The fallen state of experts: How can governments learn from their expert failings?
Today we have the rule of experts. Monopoly experts have the power to choose for you in one field after another, including child protective services, economic policy, and pandemic response. But if you give some humans the monopoly power to choose for other humans, you have created some dangerous incentives. The rule of experts gives you the highest chance of expert failure. We should value expertise, but fear expert power. Whenever possible, then, we should do away with the rule of experts by empowering the people. Let each person choose for themself, and let the experts compete with each other to provide advice. Thats a call for ramping down the power of government bureaucrats and ramping up personal freedom. But you can push that idea only so far with pandemic policy.
Whatever the best policy might have been, at least some restrictions were clearly needed. In the moment of danger, governments cannot avoid turning to experts to help them craft policy. When confronting a pandemic, then, is there nothing a government can do but listen to the epidemiological experts and obey their wizardly words? There may be a few things governments can do to limit expert failure in moments of crisis.
Governments should recognise that their experts are, all of them, giving a partial perspective. Apparently, British and American policy was driven primarily by a report whose lead author was Neil Ferguson. That report seems to have considered only one danger: Covid. The one-sided analysis of that report may have left governments in the US and UK insensitive to the possibility that that lockdown itself might create its own fatalities, which might even end up larger than the number of Covid deaths. As economists never tire of reminding us, we are always facing tradeoffs and must adjust along all margins.
Governments should also be more diligent in the pursuit of competing opinions. In his essay, What is science? Richard Feynman remarked Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. A government that respects science should be sceptical of experts and, perhaps, more diligently seek out multiple viewpoints. In other words, when governments cannot leave the matters in the hands of the people, it should do what it can to simulate a competitive market for expert advice. A simulation is not the real thing, and we may grimly expect that in future crises governments will again fall victim to expert failure. But a greater effort to engage diversity of expert opinion within and across areas of expertise and a livelier scientific scepticism toward experts and their expertise may at least make expert failure less frequent and less severe.
I would feel better if experts had more skin in the game. Neil Ferguson had a history of being spectacularly wrong in the past, but that cost him nothing.
#10: NeoconsNailed To: Cynicom (#8)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-05-11 01:55:13 Reply Private Reply
#11: noone222 To: Cynicom (#9)
We can't know for sure that this outbreak was an accident. We can be certain that China didn't warn anyone of the fact until it was too late for the warning to be of much advantage.
We're pretty certain the virus started in Wuhan where there exists a level 4 bio-lab, while China attempted to convince us that the wet market was responsible.
Love him or hate him, Alex Jones makes it very clear that this event is just the beginning. http://www.infowars.com/ (This is the Sunday show).
Police around the country feel like they have the authority to enforce executive orders issued by mayors, and governors by force and people are being arrested for disobeying the orders. It is being openly discussed that door to door investigations to determine whether anyone in the home has the virus and the removal of those infected by force.
I've never been one to freak out over government overreach because other than one of these invisible attacks and the threat of forced vaccinations has NEVER been suggested. I have never taken a flu shot.
Those creating the upcoming vaccine are requiring immunity for the damage that will undoubtedly occur. Johnson and Johnson is stating that they alone will create 1 billion doses of a new vaccine.
Bill Gates is the primary sponsor of this international vaccination program and he is also a eugenicist that promotes the lowering of population using vaccines.
The mere fact that every MSM outlet is supporting the lock down and vaccine program is disturbing because we know that they are liars. The left leaning political trash of both parties are in trouble for their collusion with the media in trying to spy on Trump and for trying to oust him after the election. The evidence for arresting and trying the politicians and the media that colluded to commit the coup are in serious jeopardy of being imprisoned. Many of those pushing the mandatory vaccines are also involved in pedophile rings that are being discovered.
I'm sure if I wanted to keep listing reasons for concern I could. I'm not so much concerned for my personal safety but that of my children and grand children is definitely a major concern. The rollout of the total surveillance society is also a concern.
Lastly, there are those that wish to control the world. The many organizations that fund the UN, the CDC, and the WHO wish to impose their agenda upon the world and this "bullshit" virus outbreak nonsense is the means by which they intend to implement it. They are serious even if some individuals wish to brush it off or claim it to be a panic stricken public misunderstanding.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 06:54:32 Reply Private Reply
#12: Cynicom To: NeoconsNailed, BTP Holdings, Lod, All (#10)
Black death plague... Any history teacher or college professor will offer the same history lesson, with no hysteria, no conspiracy theory. It all started in China, originated in small animals, bats etc. Untold millions died. History books have presented it for hundreds of years. Worth reading. That was 700 years ago and has remained constant all that time, without hysteria, conspiracy.
