It’s funny how quickly perceptions can change on the global stage. Just a few years ago, Argentina was being hailed as a remarkable tale of success snatched from the jaws of defeat. After suffering an economic crisis in 1999-2002 that saw widespread unemployment and riots, the fall of the government, and a national default on foreign debt, analysts in recent years have been pontificating on the re-stabilization of the Argentinian economy. But it appears they spoke too soon. As a result, on February 1st, Argentina became the first nation in history to be censured by the IMF.
The IMF has given the country until September to bring its statistics up to international standards or face expulsion from the world body. Ironically, this will be welcome news to Argentinians, who have long understood that it was the international financial elite at the IMF and in the so-called Washington consensus who put the country on this path of economic collapse in the first place. The roots of the current crisis go back at least as far as the US-backed military coup in the 1970s which “disappeared” an entire generation of political activists and instituted a bankster-friendly regime that paved the way for an era of neoliberal reforms and cooperation with the IMF.
In this episode James Corbett examines the rock-and-hard-place nature of Argentina’s current collapse, the neoliberal policies imposed on the country in decades past, and the irrational, politically-motivated lies spun by the government in reaction to those policies.
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In our Secret Society EyeOpener series we have been examining those organizations of influence that wield power over our countries from behind the scenes. Groups such as the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Zionist Organization of America, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Common Purpose. We could go on to detail thousands of similar organizations working in similar ways to direct the processes of government from the shadows: the Club of Rome, the Pilgrims Society, the Bohemian Grove, the Knights of Malta, Le Cercle. The list is nearly inexhaustible.
In this final episode of EyeOpener Video Report Series on Secret Societies James Corbett discusses and explores possible solutions in opposing and defeating the hidden influence over government that exists in the world today.
Catchphrases and overused hype terms are constantly being generated by the political class. Often they are used to focus the public’s attention on a given topic or to distract that same public from more pressing concerns. Witness, for example, the sudden onset of the “fiscal cliff” fixation in the mainstream financial media at the end of last year. Other times, as former President George W. Bush insightfully pointed out, these catchphrases are employed as a way to break down the public’s intellectual defenses and “catapult the propaganda.”
In this fifth episode of EyeOpener Video Report Series on Secret Societies James Corbett introduces and discusses the calling card of an emerging political organization, Common Cause, which has now expanded internationally and provides training courses in leadership for up-and-coming politicians, businessmen, NGO workers, organizers, and others who wield or will one day wield power in society.
That the Canadian Council of Chief Executives wields enormous power in the Canadian political arena is beyond dispute. Its membership roster is a Who’s Who of Canadian business and politics, including current President John Manley, who was named Time Canada’s “Newsmaker of the Year” in 2001 for his role in crafting cross-border anti-terrorism strategies with the first U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Chretien cabinet from 2002 to 2003. Other members of the council are household names, if not personally than for the companies they helm: Air Canada, Bombardier, CN, Deloitte, Encana, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, KPMG, Royal Bank of Canada, and many other firms at the heart of the Canadian economy.
In this fourth episode of EyeOpener Video Report Series on Secret Societies James Corbett takes us to north of the border to an institution of considerable influence over the Canadian government that, like our other groups on our series, few amongst the general population have ever heard of: the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
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Discussion of the Israeli lobby and its influence in Washington tends to center on AIPAC, the largest Israel-centered lobbying group currently operating in the US. The oldest continually operating such lobby group, however, the Zionist Organization of America, was for decades one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in the country, helping to shape American policy toward the formation of Israel. Its members have been connected to illegal Israeli smuggling rings of both conventional and nuclear weapons technologies. And it is currently embroiled with the American government in a fight over its tax-exempt status.
What is once again interesting to note is that groups like the ZOA and AIPAC are—like the Royal Institute of International Affairs and its branch organizations which we examined last week on this program—not secretive, cabals of shadowy figures meeting in darkened rooms, but openly public organizations with a readily documentable history of flouting laws and harboring criminal elements.
In this third episode of EyeOpener Video Report Series on Secret Societies James Corbett introduces us to The Zionist Organization of America.
