansions of their masters much as serfs once clung to the castles they served. Of course such a vision is lunacy. But this is the group that is trying to tax human exhalations. There is nothing one cannot conceivably put past them. Over the next few months, there will, in fact, be several global warming conferences taking place under the aegis of the UN to establish some sort of UN-led carbon tax, worldwide. If the elite has its way, this tiny tax (to begin with) will blossom into world government just as the EU grew out of a tiny trade treaty.'

'Once one accepts that the EU is an Anglo-American invention, everything else falls into place. Brussels itself is a kind of British protectorate and there is simply no way that British financial and military power would siphoned off by Brussels if the British and Americans were not firmly in charge. The Anglo-American elite is merely trading up in terms of its effective, informal control – from two countries (US and Britain) to an empire that extends across the Western world. Of course, the corollary to this is that the power grab is taking place against a backdrop of a severe financial crisis (expected) and the truth-telling of the Internet (not expected). The EU is a classic power elite, fear-based promotion; it also provides investors and interested onlookers with the kind of classic "Internet vs. elite" paradigm that the Bell suggests is shaping the 21st century from an economic and sociopolitical perspective.'

'The world moves slowly and is a complex place. But as we've seen over the past year, the Anglo-American elite seems to have shed any inhibitions about moving slowly or deliberately toward global governance goals. It is in a race of some sort, though who or what it is running from or towards is not clear. But in picking up the pace in a kind of mad dash toward some unseen finish line, it is abandoning at least a century of deliberate, promotional construction designed to bring Western citizens in line with its goals without demure. We've written we have no explanation. Let's say for argument's sake there are 6,000 in the ranks of the Anglo American familial elite. That still leaves six billion people that one needs to "bring along" presumably. But convincing people seems about the last thing on the mind of elite these days so far as we can tell. In aggregate, it gallops madly forward, careening out of control, oblivious to obstacles, increasingly leaving a trail of ruin behind.'

'The elite conspiracy, bluntly, so far as we can tell, is focused on creating world government. The West's sociopolitical system itself is pointed in that direction. Like an onrushing locomotive, it churns down the tracks while the mainstream media reports on the activities of those on board. The actions of these passengers, VIP or not, have little or nothing to do with the larger direction and momentum of the train. It is headed to its destination regardless. But the coverage of those on board surely provides a pleasant diversion. Reporting the arguments of EU leaders may provide a human face. But it likely does nothing to ameliorate the underlying stresses. Elite promotions can fail when they are discovered or debunked. In this case, the promotion seems simply to be outrunning reality. An unraveling of the EU, or even a shrinking, would be a heavy blow to elite ambitions. Having come so far, we would argue it will do almost anything to hold the current union together.'

'Dominant Social Theme: Hm-mm, we must try harder. ...the EU austerity program is a recipe for degrading infrastructure and essential services. Since austerity does not encourage (to the best of our knowledge) the entrance of private-sector competition, the end result will be a further impoverishment of these societies. It is in fact a kind of de-facto de-industrialization of the European South. Raising taxes just makes it worse. Will judicious civil disobedience and the specter of mass civil unrest (of the non-violent kind) destabilize the massive fraud that is the EU? The EU is an excrescence of the power elite, built by subterfuge with the intention of providing further support for world government. The elite and its enablers use fear-based promotional propaganda to frighten people into giving up the little they have. It then provides authoritarian receptacles to gather up what has been shaken free.'

'The Western mainstream press does not often delve into the Sunni/Shia split because such details would tend to undermine the larger dominant social theme which is that "Islam is the enemy." A monolithic Islam is a benefit to the West's power elite, which seeks to consolidate wealth and authority in Europe, Britain and America by cultivating an outside threat. -- It is certainly counter-intuitive to argue that the Iraq war ends up being waged to provide Iran with more influence in the region, and certainly we do believe in its arrogance that the elite intended to win the Iraq and Afghanistan wars outright (and has not yet fully given up on either objective). But perhaps the elite may have to settle for a fallback, which includes military occupation of certain bases, proxy politics and increased geopolitical tensions. Sounds strange? As dedicated power-elite meme watchers, we consider almost anything within the realm of possibility these days.'

