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SOTN Editor’s Note:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The following essay ought to be read by every voter who thinks their vote really matters.<\/p>\n

Likewise, it ought to be read by every U.S. citizen who believes in their democratic electoral process.<\/p>\n

The article below should be studied by every college student and young adult laborer who has any faith in their elected officials.<\/p>\n

But bear in mind as you read this expos\u00e9 that it only scratches the surface of the real problem. \u00a0The true back story as to how this System<\/em> really works is too unbelievable to disclose. \u00a0That’s right, the reader simply wouldn’t believe how hopelessly corrupt the whole System<\/em> is.<\/p>\n

Truly, the 2016 presidential election is not about Democrats versus Republicans or Donald Trump versus Bernie Sanders. \u00a0It’s about We the People<\/em> versus\u00a0the U.S. Federal Government.<\/p>\n

State of the Nation<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Sanders\/Trump Smokescreen<\/h1>\n

By Moti Nissani<\/p>\n

\u201cIf voting made any difference they wouldn\u2019t let us do it.\u201d \u2015 Mark Twain<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the use of voting? \u00a0We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.\u201d\u2014Woodrow Wilson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

History reinforces the view that nothing can be expected from electoral politics in America (and in most other countries of the world).\u00a0 If change ever comes to our shores, it cannot possibly be brought about by politics as usual.<\/p>\n

Many of my acquaintances, and many writers in the alternative media, put their faith in electoral politics.\u00a0 They feel, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that it makes a difference whether a Republican or a Democrat is elected, that it makes sense to sue the government for one or another gross violation of the public interest or common decency.\u00a0 They fail to notice that most of our presidents, governors, and mayors, most of our \u201celected\u201d representatives at the local, state, and federal levels, most of our judges\u2014are puppets of the men in the shadows (a few international banking families and their lieutenants in huge corporations, governments, armed forces, and intelligence services).<\/p>\n

Others acquaintances, a bit more sophisticated but still profoundly misinformed about the nature of American politics, reject the corrupt two-headed party system out of hand, yet put their trust in the electoral process itself and in the ability of friends of the American people (as opposed to the traitors, swindlers, sycophants, and psychopaths who now infest most public offices of this land) to gain political or judicial office and bring about meaningful change.\u00a0 That trust is touching, but it fails to acknowledge incontestable political realities.\u00a0 To campaign for a Ron Paul, or a Bernie Sanders, or a Donald Trump, or a Eugene Debs, or Jesus of Nazareth himself, in this system is counterproductive.\u00a0 A few crystalline raindrops cannot disinfect a cesspool.<\/p>\n

The reasons for this futility, the reasons it is misguided in principle and perhaps even immoral to take part in electoral politics are many.\u00a0 For the moment, I can only offer a summary statement and some supporting documentation for the seven interacting factors (there could be more, but at this writing I can only think of seven) that render electoral politics in America a sad joke (for a more detailed review of the first three factors, please consult this<\/a>).<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Information<\/h3>\n

\u201cI am sure that I never read any memorable news in the newspaper.\u201d\u2013Henry David Thoreau (Walden, 1854)<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.\u201d\u2013Upton Sinclair (The Brass Check, 1919)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Almost all conventional sources of information\u2014schools, universities, think tanks, books, movies, newspapers, TV, radio\u2014are under the thumb of the men in the shadows.\u00a0 Most of us, therefore, end up voting against our own convictions and interests.\u00a0 For example, in 1919 Upton Sinclair (The Brass Check, p. 9) already sizzled:<\/p>\n

\"media_monkeys\"\u201cThe social body to which we belong is at this moment passing through one of the greatest crises of its history . . . What if the nerves upon which we depend for knowledge of this social body should give us false reports of its condition?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many people put their trust in experts, not realizing the centuries-long dependence of academics and intellectuals on the bankers and their lieutenants.\u00a0 Arthur Schopenhauer:<\/p>\n

