I am writing to get a few things off my mind. Some of you I know are in your jobs for genuine reasons of wishing to serve the public. Maybe the majority. However our democracy is broken and it is up to you to fix it.

Being in government or the houses of parliament does not just come with benefits and rights, it comes with responsibilities. You have lost sight of your responsibilities. The collaborative nature of the two party systems sets you apart from the rest of the population. This is unhealthy.

The collaboration between media, finance, the political elite and industrialists that has ruled since 1979 and the election of thatcher must end. The elected members of the House of Commons must take it upon themselves to finish the job of removing the feudal Lords from power. a second elected chamber must be enacted. The powers of the military, secret services and Government must be brought under full scrutiny.

Some people are suggesting fewer elected MP’s is the answer to the current issue of expenses claims that headlines daily. I suggest the opposite. We need to remove the unelected and have a second non geographic based second house. A house that represents the British population in all it’s multicultural glory.

Once you have done this it is time to stop the practice of off shore banking. Tax must be paid in measure equal to income by all who profit from activities on this territory called The United Kingdom - wherever they reside.

The Monarchy must go and the church must be seperated from state. The Queen must be forced into negotiation as to what she owns after the seperation and what goes to the nation. Much of the wealth she holds privately comes from the historic, anachronistic, feudal wealth her blood thirsty forebears accumulated over the centuries and through the rape of the world.

Stop the rot. Start to act. You won’t keep your jobs unless you start to act for the people.

Stop spying on us. We do not like it and it is bad for society. When Government does not trust the people the people will not trust the Government. You started it and you must stop it.

Stop playing global politics with weapons and words and Govern this country lightly and well. It’s a long job to get there but freedom has been fought over and lost so many times. We live at a moment when new technology and communication makes global peace, equality and freedom possible.

However, trying to design that behind the scenes with the global design set by bankers and bilderbergers is not the right way forward.

The New World Order has to be one of freedom and not enslavement. If you have not watched “The Obama Deception” watch it on the post below this one.

The truth is not always what it seems. It is not always pretty. Hardworking MP’s are being screwed in the media to take our minds off the global financial fraud that is being undertaken to help ensure global financial dictatorship by fewer than 300 of the worlds’ richest citizens. They think they have a right to rule us by bloodline - and with our blood, your blood and your childrens’ if needed.

Stand tall and be real.  Start demanding change. End the rule of the worlds’ global elite. start at home because London is the keystone in this. Audit the city. Change the world - for the better, please. If you don’t we will do it ourselves, starting by replacing you.

Freedomforall

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency), serves as the chief adviser to the President of the United States on national security issues. This person serves on the National Security Council within the Executive Office of the President. The National Security Advisor’s office is located in the West Wing of the White House. He or she is supported by a staff that produces research, briefings, and intelligence for the NSA to review and present to the National Security Council and the President of the United States.

The National Security Advisor is appointed by the President without confirmation by the United States Senate. As such, they are not connected to the bureaucratic politics of the Departments of State and Defense, and are therefore able to offer independent advice. The power and role of the National Security Advisor varies from administration to administration.

In times of crisis, the National Security Advisor operates from the White House Situation Room, updating the President on the latest events of a crisis.

The current office holder is retired Marine Corps General James L. Jones, who assumed the duties of the post when Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009 as President of the United States. The previous holder of the post is Stephen Hadley, who succeeded Condoleezza Rice upon her appointment to Secretary of State by then-President George W. Bush in 2005.

So it seems clear that the National Security Advisor reports to the President yes? No, not according to the Whitehouse in a recent press release concerning General Jones remarks at the 45th Munich Security Conference, where Jones said the following:

Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal (sic) Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.

Now Kissinger I had heard of, of course. I have written about him before. Not being American Snowcroft and Berger were unknown to me. Wikipedia fills in the gaps:

Brent Snowcroft:

Brent Scowcroft (born March 19, 1925 in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He also served as Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.

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Prior to joining the Bush administration, Scowcroft was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. He has had a long association with Henry Kissinger, having served as his assistant when Kissinger was the National Security Adviser under Nixon, from 1968.

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He is the founder and president of The Forum for International Policy, a think tank. Scowcroft is also president of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international business consulting firm. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of The Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Atlantic Council of the United States

Sandy Berger:

Samuel Richard “Sandy” Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, responses to the terrorist bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the administration’s policy of engagement with the People’s Republic of China.^[1] He was also one of the prominent actors of the Camp David 2000 Summit.

