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Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings

Michael Snyder

Economic CollapseJan 30, 2013

Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world? Do men and women with enormous amounts of money really run the world from behind the scenes? The answer might surprise you. Most of us tend to think of money asa convenient way to conduct transactions, but the truth is that it also represents power and control. And today we live ina neo-fuedalist system in which the super rich pull all the strings. When I am talking about the ultra-wealthy, I am not justtalking about people that have a few million dollars. As you will see later in this article, the ultra-wealthy have enoughmoney sitting in offshore banks to buy all of the goods and services produced in the United States during the course of anentire year and still be able to pay off the entire U.S. national debt. That is an amount of money so large that it is almostincomprehensible. Under this ne0-feudalist system, all the rest of us are debt slaves, including our own governments. Justlook around – everyone is drowning in debt, and all of that debt is making the ultra-wealthy even wealthier. But the ultra-wealthy don’t just sit on all of that wealth. They use some of it to dominate the affairs of the nations. The ultra-wealthyown virtually every major bank and every major corporation on the planet. They use a vast network of secret societies,think tanks and charitable organizations to advance their agendas and to keep their members in line. They control how we

view the world through their ownership of the media and their dominance over our education system. They fund thecampaigns of most of our politicians and they exert a tremendous amount of influence over international organizationssuch as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. When you step back and take a look at the bigpicture, there is little doubt about who runs the world. It is just that most people don’t want to admit the truth.

The ultra-wealthy don’t run down and put their money in the local bank like you and I do. Instead, they tend to stash theirassets in places where they won’t be taxed such as the Cayman Islands. According to a report that was released lastsummer, the global elite have up to 32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.

U.S. GDP for 2011 was about 15 trillion dollars, and the U.S. national debt is sitting at about 16 trillion dollars, so youcould add them both together and you still wouldn’t hit 32 trillion dollars.

And of course that does not even count the money that is stashed in other locations that the study did not account for, and

it does not count all of the wealth that the global elite have in hard assets such as real estate, precious metals, art, yachts,etc.

The global elite have really hoarded an incredible amount of wealth in these troubled times. The following is from anarticle on the Huffington Post website…

Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore taxhavens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published onSunday.

The study estimating the extent of global private financial wealth held in offshore accounts – excludingnon-financial assets such as real estate, gold, yachts and racehorses – puts the sum at between $21 and $32

trillion.

The research was carried out for pressure group Tax Justice Network, which campaigns against tax havens, byJames Henry, former chief economist at consultants McKinsey & Co.

He used data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and central banks.

But as I mentioned previously, the global elite just don’t have a lot of money. They also basically own just about everymajor bank and every major corporation on the entire planet.

According to an outstanding NewScientist article, a study of more than 40,000 transnational corporations conducted bythe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich discovered that a very small core group of huge banks and giantpredator corporations dominate the entire global economic system…



An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively smallgroup of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

The researchers found that this core group consists of just 147 very tightly knit companies…

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity”of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of thecompanies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial

institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

The following are the top 25 banks and corporations at the heart of this “super-entity”. You will recognize many of thenames on the list…

1. Barclays plc2. Capital Group Companies Inc3. FMR Corporation4. AXA5. State Street Corporation6. JP Morgan Chase & Co7. Legal & General Group plc

8. Vanguard Group Inc9. UBS AG10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc11. Wellington Management Co LLP12. Deutsche Bank AG13. Franklin Resources Inc14. Credit Suisse Group15. Walton Enterprises LLC16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp17. Natixis18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc19. T Rowe Price Group Inc

20. Legg Mason Inc21. Morgan Stanley22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc23. Northern Trust Corporation24. Société Générale25. Bank of America Corporation

The ultra-wealthy elite often hide behind layers and layers of ownership, but the truth is that thanks to interlockingcorporate relationships, the elite basically control almost every Fortune 500 corporation.

The amount of power and control that this gives them is hard to describe.