Cynicom posted on 2020-05-11 06:57:33 Reply Private Reply
#13: Cynicom To: noone222, All (#11)
Being a history person plus having parents that survived the Spanish flu pandemic 100 years ago, I see instant information dissemination world wide as containing more than facts or in far too many instances, plain dishonesty.
It is troubling to read many of the posts here on the forum.
Pandemics have been around forever. The current hysteria is embarrassing.
Cynicom posted on 2020-05-11 07:15:11 Reply Private Reply
#14: noone222 To: Cynicom (#13)
The country has never been mandated shelter in place by executive orders issued by "mayors" and others ! (Boston Bombing being an exception).
The instigation of panic by the media should also be a tell-tale sign of collusion. I'm not panic stricken. The media is making the general public panic for no reason which is definitely a concern especially when the media and the government thugs are recommending that people snitch on each other. (And they are doing this).
To be blunt, the amount of mass wailing and gnashing of teeth by those supposedly responsible to tell the truth is enough to cause grave concern ESPECIALLY when you know they are lying.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 07:24:49 Reply Private Reply
#15: Lod To: Cynicom, noone222, 4um (#13)
Look them up in your Funk & Wagnalls and stop propagating the ignorance.
Off the etimological soapbox.
Lod posted on 2020-05-11 07:53:39 Reply Private Reply
#16: noone222 To: Lod (#15)
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 08:00:26 Reply Private Reply
#17: Lod To: noone222 (#16)
Lod posted on 2020-05-11 08:24:14 Reply Private Reply
#18: BTP Holdings To: noone222 (#14)
I am wondering how such an order from the black female Lesbian Mayor of Chicago would go over in that city? :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-11 08:31:16 Reply Private Reply
#19: Cynicom To: Lod, noone222 (#15)
I am often accused of ignorance. In this instance WHO is quoted below.
"""On March 11, the COVID-19 outbreak was characterized as a pandemic by the WHO."""
Any epidemic that spreads worldwide is classified as PANDEMIC..Always.
Cynicom posted on 2020-05-11 09:01:16 Reply Private Reply
#20: Lod To: Cynicom (#19)
Lod posted on 2020-05-11 09:20:23 Reply Private Reply
#21: noone222 To: Lod (#17)
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 09:28:00 Reply Private Reply
#22: noone222 To: Cynicom (#19)
Get a clue bro !
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 09:29:04 Reply Private Reply
#23: Cynicom To: Lod, noone222, All (#20)
The word PAN by itself means "ALL".
In usage in this case it merely means "ALL" the world.
WE have an epidemic, the world has an pandemic. Dictionary is quite plain on Pan etc etc usage.
Long ago i became aware of usage of word Pan having been offered job by PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS. aROUND THE WORLD.
Cynicom posted on 2020-05-11 09:41:25 Reply Private Reply
#24: noone222 To: Lod (#17)
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 09:49:50 Reply Private Reply
#25: Cynicom To: noone222 (#24)
Disturbing to read such.
Cynicom posted on 2020-05-11 10:09:15 Reply Private Reply
#26: Ada To: noone222, cynicom, neoconsnailed (#11)
Before it was discovered in Wuhan, it was present in France.
http://newsinfopark.com/health/2...-33112/nip-web-desk-team/
And our US strain came from various European countries, not China.
Ada posted on 2020-05-11 10:20:36 Reply Private Reply
#27: Lod To: Cynicom, Esso, 4um (#23)
Lod posted on 2020-05-11 10:21:23 Reply Private Reply
#28: noone222 To: Cynicom (#25)
This entire event is very disturbing and think we can agree on that.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 10:23:17 Reply Private Reply
#29: noone222 To: Ada (#26)
I am fairly certain the tests being used to make claims about the virus are inaccurate if not actually determining that all corona virus is reported as Covid-19.
The death tolls are being inflated and hospitals are collecting more funding by claiming everything is Covid-19.
I am not concerned about this hoax but cannot help but think this is simply the beginning and the future will be replete with Covid type mandatory vaccines, home invasions, and lock downs.
Anyone that doesn't view this event as a potential for martial law under the guise of a health issue, should always remember "Hi, I'm from the govt and I'm here to help" or should consider the treatment of Gen. Flynn by the feds.
