Soap Box

There have been stories floating around for centuries about a loose confederation of politicians, business moguls and the super rich who come from different countries and cultures who are the real power behind the throne, who make the bottom line decisions on international policy.

A transnational, shadow government with the power to start and stop wars, set fiscal policy and dangle world leaders on the end of a string.

Several groups have been accused of being an arm of this mysterious organization. The Club of Rome, the Bildeberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and a well known Ivy League college society to name a few. But the name most often heard is the Illuminati, a loose translation being �the bearers of the light� or �the enlightened ones.�

Their roots go back to Bavaria the mid 1600s or mid 1700s depending on which expert you listen to. I won't go into all of that because that information is readily available and I am not as interested in the historical aspect as much as what could well be the present day manifestation of international power and control.

I can present no absolutes nor confirm any ancient theories and for many years I considered it a myth embellished by generations of conjecture and supposition but in recent years I have found feasible reason to at least admit that such an organization could exist and exert a powerful influence over elections, economies and military action on a global scale.

It's been said that one powerful international banking conglomerate has financed both sides of a war, that the choice of cabinet members is not entirely up to the elected president but dictated by this group, that they influence policy and politics and have no conscience about famine and genocide and massive human suffering as long as it suits their purposes.

Let me say that I am certainly not inferring that the Obama Administration is an Illuminati puppet but just for the sake of supposition and demonstration; let's take a look at his presidency.

We have all heard about the economic and practical advantages of bringing in the Keystone Pipeline from our friends in Canada, that it would create thousands of jobs and lessen America's need for oil from the Middle East.

Conversely, who benefits from not having the Keystone Pipeline?

The Obama Administration will tell you that it would hurt the environment but that bucket just don't hold water. Hundreds of miles of pipeline across some of Alaska's most eco-sensitive territory has proven that pipelines can be a very safe and effective way to move petroleum.

So who would the Keystone Pipeline hurt?

There are a lot of pieces that fit into that puzzle but when you put them together they all point toward international business cartels involving oil companies, ships, docks, distribution and the ability to control the flow, and therefore the price of oil.

Why the sudden interest in normalizing relationships with Cuba? Have we forgotten that Fidel Castro murdered and jailed his political opponents, that he allowed our archenemy, the Soviet Union, to put intercontinental ballistic missiles 90 miles off our coast, an act that moved America to the precipice of a nuclear war?

Or are we not aware that Castro has had 50 years to get it right and even though Cuba is one of the most fertile pieces of earth on the planet, not to mention a desirable vacation destination it has been reduced to a shrinking nation of worn out cars, fallow land and a population that still lives in fear of the midnight knock?

Has it slipped our memory that Castro squandered the resources of Cuba trying to spread revolution all around the Caribbean?

Or that Cuba has a Communist government and has stated that they will stay that way? 

And not to even mention that any normalization with Cuba will cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars and the only thing we get in return is the legalization of Cuban cigars.

Why - just as the Castro brothers are on their last leg - does the Obama rush in and resuscitate the corpse of a communist regime in our own backyard without getting some meaningful concessions?

Could there be an alternative, more sinister and deeper reason for the new attitude toward Cuba?

And how about Obamacare? It reeks of back room deals, bribery and maybe even blackmail. How else can you persuade a supposed "servant" of the American people to sign his or her name to a document they haven't even read?

Who stands to benefit from taking over a sixth of the nation's economy, controlling healthcare availability and cost? 

How many government contracts will be handed out in the next few decades before Obamacare finally breaks the system and is chalked off as another failed experiment in socialism?

And what about Obama's lax immigration policy and his desire to legalize millions of people who broke our laws to come here violating an immigration policy that has worked well for over two hundred years, except to create a fiercely loyal voting block.

Who benefits from that?

And we're only looking at one presidential administration in one nation, what's going on in all the others.

Now throw a corrupt, sleazy international outfit like the United Nations and Obama's increasing insistence to ratify their anti-American treaties and you've got a totally rotten barrel of apples.

This column is by no means an accusation, but simply an illustration of how such a powerful, monolithic international organization, if indeed it does exist, could benefit by influencing the outcome of elections, the flow of strategic materials, the withholding or providing of the necessities of life, setting international fiscal policy, knowing what was going to happen to the stock markets around the world and reaping the profits.

If you follow the money it will lead you to the real culprit, power, the most seductive and addictive force, and one creates the other, money creates power and power creates money. 

Food for thought.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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