Watch this and take in the implications:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs&feature=player_embedded#!
No comment is necessary…
Don’t you get a fuzzy warm feeling too when the word “oversight” is used several times in the same soundbite from some polititian or economist ? It sounds reassuring that some important sounding body is being given the job of watching over our great and grimy financial institutions…
Unfortunately, the bigger the bank, the less the oversight.
If anyone out there still doubts how little oversight exists over the banks that hold the entire finances of powerful countries in their hands, here is a video of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing of May 5, 2009
It would seem incredible, almost funny video if this was not the future debt of countless generations of americans that is being dealt with in such an arrogant, opaque way.
It seems to add insult to injury the federal Reserve is even making interest on the tax payer money used to bail out it’s own institutions.
No wonder US gun shops have broken all their records selling more ammunition over the last few months to american citizenry than ever in history…
Well, it is about time this vampiric system got changed, but it would be nice if it could be done in a peaceful, sensible way rather than the usual bloodbath.
To cut years of world-wide agony short maybe confiscating the assets of everyone involved at the top levels, investing the money in alternative energy and putting all big money wall street types to work replanting the amazon would be a good idea. Unfortunately our governments represent their interests and not ours, so they will prefer to let the world economy collapse, throw everyone in the West into debt-slavery from birth, and starve the third world to death. Sound improbable ? It’s happening as I speak…
The elite probably think they don’t need us peasants any more anyway, at least in such numbers – after all, since the “post war dream” we have developped science and technology enough already for them to all live in health and luxury from now on, with a few servants and all the cheap technology money can buy – the rest of us can be plunged into an impoverished dark ages.
But in stride with the “normalising the unthinkable” process, chipping away at humanity’s very essence, I’m sure a lot of people would ignorantly help them achieve that unspeakable end.
With the amount of stuff going on out there at the moment I hardly know where to start ! So while I work out what to write on for the next post, here’s an article to get your teeth into:
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=534
There are not many journalists out there who really say it how it is, even when faced with the blatantly obvious, which explains why a lot of people are so unaware of most of the real issues behind our current era of crisis. The few journalists that do have their good days and bad and sometimes miss the mark but they make a refreshing difference.
In this article Pilger points something very important thet has been happening in British politics for years but has been pretty muched “glossed over” by distracting people’s attention to other things, namely that the two main British political parties have converged into a “single ideology business state” with almost identical social, economic and foreign policies. This, locally and globally, is the source of most of our current woes.
He mentions “normalising the unthinkable” in relation to Blair, who deceived Britain into breaking international law and committing horrendous war crimes and genocide while being promoted by the media and rewarded with prizes for his “peace” work – at the same time pocketing huge checks from big oil for services rendered… but he only scratches the surface of that dark and twisty path; after all we live in a society where a majority watch people being murdered on screen in order to relax; where children are taught to emulate psychopathic and exploitative behaviour in schools and whose only provided role models are selfish, vain and vacuous human beings; where powerful nations pull their enemies up for war crimes while breaking international law repeatedly themselves invading countries using pretexted casus belli and massacring millions of innocent civilians – with the “PR” help of a vastly complicit media; the list goes on and on about the things we rational, supposedly ethical people tolerate without thinking twice – or is that the Orwelian “doublethink” that has already caught us in it’s foul grasp: the capacity to maintain two absurdly conflicting truths in one’s head at the same time in a sort of unquestioned limbo ?
So if the politicians, bankers, etc have managed to pull the wool over our eyes so well and pillage our society so effectively, it is not just their fault, but ours too, for tolerating the intolerable, and compromising when a stand should have been made time after time. Add to that the naivety of thinking that all the really important information we need to ensure a good life will be brought to us on a plate at a time when money, power and media go hand-in-hand (hint: not yours) and information provides the “edge” that ensures their success.
Maybe a large part of it is emulation, where we all unconsciously accept as “normal” the behaviour of the richest and most powerful among us, however depraved and evil. We are social animals to a certain extent, so perhaps blinders kick in automaticaly when our critical thinking should be screaming injustice, in order to protect our position in the group. After all, what does a pack of wolves know about ethics ? I would hope we evolved beyond that at some point.
It seems like those that control money, power and media are symbiotic towards each other and parasitic to the rest of us. Many parasites kill their hosts if not dealt with in time so we had better watch out !
I hope I can share Mr. Pilger’s optimism about the British people.
Hmm, that gives me a few ideas for my next posts…
As a small example of the differences of perception between the East and the West here is the kind of story that would be the joke of the month in Asia if any newspaper dared publish it. It’s already silly enough as it is but I’ll explain what the Asian take on it would be:
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976
So you thought that was ridiculous ?
