The Dread of Tyranny Has Returned

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

-Vince Lombardi

                     

After a long hiatus, The National Pulse is once again gearing up to announce to the world the

crumbling of tyranny. Abstinence from writing has not been easy. Most of the drivel that has

consumed the airwaves has been aimed at the simplest of sentient beings.


The excellence and originality of The National Pulse have undoubtedly been the reasons for its

unrelenting hold on the top spot of the Internet. Despite numerous factions and organizations

within the Worldwide Web attempting to co-opt our name with imitation blogs and Twitter

feeds, our popularity remains undaunted. We are still Number One and the reasons are not

hard to understand.

                                   

Our divine providence and understanding are valued and sought out. Original, unafraid

thought is priceless and has returned to the Internet. In searching for truths, many people are

bombarded by falsehoods an fear. This induces complacency and apathy, which leads to limited

understanding.  The resolve of understanding is perhaps the most important casualty of the

Mainstream Propaganda Prevarications. More than direct action, firm resolve through

understanding will win the day against tyranny.

 

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"I don't know if it will make much of a difference....but I think it's time I started blogging again."

              
-J.S. Liberty

This Audacity of Theirs Is Not New

                
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace."

-Tacitus

Ames Monument, Laramie, Wyoming

           
Pictured above is the Ames Monument.  It is a pyramid, built on the highest point of the Union Pacific's Trans-Continental Railroad.  It is located about 20 miles east of Laramie, Wyoming at elevation 8,247 feet above sea level.  The pyramid was built by Henry Hobson Richardson while Augustus Saint-Gaudens designed the two 9 ft. relief portraits on the east and west sides respectively.  The faces are those of the Ames brothers, Oakes and Oliver.  One brother was a politician in Washington, the other a president of the Union Pacific Railroad. 
 
America has a lengthy history of being associated with enormous economic frauds and with Freemasonry and/or Satanic symbols. It should be no surprise to see another ominously evil-looking pyramid monument in honor of two ruthless men who were main contributors in building the Trans-continental railroad.  Oakes and Oliver stole money from the American people, endorsed the ethnic cleansing of the Plains Indians, and helped expedite the buffalo slaughter by splitting the herd of over 90 million buffalo, into two parts-  a northern half and a southern half with their Trans-Continental Railroad.

The pyramid has long been associated with Freemasonry and Satanism.  The triangle also represents the trinity, which is another way of saying that humans are divine and do not need God.

 "Form follows function."

-Louis Sullivan

Very much like today when the U.S. Government goes off half-cocked with grandiose construction projects financed by money created out of thin air, the Government of the mid-19th Century was met with strong opposition.  As is usually the case today, these detractors were denounced as short-sighted cynics, or in today's terminology, "conspiracy theorists."  
    
Naysayers said the Trans-Continental Railroad would be impossible for a number of reasons.  The number one reason was the enormous cost.  However, the Ames brothers and the men of Credit Mobilier and Union Pacific put that worry to rest.  Pessimists said it would be impossible to build the track through the Great Plains, as it was Indian country and safety could not be guaranteed.  American war generals simply moved from butchering in the Civil War to the ethnic genocide of the Western Native Americans.  Others critical of the project claimed it was simply a scam created by rich men looking to make themselves and their buddies richer.      

Oakes Ames

Why would such a monument remain?  Why wouldn't it be torn down- a monument to men who designed an enormous scam?

After all, Oakes was convicted as part of the Credit Mobilier scandal.  The greed that satiated the robber barons of the Nineteenth Century still invades the hearts of men today.  The Ames Monument is a monument of depravity.  It is a symbol of the Evil Powers' willingness and ability to destroy; regardless of how it looks, if its justified, or in the best interests of the people.   

"Throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century (and beyond), corporate interests-  apparently insatiable-  returned again to demand direct and indirect federal subsidies.  To insure preferential treatment and noninterference, national legislative and executive offices were corrupted and representative government made a mockery...the corruption of the Grant era was sparked by... the activities of those two companies and individuals connected to Pacific railway scheme." 