Before joining the administration Berger had worked as an international trade attorney. Currently, he is chairman of an international advisory firm and chairman of the board of an international investment fund. Living in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., he is married to Susan Berger and has three children (two daughters and one son).

In April 2005, Berger pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington. According to the lead prosecutor in the case Berger only took copies of classified information, and no original material was destroyed.

Berger served as a foreign policy adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign.

As Kissinger is named as being at the top of this rather smelly tree a little background on him, his business and attitudes:

Kissinger Associates, Inc., founded in 1982, is a New York City-based international consulting firm, founded and run by Henry Kissinger. The firm assists its clients in identifying strategic partners and investment opportunities, and advises clients on government relations throughout the world.

History

The firm was founded in 1982 by Henry Kissinger.

In 1999, Mack McLarty joined Kissinger to open Kissinger McLarty Associates, the firm’s office on Eighteenth and Pennsylvania streets in Washington, D.C.^[1]. McLarty was White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton. Kissinger McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by David Rockefeller in 1965.^[1]. As of January 2008, the two firms have separated and McLarty Associates, headed by Mack McLarty, is an independent firm based in Washington.^[2]

Kissinger Associates is located in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, in a building also occupied by Peter Peterson’s Blackstone Group.^[3] It was established in July, 1982 after loans had been secured from Goldman Sachs and a consortium of three other banks. These loans were paid out in two years; by 1987 annual revenues had reached $5 million.^[3]

Associated organizations and individuals

Kissinger Associates has strategic alliances with several firms, including:

• APCO Worldwide, formed October 12, 2004 ^[4]
• The Blackstone Group^[5], an investment and advisory firm
• Hakluyt & Company^[6], a corporate investigation firm (EX BRITISH SECRET SERVICE)
• Covington & Burling, the international law firm, since 2003.^[7]

Prominent staff have included:

• L. Paul Bremer, former managing director. Former Iraq Director of Reconstruction.
• Nelson Cunningham, managing partner at Kissinger McLarty
• Lawrence Eagleburger, former partner^[8]
• Richard W. Fisher - President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas [1]
• Timothy F. Geithner - United States Secretary of Treasury
• Bill Richardson, former Senior managing director. Former U.S diplomat and current Governor of New Mexico.
• J. Stapleton Roy, vice-chairman. Senior U.S. diplomat.
• Brent Scowcroft, former vice-chairman. Former United States National Security Advisor.

Directors have included:

• Lord Carrington, from 1982.^[9] Secretary-General of NATO
• Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, from 1982.^[9] Chairman, Volvo
• William D. Rogers, from 1982.^[9] Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs under Nixon
• Eric Roll, from 1984^[10]. Chairman S. G. Warburg & Co
• William E. Simon, from 1984^[10]. Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon
• Saburo Okita^[11], former Japanese Foreign Minister
• Étienne Davignon^[12] Former European Commissioner.
• Gary Falle, Falle Strategies

Client base

Kissinger Associates does not disclose its list of corporate clients, and reportedly bars clients from acknowledging the relationship.^[11] However, over time details from proxy statements and the tendency of senior businessmen to talk about their relationship with Kissinger have leaked out and a number of major corporate clients have been identified.^[13]

The secrecy of their corporate client list has caused problems where Kissinger or a member of his staff were called to public service. In 1989, George H.W. Bush nominated Lawrence Eagleburger as his Deputy Secretary of State. Congress required that Eagleburger disclose the names of 16 clients, some of which were his through his Kissinger Associates affiliation.^[14]. Later, Kissinger himself was appointed chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by George W. Bush. Congressional Democrats insisted that Kissinger disclose the names of clients. Kissinger and President Bush claimed that such disclosures were not necessary, but Kissinger ultimately stepped down, citing conflicts of interest.

A selected list of the more notable companies (from over two dozen in total) since 1982;^[13] his directorships where applicable; and some countries where known advice/contacts were used:

• American Express - Director (Hungary, Japan)
• American International Group - Director, International Advisory Committee (Argentina, China, South Korea)
• Atlantic Richfield
• Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) - Chairman, International Advisory Committee
• Coca-Cola (Malaysia)
• Fiat
• Freeport-McMoRan - Director (Burma, Indonesia, Panama)
• Heinz (Ivory Coast, Turkey, Zimbabwe)
• Hollinger, Inc. - Director (DIRECTORS CURRENTLY BEING IMPRISONED FOR FRAUD)
• Lehman Brothers, Inc. Kissinger Mclarty Assoc. is listed as a creditor in the Bankruptcy Filings.
• Merck
• Volvo

Warburg

So there you have it.