Golly! Even BBC Radio 4 understands the conspiracy.

'...a dominant social theme along these lines: "Europe is moving in and the French are taking over." It is a meme, a dominant social theme that the EU is anything other than an Anglo-American creation. The Americans and British bestride the world stage and even now, with all the financial miscalculations and promotional reversals, the Anglo-American axis retains its grip on Western power (an increasingly desperate one to be sure). The (promoted) perception that the French and Germans run the show in Europe is about as credible from our point of view as the conclusion that British can do nothing about the creeping authoritarianism of the EU and its impact on Britain. The idea that the Red Shield cannot guard the British City from a French and German legal and regulatory onslaught is absolutely risible. ...the EU is merely a suburb of the Anglo-American ambition to divide the world into "regions" that can be consolidated under Western authority into a one-world government.'

'...the rush toward world governance, or a variant of it anyway, may be significantly impeded by lack of military consolidation in Afghanistan and increasingly in Iraq. The wild card of course, is Iran and a potential war between Persia and the West. There is also the likelihood of increased Shia-Sunni violence, especially if Shia Iran continues its aggressive support of Shia minorities throughout the region. This support is apparently destabilizing Iraq once again. In such a volatile region, it is difficult to see the West imposing its will via a series of local conflicts. What may be called for is an all-engrossing military campaign, a kind of World War III prosecuted against both Shia and Sunnis. But we tend to doubt that there is much support for such a war, even were it feasible in today's nuclear environment. The Afghan war may wind down inconclusively. The Pashtuns, then, will have retained some control over their own destiny. The Western power-elite gambit may be set back.'

'Dominant Social Theme: Thanks goodness the EU continues to acquire necessary powers. The EU is an elite, fear-based promotion. A dominant social theme. "If we do not have the size and strength to confront China and the US, we will fall behind. We need a single currency and eventually a single state." But nations do not compete with each other based on size. Nations do not compete at all. People engage in trades and trading with each other as necessary, fulfilling the larger needs of the market and the Invisible Hand. In the future, the EU's inevitable rise and gathering of evermore power will be explained as a natural function of the necessity of bigness in the "modern" world. It is no such thing. It is evidently and obviously an Anglo-American power grab. The aim is world government. hose involved in themes and the push for a "one world order" are so committed to it that they see no way out at this point.'

''...here is the reality: Unlike those of the [2+2=5], with their fashionably cynical analysis of the war, we have stated forthrightly that this is the most important war the Western power elite has fought since World War II. And the West is losing. The modern conspiracy from our point of view is aimed at global consolidation – world government in other words. First, the West entered the "colonial" period in which tribal entities around the world were gathered into nation states. Now the nation states are to be converted into one grand regulatory democracy. There are only a few tribes left to gather into a nation-state – chief among them the Pashtuns. Tribal cultures cannot be allowed to stand if the West is to enter the brave new world of elite choosing. This is why the Afghan war, waged on arid, mountainous soil, is so important. It is evidently part of a longer war that the Anglo-American elite seeks with Islam. But THIS war was supposed to be won.'

'Dominant Social Theme: The lunatics need to be reined in. -- ...such an article is of obvious interest to the Daily Bell because it counteracts (with the calm voice of reason) suspicions that the powers-that-be are in any sense aimed at US citizens themselves. Here are the top ten list of conspiracy theories from AlterNet and our comments beneath. ... -- There is ample evidence in our view (on the Internet) that the powers-that-be seek continued global convergence and control. Most conspiracy theories in fact deal with ways that the elite plans to create and increase this control. The Daily Bell itself is an outgrowth of this phenomenon, pointing out on a regular basis how elite fear-based promotions are initiated and configured to permeate Western culture. Each of these promotions has its goal, in our opinion, (cumulatively, anyway) the formation and expansion of world government. The pattern is not hard to detect, we believe. One does not have to be "paranoid" to do so.'

