Have you ever wondered why it is that despite bringing
the global economy to its knees and destroying the lives of millions no bankers
have been prosecuted for their actions outside Iceland? Have you ever stopped
and thought, as you walk down the high street, “Where did all these betting
shops come from? How have they got planning permission?” Have you ever watched
a primetime television advert break and thought “How is it legal for loan
companies to charge interest rates in excess of 2000% per year? Aren’t there
laws about loan sharking?” If you have pondered on these changes in the UK
highstreet and financial markets you have probably also wondered why, despite
the bank of England interest rate remaining at an unprecedented 0.5%, the high
street banks are charging higher interest on loans, mortgages and overdrafts
than before the banking collapse. You’ll probably have done a little research
and some reading around.
It is almost certain that the answers you have found have
been unsatisfying to say the least. Bankers can’t really be prosecuted as
individuals because they were as much victims of the prevalent banking culture
as we were. Licensing and planning laws are enforced by local authorities, not
national government, and the increase in betting shops, pawn brokers, cash
converters and payday loan companies is the only way to keep shop fronts from
becoming empty. As to the loan shark rates of interest, well, the loans are
only short term and are really quite reasonable rates when you consider who the
money is being lent to, or so you would be led to believe from even quite an in
depth analysis of these issues.
The truth is somewhat darker, and ties in the ruling
global families with the military-industrial complex and the sinister forces
that hold power tightly from behind a veil of secrecy. In reality there has
been a move within these power brokers that started in the post war era of the
1950’s and accelerated rapidly through the 1970’s and ‘80’s and is still
accelerating today. Let us consider a brief history of 1950’s Britain. We had
come through a conflict of global proportions, heavily damaged in terms of
economic and political power. The Russian and US blocs were dominant and we
were still gripped by rationing and austerity. Within this climate there
emerged a growing culture of trade unionism, far left politics, bolshevism and
an attempt by the proletariat to wrest some of the power back from the hands of
politicians and the Monarchy. It was clear to those in power that if this was
allowed to continue then the implications globally would be catastrophic for
those traditionally holding power. Something had to be done!
It started with the development of mind and mood altering
drugs. At the heart of the development of LSD, stronger strains of cannabis,
refinements in cocaine and opium derivatives and so on are the large
multinational drug companies, funded by a cabal of private investors. You only
have to look at the scale of these companies and the way in which money is
funnelled through them in secret, ostensibly to protect against industrial
espionage but in reality to hide exactly what a lot of that money is funding.
Look further at the experiments carried out by UK, US and Russian scientists
and chemists on uninformed, non-consenting test subjects throughout this
period. It is clear that there was something very much amiss.
The situation changed dramatically through the 1960’s and
‘70’s with the rise of various counterculture movements in music, the arts,
even science. The development of trade unions flexing their muscles with
national and international strikes, the environmentalism movement, hippies,
beatniks, social drop-outs led to a pressing need to retain control amongst the
elite, so plans were formulated to keep the masses enslaved, controlled,
managed. This took the form of a multi-headed attack on the middle and lower
classes. Education standards were lowered, but always quietly, and with the
cover story that education was about inclusion for the least able, even if this
was at the expense of the most able. At the same time, the concept of a “Job
for life” was eroded until the overwhelming emotion felt by the working
population was fear. Fear of losing their job, their income, fear of not being
able to get a job, and perhaps worse, that their children may not be able to
get jobs. So we put up with more in our workplaces, gradually becoming more
subservient to our overlords.
Combined with these came the increase in the pervasive
presence of technology, in the home, the workplace, out on the streets, a World
full of bright flashing lights, noise, bustle to distract and confuse us, and a
World full of monitoring and surveillance to track those of us who refused to
be cowed. Think of the reports of employee blacklists within the construction,
health, education and finance sectors. If you were considered to difficult or
challenging you would veryt quickly find opportunities to work drying up. This
theme continues today, with anyone challenging the status quo branded a
whistle-blower and blocked from employment by tacit agreement between business
leaders. So, we have a frightened workforce, monitored and tracked and to this
we add the next layer of control; finance. Over the 1980’s and ‘90’s there was
a colossal credit bubble, fuelled by the idea that house prices could only ever
rise. Ordinary people were encouraged to borrow against their property beyond
its value in the expectation that the value would keep on rising inexorably
higher. Of course, we know this was a nonsense, to be fair we knew it all
along, but we were being conditioned to be aspirational, to want the latest and
greatest, and more importantly to want it now. This isn’t just the fault of
advertisers, but of the elite pulling the strings.
By keeping us uneducated, fearful, trapped by spiralling
debt we have become unable as well as unwilling to truly challenge authority,
but it is not too late. It is never too late. Stop buying so much crap! Stop
voting for the same carbon copy clone politicians, stop allowing yourself to be
spoon fed the latest celebrity reality show and start going to your local
library and start reading books before they are all replaced with e-readers!
Make a stand, make a choice, and take back control of your life today!