PEOPLE: IF THEY ARE NOT FOR US, THEY ARE AGAINST US

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The Global Crisis and the Ultimate Secret of Empire

In a nutshell, the theme or at least the proposition that underlies much research today and connects them is that there is a secret world (or quasi-global) government which is by definition neither democratically elected nor publicly accountable, and which may have been able to connect with or tap into a wide variety of dark "forces" that originate outside of the mainstream. Though not all the research makes the same allegations, which some authors such as John Perkins or Peter Dale Scott may not agree with, they all bring various pieces to the puzzle we are trying to construct – or unravel, and all demonstrate and conclude that the global socio-political and “scientific” reality is not what most people are taught and subsequently believe it is. What are, in brief, the elements of proof or the indications which lead us toward a stunning and yet not unprecedented conclusion?

Many authors, even among those of relatively traditional, mainstream, consensus and even conservative persuasion, have shown or acknowledged what Nafeez M. Ahmed calls “the increasing criminalization of the state” at the global level, but particularly applying to the most powerful or leading states, beginning with the “sole superpower” and its closest allies: the UK, Israel and other NATO members.

Ahmed asks in the same article entitled “Torture, Rendition, Terror and Oil: a Primer on Deep Politics”: “In the service of what powerful vested interests are states acting in this increasingly criminal manner?” and provides in response the definition coined by Peter D. Scott for “deep politics”: “(a system) in which institutional, non-institutional and para-political bodies, criminal syndicates, politicians, judges, media, corporations and leading government employees, resort to decision-making and enforcement procedures outside…law and society. What makes these supplementary procedures “deep” is the fact that they are covert or suppressed, outside public awareness as well as outside sanctioned political processes” (in “Drugs, Oil and War”).

Ahmed adds that this situation generates “a form of police-crime symbiosis where the defining parameters of which side controls the other are no longer clear.” John Perkins is one of several expert witnesses who, as a former actor within the system (“an economic hit-man” as he defines himself) has documented and shown how this criminal hidden ruling structure spread its tentacles to control global economy and politics. He provides a vivid illustration of the operational methods used by the global powers-that-be, some of which were analyzed by Noam Chomsky in his books “ Manufacturing Consent ” (1988, with Edward S Herman) and “ Necessary Illusions ” (1988).

Paul Hellyer said as much in Hawaii: “ It appears that [our] real government has passed from elected accountable representatives of the people to an unelected, unaccountable elite group of senior government officials and industrial leaders .” This is the covert state that Senator Daniel K Inouye of Hawaii described as “a shadowy government with its own Air Force, Navy and fundraising mechanism…free from the law itself ...” which Lewis Laphan called the “permanent government” as opposed to the visible elected one.

The implication is that agencies, known or unknown to the public, have used information - and possible access - to further their goals of global domination, justified by the imperative of planning for against any and all possislbe and potential threats, camouflaged as national security preparations against a foreign enemy, formerly defined as the USSR and now as China, Russia and accessorily the international Islamic threat, embodied either by an amorphous terrorist network such as Al Qaida or by a regional power like Iran. This broadly was the initial conclusion reached by M W Cooper in his brochure “The Secret Government”.

Several high level figures including President Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter, have confessed being kept in the dark, as well as Barry Goldwater and at least one CIA Director, James Woolsey. President Bill Clinton himself is recorded telling veteran White House correspondent Sarah McClendon during his tenure that there was secret government which he did not control.

These hitherto unproven claims could be dismissed as silly rumours and baseless conspiracy theory if it were not for the fact that a large number of historically documented facts tend to show that certain contacts have been made at the “official” level in the USA and possibly in other countries as well. In 1979 Lord Clancarty (Brinsley Le Poer Trench) introduced a resolution in the House of Lords to lift the cover-up on some of the secrets, but his motion was defeated as were several others in democratic assemblies of other countries (USA and Japan among others, and the UN General Assembly where an attempt was made by Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, in 1978), which could be seen as confirming the widely held suspicion that the powers that be do not want such matters raised, even though they publicly make light of them to deflect attention.