-Leonard Curry 

The Ames Monument still stands today, a striking image on Wyoming's high plains, a symbol of an ancient, ruthless religion of power and greed.  Though the original rail tracks have been moved multiple times from the area of the monument, the pyramid monument still stands.  The rail town of Sherman, which grew up 100 yards from the pyramid, is now a ghost town with no buildings standing, but yet, the triangle remains.
  
 "This audacity of theirs is not new."
   
-Dante Alighieri

 

the Trans-Continental Railroad

 

The Patron Saint of Law and Order

William Tecumseh Sherman

As the world spins hopelessly out of control with a few psychopaths at the top orchestrating insanity, new rules are being created.  The "battlefield" is everywhere because the oligarchs' thievery has made the world a dangerous place.  The enforcers of the standards are becoming increasingly violent and adopting more of the habits of occupying armies than policemen.  More and more it seems, the police of today would view General William Tecumseh Sherman as a genius;  a man with great clarity who understood that what achieves change is "total' war on dissent and disobedience.       

"War is cruelty.  There is no use trying to reform it.  The crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

-  William Tecumseh Sherman 

Chris Dorner

Last year, rogue cop Christopher Dorner broke rank and started murdering relatives of his own police gang brothers.  Los Angeles Police holed him up in one of the many vacant summer houses in the mountains west of Los Angeles.  Dorner had went rogue as a response to his termination from the Los Angeles police department after he had witnessed a case of police brutality.  When the police finally cornered him after his killing spree, in one of the abandoned cabins in the mountains near L.A., the police chose to set fire to the building and burn Dorner alive inside the home.  There was no 'innocent until proven guilty,' no 'right to an attorney,' no 'one phone call.'  There was just a group of emotionally-involved, revenge-driven cops who decided to murder the suspect.  In this case and countless others across America, police are creating their own rules of engagement and acting as judge, jury and executioner.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.  Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

-George Washington
 
The police's attitude and resulting definition of the rules of engagement are merely an extension of the banks' terms and conditions, penalties and rewards system.  As the brutal truth of the economic endgame has played out; as time passes, and more and more people find out the hoax of authority is nothing but a corrupt veneer meant to keep all humanity in debt slavery, the harsher the punishment must be for dissent and disobedience.  In order to maintain the established order, police have responded in logical fashion.  As banks have continued to squeeze Americans' quality of life, the police have been there enforcing the banks' phony rules of foreclosure and corrupt tax policies.  The police have dedicated themselves as protectors of the Federal Reserve Debt Note. Those people who cannot survive within the phony game have been first to feel the wrath of the police state.  It is becoming a criminal act to feed the homeless.  And meanwhile, the white collar criminals from Wall Street are able to operate with impunity as they prepare their next stage in their economic destruction plan-   confiscation of personal bank accounts. 

"We are rapidly approaching the state of ultimate inversion; the stage where the government is free to do whatever it pleases; while the citizens may act only by permission; which the stage of the darkest period in human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

-Ayn Rand
  
"Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses.  Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats."

-Matt Taibbi     

Your Role In The World

            

Inequality in America

       
"It is hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

-Jesus Christ 

In America, the contrast between the rich and the poor has never been as stark. 


The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at record highs due to money printed out of thin  air by the Federal Reserve and handed to the large corporations to keep the system afloat.

There has never been more homeless children in America.


There is nothing left to steal. 

The same economic, political, and legal forces exist now only to persecute, hold down, and eventually kill off survivors who are unable or unwilling to earn in the tyrannic death state. 

 

Guest Post: Our World Is Built On Illusion

 by:  Barbara Peterson


Think about it. The world around us has been carefully crafted as an illusion to keep us from realizing the truth.
     
