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Economist
April 25, 2008
WHO rules the world? The most familiar answers to this question are so poisoned by paranoia that it is tempting to dismiss the question itself. If the Jews are so powerful, then why have they had such a dreadful time of things? If the men and women of Davos are so mighty, then why do they keep messing everything up?
Yet the fact that so many people give foolish answers to a question does not discredit the question. The rise of nation states produced national ruling classes. It would be odd if the current integration of the world economy did not produce new global elites—business people and financiers who run global companies and global politicians who steer supra-national organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund.
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
…Ah-bdi…”All that glitters is not gold” does not even apply here , since there is no gold in “their” …b…bdi…banks !!!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:40 am
It’s almost as this is saying that one should expect to be ruled by an elite class more than it’s saying it is a disgraceful thing.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:17 am
“It would be odd if the current integration of the world economy did not produce new global elites—business people and financiers who run global companies and global politicians who steer supra-national organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund.”
Actually, it’s the reverse. The global companies and politicians are creating the “integration of the world economy” - the intergration isn’t creating them.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am
OK guys. The “conspiracy theory” is now the official status quo (as per the Economist, often the only magazine invited to participate in Bilderbergers’ meetings). Now we could start laughing at all the “non-believers” … if only there was anything to laugh about.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am
You see… they don’t have to hide anymore. Everyday the truth is becoming more and more public so that the masses can get used to it. Notice how, as T.L. said, the article doesn’t point out that this is a problem, it just plain gives the info. Now for some of us, that’s all we need and we can put the pieces together ourselves; but for the majority, they need to be told whether something is good or bad. If they are not told what to think, they will assume everything is okay, since they trust their leaders and their media.
All I have to say is holy crap, it’s really happening.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
backlash
if you mean draging them into the street and hanging them, yah i’d say there’s a backlash brewing.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
When this is all over, and the patriots have won, there will be much rejoicing, and maybe a new holiday where we celebrate the winning of our independence for a second time. YAH! praise the Lord!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:34 am
FREEDOM KID Says:
April 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
When this is all over, and the patriots have won, there will be much rejoicing, and maybe a new holiday
NIGHT OF THE LONG NECKS
April 25th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Thanks hochzeit for pointing that out to everyone else, I’m a little tired to be more articulate about it. Gary, yes that is something that should be pointed out and it’s a trick the globalists always try to pull. They create a something, then they blame it on the people or the world. They often claim one thing is created by another, yet when you actually look at it emotionally unattached and in a objective way you realize it was the opposite of what they say. As you said yes globalists, globalist sympathizing corporations, globalization organizations and institutions and any other elite not mentioned are what created globalisation, globalisation did not create them. Then you have the whole problem,reaction, solution. Where these scum create a supposed problem and offer their pre-planned agenda as the solution for this supposed problem they created. This whole article really just disgusted me the moment I read it. I wasn’t even going to leave a comment on it, I was so angry.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hmm? 1% of them and 99% of us…. lets kick their ass…. Wish we could, but just have to sit back and say blah blah.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Is Ollie North one of these chaps the article talks about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
April 25th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Funny no one in the mainstream ever dares mention the vatican, the jesuit order and their role in all of this power.
And I never hear a peep on Alex’s show either
April 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
“THEY” are: Go to http://www.coleman300.com “The Committe of 300, The Conspirator’s Hierarchy”
& 1-800-800-5565 = CONTACT Newspaper. Order the back issues from April 07…On.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
“THEY” are: Go to http://www.coleman300.com “The Committe of 300, The Conspirator’s Hierarchy”
& 1-800-800-5565 = CONTACT Newspaper. Order the back issues from April 07…On.
These are the Global Elite Superclass as you refer to them.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
The people who rule the world are not who you think. The rulers are the ones who shape public opinion. The spin doctors and the the public relations firms. They highlight a story or suppress it. They shape public opinion to the clients desire.
It wouldn’t have been too hard for the media and the public relations firms to make our glorious imperial leader to look look like a somewhat dunderhead but at the same time very capable leader.
But as Edward Bernays pointed out in his book “Propaganda”, regardless of the coaching, grooming and preperation, a candidate can talk himself out of a job.
As far as the shadow masters go, they are divided into families of sorts. Like the mafia families. They don’t sit in dark boardrooms making detailed plans down to the smallest detail. They make plans on a general basis abd then take advantage of the situation when it arises. The real estate crisis is a good example. It was fostered to be sure but for the most part it happened on its own. People buying and selling for a profit. The shadow masters will take advantage of the situation when it is most advantagous to them. Buy up mass tracts of housing for pennies on the dollar. They just let the greedy peasants do the lions share for them. The shadow masters just gave it a nudge on occasion. John Mc Cain is a fine example of a shadow master. He got out of the Keating Scandal relatively unscathed.