Kissinger, a man who refused to serve as chairman on a commission on terrorist attacks on the United States because of “conflicts of interest” with his private business affairs, is the guy who hands daily orders to the National Security Advisor, “filtered down” through two other former incumbents of the office. It is known that Kissinger clients include the Bin Laden Family.

Kissinger held the office under Johnson, Nixon and Ford from 68 - 75. There are arrest warrants out for war crimes against him in a number of countries he can not set foot in.  And there ought be in many more. Snowcroft took over from Kissinger and then handed on to … wait for it …. Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Of him rense.com say:

Any lingering doubts about Obama’s status as an abject puppet of Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission ended this morning when the withered mummy of imperialism himself appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe* to campaign for Obama, urged on by his own moronic daughter, Mika Brzezinski, an Obama groupie and sycophant.

Zbigniew, a low-level Polish aristocrat whose life has been devoted to hatred for Russia, lauded Obama for his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq war, saying that he himself was the source of Obama’s arguments back then - thus confirming Obama’s long-term status as his puppet, which probably began in 1981-1983, when Obama was a student at Columbia University, and Zbig was directing the anti-Russian institute.

We have it direct from the National security Advisors mouth:

I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal (sic) Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.

He does not take his orders from his boss, Obama, but from an indicted war criminal who once held the role he is in and has been running around for the last month or so proclaiming the New World Order is upon us.

And he boasts about it: “We have a chain of command in the National security Council that exists today”.

So I guess …. the Whitehoues either think this is all fine and hunky dory, or Obama has a knife to his throat - or these people are seriously deluded. Because they published this chain of command in a public press release.

When you have a small interconnected group of men, through membership of secret societies and backdoor chains of command, surrounding and informing Presidents and their policy over many years, those Presidents can be nothing but a puppets on strings. Only once in the last thirty years does it look like America has had a “real” President - i.e. a guy who is part of this secret chain of command: George H. Bush.

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations.

William Rivers Pitt

Having just read the “Project for a New American Century”, whitepaper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century.”, from start to finish, all I can say is that the last eight years of American History will go down in the history books as the time when a plan for global empire backfired.

This report proceeds from the belief that America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership (a) by maintaining the pre-eminence of U.S. military forces. Today, the United States has an unprecedented strategic opportunity. It faces no immediate great-power challenge; (b) it is blessed with wealthy, powerful and democratic allies in every part of the world; (c) it is in the midst of the longest economic expansion in its history; and (d) its political and economic principles are almost universally embraced. (e) At no time in history has the international security order been as conducive to American interests and ideals.

PNAC- “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century.”

(references mine)

The document is utterly narcissistic, self-interested and self-important. It is aggressive to the point of being psychopathic, demanding not only that the USA extend and enhance it’s influence in Europe, Asia and the Middle East (i.e. the whole world) but that it control the “International Commons” of space and cyberspace.

This document and it’s writers clearly have an over-developed sense of personal and national importance and unfortunately when Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. Luckily they did not have the brains to succeed and made so many mistakes their house of cards has tumbled. Let’s look at some of these founding beliefs and see how America has done since publication:

(a) by maintaining the pre-eminence of U.S. military forces.

I’ll give you that one success - you are more capable of bullying people than any other nation on earth. Big round of applause for the “World’s Biggest Bully”.

(b) it is blessed with wealthy, powerful and democratic allies in every part of the world.

Your economic folly has corrupted the world financial system. Your former allies are now very wary of your Government lies and deceit. Their wealth has been diminished greatly by the USA exporting toxic debt assets to their blessed friends.

(c) it is in the midst of the longest economic expansion in its history. George W. Bush had no clue about money. Instead of taking the economic hit of the mini recession early in his first term, and allowing the economy to adjust through market movements, he let Greenspan re-inflate the bubble leading to possibly the greatest economic collapse in all American history (now). This one has been truly screwed and the coming economic downturn will weaken America beyond measure.

(d) its political and economic principles are almost universally embraced. Your politics is the politics of power, money, influence pedalling, bullying, lying, renditions, torture, C.I.A government sponsored killings and coups. Your politics, as outlined in this document, are about being the world’s bully. Your corrupt economics and fiat banking system has just bankrupted the world financial system.

