A grim outlook

During the lengthy time since my last post my view of the future has grown increasingly cynical. Aside from the continued ignorance and carelessness from the masses, we are hit with more disturbing images such as those released by wiki-leaks. My attention has also been directed to look deeper into the matters of our current state of the world and what I have found is truly troublesome.

My disappointment with the mass media coverage of important matters was strengthened by their inability to uncover the truth of the events occurring in the wars that are being waged by the US. The horrible images that most of us by now has seen and that have widely been broadcasted led me to the documentary The War You Don't See. I found it disturbing (but not all that surprising) that governments all over the world are both directly and indirectly censuring and steering the mass media in order to suit their political agenda. Directly by either discrediting reporters that have a challenging view and or releaving them from their job. Indirectly by embedding them and in doing so having full control over the information that they plan on presenting to the world.

It turns out that the treachery runs even deeper. Before I go into that however I will spend some time discussing my view on conspiracy theory. Over the years I have been reading a lot of articles and gone through a lot of information, some of which at the time has seemed outrageous and was labeled by many as conspiracy theories. Without knowing exactly how it happened or when, a phobia of sorts has emerged in regards to conspiracy theories. As soon as something is labeled conspiracy theory, it is regarded with something close to disgust and the information is quickly dismissed and until a while back I was not much different. I could sometimes be fascinated by them but never took them seriously. What I am about to talk about is widely considered conspiracy theory. When looking at the information at hand, there was a lot that did not make sense and that is where the information that follows filled in some of the blanks.

As described earlier, the mass media is gaged by the politicians. Behind the politicians however there is another force that is governing. Most people are probably aware of the close ties that corporations and banks have with the government. In the US it is truly appalling, where politicians campaigns are financed heavily by different interest groups and this behavior puts these politicians under these interest groups thumb in a varying degree. This is only a small part of it however.

As people who are informed about the process of how money is created know, money is borrowed into existence. This is done by the central bank. In the US its called the Federal Reserve Bank or FED. What most people don't appreciate is that the FED is not a governmental entity but rather a private bank. A bank that is in turn funded and owned by other banks, such as JP Morgan. So when all the money that is printed by  the FED goes out to the big banks in the form of stimulus or bailouts, they are in fact putting money into their own pockets. So far it can all be substantiated and could almost be considered common knowledge, or at least should be common knowledge. Behind the banks that are financing the FED there are a number of powerful and wealthy people and families. This is where the conspiracy comes in. Less corroborated information, rumors and speculation. Some say these people own more than half of the worlds wealth, that they have been profiting greatly from every war since before world war I and that for this reason they have also had a hand in creating them. Some say that they meet secretly to plan how to best continue controlling the worlds resources. Some say that they have enough power to appoint politicians and remove those that stand in their way. Facts mingled with rumors and speculation creates what many call conspiracy theories, and what is being uncovered is of the nature that hard proof is hard to come by and even dangerous to posses and spread.

In the times that we live in today, I believe it is important to be critical. Critical of the information that we find, but also critical of the information that we are being fed from sources that we normally would consider being trustworthy. The motive for spreading this information is not to create fear, panic or other destructive behavior. It is easy to feel that there is nothing that can be done about any of this, but the truth is that there is. In a variety of ways. Just by being informed you can make choices in the future based on this knowledge. You can opt out of the hamsterwheel that we are living in and choose to put your faith elsewhere. You can spread the information to your friends and beyond. You are not meant to do everything alone, that is why a community is so much stronger.

A thought provoking and mindblowing documentary about this can be find atleast in part and on youtube and is called Zeitgesit. A movement that has devoted time and money into uncovering the truth behind the economy and the world. It is up to you to choose what to believe and what to do with the knowledge that you  come to possess.

In the list with links most of the information from all my posts can be found, a great tool for those that want deeper knowledge into any of the topics that are being brought up in the posts.