The keating scandal is a good example of partnerships though. Why hasn’t the MSM dumped it all over the television and cable shows? Because they are working together to take what is to be had.
Make no mistake, the media has to walk a fine line to. The shadow masters in the media don’t dare show their heads. One or two people in key places. The rest of schmucks however are there to earn a living though. The media has to scratch the backs of the politicians and vice versa. If a politician started to ban a particular news paper because of “ethics”, that news paper might find itself bankrupt. The same with the politicians. They have to give the occasional interview or risk having that dirt being printed on the front page. They work together in sort of a lose alliance to make sure that they remain in power.
All of the shadow masters work together in sort of a loose partnership for mutual gain. There is the occasional betrayal and that is par for the course. Saddam got betrayed. I hate to mention it because it is mentioned to much but is just like the book 1984 and the alliances of EastAsia, Eurasia and Ocenaia. Sometimes they work together and others, they are at each others throats.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Cpl. Cadaver- yeah. Look at the ADL? During WW2, jews turned on their own to save their butts from death in the detention centers.
Historically speaking. It would seem the Jews are always the dupes that allow their own people to get suckered into scams through out history. Maybe it’s their greed that get’s them into trouble?
April 26th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I have read stories about the vatican many times on this site, so what is your point?
April 26th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Idiot
April 26th, 2008 at 7:23 am
In Jersey we have a Bilderberger elite, former Goldman Sachs CEO governor Jon Corzine using our state as a lab for globalist experiments. He is claiming the citizens are resposible for the government’s debt, WHICH HAS PROVEN TO BE UNCONSTITUITIONAL (of course that does not matter anymore in a “post 9/11″ world). In the future it will cost $50 in tolls to travel on OUR roads. He has also ignored a legitimate recall of his office. Fortunately some people are realizing what a criminal he is. We also have one representative who has been endorsed by Ron Paul.
As horrible as it sounds, I was rejoicing when Corzine got in a car crash FOR DRIVING 90 MPH WEAVING THROUGH TRAFFIC AND CRASHED INTO SOMEONE. Son of Bitch..
April 27th, 2008 at 8:13 am
The tribeadan, the Aunokiee, let the story be told!
April 27th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
This better stay on this site before it goes missing. Read on:-
Why Gold Was ‘Hacked’ Friday- and How Commodities / Gold & Silver Apr 19, 2008 - 01:00 AM By: Alex_Wallenwein Commodities Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe market delivered a huge”drubbing” to gold and silver Friday– or at least that’s what thefinancial powers want you to think. To try and find out what happened, I looked at the Kitco 24-hour chart and saw that, for the very first time, the “New York Globex” system was listed at the bottom. Until yesterday, one only used to see the trading days for London, New York, Sydney, and Hong Kong. I have never heard of a “Globex” before, so I looked it up. Here is an article from January this year . Globex is a super-fast, 24 hour, around-the-clock and around-the-globe trading platform that was instituted by the Chicago Mercantile exchange. Since I had never heard of it anywhere before, I did a Google News search on it for today. Nothing. No news reports that Globex just went into effect for gold trading, or that it was planned to be put into effect. Hmm. A $35 price drop in gold coupled with the secretive launch of a brand new, super fast, 33 trades per second global trading platform for gold. What a coincidence! I remember when JP Morgan closed its trading desk in New York and opened in London so it could exercise its “gold control” on both sides of the Atlantic. The “Globex” appears to be an extension of the same strategy. What people often forget on days like this is that the COMEX is nothing but a paper-trading market. Contracts almost never go into delivery. Over 90% of the transactions are getting settled in cash, so the “prices” we all see flicker across our screens are about a accurate a reflection of true demand for physical gold and silver as TV sitcoms are of the lives of real people. The financial establishment is in its death throes, so they are going all-out in trying to cover up their own incompetence, excesses, and screw-ups, like the subprime related credit collapse, or the bond ratings debacle. This is just one more indication of the same. Remember the tremendous breakout of gold on Wednesday, only two days ago? That same day, the gold stock indexes shot up by a much larger degree than gold itself. That is a huge danger signal for the gold cartel and the financial establishment. Along with a protracted gold-up/Dow-down divergence, it is the one thing they cannot tolerate, so they had to slam gold really, really hard for the weekend to try and signal to Joe Mainstream Investor that gold I all its forms is a “bad deal” and he shouldn’t buy into it. Ha! Hang on to your physical. See what happens next week. If gold drops more, buy some more. You shouldn’t be in paper gold or stocks in any case, right now. These developments cannot hurt you if you are solidly invested in physical gold and silver (which is not to say that gold and silver will protect you from political developments, which include a total takeover of Wall Street - and Main Street - by the US Fed, initiated by the White House and duly rubberstamped by a sycophantic Congress. The big question on most gold investors’ minds is of course whether gold will drop further next week. The answer: No. Gold will not