Clearly the Cheney’s, Bush’s, Wolfowitz’s et al who formed PNAC - and their many minions - have profited handsomely from the wars, and post war scenarios, that their warped psychopathology has lead the USA and the world into. Unfortunately their personal profiteering does not make for “political and economic principles” that are universally embraced. Especially the bits where Bush and Cheney award their own companies exclusive contracts. Don’t you guys know you look as bad as tin-pot dictators? Oh! I forgot … you were trying to be tin-pot dictators. It is not just us dirty foreigners who hate your self-serving ways, however. You have been seen for what you are, even by your own:

Americans have had just about enough of watching insiders with the right connections living well off the rest of us.

Frank Rich, The New York Times. Posted February 9, 2009.

Really now it has to be said: America, as a nation, is politically, economically and socially derided worldwide. Basically the world laughs at you as deficient humans, lazy, self centred, greedy, incapable of electing honest politicians or recognising or standing up for truth.

When you gain this capacity the world will want to see Bush and Cheney on Trial.

(e) At no time in history has the international security order been as conducive to American interests and ideals. You killed that one stone dead too - never has the USA had so many enemies facing inward and so many friends ready to walk away.

All this might not be so scary except Obama is changing nothing in this strategy, despite the failures noted above. Continuation of the USA’s aggressive foreign policy has already been seen under Obama who has recoiled from pre-election rhetoric and does not seem to have noticed something: All the other shit Bush and his friends based policy on have pretty much gone: all you have left is your weapons, which soon you may not be able to maintain.

*The author is agnostic, though he suspects God is unlikely based on the evidence at hand. Looks like America really is up to it’s neck in it.

Last year you may have felt richer than today. A mortgage of £200K on a £300K house left you with £100K equity. Today that house is 30% down, your equity is 90% down - because you were leveraged 3 x.

That’s if you’re lucky. If you bought at the top on a 100% 4x salary mortgage (old French: “deathgrip”) your 300K house is now worth £210K - if you can find a buyer - and yo owe £90,000 on a bunch of bricks. Your payments are just to pay that hole for the next 10 years.

Meanwhile the rich are still getting richer. Despite all the human conceived entities that stand between us at the end of every transaction there are to be found individual human beings. As our debt escalates the wealth of the wealthy does too. I’m not talking about anyone worth £100 million - these people are merely middle class fodder and only useful temporaily - they are as disposible as you and I.  It’s the people with hidden wealth in the trillions of dollars and pounds that are getting total control.

As everything is relative and total resources are finite, the actual numbers don’t matter a bit - it is the trends that matter. The wealthy want a world order where their wealth is preserved and you are allocated a portion of what remains, if you are lucky and compliant. There is a belief, easily seen in England, but pervasive worldwide - in thrall to the British crown - that a “certain class” are better than the rest of us, the barbarian hoards, almost a species apart indeed.

This encompasses a need to control the lower species and separate the worthy from the masses using an apparatus of security measures, law, prisons, police, fear, psychological control, propaganda (i.e. the news you watch -so stop and use alternatives), puppet “democratic government”, reduction in freedoms, military-industrial complexes - that can be turned inward (i.e. mechanised warfare using only a relatively small number of compliant persons), and - occasionally - mass culling through war, famine or unrest. This has gone on unhindered since 4,000 years or more. Most families involved today at the highest echalons can trace their blood to the same rulers of 4,000 or 2,000 or 1,000 years ago.

Many pundits are now saying we are definitely headed for unrest and famine - and possibly war. Climate change threatens pestilence. Regan may be dead but his controller Bush and Bush jr, (the second puppet Pres. of Bush Ist) believe they will see apocalypse and Armageddon - their God-calling - having carefully prepared for it, for some years.

Oh, and in the meantime planning for their survival, but not yours by the way. Wake up and start thinking. Turn off the TV. use the internet. www.PrisonPlanet.tv is a good place to start.

The efficient route to solve this issue would have involved two steps:

STEP 1) For the last twenty five years huge sums of wealth have moved beyond any scrutiny. The wealth of the wealthy is underestimated and the discrepancy with the poor understated. Tax havens such as Panama - where it is illegal to ask who owns a company - are used by the British Crown and all other super wealthy people and organisations. This tax avoidance has resulted in a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor and from the government to the corporation. This is the only reason the differential has worsened constantly and considerably and why governments are bust.