Ignoring the total take down of society in violation of the Constitutional restraints on government in America (and around the world in violation of civil liberties) is ignoring history and all of the many statements made by Bill Gates over the years, the provisions mandating immunity from prosecution for vaccine producers, and China's major involvement in the manufacture of drugs.
I might suggest that you are "the new normal" !
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 10:40:56 Reply Private Reply
#30: Lod To: noone222, 4um (#29)
The nose is under the tent already.
Lod posted on 2020-05-11 10:57:03 Reply Private Reply
#31: noone222 To: Lod (#27)
This overreach may well cause a civil war in America.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 11:33:33 Reply Private Reply
#32: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#30)
From where I'm at behind enemy lines, it sure looks more like the pecker to me.
Smells like the asshole.
Esso posted on 2020-05-11 11:39:00 Reply Private Reply
#33: Esso To: noone222, 4um (#31)
As dumbed down as the citizenry is and as militarized as the goob is, it will be the shortest war ever. Unfortunately.
Bill Gates' bug is a wet-dream-come-true for the PTBs.
Now I know why they waited until we were old men.
They can have my black cane when they pry it from my cold, dead, arthritic fingers.
Esso posted on 2020-05-11 11:48:28 Reply Private Reply
#34: Ada To: noone222 (#29)
If Covid-19 is indeed manmade, I am very concerned of regular repeats of even worse.
Ada posted on 2020-05-11 12:07:32 Reply Private Reply
#35: noone222 To: Ada (#34)
I'd say that is my primary concern. There are simply too many signs that this is the plan, in my opinion.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 12:13:05 Reply Private Reply
#36: noone222 To: All (#35)
noone222 posted on 2020-05-11 12:14:29 Reply Private Reply
#37: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#33)
As as sign of our deep national vulgarization, you never hear people just say "dream" in contexts like that anymore. It's always "wet dream". Similarly people universally refer to their privates as their "junk" -- ad inf.
Put stock reply here -- "I was just trying to be more emphatic":
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-05-11 13:12:18 Reply Private Reply
#38: Lod To: NeoconsNailed (#37)
Lod posted on 2020-05-11 13:25:57 Reply Private Reply
#39: Ada To: noone222 (#35)
And, if so, its not China we should be worried about.
Ada posted on 2020-05-11 16:52:24 Reply Private Reply
#40: Screen Name To: Ada (#39)
Screen Name posted on 2020-05-11 17:14:46 Reply Private Reply
#41: Esso To: NeoconsNailed, 4um (#37)
Actually, no. I was trying to convey my utter disgust and contempt for the leftists such as Gates, Pelosi, 99% of the MSM, etc, that are taking such great delight in the destruction of this country and trying to use it as a springboard to implement their sicko delusions of turning the country and the world into their idea of a leftist, communist utopia.
If I was trying to emphasize, I probably would've used bold font.
I'm sorry if my choice of a word offended you, it wasn't intentional.
Regardless of what the LGBTQ and minority lefty freaks try to convince everyone, words are not violence. Some of these snowflakes that are trying to take away everyone else's freedom of speech may be in for a hard lesson, soon.
Esso posted on 2020-05-11 17:51:23 Reply Private Reply
#42: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#41)
Was conversation sorely missing today's level of crassness before it got it? Just thinking out loud here.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-05-11 19:21:36 Reply Private Reply
#43: NeoconsNailed To: Lod (#38)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-05-11 19:23:19 Reply Private Reply
#44: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#34)
Since we know there is a bio-weapons lab near Wuhan, we can put two and two together and figure that Covid-19 has escaped containment.
It has ravaged Chinese in the area so much so that Chinese authorities were forced to bring in industrial size incinerators to cremate the bodies since there were so many of them.
China may not lie outright, but they often times are very slow to non-existent at letting the truth come out. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-11 19:38:13 Reply Private Reply
#45: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#44)
You have existing health issues and some years on you so you're technically in the vulnerable group, bur what are the chances of any of these bugs reaching you? When was the lastime you had flu or mono please.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-05-12 01:51:07 Reply Private Reply
#46: noone222 To: Ada (#39)
It is China.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-13 06:31:49 Reply Private Reply
#47: Screen Name To: noone222 (#46)
If the Chinese Communist plague is involved, it is because they are partners in it.
All underlying signs point to maximum pressure.
Against China? Against Globalism? No. Against every man and woman that is "free" or would to be.
The backdrop points to another bogus Cold War but I see world communism and universal nanny state enforced on all survivors.
Most will simply comply thinking the benefits are important.
