Paul Craig Roberts — paulcraigroberts.org Feb 4, 2022
Yes, there is a conspiracy. It is a conspiracy of the elite against the rest of us. It has been in operation for years. You can learn much about it from Kees Van Der Pijl’s just published book by Clarity Press, States of Emergency.
The elites are a mere handful, but they control all the power. They control the print, TV, and social media, universities, think tanks, governments, finance, large scale production, bar associations, health care, most celebrities, and have their own organizations that comprise interlocking directorates such as Bilderberg, Atlantic Council, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, the G30 group of former central bank presidents, World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the IMF. The same people comprise corporate boards and the top executive ranks of large corporations.
The gathering of power went through many steps. For example, during the Clinton regime in the US the diverse and independent media was concentrated in 6 hands. Six mega-companies were permitted to buy up 90% of the US media. The concentration of the media went against all American tradition. Regulation of industries was abandoned on the basis of Alan Greenspan’s edict that “markets are self-regulating,” and regulatory agencies became marketing agents for formerly regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals. The Sherman Anti-trust Act became a dead letter law on the basis of the assertion that in the global economy only the very large could compete. Thus, monopoly control replaced the market economy.
Van Der Pijl explains how the various elite networks–transnational, financial, governmental, etc.–work toward a common agenda. Meanwhile, the elite use their control over ideas, communication, and entertainment to keep us peons fighting among ourselves: Republicans vs. Democrats, Liberals vs. Conservatives, racism, women’s rights, transgender rights, abortion rights, and distracted with Russian Threat, Chinese Threat, Terrorist Threat. The real threat goes undisclosed and unremarked.
Deceit of the people is the priority task for all Western governments, supported by intelligence agencies, IT corporations and media.
Van Der Pijl names names. For example, the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Conference reflects the ruling power bloc: Eric Schmidt (Google), IT companies (Palantir) and entrepreneurs (Peter Thiel), Belgian banker and media magnate Thomas Leysen, directors and executives of financial institutions (Lazard, Deutsche Bank, the Wallenberg investor group in Sweden), Henry Kravis of the Kohlberg-Kravis-Roberts hedge fund. Leysen is a member of the Trilateral Commission, Friends of Europe, and the Bilderberg Group.
This group connects to other groups, such as the Cercle de Lorraine. Among the members is Christian Van Thillo who owns practically the entire Belgian and Dutch newspaper market. Van Thillo also is a director the the German publishing group, Bertelsmann. Another member, Count Maurice Lippens links to Friends of Europe, a group that includes in its membership former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt and former European Commissioner Neelie Kroes.
The French, US, and UK media are also concentrated. All of the owners are brought together via elite organizations.
Think tanks are funded by the military/security complex and corporations. The purpose of think tanks is to provide studies that further the interests of their donors– Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, the Pentagon, the Air Force, the Army, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department.
The largest beneficiary is the RAND Corporation which received more than a billion dollars. Other beneficiaries of military/security largess are the Center for a New American Security whose CEO was Victoria Nuland, the current Undersecretary of State, the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, the Center for Strategic and International Studies where I held the William Simon Chair in Political Economy for a dozen years, and my colleagues were Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. I let pass the opportunity to be a well-rewarded intellectual servant for the ruling elite. I fought them and had to leave the chair. Not long afterwards I was kicked out of my media positions for the same reason. It has become impossible for dissidents from the official narratives to have a career in the Western world.
Van Der Pijl’s book is a short one, 287 pages, but it is chock full of information which readers can tell from the fact that this is my third article about the book. Not every page will hold your attention and his overall view will not please all, but the evidence he provides shows how the elite gathered and use power.
The elite rule us all. They subsidize conservatives whose patriotism supports “America First” and wars against orchestrated enemies. They subsidize the leftwing whose accusations foment distraction from the secret agenda. They subsidize liberals whose ideas serve to deconstruct and weaken the society and make it easier for the elite to conquer.
The vast bulk of Americans and Europeans are left in the dark and have no understanding that day by day their lives come under more control in order to clear the way for agendas of which they are unaware. Reading Van Der Pijl’s book will help the unaware grasp what is afoot.

“…vast bulk of Americans and Europeans are left in the dark”
It was ever thus. Will it forever be?
The falseness of our belief systems MUST take place faster than they are. The god of Moses is the enemy of every European man, woman and child.
But how to wake the “vast bulk” who cannot see and will not think?
Roberts forgot to mention that almost all these figures are jews…and those that arent are usually deviants of some kind….Thus the crypto jew Saville was able to continue with his sicko behaviour virtually unchecked.
His association with the Windsors has gone down the memory hole and is virtually never mentioned.
And,oh!, the Windsors are part of the network,have no doubt about that!!….which probably explains why Assange is locked in a maximum security prison!!.Previously the Windsor ancestors would have had him murdered.
They did however murder Dr David Kelly…..be sure of that.
Well surely the crusading Guardian will come to the rescue??…if you believe that youre a mug….
At this point it looks like the Johnson crisis is a stage act.His possible replacement at the head of the Labour party.is ALSO A CRYPTO JEW LIKE JOHNSTEIN.
