New World Order

"Governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world." That's what a purported London-based independent trader named Alessio Rastani told the BBC in a jaw-dropping interview that quickly went viral. This is the exact "New World Order" I am talking about, it is the fact that we are living under corporate fascism. It's the banks and big companies that are controlling our governments, politicians are nothing but puppets stuffed with cash bribes.

For some reason there is this attitude that we shouldn't be talking about it, just move along now, nothing to see. I think this attitude has come about because there is a lot of fear that if people start waking up and realising what's going on, there will be riots. And you see this exact thing happening with the Occupy movement, these are the people who are waking up and realising what was under their nose. For noticing something very plain, simple facts about the economy and politics, they are shunned as hippies, conspiracy theorists, communists, any label the Fat Cats can think of to discredit their opinions. The protesters are quickly painted as a rag-tag bunch of hooligans spouting nonsensical theories about reptilians and demonic spirits. There is a very deliberate attempt by mainstream media to suggest that anyone who talks about the NWO is a nut case.

Franklin D. Roosevelt in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism: "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

In 1933, there was an alleged conspiracy to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt by military coup. This was known as the Business Plot, because it involved the industrial and financial elitewhose interests were supposedly threatened by the New Deal. The Business Plot became known to the public when retired Marine Corps General Smedley Butler testified to the McCormack-Dickstein Committee of the U.S. Congress that he had been approached by a group of wealthy business interests, led by the Du Pont and J. P. Morgan industrial empires, to orchestrate a fascist coup against Roosevelt.

Now the wealthy elite use corporate lobbying to control government officials. The government of the state no longer reflects what the people want, but what the top corporations want.

The City of London is a small area in the centre of London UK that operates under a separate system to the rest of the country. English secretive trust laws and strong libel laws are two factors that make the City a lucrative environment for money laundering and assets to be sheltered from tax, free from examination by law enforcement agencies by maintaining plausible deniability.

The power and influence of the City over government policy has enraged democratically elected leaders down the ages. Voting rights for the City of London’s municipal authority are granted to its 32,000 businesses in addition to residents which now number fewer than 12,000. This unique patronage system ensures that business interests usually take priority. Despite this, multiple attempts to reform the City have been thwarted, and maintaining these privileges is the role of anunelected official lobbyist in Parliament called the Remembrancer.

Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee wrote “Over and over again we have seen that there is in this country another power than that which has its seat at Westminster. The City of London, a convenient term for a collection of financial interests, is able to assert itself against the Government of the country. Those who control money can pursue a policy at home and abroad contrary to that which has been decided by the people."

Following the financial crises of the late 2000s, the City came in for criticism due to an apparent lack of control and regulation. It is also claimed that many of the recent financial catastrophes which were partly caused by a lack of such controls, can be traced to companies who work in the City, or London based offices.

The Tax Justice Network describes the City of London as “the biggest tax haven in the world” as well as ‘a state within a state’. Ian Doyle and Jem Bendell, summarise these claims with the following statement: the City “is the most powerful lobby in Britain and possibly the world, and as a result . . . exerts enormous political influence to resist regulation and extract tax exemption. It hasfostered criminality by ensuring that the City ranks amongst the least accountable of financial centres on the face of the Earth”. The novel Golden Handcuffs by Polly Courtney draws on the author's experiences of working in investment banking.

A lot of people stereotype the NWO as a secret society run by an evil force called The Illuminati. Personally, I don't believe that any human being is inherently evil. It's this exact ideology, the belief that humans are inherently selfish sinful creatures, that the NWO encourages. I believe that human nature is at its core cooperative and peaceful. Some humans are however misguided in their efforts. What makes a person into a psychopath? I don't know, but what I do know is that this certain type of individual is more likely to put themselves first before all others and to cause suffering for their own gain. We know from psychoanalytical studies that it is the psychopaths among us who are very successful in the world of corporate greed. These are the people who will sacrifice the well-being of the masses just to fill the pockets of the elite ruling class. I don't consider these psychopaths as evil, I just see them as sick. They have a very serious illness that is the cause of great suffering in the world. Is there a cure for this disease of the mind? I hope so.

- Annika