The Rothschild - Rockefeller intermarried global partnership includes China. On the Zionists' terms, of course.
China certainly was the perfect patsy if this is false flag. Just like the muhammadans were, in the Official Narrative, before the 911 false flag.
The same people are involved imo and massive debt / asset bubbles were coordinated up and down.
This is the End Game. The Zionists are check mating us imo.
But, you trust and love Trump. So you may be blind to what is happening.
Screen Name posted on 2020-05-13 06:48:03 Reply Private Reply
#48: Cynicom To: Screen Name, noone222 (#47)
Short list of those available that we should have elected as President, that would have managed to avoid this turmoil???
Cynicom posted on 2020-05-13 07:16:01 Reply Private Reply
#49: noone222 To: Screen Name (#47)
Wrong. I don't trust any of the above or China or the Zionazis/Israelis.
I don't allow myself to believe that all bad news is published (or initiated) by Jews. I have never been more concerned that this diabolical event could be just the beginning of the world's trouble.
I am not too concerned about the current "bug" but realize the potential for a far worse "bug" being unleashed as people protest the current state of events, and their protests are justified.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-13 07:45:26 Reply Private Reply
#50: Lod To: noone222 (#49)
Yep.
These bio-warfare labs should all be nuked, wherever they are.
Lod posted on 2020-05-13 09:59:24 Reply Private Reply
#51: Ada To: noone222 (#46)
Ada posted on 2020-05-13 10:16:24 Reply Private Reply
#52: Ada To: Lod, noone222 (#50)
Shut down bioweapon labs and prosecute scientists
Ada posted on 2020-05-13 10:20:12 Reply Private Reply
#53: noone222 To: Ada (#51)
I believe that Fauci and his ilk sent the corona virus to China and funded them to give it "gain of function" ability. There are no innocent bio-labs. Just the same, China did release this to the public and coerced or bribed the WHO to promote travel and say the virus didn't pass human to human.
noone222 posted on 2020-05-13 13:28:44 Reply Private Reply
#54: Screen Name To: noone222, All, RealJewNews (#49)
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Brother Nathanael May 13, 2020 @ 12:42 pm TextTextText
The Bill Gates Barcode
The panic called corona is all dressed up in a pre-packaged spook show.
And in kosher approved JewTube, the arrow is coded with corona commotion to shake you to the bone.
I mean just type in Bill Gates and presto!
Reams of vaccine videos stampede up and down your computer screen.
Hes a geek with a PC persona who preens himself as the Queen of Corona. [Clip]
[For the world at large normalcy only returns when weve largely vaccinated the entire global population, and so, and although, theres a lot of work on testing, on drugs were involved with, and trying to achieve that ambitious goal, which has never been done for the vaccine, that rises to the top of the list.]
Would you buy a used car from this geek?
He couldnt even get his Microsoft operating systems running right until decades of trying to patch them up.
And youre gonna let him prick your wrist and steep your veins with his bar-coded vaccines?
You see, MITfunded by Bill Gatescreated nano-particled microneedles that carry the vaccine in a sugar-like base.
Once dissolved, a Quantum Dot Marker with a pre-printed dye that acts like a bar code is fixed invisibly under your skin.
The dye not only contains a marker of who you are, but the specific VAX injection, and the date of your immunization.
With your certificate implanted, the barcode stores the dataON YOUR PERSON holding deep and secure your social credit score.
Its a BOGO with a LOGO.
You get your own personal barcode infixed within your skin
Plus the bonus of all your data on tap for infrared cameras and smart phone apps that mandated experts and officials will oversee and manage.
You wont take the vaccine, you say?
Then Pandemic Number Two is on its way. [Clip]
[What else are we not listening to that we need to take action on now? Well, The idea of a bioterrorist attack is kind of the nightmare scenario because theres a pathogen with a high death rate. Most of the work were going to do to be ready for Pandemic Two (I call this Pandemic One.) most of the work well do be ready for that are also the things we need to do to minimize the threat of bioterrorism.]
What does this goyisha shill know anyways?
I mean, hes prepping for Pandemic Number Two which bears the threat of bio- terrorism.
By who?
A bunch of towel heads brewing up a germ laden stew in some cave in Afghanistan?
Or by the same ones who did 9/11The Israeli Mossadthe only ones who could pull off global false flags, with a little help from its moles in the US Pentagon.
All over your TV screen will be Israelis disguised as germ-bearing Arabs.
The Jew-owned media will strut out Blitzer, Berman, Bash, who will serve up bio-terror pics on Shish kabob sticks.
