These articles are fascinating on many levels. Not because I believe any sort of revolution will take place, or be successful. We know that the "birth pains" leading into the "new world order" will not abate, but only increase as we approach the Tribulation, which is consistent with biblical prophecy. In fact, this "new world order" and its secretive members will most likely, covertly select the ultimate NWO leader also known as the antichrist. It is also worth noting that the use of dismissal of certain topics as "conspiracy theory" really needs to stop, as it has become an effective means of censorship. and a way of keeping people blind and uninformed. But taking a peak at this information in terms of looking behind the curtain is still very interesting, if not quite ominous (the two videos are worth watching):
Every once in a while, life gives us a moment of great clarity and in the newly released 1st video below, we get one such moment. As our videographer asks in the 2nd video below, a video that went viral with over 300,000 views in just a week, are we about to find out who the ‘illuminati’s’ #1 target is in 2016?
Appearing on Fox News, former US Congressman Newt Gingrich drops major truth bombs upon America when he tells us just why the establishment is so absolutely petrified of Donald Trump and in doing so, helps to confirm long held ‘conspiracy theories’ that ‘conspiracy theorists’ have been ridiculed about for many years.
Telling us that the reason the ‘elite’ are petrified is because they cannot control Trump, he also drops these bombshells: “He’s an outsider. He’s not one of them. He’s not part of the club. He’s uncontrollable. He hasn’t been through the initiation rights. He didn’t belong to the secret society.” WHAT?
Newt Gingrich was in the position to know about these ‘secret societies’ as he, too, attended Bohemian Grove as seen in the photograph below alongside of George Bush and his father taken from the ‘Annals of Bohemian Grove Volume 7’ for the years 1987 to 1996. The Infowars story also mentions that Gingrich could have been referring to ‘Skull and Bones’, the infamous secret society from Yale.
This is a great video and should instantly go down in history as the latest revelation to come out as the establishment comes unglued. It can also be used by ‘conspiracy theorists’ to start conversations with those around them who are still taking ‘the blue pill’ as a nearly ‘instant win’ to help awaken ‘sleepwalkers’ as to the true nature of the political reality of the establishment. They’re obviously all part of the same club…and had to take initiation rights to get there. What more do we need to know? This revelation from Gingrich is obviously just the tip of the ‘secret establishment iceberg’.
It also should help to confirm to those who are on the fence about Trump that he is indeed not part of the same group that has dominated US and world politics for many years.
With the popularity of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, it’s clear that Americans are done with the ‘status quo’ and with a ‘president Hillary’ in office, it’s clear we’ll simply get more of the presidency of Barack Obama…or much worse.
Is Trump perfect? Of course not but this video should permanently clear up that he isn’t part of the ‘same team’ that has been running America…into the ground we might add…for the past many years.
Think about it…if the ‘establishment’ all belong to ‘secret societies’ and take ‘secret initiation rights’ as Gingrich hints at here, what else are the American people NOT being told? With a Trump presidency not beholden to these secret societies, what else might the American people soon learn? As the 2nd video below tells us, there is a very good reason that Donald Trump may very well be the illuminat’s #1 target in 2016.
That the dramatic upheavals of war, pestilence and environmental collapse can trigger social disorder and revolution is well-established. Indeed, this dynamic can be viewed as the standard model of social disorder/revolution: a large-scale crisis—often a bolt-from-the-blue externality—upends the status quo.
Another model identifies warring elites and imperial meddling as a source of revolution: a new elite forcibly replaces the current elite (known colloquially as meet the new boss, same as the old boss) or a dominant nation-state/empire arranges a political coup to replace the current leadership with a more compliant elite.
A third model was described by David Hackett Fischer in The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. By assembling price and wage data stretching back hundreds of years, Fischer found that cycles of economic growth spawn population growth, resulting in more workers entering the market economy. Their earnings trigger a demand-driven expansion of essential commodities such as grain and energy (wood, coal, oil, etc.).
