If people then happen to encounter information that more clearly indicates that they have been misled or misinformed regarding how society and the world function, and that this deception is the result of systematic planning at the highest levels, they are consequently confronted with a situation that turns everything they have previously learned upside down. They then become inevitably forced to make one of the following three choices:

• Persistently question the information and refuse to believe it.
• Ignore the information and continue as before.
• Examine the information with an open mind.

https://www.vaken.se/beyond-the-horizon/

"It is hardly an exaggeration to claim that there are fairly significant obstacles to overcome for those who believe that the way the world is governed leaves much to be desired, and who furthermore argue that this is due to a combination of deliberate authoritarianism, greed, and manipulation on the part of the world’s power holders.

Part of the problem, of course, is that some of those who study these subjects are frustrated as a result of inner instability and see external injustices as proof that no one can be trusted and that the world is evil—which is, of course, a misunderstanding. By and large, most people are generally quite decent, at least as long as their basic needs are met and they are not subjected to excessive levels of physical and psychological stress."

https://www.vaken.se/know-the-world-and-yourself/

"The French philosopher and sociologist Professor Jacques Ellul argued that all fiction that is marketed is, in reality, propaganda. I would not go quite that far, but a great deal of what is poured out through books, newspapers, radio, television, and similar media is undoubtedly the kind of material that brainwashes and programs people to move in a particular direction. Just before the Second World War, the markets in both Britain and the United States were flooded with books, radio dramas, and motion pictures featuring heroic war heroes.

It was no coincidence.

One of the people who understood this was Charles Lindbergh Jr., who, in September 1941, delivered a brilliant speech about what the elitists had been doing"

https://www.vaken.se/the-elites-propagandists/

"The idea that we have all been deceived and manipulated for a long time by a ruthless elite seems completely improbable and downright ridiculous to most people. If you are born into a dysfunctional system and raised by people who have never seriously questioned or studied that system in any depth, such a reaction is perfectly natural. Most people are also fully occupied just trying to make ends meet and rarely have the energy to devote to the kind of intellectual effort that such questioning would require.

But for those of you who are not satisfied with being fed the nonsense that washes over us daily through the mainstream press, radio, and television, let us take a closer look at what this elite itself has said about how the world has been governed and how it should be governed.

With the following words, David Rockefeller opened the meeting of the Bilderberg Group—described here as the gathering of the world’s power holders—held in the German city of Baden-Baden from July 6–9, 1991:

”We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other distinguished publications whose directors have attended our meetings and maintained their discretion for nearly forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world had we been subjected to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a World Government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national self-determination practiced in past centuries.”"

https://www.vaken.se/straight-from-the-horses-mouth/

"It is impossible to describe the history of the banking empire and its power over humanity without including the Rothschild dynasty. Even though some rabid ”realists” automatically want to label anyone who so much as mentions the Rothschilds as anti-Semitic, it should be quite clear to anyone who has followed my articles from the beginning that I consider all forms of racism to be foolish. With that said, let us continue the story of the oligarchs.

Having previously been a reasonably prosperous antiques dealer, Mayer Amschel Rothschild had, by 1797, become one of the wealthiest men in Frankfurt. In 1770, he married the daughter of a court banker, which provided him with invaluable connections within the upper levels of the financial world. The couple had ten children, and the sons—Amschel, Salomon, Nathan, Carl, and James—were carefully trained by their father in the world of business."

https://www.vaken.se/how-the-oligarchs-deceive-the-masses-part-3/

Before the Rothschilds took over the crown, the great banking family in England was Baring Brothers & Co. At the time of his death in 1810, Francis Baring was known as Europe’s foremost merchant. How had he become so wealthy? Professor David Landes provides the answer in his book Dynasties: by financing wars. In Europe, the Barings were known by the nickname ”The Sixth Great Power,” and they were able to influence—and even determine—the fate of entire nations, Professor Landes explains. A tradition that has continued into modern times.

Since the establishment of the private note-issuing bank, the Banque de France, in 1800, financial power in France had rested in the hands of approximately ten to twelve Protestant banking families, led by Mirabaud, Hottinger, Mallet, and Neuflize. Historian Professor Carroll Quigley writes in his monumental work Tragedy and Hope that all of these families were deeply involved in the agitations that led up to the French Revolution and that by 1811 they had moved into opposition.

https://www.vaken.se/how-the-oligarchs-deceive-the-masses-part-4/

France’s defeat in the war against Prussia in 1870, together with the capture of Napoleon III, led the French to proclaim a republic. The gap between rich and poor had been widening for years, socialists came to power, and chaos prevailed during the so-called Paris Commune of 1871. When consulted by a client, Rothschild is said to have remarked:

”Buy when there’s blood in the streets.”

https://www.vaken.se/how-the-oligarchs-deceive-the-masses-part-5/

"The European colonial powers had been carving up the African continent throughout the nineteenth century. The French, Belgians, and especially the British did their utmost to seize both land and resources, while at the same time destroying many of the traditions that Africans had followed for centuries. Belgium’s King Leopold II, who administered the Congo, systematically exploited the region for its valuable resources. All protests were brutally suppressed, and between 1885 and 1912, an estimated more than ten million people were killed.