This redistribution has to be reversed. All offshore havens should be subjected to international law to reveal the ultimate owners of all assets immediately. After collating the account data, identified persons with an excess of $10 million liquid assets or greater should be subjected to a progressive taxation of liquid assets starting at 50% and rising to 99% at $100 million. This would raise a one off tax levy in the trillions of dollars. Anyone caught avoiding or aiding persons in avoiding the incorporation of their assets and income into the tax base in any way must get a mandatory 10 year gaol sentence with no luxury.

STEP 2) Redistributing this revenue by writing down all debt on a progressive basis of individuals and businesses would achieve:

a) Allowing people to stay in their homes, feel secure and participate in the economy.

b) Revalue the toxic securities immediately - even the most toxic would be almost fully paid down by the debt write off payments and restored to 100% value.

c) Restore banking confidence, support underlying asset markets including bonds, stocks and commodities.

d) Facilitate banks to lend to business in moderation.

e) Keep small, medium and large businesses in operation whilst allowing a slow re-structuring of innefficient business over time.

f) Not leave the government - and ultimately you - with huge debts.

g) Not increase the money supply leading to inflationary pressures and bubble effects.

This will not happen because the actual plan of the people making the decisions leading to government action is to enrich the banks, collapse the middle classes, tread down the poor and consolidate global power over energy, communications, food and information - through the consolidated banks.

Such an integration of industry and government is called national socialism, or fascism. It is a dangerous beast. Especially when the public government is merely a puppet of the real government, which is the case unless you live in one of a very few places on Earth.

The way out is to take sovereignty over your life. Learn to meditate, centre yourself, then take right action. Reduce spending, pay debts, then whilst stocks remain on shelves buy those things you can grow, eat, barter or use to survive and defend yourslef if the system is deliberately collapsed in order to fully wrench all semblance of freedom from your life.

Liberty will prevail and tyrrany will fall because they are few and we are multitude. Wake up.

Watch and learn. Robert Oxnam, former president of The Asia Society, and published author has Dissociative Identity Disorder and says “It does exist”:

Here is another famous and highly successful sufferer. Note his fathers damming comments - typical of families in denial.

Now for someone not famous but who describes very well the aetiology of the disorder you do not believe exists:

Time to think again Zinkler or I will wash you out in court. It is not acceptable to lie to my GP about a decision having been made, it is not acceptable to rubber stamp the cut of funding for my psychotherapy because you have been told to by the nefarious fascists at Newham Coucil.

Just do the right thing. You know what it is. Doing the wrong thing will only bite you in the ass. You told me you are ashamed and embarrassed at your errors in the past. If you make me take you to court on this one I will make sure your fitness to practice, in the light of my case, comes under close examination.

First safety, then freedom, then your goods …. then … well, you know the answer. So you know it is time to wake up and stop dreaming. Because when they come for you, there may be no one left to save you, if you don’t wake up now. Almost everything you know about the world of human politics is bullshit. Unless you truly discovered it for yourself.

I stumbled across this interesting long quote today. Seemed worth sharing in today’s world.

From Signs Of the Times: “Comments On The Pentagon Strike”:

Richard M. Dolan studied at Alfred University and Oxford University before completing his graduate work in history at the University of Rochester, where he was a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship. Dolan studied U.S. Cold War strategy, Soviet history and culture, and international diplomacy. He has written about “conspiracy” in the following way:

The very label [conspiracy] serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue.

The United States comprises large organizations - corporations, bureaucracies, “interest groups,” and the like - which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. “Conspiracy,” in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe.

Within the world’s military and intelligence apparatuses, this tendency is magnified to the greatest extreme. During the 1940s, [...] the military and its scientists developed the world’s most awesome weapons in complete secrecy… [...]

Anyone who has lived in a repressive society knows that official manipulation of the truth occurs daily. But societies have their many and their few. In all times and all places, it is the few who rule, and the few who exert dominant influence over what we may call official culture. - All elites take care to manipulate public information to maintain existing structures of power. It’s an old game.

America is nominally a republic and free society, but in reality an empire and oligarchy, vaguely aware of its own oppression, within and without. I have used the term “national security state” to describe its structures of power. It is a convenient way to express the military and intelligence communities, as well as the worlds that feed upon them, such as defense contractors and other underground, nebulous entities. Its fundamental traits are secrecy, wealth, independence, power, and duplicity.