\u201cParty interests are vehemently agitating the pens of so many pure lovers of wisdom.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0 Truth is certainly the last thing they have in mind.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0 Philosophy is misused, from the side of the state as a tool, from the other side as a means of gain.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. Who can really believe that truth also will thereby come to light, just as a by-product? .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0 Governments make of philosophy a means of serving their state interests, and scholars make of it a trade.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is even truer today, and especially so when it comes to disciplines that directly affect the bankers.\u00a0 As just one example, an article in the mainstream press explains \u201chow the federal reserve bought the economics profession<\/a>:\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni, and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession. . . . This dominance helps explain how, even after the Fed failed to foresee the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression, the central bank has largely escaped criticism from academic economists.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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William Hogarth, \u201cScholars Listening to a Lecture,\u201d 1736<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Prof. Anatal Fekete<\/a> provides a less polite characterization:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe light has gone out at the great American universities as far as monetary science is concerned.\u00a0 Through bribe, blackmail, and attrition all upright and serious monetary economists were bumped from their academic chairs. \u00a0The Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was a picnic in comparison to the Great American Cultural Revolution eliminating monetary economics from the curriculum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wish to make the point clear: Information nowadays is controlled everywhere and always.\u00a0 For instance, the bankers reserve to themselves the right of censoring all academic publishing (not only in economics, history, or political \u201cscience,\u201d but also in the natural<\/a> sciences) under the guise of the referee system.\u00a0\u00a0And here is another typical example, this time from the strait-jacketed world of children book publishing.\u00a0\u00a0Madeleine L\u2019Engle<\/a> looks back:<\/p>\n

\u201cA Wrinkle in Time was almost never published.\u00a0 You can\u2019t name a major publisher who didn\u2019t reject it.\u00a0 And there were many reasons.\u00a0 One was that it was supposedly too hard for children.\u00a0 Well, my children were 7, 10, and 12 while I was writing it.\u00a0 I\u2019d read to them at night what I\u2019d written during the day, and they\u2019d say, \u201cOoh, mother, go back to the typewriter!\u201d\u00a0 A Wrinkle in Time had a female protagonist in a science fiction book, and that wasn\u2019t done.\u00a0 And it dealt with evil and things that you don\u2019t find, or didn\u2019t at that time, in children\u2019s books.\u00a0 When we\u2019d run through forty-odd publishers, my agent sent it back.\u00a0 We gave up.\u00a0 Then my mother was visiting for Christmas, and I gave her a tea party for some of her old friends.\u00a0 One of them happened to belong to a small writing group run by John Farrar, of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which at that time did not have a juvenile list.\u00a0 She insisted that I meet John any how, and I went down with my battered manuscript.\u00a0 John had read my first novel and liked it, and read this book and loved it.\u00a0 That\u2019s how it happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recommended Starting References:<\/strong> 1. Sinclair, U. 1919. The Brass Check<\/a>. 2. Carlin, George. Who Really Runs America?<\/a>\u00a0 3. Loewen, James, 1995.\u00a0 Lies my Teacher Told me.\u00a0 4. Media Coverage of the Greenhouse Effect.<\/a> Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies\u00a021: 27-43.<\/h6>\n
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\"Mold\"<\/p>\n

Freedom Sculpture<\/a>,<\/em> Philadelphia, Zenos Frudakis: \u201cI wanted to create a sculpture almost anyone, regardless of their background, could look at and instantly recognize that it is about the idea of struggling to break free. This sculpture is about the struggle for achievement of freedom through the creative process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

2. Sunshine Bribery<\/h3>\n

In the USA, bribery is institutionalized.\u00a0 In fact, if one looks only at the sheer quantity of wealth being stolen from the people, one can perhaps surmise that the USA is the most corrupt country that has ever existed.\u00a0 Bribery is implemented principally through campaign financing, then complemented by such things as lucrative speaking and publishing arrangements after leaving office and by invitations to serve on the boards of the corporations that benefited from the ex-politician\u2019s or ex-judge\u2019s duplicity.\u00a0 As a result, politicians and judges gain adoration and millions, while a handful of banking families and their thousands of corporations gain extraordinary power and trillions.<\/p>\n