The British appetite for land and natural resources also affected the Boers, the farmers and craftsmen from the Netherlands and France who had emigrated to South Africa in the seventeenth century and considered themselves superior to the Black population. After decades of British rule and wars with indigenous peoples, things appeared to settle down. However, when large quantities of gold and diamonds were discovered during the 1870s and 1880s, the region was flooded by British fortune-seekers. The Boer people once again stood in the way of British ambitions, and between 1880 and 1881 war broke out. The Boers defended themselves skillfully and secured a measure of self-government."

https://www.vaken.se/how-the-oligarchs-deceive-the-masses-part-6/

"Professor Quigley revealed in the book Tragedy and Hope that Rhodes’s secret society and its American branch exercised much of their influence through five American newspapers: the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Evening (Transcript), and the Washington Post. He also noted that the editor of the Christian Science Monitor served as the principal correspondent for the Round Table.

The latter refers to Rhodes’s Round Table groups—that is, the outer organizations that worked to implement the plans of the inner circle. Professor Quigley further wrote:

”There grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into the universities, the press, and foreign policy. In England, the Round Table Group was its center, while in the United States it was J.P. Morgan & Company.”"

https://www.vaken.se/how-the-oligarchs-deceive-the-masses-part-7/

"When one reads the writings of the elite themselves, one is often surprised by how remarkably straightforward they can be about their plans. These works tend to be rather dry reading for the average person and are generally not intended for anyone other than the elitists and their subordinates. For those of us who study politics behind the scenes, however, they are worth their weight in gold, as they sometimes provide some of the clearest evidence that a relatively small group of power-hungry and greedy elites has governed—and continues to govern—the world.

In his 1913 book The New Freedom, President Woodrow Wilson wrote a number of interesting observations about politics, economics, and society. He also spoke candidly about who really held power, and it was certainly not the elected politicians. This may seem ironic, considering that Wilson himself was the president who, on December 23 of that same year, signed the Federal Reserve Act, which would later become one of the elite’s most important tools in their exploitation of the world’s people."

https://www.vaken.se/how-the-oligarchs-deceive-the-masses-part-8-

During the television broadcast from Fort Worth, just three hours before the assassination of President Kennedy, viewers could hear reporter Ed Herlihy say:

”As long as the Secret Service can keep the crowd away from the President, they have a good chance of protecting him. But once he moves into the crowd, they are almost incapable of protecting him.”

Then something interesting happened.

After a pause of a few seconds, the reporter suddenly began reading from a script and recounting how President William McKinley was assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901, after being shot twice.
The assassin was described as a lone, mentally disturbed anarchist named Leon Frank Czolgosz.

Only a few hours after the Fort Worth broadcast in Dallas in 1963, news broke that President Kennedy had been killed by two gunshots. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that the culprit was a lone, deranged communist named Lee Harvey Oswald—referred to by some as Leon.

https://www.vaken.se/the-assassination-of-president-kennedy-part-2/

After the failed 1961 invasion attempt of Cuba by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles, Kennedy discussed the Bay of Pigs incident with a Supreme Court justice named William O. Douglas. “That episode burned him,” Douglas later said:

“He had experienced the extraordinary power these groups possessed, the various kinds of covert influence that the CIA and the Pentagon exerted over civilian policy, and I think it raised a fear in his mind: Could Jack Kennedy, President of the United States, ever be strong enough to truly control these two powerful institutions? I believe it had a profound effect … it shook him deeply!”

Although Kennedy was upset by what had happened, he fully understood the danger of the situation and the importance of keeping a cool head.

https://www.vaken.se/the-assassination-of-president-kennedy-part-3/

At a press conference at Parkland Hospital after Kennedy had been pronounced dead, one of the reporters asked Dr. Malcolm Perry to describe the wound in Kennedy’s throat:
“Doctor, describe the entry wound. You believe it came from the front, in the throat?”

Dr. Perry replied:
“The wound appeared to be an entry wound on the front of the throat, yes, that is correct.”
One of the journalists who interviewed Perry was Connie Kritzberg of the Dallas Times Herald. When Kritzberg’s article was published the following day, she was surprised to discover that someone had added a sentence to her story.

Kritzberg herself had written:
“The hole in the front of the throat was described as an entry wound. The wound in the back of the head, the major one, was either an exit wound or a tangential exit wound.”¹

Immediately after those lines, someone else had inserted an additional sentence, which read:
“One doctor conceded that it was possible that there was only one wound.”²

https://www.vaken.se/the-assassination-of-president-kennedy-part-4/