[who governs] and why they're not benign

Another worthy but ultimately futile discussion of our situation, this time on terrorism, at one of my favourite blogs, Beaman's World.

The essential reasons such debate is futile and the reasons why we're heading for the new feudalism include:

1] While you truly believe that you are in a representative democracy, where your voice is actually acted upon, then the real forces driving the agenda are free to continue unfettered;

2] The real forces rely on the great mass of people reading, discussing and researching within a narrow pool of actuality - newspapers, journals, magazine articles, TV and radio programmes and tomes of wisdom of the great and not so great … but no further;

3] The humanistic life outlook tacitly embraced by the vast majority of westerners encourages them to feel that they're ultimately in control of their own destiny, which is patently false, as you'll see further down.

On the other hand, the man or woman with a strangely wired brain seeks and researches more laterally, unafraid to delve into "kook territory" and comes up with a different literature - less accessible but still accessible for all that.

The reason it's still accessible is that it's usually written up or posted sensationally by the weirdos whose investigative skills far surpass their reasoning or writing ability and so it's a simple thing to pick holes, debunk and mock, using catchcries to circumvent any real revelation which might have been thrown up. [Watch this post's comments section for the first commenter to say "conspiracy theory" although usually readers just skip over this sort of post.]

So I'm not going to get dragged into that stuff. Instead, here are some statements by people who really should have known what they were talking about and I challenge anyone to call these people "kooks" or "deluded":

# President Woodrow Wilson, in 1913, published "The New Freedom":

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

# It (the Great Depression) was not accidental, it was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us all. [Congressman Louis McFadden]

# The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933. [Milton Friedman]

# History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. [President James Madison]

# Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russian, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament , or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All I have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. [Goering at the Nuremberg Trials]

# This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished. [Sir Denison Miller]

# Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When through the process of law the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. [1924 U.S. Banker's Association Magazine]

# When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the (many) believe almost anything you want, and you can guide them. [Gore Vidal from 'The Golden Age'.]

# If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched. George H. W. Bush told a White House reporter. [This last is my weakest reference so feel free to ignore it.]

Here are links to some of my articles.

So, in the context of the above, terrorism per se, as discussed at Beaman's World, is merely a furphy, easily provoked and funded and in this dualistic attitude lies the real identity of the force driving the oncoming misery. Look into the eyes of the Janjaweed of the Sudan for further confirmation of this force.

The only question is wresting back control but I fear that the people are so fragmented and the driving force so in control that it's a forlorn hope.