Illusion is built on a phony belief system 
          
We are taught to believe that sickness is inevitable, and that doctors can cure us of that sickness using drugs concocted in a lab. For a price. There is always a price.
            
We are taught to hate certain people because of their beliefs, the color of their skin, their gender, height, weight, the way that they walk, the way they talk, and the way that they look.
          
We are taught that we need to have certain things to be happy. That material wealth will make us better than our neighbors and deserving of praise.
          
We are taught that there is only one way to win, and that is to beat the other person.
            
We live in a bubble, surrounded by biases that form our reality. And it is a cage. The bars consist of thoughts designed to enslave us to corporations that relentlessly suck the life blood out of us. Thoughts that keep us docile and happy in our confinement. We are drugged by the media, lied to by fancy politicians and those who would be friends, experimented on by war-mongers and chemical companies, then thrown to the wolves when we try to fight back.
           
We are trained to be obedient consumers.
             
We are trained to never question authority and to toe the party line. And we willingly comply, because if we don’t we won’t receive our next treat.
         
Woof! I’m a good little doggie. May I please have a bone?
         
A love for the truth is built on breaking free from that belief system
           
Breaking free starts with one bar in the cage. The first lie that is discovered and dismantled. And the illusion starts unraveling.
           
The real shocker is just how deep the lies go. How fully entrenched our world is in lies, deceit, trickery, greed and outright malice. A tangled web of false beliefs that bind us, undone by one strand of truth, leading to another, to another, until the cage entrapping us is all but transparent.
            
Until we commit to finding and hanging onto that which is true, we live in a constant state of psychosis, unable to recognize the truth if it ran up, bit us on the arse, and trampled us with all four feet. We remain happily ignorant. And controlled. And powerless to escape the cage.
         
If we are determined to break free, then we must stand. To declare the truth that we find, and live by it. To refuse to compromise integrity, self esteem, honor, compassion and life for a temporary fix of gratification.
        
Woof! I’m a dog that has found the stash and won’t settle for your handouts anymore.
           
And it’s contagious. The truth, that is. It is the thread that holds all of creation together. It is the mother ship, the standard, the crown jewel. It will never let you down because it is the firm foundation. The rock.
          
There is no debating the truth. There is no compromising with it. The truth is the truth. Lies bounce off of it, ineffective. It is the one and only thing we can count on. Everything else is shifting sand. Everything else is the lie. The cage. The entrapment. And once you commit to the truth, there is no going back.
            
Let freedom ring.

Political Posturing in the Midst of the Currency War

           
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

-Sun Tzu


In the world of professional wrestling, the spectacle of head on head competition is enhanced by competitor's actions outside of the ring.  These antics, like interviews and outside-the-ring brawls, provide the back-story for matches.  These situations allow the crowd to determine heroes and villains and become emotionally involved with the wrestling match.

The storyline is scripted ahead of time and the details provided are deliberately meant to entice the viewer to watch the next match.  No one did it better than the late Macho Man Randy Savage:

Jimmy Hart and Honky Tonk Man

Like the World Wrestling Federation, all the faces of the various gang families trying to run the New World Order, are posturing for position, delivering insults, intimidating those they can, and playing their part on the world stage in order to transition to a new currency while simultaneously keeping order among the tired masses of people who would only like to be free of their tyranny.   Though the roles change often and the crowd switches their allegiances as much, for the most part the roles have been pretty clearly defined as the world teeters on much-awaited anarchy.  Today it is the Honky-Tonk Man, tomorrow it could be someone else trying to challenge.

The Face

Vladimir Putin:  Putin has been at times vilified by the corporate media in an attempt to make him a villain.  Despite this, the former KGB agent has won the respect and admiration of many in the United States because he is apparently heterosexual and has been photographed doing things men like to do; fishing shirtless and kicking ass in judo. Much like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Putin is an anti-hero; a foreign hard-ass rebel who refuses to be controlled.  Though he appears to be at odds with others in the world, he is also OWNED by the large banks.  In wrestling, his role is know as "The Face."  The crowd likes to see him "win" at times, refuse to be bullied, and appear to "get the last word." 
               

