Unified Map (a Work In (slow) Progress)

• the evolving Unified Theory map
  using Stakeholder temp

Dear “Unified Theory map” Linkers:

Click the above link. A new tab will open and you will see a graphic of a tree with an active circle around it.

(Please NOTE that the database has become large enough to become a bit sluggish in responding to clicks. Just give it a moment or two to sort itself out after each click.)

As soon as the active circle finishes, you will be confronted with a minor explosion of data.

This will resolve itself into a sort of distant constellation, with loads of little circles jockeying for position.

Once this settles down, you can Zoom in (see + and – symbols top right) and you will see that each little circle has a label and that these labels are inter-connected with other labels. Each label is a distinct data item; each with a varying amount of info attached (remember, this is a WorkInProgress). Each line indicates a known connection.

If you click on a circle it outlines in red and more detail (if there is any) will appear to the left. On the top right, below the + and – symbols, you will see a little sort of compass symbol has appeared. Hover over this and you will see it is called “Focus”. Click on it and your selected red circle will zoom to centre stage with any primary connections showing. You will also see, just above and below the little compass symbol, two arrow heads have appeared. These will extend or contract the connections shown.

Have fun.

Any questions, feel free to email me at vrd.martin@gmail.com.

 

Deacon Martin’s Unified Theory
……how it all fits in the 21st Century.

…or “trying to provide a digestible narrative in an effort to throw some of the emergent patterns into relief for readers disinclined to delve too deeply into available research”.

…a Work In (slow) Progress

1. Economics – a brief introduction to the emergent framework currently governing human life.

There is more to modern economics than meets the eye, but economics remains the underlying force which determines our fate as humans – more so even than nature, which used to be THE most significantly controlling factor.

1.1 Overview

We are a trading species. We’ve done this for millennia. We enjoy it and it gives us reason to exercise our natural species-specific gregariousness, to mix with other humans, to find out what they have and how they got it, and learn how their lives differ.

However, over time two concepts emerged which compromised the pure and aesthetically pleasing nature of trading.

1.1.1 Property

The first of these is property. As we slowly abandoned nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyles for the temptations of agriculture, we began to have a vested interest in land. You cannot plant a crop and nurture it for a season and not be upset if somebody wanders through and grabs the fruits of your labours. This upset translated into the need for “protection”. As agriculture became more organised, its benefits gave rise, for the first time, to humans entirely not engaged in food sourcing. Instead, agricultural economies generated specialists such as clothes makers or basket weavers and, inevitably, warriors.

Peasants cannot at one and the same time spend a lifetime growing crops and also train as top-notch fighters. Instead, they turned to specialist warriors to help them defend their land and their investment of labour. And of course these specialist warriors were led by the strongest and most vicious among them; the ones who could outfight all their fighters. And these leaders began to realise that the peasants they were protecting didn’t have protection from the warriors themselves. So the leaders of the very warriors supported by the agricultural economies turned on the agriculturalists – who had no training or weapons – and informed them that they, the warrior leaders, would now be in charge of all operations. The warrior leaders had no intention of engaging in agricultural practices themselves, but they had every intention of taking the fruits of the labours to bolster their own economic standing and thereby their capacity for generating ever larger bands of warriors. So it wasn’t long before enormous bands of warriors were pitted against their own agriculturalists and, eventually, against other enormous bands of warriors for yet more property – now defined as not only the growing land, but also the peasants labouring upon it.

1.1.2 Currency

The second of these concepts emerging from trading activities was an agreed medium of exchange. Instead of hauling tons of grain or potatoes to somewhere they might be exchanged for equivalent weights of cloth or wood products or meat, humans began to experiment with exchanging rare, shiny things for all these products This gave rise to having less bulky product to lug back and forth and more flexibility in acquiring different ranges of product. One of the first of these mediums of exchange was, interestingly, seashells. To inland people, seashells were rare and fascinating and have been found at prehistoric village sites in the very centre of continents where no seashell has a natural right to be. And coastal fishing people found they could supplement their living with inland foodstuffs and materials they could not otherwise have imagined.