At least the sheep could be persuaded to vote for the SDP??…which is the lesser of the other two 😈 evils.
So how will the jews be removed from their stranglehold over Western countries……by copying their hidden networks and their hidden assassinations…..like the murder of Patton.
The use of the word ‘ELite’ must stop! Quit giving power to fingernails that have never seen dirt. El Elyon, Elijah, El Shaddai, ELectricity, ELect, ELevated, etc…You’re making the sniveling ‘elite’ into Gods, which is what they want.
How convenient to have a new book out in this time of trouble. That should cover those rocketing household bills that the rest of us are facing.
It’s always good to have names, but what should register more clearly after reading this book is the composition of this ‘system’…
The highest levels are still the ‘Masonic’ (Luciferic/Ahrimanic materialist God kings) Banking Aristocracy of Europe (although all nations of this class are represented), itself a mixture of sephardic jewry and Byzantines and old name Euros, no doubt via Babylon, Greece and Rome…presumably they are still trying to unseat the Creator with their petty little ‘cosmic’ plans.. (they are).
The middle management is the entertainment plex/vatican/zionism/world jewry/finance commodity groups that seem to worship the fiction Satan and play the adversary (shaitan=adversary)… The old priest class who confuse the peons with magic and subterfuge and trade them glass beads and mirrors for their life energy ..
the rest of the lower subdivisons (herd management) serve the greater good of these two entities…
Essentially, superficiality aside, nothing has really changed for six thousand years (there were fabrication plants making crockery in Sumer that employed 6000 peons, one of many)… what has changed and seems to be snowballing is the general awareness of these miscreants and their rancid habits as the common imbecile rouses from his slumber.. (in preparation for the harvest of souls)..
presumably this is ‘les miserables Apocolypse’… although in my view none of it bodes well.. there is an Evil of such chaotic purity wending it’s way towards us It will make the worst atrocities of the last six thousand years seem like an afternoon cream tea with granny.. the good bit is this will also sweep away The Ancien Régime as well..
One could say this will be the end of the Evil/Materialist Cycle after which balance will be restored and a new Good/God period of fertility and beauty will once again dominate (until the next cycle)..
so Good Luck for now.. because none of you will be here for the best bit..
They’re not ‘elite’ but scum/Chandalas. The headline & throughout the article terms the deranged Marxist mongrels who control the entire govt/media complex the ‘elite’.
The original meaning of the word meant the best of something, like the SS or the finest wine; it derives from the 12th century French ‘eslite’–a choice or select body, the best part.’ Centuries later once the Jews obtained control of the publishing industry, they added a new definition for the word: ‘wealthy powerful group of people’…so they could exalt themselves & get the goy dolts to extol them…clever scheme.
Basically its a Jewish psyop to get their slaves to lionize them, while enslaving/liquidating them.. Years ago they got their internet agents like Alex Jones, Icke etc. to hype it up. Any gentile who uses it is either a dupe or a Jew proxy..
The so-called or misnamed elite do not actually rule us all.
They do not rule me. My allegiance is to GOD, not even to my relatives first, but to GOD. I still live my life the way I did before. No shots, no doctors. And I will die rather than take their insane mark.
I have tried to talk sense into people, but to no avail. The people of the world either get it or they don’t. It is a decision we all have to make. The wrong decision will lead to death. How or why? Because if you take the clot shot, you will eventually die unless you always get a placebo, and ultimately you will get the one that is not a placebo, and that one will do you in. The shots and boosters are here to stay.
If you reject the only Savior, Jesus Christ, eventually you will take the actual mark of the beast, and you will be in the Hell that is promised to those who do that. That is, unless your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Revelation 20:14-15 state:
14 “And death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.”
15 “And whosoever was NOT found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.”
If you do NOT take the mark of the beast, they may kill you by guillotine. Or you may escape that under God’s providence, and then you would be alive to see the triumphant Second Coming of the Lord Jesus. Choose Jesus!
eLITE MEANS “CHOSEN”AsIn eLeCt–got my caps wrong again–so the word is fairly appropriate e.g. Schwab chose the Canadian leader.
> How convenient to have a new book out in this time of trouble. That should cover those rocketing household bills that the rest of us are facing.
The way to reduce your bills is to take your country back from those you allowed to steal it.
@chesterton
Thank you for your insights. There is an ominous resonance to the ‘chaotic purity’ you mentioned. You big tease, I wanna be here for the best bit! : (
O, NicoX, and Ann Blue get it right in their comments above. “Elite” is the absolute wrong label for the satanic scum who are destroying the world. There is nothing “elite” about the demonic legion of doom and they are the polar opposite of elite. Roberts continues to revert to snivelry and cowardice for not calling it what it is, organized Jewry. They are a putrid shit-stain on the fabric of humanity and their executions can’t come soon enough, nor can their executions be painful and humiliating enough.
Derivation matters, not usage, which people get wrong all the time, making it irrelevant. Plebs today think “sketchy” means “dangerous”. It means “not detailed”, regardless.