'There's a kind of dominant social theme, here: "Africa is a competent and growing continent; soon she will take her place on the world stage." Did you even know there was an African Union, dear reader? Did you know that AU has set up an African central bank? Did you know there are plans for an African currency called, unsurprisingly, the afro? Our question, of course, is where do all these ideas come from? Who's organizing it? We know there are plenty of people, even regular and irregular Daily Bell viewers and feedbackers, who simply don't buy-off on the idea of elite-organized promotions. What we see as organized interference others may simply see as the centralizing instincts of the human species. But in both articles, today, (admittedly not "mainstream" Western ones) we've tried show that there is likely some animating entity that is driving the world toward global governance – with all that implies for citizens and investors alike. The Internet helps connect the dots.'

'It is this last sentence that caught our attention: "It would also be a disaster for NATO in what in many ways is its first attempt at being a global security organization." You see? The Afghanistan war as currently constructed was never about facile objectives such as plundering oil or staking out claims for "vast" resources. The Afghan war was about centralization of Western power and the pursuit of globalization via new military methodologies. The proto-appendages of a global infrastructure-in-waiting are increasingly evident, of course. The UN is the main legislative body; the IMF is the Treasury; the BIS is, perhaps, the central bank and NATO is the army. Ironically, these elements are increasingly clarified by the waning of elite power. What a difference a few years makes. The combination of a fiat-money collapse in the West combined with the ascension of the Internet, a truth-telling device of considerable power, has ravaged elite memes.'

'This conforms to our perspective that politics are also an elite dominant social theme designed to give citizens an illusion of control over a system that is not being run on their behalf. It is only when people better understand their own victimization that real change (as opposed to faux political change) will begin to occur. We will continue to argue that such change is underway, in large part thanks to the Internet, and that it likely cannot be halted at this point – though the elite manifestly will do everything in its power to derail it. -- Governments are not businesses and in the era of the Internet it is increasingly difficult to pretend they are. Austerity currently is being justified by the bogeyman of "deflation" but in fact the entire process in our view is another – subtle – fear-based promotion. This is an important observation to internalize in our opinion ... adoption of the austerity meme – among other themes – only presages a further evolution of federal control.'

'Dominant Social Theme: Just a glitch on the way to world currency. MarketWatch: "Middle East ministers' minds have recently been concentrated on the strains besetting the euro, underlining what can go wrong when economic disparities increase across a fixed rate system – and the limits on political solidarity. In the case of Europe, even democratically-elected leaders of states that have been economically and politically bound together since the 1950s have been having second thoughts on whether they really have the cohesion to weather the pressures of monetary union. How much greater must be the doubts and soul-searching among non-elected rulers of Arab states still bound together more by traditional tribal and family loyalties than any overriding political ties." We believe that the 21st century is becoming a good deal less hospitable to the dominant social themes of the elite than the 20th century.'

'What was the result of spending hundreds of millions of lives throughout the 20th Century to fight communism? Let's look at the 10 major demands in the Communist Manifesto: #1. Abolition of Property in Land and Application of all Rents of Land to Public Purpose #2. A Heavy Progressive or Graduated Income Tax #3. Abolition of All Rights of Inheritance #4. Confiscation of the Property of All Emigrants and Rebels #5. Centralization of Credit in the Hands of the State, by Means of a National Bank with State Capital and an Exclusive Monopoly #6. Centralization of the Means of Communication and Transport in the Hands of the State #7. Extension of Factories and Instruments of Production Owned by the State, the Bringing Into Cultivation of Waste Lands, and the Improvement of the Soil Generally in Accordance with a Common Plan #8. Equal Liability of All to Labor #9. Combination of Agriculture with Manufacturing Industries #10. Free Education for All Children in Public Schools' -- Checkmate

