{"id":747,"date":"2019-10-07T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=747"},"modified":"2019-10-21T00:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T04:28:47","slug":"global-elites-vs-the-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/global-elites-vs-the-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Elites vs the Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interplay between dark and light is becoming clearer &#8220;on the ground.&#8221; We\u2019re seeing an all-out battle now, between the wealthy elites who control most of the world&#8217;s media, finance, banking, and resources, and the citizens of the various nations. The global elites meet every year in Davos, Switerland, to decide how We the People are supposed to be governed. These are the hedge fund managers on Wall Street, the CEOs of Big Tech, the CEOs of international corporations who control the oil market, the pharmaceutical companies, the chemical companies, the banks, and their political representatives. The U.S. government is set up to benefit the General Motors\u2019, the Exxons, and the Goldman Sachs\u2019. The global elites also control the worldwide drugs, arms, and human trafficking networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then a world-class prick by the name of Donald Trump came along and began to disrupt their comfortable system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is an egomaniac. Even those who support him, like Steve Bannon, say he\u2019s deeply flawed and hard to get along with. He\u2019s also a businessman, not a politician, and isn\u2019t \u201cpresidential\u201d at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s throwing the old system, the one set up to benefit the wealthy elites, under the bus. And they are pissed! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s also leading a populist movement all over the world,\nand the elites are frightened to death. They are mobilizing their\ncorporate-controlled media to slam this guy, as Chuck Schumer said back in Jan\n2017, \u201csix ways from Sunday.\u201d It\u2019s not just Trump involved in the populist\nmovement. The Yellow Vests in France are also fighting the global elites and\ntheir corporate\/fascist \u201crule from above.\u201d The millennials in Hong Kong are a\npart of this \u2013 rejecting the totalitarian surveillance state set up by\nPresident Xi Jinping. It\u2019s what Brexit is all about \u2013 rejecting rule from a\none-size-fits-all outfit in Brussels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a Trump tweet I celebrated (a rare occasion, I have to admit, because I read them all)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kjmaclean.com\/Newsletters\/EndlessWarTweet.jpg\" alt=\"EndlessWarTweet.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8230;it is time for us to get out of these Endless Wars&#8230;\u201d  The intelligence community doesn\u2019t like this. The warmongering John Bolton\u2019s of the world don\u2019t like it. The national security establishment and the military-industrial corporate complex don\u2019t like it. Because these are institutions controlled by the warmongers, who are supported by global elites like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates. George Soros, and Alphabet Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s funny to read the comments below these tweets from intelligence community shills. They accuse Trump of abandoning our allies in Syria, the Kurds. These are the same warmongers (along with the CIA\u2019s mouthpiece, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>) who criticized the effort to denuclearize NoKo and create peace on the Korean Peninsula. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who ISN\u2019T in favor of peace? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guys who are making money from war. The banks, the defense contractors, the warmongers, and their paid media representatives. The elites. The people who go to Davos every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, every year Trump goes to Davos he gives them hell, just like good ol\u2019 Harry Truman (I\u2019m old enough to remember that president). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m all for bringing our troops home and getting out of\nendless wars, but the elites who control the corporations involved in war (the\nmilitary-industrial complex) aren\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m for peace, not war, and I\u2019ll support anyone who wants to\nget us out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Even a prick like Trump. We have no\nbusiness there, other than to support the business-as-usual of the global\nelites and their arms trafficking and drug running and human trafficking.\nBecause, behind these endless wars, the human and child trafficking networks\nflourish. You can research this yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happened when Barack Obama won the Nobel \u201cPeace\u201d Prize\nin December 2009? He increased troop strength in Afghanistan shortly afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/12\/01\/obama.afghanistan\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/12\/01\/obama.afghanistan\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Michael Gerson got it right in the <em>Washington Post <\/em>at the time<em>.<\/em> This was before the paper was bought by Jeff Bezos and became the mouthpiece of the intelligence community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[Barak\u2019s Nobel acceptance speech] was a \u2018very American speech\u2019 and [Gerson] wrote that \u2018Obama was recognizing that the great commitments and themes of American foreign policy are durably bipartisan\u2019\u201d. <\/p><cite>Source: \u201c2009 Nobel Peace Prize.\u201d https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above quote from Gerson is media\/elite speak for &#8220;we&#8217;ll frame the agenda for you, plebians, using our political and media representatives.&#8221; Gerson is  right: Our foreign policy is conducted by Democrats and Republicans &#8212; those who reflect the agenda of the global elites. Barack Obama was a great guy. He was very \u201cpresidential,\u201d but endless-war-as-usual continued under his administration. That\u2019s because he read from the scripts written by foreign policy elites. That aint happening now. It\u2019s why the elites and their spokesmen and spokeswomen are so upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is fighting the warmongers but they are fighting back. You can see it every day in the news now. It\u2019s horrible to say, but there are vested interests on this planet who don\u2019t want peace. Why? Because world peace is bad for their drug, arms, and human trafficking organizations. Trump aint no saint. He wants peace not for peace itself, but because it\u2019s good for business and commerce. That\u2019s a degraded motivation for those of higher consciousness, but world peace can never happen unless the old system breaks down. And Trump is breaking it down.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s what prompted me to write this article. I read a disgusting news site called Drudge Report (along with dozens of other sites on the left and the right) \u2013 which is a site that tries to spread as much chaos, fear, and confusion as possible. I read it because sites like Drudge are part of the global media network. Their job is to skewer anyone who tries to bust the old system of endless war. These are the headlines I saw today after the Trump tweet above about getting our troops out of Syria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ac3115b4eb564288a03a5b8be868d2e5\">Syria withdrawal draws GOP condemnation&#8230;<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191007152713-1kbux\">TURKEY MOVES IN&#8230;<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-forces-start-syria-border-pullback-alarming-kurds-082650162.html\">KURDS ALARMED&#8230;<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/trump-administration-to-pull-troops-from-northern-syria-as-turkey-readies-offensive\/ar-AAIoeoJ\">ISIS fighters will break out of prison camps?