Where once Al Qaeda was our enemy now we fight for their cause. There have been reports all along that Al Qaeda made up many of the fighter we were supporting in Libya, but as their flag rises it becomes undeniable. This should give anyone major questions about the motivation for all the conflicts we are involved in. Are we against certain ideals and peoples or are we just following a grander plan. Such as what was mentioned here, by Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark.

Nato concludes mission in Libya... but a bad omen for the future as Al Qaeda flag flies over Benghazi

• Nato carried out 9,600 airstrike sorties in seven months, destroying 5,900 targets
• Operation cost Britain estimated £300million

Change of regime? A trademark Al Qaeda flag was seen flying over Benghazi's courthouse last week

Flying high: The Al Qaeda flag, with Arabic writing and a moon design, can be seen flying alongside a Libyan national flag above Benghazi's courthouse

The Al-Qaeda flag was seen above Benghazi's courthouse just days after Libyan rebels imposed Sharia law on parts of the country (file picture)

Success: Nato has destroyed around 5,900 military targets since it began operations in Libya seven months ago

Sheriff: Time For Citizens To Arm Themselves
Sheriff Chuck Wright Doesn’t Hold Back

   We are constantly told that the monarchy has no more power in the modern world. Those aware realize that their money and influence never completely waned. The Queen still has the power through her Governor General to dissolve the parliamentary governments of many of Common Wealth nations along various other reserve powers the monarchy still holds over her kingdoms. Here is some light being shed on a veto power which the Prince of Wales still holds over legislation in Britain. 

Prince Charles is routinely asked to give his consent to pieces of new legislation in what is effectively a power of veto. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