And dont forget Susan Wojcicki, the Censorship Commissar of JewTube.
Say one thing that sounds like truth and Wojcicki will impound your post.
But shell spread her legs wide for Mister Gates who holds a syringe with a bar-coded dye soaked deep and impregnated within. +BN off the cuff
The Jew-owned media just loves geeky Gates.
Not that hes one of them, hes just a useful goy with billions of dollars to throw their way.
Controlling the population is Jewrys larger agenda and Gates fits the bill.
His vaccine, you see, contains a barcode, and a barcode is a commercial ID, just like a bunch of bananas.
It fits right in since Jews are the merchants of the world and can reduce the goys to a bunch of bananas by branding them with a barcode.
Now with the lockdowns depriving the goys of any personal initiative by wiping out their small businesses, the Jews have a wider labor market than they ever had before.
They can employ heaps of out-of-work goys clamoring for the same jobs at the lowest possible rate.
Costcos will pop up everywhere.
You could be a manager too at $30 thou a year plus a few bennies if youre lucky.
This is Jewish Marketing 101.
At the right psychological momentand Jews excels in this fieldthe goys will be seduced through false flag bio terror attacks into taking the barcoded vaccine.
You dont have to take it you remove your goyisha kup.
Dont you know there are tons of Jewish doctors who will cover for their own?
Sometimes you have to think like a Jew
It can cover a multitude of syringes.
http://www.realjewnews.com/? p=1440
Screen Name posted on 2020-05-13 20:21:34 Reply Private Reply
#55: Screen Name To: noone222 (#53)
Coronavirus "gain of function" research was successfully achieved in 2015.
In North Carolina.
Screen Name posted on 2020-05-13 20:23:12 Reply Private Reply
#56: Screen Name To: All (#55)
If Iran and China (who pledged Iran's defense if Iran were attacked) were false flag bio- attacked (with the most deadly strain(s)), how would you expect them to react?
I see them all married and in a joint venture "live exercise" here. So many Global Communist objectives have already been achieved. Event 201 as well as the global response indicates they are ALL in on it under the Rothschild-Rockefeller banner.
Screen Name posted on 2020-05-13 20:31:31 Reply Private Reply
#57: Esso To: Screen Name, 4um (#54)
Esso posted on 2020-05-13 20:39:33 Reply Private Reply
#58: Screen Name To: Esso (#57)
If you are so moved to send him a couple fed notes he would appreciate it. ;-)
Screen Name posted on 2020-05-13 20:46:50 Reply Private Reply
#59: Screen Name To: All (#58)
With almost unlimited capital, Wall Street moneymen use it to centralize government. Their plans smack of worldwide crony capitalism, with government rules made to order.
It may sound cliché, but there is a great deal of wisdom in the old saying about catching criminals: Follow the money. That advice applies as much to catching small-time petty thieves as it does to big-time global crime syndicates. And it is especially relevant when trying to understand the bureaucratic and intelligence community components of the Deep State, and more importantly, the Deep State behind the Deep State. This shadowy network, which is barely concealed at this point, includes secret societies such as Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove, as well as less-secretive organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg meetings. Money is key.
Of course, as used by the establishment media, what has typically been referred to in recent months as the Deep State is simply just different parts of the federal government, particularly the permanent bureaucratic caste and what is known as the intelligence community. However, that is only part of the story. Others who have commented on this subject have noted the prominence of the Big Business community and Wall Street in regards to the Deep State. Former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren, a top-secret security clearance holder and one of the early voices to develop the idea of a Deep State in America, refers to it as a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country.
Wall Street and the Deep State
In particular, Lofgren has noted that Wall Street and D.C. are crucial. Washington is the most important node of the Deep State that has taken over America, but it is not the only one, argued Lofgren, who wrote a book on the subject before Donald Trump became president. Invisible threads of money and ambition connect the town to other nodes. One is Wall Street, which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater. Should the politicians forget their lines and threaten the status quo, Wall Street floods the town with cash and lawyers to help the hired hands remember their own best interests. Of course, Lofgren is correct. But the proverbial rabbit hole goes even deeper.
Wall Street, and especially outfits such as vampire squid Goldman Sachs, are indeed essential elements of the Deep State. But the reality is even worse than Lofgren seems to realize. An explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the network of global corporate control, for instance, highlights the fact that a tiny group of entities mostly financial institutions and especially central banks exerts a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. According to the peer-reviewed paper, which presented the first global investigation of ownership and control architecture in the international economy, transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure. A large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions, investigators found, describing the core as an economic super-entity. Not surprisingly, this economic super-entity is dominated by members of the Deep State behind the Deep State a relatively tiny group of individuals with unfathomable power and influence. The individuals in control of a tiny handful of mega-banks especially Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse, among a handful of others are at the very center of it all.