drop – but the paper-rigged, false flag COMEX price indicator very well might. So what? Who cares? Silver Is the Key In fact, the whole thing seems to be centered around silver, where a serious physical shortage is building up. For now, that is even more dangerous to the powers than gold’s rise. If you look at the Kitco chart for today, silver got slammed even harder than gold - but it also rebounded faster and higher. All of this is happening while major dealers continue to run out of silver eagles coins . Today, the financial press explains all of this away as a reaction to a”rebounding” dollar. Yeah, right. If that is so, what drove the dollar’s “recovery”, then? According to Reuters , some “positive earnings news” from Citi. So, what were the positive earnings news? Reuters doesn’t tell us. What the article does tell us is that Citi booked a 5.1 billion dollar quarterly loss! Somebody please explain to me how an over $5 billion loss engenders positive “sentiment” in the markets that the worst of the credit crisis “may be over”. I must be really stupid for not seeing that. So, to recap: Silver and gold get trounced, supposedly because of a rise in the dollar that supposedly was caused by “positive” earnings news from Citi, and that “positive” news was a $5.1 billion quarterly loss on top of a previous quarterly loss . And all of that is happening on a day on which the CME’s Globex trading platform is secretly launched in the precious metals markets, covering all time zones around the globe when NYMEX is not in session. Oh, I forgot to mention that the Dow had a 250 point bounce as well. Very interesting - but it gets even more hilarious. A MarketWatch article reports that Citi had its second quarterly loss I a row now, totaling almost $12 billion. At the same time, the reporter (if you can call him that) is brazenly stating that “investors welcomed the aggressive write-downs”, causing Citi’s stock to rally 6.5% on the news. How can that be explained? How do you manufacture a positive spin out of that? Easy. Just serve up an obscure financial analyst who is willing to say on the record that the losses were “smaller than anticipated” because his company “modeled” closer to a $20 billion loss, and – viola. good news! The Ministry of Propaganda has spoken - but investors aren’t stupid. Just read the comments posted right next to the story. Here is one: “Will it be death sentence to market, may be with this approach they can invite the inevitable earlier.” Somebody is paying attention. I would bet that 80 percent of real investors share the same perception, yet still the propaganda machine is fooling itself into believing that it can control public perception by mouthing such obvious bullcrap. The Real (Bad) News for Paper Markets: The really crucial, all-important, and revealing news is that all of this is nothing but a smoke screen to raise a plausible “explanation” for the number-one tell-tale sign of total financial collapse I have been ‘prophesying’ for months, even years, now – namely the inevitable collapse of the bond market. We are right in the beginning of it (although it looks like bonds will enjoy an engineered “recovery” of sorts on Monday). It will be followed (or accompanied) by the collapse of the stock markets and a predicted recovery in precious metals stocks that will put every market bubble the world has ever seen to shame. That is, unless the newly created Ministry of Finance locks all markets down into a Soviet-style centrally controlled economy in order to complement the already-existing Soviet-style, centrally controlled financial “news” propaganda machine. Whether or not that ends up happening depends, of course, on whether you acquiesce or not. Until then, what happened today is no threat to your wealth if you are solidly invested in physical gold and silver. Even owning gold will not protect you from this. Alex Wallenwein Editor, Publisher The EURO VS DOLLAR MONITOR Copyright © 2008 Alex Wallenwein - All Rights Reserved Alex holds a B.A. degree in Economics and a juris doctorate in Law. His forte is research. In late 1996, he began to research how money is used by some to exert political and economic control over others’ lives. In the process, he discovered that gold (along with silver) is the common man’s antidote to this effort. In writing and publishing the Euro vs Dollar Monitor, he explains the dynamics of this process and how individuals can harness the power of gold in their efforts to regain their political and financial autonomy.
…………………….Fratres, sobrii estote et vigilate, quia adversarius vester diabolus, tamquam leo rugiens, circuit quaerens quem devoret, cui resistite fortes in fide. Tu autem, Domine, miserere nobis. (1 Pet 5. 8-9), taken from the hour of Compline
April 27th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Alex if you’re reading this, you should see about getting David Rothkopf as a Guest. He wrote a book called Superclass on which this article is based. Its pretty good!
April 27th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Yaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn! Mmmuhhm.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am
http://www.google.com/s2/shari.....7403627231
April 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Thanks phillipjame$ #25…that explained some questions I had. Check out this vid if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s called “THE MONEY MASTERS”. It’s an excellent documentary and explains a lot of this current mess fairly well. Vid was made in 1995. Vic.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:37 am
In China, delegation pushes Dallas inland port
08:47 AM CDT on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
dlevinthal@dallasnews.com
QINGDAO, China – The secret to Dallas’ economic vibrancy may be mixed with shots of a clear liquid imbued with snake-venom potency and the burn of devil’s blood.
