A little while ago a very old friend and ex of mine who i adore (Sarah) caught up with me on Facebook and messaged me to say “still on course to take over the world then?” and i laughed. Moi? Surely not. But it got me thinking, because we say such flippant things in the knowledge that there are those who walk this planet that actually do. 1% of the population control most of our world and their mission is to retain control of it.
In the James Bond series, Fleming cast Ernst Stavro Blofeld as the archenemy and head of the global criminal organization SPECTRE with aspirations of world domination. You’ll recognise him as the bald man sitting on a black leather seat with a white Persian cat. The Austin Powers films parodied him as “Dr Evil”. His methods are overt terrorism and blackmail.
So as i spent some time walking in the woods recently i thought about screenplay writing and how exactly one might achieve that domination because it’s a lot easier than you might expect. This world works on established patterns and historical precedents that are continually relived, and is propped up by institutions that are dependent on each other that collapse everything if they are threatened. Our lives are more fragile than we think. I used to spend hours with Sarah’s best friend, Tracey (Piers’ ex), theoretically plotting the perfect murder in true whodunit-style.
Biblically, there is a “Prince of this World” with absolute unrelenting power over all people and things, representing the terrible darkness of human nature. What i am referring to is not the puppeteer, but the man who controls the puppeteers. You will never, ever meet him or see him, but rest assured he certainly is there and deserves his place. All human systems function as hierarchical pyramids, and you can guarantee you are right on the bottom rung. Conspiracy theorists call it the “New World Order“, “One World Government” or the organisation of the “Illuminati“, and the X-Files describe a group called “The Syndicate”.
My little screenplay (“A Son Of Perdition”) is actually about a man whose thirst for power leads to him unwittingly fulfilling the prophecies of Revelation without becoming an evil man, ultimately bring the whole world to war. One of my favourite books is “The Prince” by Nicolo Machiavelli, which is his observation and advice for his king about how he should behave ruthlessly and amorally to secure what he wants. That work is the origin of the phrase “the end justifies the means”, although it doesn’t actually appear anywhere in it.
So i set about dividing the whole human ecosystem into parts and seeing how they work together. The very first and most essential thing to any military or social system is its communications infrastructure (satellites, submarine fiber optic cables), and then its supply lines (planes, shipping, trunk roads etc). All strategies focus on destroying or intercepting an enemy’s communications, and then starving them of food and water.
So let us take a giant leap of presupposition and say there is a modern day 21st century Prince, who rose to control the whole world. How would he do it? How could one man rise above 6 billion? Impossible, surely? Alarmingly, it’s a lot easier than you might think.
There are 3 places where absolute power itself is concentrated:
a) The mind of the mob – i.e. public opinion, support and popularity
b) Money – i.e. banking and financial systems
c) Military force
In reality, this tends to be 3 separate institutions – the media, the banks, and the army. Each are controlled by the hypothetical “men behind the curtain” and form an interdependent and unholy trio. The people you see in front of you on the news and every day life are not those with any real power – our prime minister is confined by TV cameras and a hostile parliament that has to validate his every move. The true unseen ruler works in the back rooms and accounts to no-one.
The people confer and delegate their collective power and opinion to lawmakers and central government representation, so all who operate in a country are subject to a government’s will. Politicians derive their power and influence from the support and popularity of the masses they have – once they are rejected by the people, they carry no weight. The government generally controls the military because it funds it, but when a military is starved for funds or totally against a political system that regulates it, it regularly breaks control through its command structure (generals) and attacks the hand that feeds (or indeed, does not feed). The money for the military comes from banks.
Governments borrow money and live in a perpetual debt to banks (particularly central banks) and rely on them as the engine of an economy – one that wins them votes if it operates well. Banks are dependent on their clients’ ability to repay, but because the money they original produced and leant was distributed at interest, they have not actually lost anything material. Bankers want one thing, and one thing only – to make ever more money. To do that, the government has to let them run amok, and they need to keep a national population converting their wealth to liquid cash so it can be pumped into the bank’s coffers and loaned out again. That message is carried through the media.
Governments depend on the media to win votes, and British prime ministers effectively report to Rupert Murdoch as The Sun has the capacity to swing 30% of the vote at a general election (plus The News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times) and 12 million adults out of 24 have a Sky Digital set-top box or access to the Sky News channel. The deal is that you get favourable coverage and support in exchange for a lapse regulatory regime and adopting Murdoch’s views as official policy. The media needs money to survive, is regulated by the government and needs attention-grabbing stories to generate an audience.
The purpose of power is to acquire more power, and as the universal human weakness, the hunger for it is endless. No amount of power is enough – you always want more, and the more you have, the more psychotically paranoid you become about losing it. It corrupts all, with no exception.
Wars are the most profitable exercises you can ever undertake, but wars are also incredibly expensive. You don’t go into a war unless what you get from winning it (i.e. the spoils) will be more than what you spent. The bank lend you a fortune (and make a fortune from the interest), and you then pillage the land you invade to pay back the war debt and enjoy your economy profiting. This is why we go to war in Iraq, and not Zimbabwe, as Iraq has oil that can repay the war’s cost. It’s also the reason Saddam Hussein deliberately changed the country’s currency and the Allies reset it recently after the second invasion.
