Been raining banksters lately. Just goes to show you that when they say it's a dog-throw-dog-from-the-window world out there, they ain't kidding!
If you don't follow him regularly, it would be worth your while to pop over to Joseph Farrell's site and check out the brilliant job he has done of constructing a scenario involving global geopolitical realignments, tying bear bond scandals, gold repatriation and events like the Ukraine together.
Without a doubt, we are seeing the end of the world as most of us have known it. In fact, you'd have to be well over 100 or so and able to recall Woodrow Wilson's administration to remember it any other way.
As for the banksters, it appears they are eating their young. The thirty-something guys who are falling out of closed windows and popping nail guns into the backs of their skulls obviously pose some sort of threat to the new world order.
Now, when I say "new world order" without caps, I am intending to refer to an apparent shift that is not in the Western global hegemony playbook, commonly called the New World Order. There is a shift going on that wasn't part of the Orwellian vision (which as we should know was based on the real thing). The wheels set in motion by the Bavarian Illuminati back in the late 1800s is collapsing quickly, and there is a scramble to reshore the walls.
Imagine a giant game of Risk. You build up your armies on the two or three countries you control, and when you figure you've got it together, you launch on a campaign to take over the world. Things go great unless you are trying to hold Asia/Kamchatka. The borders are long and open from a dozen different directions. Not even Kublai Khan could hold it.
The Western empire, like so many in history, has dashed its ship on the rocks of Afghanistan and China. Like an octopus when it touches heat, its tentacles shrivel and it retreats into its tiny cove, squirting a cloud of banksters as it goes.
The Western empire is collapsing under the weight of its own ambitions. Having spent centuries building up armies, manipulating education and populations, testing with Hitlers and Mussolinis, and perfecting new/ancient technologies, it figured the time was ripe to venture forth. With World War 2 having devastated most of the world (save the Americas), they Central Cabal saw an opportunity to set their plan in motion.
And it worked...for about a 100 years.
But like all empires, this one came up against the one intractable thing that brings down every attempt to dominate the world - human nature.
There are two things, outside of Maslow's Heirarchy, that guarantee failure of any group to ever gain complete control of the world. One is greed, and the other is liberty.
No matter how true your believers are, there will always be those who have designs on the reins of power, or who look with envy on the wealth of the inner circle. In either case, they will begin to draw others to their schemes and quietly undermine the Iron Fist out of simple greed. This is the destruction from within.
Meanwhile, any dominated people will strive to gain freedom. It is the core desire of any human. Some will feel it enough to begin acting on it. We generally call them patriots if they win, and terrorists if they don't. In any event, they know that they have no hope of open assault on the Beast, so they chip away at it piece by piece. It's like those video games where you come up again the big beastie at the end, and you have to keep attacking and running, attacking and running, slowly wearing down its hit points.
From these two forces eventually the octopus feels the heat and like lightning, shrinks back within its walls of safety. Just as we see going on with the US-led Western empire. Ukraine, Syria and raining banksters are just several of a great number of symptoms readily apparent to those who look for them. The empire is crumbling.
The real problem, and what will become the biggest problem for those who just want to be left alone to live out their lives in peace, is this: so many people have been focused on stopping and dismantling the empire. From my experience, the fight has been going on at least 50 years now. Originally, it was what most folks called the "lunatic fringe", then it was the "conspiracy theorists", now it's a great number of "normal" folks.
There are plenty of folks out there now telling you to wake up and see what's happening. But it's already happened. Now we need to figure out what to do in the aftermath before some other New World Order or Illuminati step in to fill the vacuum.
See? That's the problem. This hydra we keep fighting doesn't die easily. It backs off, licks its wounds and then comes on again in a slightly different form. Meantime, folks think they get it whupped and head on back to the house to plow the fields and raise their kids. The more you hack up this beast, though, the more little beasties come at you later.
The way we finally and completely kill this nasty critter that has plagued humanity for millennia is education. We need to stop handing over education of our children to someone else. Whoever controls education will be the one through whom the little beasties rise up again.
By education, I don't mean hugging trees and putting condoms on bananas. I mean, "Here son, read Plato's Republic by the end of the week and be prepared to argue for or against, and why." I mean controlling the content and quality of media. I mean injecting real art and beauty into every part of our lives. I mean working to bring every human up to the highest levels, rather than drag them all down into the most squalid (the current model).
Ultimately, it means taking full and complete responsibility for our own education. Too many of us see a diploma as the end of something. It is, in fact, only the beginning. What that diploma means is that you should have learned the ability to think critically and to apply the greatest of human knowledge to any problem. Now it is your responsibility to continue that process alone, reading, writing, gathering with friends on a Friday night to loosen the tongue and argue - by argue I don't mean fight, I mean state a position and defend it with reason.
Start a discussion group this week with some close friends. Set the goal of reading something (preferably not junk fiction) and discussing it. Invite the kids to sit around and listen, even join in if they have something valuable to add. Turn off the TeeVee and take control of your mind. Fill it instead with culture and art and criticism and reason.
The art of the dinner party is nearly dead, but I clearly remember sitting around with the old folks, and later at my own table, over a couple of bottles of good Cabernet and arguing the finer points of Kant, Chaucer, Joyce, Aristotle, etc. The problem is we have allowed the nabobs and idiots to laugh us into submission, which is why the inmates now run the asylum. We need to take it back and the war begins with dinner conversation and regular visits to the museum and theater. It begins by taking your kids to Shakespeare rather than Disney. It begins with the will to never stop education until you can't physically hold a book any more, but even then you can get someone to read to you, if you know anyone who can read big words anymore.
As a population of humans on this small planet, we are coming to a massive cross-road in history. The ruling class is on its knees and their replacements have not yet felt strong enough to go head-to-head. This is our chance, as free humans, to take back what was lost centuries ago - so long ago that none of us remember being free. But we have books by folks who were free and who knew how to be free.
Now is the time to read those books. Then start having close friends over for dinner. Afterwards, pour out the libations and let the conversation begin! This is the seed of freedom!
It used to be that you had to go to a friend's house with a good library in order to have ready references, but now we have the tool you are using this very moment. The world's libraries are at your fingertips! Use it! Use your mind! Take control of your destiny and end the centuries-long domination by a self-appointed elite.
And while you're at it...get a good umbrella. I hear there's a storm a-comin' and those raindrops look awful big.