Qingdao whiskey alone doesn’t seal trade deals. But such lubricants haven’t harmed Dallas’ bid to sell itself to lesser-known Chinese cities as a pre-eminent inland distribution center for foreign goods shipped to the U.S.
Consider a scene Monday evening: What began as an ultra-formal, summit-style meeting between Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Qingdao Mayor Xia Geng ended with a lively 11-course dinner punctuated by handshaking, backslapping and more than a few toasts laced with promises of long-lasting friendship and cooperation.
All the while, delegation members and their Chinese counterparts breezily conjured visions of a bustling Dallas inland port where Qingdao goods in shipping containers would clear customs, then hurry by rail and trucks to North American markets at discounted rates.
That a delegation of two dozen Dallasites would travel halfway around the world to dine with and sign a “friendship city” agreement with Qingdao officials to further such a vision isn’t only impressive, Mr. Xia said, but itself worthy of pursuing strengthened business ties.
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“Dallas wants to be a partner. Our two cities will have a multiplication of business,” said Mr. Xia, who has a doctorate in economics. “We understand that Dallas is located in the center of the United States, and that’s an advantage. It helps our products. We’d also like to import from Dallas – import equipment – and take advantage of the exchange rate.”
To win the respect of Chinese politicians and businesspeople, who are sometimes one in the same, “it’s all about the personal relationships,” said Richard Allen, chief executive of The Allen Group, which is helping develop distribution centers at Dallas’ inland port project, which skirts the city’s southeasternmost corner.
“People do business with people they know, people they trust, people who show up,” Mr. Allen said. “I expect as a result of this trip, you’ll see in the near future some number of economic growth and jobs in Dallas. I do know one thing: There will be no click between us and China’s business if there’s no effort on our part.”
Said Mr. Leppert: “We talked about everything from situations in Chinese politics to our kids. It didn’t take long to develop an understanding. Moving forward, people will naturally work with people they are comfortable with.”
The delegation’s visit to Qingdao – a seaport of about 7.3 million on China’s north-central coast – included touring the headquarters of Hisense, an electronics manufacturer with limited penetration in U.S. markets. So far, at least.
Abandoning subtlety, a statement etched into a wall within Hisense’s office tower reads: “Our future lies in promoting overseas development.”
Meeting with a company like Hisense simply makes sense and could pay long-term dividends if, for example, officials there expand their operations or go shopping for a U.S. headquarters, Mr. Leppert said. If Dallas doesn’t aggressively pursue deals with Chinese entities, other U.S. cities assuredly will – given the robust growth of the Chinese economy, the mayor added.
Chinese officials, in turn, are all too eager to find economical routes into U.S. markets eager to absorb inexpensive Chinese goods.
During a visit Sunday to Tianjin, a coastal city of 10 million to the north, a delegation tour of the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area so impressed vice chairman Ni Xiangyu that he practically insisted, “We need to – we must – work even closer.”
Tianjin Mayor Huang Xingguo, even before Mr. Leppert presented him with a personalized Dallas Mavericks jersey, declared that the delegation’s visit “will give us a very important record in Tianjin history.”
For all the glad hands and good feelings, however, Dallas officials haven’t yet secured signed trade agreements with any Chinese business or government. Specifics on who will ship what where, and when, are lacking. Delegation members acknowledge that these types of meetings rarely involve hard-core business negotiations.
After spending Monday night in Shanghai, the delegation today flies to Dalian for a day’s worth of meetings with the city’s mayor and economic development officials. On Wednesday, delegates spend the first of two days in Hong Kong.
Three more official lunches or dinners are scheduled. Spirits and spirited conversation will top each menu.
THIS JACKASS JUST GOT BACK FROM MEXICO TELLING MEXICO TO KEEP SENDING WORKERS TO THE USA, DALLAS WANTS TO BE KNOWN AS A DESTINATION CITY-
CHINESE PORTS BEING BUILT ON THE PACIFIC SIDE OF MEXICO, RAIL LINES AND HIGHWAYSDERECTLY INTO AMERICA NON STOP. THIS IS THE NAU IN ACTION-
PS rick perry will be running for another term in 2010, more perry means less for Texas.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I can scarcely believe this. I only woke up just over a month ago after years of dismissing “conspiracy theories”. Why have they done this now? Do they think their plan is too advanced to be stopped? It seems like from the article that they are trying to portray themselves as benevolent rulers. Personally I want to see them swing on the end of the rope for their crimes. Maybe we’ll get the guillotine out as the french did.
Are we really nearing the endgame? Or has that been and gone and most of us including me didn’t even realize?