Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Group
Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings
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January 30, 2013
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Source:
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-runs-the-world-solid-proof-that-a-core-group-of-wealthy-elitists-is-pulling-the-strings.html>Michael
Snyder, Guest Post
Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy
elitists control the world? Do men and women
with enormous amounts of money really run the
world from behind the scenes? The answer might
surprise you. Most of us tend to think of money
as a convenient way to conduct transactions, but
the truth is that it also represents power and
control. And today we live in a
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism>neo-fuedalist
system in which the super rich pull all the
strings. When I am talking about the
ultra-wealthy, I am not just talking about people
that have a few million dollars. As you will see
later in this article, the ultra-wealthy have
enough money sitting in offshore banks to buy all
of the goods and services produced in the United
States during the course of an entire year
andstill be able to pay off the entire U.S.
national debt. That is an amount of money so
large that it is almost incomprehensible. Under
this ne0-feudalist system, all the rest of us are
debt slaves, including our own governments. Just
look around – everyone is drowning in debt, and
all of that debt is making the ultra-wealthy even
wealthier. But the ultra-wealthy don’t just sit
on all of that wealth. They use some of it to
dominate the affairs of the nations. The
ultra-wealthy own virtually every major bank and
every major corporation on the planet. They use
a vast network of secret societies, think tanks
and charitable organizations to advance their
agendas and to keep their members in line. They
control how we view the world through their
ownership of the media and their dominance over
our education system. They fund the campaigns of
most of our politicians and they exert a
tremendous amount of influence over international
organizations such as the United Nations, the
IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. When you step
back and take a look at the big picture, there is
little doubt about who runs the world. It is
just that most people don’t want to admit the truth.
The ultra-wealthy don’t run down and put their
money in the local bank like you and I
do. Instead, they tend to stash their assets in
places where they won’t be taxed such as the
Cayman Islands. According to a report that was
released last summer, the global elite have up to
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/super-rich-offshore-havens_n_1692608.html>32
TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.
U.S. GDP for 2011 was about 15 trillion dollars,
and the U.S. national debt is sitting at about 16
trillion dollars, so you could add them both
together and you still wouldn’t hit 32 trillion dollars.
And of course that does not even count the money
that is stashed in other locations that the study
did not account for, and it does not count all of
the wealth that the global elite have in hard
assets such as real estate, precious metals, art, yachts, etc.
The global elite have really hoarded an
incredible amount of wealth in these troubled
times. The following is from an article
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/super-rich-offshore-havens_n_1692608.html>on
the Huffington Post website…
Rich individuals and their families have as much
as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in
offshore tax havens, representing up to $280
billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.
The study estimating the extent of global private
financial wealth held in offshore accounts –
excluding non-financial assets such as real
estate, gold, yachts and racehorses – puts the
sum at between $21 and $32 trillion.
The research was carried out for pressure group
Tax Justice Network, which campaigns against tax
havens, by James Henry, former chief economist at consultants McKinsey & Co.
He used data from the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund, United Nations and central banks.
But as I mentioned previously, the global elite
just don’t have a lot of money. They also
basically own just about every major bank and
every major corporation on the entire planet.
According to an outstanding
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html#bx283545B1>NewScientist
article, a study of more than 40,000
transnational corporations conducted by the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
discovered that a very small core group of huge
banks and giant predator corporations dominate
the entire global economic system…
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf>An
analysis of the relationships between 43,000
transnational corporations has identified
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html#bx283545B1>a
relatively small group of companies, mainly
banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
The researchers found that this core group
consists of just 147 very tightly knit companies…
When the team further untangled the web of
ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a
“super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit
companies – all of their ownership was held by
other members of the super-entity – that
controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the
network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the
companies were able to control 40 per cent of the
entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were
financial institutions. The top 20 included
Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
The following are the
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html#bx283545B1>top
25 banks and corporations at the heart of this
“super-entity”. You will recognize many of the names on the list…
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
The ultra-wealthy elite often hide behind layers
and layers of ownership, but the truth is that
thanks to interlocking corporate relationships,
the elite basically control almost every Fortune 500 corporation.