Humans eventually found particularly rare and shiny commodities in the form of silver and gold. These miraculous materials never rusted or faded away. They shone forever and were clearly valuable. And, most importantly, they could be hoarded by warrior leaders. This gave these leaders a further element to their means of control and self-aggrandisement.

But of course, as the means of exchange – the currency – became more and more usable in wider and wider settings, it, the currency itself, began to have a value in its own right. More than just rare and shiny, the currency could be used to acquire comforts and materials and, most addictively, power over other humans. The currency itself became a commodity which could be hoarded and manipulated far more easily than any pile of goods or materials. As this capacity for hoarding and manipulating improved, the centralisation of wealth and power, with which we are so familiar today, began in earnest.

2. Economics – a brief introduction to the modern underlying control mechanisms governing human life.

2.1 Corporations

It’s a big jump from the first hoarders of wealth and power to the modern corporations of today, but corporations are in essence simply a continuation of that process – with a few added bonuses for people who already have a certain amount of wealth and power. For example, corporations allow for the disembodied ownership of wealth generating means and processes. By disembodied, we mean the separation of ownership from responsibility.

People buy shares in corporations but remain detached from any sense of responsibility for the ravages of human life and environment that those corporations can generate. The “responsibility” resides with the Chief Executives of these corporations, but these Chief Executives maintain – quite rightly under current law – that their one and only responsibility is to generate profit for those shareholders. The disembodiment mirrors the separation of responsibility from actions which exists in human psychopaths. And, unsurprisingly, it is human psychopaths who tend to gravitate towards the top positions in corporations.

It should not be forgotten that corporations also own vast “news” media empires and that these empires are instrumental in manipulating not just the voting public but also the politicians seeking those votes.

In essence, corporations have been getting away with more and more since the advent of colonialism (and especially the slave trade), but this increased exponentially with the initiation of two World Wars. Much of the groundwork for corporate dominance and stupefying individual wealth for major shareholders was set during the First World War. In time of war, national governments borrow hugely – as much as they can possibly get away with – from private interest-charging banks (see 2.6 below) and the bulk of it is heaved into the production of armaments. Armaments – from bullets to tanks to warships – are usually massively expensive but also have (ideal from the supplier point of view) a very short life expectancy. So while the majority of male humans were being thrown into horrific meat-grinder battles, the corporations and their major shareholders were enjoying profits and interest payments on a scale hitherto unimaginable.

(See The-Root-Cause-of-Human-Demise )

2.2 “Intelligence” Services

Intelligence Services have become the modern equivalent of the old warrior class. Having received funding from the rest of us to “protect” us from external villainy, they’ve now turned the focus of much of their attention on to us, the beleaguered tax payers, to protect a growing governance establishment from protesting internal voices. Modern intelligence services absorb vast resources from central governments, but they also generate their own income through and for “black ops” – operations that not even the leaders of governments are allowed to know about. Funds are generated through dealings in illegal drugs, the black market in weapons, and, more and more it seems, human trafficking. The black ops have to do with destabilising foreign governments and, increasingly, with meddling in domestic politics utilising, in both instances, blackmail and murder.

Let me explain the terms “spook” and/or “intelligence” service. I use these as blanket terms for MIs 5 and 6, the Mossad, Saudi Mabahith, and the CIA. As I have come to understand it, they work together to deliver objectives more and more determined by themselves. They occasionally cooperate with such renowned human rights abusers as the Turkish MIT or the former Iraqi Mukhabarat and various other dubious agencies on a need-to-use basis, depending largely, in this world of rapidly switching intelligence allegiances, on whether or not we are bombing them. But these other “inferior” agencies are not generally let in on the high level shenanigans of the core cabal.

In terms of techniques, the guiding principle of any “intelligence” service has to be the “need to know” basis. No spook can ever be told the purpose or context of his mission simply because he might be compromised or tortured by “the enemy”. In time of war this makes a certain amount of sense; in times of “peace”, less so. But insofar as we now seem to be in a state of perpetual war, it seems this principle has to be adhered to more than ever before. Apart from the spooks at the very top, no one needs to know anything above or below his or her pay grade or outside his or her designated “silo”.

