Post by 3bid on May 3, 2015 2:58:40 GMT -5
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Washington grabs the headlines and immediate attention but it's somewhat of a ruse. The pertinent question to ask is what and whom empowers Washington and where it derives its power and control from. The answer is to follow the money.
The US based Federal Reserve System forms (for now) the top of the global money pyramid. Despite its "Federal" sounding name the "Fed" is a private bank. It's not openly declared who exactly the major shareholders are but there are reasonable suspicions. Some of these suspected owners are US based, some are UK and European based. The Fed managed to take control over the US economy in 1913 and a number of the facilitators who engineered this takeover had close ties to the UK's powerbrokers.
Global trade and markets, economies and banking are closely intertied to US and UK based institutions. The real power these countries exert is not so much military power (although this is also used effectively when diplomatic persuasion and blackmail fails) but rather economic based power and coercion. It's what enables them to bend countries into doing their bidding and when that fails military means are used to punish and regime change them.
The smartest puppetmasters are the ones who stay out of the limelight and let others do most of the barking and acting. The UK is such a country and has centuries worth of experience and verifiable historical track record to back it up.
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Pomeranzev said the Kremlin is “pushing out more conspiracy” and he explained, “What is conspiracy – sort of a linguistic sabotage on the infrastructure of reason. I mean you can’t have a reality-based discussion when everything becomes conspiracy. In Russia, the whole discourse is conspiracy. Everything is conspiracy.” He added, “Our global order is based on reality-based politics. If that reality base is destroyed, then you can’t have international institutions, international dialogue.” Lying, he said, “makes a reality-based politics impossible” and he called it “a very insidious trend.”
Apparently, Pomeranzev has forgotten that important October 2004 article by Ron Suskind published in the New York Times Magazine during the second war in Iraq (which, like the first, was based on a widely disseminated lie). Suskind quoted one of George W. Bush’s aides (probably Karl Rove): “The aide said that guys like me [journalists, writers, historians] were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality…That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.” [12][/p]
Full article and commentary:
russia-insider.com/en/weaponizing-information/6004