From the London Olympics and gambling to children's rights and shipwrecks, the list of draft bills scrutinised by the Prince of Wales and his officials reads like the busiest Whitehall portfolio imaginable.
The 62-year-old prince isn't a minister, an MP or even a lord; in constitutional terms, he is a subject of the crown like any other. But it has emerged that he has a far more formal role in shaping our laws than many people – legislators and civil servants included – ever knew.
Prince Charles is routinely asked to give his consent to pieces of new legislation in what is effectively a power of veto. Since 2005, ministers from six departments have sought his approval for a dozen bills.
With 650 MPs and 826 lords already raking through the fine print of legislation on behalf of British citizens, the puzzle is: why does the prince have this power and how is he using it?
Is it, as one former government lawyer has described it, the "nuclear button" that gives meaning to the prince's already controversial lobbying of ministers on his pet interests, both directly and through his network of charities? And why is it shrouded in secrecy and lacking accountability?
Lord Berkeley, an Old Etonian Labour peer, is one of those seeking answers.
Berkeley is also harbour commissioner at the port of Fowey in Cornwall and he ran up against the prince's powers last month when he sponsored a private members' bill on marine navigation. On 6 September, a blunt letter from a clerk in the House of Lords bill office arrived on his desk.
"Dear Lord Berkeley," it began. "The marine navigation bill that you introduced on 5 July would affect the Prince of Wales' interests and so will require the Prince of Wales' consent for its consideration by parliament … The government whips office in the Lords and the parliamentary branch of the Department of Transport are aware of what is required." Berkeley was told it was a matter of "if" not when the prince would grant consent.
"It was extremely vague about why [it affected the prince's interests]," Berkeley recalled. "It will be one of those things which nobody here [in the Lords] will want to rock the boat about, but I think it is worth rocking. He shouldn't be able to do this. I basically think it has nothing to do with him."
Downing Street officials say part of the reason the prince has the right to consent is because, through his position as the Prince of Wales, he is the beneficiary of the Duchy of Cornwall – a private landholding set up as a kind of trust fund for the son of Edward III, known as "the Black Prince" who became Prince of Wales in 1343. The crown has an interest in the duchy, which funds Charles's multi-millionaire lifestyle, and in the same way that legislation that affects the crown's interest must receive the Queen's consent, bills that affect the Duchy of Cornwall's interests must be agreed by the prince, who is also the Duke of Cornwall.
Where a bill affects the "hereditary revenues, personal property or other interests" of the Duchy of Cornwall, then "the consent of … the Prince of Wales must be signified in both houses [of parliament] before the bill is passed," Cabinet Office guidance states.
A minister's private secretary must write to the prince's private secretary, enclosing two copies of the draft bill, to "explain the purpose of the bill and how it would affect the crown, and asking for consent". Copies should be send to the secretary of the Crown Estate Commissioners and Farrer & Co, a legal firm that advises the crown, "who will advise the secretary of the Duchy of Cornwall of the nature of the legislation and the potential impact it may have on Duchy operations and\or privileges".
Convoluted perhaps, but the effect is clear: in 2011 a private individual enjoys a veto on public legislation because he is responsible for, and enjoys the benefit of, a huge private estate.
The Duchy of Cornwall is no sleepy backwater unaffected by changes to legislation. It is a target-oriented investment portfolio, headed by the prince with a £200,000-a-year chief executive, Bertie Ross, who oversees the equivalent of 91 full-time staff. While investors everywhere have been buffeted by financial turmoil in recent years, the value of the Duchy portfolio has risen from £618m in 2006-7, to £712m in 2010-11. The prince's annual income from the duchy has risen over the same period from £15.2m to £17.8m.
Its biggest housing development is Poundbury, a mock-Georgian new town in Dorset, but it also owns substantial commercial properties such as the Franklin Wilkins building leased to Kings College London, more than 2,000 hectares of woodland, holiday cottages in Cornwall, and the Oval cricket ground also in London. It even owns the freehold of most of the land of the Isles of Scilly and a third of the residential buildings in the archipelago.
But the duchy's business practices have not always been popular. Duchy tenants in the village of Newton St Loe, outside Bath, this year complained to the prince that they had been "fobbed off", "patronised", "misled" and "dealt with in an overly aggressive manner" by duchy representatives who handled their complaints about its plans to build 2,000 homes on neighbouring farmland. Some were afraid to speak their minds for fear of finding the terms of their tenancies changed.
It is this organisation that is the key to the prince's power of consent and ultimately veto. But attempts to gain access to official papers detailing its application have largely failed, with most government departments and ministers questioned reserving the right to keep communications with the royals private.
Fragments have emerged. In September 2008, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills consulted the prince on the apprenticeship, skills, children and learning bill. An email released under the Freedom of Information Act from a legal adviser at the department to an official at the Ministry of Justice was titled: "Apprenticeships bill: application to the royal household and the Duchy of Cornwall". The officials were concerned to know whether the royals, as employers, were happy with the creation of a statutory basis for apprenticeships.
Adam Tomkins, professor of constitutional law at Glasgow University, said it would be right for ministers to consult the prince on legislation that directly affected the duchy in a peculiar way, such as proposed alterations to its unique tax status. But he could not understand why the duchy was being granted the right to consent or dissent over issues such as apprenticeships.
"Thousands of other organisations are also employers, but they are not asked to clear legislation that affects them," he said, adding that it was difficult to see where Charles' interests lie in some of the matters on which he is being consulted.
"This builds on allegations that Charles is a meddling prince and is yet another example of how the government willfully kowtows and defers to this individual," he said. "Yet again it raises the informed suspicion that this is a prince who is seeking to maximise his influence over government policy."
Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives in Cornwall, has pressed ministers to illuminate the process of Charles' consent, without success. When asked about the consultation with the duchy on the children's rights bill, the education minister, Sarah Teather, confirmed it had happened, but said: "We do not disclose the contents of correspondence with members of the royal family." When George asked if the duchy made any amendments to the Coroners and Justice Act, justice minister Crispin Blunt repeated the line.
The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, which oversees the drafting of legislation, has refused to publish internal guidance on how Whitehall determines whether the prince and the Duchy of Cornwall should be granted the right to consent to new legislation. It said the guidance was a matter of "legal professional privilege".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/prince-of-wales-veto-legislation

Occupy America - 1930's

The Intellistreets system has developed these street light systems with multiple layers of capabilities, bringing the possibility of a 1984/Minority Report style future. With devices such as this the government will constantly be able to broadcast their messages to the people, almost in a 'big brother' style from 1984. The street lights will also have the ability to monitor the street traffic, bringing us closer to a completely integrated surveillance society if deployed on a mass scale. The system is receiving federal support, and will be installed in a Michigan city with federal grant money. In an imperfect world can you trust anyone with such power (the Nazis and USSR would be so jealous if still here)?

If you have ever studied anything of the royal families of Europe you know that the they intermarried for centuries. This created a genealogy where even between enemies they are almost all related to one another. This causes a complicated relationship between all the monarchs that is rarely seen or explained in public. (Are enemies always enemies or just posing a threat to each others subjects to justify each others reign.) The British royal family is related to French, Dutch, German, and now Prince Charles is admitting publicly to Romanian Vlad the Impaler. What kind of world are we living in when the heir to the English throne feels comfortable claiming his ancestral ties to Vlad the Impaler?

