I do not necessary believe in a global conspiracy, I just believe that greed is so powerful and there are so many psychopaths all around the world working to make themselves richer at any expense and it is costing the planet and the human soul, literally and figuratively. When one piece of shit psychopath gets a law past in his favor or circumvent the law or takes advantage of the weak it just leaves what ever was done exposed so more snakes can exploit it. Apparently the last good American died a long time ago. Everyone who stands against greed and tyranny are left by themselves to be martyred while the general public sits idle by speechless. Greed and psychopaths have taken over all over the world and I believe the factor that did the most damage was when the first centralized bank formed in europe a long time ago. Maybe it goes further back to the first gold banks but all I know for sure there is a reason why making money off of money is a sin against god in almost every religion and is punishable by being sent to the deepest bowels of hell.

Somebody's done their humanity homework.

Belief? LOL It's documented fact. Do you know how many people from the inside have come out and written books about this subject, fully acknowledging it? If you think it's still a matter of "belief" in this time of the information age, you haven't done any research worth a fuck.

All through history powerful families have vied for power. When a family attains it, they do everything possible to keep it. This still goes on today, and those rich families use their wealth and influence to push politicians around so that they can modify the world to fit their personal beliefs. I don't think it's a far stretch to imagine that the super-rich are social with the other super-rich and work together to a degree to manipulate the world however they can with their money and promises.

This makes sense, and you speak with some level of certainty. Is this from personal experience, or a reliable source? Any recommended reading or reliable sources you'd like to share to back up your claims?

I don't think any one person is in charge. It's more like a group of friends helping out each other at times, like any other group of friends would. Only they are rich and/or in positions of power. So like "Hey, Bob, think you could buy a few more tanks? Would really help me out, thanks!" and then the army gets a bunch of tanks they don't need.

I used to believe (or assume) that there were backroom shady government characters like the smoking man from the x-files who effectively dictate geo-politics in secret meetings with the whole new world order agenda etc. But nowadays i'm more keen to believe that all politicians at the 'top' are just thick, spineless greedy bastards being rented for policies. The banks and oil companies are the people running the show, oil is effectively just another form of currency. They bribe leaders to do their dirty work, start wars so they can exploit resources or get bail outs around the world while crippling the economy for the average person, and they pay off the politicians involved with a fraction of the billions they reap. Money is already infinite, the banks don't have their own gold stores, they just add a zero to their digital 'safe' when appropriate... the agenda is about taking away money from the small person so that they can keep YOU in line and under control.

I don't know what this group is called.... corporate lobbying? I'd imagine Bilderberg is a part of that.

No, it's just the rich. They all have orders of magnitude more power and all have similar economic interests due to having identical economic positions.

It's literally the case that they get what they want, and the working class doesn't. :

The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.

Because:

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis

Former Supreme Court Justice

I don't believe in any particular theory, but without a doubt many decisions that affect our country are made at fancy restaurants and golf courses with those who have the power to influence things just talking it out.