Stone Cold dares somebody to fucking bring it

The Heel

Barack "Barry Soetoro" Obama-  It may be forever unknown if it was ever the intent of the powerful to make Obama's cult of personality the disastrous "heel" he has become.  The elite must have envisioned his Presidency a lot different than it has played out.  Perhaps at one time, they dreamed him to be the "Climate Savior," possessing the ability to coalesce the world into accepting carbon taxes based on the scientific lies of the priestly educational class.  Maybe they thought he was the "Gay Savior" and could make drug use, homosexuality, and general depravity chic.  It is all possible; but one thing is certain-  this last American President is the most hated heel maybe of all time.  People want to see him trip and fall as he runs down the stairs of Air Force One.  The crowd wants his many failures, which have been epic, to continue because they sense he disdains them.  It is hard to place a wrestling equivalent to Obama.  The closest would have to be Virgil, The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase's black personal assistant.  Like Virgil, Obama has bosses that tell him what to do.  

Ted Dibiase and Virgil

As the currency war rages behind the scenes on banker telephones and computers, their living representatives are in China posturing and jockeying in games of one-upsmanship.  Obama strolled on the red carpet in China chomping gum.  Putin put a shawl on the Chinese President's wife.  These moves may appear random mistakes, but they are not.  Intimidation takes many forms and no representative wants to appear weak.  

                    

 

They Threw The Rascals Out!

        
From here on in, should be smooth sailin'...

             
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."
            
-Carroll Quigley, 1966 

The mid-term elections were yesterday and voters were encouraged to show up at their polling place and be counted in their support for The New World Order.  It is uncertain if there were ever free and fair elections, but one thing is for certain now-  people may vote all they want, but they'll never change the corrupt, evil government by voting. 

And yet, millions still turn out believing that their opinion of which flavor of tyranny is best, really does count.

In Illinois, Bruce Rauner spent $28 million of his own loot to run for governor.  Rauner also received about $37 million in contributions, most likely from huge, already-bailed-out corporations.  Rauner out-spent, the other half of the NWO ticket, Pat "the Rat" Quinn 2-1.  The job of Governor of Illinois pays $179,400. 

Why would such a "successful" businessman with over $28 million at his disposal, want to run for governor of Illinois.  Why would he spend all his time and millions upon millions of dollars to win a job that pays $179,400?  It is doubtful Rauner amassed such a sum of paper money making bad investments.  How lucrative is the power of a governorship? 

Mitch McConnell won again in Kentucky and he'll be Senator for another stint of years.  Why is being in the Senate a good deal?  Well, if your in-laws are in the shipping business, a person can use their powerful contacts in the Coast Guard and Customs to transport $6.7 million worth of cocaine to the United States a few times a year.  Powerful positions can be quite lucrative.      

 What is the use in being a sore loser today, however?  These benevolent philanthropists deserve their earned  congratulations.
            
First you get the money, then you get the power.  They are pushing it to the limit.

 “Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.” 

-Matt Taibbi

 

 

Under the Table Quantitative Easing

                        

"I think we are living through one of these historic, defining times. I think we are seeing a new world order."

-Chuck Hagel

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan (left) and Austan Goolsbee

           

And, boy, does it look terrible.  A tiny fraction of people holding the vast majority of economic assets while the vast majority of people work their ass off trying their best to provide for themselves and their families in a totally corrupt, controlled, and manipulated market.  The same elites of the economic paper money system  also have a stranglehold over the justice and legal system.  They were able, during the aftermath of the crash, to seize properties from tenants who couldn't pay their mortgage,  and unlawfully throw them out into the street, and still be able to prevent prices from falling to levels where they could be re-bought.  Instead, the financial overlords have designed a system of locking down what would be a natural order for a free market. 

