re: Intriguing quotes from Presidents/politicians throughout history regarding

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“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…Mr. Chairman, when the Federal Reserve act was passed, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here… and that this country was to supply financial power to an international superstate — a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.”

– Congressman Louis T. McFadden, from a speech delivered to the House of Representatives on June 10, 1932

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Quotes through out this thread are coming from past Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Head of the FBI, etc. -- These aren't false claims made up by random men of no significance found on the internet.

I'm in a in-depth training class for my company this week and unable to post as much as I'd like to. I'll circle back on this and try and connect the dots for you when I have time later this evening.

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Am I getting played by TRT the way DownSouth did me?

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J. Edgar Hoover said it best:

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“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”

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I'm not telling you what to believe or what not to believe. I'm merely laying out the available information in a way that I hope is digestible. What you do with that information is up to you.

Again, I'll try and circle back on this when I have more time tonight.

Here is just one example of a "conspiracy theory" that was true. Under Project MK-Ultra, the CIA paid hookers to bring men into a house where the guy's drink was spiked with LSD and they observed what happened to these guys. Some died. If I told you this was happening today, you would say I was crazy.

But experiments like this go on all the time. Right now today. Only thing is you aren't going to hear from any of the victims.

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But experiments like this go on all the time. Right now today. Only thing is you aren't going to hear from any of the victims.

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Because it happened once is not evidence that it happens all the time.

By that reasoning I could say, "Well, the abuse by the CIA was discovered and stopped. That's proof that it's always discovered and stopped." Follow?

Again, I don't believe in anything. I know that human trafficking takes place from all the evidence for it. Abductions of women and children for that purpose are rather common.

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If so, do you think the victims are only sold as sex slaves?

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I would think they're sold to buyers who have many nefarious intentions.

I really don't see the relevancy of this example to conspiracy theories, however. Abductions and human trafficking are real crimes in many nations.

Moving on to the PLOS One study: "The Network of Global Corporate Control" completed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology back in 2011. Link below


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A common intuition among scholars and in the media sees the global economy as being dominated by a handful of powerful transnational corporations (TNCs). However, this has not been confirmed or rejected with explicit numbers. A quantitative investigation is not a trivial task because firms may exert control over other firms via a web of direct and indirect ownership relations which extends over many countries. Therefore, a complex network analysis [1] is needed in order to uncover the structure of control and its implications. Recently, economic networks have attracted growing attention [2], e.g., networks of trade [3], products [4], credit [5], [6], stock prices [7] and boards of directors [8], [9]. This literature has also analyzed ownership networks [10], [11], but has neglected the structure of control at a global level. Even the corporate governance literature has only studied small national business groups [12]. Certainly, it is intuitive that every large corporation has a pyramid of subsidiaries below and a number of shareholders above. However, economic theory does not offer models that predict how TNCs globally connect to each other. Three alternative hypotheses can be formulated. TNCs may remain isolated, cluster in separated coalitions, or form a giant connected component, possibly with a core-periphery structure. So far, this issue has remained unaddressed, notwithstanding its important implications for policy making. Indeed, mutual ownership relations among firms within the same sector can, in some cases, jeopardize market competition [13], [14]. Moreover, linkages among financial institutions have been recognized to have ambiguous effects on their financial fragility [15], [16]. Verifying to what extent these implications hold true in the global economy is per se an unexplored field of research and is beyond the scope of this article. However, a necessary precondition to such investigations is to uncover the worldwide structure of corporate control. This was never performed before and it is the aim of the present work.

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Abstract:

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The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.

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Figure 1. Ownership and Control.

(A&B) Direct and indirect ownership. (A) Firm has percent of direct ownership in firm . Through , it has also an indirect ownership in and . (B) With cycles one has to take into account the recursive paths, see Appendix S1, Section 3.1. (C&D) Threshold model. (C) Percentages of ownership are indicated along the links. (D) If a shareholder has ownership exceeding a threshold (e.g. ), it has full control (100%) and the others have none (0%). More conservative model of control are also considered see Appendix S1, Section 3.1.



