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Who Really Controls the World?

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OutsiderClub  August 16 2013

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The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue.

It’s the question that conspiracy theorists dedicate their life to answering…
Who really controls the world?

Who is pulling the strings?

Who is hiding behind the curtain?

These questions have long been subject to speculation, scapegoating, and paranoid ravings — some more well-founded than others.

Now, thanks to the science of complex system theory, the answer may actually be right in front of our faces.

This scientific process sheds light on the dark corners of bank control and international finance and pulls some of the major players out from the shadows.

And it goes back to the old credo: Just follow the money…

Systems theorist James B. Glattfelder did just that.

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The Cashless Society

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Stuart Wilde | January 12 2013

BarclaysThe Governments want a cashless society for several reasons, the first is to combat tax avoidance, and the second is to drive business and fees to the debt-riddled banks. And the third reason is a form of silent hatred. It’s envy. They want to become rich but they don’t really want any of the citizens being like them, wealthy. It forms a social competition they don’t like.

Of course, once the rules and regulations and the taxes and impost and fines and fees are all in place, one winds up with a cashless society anyway, as everyone is so broke they don’t have any cash, like in Spain say, or Greece where old age pensioners are eating from garbage dumpsters.

The EU are just about to change the rules and the maximum you will be able to take out of the bank in one go will be Euro 500. In part, it’s about holding the money in the banks in case there is a run on the banks in the future. And it is to do with money for the credit card machine companies. Little businesses that don’t qualify for a debit card terminal will be out of business.

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It’s True, Bankers Really Do Control the World

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by Catherine McLean | Common Dreams
October 25 2011

WINTERTHUR, Switzerland – Here’s a gift to Occupy Wall Street protesters around the world: you now have scholarly proof that banks control the world.

BarclaysThe study says the United States takes home first prize with 24 companies cracking the list of the top 50 most powerful global firms. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, also known as ETH, have published a paper that argues just 147 companies account for a large chunk of the total economic value of all the transnational companies around the world. No exact dollar figures, but it’s obviously a vast sum.

Among the top 50 corporations, 45 operate within the financial industry. Barclays PLC is the most powerful, according to the ETH study, followed by such well-known names as JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS AG, and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

The United States takes home first prize with 24 companies cracking the researchers’ top 50 list, followed by the U.K. with 8, France with 5, Japan with 4, and Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands tying with 2 companies each. Canada has one company in the researchers’ top 50: Sun Life Financial, Inc. secures the 35th spot.

The research shows “a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions,” authors Stefania Vitali, James Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston wrote in their study entitled: The network of global corporate control.

“This core can be seen as an economic ‘super-entity’ that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.”

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