How many other royal families are connected to this Romanian family?  No, they are not vampires, but the important thing is to realize that there is very few large families all inter-related that have ruled over Europe for centuries (and still have power through economic and other means even today).

Blue bloods: Prince Charles joins campaign to save Transylvania's forests - because of his family connections to 'Count Dracula'

Blood lines: Prince Charles, left, is descended from Transylvanian prince Vlad III, known by the sobriquet Vlad the Impaler and the patronym Dracula, right, through his great-grandmother, Queen Mary, wife of George V

Virgin: The forests of the Carpathian Mountains, some of the last untouched wilderness areas in Europe, are under threat from development and logging

Biodiversity: A European grey wolf stalks the forest of Transylvania. The area is also home to brown bears, lynx, and 13,000 other species

Old haunt: The farmhouse in Viscri, Transylvania, that Charles bought in 2006 and turned into a guesthouse

Fit for a future king: Inside the 18th century farmhouse in Viscri, now restored as a guest house after it was purchased by the Prince of Wales

I will add my own two cents about overpopulation here. It is not a real problem, and if you have ever traveled any large distance you should realize that the majority of land is just wide open nothing. Even if over population was an issue it is nature's job to regulate our numbers, not to have man take it upon themselves to judge who deserves to reproduce. Bias and abuse will always be the result when men try to dictate each others lives. Click on the original article to read more about the authors of the guidestones.      

Vigilant Citizen: Sinister Sites: The Georgia Guidestones

The Monument

Quietly standing in Elberton county, the Guidestones will probably gain in relevancy in the next years

Source: Wired

The explanatory tablet explains some of the features of the monuments and its authors (more on them later). The opening date of the time capsule has been left blank.

The English version of the Guidelines

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Depopulation, Planned Parenthood and Eugenics

“Some of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.
The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.
Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.”
The Sunday Times, May 24th 2009

One World Government

“Some even believe we 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. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
-David Rockefeller, “Memoirs of David Rockefeller” p.405

“When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love. Despite statements to the contrary, Masonry is a religion seeking to unite God and man by elevating its initiates to that level of consciousness whereon they can behold with clarified vision the workings of the Great Architect of the Universe. From age to age the vision of a perfect civilization is preserved as the ideal for mankind. In the midst of that civilization shall stand a mighty university wherein both the sacred and secular sciences concerning the mysteries of life will be freely taught to all who will assume the philosophic life. Here creed and dogma will have no place; the superficial will be removed and only the essential be preserved. The world will be ruled by its most illumined minds, and each will occupy the position for which he is most admirably fitted.”
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

“World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. Toward the accomplishment of this greatest of all human ends they outlined programs of education, religion, and social conduct directed to the ultimate achievement of a practical and universal brotherhood. And in order to accomplish their purposes more effectively, these ancient scholars bound themselves with certain mystic ties into a broad confraternity. In Egypt, Greece, India, and China, the State Mysteries came into existence. Orders of initiated priest-philosophers were formed as a sovereign body to instruct, advise, and direct the rulers of the States.”
-Manly P. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America