The amount of power and control that this gives them is hard to describe.
Unfortunately, this same group of people have
been running things for a very long time. For
example, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan said
the following during a speech all the way
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Hylan#Quotes>back
in 1922…
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible
government, which like a giant octopus sprawls
its slimy legs over our cities, states and
nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let
me say that at the head of this octopus are the
Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small
group of powerful banking houses generally
referred to as the international bankers. The
little coterie of powerful international bankers
virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.
They practically control both parties, write
political platforms, make catspaws of party
leaders, use the leading men of private
organizations, and resort to every device to
place in nomination for high public office only
such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.
These international bankers and
Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the
majority of the newspapers and magazines in this
country. They use the columns of these papers to
club into submission or drive out of office
public officials who refuse to do the bidding of
the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the
invisible government. It operates under cover of
a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive
officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts,
newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
These international bankers created the central
banks of the world (including
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/category/federal-reserve>the
Federal Reserve), and they use those central
banks to get the governments of the world
ensnared in
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/what-if-we-adopted-a-system-where-the-banks-did-not-create-our-money>endless
cycles of debtfrom which there is no
escape.
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/category/u-s-government-debt>Government
debt is a way to “legitimately” take money from
all of us, transfer it to the government, and
then transfer it into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.
Today,
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-federal-reserve-shows-barack-obama-who-the-real-boss-is>Barack
Obama and almost all members of Congress
absolutely refuse to criticize the Fed, but in
the past there have been some brave members of
Congress that have been willing to take a
stand. For example, the following quote is from
a speech that Congressman Louis T. McFadden
delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.afn.org/%7Egovern/mcfadden_speech_1932.html>on
June 10, 1932…
Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the
most corrupt institutions the world has ever
known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and
the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve
Board, a Government board, has cheated the
Government of the United States and the people of
the United States out of enough money to pay the
national debt. The depredations and iniquities of
the Federal Reserve Board has cost this country
enough money to pay the national debt several
times over. This evil institution has
impoverished and ruined the people of the United
States, has bankrupted itself, and has
practically bankrupted our Government. It has
done this through the defects of the law under
which it operates, through the maladministration
of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and
through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.
Sadly, most Americans still believe that the
Federal Reserve is a “federal agency”, but that
is simply not correct. The following comes
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/federal-reserve-bank-ownership/>from
factcheck.org…
The stockholders in the 12 regional Federal
Reserve Banks are the privately owned banks that
fall under the Federal Reserve System. These
include all national banks (chartered by the
federal government) and those state-chartered
banks that wish to join and meet certain
requirements. About 38 percent of the nation’s
more than 8,000 banks are members of the system, and thus own the Fed banks.
According to researchers that have looked into
the ownership of the big Wall Street banks that
dominate the Fed, the same names keep coming up
over and over: the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds,
the Warburgs, the Lazards, the Schiffs and the royal families of Europe.
But ultra-wealthy international bankers have not
just done this kind of thing in the United
States. Their goal was to create a global
financial system that they would dominate and
control. Just check out what Georgetown
University history professor Carroll Quigley
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/marshall16.1.html>once
wrote…
[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another
far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a
world system of financial control in private
hands able to dominate the political system of
each country and the economy of the world as a
whole. This system was to be controlled in a
feudalist fashion by the central banks of the
world acting in concert, by secret agreements
arrived at in frequent private meetings and
conferences. The apex of the system was to be the
Bank for International Settlements in Basle,
Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled
by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.
Sadly, most Americans have never even heard of
the Bank for International Settlements, but it is
at the very heart of the global financial
system. The following is
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements>from
Wikipedia…
As an organization of central banks, the BIS
seeks to make monetary policy more predictable
and transparent among its 58 member central
banks. While monetary policy is determined by
each sovereign nation, it is subject to central
and private banking scrutiny and potentially to
speculation that affects foreign exchange rates
and especially the fate of export economies.