The Council on Foreign Relations is well known amongst researchers of parapolitics as one of the organizations of interest directing Washington’s foreign policy. Once derided as “conspiracy theory” the influence of the group is now a truism that is openly joked about in Washington’s foreign policy circles. The CFR is in fact a branch of a slightly older, slightly less-known organization: the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Born from the ashes of war-ravaged Europe following the Great War, the idea for the RIIA was forged at an informal session during the 1919 Paris peace conference. The group became synonymous with Chatham House and is widely recognized among foreign policy experts as the most influential think tank in the world.
Funded by partners, patrons and corporate members that read like a Who’s Who of the Fortune 500, including Chevron, AIG, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, Royal Dutch Shell, the European Commission, and dozens of other corporations, institutions and foreign governments, Chatham House consistently attracts some of the best known speakers on a wide range of topics, releasing reports that set the global policy agenda, not only for Britain, but for much of the rest of the developed world as well.
In this second episode of EyeOpener Video Report Series on Secret Societies James Corbett introduces us to the Royal Institute of International Affairs as a perfect example of how some of the world’s biggest secrets are hidden in plain sight.
The idea that global politics is directed by a small group of well-connected elite has long been decried as “conspiracy theory” by the establishment and their media outlets. However, today, this idea is openly discussed and acknowledged by those very figures that once sought to deride it. If we are to find the organizing principle of these interlocking societies in the philosophy of collectivism and the quest for world government, the obvious question is “Who are these people and what organizations are part of this conspiracy?”
In the coming series of our EyeOpener reports- James Corbett will examine some of the lesser known groups that constitute part of this system of “rings within rings:” the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Common Purpose UK.
As the global economy continues to slow down, the world is being asked to focus on issues of so-called “sovereign debt,” “austerity,” “fiscal responsibility,” “belt tightening” and other such euphemisms for the grim reality that the public is now being asked to pony up the dough for the trillions that have been handed over to the banisters in the past few years. What the constant focus on these issues effectively hides, however, is that underlying the economic woes that are the symptom of the disease is the disease itself: the monetary system.
In this third episode of our new series on ‘Money’ James Corbett explores the idea of self-issued credit and elimination of the need for the outdated “technology” of Federal Reserve notes or central bank administered national currencies, and the enormous implications of this system.
As residents of the Eurozone are all too aware these days, and others around the world are gradually beginning to understand, large, centrally-administered monetary unions may be the dream of the central banksters and the technocrats, but are a colossal failure in meeting the needs of ordinary citizens.
As we examined on the program last week, the standard monetary paradigm of the developed western world relies on central bank administered fiat money created as debt-based instruments owed back, at interest, the very bankers who are given the privilege of creating this money out of nothing. With a literal license to print money, and to direct that money into those sectors of the economy they see fit by approving or denying credit to businesses and industries on a whim, it is not difficult to see how this system benefits the banksters first and foremost.
In this second episode of our new series on ‘Money’ James Corbett explores alternative currency solution(s), and digs into questions such as what happens when currency begins to fail, and must the public merely wait for the inevitable collapse, and then submit to whatever new monetary paradigm the banksters create from the ashes of the old order.
In this age of panic over the sovereign debt crisis and the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling negotiations, we are bombarded with talk of government money printing and images of the printing press, but how many people know that only a tiny fraction of money in the economy is actually in the form of bills or coins? And if money isn’t, for the most part, literally printed into existence, then where does it come from?
In a system where money is created by bankers out of our own promise to pay them back, at interest, it is self-evidently always the case that more and more of the hard assets and real value of the economy will be transferred from the working, productive classes to the financial speculators at the top of the system who literally create the money and toy with the credit that is our economy’s lifeline. Given all of this, is it at all surprising that we have arrived at this situation where economic crises are followed by multi-trillion dollar bailouts of financial institutions while more and more people fall into debt, foreclosure and unemployment?
It is enough to note that at times it is the simplest questions that turn out to be the most difficult for many to answer, and if we are being told not to ask such questions as what money is or where it comes from, perhaps there is a reason that the powers that be don’t want these questions being contemplated.
It’s funny how quickly perceptions can change on the global stage. Just a few years ago, Argentina was being hailed as a remarkable tale of success snatched from the jaws of defeat. After suffering an economic crisis in 1999-2002 that saw widespread unemployment and riots, the fall of the government, and a national default on foreign debt, analysts in recent years have been pontificating on the re-stabilization of the Argentinian economy. But it appears they spoke too soon. As a result, on February 1st, Argentina became the first nation in history to be censured by the IMF. 