Explanations Directly from the Anonymous Authors

Cover of the Georgia Guidestones Guidebook

“It is very probable that humanity now possesses the knowledge needed to establish an effective world government. In some way that knowledge must he widely seeded in the consciousness of all mankind. Very soon the hearts of our human family must be touched and warmed so we will welcome a global rule of reason.
‘The group consciousness of our race is blind, perverse, and easily distracted by trivia when it should be focused on fundamentals. We are entering a critical era. Population pressures will soon create political and economic crisis throughout the world. These will make more difficult and at the same time more needed the building of a rational world society.
“A first step will be to convince a doubting world that such a society is now possible. Let us keep in view enduring appeals to the collective reason of humanity. Let us draw attention to the basic problems. Let us establish proper priorities. We must order our home here on earth before we reach for the stars.
“Human reason is now awakening to its strength. It is the most powerful agency yet released in the unfolding of life on our planet. We must make humanity aware that acceptance of compassionate, enlightened reason will let us control our destiny within the limits inherent in our nature.
“It is difficult to seed wisdom in closed human minds. Cultural inertias are not easily overcome. Unfolding world events and the sad record of our race dramatize the shortcomings of traditional agencies in governing human affairs. The approaching crisis may make mankind willing to accept a system of world law which will stress the responsibility of individual nations in regulating internal affairs, and which will assist them in the peaceful management of international frictions.
‘With such a system we could eliminate war, We could provide every person an opportunity to seek a life of purpose and fulfillment.
“There are alternatives to Armageddon. They are attainable. But they will not happen without coordinated efforts by millions of dedicated people in all nations of the earth.
“We, the sponsors of The Georgia Guidestones®, are a small group of Americans who wish to focus attention on problems central to the present quandary of humanity. We have a simple message for other human beings, now and in the future. We believe it contains self-evident truths, and we intend no bias for a particular creed or philosophy. Yet our message is in some areas controversial. We have chosen to remain anonymous in order to avoid debate and contention which might confuse our meaning, and which might delay a considered review of our thoughts. We believe that our precepts are sound. They must stand on their own merits.
“Stonehenge and other vestiges of ancient human thoughts arouse our curiosity but carry no message for our guidance. To convey our ideas across time to other human beings, we erected a monument — a cluster of graven stones. These silent stones will display our ideas now and when we have gone. We hope that they will merit increasing acceptance and that through their silent persistence they will hasten in a small degree the coming age of reason.
(…)
“We believe that each human being has purpose. Every one of us is a small but significant bit of the infinite. The celestial alignments of the stones symbolize the need for humanity to be square with External principles which are manifest in our own nature, and in the universe around us. We must live in harmony with the infinite.
‘Four large stones in the central cluster are inscribed with ten precepts, each stone carrying the same text in two languages. In the English version the message totals fewer than one hundred words. The languages have been selected for their historical significance and for their impact on people now living. Since there are three thousand living languages, not all could he chosen.
“We envision a later phase in the development of the Georgia Guidestones®. It is hoped that other stones can be erected in outer circles to mark the migrations of the sun and perhaps certain other celestial phenomena. These stones would carry our words in the languages of other individuals who share our beliefs and will raise similar stones at international boundaries in the languages of friendly neighbors. They would serve as reminders of the difficulties which all humanity must face together, and would encourage mutual efforts to deal with them rationally and with justice.
“We profess no divine inspiration beyond that which can be found in all human minds. Our thoughts reflect our analysis of the problems confronting humanity in this dawning of the atomic age. They outline in general terms certain basic steps which must be taken to establish for humanity a benevolent and enduring equilibrium with the universe.
“Human beings are special creatures. We are shepherds for all earthly life. In this world, we play a central role in an eternal struggle between good and evil–between the forces which build and those which would destroy. The Infinite envelops all that exists, even struggle, conflict and change, which may reflect turmoils in the very soul of God.
“We humans have been gifted with a small capacity to know and to act– for good or for evil. We must strive to optimize our existence, not only for ourselves but for those who come after us. And we must not be unmindful of the welfare of all other living things whose destinies have been placed in our trust.
“We are the major agency through which good and evil qualities of the spirit become actors in our world. Without us there is very little of love, mercy, or compassion. Yet we can also be agents of hate, and cruelty and cold indifference. Only we can consciously work to improve this imperfect world. It is not enough for us to merely drift with the current. The rational world of tomorrow lies ever upstream.
“In 1980, as these stones were being raised, the most pressing world problem was the need to control human numbers. In recent centuries technology and abundant fuels have made possible a multiplication of humanity far beyond what is prudent or long sustainable. Now we can foresee the impending exhaustion of those energy sources and the depletion of world reserves of many vital raw materials.
“Controlling our reproduction is urgently needed. It will require major changes in our attitudes and customs. Unfortunately, the inertia of human custom can be extreme. This is especially true when those for whom custom is a dominant force are uninformed of the need for change.
“Nearly every nation is now overpopulated in terms of a perpetual balance with nature. We are like a fleet of overcrowded lifeboats confronted with an approaching tempest. In the United States of America we are seriously overtaxing our resources to maintain our present population in the existing state of prosperity. We are destroying our farmland and we have grown dangerously dependent upon external sources for oil, metals and other nonrenewable resources. Nations such as Japan, Holland and Haiti are even more seriously overpopulated and, therefore, in greater jeopardy.
“In these circumstances, reproduction is no longer exclusively a personal matter. Society must have a voice and some power of direction in regulating this vital function. The wishes of human couples are important, but not paramount. The interests of present society and the welfare of future generations must be given increasing consideration as we develop mechanisms to bring rational control to our childbearing.
(…)
“Irresponsible childbearing must be discouraged by legal and social pressures. Couples who cannot provide a decent income and support for a child should not produce children to be a burden for their neighbors. Bringing unneeded children into an overcrowded lifeboat is evil. It is unjust to those children. It is harmful for the other occupants and all living things. Society should not encourage or subsidize such behavior.
“Knowledge and techniques for regulating human reproduction are now in existence. Moral and political leaders throughout the world have a grave responsibility to make this knowledge and these techniques generally available. This could be done with a fraction of the funds which the world now devotes to military purpose. In the long run, diverting funds into this channel could do more than anything else to reduce the tensions which lead to war.
“A diverse and prosperous world population in perpetual balance with global resources will be the cornerstone for a rational world order. People of good will in all nations must work to establish that balance.
(…)
“With the completion of the central cluster of The Georgia Guidestones our small sponsoring group has disbanded. We leave the monument in the safekeeping of the people of Elbert County, Georgia.
“If our inscribed words are dimmed by the wear of wind and sun and time, we ask that you will cut them deeper. If the stones should fall, or if they be scattered by people of little understanding. we ask that you will raise them up again.
‘We invite our fellow human beings in all nations to reflect on our simple message. When these goals are some day sought by the generality of mankind, a rational world order can be achieved for all.

