“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way.” FDR

[Allan Balliett]

Hopefully some have time to look over this newest piece of political
commentary by Richard K. Moore, author of "Escaping the Matrix"

"Escaping the Matrix," in an early form, appeared in Stewart Brand's
Co-Evolution Quarterly back in the 90's (I think!)) I read every issue of
Co-Ev from cover to cover. Without a doubt, Moore's article was the most
illuminating piece of work carried by Co-Ev. To me, it was a methodic
demonstration of the fact that  American's enjoy the illusion of 'freedom'
within an alternative reality (The Bubble in 21st century terms) that is
carefully created and maintained by multinational PR firms. (Or, as another
man put it, "the people who have been controlling the masses since the
dissolution of the Roman Empire") The PR firms are funded, of course, by
the Financial Oligarchy, who came out of WWII highly motivated to recover
the gains The People made during the FDR years and to make certain that
there will never again be another "outbreak of Democracy."  According to
Moore, the Vietnam War and the publics ultimate reaction to it temporarily
tore big  holes in the Bubble (OK, The Matrix) as more and more American's
awoke from the MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG somnambulism. There is a link to
portions of ESCAPING the MATRIX below. I haven't had a chance to read the
original article and the resulting book in recent years but my recollection
is that the article delivered a much stronger picture of the plight of the
population (or "the smoke screen of Democracy") then the book, that
compromised its thrust with suggestions for utopian solutions.

I hope you have time to read his newest comments on the financial and
political oligarchies. Comment to him if you want (links included) or back
here.

Thanks

-Allan in WV

*rkm websites*: cyberjournal.org    escapingthematrix.org
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Greetings,

Here is an article I’m planning to publish in New Dawn magazine. The
deadline is Dec 4, so if you have any feedback or suggestions for changes,
please get them to me right away.

thanks in advance,
rkm
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*Trump, Soros, Putin, and the reshaping of world order*

Donald Trump’s first significant act following his election was his phone
call with Putin.  Trump confirmed that he intends to follow through with
his promise to seek a cooperative relationship with Russia, and he
expressed the intention to cooperate with Russia to defeat ISIS in Syria.
This decisive step was taken even before he recruited his cabinet, or
worked out any kind of relationship with the new Congress.

Trump is coming in not like a politician, but like the new CEO of a failing
company, hired with a mandate to shake things up and turn things around.
With his Putin initiative – amounting to a turn around of establishment
foreign policy – he’s letting everyone know that he’s dead serious about
his mandate.

Campaigns are theater, and we can’t judge Trump’s character by the
exaggerated populist image he projected in the debates. He is a seasoned
executive, a well-connected Washington insider, and he could never have
built his empire if he was a fool. Only a fool would take on the
establishment as a lone cowboy with a homegrown agenda. And only a fool
would act as if he has a mandate to shake things up, if that mandate did
not have support in the highest of circles.

===

The highest of circles is of course the top financial oligarchy, the
close-knit banking dynasties that control the currency and credit policies
of nations, and who pull strings from behind the curtain, via key agents in
the White House, Congress, government agencies, the CIA, the Pentagon, and
the media. Franklin D. Roosevelt summed up the situation this way:

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it
was planned that way.”


It is no secret that these oligarchs are engaged in a process of reshaping
the world order. David Rockefeller brags openly in his autobiography about
being “part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the
United States”, and about “conspiring with others around the world to build
a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if
you will”. He boasts, “If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud
of it”.

If Trump has a mandate to shake things up, and if that mandate comes from
the oligarchy – the only place it could come from – then we can assume his
mission is to move the globalist project forward, in one way or another,
despite his rhetoric to the contrary.

===

The process of reshaping the world order involves destabilizing the old
nation-state order, while at the same time developing the infrastructure of
the new globalist order.

The globalist economic infrastructure is already largely in place, in the
form of organizations like the IMF, WTO, World Bank, and the BIS (Bank of
International Settlements, the central bank of central banks). Such
organizations wield immense power over the fate of nations, and they are
not subject to any political process nor are they accountable to any
nation. Their agenda is determined by corporate and financial elites, and
one of their primary missions over the past several decades has been to
destabilize the nation-state order, by trapping nations into debt, and then
forcing the privatization/corporatization of national assets and
infrastructures.

Multinational corporations are themselves an essential part of the
post-nation-state globalist power structure. These corporations have
interlocking boards of directors, and the strings of power lead ultimately
to the usual suspects, the oligarchs. As more and more functions and assets
are transferred from nations to corporations, and with corporations
empowered to ignore regulations (due to ‘free trade’ treaties), the
political process becomes increasingly irrelevant to the operation of
societies. Nations devolve into corporate fiefdoms within a global economic
empire managed by the globalist oligarchy.

===

Recall that David Rockefeller referred to “a more integrated global
political and economic structure”. While the integrated economic structure
is largely up and running, we seem to be a long way from having an
integrated political structure, an actual world government.

