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Deconstructing The Power of the Global Elite: Brute Force, The Power to Hurt, and Psychological Control
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Judith H. Young
Global Research
October 9, 2008
In the aftermath of Congressional approval of bailout legislation granting sweeping powers to the financial elite, the body politic appears to be helplessly mired in the relentless unfolding of classical fascism before its very eyes.
Coming to terms with this terrifying predicament can benefit from a primer that renders naked the forms of raw power used by the global elite in advancing its agenda for full spectrum dominance. This will enable us to determine if we are in fact helpless and to use care and deliberation in finding the means to take our power back.
In his seminal book Arms and Influence, Thomas C. Schelling addresses the comparative efficacy of brute force and the power to hurt in influencing or controlling others.1 A classic example is the application of American power to achieve the unconditional surrender of Japan in World War II: continuing to use brute force to overcome Japanese military forces and occupy Japan (as the Allied Forces had done in Germany) was deemed far more cumbersome than terrorizing the Japanese through the use of atomic bombs against two civilian targets. This use of the power to hurt, with the implicit threat of its further use on a wider basis, got virtually immediate results.
The application of these two sources of power by the power elite is not hard to find. With respect to brute force, it is no secret that the US military has been training and arming state and local law enforcement across the country, including supplying some of the same weaponry used in a war zone against an external opponent. Even more alarming, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team Unit, fresh from action in Iraq and having access to both lethal and non-lethal weapons, including tanks, has recently been assigned to a 12 month tour of duty for domestic security operations.2
Regarding the power to hurt, as the populace witnesses the official acceptance of torture, as well as the increasing brutalization of ordinary citizens (e.g., the use of taser guns to inflict massive electrical shock and even death), it inevitably adopts a mode of self-protective retrenchment or "self-censoring."
In a pervasive climate of fear, protest and dissidence become less and less likely, and the march to a full-blown police state is thereby facilitated. Among the most blatant applications of the power to hurt, used as a form of terrorist manipulation, have been the elite’s obscene threats of a massive depression and nationwide martial law in the service of its bailout legislation.
But in addition to brute force and the power to hurt, the elite uses another form of power that is chilling in its efficacy: sophisticated techniques for controlling information and, more generally, for controlling the perceptions and behavior of the populace through mental and emotional manipulation of the very reality it experiences.
Elite control of the media extends beyond manipulating the news that the public receives to molding public opinion and behavior by means of media advertising and entertainment. Examples range from sponsorship of the TV show 24, which attempts to legitimize "enhanced interrogation techniques" (the sanitized phrase for torture), to manipulative TV commercials showing stars cheerfully accepting personal identification technology that smacks of Big Brother. The elite cabal exploits its control over media and entertainment to keep the public misled, distracted and ultimately imprisoned in a matrix of disinformation, rampant consumerism and the lowest common denominators of human nature, including raw violence and mindless sexuality.
In a renowned speech given in Berkeley in 1962, British writer Aldous Huxley contrasted his dystopic novel Brave New World with George Orwell’s novel 1984, written just after the collapse of the Hitlerian terror regime and while the Stalinist terror regime was still in full swing.3 In Huxley’s view, 1984 was "a projection into the future of a society where control was exercised wholly by terrorism and violent attacks upon the mind-body of individuals," whereas his own novel addressed "other methods of control…probably a good deal more efficient."
"We are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy…to get people to love their servitude….There seems to be a general movement in the direction of this kind of…a method of control by which a people can be made to enjoy a state of affairs by which any decent standard they ought not to enjoy."
Huxley’s concerns about the newly available non-terrorist techniques for "inducing people to love their servitude" were echoed by Nobel Prize winner Bertand Russell, who predicted that as a result of the gradual and ruthless use of technological advances, "a revolt of the plebs would be as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."4
A powerful form of psychological control used by the global elite is to induce widespread depression stemming from a feeling of futility or helplessness. This brings to mind the famous quote from Thoreau that most humans live "lives of quiet desperation," which he elaborated on by stating that "what is called resignation is confirmed desperation." It also brings to mind the concept in clinical psychology known as ‘learned helplessness’.
