Wealth & Power

Power can only be acquired in two way, by force or by accumulation of enormous wealth. In the current quagmire, the ruling élite (i.e., the moneychangers, the powers-that-be, the “one percent”) have exploited a rigged financial system to acquire wealth to literally “purchase” power. And, since the alleged 2007 financial crisis, they have been able to consolidate both wealth and power. Only a small handful of individuals now possess the entire wealth of at least 50% of the world population.

Clearly, wealth has flowed “upward,” the transfer of which has been facilitated by asset price inflation, stagnant wages, debt, and the rentier (read: “financialized”) economy. However, most of the wealth of the ruling élite has been indirectly created out of thin air by the central banks through ZIRP and “quantitative easing.” In other words, the most affluent individuals have exclusive access to “cheap money.”

Power is “purchased” directly through the collective creation and funding of NGOs (e.g., foundations and think tanks). The brightest and talented candidates are hired to staff those institutions, provided that the latter share the same ideology and philosophy as the founders. These sycophants and their “useful idiots” are then placed into the “revolving door” employment scheme that exists in government and the private sector (i.e., corporate enterprises, “mainstream” media, social media, etc.). Therefore, policies of the ruling élite will permeate all levels of the subordinate organizations.

Obviously, corruption, bribery, and extortion play a key role in the process, but all such activities remain opaque until scapegoats or “sacrificial lambs” are required to mummify any external investigations.

To understand the aforementioned oversimplified concepts is to understand how the “super-duper corona” plan-demic has played out for as long as it has and why there is an underlying agenda originating from the “top of the food chain.”

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