Unfortunately, this same group of people have been running things for a very long time. For example, New York City

Mayor John F. Hylan said the following during a speech all the way back in 1922…

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legsover our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of thisoctopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generallyreferred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run theUnited States government for their own selfish purposes.

They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use theleading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public officeonly such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.



These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers andmagazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of officepublic officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisiblegovernment. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislativebodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.

These international bankers created the central banks of the world (including the Federal Reserve), and they use thosecentral banks to get the governments of the world ensnared in endless cycles of debtfrom which there is noescape. Government debt is a way to “legitimately” take money from all of us, transfer it to the government, and thentransfer it into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.

Today, Barack Obama and almost all members of Congress absolutely refuse to criticize the Fed, but in the past there havebeen some brave members of Congress that have been willing to take a stand. For example, the following quote is from aspeech that Congressman Louis T. McFadden delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10, 1932…

Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I referto the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Governmentboard, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enoughmoney to pay the national debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board has cost thiscountry enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished andruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government.

It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of thatlaw by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

Sadly, most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is a “federal agency”, but that is simply not correct. Thefollowing comes from factcheck.org…

The stockholders in the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks are the privately owned banks that fall under theFederal Reserve System. These include all national banks (chartered by the federal government) and thosestate-chartered banks that wish to join and meet certain requirements. About 38 percent of the nation’s morethan 8,000 banks are members of the system, and thus own the Fed banks.

According to researchers that have looked into the ownership of the big Wall Street banks that dominate the Fed, the samenames keep coming up over and over: the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Lazards, the Schiffs and theroyal families of Europe.

But ultra-wealthy international bankers have not just done this kind of thing in the United States. Their goal was to createa global financial system that they would dominate and control. Just check out what Georgetown University historyprofessor Carroll Quigley once wrote…

[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world systemof financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the worldacting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned andcontrolled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.

Sadly, most Americans have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, but it is at the very heart of theglobal financial system. The following is from Wikipedia…

As an organization of central banks, the BIS seeks to make monetary policy more predictable and transparentamong its 58 member central banks. While monetary policy is determined by each sovereign nation, it issubject to central and private banking scrutiny and potentially to speculation that affects foreign exchangerates and especially the fate of export economies. Failures to keep monetary policy in line with reality andmake monetary reforms in time, preferably as a simultaneous policy among all 58 member banks and alsoinvolving the International Monetary Fund, have historically led to losses in the billions as banks try tomaintain a policy using open market methods that have proven to be based on unrealistic assumptions.



The ultra-wealthy have also played a major role in establishing other important international institutions such as the UnitedNations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. In fact, the land for the United Nations headquarters in New York Citywas purchased and donated by John D. Rockefeller.

The international bankers are “internationalists” and they are very proud of that fact.

The elite also dominate the education system in the United States. Over the years, the Rockefeller Foundation and otherelitist organizations have poured massive amounts of money into Ivy League schools. Today, Ivy League schools areconsidered to be the standard against which all other colleges and universities in America are measured, and the last four

U.S. presidents were educated at Ivy League schools.

The elite also exert a tremendous amount of influence through various secret societies (Skull and Bones, the Freemasons,etc.), through some very powerful think tanks and social clubs (the Council on Foreign Relations, the TrilateralCommission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Grove, Chatham House, etc.), and through a vast network of charitiesand non-governmental organizations (the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, etc.).

But for a moment, I want to focus on the power the elite have over the media. In a previous article, I detailed how just sixmonolithic corporate giants control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. These giant corporations owntelevision networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and evenmany of our favorite websites.