The phenomenon of learned helplessness was discovered through psychological experiments in 1967 by Martin Seligman and Steve Maier. A group of harnessed dogs was given painful electric shocks, which they could end by pressing a lever. Another group received shocks of identical intensity and duration without a means to stop them. The dogs who could stop the pain recovered from the experience quickly, but those who could not learned that they were helpless and exhibited symptoms similar to chronic clinical depression: when they were put in a shuttle-box apparatus in which they could escape electric shocks by jumping over a low partition, most of the dogs just lay down passively and whined rather than trying to escape the shocks.5
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Another powerful from of elitist mind control is to create dependency on authority figures through "shock and awe" techniques. In her brilliant work on the "shock doctrine" of disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein argues that it is the knowledge of human nature gained through the application of torture techniques by intelligence agencies that has infused the broader mind control strategies of the disaster capitalists.6
In the CIA’s basic interrogation manual declassified in 1963, for example, a window of opportunity is highlighted in which torture reduces its victim to a state of traumatized disorientation and childlike regression, creating an opening for the interrogator to be transformed into a protective father figure. This is one of the classic tactics of tyrants across the planet. In the view of Klein and others, it was used after the shock of 9/11 to create a national lens of perception within the overall control matrix, a kind of template to be used by the mind to reflexively process all relevant concepts in terms of the ‘war on terror’.
Klein sees the solution as contained in the problem: as we gain awareness of the same pattern playing out again and again, we can become prepared for the next shock and its exploitation by disaster Capitalists:
"If we understand how our states of shock are exploited, if we can recognize the signs, then the next time there is a crisis (and it can be an economic crisis)…then when the next shock hits we can prepare."
"I have a quote…from Milton Friedman, who says that only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change, and…when the crisis hits, the change depends on the ideas that are lying around. So it’s not just about recognizing a pattern; it’s also about having your [reformist] ideas lying around when the next shock hits." 7
Despite the apparent setback of the new bailout legislation, I share Klein’s confidence in our ability to overturn the psychological impairments resulting from shock and awe tactics. More generally, I am optimistic about reversing the spectrum of impairments grouped here under the rubric of psychological control. Even cases of severe mental disorders induced by the horrific CIA mind control program known an MK Ultra have been healed, in a benevolent use of a technique known as reverse engineering.
As a practitioner in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), I have become personally familiar with extraordinary new techniques for healing previously intractable syndromes such as learned helplessness and war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder.
As an educator who has worked with children and adults with cognitive disabilities, I have seen next to miraculous results from the innovative methods now available.
And, finally, as a human being who reveres the human spirit and its perennial indomitability, I refuse to believe that a small cabal of beings solely in service to self will ever be able to take over the minds and souls of mankind.
As our best minds address the hair raising elitist victory represented by the bailout legislation, I encourage their deconstructing just how this criminality managed to succeed by tracing its origins in history in terms of the threefold model of power given in this article. In my own view, the current crisis is a crisis in the Chinese sense of the term, i.e., an opportunity in disguise. Because the crisis is rightly perceived as a conflict between Wall Street and Main Street, as an incongruence between the actions of government and the political will and best interest of its constituents, and more generally as a power grab by authoritarian capitalism that is in full daylight for all to examine, it is an opportunity like no other for educating the populace. It is an opportunity like no other to awaken and educate the people so they are no longer sitting ducks for the three forms of power delineated in this article. Especially the third: history abounds with examples of how the first two forms of power lose their hold, indeed in many cases back off, when confronted with a people who value the quality of life over life on any terms, a people who will go to any lengths to protect their basic rights as human beings.
It is that spirit that infused the birth and early life of our Republic. I am betting that it is still alive and well in America.
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October 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am
THEY RULE.WE DRULE. THEY AINT GOIN NOWHERE.DEAL WITH THAT.JUST ENJOY THE CRUMBS THAT MAY FALL YOUR WAY.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
It ain’t over til the fat lady sings.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
October 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Post #1 is a perfect example of the decline of knowledge and backbone in our society. Fat cows would rather be lead to slaughter than make real changes. They can care less about the future of their children. BEcause they don’t care about anyone, but themselves.
Enjoy your dirt nap, cows.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
#4 i agree with you
October 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Ha ha – #1 is actually an example of the losers who are sent out everyday to try to brainwash you.
The goal of that kind of post is to make you feel helpless.
It’s not working any more.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Hopefully Rob was being facetious. I for one have been subjected to much of this torture as being part of a marginalized class of society. The criminal global elites like to practice their abuse experiments on the less fortunate that can not deffend themselves and offer any resistance but as the author so rightlty observed the human spirit is indominable and will not go quietly into the night.
Excellant job in exposing these psychological crimes for what they are. When people start realizing they were once human beings and hate what the behavioural criminals are doing we can stop this learned helplessness and say with Patrick Henery, “Give me Liberty or give me death”.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
If Ms. Young is correct, a first step for patriots in regaining control of this country is in the restructuring the often corrupt justice/legal/police systems, beginning at local and state levels.