Figure 2. Network topology:

The computation of control requires a prior analysis of the topology. In terms of connectivity, the network consists of many small connected components, but the largest one (3/4 of all nodes) contains all the top TNCs by economic value, accounting for 94.2% of the total TNC operating revenue (Table 1). Besides the usual network statistics (Figures S5 and S6 in Appendix S1), two topological properties are the most relevant to the focus of this work. The first is the abundance of cycles of length two (mutual cross-shareholdings) or greater (Figure S7 and Section 7 in Appendix S1), which are well studied motifs in corporate governance [19]. A generalization is a strongly connected component (SCC), i.e., a set of firms in which every member owns directly and/or indirectly shares in every other member. This kind of structures, so far observed only in small samples, has explanations such as anti-takeover strategies, reduction of transaction costs, risk sharing, increasing trust and groups of interest [20]. No matter its origin, however, it weakens market competition [13], [14]. The second characteristics is that the largest connect component contains only one dominant strongly connected component (1347 nodes). Thus, similar to the WWW, the TNC network has a bow-tie structure [21] (see Figure 2 A and Appendix S1, Section 6). Its peculiarity is that the strongly connected component, or core, is very small compared to the other sections of the bow-tie, and that the out-section is significantly larger than the in-section and the tubes and tendrils (Figure 2 B and Table 1). The core is also very densely connected, with members having, on average, ties to 20 other members (Figure 2 C, D). As a result, about 3/4 of the ownership of firms in the core remains in the hands of firms of the core itself. In other words, this is a tightly-knit group of corporations that cumulatively hold the majority share of each other.



Figure 3. Concentration of network control and operating revenue.

The topological analysis carried out so far does not consider the diverse economic value of firms. We thus compute the network control that economic actors (including TNCs) gain over the TNCs' value (operating revenue) and we address the question of how much this control is concentrated and who are the top control holders. See Figure S3 in Appendix S1 for the distribution of control and operating revenue.

It should be noticed that, although scholars have long measured the concentration of wealth and income [22], there is no prior quantitative estimation for control. Constructing a Lorenz-like curve (Figure 3) allows one to identify the fraction of top holders holding cumulatively of the total network control. Thus, the smaller this fraction, the higher the concentration. In principle, one could expect inequality of control to be comparable to inequality of income across households and firms, since shares of most corporations are publicly accessible in stock markets. In contrast, we find that only top holders accumulate of the control over the value of all TNCs (see also the list of the top holders in Table S1 of Appendix S1). The corresponding level of concentration is , to be compared with for operating revenue. Other sensible comparisons include: income distribution in developed countries with [22] and corporate revenue in Fortune1000 ( in 2009). This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth. The results are robust with respect to the models used to estimate control, see Figure 3 and Tables S2 and S3 in Appendix S1.




Swiss Institute of Technology "PLOS One" Report

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"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

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That's not a quote by Voltaire.

It's a rough version of a quote from Kevin Alfred Strom, an American White Nationalist and Holocaust denier who was convicted of possessing child pornography in 2008. LINK

It's not exactly a shock that this guy's words are used to fuel anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but leave Voltaire out of it.

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The difference is all those players are individuals or unique groups with their own self-interests rather than say a single organization that controls government from behind the scenes. Nothing unites the individuals and orgs -- they each act on their own behalf. 

IOW, there's no grand plan and no real shadow organization in the sense of something like the illuminati. Instead, it's all individual private players trying to exert their own influence on government. No single group or goal. Just imagine everyone on tRant was a billionaire and we were all seeking to gain government power and influence for ourselves and/or our industry. We wouldn't agree on a damn thing and would often be working against one another.

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This. All of it.

Money is power. Money runs shite.

Wealthy people acting in their own self interest buy and sell politicians (called lobbying), who then make the rules.

shite ain't that complicated. Give me $50 billion tomorrow and I'll be making the rules soon thereafter.

Somebody needs to throw a net over this entire fricking thread!

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Absolute evil exists. I know this.

Those who deny it, can't or won't, comprehend that this evil, operating over a span of centuries, could manipulate the world's finances and political institutions, for the purpose of establishing itself in opposition to the Ultimate Good.

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It's an interesting topic and one that I find makes many people uneasy and ultimately project their own thoughts and insecurities as the only possible option/outcome.


The fact that known posters like Tiger in Miami and CoachCrisp, who have shown that their intelligence or lack there of on multiple occasions, are so against this idea like it's something that's completely out of the realm of possibility makes me laugh and even more steadfast.


This 13 minute video posted yesterday, that I wasn't even aware of until about 30 minutes ago, is conveying the idea that I'm talking about (Along with the multiple whistle blowers that have come forward and the coincidental "suicides" surrounding most of the subjects)

LINK