<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191007174057-tiklx\">MCCONNELL BLASTS&#8230;<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/07\/mitt-romney-trumps-syria-withdrawal-a-betrayal-of-kurds\/\">ROMNEY: &#8216;Betrayal&#8217;&#8230;<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/foreign-policy-is-a-shambles-now-colin-powell-unloads-on-trump-and-the-republican-party\/\">Colin Powell Unloads: Foreign Policy in Shambles&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the representatives of the global elites whining\nand moaning about our withdrawal from another endless war with ISIS. It\u2019s\nhorrible! This a-hole Trump is destroying foreign policy as usual! It\u2019s too\nhard to keep our endless wars going! Oh no!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re an idiot,\u201d you say. \u201cForeign policy and diplomacy are the responsibility of those trained for it, and they\u2019re a lot smarter than you.\u201d Right. And where are these wonderful people who have been running U.S. foreign policy trained? Why, at the elite private schools of course. And what has U.S. foreign policy been engaged in for the past 30 years? Endless war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t think of a better way to describe my point than to post an image of former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger after Bush 41  pardoned him in the Iran-Contra affair back in December 1992. Our buddy Caspar is laughing his head off, knowing that his elite network has got his back. &#8220;Ha, ha, there&#8217;s nothing you plebians can do about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" class=\"wp-image-772\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ElitesLaughing.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ElitesLaughing.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ElitesLaughing-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ElitesLaughing-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ElitesLaughing-1024x836.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ElitesLaughing-960x784.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s simple. You want peace, avoid entangling alliances, as\nthe great Democrat Thomas Jefferson stated in his first inaugural address: \u201cPeace,\ncommerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with\nnone.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You want peace, get out of endless foreign wars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You want peace, you gotta change the system, because it&#8217;s totally rigged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that\u2019s what Trump is trying to do, over the screaming of the impeachment crowd and the warmongers in the U.S. foreign policy establishment. More power to him, I say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Warmongers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2007 Amy Goodman interviewed 4-star general Wesley Clark, who was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 Yugoslav war. This was during the last year of Bush 41&#8217;s administration. This may give some insights into how these nutcase warmongers think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>AMY GOODMAN:&nbsp;<\/strong>Do you see a replay in what happened in the lead-up to the war with Iraq \u2014 the allegations of the weapons of mass destruction, the media leaping onto the bandwagon?<\/p><p><strong>GEN. WESLEY CLARK:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, in a way. But, you know, history doesn\u2019t repeat itself exactly twice. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn\u2019t be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran.<\/p><p>I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9\/11. About ten days after 9\/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, \u201cSir, you\u2019ve got to come in and talk to me a second.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, you\u2019re too busy.\u201d He said, \u201cNo, no.\u201d He says, \u201cWe\u2019ve made the decision we\u2019re going to war with Iraq.\u201d This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to war with Iraq? Why?\u201d He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d He said, \u201cI guess they don\u2019t know what else to do.\u201d So I said, \u201cWell, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?\u201d He said, \u201cNo, no.\u201d He says, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.\u201d He said, \u201cI guess it\u2019s like we don\u2019t know what to do about terrorists, but we\u2019ve got a good military and we can take down governments.\u201d And he said, \u201cI guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.\u201d<\/p><p>So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, \u201cAre we still going to war with Iraq?\u201d And he said, \u201cOh, it\u2019s worse than that.\u201d He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, \u201cI just got this down from upstairs\u201d \u2014 meaning the Secretary of Defense\u2019s office \u2014 \u201ctoday.\u201d And he said, \u201cThis is a memo that describes how we\u2019re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.\u201d I said, \u201cIs it classified?\u201d He said, \u201cYes, sir.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, don\u2019t show it to me.\u201d And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, \u201cYou remember that?\u201d He said, \u201cSir, I didn\u2019t show you that memo! I didn\u2019t show it to you!\u201d<\/p><p><strong>AMY GOODMAN:&nbsp;<\/strong>I\u2019m sorry. What did you say his name was?<\/p><p><strong>GEN. WESLEY CLARK:&nbsp;<\/strong>I\u2019m not going to give you his name.<\/p><cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran\/5166\">https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran\/5166<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For years Iran has been a flashpoint for war.  If you were President of the United States how would you deal with crazies like this?  Who are these people? When Obama was elected in 2008 this is what he had to deal with for 8 years. It&#8217;s probably why he had to escalate troop strength in Afghanistan after winning the Nobel. I&#8217;d imagine that the warmongers wouldn&#8217;t be too upset about using threats even against the president. Maybe Trump got sick of it and is standing up to these people, which is why he&#8217;s getting trashed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need everyone who is on the spiritual path to send lots of light to the president, and to policy makers. To everyone. We need peace, not war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interplay between dark and light is becoming clearer &#8220;on the ground.&#8221; We\u2019re seeing an all-out battle now, between the wealthy elites who control most of the world&#8217;s media, finance, banking, and resources, and the citizens of the various nations. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/global-elites-vs-the-citizens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}