If the Chinese government (or any other Asian institution) dared to fund a project with this kind of set up people would be crying “corruption !”, “aiding and abetting ciminals !”; “financing the Triads !” “institutional cronyism !” etc…
Not to mention “scandalous waste of public money !”
And here’s why:
In China 99% of prostitution is run by the Triads (asian mafias). A great majority of the “commercial sex venues” are also run by the Triads. The “gatekeepers” mentioned in the article (a lovely politicaly correct word for “pimps”) are also usually Triads, or join pretty fast if they don’t want to end up trying to swim out of a river with a truck axle tied to their feet or be chopped into a thousand pieces with meat cleavers (called the “thousand cuts” punishment – charming !)
So what the NIAA is doing here is effectively giving researchers tax payers money for several years in a row to hang around in seedy – but expensive – Karaoke bars with prostitutes while obviously buying drinks and “other services” from the establishment – “Field observation” they call it… Having been dragged into a few myself in the past by Asian businessmen I can guarantee that you do not get into these places without spending some money, even if you are a five star PLA general – In fact as a member of an institution you would be expected to spend more or “da boyz” might throw you out. In addition, time is money for Triads, so spending time with any girl(s), whether for filling out a questionnaire, a chat or any sexual fantasy that happens to be going through your head, costs money.
So 95% of the money spent in these places by the “researchers” will end up in Triad hands.
In addition to that, if the girls drink it is for several reasons:
1/ They get a cut on every drink bought for them by a customer. No amount of education will stop this happening; for a lot of them “lady drink” money is half or more of their income.
2/ For the younger, inexperienced girls drinking helps to break down their inhibitions, allowing them to attract custom more easily – and forget all the nasty experiences they could have…
3/ The older girls are often alcoholics for the previous two reasons.
So could a government program change anything ? Not no. 1 because the girl’s income depends on it. Not no. 2 because it’s a psychological necessity – unless the US government want’s to give all prostitutes a free supply of Rohypnol, Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate (GHB) or Ketamine Hydrochloride (all date rape drugs) – but that wouldn’t be very ethical if you ask me… And not no. 3 because the best way to change those girls habits is to get them off “the game” and back into their familes or into rehab ! But we wouldn’t want that – the “researchers” would be out of a job and might have to actually do something productive… and the Chinese government certainly wouldn’t want meddling Americans damaging their tourist trade !
And if you think all that is nuts, read the report on the 400,000 $ being spent by the american NIH on researching the links between gay sex and alcohol on bars in Argentina (!):
After all, in this day and age, we have nothing better to blow large amounts of money on after all !
Maybe these are all just bogus programs designed to compensate government employees for “services rendered” with exotic holidays far from tax payer scrutiny… It does make one wonder !
These are the reports from a Guardian journalist who dared try to approach the yearly Bilderburg Conference in Greece. This is an annual get together – in an undisclosed location somewhere in Europe or the US - of all the top movers and shakers in the western world. A Conference where allegedly they all come to agreements about the direction our collective future should be going. Numerous presidents and prime ministers (Blair, Brown, Sarkozy and Clinton to name a few – even Obama dissappeared for two days during his election campaign while the last Biderburg Conference was on in the US) have been invited over the years, often during the year preceding their election ! Monarchy from all over Europe are present, as well as all the biggest industrialists and financiers.
The problem for the journalist, as you will see, is the total secrecy conditions of the meeting, with – up to now – a total press blackout on everything that is said or decided there. Over the years a few intrepid reporters have managed to obtain some details, or at least know who attended, but not much more.
This reporter, who starts out with quite a humourous approach, learns the hard way that the big boys take their secrecy very seriously:
1st report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/13/in-search-of-bilderberg
I love the way he finishes the first report with:
Charlie Skelton will be filing regular updates from Athens until he is arrested by shadowy figures in dark glasses.
Little does he know that later on that is exactly what happens.
2nd report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/13/bilderberg-rich-cabal
3rd report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch
4th report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch
5th report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch1
6th report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/17/charlie-skelton-bilderberg
One question I ask: If the bilderburg Conference is the yearly meeting of the most powerful politicians, financiers and industrialists in the world, discussing how they are going to cooperate to drive our collective future, then why does the Guardian only send one reporter with a crappy digital camera and no support of any kind, rather than a full team of professionals who might actually have a chance of obtaining some useful information ? Silly question I suppose… Perhaps we should ask them what they think “news” is ?
So this is a conference of all the most powerful men in our “democratic” countries working together. Hmmm. Something about it doesn’t sound “democratic” to me…
For my french friends, there is a webpage on the Bilderburgers, with a list of the 2003 invitees, here pour les Francais…