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BANKRUPTING A NATION
by Jon Rappoport

As the US Stock market spins in all directions, as oil prices rise, as home foreclosures expand rapidly, as credit is stretched to the limit, as national debt continues its steep climb, as the US dollar grows weaker, as company layoffs pile up, as jobs go overseas, the press offers what is really a minor amount of coverage (none of it useful). And presidential candidates offer lip service to solutions.

What is behind all of this?

An effort to provide the one solution that would go against the grain: linking the fortune of America to the fortunes of other nations.

In other words, an Elite wants a reason to merge the United States with Mexico and Canada—and then to merge that region with other regions around the world. Globalism in its real outcome.

When a common problem becomes deep and serious enough, almost any solution—even if it doesn’t work—will become acceptable. It’s called grasping at straws.

Throughout history, organized religions have used the same tactic. When the lives of people become untenable, they are told to reach out for a Higher Authority who will transform everything for them. The priest class becomes the essential intermediary for contacting this Higher Authority.

Then it turns out that people do not find better lives, after all. It was a ruse.

In America’s current situation, the strategy has a few other wrinkles. Poised on one political side are the so-called neocons, who want to expand the American empire by force. When the people see through this madness, they are ready to move into the camp of the other side—the “share and care helpers,” who are actually the hardline globalists.

Pillar to post, pillar to post.

The whole operation is really aimed at the power of the individual, attempting to make him/her succumb to top-down control and give up dreams of his own creative efforts.

Yet, this creative power is, always was, and always will be the true answer.

In many ways, the globalists will continue to make the case that we have to identify our own misery with the misery of all other people around the world—therefore ensuring a global solution to the whole mess. This is the hidden card they are playing in their psychological warfare campaign.

If you buy that one, you buy into the grand plan to make Planet Earth into a single ground-down lie.

BANKRUPTING A NATION

THE GOD QUESTION THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES
by Jon Rappoport

Down here on Earth, God has an interesting history. It goes this way: Someone decides there is a God. He announces this. But, for some reason, he doesn’t leave it there. Right away, his decision affects the group. A group is formed around this opinion.

In fact, it almost seems as if the notion of God, which after all began as an idea in the mind of a person, was designed as a group concept.

For example: “I just finished a painting. I want everyone to look at it and bow down to it and say it is the only painting ever done which has any importance. It’s not enough that it is my painting. Everyone has to see it in the same way. I have rules for that. I’ve spelled out, in great detail, the meaning of the painting, and these ideas will soon become laws. Binding laws.”

Then, much later, after the group has accepted the particular notion of God, the people in charge of that “painting” say: “The idea of God did not begin as the notion of a single individual. It was transmitted from God to all of us. That’s how it happened. We must accept that fact.”

Pretty clever.

You can investigate all sorts of societies, from the beginning of time on Earth, and of course you will discover that the God-notion became a binding force that was accepted by a majority of the population. It was rarely just a vision of one person that stayed that way. It was messianic and totalitarian from the get-go.

How odd.

Imagine this: a civilization based on Van Gogh’s famous painting, Starry Night. Everyone worships this painting, which is described in thousands of pages of sacred text. Van Gogh himself is forgotten. No one knows about him. To mention his name would be a crime, if anyone remembered him.

To take it even further, the rules of the civilization are said to emanate from the PAINTING. The painting invented the universe. The painting decides who is worthy and who is not. The painting rewards and punishes.

Then one day, Van Gogh wanders into town. He sees reproductions of Starry Night everywhere. He discovers what’s happened to it. He starts to talk about it, and then he sees the expressions on people’s faces. He stops. He slips out of town and never comes back. Too crazy.

Alone in the forest, he thinks about what he’s just experienced. The people have everything backwards. Everything. Everything.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

The God Question THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES

THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES

As a backgrounder for my upcoming tele-seminar, THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES (click on the link above to sign up), I thought I’d write a few words about the US presidential circus underway.

As an illustration, let’s focus on Hillary versus Obama. This is not a political article. It’s not meant to cover the waterfront. It’s about two politicians, and how their styles reflect the secret society formula.

Hillary stands for secrecy. In her mind—and she cannot shake this off—everything important is a secret she holds in her fortress. There is what she will tell her supporters and the public, and then there is what she won’t tell. Of course, what she’s holding back is far more important than what she reveals. Two faces. Two ideas. Two plans. Two territories. That is her basic m.o.

