330,000 Horses Can Throw One Rider

That a Dominant Minority exists to manipulate economic matters, public opinion and political events is disputed by only the most dense of heads amongst us. In Newsweek’s What Power Looks Like David Rothkopf recently wrote:

That such a group exists is indisputable. It includes the heads of the biggest financial institutions, the 14 families Blankfein joked about, and then some; the top 50 control almost $50 trillion in assets. The heads of the world’s biggest corporations are also members; the top 2,000 support perhaps 500 million people, generate almost $30 trillion in sales and have well over $100 trillion in assets. The list also includes top government officials with real cross-border influence: heads of state, of course, leading diplomats and military chiefs, but also central bankers like Geithner and Bernanke, and their counterparts like Chinese Central Bank Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan, reappointed this week, and the other top economic officials responsible for the world’s fastest-growing economy and its nearly $1.5 trillion in reserves.

Rothkopf claims that the ‘Superclass’ has “vastly more power than any other group on the planet.” I don’t doubt his claim. He also says there are about 6000 members of this group. So how do we get rid of them?

There’s roughly 6.6 billion people on the planet (meaning that this ‘Superclass’ is about .0001% of the population…talk about a dominant minority). Of that 6.6 billion, there are perhaps two billion that could affect their own economic destinies with any meaningful result, though that number might be overly idealistic.

Anyway, that 6000 divided into two billion works out to be around 330,000 people. All we need to do is put 330,000 people on each one of the Superclass as rotating babysitters. Put Henry Kissinger in a Motel 6 somewhere with no telephone access or contact with his peers. Make sure the local Chinese joint delivers his dinner every night. Do the same with the Bushes, the Cheneys, Sumner Redstone, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds and any other predator that thinks they’re born booted and spurred, ready to ride the rest of us into the grave.

If 330,000 of us can’t stand guard over one suited and perfumed would-be despot, we deserve all of the grief and woe they’re planning for us.

Another interesting point raised by Rothkopf:

It’s at such a gathering that leaders get to know one another, hatch deals and exercise perhaps the greatest power the superclass has collectively: to shape conventional wisdom.

Perhaps that thought in the back of your mind that’s been there since you were born, the one that says, “It’s futile. We can’t get rid of the powers that be” is merely ‘conventional wisdom’ that’s been shaped by this dominant minority for generations?

Or maybe we deserve the Global Governance that’s here if we’re not willing to sacrifice our own comforts and securities for the sake of spiritual, political and economic Liberty. WTF?

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