Over the years we have gotten used to occasional outbursts on this issue (please consult this source<\/a> for countless quotations).\u00a0 For instance, in 1987, Robert Byrd, then Senate majority leader, appealed to his colleagues:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my strong belief that the great majority of senators\u2013of both parties\u2013know that the current system of campaign financing is damaging the Senate, hurts their ability to be the best senator for this nation and for citizens of their respective States that they could be, strains their family life by consuming even more time than their official responsibilities demand, and destroys the democracy we all cherish by eroding public confidence in its integrity.\u00a0 If we do not face a problem of this magnitude and fix it, we have no one but ourselves to blame for the tragic results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Political scientists Adamany and Agree share that view:<\/p>\n

\u201c[The] political finance system\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 undermines the ideals and hampers the performance of American democracy . . . . Officials\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 are\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 captives of the present system. Their integrity and judgment are menaced\u2014and too often compromised\u2014by the need to raise money and the means now available for doing it . . . . The pattern of giving distorts American elections: candidates win access to the electorate only if they can mobilize money from the upper classes, established interest groups, big givers, or ideological zealots. Other alternatives have difficulty getting heard. And the voters\u2019 choice is thereby limited. The pattern of giving also threatens the governmental process: the contributions of big givers and interest groups award them access to officeholders, so they can better plead their causes . . . . The private financing system\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 distort[s] both elections and decision making. The equality of citizens on election day is diluted by their inequality in campaign financing. The electorate shares its control of officials with the financial constituency.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A 2013 update<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty much every politician in the western world is basically an employee of the ruling class, which is made up of a handful of traditionally powerful families including the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recommended Starting Reference: Pillars of American \u201cDemocracy:\u201d Sunshine Bribery.<\/a><\/h6>\n

3. Contemporary Human Failings<\/h3>\n

We are not only indoctrinable, but seem to enjoy being brainwashed (how many of us abstain from commercials and TV?).\u00a0 We are not as open-minded as we need to be, nor do we readily surrender<\/a> convictions in the face of overwhelming evidence against them.\u00a0 More often than not, we prefer obedience and conformity to individualism and critical thinking.\u00a0 Most of us lack the self-confidence, and perhaps the inborn taste, to detect quality on our own\u2014in food, architecture, music, drama, paintings, literature, or politics.\u00a0 The vast majority of the still-reading public (which is itself a small minority) depends on the bankers for their choice of books, instead of trusting their own tastes and proclivities.\u00a0 Many of us have accepted the bankers\u2019 absurd self-serving notion that crass materialism, endless accumulation of money and power, consumerism, specialization, and selfishness hold the keys to personal fulfillment.<\/p>\n

Moreover, these failings are magnified by the diminution\u2014probably deliberate\u2014of our very humanity.\u00a0 Our bodies nowadays are loaded with synthetic chemicals, heavy metals (e.g., mercury, lead), and radioactive substances.\u00a0 Our brains are loaded with thousands of commercials, infomercials, trivialities, and lies.\u00a0 It is no accident that the bankers facilitate prescription and illegal drug use in the USA, for such use clearly serves their interests.\u00a0 The bankers and their allies discourage us from ever getting even close to dissident literature, classical music, folk music, critical or holistic thinking, compassion, and non-conformity.\u00a0 By getting us addicted to TV and artless movies, through their control of the educational system, and by doing everything they can to suppress the love of reading, they even managed to diminish our vocabulary\u2014and thus our capacity to detect nuances of speech and thought.<\/p>\n

Consider Thomas Paine\u2019s 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense.\u00a0 According to Wikipedia, \u201cin relation to the population of the Colonies at that time, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book in American history.\u201d\u00a0 Could 1% of today\u2019s Americans understand and be moved by such a pamphlet?\u00a0 In just 239 years, then, there occurred a remarkable decline in the intellectual and spiritual caliber of the American people.<\/p>\n

In short, we are not as rational, altruistic, and compassionate as we should be.\u00a0 On top of that, the bankers have deliberately diminished our positive qualities and amplified our failings, thus putting another nail in the coffin of our electoral process.<\/p>\n