Considering the fact that the average American watches 153 hours of television a month, the influence of these six giantcorporations should not be underestimated. The following are just some of the media companies that these corporategiants own…

Time Warner

Home Box Office (HBO)Time Inc.Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.CW Network (partial ownership)TMZNew Line Cinema

Time Warner CableCinemaxCartoon Network TBSTNTAmerica OnlineMapQuestMoviefoneCastle Rock Sports IllustratedFortuneMarie Claire

People Magazine

Walt Disney

ABC Television Network Disney PublishingESPN Inc.Disney ChannelSOAPnetA&ELifetimeBuena Vista Home Entertainment



Buena Vista Theatrical ProductionsBuena Vista RecordsDisney RecordsHollywood RecordsMiramax FilmsTouchstone PicturesWalt Disney PicturesPixar Animation StudiosBuena Vista GamesHyperion Books

Viacom

Paramount PicturesParamount Home EntertainmentBlack Entertainment Television (BET)Comedy CentralCountry Music Television (CMT)LogoMTVMTV Canada

MTV2Nick MagazineNick at NiteNick Jr.NickelodeonNogginSpike TVThe Movie ChannelTV LandVH1

News Corporation

Dow Jones & Company, Inc.Fox Television StationsThe New York PostFox Searchlight PicturesBeliefnetFox Business Network Fox Kids EuropeFox News ChannelFox Sports NetFox Television Network FXMy Network TVMySpaceNews Limited NewsPhoenix InfoNews ChannelPhoenix Movies ChannelSky PerfecTVSpeed ChannelSTAR TV IndiaSTAR TV TaiwanSTAR WorldTimes Higher Education Supplement MagazineTimes Literary Supplement Magazine



Times of London20th Century Fox Home Entertainment20th Century Fox International20th Century Fox Studios20th Century Fox TelevisionBSkyBDIRECTVThe Wall Street JournalFox Broadcasting CompanyFox Interactive MediaFOXTELHarperCollins PublishersThe National Geographic ChannelNational Rugby LeagueNews InteractiveNews OutdoorRadio VeronicaReganBooksSky ItaliaSky Radio Denmark Sky Radio GermanySky Radio NetherlandsSTARZondervan

CBS Corporation

CBS NewsCBS SportsCBS Television Network CNETShowtimeTV.com

CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)CBS Consumer ProductsCBS OutdoorCW Network (50% ownership)Infinity BroadcastingSimon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)Westwood One Radio Network

NBC Universal

BravoCNBCNBC NewsMSNBCNBC SportsNBC Television Network OxygenSciFi MagazineSyfy (Sci Fi Channel)TelemundoUSA Network Weather ChannelFocus FeaturesNBC Universal Television Distribution



NBC Universal Television StudioPaxson Communications (partial ownership)TrioUniversal Parks & ResortsUniversal PicturesUniversal Studio Home Video

And of course the elite own most of our politicians as well. The following is a quote from journalist Lewis Lapham…

“The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilegereserved to the country’s equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20% of the population that holds 93% of the wealth,the happy few who run the corporations and the banks, own and operate the news and entertainment media,compose the laws and govern the universities, control the philanthropic foundations, the policy institutes, thecasinos, and the sports arenas.”

Have you ever wondered why things never seem to change in Washington D.C. no matter who we vote for?

Well, it is because both parties are owned by the establishment.

It would be nice to think that the American people are in control of who runs things in the U.S., but that is not how itworks in the real world.

In the real world, the politician that raises more money wins more than 80 percent of the time in national races.

Our politicians are not stupid – they are going to be very good to the people that can give them the giant piles of moneythat they need for their campaigns. And the people that can do that are the ultra-wealthy and the giant corporations thatthe ultra-wealthy control.

Are you starting to get the picture?

There is a reason why the ultra-wealthy are referred to as “the establishment”. They have set up a system that greatlybenefits them and that allows them to pull the strings.

So who runs the world?

They do. In fact, they even admit as much.

David Rockefeller wrote the following in his 2003 book entitled “Memoirs”…

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized uponwell-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinateinfluence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we arepart of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and meas ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global politicaland economic structure — one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

There is so much more that could be said about all of this. In fact, an entire library of books could be written about the

power and the influence of the ultra-wealthy international bankers that run the world.

But hopefully this is enough to at least get some conversations started.

So what do you think about all of this? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below…

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