The Daily Bell is one of the internet’s better reads. Its focus is on the dominant elite memes foisted on society mostly via a compliant media. The message below is from the CEO Anthony Wile and details many of these memes:
It is 2011. Happy New Year! …
Let’s take stock. Two years ago the Daily Bell began to set the pace for reporting on the memes of the elite. Today, the Bell regularly generates monthly “hits” in the area of eight million and climbing. As of this writing, the website is the 80,000th largest in the world and the 25,000th in America, according to Alexa. All this has been accomplished without a large reportorial staff or a large research budget. People have responded to the message and, in the case of Bell feedbackers, equalled or even exceeded it in terms of insights and information. To support such a community is actually a quite humbling experience. We are grateful to everyone who has participated.
What is more important than the numbers is impact. These days, when we read Internet alternative news, we regularly see discussions of elite “memes” and fear-based promotions. There is a much greater recognition in our view of elite dominant social themes and the impact on the larger society. The Internet itself, as powerful a communication technology as the Gutenberg press once was, is making it increasingly more difficult for the elite to frighten Western middle classes into accepting global governance. From my point of view, that’s a good thing.
To leverage the power of the ‘Net, we started The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking a few short months ago. Its mission, thanks to the support of our readers, is to assist in funding projects that spread the infectious seeds of truth into the greater mainstream populace. I am proud to serve as its Executive Director and thank all those who believe in the importance of alternatives to collectivist power structures and who have contributed either their time or financial resources.
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” While the earth is neither overpopulated nor in danger of running out resources, elite propaganda nonetheless keeps people in a perpetual state of terror that food, water and energy are about to become in scarce supply. When the reality is inconvenient, the Anglo-American elites take destructive action to make it conform to their themes.
But all that is changing, in my opinion as we enter the second decade of the 2000s. If the 20th century was a dark ages, blighted by elite memes, the 21st century is increasingly an era of revelation, even a Renaissance in which we can see for ourselves the reality of the matrix, its boundaries and the exciting possibilities that lie beyond – possibilities that were once obscured.
Authoritarian elites have been part of human existence since mankind started to build cities. But the current elite conspiracy to build world government began at least 100 years ago – and perhaps 300 years ago with the forming of the Illuminati. Encouragingly (for those of us who are not elite), this phase of the conspiracy is possibly coming to a close. New communication technology has made almost every aspect of elite planning visible and therefore made its strategies increasingly problematic. Force is a mighty difficult lever with which to subdue billions.
Yes, in the place of persuasion, the elite is beginning to substitute overt authoritarianism. Some may see this merely as a confirmation of elite strength; we see it as a sign that the Anglosphere – which has traditionally exercised the world’s money power – has little idea of what to do in the face of the truth-telling of the ‘Net.
The Anglo-American power elite will not be undone by the Internet. But it may have to take a step backwards, its plans for global governance damaged, its ability to manipulate the masses exposed, its plans for a smooth evolution of money power eroded. Eventually, they may realize they have to regroup, and become less overtly aggressive. We hope to play a part in that process.
Without anymore ado, I am proud to present the Anglo-American power elite’s top ten dominant social themes (DSTs) for 2010 – and the reality of their implementation. Thanks to the Bell staff for putting this together. Any errors, or anything of major importance that has been left out is my responsility; the insights and general excellence in terms of perspective belong to our small staff. Thanks to them, and of course to those kind enough to stop by and sample our blog or contribute their own thoughts.
1. DST: The Internet is more dangerous than revolutionary and must be controlled.
Reality: The continued rise of the Internet and its truth-telling continue to be difficult for the elite to manage. The Greater Recession has further triggered the Internet’s truth-telling and historical revisionism. Elite memes are ever harder to promote with any validity.
Sample Bell story: Can Government Control the ‘Net?