Recommended Starting References:\u00a0 <\/strong>Human Failings:<\/em>\u00a0 1. Milgram, Stanley, Obedience to Authority.\u00a0 2. Conceptual Conservatism: An Understated Variable in Human Affairs?<\/a> Social Science Journal<\/em>, vol. 31, pp. 307-318.\u00a0 Human Strengths<\/strong> (under natural conditions, human beings prefer cooperation, freedom, and rough equality of material possessions):\u00a0 1. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.\u00a0 Lessons In Living From The Stone Age.<\/a>\u00a0 In A Treasury of Science<\/em>, 1943, p. 502.\u00a0 2. Mann, Charles C. 2005. The Founding Sachems<\/a>.\u00a0 3. Harris, Marvin.\u00a0 Life Without Chiefs<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

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4. Cloak and Dagger<\/h3>\n
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\"david_rockefeller3\"<\/p>\n

The Master Spider? According to David Rockefeller\u2019s own \u201cencyclopedia<\/a>,\u201d he \u201chas interfaced with every United States president since Eisenhower . . . has connections to the Central Intelligence Agency . . . was extensively briefed on covert intelligence operations . . . sits at the core of a network of the most powerful and influential businessmen and women in corporate America. . . began a lifelong association with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) when he joined as a director in 1949 . . . helped found the Trilateral Commission in July 1973 .\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Occasionally, in ancient Rome or Greece, or 21st century UK or USA, a champion of the people poses a threat to the Machiavellian system itself.\u00a0 In such cases, overwhelming evidence suggests, the top oligarchs resort to character\u2014or literal\u2014assassinations.\u00a0 They routinely malign, incarcerate, poison, or blow the brains out of anyone, anywhere on earth, who threatens their control\u2014whistle blowers, congressmen, judges, U.S. presidents, DC madams who know too much, environmental activists, businessmen who dare tell the American people the truth about the Mexican Gulf disaster, sport celebrities na\u00efve and idealistic enough to join the neo-colonial armies yet smart enough to read the writings of fake dissidents, journalists who uncover the bankers\u2019 collusion in the \u201cwar\u201d on drugs, American peace activists, singers\/songwriters with a huge fan base who figure out how the system works\u2014and dare share this information with the public, movie directors who had come to know a member of the Rockefeller family a bit too well\u2014and who are bold enough to tell the world what they have learned, British princesses who speak up against landmines, union leaders, the bankers\u2019 own head of the IMF (International Mafia Fund), countless foreign heads of state who would not betray their countrymen.<\/p>\n

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\"DartGun1975\"<\/p>\n

US Senator Frank Church displays a Central Institute of Assassinations (CIA) poison dart gun that, depending on the poison used, causes an immediate heart attack or belated cancer, 1975. According to Congressional testimony, the gun fires a frozen liquid poison-tipped dart, the width of a human hair and a quarter of an inch long. The dart can penetrate clothing and leaves a barely-visible pin-sized tiny red mark where it enters the victim\u2019s body. In the heart attack version, once in the body, the poison melts and is absorbed into the bloodstream and causes a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that a routine autopsy is likely to trace the heart attack to natural causes. Church probably paid for his courage\u2013and for his progressive record\u2013with his life. By 1984, at the early of 59, he died of . . . cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Once upon a time, oligarchs kept such calumnies and strangulations below the surface, following their masters Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli\u2019s and Amschel Rothschild\u2019s sage advice.\u00a0 But now, as befits the emerging in-your-face style oligarchy, some of these atrocities are carried out in the open.<\/p>\n

