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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which.....
.... like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the RockefellerStandard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.
They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.
These international bankers and RockefellerStandard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Hylan
NYC Mayor John Hylan. The year was 1922.
Some things never change.
Either that.... or we are an extraordinarily patient people.
Rex
(65,616 posts)POTUS and secret Congress etc.. When the reality is there are non-governing elites with more power than the federal government and shape it to their whim. The people that run the Republic are not office holders. They are CEOs and such that are Too Big To Jail.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard."
Read them and your blood will freeze. Whomever has been in the WH since 11/22/1963 has made very little difference. Allen Dulles, the plutocrats for which he was the operational front man, and the Nazis Dulles brought over and seeded through the permanent government/deep state won the war.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a moment and some information, back in the day.
Wars without end for profits without cease. And the Trickle-Down.