Spooks know better than to ask “Why?” and this discipline has more and more been transferred to the private/corporate sector. Anybody who has the cheek to venture outside their silo or ask “Why?” may suffer immediate career damage, and more and more often, character or actual assassination.

Put simply, the corporations and the “intelligence” services have been running a revolving door policy for so long that it is now difficult to find major shareholders or CEOs of “defence” or “security” related industries (armaments, IT) who haven’t at one time or another been either a spook or very closely associated with spooks.

2.3 Organised Crime

Many of us thought the Iran/Contra scandal was the basis of a new and scandalous use of Intelligence Service resources to create “black ops” funding which wouldn’t require any Congressional oversight or permission. This involved collusion with drug and arms peddling elements of organised crime (and, of course, offshore accounting). Investigative journalist Robert Parry first broke the story as early as 1985 but it was Gary Webb, another investigative journalist, who effectively sacrificed his career and his life (a supposed “suicide”, involving 2 pistol shots to the head!) to bring the story further into the light through a written series called “Dark Alliance” in 1996. He, of course, prior to his murder, was trashed in every way possible but persisted until the whole mess became undeniable.

Many of us assumed this was the tip of the iceberg, but we had no idea as to how big and long-lived that iceberg actually was and is.

In her book “One Nation Under Blackmail Volume 1” (thoroughly recommend reading both Volumes) Whitney Webb traces the origins of this confluence of Organised Crime and “Intelligence” back to the opium wars in China in the middle of the 19th century. Because those were the days of “Empire”, nobody in the west gave a hoot as the Chinese poor became addicted to the drug on a massive scale. China, after all, was still considered “backward”. And backward it’s economy certainly was as it struggled to manage the burden placed upon it by the mass addictions. The “Opium Wars” of the 1840s and 50s were all about British colonialists battering a struggling Chinese nation into accepting the rights of British “interests” to continue to pour opium into the country.

The mass addictions were later fostered and supported by the western backed Chinese nationalist Kuomintang – the people who were eventually driven out of China by Mao Tse Tung and ended up being the governing body of what is now Taiwan.

And out of this morass emerged enormous personal fortunes. Notably the Sassoons (yes, Vidal and co) and the Keswicks of UK infamy. Between them they formed Jardine-Matheson, a trading company, whose “interests” the British taxpayers (you and I) have been paying to defend, which thrived on the opium racket and spread its tentacles into ever widening areas of global influence. You may think this is ancient history, but think again. As late as 2013 “Lord” James Sassoon, having served in David Cameron’s cabinet, stepped neatly on to the Board of the self-same and still trading Jardine-Matheson.*

And Henry Keswick, an early overlord of Jardine-Matheson, spawned John and Tony Keswick who both went on to provide liaison between corporate activity, spying activity, and organised crime. It was Tony who, having served as “Lord” Mountbatten’s personal aide, provided the nascent OSS/CIA with the UK Special Operations Executive (spooks) training manuals. These, along with ex-Nazi networks and methodologies, served as part of the blueprint for the post war blossoming of the CIA. After the war Tony joined the Board of the Hudson’s Bay Company and through this became connected to the Canadian Bronfman family who have had very close ties with organised crime since Prohibition. (The Bronfmans were also early enablers of Jeffrey Epstein.)

In essence, it was the World Wars which brought the opium and related underworlds into close contact with the “Intelligence” Services. American gangsters like “Lucky” Luciano and Meyer Lansky, already deeply embroiled in the opium and heroin trades, much of which, as mentioned above, came to be overseen and facilitated by Intelligence in order to finance black ops and enhance spook channels. But it was the 1942 sinking of the Normandie in New York harbour which triggered the even closer relationships between Crime and Intelligence. It was the fear of Nazi spies and saboteurs which provided the backdrop to this blossoming partnership and which has become so embedded today that much crime is carried out with impunity because many of the perpetrators are Intelligence “assets” (not least Epstein himself). There are many areas of organised crime which cannot be prosecuted because it is in the interests of “national security” that they be left alone.

