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Oxfam Hops Aboard One Percenter Meme
Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over ... Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels ... An explosion in extreme wealth and income is exacerbating inequality and hindering the world's ability to tackle poverty, Oxfam warned today in a briefing published ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos. "We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many – too often the reverse is true." – Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International (Press release published 19 January 2013)
Dominant Social Theme: Just confiscate the wealth of one percent of the world and eradicate poverty.
Free-Market Analysis: Oxfam, a world aid organization, is recycling the "one percenter" meme that was made popular by the faux Occupy Wall Street movement. This dominant social theme is most useful to the power elite and thus will likely continue to be recycled even as Occupy Wall Street itself becomes less significant.
Encouraging envy regarding the richest one percent of Western populations is a way of distracting people from the real nexus of the world's wealth, which lies in the control of central banking. That's the reason the top elites want to keep the meme alive.
The real money probably does NOT lie with the world's "100 wealthiest people," as Oxfam analyzes it. Money that can be directly traced to people in this day and age is incredibly dangerous money.
No one who is TRULY wealthy would want to leave traces of significant wealth. We can infer that this list purveyed by Oxfam either reflects a small percentage of the world's REAL wealth or misidentifies the ones who actually manipulate it.
This is another important point. CONTROL is far more important than tangible assets. Muammar Gaddafi retained billions in tangible assets but recent events showed he did not CONTROL them. Control – and the ability to project power – is more important than any paper legalism.
Control these days is exercised via monopoly central banking for such banking, as is practiced today, is a purely artificial enterprise, created by a tiny handful of men. The Bank for International Settlements is the putative mechanism for this control.
One hundred years ago there were only a few central banks. Today there are 150 or so, many controlled by the BIS. If one examines monopoly central banking, a few names leap out – David Rockefeller, John Maynard Keynes, etc. These names are repeated over and over again within the context of the creation of central banking, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations.
It cannot be emphasized enough – and parts of the alternative certainly do try – that a tiny handful of individuals (and families) seems to have organized the world's modern and increasingly centralized infrastructure. It is not a vast leap of logic to conclude that those who organized the infrastructure and their descendents are still in charge of it.
Nothing leads us to believe otherwise. A tiny familial group along with corporate, military, religious and political enablers and associates retain control of the world's economic infrastructure. It has been estimated apocryphally that this group in total is about 6,000 – a truly tiny handful given that the world's population is some six billion.
But even here, one needs to perform a further analysis. These 6,000 are those who "know" about the conspiracy to create one world government and many are not "controllers" but are in the service of the controlling group – which may actually be a few hundred led by one or several individuals.
The larger group is emplaced within military, political, educational, social and internationalist structures. They exist at the very top of these structures and control these structures on behalf of the REAL elite, that tiny handful that makes decisions and controls the world's money via central banking.
This is the way human society works. There is usually one person at the top acclaimed by others. And the larger control is vested in a tiny authority, as well, that makes decisions.
Via exposure of how the Italian Mafia worked in the United States we actually have a structure we can examine. The US Mafia created a single group composed of its "families" that met to decide common policies. It even acclaimed a "head of heads," apparently.
There is no reason to think that those involved in the globalist conspiracy operate any differently. There is a council of sorts and there even may be an acclaimed leader. The idea that there are several bitterly opposed factions is likely a fiction.
There are rivalries, perhaps, even deadly ones. But to maintain murderous hostilities over a long period of time is "not good for business." We can be fairly sure, therefore, that in the larger scheme of things, the various parties cooperate to attain the goal of global governance – a government that they intend to be controlled by them.
How can we be confident of these insights? We know this because we know from observation about how humans create hierarchies. Over and over again we see small groups actuating larger enterprises. It cannot be any different when it comes to the creation of global governance and those who support it.
We've reviewed this hierarchical structure because it provides us with a roadmap to the Way the World Really Works and how a tiny group of individuals, enriched by central banking Money Power can essentially run the world.