Failures to keep monetary policy in line with
reality and make monetary reforms in time,
preferably as a simultaneous policy among all 58
member banks and also involving the International
Monetary Fund, have historically led to losses in
the billions as banks try to maintain a policy
using open market methods that have proven to be
based on unrealistic assumptions.
The ultra-wealthy have also played a major role
in establishing other important international
institutions such as the United Nations, the IMF,
the World Bank and the WTO. In fact, the land
for the United Nations headquarters in New York
City was purchased and donated by John D. Rockefeller.
The international bankers are “internationalists”
and they are very proud of that fact.
The elite also dominate the education system in
the United States. Over the years, the
Rockefeller Foundation and other elitist
organizations have poured massive amounts of
money
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family>into
Ivy League schools. Today, Ivy League schools
are considered to be the standard against which
all other colleges and universities in America
are measured, and the last four U.S. presidents
were educated at Ivy League schools.
The elite also exert a tremendous amount of
influence through various secret societies (Skull
and Bones, the Freemasons, etc.), through some
very powerful think tanks and social clubs (the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral
Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian
Grove, Chatham House, etc.), and through a vast
network of charities and non-governmental
organizations (the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, etc.).
But for a moment, I want to focus on the power
the elite have over the media. In a
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read>previous
article, I detailed how just six monolithic
corporate giants control most of what we watch,
hear and read every single day. These giant
corporations own television networks, cable
channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines,
publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.
Considering the fact that the average American
watches
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/americans-watching-more-tv-than-ever/>153
hours of television a month, the influence of
these six giant corporations should not be
underestimated. The following are just some of
the media companies that these corporate giants own…
Time Warner
Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine
Walt Disney
ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books
Viacom
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1
News Corporation
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan
CBS Corporation
CBS News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network
NBC Universal
Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
USA Network
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Trio
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video
And of course the elite own most of our
politicians as well. The following is a quote
from
<http://blacklistednews.com/https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_age_of_neo_feudalism_a_government_of_the_rich_by_the_rich_and_for_the_c>journalist
Lewis Lapham…
“The shaping of the will of Congress and the
choosing of the American president has become a
privilege reserved to the country’s equestrian
classes, a.k.a. the 20% of the population that
holds 93% of the wealth, the happy few who run
the corporations and the banks, own and operate
the news and entertainment media, compose the
laws and govern the universities, control the
philanthropic foundations, the policy institutes,
the casinos, and the sports arenas.”
Have you ever wondered why things never seem to
change in Washington D.C. no matter who we vote for?
Well, it is because both parties are owned by the establishment.
It would be nice to think that the American
people are in control of who runs things in the
U.S., but that is not how it works in the real world.
In the real world, the politician that raises
more money wins
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/oct/17/occupy-wall-street/occupy-wall-street-protesters-sign-says-94-percent/>more
than 80 percent of the time in national races.
Our politicians are not stupid – they are going
to be very good to the people that can give them
the giant piles of money that they need for their
campaigns. And the people that can do that are
the ultra-wealthy and the giant corporations that the ultra-wealthy control.
Are you starting to get the picture?
There is a reason why the ultra-wealthy are
referred to as “the establishment”. They have
set up a system that greatly benefits them and
that allows them to pull the strings.
So who runs the world?
They do. In fact, they even admit as much.
David Rockefeller wrote the following
<http://blacklistednews.com/http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller#Memoirs_.282003.29>in
his 2003 book entitled “Memoirs”…
“For more than a century, ideological extremists
at either end of the political spectrum have
seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my
encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller
family for the inordinate influence they claim we
wield over American political and economic
institutions. Some even believe we are part of a
secret cabal working against the best interests
of the United States, characterizing my family
and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring
with others around the world to build a more
integrated global political and economic
structure one world, if you will. If that is
the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
There is so much more that could be said about
all of this. In fact, an entire library of books
could be written about the power and the
influence of the ultra-wealthy international bankers that run the world.
But hopefully this is enough to at least get some conversations started.
So what do you think about all of this? Please
feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below…
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