* (2013 was also the year that we, the UK taxpayers, made our final annual “compensation” payments to people forced out of the slave trade – among whom were Cameron’s family.)

2.4 Secret Societies of the Privileged

Secret societies are often considered a phenomenon of the past and no longer significant. However they still exist, and exist in varying degrees of visibility and wielding varying amounts of clandestine power.

A good example is Cecil Rhodes, the supposed hero of Britain’s exploitation of Africa.

Cecil Rhodes made a vast fortune out of diamonds and gold dug out of the south African ground by impoverished barefoot Africans. It was rumoured to be the largest personal fortune of his time. He was the Bezos/Gates of his day.

However, he bequeathed nothing to family. Rhodes’ will bequeathed his fortune to a series of trusts and enterprises committed to protecting, at all costs, the great “British Empire”. Some of the trusts and entities (eg. the Rhodes Scholarship) were known to the public. Others were not.

To protect his wilful posthumous investments, Rhodes apparently reverted to a form of organisation espoused by a German philosophy professor by the name of Adam Weishaupt. The guiding principle of this was the creation of “rings within rings”, augmented by the strict rule that very very few of the people in any of the rings should be aware of any inner rings at all. Only the very central ring should have an inkling of the size and scale of the subservient outer rings.

With all this in mind Rhodes first established the secret “Society of the Elect”. This consisted of three classes of membership. At its core was the “Junta of Three”, consisting of: “Lord” Alfred Milner, Rhodes’ right hand man, confidante, and gofer; “Sir” William Stead, an early press magnate; and “Viscount” Esher who effectively represented “King” Edward 7. Then came the “Elect” which was broadened to include, among others, “Lord” Nathaniel Rothschild the banker, and possibly Alfred Beit, a co-founder with Rhodes of deBeers – the global diamond monopolist.

Then, according to the wills, came the “Helpers” – the B list of the privileged, carefully chosen from the realms of politics and commerce for their contacts and pliability. Each of the “Elect” had their own networks of privilege and they encouraged the development of lower level Helpers who were then encouraged to use their contacts to create yet more outer rings among the pliable privileged and “influencers”, without ever letting on that there was an inner ring. None of the Helpers could know of the Elect or the Junta. And the members of these outer rings would in turn, believing themselves to be the inner ring, seek to form yet more outer rings whilst, again, assuring that none of these recruits knew anything of other rings but believed themselves to be at the centre.

And so on, right down to your friendly “Round Table” do-gooders raising charitable funds for people unknowingly being impoverished by policies being pushed from the very top of the self-same organisation.

2.5 Organised Religion

I happen to think that all religions are ridiculous.

The most stultifying conversations I’ve ever had have tended to be ones in which one or more of the participants takes the trouble to tell me what they “believe”. This is partly because the rider to someone going to such trouble is usually that it is impolite to question any of the foundations upon which they may base their belief. So the conversation consists largely in trying to hold a moronic smile and nodding politely as they trot out their piece. And of course, the more polite one is, the longer the piece tends to drag on. Interruptions of the flow with what one might consider applications of logic or common sense have no place in such “conversations”. So, in fact, these are not conversations at all. They are monologues and staying focussed becomes all the more difficult because it’s quickly obvious that one has no role to play apart from being a rapt listener. Edging away is the only real recourse.

I am not convinced that “belief” or “faith” is all it’s cracked up to be. What is “belief” but holding something to be true against what the evidence or your better judgement or your natural intelligence suggests is not? If it wasn’t against your natural judgemental inclination or your intelligence, you wouldn’t have to have faith or “believe”. It would just be another acknowledged truth shared with others exposed to the same evidence and possessing the same degree of intelligence.

My feeling is that unquestioning “belief” is antithetical to the human condition. One of the most endearing qualities of this flawed species of ours is our natural inclination towards curiosity combined with our mysterious but profound capacity for random association. Why stifle these?