'Halligan is puzzled about why the EU wishes to impose an international bank tax – ("the EU-elite think they can instead placate the public, and win popularity, by throwing voters a bone in the form of a bank tax") – but we are not sure about that. Over and over the powers-that-be are pushing for taxing authority to be developed by any means possible. This emphasis does not seem odd if one considers the mechanisms that the power-elite has put in place and is now trying to activate. There is the IMF – the monetary arm of global governance and the UN – a government in waiting. What else is necessary is a global tax structure. (Taxes being necessary to pay the interest on the kind of fiat money that the elite has in mind issuing, ultimately.) -- The elite does not have a monopoly over communication anymore thanks to the Internet and it is our suspicion that once a serious opposition gets underway, it will not simply mimic the left-right lines of the past.'

'...to try to force the issue now of a truly global currency would be audacious in the extreme. Citizens of the Anglo-American axis are up in arms over the poor economy and Europe is smoldering as well. Never has a sociopolitical awakening swept the West as it has now – courtesy of the Internet and its continual truth-telling. There is more and more anger over central banking, the West's serial wars, the over-taxation and the general dysfunction of regulatory democracy. Does what we have proposed skirt the fringes of reality? If the powers-that-be were ready to tolerate a protracted series of sovereign crises in Europe alongside perhaps some unsettling wars, it might be possible to traumatize citizens of the West enough to make them amenable to global solution. All this is no doubt far fetched. But the Panic of 1907 and the subsequent erection of the Federal Reserve provides us with a template for the same sort of manipulation on a bigger scale...'

'And now ... "austerity." The masses of Europe, having been promised a brighter and more prosperous future under the benevolent regime of the EU are faced with years, perhaps decades, of what amounts to institutionalized poverty in which all the bright promises of security, early retirements and lazy living will be stripped away. Only the wretched, mercantilist banks of Europe and America will win, if it come to this. And it was all so unnecessary – as are so many of the results of the crazed power elite agenda. Unleash the hounds of havoc; let chaos rein; do anything and everything to befuddle, bemuse and eventually bankrupt the masses in pursuit of some loony vision of global governance. Those who engineered the EU knew quite well, almost from the beginning, what they wrought. It is as dispiriting as it is predictable.'

'In the course of life it is important to avoid letting people get levers on you. The cons learn their victim’s likes and dislikes and personal history, so that they will be able to forge a more “authentic” bond with the victim. Inmates often work in large cabals, colluding in their informational exchange. One other tactic they use is to compliment the guard. Compliments are actually a devastating manipulative tool, because they enhance the ego of the complimented. Because the ego is false, and impermanent, the complimented becomes less grounded in reality... By asking the guard for help, they improve the bond (after all, to help someone is to be of higher status than them – and this nurtures the illusion of the guard that *they* are the ones in charge...) In prison as in real life, if someone doesn’t actively speak up and say something, silence is taken as assent. When human beings touch each other, if the touch is not aggressive, oxytocin is often released, causing a bond to form.'

'...the Internet is filled by now with millions of articles about the power elite and its yen for global government. Thousands of articles shout that the power elite tends to manufacture political and economic crises in order to pursue their insane vision of further globalization and centralization. So what does the power elite do? It manufactures a crisis in Europe and then begins a campaign for further globalization and centralization based on the European dysfunction that it has generated! Is this brilliant or what? With tens of millions watching and reading on the Internet, the elite's EU political go-fers jump right in with both feet anyway and do exactly what people have been predicting they'll do. After floating a couple of articles in their bought-and-paid-for-press, the elite has hastily and desperately pulled the trigger on an upgrade of the EU "happy family" promotion. Now it turns out that the EU needs psychoanalysis, a firm parent and closer, sterner, families ties.'