Vast wastelands exist all over the land. In some urban areas, block after block for miles are uninhabited by human beings.  All that is left are abandoned houses or empty lots that have not been bought or sold in many years. 

It could be easy to pull out of this if the "Federal Reserve and Money Masters" so wished.  Like former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan explains in this next clip, "We will never not be able to pay our bill because we can always print money."  The camera pans to economist and Skull and Bones member Austan Goolsbee, whose eyes become big at the audacity of Greenspan simply relating a simple fact-  The Federal Reserve keeps the economy afloat artificially by printing money that does not exist.  Goolsbee's face seems to say. "Wow, did he just come out and say that?  The clip from Sunday, August 7, 2011......

 

  

Tradition

Flashback, July, 13, 2011.....

Ron Paul: "Do you think gold is money?"
Bernanke:  "No it's a precious metal."
Ron Paul: "Why do central banks hold it?  Why don't they hold diamonds?"
Bernanke: "Well, it's tradition.  Long-term tradition."

Nadir At The Peak of Empire

                  
nadir (ney-deer)- the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.

To look at the facts on the ground, it is easy to see why Americans are despondent.  Well, some in America are.  The rest are happy in their slavery, content with the pervasive immorality of foreign wars, an increasingly aggressive and persnickety police state, and extremely limited economic opportunity.  For the vast majority who are displeased with the trajectory of the world's direction, they are in a waiting game-  waiting until the parasites at the top are dis-empowered and expelled.  Even the the corporate-sycophant media has acknowledged this unhappiness with the current state of affairs.  Death and destruction appear to be right around the corner and yet the power structure will not allow reform because the upheaval will end their reign.        

"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."   

-Voltaire

If Americans knew the real truth it could help them not be as scared.  As of right now, the rulers have most people terrified with their authority and ruthlessness, always pointing their attention from one emergency to the next, be it real or imaginary.  And yet all aspects of "American" society, all the multilevel tiered structures complete with phony, arbitrary rules, are based on the giant lie of the paper Federal Reserve note.  Without the ability to direct large amounts of money into certain directions, their control of humanity would not be nearly as strong.  Since this ability to create money from thin air is the ultimate problem-  since the mode of currency is the object of such manipulation-  madness is easy to create.  The "country"- if one must call it that-is similar to a rudderless ship, being swept by the Federal Reserve's stormy seas; and a hair's breadth away from capsizing and totally sinking.  The helm is unattended; spinning violently every which way.

   And, so, it is scary.  Most people operate day to day under false assumptions they have been conditioned to believe.  To navigate through brainwashed souls who routinely believe every lie shouted at them by fascists is not easy.  They are the people who are forever wearing pink to "beat cancer" yet they are for marijuana prohibition.  The are the people who continue to idolize sports, media, and music darlings, yet  by doing so, find themselves as active participants in an extremely dark brand of esoteric worship; a culture of death worshippers. They support America and Israel and their wars of aggression.  The police are rarely, if ever, the subject of disdain; instead they admonish the victims of police brutality as if by being a victim of police criminality those people "must have been asking for it, anyway."  When things like the "Ice Bucket Challenge" appear as the next Internet fad, these people line up to film themselves dump water on their heads to "defeat Lou Gehrig's disease."  It would never occur to these people to fight for pure drinking water or organic food, they would much rather brainlessly be part of a silly group ritual than experience genuine reflection.         

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." 

-Plato

People should realize that as long as they patronize the paper money system and worship its idols, they will never, ever have enough. The slave world created by the rulers of paper money will exact a larger and larger cost from their humanity.  The feelings of fear and helplessness, deliberately engineered by manipulated economic "crunches," will continue to increase, driving the true believers hopelessly insane.  Crises of all kinds will intrude on a daily basis and dictate the terms of life.  All the made-up problems a paper money system can conjure will grow to gargantuan proportions: terrorism, pandemics, war, and police state intrusions, to name a few.  If the system is allowed to continue without interference this is the type of pain person can expect.