Nevertheless, it cannot be ignored that the major religions harbour vast resources – and even their own internal intelligence services. They are heavily invested in corporations (including banks) and have places at the highest tables of informal global decision making. The fact that religions interfere in national and international governance processes can not be doubted.

2.6 Banks

Banks are, of course, a subset of corporations. They are themselves corporations but with the peculiar power/privilege to generate money. Many of us tend to think that money is created by government decree, but no, it is generated by banks lending money. Many of us also think that banks’ basis for lending is what they have in their vaults; money that we have entrusted to them for saving and for earning a bit of interest, but no. That money, our savings, only represents a very very small fraction of what banks lend out.

So where does all this money that they lend out in vast quantities, often and weirdly to national governments – especially in times of “war”, come from? Well, it comes from a policy, largely determined by banksters themselves, called Fractional Reserve Banking. Under the terms of FRB, banks need only retain a fractional reserve of actual funds in their vaults. This reserve amounts, in some countries like China, to about 20%. This means that they can lend out 80% over and above their actual reserves. This reserve percentage varies from nation state to nation state, but in the west it is usually well below 10%. In one of the most irresponsible and possibly criminal nation states of all, the Corporation of the City of London (yes, effectively an independent state, like the Vatican in Rome), the reserve percentage fluctuates at around less than 1%. So the banksters in the City of London, directly and through all their “offshore” affiliates in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere, are free to lend, and charge interest on, 99% over and above their actual reserves. That is to say, all these banks are lending, and charging interest on, money they don’t actually have.

And of course banks can lend money to each other as well. A loan received is considered an “asset” and therefore a part of the the receiving bank’s Fractional Reserve in the same way as are our pathetic savings. This means that a bank’s entire Fractional Reserve could, in fact, be a loan from another bank.

You might think that this is a pretty unstable way to manage economies, and you would be right. Because the really interesting thing is that vast profits can be made by banksters and other speculators in unstable economies. They can make vast profits both when economies boom AND when they bust.

It is only when economies are stable that such vast profits cannot so easily be realised.

2.7 Overlap

Where the elements mentioned above Overlap is illustrated by the diagram at the top of the page. Meetings are taking place all the time within the Overlap where decisions are being made that affect all our lives directly.

In the epicentre of the diagram, within the Overlap where all five of the circles share a small space, is a small circle marked X.

This circle is referred to as the Assortment of Non-elected and Unentitled Sociopaths – or, the Assortment. Like the “Adam Weishaupt “ rings mentioned above, few if any of the denizens of the Overlap are aware of the Assortment. But this is where the real levers of economic power in the modern world are manipulated in the broadest sense. This is where the richest and most driven men on the planet, the ones with the least functioning amygdalae (see 6.1 below), congregate to determine – for the rest of us – the way the global economy should be managed.

It is they who determine where and when economies must rise and fall, which new areas of the planet are to be massively exploited, who the new enemies are against whom wars must be declared, and, most importantly, what the global mass media will have to say about it.

3. Politics

3.1 The Playground of the Corporations

It must be understood that Politics is now nothing but a sideshow, a distraction, something to keep us occupied while other things are happening elsewhere and orchestrated by the Overlap.

Politicians are now (more and more openly) bought and sold by corporate economic interests. These interests have no time for politicians who might have intelligence or integrity. These interests prefer stupid or already corrupt individuals whose primary interests are exclusively themselves. Corporations even have teams of lawyers who prepare legislation for bought politicians to present, support, and sign.

Now most western elected representatives have second, extremely well paid “jobs”, usually with these self-same corporations.

4. Information

4.1 Education

A democracy is only as good as its education system.

4.2 Freedom of the Press

Freedom to represent the interests of their major shareholders.

5. History

5.1 Written by the Dominators

In the same way that the modern “mass media” are controlled by the economic interests of corporations, history itself is being manipulated and distorted by those same interests.

6. Psychology

6.1 Psychopathy/Sociopathy

As touched upon above, the other factor in the runaway tendency for corporate leaders and their major shareholders to accumulate enormous wealth is another advantage they have over the bulk of humanity.