The idea that this group is "one percent" of the world's wealthiest is nonsense. This is a dominant social theme purveyed by THEM. This is part of the controlling mechanism.
Occupy Wall Street, now a fading meme, was created as a false flag to oppose a genuine movement in the US called the "Tea Party." By institutionalizing the Tea Party and draining it of its authenticity, the power elite created a Hegelian thesis that they could then utilize for purposes of creating an antithesis and finally a synthesis.
In this way, the elites control the larger conversation. Occupy Wall Street itself proved hard to handle and has been attacked as a movement and is gradually fading, as far as we can tell.
It is notable that the elites created OWS and then found it necessary to attack it. In the era of the Internet Reformation these movements are not so easy to control.
We have speculated that this situation was much the same after the advent of the Gutenberg Press. The creation of the Reformation and numerous other enterprises of the day were funded perhaps by the power elite of the time but spun out of control.
Large informational revolutions are not immediately controllable, so far as we can tell, no matter how the elites work to contain them. Copyright, wars, famines, regulatory authoritarianism are all methodologies of control that were apparently used to combat the Renaissance and create the Reformation, etc. We see these tools being utilized again.
A dominant social theme like "one percent" can certainly be useful to the top elites because it effectively removes scrutiny from the real controllers and places the onus for the world's many difficulties on the emergence of a monied class.
As we've pointed out before, it is monopoly central banking that creates the disparities of wealth via inherent boom and bust mechanisms. As more central banks have been created, the world's riches are continually being concentrated because fewer and fewer people emerge from the continual busts in solvent condition.
As the world's wealth is polarized, it becomes convenient for the power elite to create a promotion around it. The idea is to blame wealthy people for inequity – and by blaming wealthy people redirect analysis AWAY from the actual mechanism of control, which is the mafia-like supervision of central banking by a handful of impossibly powerful men and their families.
Oxfam, doubtless a controlled entity at this, is one of many facilities useful to the top elites in this regard. And we see in Oxfam's latest jeremiad against the "one percent" just how this sort of promotion works. It sounds reasonable even though when one examines the prelude, the actual logic falls apart. Here's more from the Oxfam press release:
The $240 billion net income in 2012 of the richest 100 billionaires would be enough to make extreme poverty history four times over, according Oxfam's report 'The cost of inequality: how wealth and income extremes hurt us all.' It is calling on world leaders to curb today's income extremes and commit to reducing inequality to at least 1990 levels.
The richest one per cent has increased its income by 60 per cent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process.
Oxfam warned that extreme wealth and income is not only unethical it is also economically inefficient, politically corrosive, socially divisive and environmentally destructive.
Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International, said: "We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many – too often the reverse is true.
"Concentration of resources in the hands of the top one per cent depresses economic activity and makes life harder for everyone else – particularly those at the bottom of the economic ladder.
"In a world where even basic resources such as land and water are increasingly scarce, we cannot afford to concentrate assets in the hands of a few and leave the many to struggle over what's left."
Members of the richest one per cent are estimated to use as much as 10,000 times more carbon than the average US citizen.
Hobbs said: "We need a global new deal to reverse decades of increasing inequality. As a first step world leaders should formally commit themselves to reducing inequality to the levels seen in 1990.
We can see a plethora of power elite memes here. The rich are being attacked, which is part of the larger elite agenda – as there should be no wealth except what is concentrated directly in their hands.
The false flag carbon agenda is also mentioned, the idea that we need to drain carbon dioxide from the air in order to prosper as living beings on a "sustainable" planet. Perhaps nothing in the history of the human race has ever been proposed that is loonier than this but, nonetheless, the rhetorical insanity has reached a level where it can be proposed as a matter of course.
Finally, we have seen the pursuit of the class-warfare meme, a dominant social theme that is part of the larger "isms" actuated by the power elite several centuries ago with the advent of such faux social systems as "communism," "socialism," etc.
