confessions of a conspiracy theorist

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back when i was a sophomore in high school, somebody handed me a taylor caldwell bestseller entitled captains and the kings, a sweeping historical saga notable not merely because it was a damned good read, but, more importantly, because this single, seminal book exposed the young, impressionable mind of mkf for the first time to the idea of a shadow government behind all the show-governments everybody thinks run the world.

it was fantastic:  this fantastically-talented woman painted eloquent word pictures of smoky drawing rooms full of rich bankers--she daringly called them "the committee of foreign relations"--casually deciding the start dates and durations of world wars, revolutions and financial crises, all with the ultimate and eventual goal of one world government ruled by--guess who?  the bankers.

while i loved the book, i mostly dismissed its politics as batshit-crazy and moved on to bigger and better things--but, try as i might, i couldn't forget it.

a few years later, an incomparably superb professor of american history would hold my freshman college class spellbound as he explained in great, dispassionate detail how a young british naval intelligence officer named winston churchill engineered the german sinking of the lusitania in order to draw the united states into world war I.


and then 25 years later, as prime minister of great britain, this same guy would assist franklin roosevelt in instigating the japanese attack on pearl harbor--allowing just enough damage to the american fleet, but not too much--that would draw the united states into world war II.


 but i digress.

and then, over the next 38 years, i've sat back and watched as, one by one, pretty much every one of ms. caldwell's batshit-crazy predictions have come to pass.

for those of you who still don't get what's happening, i offer up the following recent headline:

the above was a buried story, nowhere to be found in the mainstream american press [and if you don't know what the european central bank is, it's basically their equivalent of the american federal reserve bank.  and if you don't know what the council on foreign relations is, go back up and read the second paragraph of this post--and then you might wanna do a little googling].

scary thing is, these bastards aren't even trying to hide their global ambitions anymore.

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drunken update:  this one wasn't anywhere near ready for prime time, but, as sometimes happens when i'm really shitfaced, i hit the wrong button and rss did the rest.  i hope it at least halfway makes sense--god knows i'm in no condition to know.