Nearly everything of significance undertaken by America’s military and intelligence community in the past half-century has occured in secrecy. The undertaking to build an atomic weapon, better known as the Manhattan Project, remains the great model for all subsequent activities. For more than two years, not a single member of Congress even knew about it although its final cost exceeded two billion dollars.

During and after the Second World War, other important projects, such as the development of biological weapons, the importation of Nazi scientists, terminal mind-control experiments, nationwide interception of mail and cable transmissions of an unwitting populace, infiltration of the media and universities, secret coups, secret wars, and assassinations all took place far removed not only from the American public, but from most members of Congress and a few presidents. Indeed, several of the most powerful intelligence agencies were themselves established in secrecy, unknown by the public or Congress for many years.

Since the 1940s, the US Defense and Intelligence establishment has had more money at its disposal than most nations. In addition to official dollars, much of the money is undocumented. From its beginning, the CIA was engaged in a variety of off-the-record “business” activities that generated large sums of cash. The connections of the CIA with global organized crime (and thus de facto with the international narcotics trade) has been well established and documented for many years. - Much of the original money to run the American intelligence community came from very wealthy and established American families, who have long maintained an interest in funding national security operations important to their interests.

In theory, civilian oversight exists over the US national security establishment. The president is the military commander-in-chief. Congress has official oversight over the CIA. The FBI must answer to the Justice Department. In practice, little of this applies. One reason has to do with secrecy. [...]

A chilling example of such independence occurred during the 1950s, when President Eisenhower effectively lost control of the US nuclear arsenal. The situation deteriorated so much that during his final two years in office, Eisenhower asked repeatedly for an audience with the head of Strategic Air Command to learn what America’s nuclear retaliatory plan was. What he finally learned in 1960, his final year in office, horrified him: half of the Northern Hemisphere would be obliterated.

If a revered military hero such as Eisenhower could not control America’s nuclear arsenal, nor get a straight answer from the Pentagon, how on earth could Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon regarding comparable matters?

Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. Through the years, the national security state has gained access to the wrorld’s most sophisticated technology sealed off millions of acres of land from public access or scrutiny, acquired unlimited snooping ability within US borders and beyond, conducted overt or clandestine actions against other nations, and prosecuted wars without serious media scrutiny. Domestically, it maintains influence over elected officials and communities hoping for some of the billions of defense dollars. [including scientists, universities, etc.]

Deception is the key element of warfare, and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. When taken together, the examples of official duplicity form a nearly single totality. They include such choice morsels as the phony war crisis of 1948, the fabricated missile gap claimed by the air force during the 1950s, the carefully managed events leading to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution… [...]

The secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo.

[S]keptics often ask, “Do you really think the government could hide [anything] for so long?” The question itself reflects ignorance of the reality that secrecy is a way of life in the National Security State. Actually though, the answer is yes, and no.

Yes, in that cover-ups are standard operating procedure, frequently unknown to the public for decades, becoming public knowledge by a mere roll of the dice. But also no, in that … information has leaked out from the very beginning. It is impossible to shut the lid completely. The key lies in neutralizing and discrediting unwelcomed information, sometimes through official denial, other times through proxies in the media.

[E]vidence [of conspiracy] derived from a grass roots level is unlikely to survive its inevitable conflict with official culture. And acknowledgement about the reality of [conspiracies] will only occur when the official culture deems it worthwhile or necessary to make it. [Don't hold your breath.]

This is a widespread phenomenon affecting many people, generating high levels of interest, taking place in near-complete secrecy, for purposes unknown, by agencies unknown, with access to incredible resources and technology. A sobering thought and cause for reflection. [Richard Dolan]

Now, think about the word “conspiracy” one more time and allow me to emphasize the key point: From a historical point of view, the ONLY reality is that of conspiracy. Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. …Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool of power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo.

And how do they do that? By “official culture.”

So turn off the news and start watching a few things on YouTube like “Fabled Enemies” or anything with Peter Shiff in it or Congressman Ron Paul. Listen to the radio shows of William (Bill) Cooper, R.I.P, at on the hour. Sometimes - often - turn off everything - the TV, radio, the lot - and just sit and listen to yourself breathe. Maybe that is the best thing to do. Stop taking the medicine - it’s a poisonous matrix of lies.