Great video showing how people with guns do not have to be a scary thing, and doesn't seem to be too alarming to many of those just passing by the protest. When criminals know they are the only one with the weapons then they become embolden, and you will find yourself at the mercy of those who disregard laws.

A good summary on what is going on with the economy and how it ties into the effort to consolidate power into fewer and fewer hands, otherwise known as globalization. When the pyramid of power gets bigger and bigger the voices on the bottom have less and less of a say in their own affairs.


Disclaimer: However great the majority of David Icke's information is, I do not endorse the theory of a reptilian agenda. The fate of the world for good or evil is in the hands of mankind.

Europe recognizes the problem with BPA as America continues to do nothing. What will the lasting effects of a synthetic hormone in our diet be? Being a hormone mimicker can affect children behavior, will it affect reproductive issues as they continue to age?
  
Gender-bending chemical that 'makes girls as young as three aggressive and hyperactive'

A common chemical used in products ranging from baby bottles to CD cases could be causing girls as young as three to become hyperactive and aggressive, researchers have claimed.

A study by leading U.S. scientists has found that those exposed to high levels of bisphenol A (BPA) in the womb are more likely to suffer from behavioural problems.
BPA, which is used to harden plastics, can be found in the lining of tins and bottles and the ends of knives and forks.

   As the world's economy is falling apart the globalization plan rolls forward. At the same time one of the most important religious/political organizations in the world call for one of the final nails in the coffin, being the world's economies finally being tied together. Justice ends at the moment of consolidation of power. This would be one of the most important goals of the Communist manifesto coming true. There is something wrong about hearing that from the Vatican. 

New euro 'empire' plot by Brussels

European Union chiefs are drawing up plans for a single “Treasury” to oversee tax and spending across the 17 eurozone nations.

The country that was once said to be number one in everything has fallen far from the top. These are rankings of the world economies in categories related to starting a business. America was known as land of entrepreneurs, but no more. We need new business to generate an economic recovery. How are we supposed to be in a recovery showing numbers like this? Tax special note of America being 72 in paying taxes. Our government takes more money from us than almost 40% of all the other countries ranked here. Is that freedom?

World Bank: Ranking Of Economies

United States:

You are generally left with the impression that children vaccination programs are purely for the well being of our children. If history shows us anything, government institutions rarely do things for the good of the people. Here is evidence that schools have financial incentives to have vaccinated children in the schools. Giving such incentives shows the government and schools totally disregarding the parents' choices for a their children. We all know lobbyists for big pharma write bills that would help their agendas, so we have to question the origins for such incentives being made law. This law was passed back in 2004. How many other states have similar laws? 