We do have the UN, and if there is to be a world government, it will
presumably result from a transformation of the UN and its mission. The UN
already has much of the structure of a world government, if only in
embryonic form, with its General Assembly, Security Council, ‘peace
keeping’ missions, and all of its committees, projects, and agencies.

In order to be a real world government, the UN would need to be empowered
to issue binding directives to nations, and empowered to enforce
compliance. It would need to have the exclusive right to intervene
militarily in the affairs of nations, if the need arises, and it would need
the military muscle to do so. It would need to have an effective
decision-making process, one that couldn’t be blocked by vetoes.

In other words, nations would need to give up a great deal of their
political sovereignty to the UN, in order for it to become the kind of
world government envisioned by the oligarchy. This is not something we can
expect to happen any time soon. Nations would need to be gradually seduced
into it, as Brussels has seduced Europe, with insincere promises of
subsidiarity and the like.

Perhaps most important, there would need to be an atmosphere of trust among
nations, in order for a world-government project to be feasible. Like that
which existed after World War 2, enabling the establishment of the existing
globalist institutions.

It has taken decades for the oligarchy to develop its globalist economic
empire to what it is today, and this was accomplished in stages. Similarly,
it will take some time to create the conditions necessary for a world
government to be established, and the current institutions can be seen as
the first stage of that process.

===

If Trump has a mandate from the oligarchy to shake things up, then it would
make sense for us to review his announced agenda in light of what we know
about the globalist project.

As regards setting the stage for a world government, Trump’s cooperative
approach to Russia has the potential to contribute to that process in a
couple of ways. For one thing it could be a significant and dramatic step
towards building trust between nations, particularly if Trump approaches
other nations in a similar spirit, as he has said he intends to do.

For another thing, by pursuing this initiative, Trump is undermining the
doctrine of US exceptionalism, and opening up the possibility of a
multi-polar world. If major powers feel they are being treated as equals,
rather than being bullied by Washington, they’d be more likely to give
consideration to stronger global institutions.

As regards advancing the economic agenda of the oligarchy, we can turn to
Trump’s most ambitious initiative – his infrastructure rebuilding project.
The US certainly needs such a project, and the work required is so vast
that it could increase employment and economic activity to such an extent
that that America could seem ‘great again’, at least while the construction
phase lasted.

But how will Trump fund such a vast project? It won’t be through tax
increases, given his intention to cut taxes. It can’t be through borrowing,
because the amount would be so large, and the US is already deeply over its
head in unrepayable debt. The only viable source of funding – and the one
most in line with the globalist project – is wholesale privatization: to
fund the rebuilding with the infrastructure itself, giving away the
infrastructure (roads, bridges, railways, water systems, power grids,
airports, national parks, prisons, schools, fire departments, etc.) to the
folks that do the rebuilding.

Richard Sauder described the situation this way, in an article he posted
online, back in October 2015:
    http://tinyurl.com/hy56ayv

“If Donald Trump is permitted to prevail in the quadrennial political farce
known as the ‘national election’ – all thoroughly rigged and controlled by
powerful, shadowy, mega-rich interests that largely hold themselves back
from direct public view – then he will have been brought in to manage the
USSA corporate bankruptcy, precisely because of his bankruptcy experience.”


The rebuilding project is a clever way of making the sacrifice of American
assets seem like a good thing. First the assets will be given away to
creditors to write off debt, and then lower taxes and reduced regulations
will make it easier for the creditors to develop the assets into ongoing
profit streams.

Long after the bonanza of the rebuilding project has been forgotten,
Americans will still be paying for that bonanza with a myriad of usage fees
and tolls, high prices for water and electricity, etc. Perhaps America will
be new and shiny, but it won’t belong to its citizens – it will be a
corporate fiefdom. Indeed, people will hardly be citizens any more; they
will instead be customers of USA Inc, over which their votes have no
influence.

===

If Trump has the support of the oligarchy, and if billionaire George Soros
is aligned with the oligarchy, as he most certainly is, then we may wonder
why Soros is sponsoring mass demonstrations against Trump’s election, what
the media is calling a ‘counter-coup’.

The first thing to notice is that this counter-coup does not address the
actual Trump threat – selling off America – rather it continues the same
line of attack used by Hillary, responding to Trump’s racist and misogynist
comments. This serves to distract the population from the real threat, and
it serves to keep alive the extreme divisiveness that characterized the
campaign.

This is a classic divide-and-rule strategy – get the left and right to
fight against one another over identity politics, so that the oligarchy can
proceed with its plans undisturbed.

Indeed, what other purpose was there to Trump’s inflammatory comments in
the first place? His campaign would have been much stronger without them.
He could easily have proclaimed his opposition to immigration without
employing racist slurs. While presenting an image of reckless disregard for
the effect of his rhetoric, he was carefully planting the seeds that would
enable the counter-coup to emerge following the election.

How far Soros plans to go with his counter-coup is an open question.
Hopefully it will just be demonstrations and protests, aimed at maintaining
divisiveness. There is another possibility however, one which I do not
offer as a prediction, but which I think we do need to be aware of. This
other possibility is what we might call the ‘Maidan scenario’ – referring
to the fascist coup that Soros helped sponsor in the Ukraine.

