Is it the political powers?? - the Mob ?? - The masonists??\nthe Bankers ?? or some kind of a speritual bieng ?\nany thing else ?
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Nobody. There's the irony. People don't feel comfortable with the notion of the anarchistic functions of the world, so they greatly inflate the powers of Skull & Bones, Masons, Brandenburg Gate and other secret societies. It's more comfortable to think that somebody else is in control of the world, even if they have avaricious intentions, than no one.\n\nConversely, you could think that everyone controls our world. Stuff gets done by people and we're all part of the same planet.
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Al Qaeda, by far. They brought the most powerful nation in the history of the world to their knees. Can you imagine what they could do if they had funding and resources like us.............The Chinese army is also scary.
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Piece of the pie or rule and control over Money/Power/Wealth! Serious people like myself are willing to put our lives on the line to gain this equal access instead of piss-poor lifestyles we have to work for!
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Fixed, cemented, and sealed all in one foul swoop!!! We have not had a democracy for a very long time...if ever, and the people with money have the power. I disagree with the person that said we live in a communist state...We are living in a feudalistic state!!!
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Bureaucratic offices deal with the law.  They simply need to adhere to the law, or execute the law.  They don't have to be nice, or have good customer service skills.  We are at their mercy and must be nice to them.\n\nPatron-client organizations are about people pleasing - customer service. They must be good at people pleasing to retain clients - or else someone can simply go to another business to fulfill their needs.\n\nOrganized crime? How does that fit in? Their insidious hands get into everything - through blackmail and coercion. Basically they use threats to bully people into doing what they want.
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I think governments and all persons on earth are controlled by the extremely wealthy elite. I believe they control election outcomes, economics, war between nations, food distribution and supply, and all things economic.\n\nI think the USA IS controlled by an elite government and decieves us daily.\n\nWould I investigate? No. What could I do anyway? If you stumbled on to anything incriminating you would just be killed, imprisoned, or publically decried.
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It's an illusion, but if it makes them feel good to believe it, what harm does it do? (As long as they leave other people alone.)\n\nThe USA is the most powerful, but they have capitalism confused with democracy. They are not the same thing. You can't have democracy when only a small elite class chooses it's leaders.
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It was the mob.  Look back at how many ties the whole Kennedy family had to the mob.  President Kennedy changed his mind about some issues.  The mob didn't like that.
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Control the people in order to protect the rich elites' power and privilege.\n\nThem rich folk sure are scared of the people.
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Either power or compassion. But, usually those who enter it because they care about society end up enjoying the power a lot. You make a lot of friends when you hold the keys to the wealth of others.\n\nAll we need to do to make them work better for us is pay attention and vote them out of office if they get too greedy.
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Political Corruption\n\nEnvironmental issues\n\nDomestic Violence\n\nHunger
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They can do what they want when they want to.  national security.\n\nPeace
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The banking industry (Rothchild Worldwide) and thousands of hangers on who are extreme right wing folks who contribute a LOT of money to perpetuate the puppateer's power.\n     A couple of decades ago, there was a buzz about the Bildenberg Group.  I am not sure about that spelling.  I was never invited to the Bildenberg party.  Something like a board of directors for the world's economy.
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I don't know why people think that, but I do know that most radical groups which try to help their community are seeking power for the individuals in that community. Anytime individuals start to have power, it scares the heck out of groups that are already in power (like dirty cops vs local ex-cons, food processors vs home growers, big corporations vs. unemployed workers) . I am guessing that the BPP started as individuals getting together to get more strength from a group, but as usual, the group 'thing' probably took over (absolute power corrupts absolutely), and they became another power-hungry group trying to get something out of the 'system' of competition and payoff, rather than keeping each person 'real'.
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The mob is not nearly as efficient as Holllywood makes them out to be. With each successive generation the quality of gangsterism has declined considerably - to the point where they're now mostly ignorant thugs. It's also expensive to go after people. The fact is the mob gets very few informers these days. Gravano, Hill, etc., they're hiding in plain sight.
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Money.\nCorruption and how to get away with it.\nLobbyist and how to appease them\nCorporations interest in the country\nSelf-defense ( who are we kidding)
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Governments reprsent a congregation of power. Power attracts money. Whenever too much power and money gets concentrated in one place, bad things are bound to happen.\n\nOur founders were looking to prevent that by explicitly enumerating the powers of the federal government. All other powers not mentioned in the Constitution and the ammendments that followed were to be in th hands of the states and the people.\n\nWe've been folling away from that doctrine for some time, moreso over the last 6 years. In the current age of executive signing statements, domestic survellince, warrantless arrests and detentions, etc. one would be hard pressed to trust the government.\n\nThe founders of this country didn't trust their own government they created. Why should we trust ours?\n\n~X~