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Meet The Puppetmasters: Here Are The 25 Most Politically Influential Billionaires In The US
It has been said, correctly, if only by those who see beyond the false "left-right" paradigm, that those who call the shots in US politics, and thus American socio-economics, are not so much America's lobbying corporations, but the people behind the corporations - i.e., those who have the money... all of it. Obviously, nobody has more money than America's billionaires. So who are the true puppetmasters who determine America's fate?
For one answer we turn to Brookings Institution Governance Studies Director Darrell West in whose upcoming book "Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust" examines the political use of great wealth, including campaign expenditures, activism through nonprofit organizations and foundations, holding public office, media ownership, policy thought leadership, and behind the scenes influence. Most importantly, it ranks the 25 most influential American billionaires.
So from the Koch Brothers, to Bloomberg, to Tom Steyer, all the way to Marc Andreesen, Donald Trump and Alice Walton, here they are, whether readers agree with the ranking or not.
For more on West' perspectives and reasons for his rankings, below is a clip of the author with Bloomberg's Betty Liu:
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How much can I get for a hundred dollars?
bullshit list. Where is David Rockefeller?
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html
there - fixed it for you
Trillionaires get their own list.
And it's secret.
More proof you gotta be butt-ass fuckin ugly to be a billionaire.
Most of them were selected to become what they are, I expect, and the individuals we really want to discover, are the ones who pull their strings.
Oh, almost forgot:
Happy Fake Terrorism Day all!
Now enjoy your cake ! Government's gone Guido .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/us-threatened-massive-fine-to-force-yahoo-to-release-data/2014/09/11/38a7f69e-39e8-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html?hpid=z1
"Politically Influential" front men for the social enginnering of New Venice. Not one real organized crime family listed, the true masters of these merchant pirates who sell their souls to the devil. Only a dupe, pawn or troll make an antisemitic comment about this group of middle men.
Rothschild's family? (descends from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a court Jew to the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in Frankfurt)
Since 2003, a group of Rothschild banks have been controlled by Rothschild Continuation Holdings, a Swiss-registered holding company under the chairmanship of Baron David René de Rothschild.
No, the names I'm thinking of make the Rothschilds look like book clerks. Think of the Medici and old school wealth, papal nobility. Look up Villa Farnese, the prototype of the pentagon.
Rupert Murdoch has the most political power of everyone on that list.
He also has the most political power of any billionaire in Europe (even though he resides in NYC)
He also has the most political power of any billionaire is Australasia.
The Murdoch press is the kingmaker in the elections of 2 UN Security Council seats and all 5 of the 5 eyes spy suprastate.
Murdoch has huge power and politicians offer him all kinds of crazy shit to buy his implicit support. He is immune to M&A laws.
Some of those mugs belong in the post office...
Not one of them is worth a broke dick.
Which is why they were all shunned off of Broke Dick Mountain.
Love it! +1
Where's Oprah? I think there's some billionaire discrimination goin' on.
It's ranked by wealth, not weight.
Hey, I don't know about the rest of you, but personally I think Alice Walton is HOT. Especially if she gave me a few million to play around hot.
OK, I admit it , everyone's got there price!!
You can have all the money in the world. But the gold won't keep you from dying. It's best to remember that God has ownership over the whole ball of wax.
Elvis? Is that you? Really dude, I was just kidding, well kind of. Honestly I don't really know if I could get it up for a million. But a few dozen Viagras might help!
i want to see the list of their puppetmasters.
Obozo never saw a rich cock he didn't like.
Gold will keep you from dying; or suffering, in times when paper won't. (rebuttal). Considering Dog, the great puppet master in the sky is only for infantile minds.
God decides whether you do anything worthwhile in your life or whether you just accumulate gold and do nothing else.
God decides whether your gold is swapped for something substantial, or whether you swap it all for the last crust of bread at the tip 3 years into a four year drought.
God decides whether you do anything worth while with your gold or whether you will it to your good-for-nothing spoilt brat kids who blow it all in the first year after you die. Oh hang on, does God decide that last one? Or you?
But don't worry. You just keep stacking and planning. It's the least you can do.
;)
Can't have a thread without bringing God into it. Seriously, organized religion whatever the brand, is just another tool to divide people which is precisely what the PTB want. I respect your right as a human to believe what you want, but its worth pointing out what that does to a conversation once its introduced. Off topic.
True, the conversation does tend do go downhill once we drag religion into it.
Sometimes it helps to forget whatever you know about a religion and just read the texts and see what the books have to say for themselves. I haven't studied every religion so I can't speak for all of them, but the gap between what is written and what is preached can be quite significant.
BTW, it's not just religion. TPTB take advantage of ANY dominant beliefs of the time. Have a good think about that one.
These "folks" are just the goose girls and piss boys.
The phone hacking scandal in the UK proved that.
"No, the names I'm thinking of make the Rothschilds look like book clerks. "
"Medici"...think way above them and you're gettin' warm.....
Remember, "motivation" is not always about money...
...and exchange does not always have a "main st." understanding.....
where's Oprha Winfred?
Where's Jackson Stephens? oh, he's dead.
Who was Jackson Stephens?
http://www.constantinereport.com/who-is-jackson-stephens/
http://www.reddirtreport.com/red-dirt-grit/jackson-stephens-bcci-and-dru...
@Leonardo Fibonacci2
Get a fucking grip:
http://www.edmond-de-rothschild.ch/default-en.aspx
To ajax: why are you telling me to get a grip????????? Now go fuck your dead mother!