 It truly is "darkest before the dawn" and this is an accurate description of these dangerous times.          

Three Kids Died This Week Playing American High School Tackle Football

 

a Roman gladiator looks to the royal box for the thumbs up or down

      
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

This week, the first week of October, saw three high school football players die on the field of battle.  One dies after a "routine" tackle, one after a "freak" play, and the other during pre-game exercises.  For most high schools, this is week 6 of the tackle football season; five games have already been played.  In the first five weeks, nearly every school team has seen its share of injuries-  from ankle sprains and dislocated shoulders to concussions and anterior cruciate ligaments tears.  The young, poor soldiers to suffer this fate will sparsely dot the sidelines this Friday night and tomorrow afternoon wearing their casts and crutches like badges of glory.  But at least 3 kids won't be playing this weekend- they are dead.  And yet the weekly gladiatorial contests will proceed at mini-Colosseums across the country.    

 "I think it was the result of a typical football play. It was just a freak accident, you know, the game involves contact, and it was the result of a freak football play."

-Steve Cohen, Superintendent of Shoreham-Wading River School District on Long Island's North Shore

 What no one tends to tell high school kids before they play tackle football is that "typical football plays" can be very dangerous if there is a serious mismatch between bodies, if technique is off just a little, or if helmets collide.  Making the "routine" plays in football can have disastrous long-term results.  National Football League stars like Dave Duerson, Junior Seau, Mike Webster, and Jim McMahon are all examples of the game's extreme violence.

Yet the show goes on.  Tackle football as an institution of the American high school hasn't been harmed nearly as much as a logical person might think.  In many ways, the persistence of propping football up as the centerpiece of the school year is similar to other self-destructive American behaviors like illegal foreign wars.  People will cry and bemoan the terrible consequences of invading other countries but stop short before indicting the whole system.  Surely, this must be a sure sign of real insanity-  the refusal to stop hurting children for no real at all. 

Three kids died this week playing a dangerous game.  How many more will have to suffer debilitating injuries at young ages before systems change? 

        

On Barry Lyndon and Destructive Society

a young Barry Lyndon watches his first love dance with an English officer

   
It is perhaps natural for people and their contemporaries to believe their present civilization is the most advanced as compared to civilizations passed.  These modernist "snobs"  will point to the intricate complexities of technologies and the ever-changing variable of a more populated world as proof of greater sophistication.  To these people, events that happened in prior years were the results of rudimentary means, sub-standard tools, and antiquated sentiments.  There is little hope to glean any wisdom from the past, since no one then had an iPhone to take a selfie of his or herself and text it to their friends.  The narcissistic pool which reflects the current generation's image back at them is alarmingly shallow and slow-moving; a liquid quickly becoming putrid before drying up altogether.

Learning and forming a correct world view takes determination.  A student must be able to sort out the propaganda, discard the garbage and hold onto some of the facts and truths which he can rely on to make informed decisions.  As most of the time the student will be led astray of the facts within a government-sponsored classroom, the onus of understanding falls squarely on the students shoulders; for he must struggle to live in the world designed purposefully for his demise.  More than tutelage, expensive schooling, or time spent in the classroom, determination is required to learn what really happened, the true causes, to make reasonable conclusions.    

"It would require a greater philosopher and historian than I am to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War in which Europe was engaged; and, indeed, its origin has always appeared to me to be so complicated, and the books written about it so amazingly hard to understand, that I have seldom been much wiser at the end of a chapter than at the beginning, and so shall not trouble my reader with any personal disquisitions concerning the matter."

-excerpt from William Thackeray's novel, The Luck of Barry Lyndon    

 The scene above is from Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation of Thackeray's book, Barry Lyndon.  Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal), is an Irishman that enlists in the British Army after a series of misfortunes, and in this scene,  marches toward French riflemen in the horrible meat-grinder of war.     