It is difficult to explain why so many unrelated persons would come out with such stories, at great risk to their credibility and even personal safety, if they were mere inventions. Many of them have been tested by psychologists and are not delusional or insane. Their motives for telling these seemingly unbelievable tales are hard to fathom unless they are simply trying to share very disturbing experiences that have changed their lives. Various self-confessed participants in the secret joint research projects being allegedly carried out at Dulce and other facilities (Bob Lazar, Phil Schneider, Dan Burisch, Michael Wolf) have provided independent confirmation of at least some of Bennewitz's claims.

All those testimonies cannot be ignored even though they must be weighed against the body of evidence and we may abstain from lending them unconditional acceptance. Many people will, often for cultural or religious reasons, simply reject any statement or even evidence which is not officially confirmed and accepted by the majority of mankind. We should respect their choice, but that should not deter us from looking at each case on its own merits.

Systematically dismissing everything that contradicts the prevalent belief system and denigrating inconvenient or counter-intuitive claims does not allow for any evolution or progress. Prejudice and unquestioning conservatism are often confused with rationalism and good sense. The late illustrious Harvard Psychology Professor John Mack pointed out in several writings that modern society is conditioned to reject anything that is not a part of its cultural consensus, thereby confirming the contention that every civilization is a conspiracy, at least between its influential beneficiaries. However, one of the most troubling signs that we are all being lied to can be found in the colossal amount of funding that the “ black budget ” of the United States has attracted in the last decades , to the point of hollowing out a number of government and private institutions by diverting their resources to unknown ends.

An undetermined proportion of those funds are allocated to the Agency's own COPs (Covert Access Programmes) and to the DoD's SAPs (Special Access Programmes), many of which, started and regulated by unpublished Executive orders and NSC directives, are “waived”, which means that their coordinators do not provide written reports to the chairmen of the relevant Congressional Committees.

The so-called military-industrial complex therefore enjoys discretionary power over all aspects of public policy and budgeting. This virtual omnipotence is not dissimilar to the hegemony that the Chekha, later the KGB, achieved in the former Soviet Union when it took control of the CPSU, but it is more insidious and covert. It appears that this silent coup took place gradually in the 1950s, following the creation of the National Security Council and the major Intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, NRO) by President Harry Truman. The NSC is indeed a state within the state which keeps its own counsel and does not have to report to any outside authority, not even the President.

The role played by certain shadowy elite secret societies such as the US, Yale-affiliated Brotherhood of Death, better known as “Skulls and Bones”, the annual Bohemian Grove conclave, the Bilderbergers, Cecil Rhodes's Secret Society or Inner Circle, the “Black Network” reported by police investigators into the 1991 BCCI scandal, the Pilgrims Society, and other Masonic or putatively Templar (“Illuminist”) cryptocracies is not easy to define, but some might serve as antechambers to the “Sanctum” of the global oligarchic control structure whose tentacles and ramifications extend, through a web of interlocking partnerships and cross-holdings, to the major banking, financial, energy-owning, high-tech defense and intelligence-related equipment manufacturing corporations, and at whose core is the US Federal Reserve system, controlled by its private owners since its inception in 1913. The latter effectively controls global credit through its monopoly on the Dollar as the world's reserve currency.

According to an article by Joel van der Reijden, dated 29 July 2008, for the site of Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics, the Belgium Gendarmerie investigation's ATLAS Report into the 1994 Comuele financial scandal includes these revealing lines: Our conclusion would be that at least over the last twenty years the economic powers, some of which Mafia types, have allied themselves with political forces and organized criminal structures and reached the fourth stage of money laundering, namely absolute power. It has been specified to us that… these characters control 50% of the world economy. One should not lose sight of the fact that this network would control the majority of the financial traffic as well as the highest political leaders worldwide.

In the current context of global financial collapse, one cannot avoid asking questions about the role possibly being played by that mysterious and ominous entity which would indeed be in a position to trigger a systemic economic heart attack by emptying banks of their assets at short notice for their own ulterior motives, such as further expanding their control and bolstering their monopoly on currency. This is precisely what has been happening in the years 2008 and 2009 so far, with internationally devastating results.