The sense of her own inevitable triumph and her entitlement—these vibrations are perfect for her, because they allow her to keep her secrets behind a façade. Of course, when that front crumbles for a moment, she has no alternative. She has never considered another way.

People like Hillary and her husband Bill are trained to keep on going, no matter what, always asserting their way and their style are right. They have no fallback position, except to whine when they are on the losing end.

Hillary considers herself royalty. She has come to that conclusion, just like many members of secret societies.

She believes she knows what is best for the world, and she intends to impose it. This is secret-society thinking par excellence. For example, under her reign, she would do everything possible to inflict a medical/psychiatric model of “care” on every human being, from cradle to grave.

Obama is a more subtle case. He is plugged into another level of energy. Within the boundaries of his own thinking, he has found his “larger self.” He can access it at the drop of a hat. He can invent poetry of a kind. He has imagination and he knows it.

Obama also has religion. He is taking his campaign into a sacred space of his own devising. His followers, many of them, are worshippers. If the culture supported it, they would go down on their knees for him.

The problem with this kind of religion is that it re-shapes imagination into a tool of prophetic construction, in which the audience is mesmerized. To further baffle his audiences, Obama adopts a very crisp look. He’s Ivy League all the way.

All in all, Obama is a distorted reflection of the Tradition of Imagination.

Both candidates are making the same fundamental mistake: they are using government as the source of Final Change for us all. One is doing it with greater transparency; the other is doing it with more ingenuity.

When you boil off and distill their messages, you see it is the same old game of the secret society. Rule, strengthen the collectivist consensus, paint a picture of the future that stands in for the individual and the truly free imagination.

From time to time during a long campaign, the bubble within which a candidate like Hillary or Obama works explodes. Then people become depressed. For the moment, there is dead air. No one is substituting a “mural of reality” for the imagination of the individual. But in fact, this interlude of emptiness is an opportunity; people, if they are so disposed, can glimpse the fact that it is their own creative power that is the true crown.

If that glimpse rose to the level of a steady state of consciousness, and if it spread, there would be no reason for the political circus. It would collapse of its own weight, because there would be nothing to support it. That is called maturity.

THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES

Backgrounder four: the structure of the cartels
Jon Rappoport
August 28, 2003
http://www.nomorefakenews.com/archives/archiveview.php?key=1031

As I’ve written, there are eight major cartels that run the world. They control eight specific areas: GOVERNMENT, MONEY, MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE, ENERGY, MEDIA, MEDICAL, AND ORGANIZED RELIGION. Are these cartels static? Are they carved in stone?
No. They are evolving organic entities.
They were born, one might say, because certain very heavy hitters realized that, if power over these areas could be coalesced, and if these eight groups then co-operated, the planet would be theirs.

Backgrounder four: the structure of the cartels

The money illusion
http://www.nomorefakenews.com/archives/archiveview.php?key=1459
Jon Rappoport

There are eight basic areas of control on the planet, eight basic cartels. GOVERNMENT, MONEY, MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE, ENERGY, MEDIA, MEDICAL, ORGANIZED RELIGION. There are also lesser cartels. If you lump together the most powerful trans-national corporations, you could call that a ninth cartel.

These cartels have many things in common, and they do co-operate. One shared common feature is THE TELLING OF STORIES, OF MYTHS, like the myths I have described in this article.

Myths most people accept as reality.

The money illusion

Cartels controlling the world
Jon Rappoport
http://www.nomorefakenews.com

The planet is being controlled, to an alarming extent, by elites, or, as I call them, cartels. There are many cartels, but seven are the most powerful. They evolve, they learn from one another, they both compete and co-operate. Unfortunately, the trend is more towards co-operation. These seven cartels represent the following areas: GOVERNMENT, MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE, ENERGY, MONEY, MEDIA, AND MEDICAL…..

I came to this map of cartels through my own research on the medical monopoly. That’s where it started, in 1986. .. Once you understand these cartel elites, you can begin to separate out information into loose layers of importance, as in, which layer of the control game are we talking about? Because it’s all about layers. And at most layers, the players are forwarding agendas which they do not realize fit into higher and more destructive agendas.

Cartels Controlling the world

Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance investigative reporter for 20 years. He has written articles on politics, health, media, culture and art for LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, Village Voice, Nexus, CBS Healthwatch, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.

To find out more about Jon, go to his biography page.

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Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance investigative reporter for 20 years.