One example is a quote from an acquaintance, “I own an equipment dealership and the police are constantly harassing my drivers and workers and giving them tickets. I can’t keep employees because of the police harassment. The police favored my competitor.” (Did the competitor donate money to the sheriff’s campaign? Was the competitor a fraternity brother or family member of the sheriff? Being fair, were the police trying to run this guy out of town because he was a genuinely bad person?)
Another “rumor:” “They’re landing planes on the lake and state police block the roads to protect the landings. Folks say the planes are carrying cocaine.”
Yet another true statement: “I called up that judge and told him to let my brother out of jail. We all know about the house the judge bought for his mistress and we know when he goes down there to visit her, too.”
Move along to government structures and examine whether authorities are gaining additional wealth and favor from political elective or appointed office.
One example: A highway reroute through farm property owned by a prominent senator, very powerful with the state’s D.O.T. (Department of Transportation) It greatly increased the value of his land, and his neighbors land, who in turn gave him campaign contributions insuring more favors in reelection.
Are any of these instances true? Best information says all three are true. It would help if local citizens formed watchdog groups in their communities, coming together to investigate corruption rumors.
It’s the only way to clean up the decadence.
Start cleaning up the back yard. Do it for the children.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I am tired of these neo cons trying to stop our truth seeking. We should go to their websites like 911myths.com and wtc7lies.googlepages.com and see their lies and tell others about them. WE ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS LETS GO TO THEIR WEBSITES AND EXPOSE THE TRUTH.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
To the previous comments by 1 & 3. You are cowards & stooges if not outright agents of the elite.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
The last chance for peaceful resolution before all hell breaks loose.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
We’re mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore !
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October 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Hey,
Every day more people are becoming aware, waking up, asking questions! Keep posting messages of positive news, action, challenges!
We need to understand that we’re not alone…more people are seeing with there already open eyes!
Stand tall,
~Mustard
October 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
To enact change, Americans should scrutinize state and local communities for criminals in power and return courts and law enforcement to peaceful, HONEST and just institutions instead of corrupt, fear-provoking entities which operate using cronyism, financial gain, and legal tactics built on a multitude of laws and loopholes.
Instead of hosting sporting events and providing money trees for competitive attorneys who profit from “winning or losing,” the American Justice system must return to its original design–– one of crime and punishment, and in determining right vs. wrong.
It should be unlawful to impose a complicated tax system on a population uneducated in tax laws, and then penalize them with imprisonment for failing to properly pay taxes.
Is this what they said????
(”Let’s make the tax system so complicated, they’ll have to pay accountants to figure it all out. Pretty soon they’ll be paying everything for forced government services, taxes, licenses, insurance, and have nothing left to purchase clothing and food.”)
October 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
We need to organize a grass roots plan to reform Lobbyists and Campaign Reform, and Corruption of our officials.
Get Kucinich or Kaptur or Paul to sponsor it, and be ready with 100 million people to have a peaceful shut down America strike until they pass it into law.
We need to quit whining and get ORGANIZED!
October 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
One if by Land
by JL Wallace
Citizens of the Republic, we have all been lied to long enough. This letter is an attempt to make every American citizen aware of the fraud, theft and deception that has been perpetrated against us for over 95 years…
In truth, we have been enslaved and subjugated by a fascist oligarchy of international bankers and corporations who have placed their own desires, profits and ambitions over the Constitution, our civil liberties and our labor.
The Federal Reserve and its fiat monetary policy need to be abolished. The unconstitutional and enslaving 16th Amendment needs to be repealed. Our “elected” officials have been aware of these facts and yet have remained oblivious and apathetic because they benefit from the loss of our Republic.
All of these truths and more remain unspoken over the channels of mainstream propaganda because the consortium of tyrannical corporations and organizations who cooperate with the Federal Reserve or who profit from our all-consuming military-industrial complex and its endless wars have a vested interest in seeing this atrocity against Liberty continue.
The only cure for our current situation would be an Article V Convention. Sadly, while all 50 state legislatures have submitted over 567 requests, Congress has ignored every single one of them. It is our Constitutional right to petition our government and demand that our voices be heard. Unfortunately for the Republic, we are engaged to a government with deaf ears.
As for our labor, we work four months out of the year just to supply the bankers within the Federal Reserve an income tax that is not reinvested in our country, but rather goes directly into their pockets. We have been deprived of our most basic rights and yet remain complacent because we have been conditioned and brainwashed by the “fruits” of capitalism.
Instead of standing up and demanding more from our government and for ourselves, we further erode our quality of life and personal time and choose to either get a second (or third) job or just idle our time away while more and more of us are separated from a modest existence as our country is sold to the highest bidder on Wall Street.
