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“Advocates like to describe economic globalization as a long-term, inevitable process, the result of economic and technological forces that have simply evolved over centuries to their present form.”[1]

Accepting that national borders are merely a quaint reminder of an order long passed, what are the factors shaping the world we see today and imagine tomorrow? Who are the players on the battlefield? The new world order is, as we have established, based on economy. If economy is the basis of social systems, then obviously control of the economy is power. If the goal is to possess as much power as possible, than it follows that a global economy is the highest ideal. This is a concept central to what we know of as globalization.

Globalization is many things; first, given the current state of technology, distance and traditional borders are irrelevant. Using direct and instantaneous communication, information from any point on the globe is knowable by anyone else, anywhere else. Direct communication is in itself neutral. However, how one uses a tool is not neutral. No matter how you spin it, globalization is the movement towards a global economy. For many, globalization has led to the fostering of a sort of international culture, especially between those who use the Internet as a medium. Those who would attempt to shape the definition of globalization as noble goal might call it a “neoculture,” a way to transcend petty differences of the past. I, however, would term it a “monoculture,” with all the connotations that plague the word in its agricultural usage.

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Sadistic Pavlovians

“The most powerful positions are those which control some crucial area of uncertainty.”[1]

One of the most disturbing ways to achieve control is to randomly award and punish. In this way, the individual being controlled is constantly perplexed as to whether he is doing well or badly. He continues to strive for the occasional windfall and condemns himself when his “luck” fails him. Since the financial roller coaster is a shared experience, there is a common bonding with others “in the same boat” and a sort of Stockholm Syndrome persists. Perhaps it is not the game, but our willingness to play it, to believe in it, to ascribe our hopes and dreams, our progeny and our legacy to it, that makes it so sickening. How many generations of sons and daughters have become lawyers, doctors, politicians, stockbrokers, in the hopes that they, too, could play the game? The game is rigged, or rather, we are not the ones playing it, we are the pieces; we are pawns moving ahead, moving back, being sacrificed. We are being played, and on some level, we know it.

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Anicent Ways for Modern Times: a journey to STONGEHENGE/GLASTONBURY and the Micheal and Mary ley lines

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In the toy chest of any ’70s child, one would most likely find “GI Joe,” “The Weeble People” and of course, “Mr. Potato Head.” These popular Hasbro toys found their forms through the hands of many artistic and technical engineers. Jack McCabe of West Kingston was one of these creators. McCabe’s young-looking, Irish face looked mischievous as he evaded dating himself in saying he “worked at Hasbro a year after the wildly successful Inch Worm was marketed.” More …

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Checkmate

“Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy.  Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics.  Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science.  And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping.”[1]

Money is an embodiment of energy; energy is synonymous with power.  He who has the gold makes the rules.  Has this cliche lost its meaning? No, how could it when all current social systems are based on hoarding.  At the entry level, this looks like multi-national corporations.  Big black shiny buildings with big sterile lobbies and sans-serifed logos.  Impersonal monoliths of wealth and power.  Is this where the power lies?  No, this is just a container, but we’re getting closer.  Okay, how about those glorious top story windowed offices with waterfront views, is it someone in there?  Not likely, real money doesn’t show up for work.  Alright, so where does money move from here?  Banks, the stock market, bonds, and mutual funds.  Now we’re getting warmer.  Okay, how about economics, the ebb and flow of money, the tides of wealth.  Is it possible that there may be people sitting at the helm of this seemingly uncontrollable process?  Check.  These are the power elite.  Is it all just a game to them?  Checkmate.

The release of “The Secret” and the subsequent fuss after it was added to Oprah’s book list has popularized a spiritual concept — that you have the power to manifest your own reality.  That thoughts become things.  This idea is rather simple, however, like most simple things it is intensely powerful.  It empowers the individual to be the master of his own destiny and not entirely the subject of the whims of fortune.  This idea is dangerous to economics, whose purpose it is to constantly reaffirm the scarcity mindset.  Feast today, for tomorrow we may die — or sell off your stock today, for tomorrow it may dive.

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The Truth is Out There

“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny.”[1]

Entertaining the idea of a “power elite” is enough to be labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” words expertly chosen to marginalize independent thought. However, the story does not end here; labels do not hinder an honest inquiry for truth. True power does not lie in the hands of nations, we have established this much, but where does it lie? Who is making the decisions? Why is so much of our government shrouded in secrecy? The military, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, even defense contractors require secret clearance just to work on government projects. And for what, national security? What are “black budget” projects anyway? Isn’t this our money? Where IS our money going?

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time

“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.” –Niels Bohr

In essence, we are really just talking about spreading jelly over toast. Do we want clumps or even distribution? But, please, let’s only consider what’s within the boundaries of my particular slice of bread. This analogy, while amusing and somewhat insightful still lacks many other distortions, especially the veiling of the power elite. Because we all know, you must spread the peanut butter before you spread the jelly. Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

The phrase “power elite” is a bit ambiguous, so allow me to define our terms. Anyone who has peered deeply into politics will inevitably come out of it dis-empowered, disheartened and disgusted. While perhaps there may have been a time when the world really was a collection of nations, and each was responsible for it’s own self interest this is most certainly no longer the case. Even a cursory glance into the inner workings of American politics would reveal that corporations run the show, and on the surface we see “lobbying” and all kinds of other gentle words for bribery happening in the highest levels of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. The word corruption does not do justice for what is taking place here, it is treason.

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The Human Hive

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”[1]

So what is communism? It is a system which delivers security in exchange for freedom by taking property out of the hands of individuals and into the “collective” or, more accurately, the governance. This carries with it the assumption that the group, or in actuality, the group’s authority figures, can make better decisions for the whole than the individuals.  Communism is just another way of insisting upon dependence on the government, not only for protection but for sustenance.

In essence, Communism is a social system based on the hive mentality. In a bee hive, each bee has it’s own duty and it’s needs are provided for. In attempts at communism, the system calls for a leadership which manifests for the bees as a queen and for humans as a dictator. This important point is often overlooked, as that is not how communism is “supposed” to work, however, nature proves otherwise. The core truth in communism is the idea of a commons. This ideal culture of sharing and equality is just as essential to our human nature but has been cloaked in layers of distortion. Perhaps the biggest distortion is that even in a socialist nation, wealth is still being hoarded, it is just ideally being spread out evenly, within the national boarders.

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