There is a common misconception in progressive circles that America had once been the land of the free and the home of the brave, and that its decline only commenced with President Reagan.\u00a0 In reality, what is happening in 2016 is merely a culmination of a centuries-long gradual march towards fascism.\u00a0 I have provided numerous examples of this here<\/a>, so, for now, let me give a couple of quotations from the past (Upton Sinclair\u2019s self-published The Brass Check<\/a>, 1919):<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a certain labor leader in America, who was winning a great strike.\u00a0 It was sought to bribe him in vain, and filially a woman was sent after him, a woman experienced\u00a0 in seduction, and she lured this man into a hotel room, and at\u00a0 one o\u2019clock in the morning the door was broken down, and the\u00a0 labor leader was confronted with a newspaper story, ready to\u00a0 be put on the press in a few minutes.\u00a0 This man had a wife and children, and had to choose between them and the strike; he called off the strike, and the union went to pieces.\u00a0 This anecdote was told to me, not by a Socialist, not by a labor agitator, but by a well-known United States official, a prominent Catholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI cite this to show the lengths to which Big Business will go in order to have its way.\u00a0 In San Francisco they raised a million dollar fund, and with the help of their newspapers set to work deliberately to railroad five perfectly innocent labor men to the gallows.\u00a0 In Lawrence, Massachusetts, the great Woolen Trust planted dynamite in the homes of strikebreakers, and with the help of their newspapers sought to fasten this crime upon the union; only by an accident were these conspirators exposed, and all but the rich one brought to justice.\u00a0 Do you think that \u2018interests\u2019 which would undertake such elaborate plots would stop at inventing and circulating scandal about their enemies?<\/p>\n

\u201cMost certainly they did this in Denver.\u00a0 I was assured by Judge Lindsey, and by James Randolph Walker, at that time chairman of Denver\u2019s reform organization, that the corporations of that city had a regular bureau for such work.\u00a0 The head of it was a woman doctor, provided with a large subsidy, numerous agents, and a regular card catalogue of her victims.\u00a0 When someone was to be ruined, she would invent a story which fitted as far as possible with the victim\u2019s character and habits; and then some scheme would be devised to enable the newspapers to print the story without danger of libel suits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn extreme cases they will go as far as they did with Judge Lindsey\u2014hiring perjured affidavits, and getting up a fake reform organization to give them authority.\u00a0 Lindsey, you understand, has made his life-work the founding of a children\u2019s court, which shall work by love and not by terror.\u00a0 Love of children\u2014ah, yes, all scandal-bureaus know what that means!\u00a0 So they had a collection of affidavits accusing Lindsey of sodomy. They brought the charges while he was in the East.\u00a0 A reporter went to the Denver hotel where his young bride was staying, and when she refused to see the reporter, or to hear the charges against her husband, the reporter stood in the hallway and shouted the charges to her through the transom, and, then went away and wrote up an interview!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recommended Starting References:\u00a0 1. Pepper, William, F. 2008. An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King<\/em>. 2. Caldwell, Taylor, 1972. Captains And The Kings<\/em> (fiction).\u00a0 3.\u00a0 People vs. the Banks<\/a>.\u00a0 4. Pillars of American \u201cDemocracy:\u201d Cloak-and-Dagger Smoking Gun Evidence<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

5. Rigged Elections<\/h3>\n

Joseph Stalin reportedly said: \u201cIt is enough that the people know there was an election. \u00a0The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.\u201d\u00a0 Now that the bankers everywhere in the Western World are ingeniously re-introducing their version of Stalinism, following the same script in each and every country (just to dispel any doubt about this being a coordinated attack), the Trojan Horse in modern Western elections is the counters themselves.\u00a0 Such outrageous rigging provides the bankers another safety valve, and again makes a mockery of those who believe in electoral politics.<\/p>\n

Recommended Starting Reference: Palast, Greg. Election Rigged for Bush<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

6. Broken Promises<\/h3>\n

There is a vast gap between what a politician or a party promise before the elections and what they deliver after the elections.\u00a0 Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, for instance, promised peace but, once elected, served the bankers and, through guile,false-flag operations<\/a>, and propaganda, led their country to catastrophic wars.\u00a0 Politicians lie and get away with it, again making a mockery of the people\u2019s will and of ballot-box reformers.<\/p>\n

Woodrow Wilson\u2019s betrayal was, perhaps, the most disastrous of them all.\u00a0 He not only dragged the American people to war\u2013against their will and on behalf of the bankers\u2013but also broke his campaign promises not to sell his country to the bankers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the Democratic Presidential campaign, Wilson and the rulers of the Democratic Party pretended to oppose the Aldrich bill.\u00a0 As representative, Louis T. McFadden, explained twenty years later, when he was Chairman Of The House Banking And Currency Committee (and before the bankers silenced him forever),<\/p>\n