They have reduced capacity for empathy.

Many of the men who gravitate towards the top of corporations and towards massive returns on capital get there by virtue of having a dysfunctional part of the brain called the amygdala.

A truly successful corporation must often turn a blind eye to the unhappy side effects of their activities on fellow humans. This is best achieved by having people in leadership positions who are themselves undeterred by such side effects, so it becomes inevitable that such people rise to the top of such organisations. The humans best hard-wired for not caring are those with dysfunctional amygdalae – roughly speaking, about 3% of the base human population but rising to much higher proportions in the upper levels of corporations and other bastions of power. In modern psychoanalytical terms, people with sufficiently dysfunctional amygdalae are diagnosed/classified as psycho or sociopaths.

As hinted at above, these people are “hard wired”. That is to say, they are born with the defect. It is not a curable condition. There are different degrees of dysfunctional amygdala, but whatever the degree, if you’re born with it, you’re stuck with it. It can’t be cured, but it can be managed – if the afflicted individual wishes to try to manage it. But why would anyone with low or zero levels of empathy wish to do that?

These are the people to whom, by virtue of their rise to the top of their non-empathetic organisations, we’ve entrusted virtually everything – including the introduction of genetic modification and now, AI (Artificial Intelligence). Even the management of scientific research is now largely in the hands of corporations. Universities used to be much more attuned to empathetic values and were less driven by “the bottom line”. While they were driving research, the fields were wide open and the sharing of discoveries and knowledge was as instantaneous as possible. Now those universities have research departments funded almost entirely by corporations, and empathetic values, not least the sharing of knowledge, have had to take a back seat. And copyright resides more and more with fewer and fewer corporations.

Fully functioning amygdalae were instrumental to our success as a species. From the caves to the cities, our ability to imagine what fellow humans might be thinking or feeling is what allowed us to gather in ever larger groups and develop more and more refined communication skills. It wasn’t just about hunting and gathering skills. It’s thought that one of the reasons the Neanderthals declined was because they couldn’t function well in groups of more than about two dozen. The Cro Magnons seemed to have had more highly developed amygdalae and were able to create larger and larger settlements and accommodate more and more specialised activities (activities not directly connected with hunting or gathering).

Corporate “values” – ie maximum return on capital investment in the shortest possible period of time – are now being allowed to set the agenda for humanity. The obvious projection, assuming the planet isn’t destroyed in the process, is that the amygdala, having served its purpose, will slowly die out of the human evolutionary path. The psycho/sociopaths will become the dominant subspecies and the empathisers will become the forlorn 3%.

Perhaps this is an inevitable aspect of human evolution – the evolution of consciousness. Perhaps this is a “good thing” in terms of the ultimate purpose we may eventually discover we are meant to serve. But I doubt it. The idea of us slowly expanding into the near universe with corporate values at our collective heart is too cold to contemplate for an empathiser. And as an empathiser, I feel it is my duty, as I feel it should be the duty of all empathisers, to resist this slide towards indifference and psychopathy.

7. Globalism

World government in itself needn’t necessarily be feared. What needs to be feared is sociopaths gravitating towards its levers of control.

This has already begun with initiatives such as ISDS – Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). This is a “legal” procedural mechanism that allows a corporation from one country to bring arbitral proceedings directly against the government of the country in which it has invested. Yes, corporations can sue governments for interfering in their sole and god-given purpose of infinitely and exponentially feeding their gluttonous shareholders and CEOs.

The primary (perhaps only) advantage of globalism for the rest of us – the empathisers – is the refinement of and strict adherence to a comprehensive set of basic Human Rights. See Section 10.2 below.

8. Human Trafficking

Epstein was the tip of the iceberg. (Eg: see The Franklin Scandal, first published 2009). Now massively engaged in by all elements of the Overlap

9. Artificial Intelligence

Already out of control and imbued with the non-empathic “values” of its corporate progenitors.

9.1 Whistleblowers

Many people hold the view that vast conspiracies can not be initiated without someone, somebody along the line breaking ranks and telling the world.