Lofgren was not the first observer to realize or point out that the elected officials ostensibly in charge of governing America are not really in charge. Even close friends and associates of the Deep State behind the Deep State have commented on the issue. The late Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, a mentor to President Bill Clinton, was close to the core of the Deep State for years, and, while he disagreed with the secrecy, he admitted to agreeing with most of its aims. He was even allowed to examine their records for a period of time. And then, spilling the proverbial beans, Quigley put some of his explosive findings in his massive 1966 book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time.
Quigley offered extremely important insight into the agenda, especially the monetary machinations, of the real Deep State. The powers of financial capitalism had another far- reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole, he explained on page 324. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting 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 Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds central banks which were themselves private corporations.
Indeed, just as Quigley explained, the world now exists under what could fairly be described as a neofeudalist-type system. And international entities such as the Bank of International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank play key roles in it all. Another crucial component of that involves control of the economy and even the political systems of nations by a tiny clique, which exercises its power quietly through well-connected mega-banks that literally own the central banks. The Federal Reserve, for instance, is essentially a banking cartel, with each regional Federal Reserve bank owned and controlled by its member banks. In court filings, the Federal Reserve banks have even boldly declared that laws applicable to government agencies such as transparency requirements do not apply to Fed banks because they are private corporations.
That the Federal Reserve System dominates the U.S. economy today is impossible to dispute simply observe the news coverage and endless media speculation ahead of the Fed meetings about what the central planners may or may not decide to do about interest rates. Consider, also, that amid the last economic crisis, the U.S. Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) estimated the potential total cost of the combined crisis bailouts at $23.7 trillion, with a T, or more than $75,000 per person in the United States money created out of thin air by unelected, unaccountable central bankers. For perspective, the U.S. GDP is around $18 trillion. Those bailed out were largely the mega-banks and cronies of Federal Reserve bosses. Consider, too, that studies such as one released in 2014 by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) show that central banks, including the Fed, now dominate even stock markets, with some of them even buying and selling stocks directly using money conjured into existence out of thin air. They also rig prices for all sorts of assets, as The New American and many other sources have documented and Fed bosses have admitted publicly. In 1998, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress that central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise, thereby keeping prices down.
And according to top officials, many of these mega-bankers are beyond being too big to fail and being bailed out by unwitting American savers and taxpayers; they are also too big to jail, giving them free rein to perpetrate crimes at will. On March 6, 2013, testifying before a Senate committee, former Attorney General Eric Holder even said it explicitly: I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.
Deep State Moneymen Love Globalism and Communism
Senior leaders of the Deep State behind the Deep State, which uses central banks and political institutions to advance its objectives, have boasted of their agenda and their power. The late David Rockefeller, formerly CEO of Chase Manhattan mega-bank and a leading Deep State boss involved in the leadership of the Bilderberg meetings, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, revealed his true colors in writing in his 2002 autobiography Memoirs. Some even believe we [the Rockefellers] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure one world, if you will, Rockefeller explains on page 405. If thats the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. In short, the powerful globalist boasted of being a conspirator working against America in favor of a one-world system.
The Deep States supposedly capitalist money men have no aversion to communism, either, as Quigley revealed in his book. Decades before the startling admission in his own memoirs, Rockefeller himself showered praises on the most murderous dictatorship to plague humanity in all of recorded history. Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and community purpose, Rockefeller claimed in a 1973 New York Times piece about Mao Tse-tungs communist revolution that murdered tens of millions of people in cold blood. The social experiment in China under Chairman Maos leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. For Deep State luminaries such as Rockefeller, then, mass murder and total subjugation of a people is a tremendous success. So we can safely conclude that the success or failure of the globalist world order Rockefeller and his cronies is aiming for will not be decided on how well it cares for the middle and lower classes.
More recently, fellow Deep State bigwig George Soros, another key moneyman, and a protégé of the even more powerful and wealthy Rothschild dynasty, echoed those remarks about Communist China. In 2009, for instance, Soros called for the communist regime enslaving mainland China to own what he referred to as the New World Order. Speaking to the Financial Times, the self-styled philanthropist declared that the United States and the U.S. dollar were on their way down, and that the Communist Party regime must step up to the plate. I think you really need to bring China into the creation of a new world order, Soros said, without noting that the regime has murdered more people than any other in human history. I think you need a new world order, that China has to be part of the process of creating it and they have to buy in, they have to own it in the same way as the United States owns the current order.