Exposed: Illinois law financially penalizes public schools when vaccination rates drop below 90 percent
Ethan A. Huff Natural News
(NaturalNews) One of the primary reasons for the big push among public school districts across the country to vaccinate as many students as possible appears to have a lot to do with maintaining their eligibility to receive local and state funding, at least in the state of Illinois.
Section 27-8.1.7 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) Health examinations and immunizations law explains that if a school vaccination rate falls below 90 percent, state aid payments to that school are automatically cut by 10 percent until the school comes into “compliance” (http://www.isbe.state.il.us/account…).
According to the current Illinois General State Aid fiscal schedule, Illinois schools receive $6,119 per student from the state. Ten percent of this amount equates to roughly $612. So if a school has 2,000 students, for instance, and it maintains at least a 90 percent vaccination rate, it will receive $12,238,000 from the state per year. But if the vaccination rate falls below 90 percent at the same school, a whopping $1,223,800 will be shaved off this amount (http://nced.info/schoolfinance/file…).
Suddenly it all becomes clear why school administrators are aggressively pushing parents to have their children receive the full vaccination schedule. If students do not comply, the administrators own salaries are on the line! These vaccine quotas also explain why some school districts are actually having to resort to bribary campaigns like giving away free iPods to students who get their shots (http://www.naturalnews.com/032330_v…).
It all appears to be nothing more than a sick “pay-for-play” system where state officials pressure school administrators to comply with the vaccine agenda or else face budget cuts. And they do this because federal officials are pressing them to push the vaccine agenda or else lose funding. In other words, from the top down, Big Pharma has rigged an entire system that forces government workers to push the vaccine agenda or else face a loss of funding — and all this funding, of course, ultimately comes directly from taxpayers.
Illinois law currently allows for students to opt-out of school vaccination requirements on both medical and religious grounds (http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/st…).
But if the vaccination rate ever consistently falls below the 90 percent threshold on a widespread scale, you can expect to see a lot more forced vaccination attempts fueled by lies and fear-mongering tactics.

    While asking the question and white washing the answer at the same time, the article asks if there is a problem with a relatively small group of companies having power over a majority of the global economy. When groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, Royal Institute of International Affairs, and meetings such as the Bilderberg Group have members from a majority of these top companies planning together in secret there is no reason not to be suspicious of the aims and goals of such power. These companies are making more and more money, or getting government bailouts while the rest of us are left to support ourselves. Obviously the system is skewed for these few over us, the many.

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies

1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
27. Invesco plc
28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA
30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company
31. Aviva plc
32. Schroders plc
33. Dodge & Cox
34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
35. Sun Life Financial Inc
36. Standard Life plc
37. CNCE
38. Nomura Holdings Inc
39. The Depository Trust Company
40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
41. ING Groep NV
42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
43. Unicredito Italiano SPA
44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
45. Vereniging Aegon
46. BNP Paribas
47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
48. Resona Holdings Inc
49. Capital Group International Inc
50. China Petrochemical Group Company
* Lehman still existed in the 2007 dataset used
Graphic: The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy
(Data: PLoS One)        

This is truly a time bomb that no one is moving to diffuse. The derivative issue is what was one of the key triggers to the economic problems that came to a head in 2008. With derivatives being allowed to amount to almost 10 times the world's estimated GDP, and collected in so few hands you can see nothing has been done to advert another crisis. If one of these banks fails there is not enough money in the world to fix it, and that is the problem. The only thing that has been done is to feed the banks money so they can continue the same practices which brought us to this point. It is only a matter of time.....

Derivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode

Tick...Tick...Tick

• There is not enough capital on hand to cover the possible losses associated with the default of a single counterparty - JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), BNP Paribas SA (PINK: BNPQY) or the National Bank of Greece (NYSE ADR: NBG) for example - let alone multiple failures.
• That means banks with large derivatives exposure have to risk even more money to generate the incremental returns needed to cover the bets they've already made.
• And the fact that Wall Street believes it has the risks under control practically guarantees that it doesn't.

Here is another example of how the Occupy movement is being co-opted. The people on the streets are upset and finally pointing their fingers at the root of the problem, the banks. As this is a positive movement in the peoples' hearts, the evidence of banker and government agents are all over this movement are growing. These people will smoother the movement with consensus building exercises which mutes the voice of the majority while the media only goes to this co-opting minority(due to their banking/government sponsorship, contacts, and status behind the scenes) for the messages for the news and public. You can see the example of this in previous articles that show the slow unusual process these movements have adopted to communicate to one another. As the average and honest protestor is trying to take part in these weird proceedings the co-opt agents are communicating to the media, stealing the thunder of the true message. End the power of Wall Street, End the Federal Reserve!!