But think about this for a minute.

For a start, very very few people need to know anything about the overall plan. Most are contributing in small, un-attributable ways within their own silos through little more than looking the other way, or leaving a window open, or initiating a war games simulation.

circles / silos / careers / sanctions / murders

10. Some possible solutions

10.1 Recognition of the Problem

The first step in dealing with any problem is always to recognise that there IS a problem. The next step is to try and Identify the problem. What are its characteristics? What are its contributing factors? Does it have history? How far reaching is it?

To some extent, this is what I’ve been trying to do here. So, assuming you have some confidence in me as a source, much of this work has been done for you. ALWAYS worth cross-checking of course (feel free to delve into the partial Bibliography listed at the end) but you should be able to sense some emergent patterns.

10.2 Human rights

The primary advantage of globalism for the rest of us – the empathisers – is the refinement of and strict adherence to a comprehensive set of basic Human Rights. This should be an inviolable bedrock and applicable to every Human on the planet. The UN version, initiated and fought for by Eleanor Roosevelt, is a good starting point,:

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

as is the European version and the associated Court:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/human-rights-the-uks-international-human-rights-obligations

So the mechanisms are more or less in place. What’s missing is the political will to put them into regular practice and to fight for their enhancements.

10.3 Subsidiarity / Regional control

“Subsidiarity is a principle of social organisation that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as “the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level”.[1] The concept is applicable in the fields of government, political science, neuropsychology, cybernetics, management and in military command (mission command).” (Wikipedia)

Strength of States in US. ….of countries/regions in Europe. Even tiny England is far too centralised.

Co-operative models for city states.

10.4 Education

10.4.1 Participant Citizenship

10.4.2 History

10.5 Democracy

10.5.1 TMDW

10.5.2 The Democracy Audit

10.6 The Co-operative Movement

10.6.1 There IS an Alternative

10.6.2 Parallel Economy. Offshore-ism

10.7 Privilege vs Common Interest

Where on the spectrum can one place individual events, personalities, trends, etc.

10.8 Terminology

Please, we’re not talking about the “Elite”. We’re talking about the “Privileged”. We’re not talking about left vs right. We’re talking about the Common Interest vs Privilege. Terminology shapes thinking. Be careful how you use it.

10.9 Guidance for Government (Links)

10.9.1 Intro https://hubpages.com/politics/Guidance-for-Government

10.9.2 Education https://hubpages.com/politics/Guidance-for-Government-Part-2

10.9.3 Health https://hubpages.com/politics/Guidance-for-Government-Part-3

10.9.4 Economics https://hubpages.com/politics/Guidance-for-Government-Part-4

10.9.5 Constitutional Guard https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Guidance-for-Government-Security

11. Some slightly “Off The Wall” solutions

11.1 Introduction – In my work as a writer and performer….

11.2 Pop Economics

11.3 River Nations – Wherever you happen to be, you are in, and a citizen of, a River Nation.

11.4 Church of EQ – Proof of equality. It is the Question, not the answers, which unites us.

11.5 Tappers – Looking for the fault lines.

12. Bibliography – a non-comprehensive list

Apologies for lack of more specific referencing. If I had staff, or even a publisher, I would get them to do this. But I simply don’t have the energy and am too beyond caring at this point. Suffice to say that all the above comes from cross-referenced sources via the books and various wanderings down internet rabbit holes listed below. If I ever find a publisher, rest assured that all will be properly referenced and footnoted. Until then, good luck and very best wishes.