It was hardly a slip up. The next year, while receiving the Globalist of the Year award from the Canadian International Council, Soros again called for China to play a lead role in the emerging global-governance regime. They have now got to accept responsibility for world order and the interests of other people as well, declared Soros, a self-styled atheist who has said publicly that he feels like a god sometimes. Today, China has not only a more vigorous economy, but actually a better functioning government than the United States. From Beijing to Moscow and Washington, D.C., to London, globalist Deep State operatives are all openly and covertly pushing for this new world order, which is being built through regional orders such as the European Union, the African Union, the Eurasian Union, the Union of South American States, and more as explained by so many globalist schemers.
While rarely in the spotlight, the Rothschild banking dynasty the ultimate Deep State characters is at the center of the rigged global financial system. The Rothschilds are wealthy and powerful beyond comprehension. On its website, Rothschild & Co, one of the many Rothschild banking operations, styles itself one of the worlds largest independent financial advisory groups, providing services and solutions to large institutions, families, individuals and governments, worldwide. Having been at the centre of the worlds financial markets for more than 200 years we can rely on an unrivalled global network of more than 2,800 talented employees and a track-record of outstanding execution with 50 offices around the world, the website boasts in what might even be an understatement, adding that Rothschild & Co can be closer to current issues than any other global financial institution in our core markets. They are not kidding. Estimates of the ultra- secretive dynastys wealth reach into the trillions of dollars.
The power of this dynasty is well known to historians and insiders, and it stretches back centuries. The Rothschilds had decided the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars by putting their financial weight behind Britain, noted historian and establishment apologist Niall Ferguson in his book The Worlds Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. In other words, even more than two centuries ago, this dynasty, which is deeply involved in the global central-banking regime described by Quigley, was able to decide the outcome of wars between two of the most powerful governments then existing on the planet. Since then, the dynastys power and wealth appear to have grown even further, owning businesses in financial services, real estate, mining, energy, agriculture, winemaking, and more, despite efforts to stay out of the limelight. Further highlighting the affinity of these supposed super-capitalists for communism, though, a leading member of the Rothschild dynasty, Baron Eric de Rothschild, publicly came out to help push the candidacy of Bulgarian Communist Party operative Irina Bokova to lead the United Nations as secretary-general.
Deep State Foundations Finance Evil
Many of the globalist bigwigs, such as the Rockefellers, Soros, the Rothschild dynasty, and dozens more like them, operate through tax-exempt foundations. Aside from helping shelter the Deep State moneymen from the same onerous taxation they promote, these foundations make up another key component of the Deep States financial architecture. The Rockefeller dynasty, for instance, operates a massive network of foundations with many billions of dollars. It includes the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and more. These, in turn, finance other tax- exempt foundations used to promote their agenda. Soros, meanwhile, just transferred $18 billion into his Open Society Foundations, which in turn finance hundreds of organizations, foundations, and causes around the world. Other mega-foundations controlled by the Deep State behind the Deep State include the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many more. Each plays a unique but essential role.
To understand how crucial these tax-exempt foundations are to advancing the real Deep States agenda, a simple overview of their actions provides some idea. The Soros network of foundations, for instance, promotes everything from globalism and statism to racial hatred and abortion, even funding training programs to teach European pastors to promote the European Union to their congregations. Leaks in recent years have revealed that the Open Society Foundations even fund a wide range of pseudo-Christian groups that aim to corrupt and hijack Christianity and churches the pro-abortion group Catholics for Choice, for instance, or training programs for Orthodox pastors in non-EU nations designed to have those spiritual leaders lead their flocks into the transnational superstate. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, meanwhile, finances everything anti-American, from Planned Parenthood and population control to K-12 Common Core school standards and efforts to globalize education. The Rockefellers have funded issues from pseudo- environmentalism and globalism to statism and feminism. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Consider the Green movement. In 2014, a report by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee exposed the network of billionaires and their foundations that it referred to as the Billionaires Club. This club, the report said, was responsible for creating an AstroTurf Green movement that hijacked vast swaths of the federal policymaking apparatus. The explosive 92-page study, entitled The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obamas EPA, exposes the tactics, too. Among other schemes, the network relies on an incredibly sophisticated system of front groups and the exploitation of loopholes in the tax code. The Billionaires Clubs machinations also involve a close knit network of like- minded funders, environmental activists, and government bureaucrats who specialize in manufacturing phony grassroots movements and in promoting bogus propaganda disguised as science and news to spread an anti-fossil energy message to the unknowing public, the report said.