The idea that one percent of the world's wealthiest citizens ought to redistribute their wealth to help save humanity is merely the latest in an exceptional series of themes that goes back centuries, intended to create divisiveness among societies and classes.
Conclusion: The idea is to distract people from the real problem, which is the existence of a tiny elite that controls central banking and uses Money Power to create the conditions for world government.
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Posted by shabnam on 02/11/13 03:49 PM
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Posted by mava on 02/06/13 12:20 AM
@stevor:
"Does anybody actually EARN $100 million in a year? How about those who supposedly "earn" a billion dollars?
I don't think so. They buy politicians (at a discount rate, I'm sure) and either have "laws" created (or ignored) to help them STEAL/Scalp from the top of the world's finances.
That's the BIG SCAM."
I am not sure what you think of a change that needs to be done, but let me just clarify a little bit about this supposed "scam".
The reason it is possible to do what you have described as a scam, is that we the people, beg for this to happen. We instantiate a power that goes AGAINST any natural law, and then we vest it in some humble individual, or a group. You expect this individual or a group NOT to offer that power (to abuse) for sale? Is it not natural that the price gets bid up?
For instance, take Warren Buffet, 3-rd on the Forbes list of 2012. From Wikipedia: "In October 2008, Buffett invested in new energy automobile business by paying $230 million for 10% of BYD Company (SEHK: 1211), which runs a subsidiary of electric automobile manufacturer BYD Auto. In less than one year, the investment has reaped him over 500% return of profit."
Do you know who was Buffets father? Look it up. Now, does it get easier to connect the dots? What is the entity that bends the world inside-out in it's mad desire to make us use electric vehicle? Is it not the same entity his father worked for?
Again, you weren't very clear on your idea of a change, so I don't know, may-be you see the same thing I see. In any case, I would ditto dave jr, in saying that we need to remove all the arbitrary law (if I am reading him right).
Posted by mava on 02/05/13 11:58 PM
"We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many - too often the reverse is true."
Seeing and hearing things like this is a consequence of someone having a terminal weakness of not being willing to stay his own ground.
The idea was propagated as an excuse for allowing private property. An excuse, because the true reason has nothing to do with "trickling down" effect that the above statement points to. The true reason of why you can not take anything that is mine is that it IS NOT YOURS. Now, if I have a soul of a chicken, then I am not going to say that, instead, I am going to lie, I am going to give a lame excuse, which in itself is already a compromise. In this case, it is a corollary, which does not have to take place, so it should never had been used as a "casus belli".
But, chickens inevitably come home to roost, and every compromise becomes a loss. So is with this particular excuse, - once it is realized that the suggested (comfortable, nice, compromising) reason is not true, you are not going to be able to fall back on your original, sound principle, because you will be seen as someone who finds excuses, not someone who stays the principle. And rightfully so, - meek spirited do not deserve to remain unmolested.
I would give this advice to anyone who is still fighting for what is right (if any). Always seek the most indefensible position to be arguing from, and assume it. Then, from that position, you then to lay down your argument. Anything less than that simply buys you time, but also, guarantees the future defeat.
Posted by jdwheeler42 on 02/05/13 09:48 PM
Another thing to remember about the 1% meme is that in the Middle Ages, the kings feared the nobles more than the peasants. The ones who make it to the top 1% are the ones with sufficient intelligence and discipline to be a serious threat to the true elite. By turning the masses against the 1% they neutralize both threats.
Posted by perlhaqr on 02/05/13 08:29 PM
I nearly hate to say it, given that the "one percenter" meme has grown from such poisoned soil, but OxFam may have more rationale for it than most American "Occupiers". I mean, does the British Royal Family rank among that one percent?
Where many American one percenters have gotten there through their own hard work / wise investments (I may be a linux dork who despises Microsoft, but until the Feds started hammering on him, Gates never spent a penny on "lobbyists".) I imagine that worldwide there are many more in the "top one percent" who have gotten there through cronyism / mercantilism / feudalism / tyranny of some sort, at least historically. I mean, realistically, Elizabeth, Charles, William, and Harry are where they are because some jackass a thousand years ago was better with a sharp bit of steel than everybody else.
