By: Gary D. Barnett
“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”
~ Giuseppe Prezzolini
It is time to put to bed any idea whatsoever that what is called ‘America’ is some sort of free and democratic country. It is not any such thing, and is completely run and controlled by the ‘private’ Federal Reserve Bank, domestic and global international banking and finance organizations, and ruling oligarchs who entirely control all politicians who can only act as pawns of the real power that wields absolute dominance over this failing empire. In other words, right and left are one and the same and can only act in concert to satisfy the real ruling class. There is no representation of the people, and outside interests, mostly unseen, are pulling all the strings of power in finance, technology, and the military industrial complex. This is the way of government and governance, all government.
This leads to some hard truths that have never been accepted by this indentured serf ‘citizenry.’ The core of this problem is multi-faceted, but lies mainly in the fact that every generation has been indoctrinated from birth to believe in reverence for ‘country’ through abominable nationalistic worship of State. Public (government) schools play a huge part in this extremely intense propagandizing of false ‘patriotism.’ It is all a ruse set up intentionally by those who literally run this so-called ‘nation-state.’ If real history, not what is taught in schools, or propagandized by the political class and media, were known, the people would likely never have succumbed to their own slavery without so much as even minor resistance. In fact, it has been almost the opposite attitude, which is exuberant support of nationalistic power.
The acceptance by the masses for worthless government decrees, such as declarations, blood-soaked flags, so-called ‘founding’ documents, and constitutions, is testament to a mentality based upon reliance on rulers and masters to allow partial freedoms in order to have the ability to close all windows to any individual sovereignty. Any belief in government doctrine claiming to define ‘rights’ is simply an admission that the State is the decider of those rights, not inherent natural law. The beginning and end of freedom rests in any belief that governments have any right to rule. They do not have any legitimate right to rule over any other, period. One must remember that politicians, those bought and paid for whores of the claimed oligarchs, are simply people like everybody else, nothing special, who automatically become obedient to the real power in order to retain their status, illegal wealth-building capabilities, and positions in government. They are literally the worst of mankind.
This has now become a multi-polarized world, and all geopolitics are centered around a new world order consistent with different regional technates of power, dependent on a centralized joint technocratic ruling system. The U.S. or what will become the North American Technate, will likely be a major player in this system, but probably not the head, as the power structure is changing dramatically as this technocratic oligarchy goes forward. The U.S. is debt-ridden beyond imagination, has lost (intentionally orchestrated) most all its manufacturing capabilities, and cannot build these back without full cooperation over a long period of time with China, which may become the newest world empire. The Middle East situation is very telling of this shift in power, especially when considering capital growth and the cooperative nature happening in East and West Asia. The so-called ‘nation-state’ of America is losing its control over world events, and will become a regional player only, and not the dominate the controlling hegemon that has existed for over the past century.
None of this could happen without the age old strategy of divide and conquer. In this country, ‘democrats’ and ‘republicans,’ one and the same, are more divided than ever before, racial division is rampant, each segment of this melting pot called America hate each other, men and women are growing further apart by the moment, and family growth has declined to a level that cannot sustain itself. Everybody hates white people, even certain whites, and all immigrants are seen as criminal, which in a country made up of all immigrants or the children of immigrants, seems rather alien; no pun intended. Then there are the transgenders, homosexuals, and all other multi-letter groups; a purposely induced psyop, that has divided this ‘country’ even more. And the list continues to grow, as the division expands continuously, meaning that control over the people at large has become vastly easier to handle, as hate is the dominant mindset of American society. Little do the general masses understand about their own stupidity, for allowing the ruling sector to separate and divide nearly the entirety of this population, which has led to what will soon become a national plantation of slavery, where this once empire will have been replaced by a new empirical order.
In the midst of all this chaos, the general population continues to be used, abused, stolen from, sickened, and murdered due to government (State) policies, wars, debt, and spending to sustain forever conflicts; none of which are legitimate. All war debts are transferred to the people, and all war profits , which are gargantuan, are kept by the oligarchs and their financial conglomerates. None of the debt that exists, which is incredibly more than is stated, will ever be paid or reduced by the State, but will always be transferred to the common citizenry. Of course, this means gross inflation of the ‘money’ supply, which leads to price inflation that is unbearable. This is already evident, but will get much worse.
It is imperative to understand that all going on in this ‘country’ and beyond, are Ponzi schemes based on capital transfer. Most everything is dependent on deception, lies, theft, and perpetual wars; although most every war is not a real war based on defense from attack, it is plotted constant war to bring about more control and money exchange from the common people to the few rich oligarchs. This could not be more evident than it is in the U.S., where the very rich own and control almost all the wealth. Only a small handful of companies in U.S. markets make up about 50% of the entire markets, and most of those particular companies were built, funded, and controlled by the Pentagon, CIA, and DARPA. They were and are given massive contracts, sustained, and monetized to gain market dominance. This is a completely rigged market system, and can only function through grift, fraud, manipulation, and fascist policies.
The main point of this short essay is that America is not what it is made out to be, and never has it been. More freedom existed in the distant past, but that is only because the technology necessary to control large areas and millions of people spread across huge territory did not exist. The framework to turn this ‘country’ into what it is today, has been in place for most of its history, but not with advanced control capabilities, mass surveillance, private/corporate partnerships, and full collusion between finance, technology, and military complexes; complexes whose intent is to control all, so the writing is on the wall. The result without mass resistance, is a fully controlled State, a fully controlled population, whose future is one of poverty and dependence for most.
What should be taken to heart is that government is technically irrelevant where power and control are concerned. The financial owners of this world, the Federal Reserve and central banks, the hedge funds, Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street, among other banking and finance giants, own, control, and are high above government. Politicians, regardless of who they are, are never any real power source, as they are but pawns of the massive financial system; controlled puppets at best. They are however, the conduit between the real power and the people, so as long as the people support and use this system, relying on the evil political class to save them, the opposite will occur.
The bottom line then, is to eliminate this governing system, which would make impotent those few who now rule the world. Without the government as their middleman, who seemingly control the rest of society, the oligarchs would lose their control over the masses. The way to accomplish this is to band together as individuals, and disregard all rule and government at every possible turn, disobeying their mandates, not complying with their heinous laws, and disengaging with this abominable system, especially the monetary system.
In my opinion, there is no other solution, as political solutions in this evil system of corruption, are not viable at any level, and can only exacerbate any effort to regain freedom.
“We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”
~ Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos
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