2. DST: Globalization is not going well and we must try harder.
Reality: In fact, global governance would be a curse. As Bell articles have pointed out, civilization flourishes when governments compete with one another and cannot become too oppressive for fear that citizens will flee to less authoritarian environs. While there have been victories for the elite in its mad rush toward world centralization, there have also been increasing defeats, mostly centered around the inability of the power elite to effectively inculcate its fear-based promotions. Without these in effect, the elite resources basically comprise money power, military strength and bullying. It may be difficult to organize a long-lasting globalized society with such blunt tools.
Sample Bell story: How Globalism Emerges – in a Rush
3. DST: Everything is in great scarcity, including water, food and energy.
Reality: Of course, many of the scarcities announced these days (and in the 20th century) are simply promotions. Certainly, if the market were allowed to work, there would not be such institutional scarcities; and more and more people in the West (in our view) seem to recognize it. So many elite memes have foundered or have trouble gaining traction in the 2000s: global warming, peak oil, even the necessity for population control. Historical memes such as NASA’s landing on the moon are being questioned as well.
Sample Bell story: Elite Scarcity Memes Failing?
4. DST: Only central banking and fiat money can save the world from massive deflation and depression. (Central bank deflation and inflation)
Reality: Central banking economies may have reached the end of the road. And it may even be difficult for the power elite to control the dissolution and substitute something else like the bancor. Perhaps monetary chaos, if it arrives, will undermine the current economic order and allow for the evolution of free banking.
Sample Bell story: Blame Central Banking Not Banks
5. DST: Gold and silver have moved up hard and fast; this is actually a disaster. These metals are in a bubble and if manipulation is taking place to keep the prices down, that’s perfectly justified.
Reality: Gold and silver are merely reflecting the failures of fiat-money reflation and the failure as well of elite market manipulations. Gold and silver prices continue to rise because people’s faith in fiat money continues to fall. Perhaps this may even force some sort of metals money standard in the future.
Sample Bell story: Gold: The Anti Bubble
6. DST: The stock market is up on global reflation and central bank money printing. Thank goodness for central bankers.
Reality: What looks a stock market recovery is simply the result of central bank money printing that enriches the rich and comforts the powerful, including corporations. The Dow Jones corporate stock market is something of a scam.
Sample Bell story: US Fed Rigs Stock Market
7. DST: China is an inveterate enemy and must be watched closely. Any help is bound to backfire.
Reality: The Chinese elites, unfortunately, are probably in cahoots with the West; apparently, they are willing to bail out the EU. This may have to happen quickly as BRIC countries may soon need economic help of their own, given the amount of price-inflation that is affecting these expanding economies.
Sample Bell story: China Shows Elite Hand
8. DST: The EU is absolutely necessary to world peace and any failure will be catastrophic; austerity is necessary.
Reality: Actually, the EU and the euro are increasingly a failure, given the rigidity of the construct and the divergence of Northern and Southern economies. Austerity is likely going to set the EU afire and perhaps end its senseless centralization.
Sample Bell story: EU Tumbles Toward Failure?
9. DST: Regulation and banning of alternative nutrition/herbs is a necessary part of medical health.
Reality: Alternative medicine provides ancient treatments that bring the body into balance. There is a strong likelihood that people simply won’t stand for this kind of meddling with ancient and traditional health-solutions that literally billions depend on for well-being.
Sample Bell story: Banning Herbs for Health
10. DST: Western regulatory democracy including its jurisprudence provides us with the best of all possible worlds.
Reality: No, it does not. The West is losing the Afghan war and the economic crisis is going to make it increasingly difficult to maintain the repressive law-enforcement forces that have been built up in the West along with the prison-industrial complex. If Western economies grow poor enough, the entire premise of regulatory democracy – which is built on central banking fiat-money flows – may begin to unravel. There are alternative social methodologies and the Internet is increasingly revealing them. Alternative judicial solutions need to be explored along with common law and tribal justice.
Sample Bell story: Horror of Common Law?