\u2018The Aldrich Bill was condemned in the platform . . . when Woodrow Wilson was nominated . . . the men who ruled the Democratic Party promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reins of government.<\/p>\n

\u2018Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the \u2018King\u2019s Bank,\u2019 to control us from the top downward, and to shackle us from the cradle to the grave.’\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We may note in passing that, to his credit, Wilson would later rue his betrayal:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a most unhappy man.\u00a0 I have ruined my country; a great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.\u00a0 We\u2019re no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One additional supporting example: Obama\u2019s promise to end the neo-colonization of Iraq<\/a>.\u00a0 In another\u00a0example, John Perkins<\/a> documents the assassination threats, blackmail, and bribes used to turn decent elected officials into renegades.<\/p>\n

7. Co-Option<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe best way to control the opposition is to lead it.\u201d\u2013Lenin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The men in the shadows often support phony dissident organizations, e.g., the so-called \u201cTea Party\u201d in the USA.\u00a0 Or, with their limitless supply of money, they might infiltrate and achieve partial control of a formerly genuine reform organization, e.g., the Sierra Club.\u00a0 They are thus able to control their own opposition.\u00a0 Also, an individual who discovers for the first time the sorrows of the biosphere might join, say, the Wilderness Society, and might never realize that this suit-and-tie organization had sold out decades ago.\u00a0 If she uncovers the deception, she might give up in disgust, mistakenly believing that it is just \u201chuman nature\u201d to deceive, look out for number one, and ignore long-term perils.\u00a0 And even if she manages to find her way to a grass-roots environmental organization, she might have only few years left to put her wisdom to good use.<\/p>\n

This applies, in particular, to \u201calternative\u201d media.\u00a0 Many of these accept commercials and thus are, to a certain extent, at someone else\u2019s beck and call.\u00a0 Other media have been created, funded, and sustained in order to throw confusion into the dissident camp.\u00a0 They magnify certain issues (which pose no threat to the bankers), thus deflecting attention from more pressing issues (e.g., Who is behind the ongoing destruction of the middle class, the ongoing Syrian and Palestinian genocides, the USS Liberty Massacre and cover-up, Pearl Harbor, USS Maine, 9\/11, or the Boston Marathon explosions?\u00a0 How in heaven\u2019s name did the Rockefellers and Rothschilds manage to exclude themselves from the list of the richest people in the world?\u00a0 What ismoney<\/a>?\u00a0 Is the Rothschild\/Rockefeller Cartel doing God\u2019s work, as it claims, or Satan\u2019s?\u00a0 Did this cartel accumulate its wealth and power honorably, or by sleight of hand?\u00a0 Who really owns British Petroleum, Monsanto, and just about any giant western corporation?).<\/p>\n

These phony media and websites often accept the absurd contention that our rulers never ever engage in conspiracies<\/a> (relying on that standard, absurd dismissal: \u201cShe is just a conspiracy theorist\u201d).\u00a0 For them, there is no point in investigating 9\/11<\/a>, for the simple reason that our rulers never plot in secret!\u00a0 Well, yes, the Russians, or the Chinese, or the Romans might have, but our lily-white bankers conspiring?\u00a0 Are you out of your mind?\u00a0 Such sites often refer to bankers\u2019 propaganda organs (e.g., CNN, New York Times) and to government sources as legitimate interpreters of reality.\u00a0 And again, seekers of truth must laboriously sift through their contrivances before beginning to see the world as it is.<\/p>\n