'The EU reminds us of a former alcoholic that doesn't take a drink for 20 years and then suddenly and deliberately goes on a huge bender. The EU and its leaders are borrowing huge amounts of money, leverage more – and what they cannot borrow or beg they are simply going to print from nothing. -- So much angst! So many problems! When history is written a long time from now (if anyone bothers) the whole of the past two centuries at least will be seen as one long quest by certain powerful people to centralize the Western world's power and wealth in their hands. To this end, they fomented unthinkable wars, created vast global, promotional networks that combined regulatory, media and academic elements and generally kept a steady stream of fear-based dominant social themes aimed at the larger populace. All that may be changing now, as we regularly note.'

'In the past, when changes were imposed on populations, they would take to the streets, protest and even riot. The main reason for this clash was due to the fact that the change was clearly announced by the rulers and understood by the population. It was sudden and its effects could clearly be analyzed and evaluated. Today, when the elite needs a part of its agenda to be accepted by the public, it is done through desensitization. The agenda, which might go against the public best interests, is slowly, gradually and repetitively introduced to the world through movies (by involving it within the plot), music videos (who make it cool and sexy) or the news (who present it as a solution to today’s problems). After several years of exposing the masses to a particular agenda, the elite openly presents the concept the world and, due to mental programming, it is greeted with general indifference and is passively accepted. This technique originates from psychotherapy.'

'The elite's mad rush toward a few currencies or a single currency continues apace – whether or not current EU agreements legally permit it or not. For all those who back the increasingly authoritarian European Union, no government is ever enough, no centralization is ever sufficient. The ties between what were separate countries for centuries must be tightened until they positively creak with tension. And tension is what they will get... The EU's bureaucratic corruption and overlays of draconian regulation are gradually bringing Europe to its knees. The end result of the EU will be in large part a group of pan-European state-sponsored corporations – banks, airlines, car companies, energy companies, etc. Everyone else in the EU – those "proles" that are not privileged to work for these massive entities – will have a hard time surviving and will basically eke out a living. A Westernized version of the horrid South American economic model.'

'It all sounds so official, so complex and so ... necessary. But what is the reality? The reality is that what is being contemplated is printing money out of thin air to pay for Greek government profligacy. The Greeks have promised themselves many wonderful things that they now cannot pay for. And the EU is going to step in and buy Greek bonds with electronic money that has no intrinsic value. The EU, in our opinion, encouraged the socialist profligacy that has led to current account deficits. The leaders of the EU knew that the stability of the currency would inevitably create a temptation to leverage additional government spending, especially for Southern EU countries. This was supposed to create a crisis to lead to a more political union. But now the crisis has seemingly backfired. The patchwork currency-quilt is starting to unravel and the warm fuzzy feelings associated with being in bed with the EU along with it.'

'The Bell suggests that investors focus on the most fundamental issue of the 21st century when trying to analyze what's going on in the world from an opportunity standpoint. From our point of view this fundamental issue is the collision between the Internet and the power elite's dominant social themes. These fear-based promotions seek to frighten people into offering up power and wealth to conveniently created "globalist" authoritarian solutions. The United Nations is one such, and the IMF another. A third is very obviously the European Union. -- ...something has changed here in Europe. Another power elite meme has come acropper. We are, of course, aware of the doom and gloom surrounding the EU project from a libertarian standpoint and the union's purported inevitability. But given what's just happened with Germany, we wonder if the future of the EU is quite as bright as it's made out to be by those paid and unpaid cheerleaders in the mainstream media.'

'The myth of the zero-sum exchange continues and politicians and social agitators capitalize on it all the time. ...what we have here is the slow but fundamental transformation of a commercial system into a socialist one where profit is demeaned, treated as something evil, and where people must become servants to each other and may not earn a profit from the work they do for others. This isn't supposed to be something to be expected in an emergency—say when there's a flood or earthquake—but the way businesses are supposed to carry on routinely. We have here the basic idea that men and women aren't supposed to embark upon good deals through which they can prosper in their lives. No, they are supposed to be part of a huge organism in which everything is shared and no one is ever to be compensated for the work done for someone else. As if everyone were part of a bee hive. That's the central idea behind corporate social responsibility once clearly understood, as well as behind socialism.'