What the oligarchy did in Maidan, among other things, was to install
snipers who shot both protestors and police. In the Western media, this was
presented as the Ukraine government shooting protestors. The result on the
ground was a successful coup followed by a civil war that is still going on.

Imagine the consequences if a sniper were to take out a few protestors in
one of the Soros-sponsored demonstrations, and if the media blamed the
shooting on right-wing Trump supporters. Under such conditions Soros would
be able turn his counter-coup into full-scale riots all across the nation.
Out would come the police and military to suppress the riots, which would
only add fire to the flames of outrage. We’d end up in a martial-law
regime, with half the population in active and staunch opposition to the
government – we’d be on the verge of a civil war. What a difference a few
bullets can make.

This may seem like an extreme and unlikely scenario, but it is the kind of
thing the oligarchy has been doing overseas routinely in the maintenance of
its global empire. It’s the kind of thing the CIA specializes in. If the
oligarchy believes such a move is necessary to fulfill their agenda, we can
be sure that moral considerations would not hold them back.

===

Let us now turn our attention to Russia and Putin. The media wants us to
believe Putin was interfering in the recent election, and was behind the
Wikileaks revelations. This is of course ludicrous, but at the same time
Putin is clearly playing a central role in bringing in a new world order.
Not only is he energetically promoting a multi-polar world, but he has more
than once called for a stronger UN, where only the UN would undertake
military interventions.

The big unknown with Putin is whether or not he is aligned with the
oligarchy. What we can be sure of is that he is fully committed to Russian
national interests, and that his only concern with American internal
affairs is how that affects Russian interests. Has he made a deal with the
oligarchy, where he expects Russian interests to be somehow protected under
the oligarch’s new global regime? Or is he acting entirely on his own, in
the belief that multi-polarism can be a way to curtail the power of the
oligarchy? Either is within the realm of possibility, and both play into
the hands of the oligarchy.

===

Next, let’s turn our attention to the actions of the Obama administration,
in the wake of Trump’s election. If the oligarchy, who is behind both Trump
and Obama, wants things to proceed according to Trump’s agenda, why is
Obama apparently sabotaging Trump’s rapprochement initiative by extending
sanctions against Russia during this lame-duck period? Presumably Trump
will reverse any such lame-duck actions once he gets into office, so what’s
the point?

One possible answer to this question lies entirely in the realm of domestic
politics. By opposing Trump right up to the end, Obama is encouraging his
followers to do likewise, to keep struggling against Trump even after he
takes office. What better way for Obama to implicitly add fuel to Soros’
campaign of civil discord?

There is another possible answer, and again I don’t offer this as a
prediction, but rather as a possibility we should be aware of. You may
recall how the Pentagon sabotaged the cease fire agreement between Obama
and Putin in the Ukraine, by launching an airstrike on Syrian troops. What
if the sanctions extension is only a first taste of lame-duck sabotage?
What if the Pentagon arranges for a US plane to shoot down a Russian plane
in Syria, or some such similar event, bringing us to the brink of all-out
war just as Trump is about to take office?

If this happened, it would provide a dramatic opportunity to accelerate the
creation of a multi-polar world. Trump could immediately contact Putin,
blaming the oligarchy for stirring up trouble. The two of them would end up
on prime time TV – on all channels – shaking hands, and agreeing to work
together to build stronger international cooperation. The world would have
been saved from nuclear war! What better way for the oligarchy to
implicitly add fuel to Trump’s campaign for international accord?

===

Finally, in closing, I’d like to bring to your attention an important book
published by insider Samuel P. Huntington in 1996, *The Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order*. This book caused quite a
stir in Washington circles when it came out, and it presents a very
specific vision of a multi-polar world order.

Huntington dismisses the idea of universal human values and asserts that
there are seven distinct ‘civilizations’ in the world, each of which can be
expected to maintain its own unique set of values. The Muslim civilization,
Western civilization, the Russian civilization, and the rest, are to remain
distinct and in cultural opposition to one another, enabling
divide-and-rule by a dominant player, which Huntington identifies as the
US, backed by the Pentagon.

By its actions in the Middle East, it seems that the US is seeking to make
Huntington’s vision come true. Not only did the US create the whole Jihad
movement, but the Muslim nations it has chosen to invade (Iraq, Libya,
Syria) are precisely the ones that were moving toward a modern,
cosmopolitan culture. In this way, the US is ensuring that the ‘Muslim
civilization’ takes a form strongly distinct from the West, and in
opposition to it.

In Huntington’s multi-polar world, each ‘civilization’ has its own regional
hegemon, each of which is granted the right to maintain order in its own
sphere of influence. Russia is mentioned specifically in this regard, and
Huntington says Russia should have the right to ensure that its interests
are protected around its periphery. Like in Syria for example.

Very little changes in Huntington’s model if we substitute a strong UN for
the US, as the dominant player in the oligarch's multi-polar world.
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