\"Treachery1\"Similarly, one of the most spectacular achievements of the Men in the Shadows is their success in defining our leading dissidents. Even though these \u201cleading dissidents and intellectuals\u201d receive financial support from the Deep State and are actively undermining the prospects of a revolution (the only path that can save us now), even though such \u201cdissidents\u201d are conspiracy scoffers, even though such \u201cdissidents\u201d are not interested in meaningful change (e.g., public central and state banks), even though they have never risked anything for the cause of a better world, they are still regarded as our best and brightest.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing these words, scarcely believing them myself.\u00a0 My heart tells me that this is preposterous, that there cannot possibly be people out there so vicious as to corrupt everything they touch and to deliberately diminish goodness, health, decency, and kindness in this world.\u00a0 But then my cortex takes over, providing me with multiple proofs\u2014both personal and research-based\u2014that these people do exist.\u00a0 The existence and ascendancy of pure evil is no conjecture, but fact.\u00a0 There are people in this world who have enough ill-gotten money to last them one thousand and one reincarnations of obscene physical comfort, but yet give nothing, absolutely nothing, to help the thousands of children who will go blind this year because they can\u2019t afford $1 worth of Vitamin A.\u00a0 As if this is not enough, these villains steal from these children the few centavos they do have, and torture or kill them outright if they refuse to surrender these centavos.\u00a0 A key step in planetary recovery is acknowledging the existence of evil, its pervasiveness, and its capacity to control human destinies.<\/p>\n

Mike Krieger<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must admit to ourselves that there are truly evil geniuses out there, and in most cases these characters have taken control of the power structure (corporations, politics and factions of the military in most of the nations we reside in).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recommended Starting Reference: 1. Helvarg, David.\u00a0 2004.\u00a0 The War Against the Greens<\/em>.\u00a0 2. The Co-Option Pillar of American \u201cDemocracy.\u201d Part I: Why Subvert the Opposition?
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Closing Remarks<\/h3>\n

Electoral participation, in any way, shape, or form is counter-productive because it help foster the facade of participatory democracy and the belief that piecemeal reform is possible.\u00a0 Also, as long as we accept the bankers\u2019 myth that the system can be changed peacefully from within, the bankers and the system are safe.\u00a0 Some of our best people take part in this charade either as candidates or supporters, deluding themselves that anything at all can come from their electoral toil.\u00a0 Imagine all that energy and good will channeled into a strategy that could possibly work!<\/p>\n

Electoral politics cannot work for many reasons.\u00a0 To begin with, how can we tell whether our champion is indeed our champion?\u00a0 How do we know that she would prefer probable death by saying no to the bankers to joining the fairly exclusive multimillionaire club by saying yes?\u00a0 What guarantees do the people have that she will not break every single promise?<\/p>\n

Moreover, the vast majority of gullible voters would believe that she is their enemy and that the bankers\u2019 and weaponeers\u2019 marionette is their friend.\u00a0 She cannot effect change because bankers can steal and print as much money as they want, which they can give to her opponents.\u00a0 In the very unlikely event that she survives all this and becomes a threat to the bankers, they will crucify her in their media, threaten her, offer her bribes, slander her, arrest her on false charges and keep her naked and humiliated, without trial, in solitary confinement, in a freezing-cold, filthy, noisy cubicle.\u00a0 In the still more unlikely event that she actually receives a majority of the votes, they will doctor the results.\u00a0 If she miraculously manages to overcome all this, and if nothing else works, she will be impeached on false grounds, suicided, incinerated in the skies or roadways, or poisoned.<\/p>\n

She will waste time and money, and never change anything, even if she is sincere and courageous.\u00a0 Since the American people are too drugged and televised, they will not be outraged by yet one more assassination, and will accept the bankers\u2019 version of events.\u00a0 In cases that cannot be readily forgotten, the bankers will establish a commission, appoint its members\u2014and then proceed to ignore subsequent reports of even these carefully-screened commissioners that the investigation was a cover-up, a hoax.\u00a0 The vast majority would still do nothing when the bankers derisively reproduce the image of the people\u2019s murdered champion on their fiat money or highways.<\/p>\n

In more general terms, putting our hopes for freedom and for a better world in the process of electoral politics is fundamentally ill-advised, if not immoral.\u00a0 We must grow up, as the Ancient Athenians<\/a> did, or as the American revolutionaries did, and provide for our own freedom and security.\u00a0 Our system is irreparably broken and must be overthrown, one way<\/a> or the other.\u00a0 The contemporary ballot box is a bewitching siren, a mirage, a shibboleth, a bankers\u2019 trap.<\/p>\n

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