I have a hard time raising the sort of indignation I feel about taxing Gates or Buffett or even Kerry or Romney to death, for that sort of folk, or even more recently oppressive bastards, like King Saud.
Posted by edwin cameron on 02/05/13 05:24 PM
A book written by Dr.John Coleman 'Conspirator's Hierarchy:The story of the Committee of 300' former British MI6 intelligence officer,a rather good expose on the system that has been around for some time now,only a well-armed resolute Russia stands in the way of the committee.
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Yes, but doubts have been raised even about Coleman. And we have a hard time believing Putin is the world's last remaining hero.
Posted by WD on 02/05/13 04:21 PM
Kudos DB! The best article ever!
Government sponsored privately owned central banking is the greatest organ of control ever devised. It has superceded the bonds of solvencey itself. It has the power to collect any profits whole passing its bankruptcies on to everyone else, all without having any skin in the game. A brilliant design based on the correct assessment of government's will to power. Until this plague is destroyed, humanity can only expect increasing misery and death. The task remains of informing mankind to the extent equal to the minds that created this holocaust. Godspeed DB!
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Thanks. People even in the alternative media have a great deal of difficulty understanding just how powerful and corrosive monopoly central banking really is. Good to see you "get it."
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Posted by dave jr on 02/05/13 03:36 PM
"What needs to be done is to CHANGE (yeah, funny how o'bama RUINED the meaning of that word as he ruined the meaning of "transparency") the system FOR the REGULAR people."
Nothing NEEDS to be DONE. In fact less needs to be done; so that in a natural world, earners can earn, employ, have an incentive to reinvest their earnigs toward their latest, newest innovation.
In a top down world, how is innovation mandated? How do the elite propose to avoid another 1500 year dark age? I'm sure they must have thought of that. I'm sure they believe technocracy will do the trick. As if wizzards, the likes of Merlin did them a favor, feasting on hog hind quarters in their dark damp dank castles.
Posted by stevor on 02/05/13 02:36 PM
Does anybody actually EARN $100 million in a year? How about those who supposedly "earn" a billion dollars?
I don't think so. They buy politicians (at a discount rate, I'm sure) and either have "laws" created (or ignored) to help them STEAL/Scalp from the top of the world's finances.
That's the BIG SCAM.
Lemmings fall for the idea that the "rich" make too much but to one of the above-mentioned folks, a mere millionaire is NOT rich.
So, if those who Steal/scalp off the top of the world, if that money actually went to WORKERS/PRODUCERS, then that money would be recirculated, CREATING EMPLOYMENT instead of that "money" just being "reinvested" in Wall Street and the banking "industry".
So, it won't help to take money from those on top because they'll just steal some more. What needs to be done is to CHANGE (yeah, funny how o'bama RUINED the meaning of that word as he ruined the meaning of "transparency") the system FOR the REGULAR people.
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Posted by IndyLyn on 02/05/13 11:46 AM
"How can we be confident of these insights? We know this because we know from observation about how humans create hierarchies. Over and over again we see small groups actuating larger enterprises. It cannot be any different when it comes to the creation of global governance and those who support it."
What an insightful statement!!! Thank you DB... explains so logically, clearly, simply ... for me.
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Thank you.
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Posted by dave jr on 02/05/13 11:08 AM
Being 6000 out of 6 billion (.0001%) must truly make them feel like "one in a million". I can't imagine that they personally care to be "wealthy", monetarily anyway. Fiat is their tool to cast over the world to reap control. Assets required to gain or maintain control are placed in fictitious untouchable indentities like corporation, trusts, endowments, foundations, etc. though which the levers are pulled as well as the international institutions.
It would be nice if the 1%, after realizing they have been duped, would join the cause. But I'm afraid they will have long since been persecuted by the 99%.



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