Controlling any one of those 3 will provide enormous power, as witnessed by every single banana republic dictator’s actions over the last 1000 years. First they take control by force through a military coux, then by their governmental power they assume command of the financial systems and eventually the media to suppress things they don’t want. These 3 work together and depend on each other for their strength. They can always function independently, but for mass widespread profit and unlimited acquisition of wealth and influence, all of them must get together and work as a team.
We know that each of these institutions are run by people, whose structure gets thinner like a triangle the further up the food chain you go. So controlling these things is about controlling a small amount of people. And the way to control and manipulate people is by offering them whatever they want that will increase their power, wealth and influence – appealing exclusively to their self-interest and the dark side of their human nature.
So to control the world, one must be a politician in charge of a powerful military who controls the media and the bankers.
But most of all, our prince must remain hidden because if anyone saw his true form or discovered his position or operations, he would be violently opposed and lose his power. At this point he would have two choices – to hide himself under the nose of everyone and everything (as the best place to hide would be the last place anyone would ever look once they were blinded by the flash) or to be totally covert in the background. Either way carries risks. Either way, he would need to be seen as a philanthropic man of the people whose undoubted life of working tirelessly for charity would cloak any of his dark intentions.
It is then that we reveal our prince’s secret weapon that enables all of his absolute power – the notion of control by proxy. People do not accept control unless it works for their benefit, and will rebel against it. One cannot control any of these 3 by themselves, so our prince would need to indirectly control them by a proxy mechanism. Instead of owning the TV channels or communication lines, he would own the technology that distributes them. Instead of running banks, he would control the financial infrastructure that they rely on. By exerting direct force on what these systems depend, he achieves total dominance of all, and divides the rest in order to conquer them. You cannot rebel against that which you do not see, comprehend or acknowledge.
To work by proxy means our Prince could not, and would not ever be seen as an official ruler – there will never be a president of the world. But there will be presidencies of unions, and the one union that influences all the others will be where the true power lies. Money is made through wars between them.
Power in our world is divided according to the strength of an economy, and/or a military. Usually they are intrinsically linked – the US has the most powerful economy and military in the world, and all financial markets are dependent on the stability of its currency (the US dollar). Increased globalisation means that China will soon be the world’s dominant superpower, as they have an economic gun to the Americans’ head (in the form of acquired US Treasury bonds) and are growing so fast that no-one can compete. In the next 20 years, the landscape of the world would have changed and the US will be deposed. China, India, the US, Japan and the UK will be the dominant economies.
We see the trend that because of this superpower clustering, countries are forming alliances to consolidate and secure themselves, starting around common currencies and trading agreements. Regions are becoming unions and the 4 corners of the world – the African Union, the Asian Union, the North American Union, and our European Union. These coalitions are designed to counter-weight each other and re-balance the distribution of economy and military power scattered over earth’s population. 2 stick out – South America, which may very well hang onto the coat tails of its northern cousins, and the Middle East, an area of the world in limbo without allies and the central Abrahamic battleground of everything since time began.
And eventually, we come to see our Prince and how he rises to power, and ultimately to pivotally control the entire world as know it. Firstly he rises through the media, building his understanding, knowing the generations of people who will work in it as his personal friends and becoming its centre. He creates and enslaves the majority of companies in that sector so that they are dependent on his enabling technology, and also becomes massively wealthy as a result of their use of it. Through his proxy, the satellites and fiber-optic cables fail to function without his machinery and every device screen on which the media appears becomes his to switch on or off.
Through his wealth he next needs to come to control the bankers, which he does through ruthlessly exploiting and feeding the obsessive greed, vanity and self-interest of the international banking families, private equity boards and multi-country commercial groups. Through his schemes they make billions, as he sets himself up in every financial market – London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and more. Each daring raid pits bank against bank as the money flies backwards and forwards – he takes none for himself and lets the fat cats wallow in their banknotes as they love him as such a man of charity and benevolence. He weaves a web that makes them dependent on each other and by proxy all dependent on him.
The last of his feudal empires to conquer is that of true public power – the slow trail to the head of government. He would have chosen his target country and region very carefully according to his understanding of its future history that is yet to be written, knowing that the country he represents will ultimately form part of a greater union of neighbouring countries. Because of his ties with the bankers, his target would be London, as it would also offer the right media control and be part of the enlarged European Union. The combined strength of all the EU’s economies and its military forces would render it the most powerful of all the regions – able to effectively undermine and conquer that of the US, Africa, China and India.
So his true target would not be leader of that country, but of President of the eventual union, because through control of the most influential union he would control it all by proxy. He would use his immense wealth to personally fund a campaign of local electioneering that would see him voted into local government, and his huge public media profile would ensure that he was voted for and promoted through the ranks of his party, just because he was known and his morality would lend him the support of all the major religious organisations. His philanthropy would be evident in his bizarre lack of passion for power and his strange political neutrality, which would a smokescreen because of his knowledge that the prize was not where his supporters thought it was. His happy “accident” would simply be a longer road than others expect or assume.
So look out for a religious man who rises through the media with a philanthropic image, becomes extraordinarily wealthy with extensive international financial connections and then goes into politics to control the military and eventually end up as president of the European Union. Most importantly, look for him doing it in front of your very face through your disbelief that it could be even possible in the first place.
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