'Socialism was never meant to be a system to 'help the people'. It is, from its inception, a system of mass management of populations, on behalf of a self-appointed governing class. -- The Fabian method [is used to take over] affluent nations with a tradition of personal independence and wealth. These nations would not accept Leninist revolution, so they would have to be brought down through a different method: institutional stealth and gradualism. Incremental change, on a step-by-step basis. As Fabian socialist HG Wells said, through incrementalism, you could slowly transform a free-market society into a communist one, during the span of decades, and in the end people would still call it free-market, or 'capitalist' -- even though it would be a regimented system, entirely controlled by the state corporate intelligentsia. This, of course, is the slow transformation system under which we have been living for decades now, in the Americas and Europe.'

'Socialism was never meant to be a system to 'help the people'. It is, from its inception, a system of mass management of populations, on behalf of a self-appointed governing class. -- The Fabian method [is used to take over] affluent nations with a tradition of personal independence and wealth. These nations would not accept Leninist revolution, so they would have to be brought down through a different method: institutional stealth and gradualism. Incremental change, on a step-by-step basis. As Fabian socialist HG Wells said, through incrementalism, you could slowly transform a free-market society into a communist one, during the span of decades, and in the end people would still call it free-market, or 'capitalist' -- even though it would be a regimented system, entirely controlled by the state corporate intelligentsia. This, of course, is the slow transformation system under which we have been living for decades now, in the Americas and Europe.' -- http://youtu.be/dZAgrwtz1ms

'When one looks back at the decline and fall of the Anglo-American axis, one may be struck not by how precipitous it was, though it happened quickly, but by its apparent deliberateness. We would argue that there is a power elite both in the US and Europe that in fact may be seeking to undermine foundational elements of civil society in order to further merge nation-states in pursuit of world government. -- The next decade should be an especially important and interesting one. The two driving forces of the modern West, in our view, are elite programs to further centralize Western governance and the Internet, which provides a platform for those that support a decentralization of power... No one can say for sure how this titanic battle will turn out. But it has surely been joined, and never in recent history have the dividing lines been so obvious... Investors – and Western citizens in general – ignore the reality of this massive, and partially subterranean conflict at their own peril.'

'The undoing of the EU would also have large impacts on other currency unions and, in fact, would cause people to question the dominant social theme of the past half century which has been "globalization" – the harmonization of rules, regulations and "free trade" agreements throughout the world. The stakes are high. What is at risk is the believability of the globalization meme, on which the power elite has staked so much. More than almost any other promotion, the inevitability of "globalization" is necessary if the elite is to continue to combine countries into currency regions and tear down barriers between nation states. Thanks to the economic crisis and the education about monetary issues provided by the Internet, the grand EU experiment seems as likely to founder as prosper. Sometimes empires decline without sound and fury, without thunderous crashes and great declamations. Perhaps, people simply [grow] weary of the taxes and endless, manipulative warring.'

'The crisis has been educational in so many ways. It has teased out the real power-positions of many European players. It has shown that France has a strong though not overwhelming voice in the EU experiment. Brussels has power, but not it seems the final word. Germany is a key player, yet its own citizens are ambivalent about its newfound kingdom. The EU-zone has been good to Germany, increasing the markets for its efficient industries and small- to medium-sized companies. But Germany dithers about Greece nonetheless, as it should. The German leadership may be ambitious for pan-socialism, but the German industrial sector obviously is not so hot on that failing ideology. ...the EU is a profoundly anti-democratic invention, the founding principles of which advocate that basic human rights are the bailiwick of the state—to be given and taken away at will. How anyone can support a system that advocates that basics of human survival can be disposed of this way is beyond us.'