Kubrick's films can be interpreted on a number of levels, though some recurring themes appear over and over throughout his movies.  It would be safe to say Kubrick was disillusioned by the false romanticism and folly of war.  Also, an argument could be made that Kubrick believed the caste and class system created by money silly and arbitrary.  And in Barry Lyndon, he was able to portray the emptiness that is bred by a society completely self-absorbed in war and economic status.  In Barry Lyndon, Kubrick, unlike other movie directors is able to lay bare some of the puzzling subtleties found within society that not only maintains the status quo, but at the same time are completely negative, totally destructive, and have few redeeming qualities.

Even though the story is set in the 18th Century, many of the problems human beings face in the film are the same problems faced by people today.  We face the consequences of perpetual war and institutionalized economic injustice on an enormous scale.  The Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine continues to pass its phony credit to fund terribly destructive wars and maintain the socio-economic status quo.  The distance between the "haves" and the "have-nots" is epic today-  probably significantly greater than the era when the fictional Barry Lyndon lived.

According to the National Pulse, very little has changed in a few hundred years.  People are still consumed with mostly the wrong things and leave too little room for real love and prosperity.  Greed and jealousy are ever-present and needed survival traits that reward the most ruthless.   The natural world is conquered, paved over, and lifeless.      

Much can be learned examining historical periods such as the Seven Years' War.  Often called the first world war, today some  combatant countries are allies, some countries no longer exist, and some countries expanded.  Over 1 million lives were lost-  war is one of the best means by which to lose life.  Of course, the nobility did not fight as they don't today.  They sit in the palatial mansions, profit from the fighting, and realize that war helps them maintain their own status as a rich person.              

   

Preservation of the Status Quo

       
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it."

-Upton Sinclair

"Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood:  their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths."  

-Isaiah 59

 panic (pan-ik); noun- A sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.

Regardless of your what position one may hold in the world, the extent of their financial portfolio, or the imagined fulfillment achieved by the mixing of these two components; the framework as it is perceived now will all soon be over.  One can laugh or cry; whine and deny, but the facts are undeniable:  a terrible storm has been brewing for a long time.  In the last ten years, without question, the pace of foreboding events has quickened, but by no means did the preparations for this storm begin 10 years ago.  It started much longer ago.  The fate of the reserve currency of the world is sealed.  And if the last 6 years since the worst financial crisis in history has taught anything, it's that no politician or pundit, no royal or noble, no fiat billionaire or law enforcement official will be able to rein in the people once it busts loose.

The precipice feels close because the paper money scam is over.  The world is just limping forward due to the combined ignorance and cowardice of those caught inside the dreamworld.  This fear and stupidity is also fading as the real truth becomes more apparent each day.  Emotions have turned and the basic notion of rejection is greeting the once "masters of the world" and each new hustle and parlor trick they deploy.  

Recently, wannabe royal Bill Clinton pontificated to international corporations that they would have to sacrifice to keep the phony dream alive.  He claims (please refrain from laughing), that corporations will one day care more about employees and society than profits.  In a way, he is correct.  For them to hold it together when the whole world rejects them and the modes of operation, they'll have to do something to preserve the order.

In Colorado, public schools want to avoid teaching about "civil disorder" and instead focus on "positive aspects of the United States and its heritage."  

In the U.K., the Queen reportedly purred like a big ugly pussy cat when she heard Scotland's independence vote was successfully fixed in her favor.

In the Ukraine, where the U.S.-supported thugs ousted the elected leaders, the new regime has re-instituted slavery under martial law to preserve their illegal rule.
         
Everywhere one looks these days "preserving the world order" is of extreme importance.  The empire's minions are being forced into absurdly compromising positions that make little sense.  Increasingly, the picture is becoming clearer to reveal that the true enemy of the evil forces are all free-thinking individuals in the world, not so-called rogue nations.        

The threats that are disseminated through mass media are specifically designed to cow and betray.  Scaring people can only work so long before people know the whole thing is full of shit.