In the initial phase, wages rise and commodity prices remain stable as supplies of essential goods expand and the demand for labor pushes up wages.
But this virtuous cycle reverses when the supply of essentials no longer keeps pace with rising population and demand: the price of essentials begin an inexorable rise even as an oversupply of labor drives down wages.
Fisher found that this wage/price cycle often ends in transformational social upheaval.
The Decline Of Shared Purpose
Historian Peter Turchin defined a key factor in the resilience of the social order as "the degree of solidarity felt between the commons and aristocracy," that is, the sense of purpose and identity shared by the aristocracy and commoners alike.
As Turchin explains in War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires:
"Unlike the selfish elites of the later periods, the aristocracy of the early Republic did not spare its blood or treasure in the service of the common interest. When 50,000 Romans, a staggering one fifth of Rome’s total manpower, perished in the battle of Cannae, the senate lost almost one third of its membership. This suggests that the senatorial aristocracy was more likely to be killed in wars than the average citizen….
The wealthy classes were also the first to volunteer extra taxes when they were needed… A graduated scale was used in which the senators paid the most, followed by the knights, and then other citizens. In addition, officers and centurions (but not common soldiers!) served without pay, saving the state 20 percent of the legion’s payroll….
The richest 1 percent of the Romans during the early Republic was only 10 to 20 times as wealthy as an average Roman citizen.
Roman historians of the later age stressed the modest way of life, even poverty of the leading citizens. For example, when Cincinnatus was summoned to be dictator, while working at the plow, he reportedly exclaimed, 'My land will not be sown this year and so we shall run the risk of not having enough to eat!'"
Once the aristocracy’s ethic of public unity and service was replaced by personal greed and pursuit of self-interest, the empire lost its social resilience.
Turchin also identified rising wealth inequality as a factor in weakening social solidarity. By the end-days of the Western Roman Empire, elites held not 10 times as much wealth commoners but 10,000 times as much as average citizens.
Wealth inequality is both a cause and a symptom: it is a cause of weakening social resilience, but it also symptomatic of a system that enables the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.
Empires do not just suddenly collapse; they are abandoned by the productive citizenry as the burdens become unbearable. The independent class of tradespeople (a.k.a. the middle class), driven into serfdom by taxes, lose their shared identity with the aristocracy. Beneath the surface, social cohesion frays. Once the benefits of the status quo no longer outweigh its costs, the system is vulnerable to an external disruption that would have been easily handled in previous eras.
There is another key factor in the resilience or fragility of social order: the permeability of the barrier between the ruling class and everyone below. We call this permeability social mobility: how easy is it for a working class family to rise up to the middle class, and how easy is it for a middle class family to enter the political and financial aristocracy?
What struck me most powerfully was Venice's long success as a republic: it was the world's only republic for roughly 1,000 years.
How did the Venetians manage this? Their system of participatory democracy accreted over time, and was by no means perfect; only men of substance had much of a say. But strikingly, key political turning points were often triggered by mass gatherings of craftsmen and laborers.
Most importantly, the system was carefully designed to enable new blood to enter the higher levels of power. Commoners could rise to power (and take their families with them if their wealth outlasted the founding generation) via commercial success or military service.
In Venice, the political leadership (the doge and the Council) were elected via a convoluted series of steps that made it essentially impossible for one clique to control the entire process.
Venice's crises emerged when the upwelling of social and financial mobility was capped by elites who were over-zealous in their pursuit of hegemony: all those blocked from rising to power/influence became the source of political revolt.
If you cap the volcano, eventually the pressure beneath rises to the point that the cap gets blown off in spectacular fashion.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that the greater the concentration of power, the lower the social mobility, the greater the odds that the system will collapse when faced with crisis.
When the entire economy is expanding faster than population, and this tide is raising all ships, the majority of people feel their chances of getting ahead are positive.
But when the economy is stagnating, and those in power are amassing most of the gains, the majority realizes their chances of securing a better life are declining. This is the pressure that is being capped by the status quo that first and foremost protects the privileged.
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