1. Attlee, Clem – As It Happened
2. Attwood, Shaun – Clinton, Bush & CIA Conspiracies
3. Bair, Sheila – Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street
4. Bakan, Joel – The Corporation
5. Bevan, Aneurin – In Place of Fear
6. Barrister, The Secret – The Secret Barrister
7. Bew, John – Citizen Clem
8. Black, Edwin – War Against the Weak
9. Bryant, Nick – The Franklin Scandal
10. Chang, Ha-Joon – 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
11. Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie – Dangerous Liaisons
12. Davies, Nick – Dark Heart
13. Deutsch, David – The Fabric of Reality
14. Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
15. Douglass, James W. – JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
16. Duff, Turney – The High Side
17. Griffin, David & Woodworth, Elizabeth – 9/11 Unmasked
18. Halper, Jeff – Obstacles to Peace
19. Harari, Yoval – Sapiens
20. Harari, Yoval – Homo Deus
21. Herodotus – The Histories
22. Holland, Tom – Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
23. Holland, Tom – Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
24. Holland, Tom – Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
25. Holland, Tom – In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam & the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
26. Icke, David – The Trigger
27. James, Lawrence – The Rise & Fall of the British Empire
28. Jones, Owen – The Establishment
29. Kennedy, RF Jr – The Real Anthony Fauci
30. Kinzer, Stephen – Overthrow
31. Leakey, Mary – Olduvai Gorge
32. Levitt, Steven D – Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
33. Lewis, Michael – The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
34. Lewis, Michael – Liar’s Poker
35. Macgreggor, Jim & Docherty, Gerry – Prolonging the Agony
36. MacKenney, Eileen – Borstal Girl
37. MacMillan, Margaret – Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
38. Morgan, Kenneth – Keir Hardie
39. Ostrovsky, Victor & Hoy, Claire – By Way of Deception
40. Owen, James – Nuremberg
41. Pelling, Henry – A History of British Trade Unionism
42. Pogrund, Gabriel & Maguire, Patrick – Left Out
43. Price, John – Labour In The War
44. Quigley, Carroll – The Anglo-American Establishment
45. Quigley, Carroll – Tragedy & Hope
46. Robertson, Ian – Wellington at War in the Peninsula, 1808-1814: An Overview and Guide
47. Rothkopf, David – Superclass
48. Satrapi, Marjane – Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1-2)
49. Scott, M.C. – Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth (Rome, #3)
50. Shlain, Leonard – The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
51. Stephens, Mark – Ernest Bevin
52. Stewart, Jon – America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
53. Stone, Oliver & Kuznick, Peter – The Untold History of the United States
54. Strathern, Paul – The Medici
55. Talbot, David – The Devil’s Chessboard
56. Tuchman, Barbara W – The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
57. Tuchman, Barbara W – Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
58. Ventris, Michael – The Man Who Deciphered Linear B
59. Washington, Booker T – Up From Slavery
60. Wallace-Wells, David – The Uninhabitable Earth
61. Webb, Whitney – One Nation Under Blackmail (Vol 1 & 2)
62. West, Geoffrey – Scale
63. Woodford, Michael – Exposure
64. Wrangham, Richard W – Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
65. X, Malcolm – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
66. Zamoyski, Adam – Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe

Just a few of the Online sources, randomly listed but easily googleable

1. 60 Minutes Australia,

2. Aja Raden (diamonds),

3. America’s Untold Stories,

4. Annette Bosworth (Dr Boz),

5. Avaaz,

6. BBC,

7. Caitlin Johnstone,

8. Corporate Accountability,

9. Democracy Now,

10. Double Down News,

11. Douglas Macgreor (Colonel),

12. Edward Snowden,

13. Francis Richard Connelly,

14. Jacqui Hames,

15. James Corbett,

16. Jeremy Griffith,

17. Joe Rogan,

18. Jordan Peterson,

19. Judge Andrew Napolitano,

20. Julian Assange,

21. Labour Research Dept,

22. Mark Groubert & Eric Hunley

23. Michael Shellenberger,

24. Mike Benz,

25. Novara Media,

26. Partners In Health,

27. PBS,

28. Private Eye,

29. Redacted,

30. Richard L. McManus,

31. Rising (the Hill),

32. Robert Reich,

33. Russell Brand,

34. Sum of Us (Eko),

35. TED Talks,

36. Tony Greenstein,

37. Waterbear,

38. Whitney Webb

FILMS (an even more incomplete list)

1. Corporation, The – Youtube
2. Everything Is A Rich Man’s Trick – Youtube
3. Spider’s Web – Netflix

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