Blind nationalism and the refusal to independently investigate the history and events surrounding our geopolitical landscape have allowed our Republic to be more radically transformed and eroded than ever before.
Beginning with the false-flag “terrorist” attack of 9/11 – orchestrated by elements within our own government and the Mossad – our fascist masters have hypnotized our nation into an ignorant fervor; passively believing our government and their “war on terror”, while our wages and economy sink as we embark upon a Global Great Depression. Now is the time to stand up!
Remember the “White Rose” Resistance Movement of Nazi Germany
October 9th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
@ #1
Fuck Off and DIE already!
October 10th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Catch 22. You do something they have an excuse. You don’t do anything; they do it anyway.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:34 am
The Power of the Global Elite – They have NO power – people of Nations chose to give them the power by siding with them or by being ignorant.
If Citizens of Nations stood up and took responsibility and action the Global Elite would NOT exist at all.
If all the Citizens of America stood up and refused to pay taxes to bail out the Financial Institution No Congres or Global Elite could do anything – the power is in the Numbers (which are the people).
October 10th, 2008 at 3:07 am
How do you deconstruct the global power of the elite?
Firstly, you will have to accept that “religion is only a primitive machination by Man to command, suppress and exploit others, to which only life forms that are weak in their consciousness succumb.
When Man indulges in his religions, i.e. malevolent, erroneous doctrines, his consciousness wastes away more and more and ultimately leads to a bottomless abyss.”
words by Billy Meier
golden calf Reply:
February 12th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Sounds like you’ve been brainwashed yourself with the King Cabbalah Master Karl Marx and his Illuminati/secular Talmud proclamation on religion: that Religion is ‘opiate of the masses”. What rubbish. Please start thinking before spouting programming.
Never has a culture been more sedated and ‘opiated’ than our own, at present. And we are certainly post-religion. It is not religion that is the opiate, but ADDICTION- and that can take any form. In a secular, hedonistic society, traditional religious addiction is long past.
Witness the gluttonous addiction to food, to TV, to drugs (the literal opiate the illuminati LOVE as it brings big profits), addiction to sex, violence, shopping etc etc. Illuminati foster mind enslavement, especially if it furthers THEIR control. Traditional religion is a competitor for their control, so they hate it.
But just adopt a religious addiction to THEIR ideology of choice (globalization, consumption, New Age cultism, promiscuity etc) and they will have NO problem with religious addiction. Religion can be broadly defined as your central belief system/priorities, and God as that which is your “ultimate concern” as Paul Tillich says. NWO just want to comandeer that “ultimate concern” and exploit it for their ends. Remember Albert Pike said WW3 would eliminate all conventional religions- as well as atheism- and replace it with their own satanic creed. Marx’s problem was not religion, but those who didnt have the satanic one.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:58 am
PROOF FROM AN ILLUMINATI DEFECTOR that they are in ALL RELIGIONS, NOT just Jewish.
Anyone blaming solely the Jews for everything is probably one of the Illuminati doing it on purpose to divide people and cause more hatred:
http://globalistshill.blogspot.....ed-by.html
Listen to every part of this interview!
And then, you can blame CATHOLICS, NATION OF ISLAM, MORMON AND ON AND ON AND ON.
The Illuminati are just the worst in EVERYONE, not any one group, so STOP THE BASHING ALREADY ON THIS SITE.
golden calf Reply:
February 12th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
No can do, dude. The heart of Illuminati is the rothschild banking Cabal and they are OVERWHELMINGLY jewish. that is just the statistical fact. like it or not.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Carl, while I agree with the spirit which drove you that conclusion, I say: Have you been asleep for 12 years or do you not own a Bible? Prophecy is being fulfilled now in ways I could have never dreamed. Dude, read it. But I agree – the worship huts are not the Houses of Prayer spoken about by The One True God. They have been polluted and made wanting.
March 7th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Regarding addictions – what about the addiction to cars? Let’s look at the enslavement side of that – people believing that life would be impossible without a car. It’s not impossible. Look at New Yorkers. Not all of them own cars, not by a long shot. They walk more, and they take Taxis. People feel that life is enhanced by cars, but what is lost? Look at the cost to our environment. Times are changing, and the car has to go the way of the horse and buggy…..As for government and corporate rule – having stronger communities, even stronger neighborhoods, negates that central power over us. We have looked to the overlords, and they have failed us. It’s time to look to ourselves, our neighbors, and our communities, and take back our own power. Take back the power to the people who do the actual WORK, rather than hand it over to corrupt, greedy, bean-counters in suits.