Posted at ZeroHedge, a thought provoking piece examining the possibility that control of the USA has actually changed hands in a hidden coup.

As a little taster – on the subject of bankers :

Why Steal With a Gun When You Can Own a Bank?

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815

I’ve included the above quote because it perfectly exemplifies how something can be hidden in plain sight. Extremely knowledgeable people in very high places who are or were “in the know” have been pointing to the “bankers” for hundreds of years as the root cause of our social problems. And yet somehow they persist despite repeated exterminations and hangings. Why is this? How can a class of professionals (some would say cockroaches) consistently rise from the ashes to rule again and again? I thought there’s only one chance to become a Phoenix?

Taking a page from office cubical mythology, the secret to professional longevity may be invisibility. Or maybe the art is to become indispensible to a wide variety of (equally) greedy sociopath bipeds. Use the useful idiots that surround you first as tools, then as shields or cannon fodder. Hmm, we might be on to something here.

One of the flaws in our thinking is assuming that others will act and think as we do. While this helps explain why your spouse is always unfairly assuming you’re cheating (often this is because s/he has or is cheating on you, thus your spouse believes you’re doing the same) it’s an enormous blind spot for those who just wish to lead a simple life free from oppression and war. Like a metastasized cancer, the bankers are the ultimate chameleons who never really need to change their color because they’ve ingratiated themselves into every corner of society, becoming all things to everyone. By conflating their survival with ours, we’re conditioned to believe that killing the deeply rooted cancer will kill the patient. So let’s just deal with it. Buck up old boy, it could be worse.

We often talk about bankers or the banking cabal as if they stand alone and isolated. For example, we don’t say “The Banking Cabal and (-fill in the blank-)” except maybe Wall Street, which in my opinion they’re one and the same. We know that the bankers have forged extensive and deep political, social and financial ties within every facet of society. And yet we don’t really talk about this since to do so would in effect implicate ourselves in our own destruction and enslavement. While showing the bankers out the back door of our minds, we readily invite them back in through the front. Since we seem to be so obviously flawed and transparent in this regard, are we really that surprised to find we’re afflicted with a cancerous infection that exploits our own weaknesses?

Well worth having a read at the whole article.