In some cases, the network funds pseudo-scientific research, too. The findings are then disseminated by far-left media outlets such as the Huffington Post and Mother Jones that are also receiving Billionaires Club funds. In one example, a story reporting on a Park Foundation-supported anti-fracking study was reproduced by a Park-funded news organization through a Park-funded media collaboration where it was then further disseminated on Twitter by the maker of Park-backed anti-fracking movies, the report found. Three radical outfits in particular were identified as serving key roles in the scheming of the network: the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the Democracy Alliance, and the Divest/Invest movement. Other crucial components of the phony grassroots network involved in financing the deception and extremism include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Schmidt Family Foundation created by Google boss Eric Schmidt, and the infamous Heinz Family Foundation largely controlled by former Secretary of State John Kerrys wife.
The abuse of these tax-exempt foundations by the Deep State behind the Deep State to subvert freedom in the United States and worldwide is hardly new. In fact, in 1952, Congress created the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, sometimes known as the Cox Committee and the Reece Committee after its two chairmen. Among other tasks, it was supposed to look into whether the foundations were supporting communism. It turns out that they were, but the reality was even worse. In an explosive interview with G. Edward Griffin released in 1991, Norman Dodd, the staff director of the committee, explained just how serious the threat was and presumably still is.
According to Dodd, H. Rowan Gaither, who was the president of the Ford Foundation at the time, summoned Dodd to his office in New York. Dodd said that Gaither asked him, off the record, why Congress was interested in investigating the activities of foundations such as the Ford Foundation. But before Dodd could even answer, Gaither noted, among other things, that many of those involved in policymaking at the foundation had been involved in the intelligence agencies, which were filled with communists in high places, and that policy directives for the foundations were coming out of the White House. Then, according to Dodd, Gaither dropped a bombshell: Mr. Dodd, we are here to operate in response to similar directives, the substance of which is that we shall use our grant-making power to so alter life in the United States, that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union. Read that sentence again and let it sink in.
The final report itself was revealing, too. Some of the larger foundations have directly supported subversion in the true meaning of that term namely, the process of undermining some of our vitally protective concepts and principles, the investigators found, adding that the foundations were promoting internationalism and moral relativism. They have actively supported attacks upon our social and governmental system and financed the promotion of socialism and collectivist ideas, the report continued. Of course, this continues to this day. In his report, Dodd also argued that the mega-foundations were weaponizing the government education system to enable oligarchical collectivism. He noted, too, that a revolution had occurred that would never have been possible unless education in the United States had been prepared in advance to endorse it. The corruption of Americas education regime stretches back to progressive humanist John Dewey (not to be confused with Melvil Dewey of the Dewey Decimal System), who was financed by one of the Rockefellers tax-exempt foundations and is today known as the father of Americas government-education regime. Today, the Gates, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations, among others, continue the work.
Other analysts have documented Wall Street and Deep State money men support for communism and subversion going back even further than that. In his book Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, for instance, Stanford historian Antony Sutton exposed the key role played by certain Wall Street financiers in establishing communist tyranny in Russia, financing communism, profiting from communism, and more. The book shows also that Wall Street forces worked hard to ensure that revolutionary Leon Trostky could make it to Russia to help the process along. And they even helped the cause of global slavery by building up the Soviet economy and war machine. The results of this included the murder of more than 100 million people and the enslavement of billions more. China, Cuba, and many other nations were similarly enslaved under communist regimes with the fervent assistance of Deep State moneymen and government operatives, as this magazine has documented for decades.
Today, the Deep State and the forces behind it secret and semi-secret organizations and networks, as well as their interlinked financial operations and intelligence agencies are closer than ever before to their goal of global totalitarianism frequently touted as the New World Order. However, they are also closer than ever before to being completely exposed, as millions of people around the world wake up. Humanity and the Deep State are in a race against time. If the Deep State wins, liberty and self-government die. The stakes are that high. But everyone can help. Start by reading the articles on the Deep State. Then, get involved. The future of freedom is on the line. And as any good criminal investigator knows, a good place to start is to follow the money. While the Deep State moneymen have a solid grip on the government, they are not in full control of state legislatures or either house of Congress. It is way past time for Congress to hold hearings and investigate.
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