About 75 feet of water-soaked and prestretched hemp rope, about a dozen lampposts, and a few willing volunteers to administer a swift and final judgement should clear up this problem... Just say'in.
"75 feet of water-soaked and prestretched hemp rope"
Hemp???
Too good for these fuckers....
I say use aged, tanned "banker skin" rope....
They think they're so "tough"...they can finally "prove" it...
Leonardo, Ajax is one of those millenials who only use Wikipedia, the top 10 google listings and couldn't possibly believe that our "good, wealthy bankers" would lie to us....
It's not his fault...Mom didn't tell him....
Got it!!! Thanks for the info Majestic.
Hey man! Could you at least put an NSFW for that link.
Talk about the spawn of Satanus
Study says:
Brookings Institution Governance Studies Director Darrell West make up studies to prevent himself from having a real job, because there aren’t any real job anymore, so kissing ass is his job.
What a charade. Can we get any more mediocre than that?
hey, cool, pics to add to my hit list!
Yeah, Brookings would love us chasing moar squirrels. Money falls with absolutely zero force on the honest & incorruptible.
Maybe everyone should look in the mirror.
Flags are flying everywhere. Heck, it looks like a 4th of July celebration in some places. Those nightly network news presstitutes will be twerking HARD this evening to encourage the sheep to give up moar of their rights.
The only person on that list with any real power is Rupert Murdock, and even he was dragged before the courts not long ago, which is proof you're not on the inside.
"More proof you gotta be butt-ass fuckin ugly to be a billionaire."
Have you ever seen a "pretty Reptile"?
The "real" ugly is on the "inside"....dark, black, evil....
The only cure is "anti-matter".....
Its a by-product of centuries of inbreeding.
@fauxhammer: "Trillionaires get their own list. And it's secret."
And do you know why it's secret? Because -- unlike 'mere' Billionaires, who think in terms of controlling and owning companies or conglomerates -- Trillionaires think in terms of owning entire countries.
It's not that the Sheeple don't suspect or know that, it just cannot be official or documented information -- lest the Ploticians and their Plebeian Sheep get any 'funny 'ideas' of changing that reality. The other reason is that when your wealth exceeds an entire country (e.g. Rothschilds), you need your own country (e.g. UK --> Israel --> USSA).
And just like small-time Community Organizers, so too Trillionaires eventually get a clear idea of how the World ought to be, how it ought to run, and what they can do to bring it about. The difference is Vision, Scale and Ability.
p.s. to 18:05 posting... Some Ploiticians have this inflated sense of Ability (in how they can bring about Change for the Better), but learn fairly quickly that they lack Resources and Time to realize anything truly Grand. The best they can then hope for, is to hitch their Star to that of whatever Trillionaire who might smile upon them. E.g. Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama.
"Trillionaires think in terms of owning entire countries."
[Bones voice] Dammit, Jim, you're a Starfleet Captain of the Galactic fucking Federation...think bigger!!!!
Seriously...think bigger....
Black Military technology is 50 years ahead of the public...
...ask any grunt who was using MIMO HUDs in the 90's...just "one" example...which is not black....
Don't be scared...just, think bigger....
Let's get both lists & a guillotine.
Won't be hard to decide the order.
Trillionaires get to watch the billionaires go first.
I heard the author and financial journalist, David Cay Johnston (from whose books I've gathered valuable facts over the years) at a Town Hall talk awhile back, and was surprised to observe how he had evolved from the contact-your-congress-creature former stance to finally comprehending that the super-rich do not appear on that Forbes List of the (so-called) richest, (although several might erroneously and by design appear near the very bottom, like David Rockefeller).
David Rockefeller in 99 years old. The only strings he's pulling are on the waistband of his PJs.
Soros is like 160 years old and he's still puppeteering.
OK, maybe he just looks 160.
And Henry Kissinger is 200 years old and still making waves. Last night he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, flogging his latest book (#15): "WORLD ORDER"
He did make one interesting and seemingly rational and reasonable suggestion regarding Ukraine: That it become a bridge between Russia and Europe, not its battlefield that is wrecked and torn asunder.
it's curious that almost everyone on that list is some 3x as old as Wait What. what happens to that influence as soon as (and it will be soon!) all those old foggies kick the bucket? someone should be pulling some Inception operations on the heirs.
When a drug kingping goes down, a turf war ensues
One must assume you are another on his payroll, as the only people I've heard say that (and continuously) in public are Simon Johnson, who has a highly paid position as a senior fellow at (Peterson's and Rockefeller's) Peterson Institute, along with his academic postion at MIT, and another stooge at Counterpunch.org recently (who receives monies from the Rockefeller Foundation and several other Rockefeller foundations).
doug Shorenstein?
When O comes to SF he often stays at Doug's house. When Hillary did a fundraiser, it was at Doug Sisters theater.
When he was appointed to the Federal Reserve of SF, , the press release from the Fed said that he was appointed to represent the real estate industry.
His father was Walter Shorenstein. Walter used to say that " ( in heavy drolling Brooklyn accent) " When I came to San Francisco after the war,, I had twenty dollahhhs in my pocket.
At Walters Funeral , Nancy Pelosi gleefully related a story about the man who raised Walter, the boss of the democratic Machine in Queens. She said that back in day, in New York, Shorenstein was a verb.
So walter came to San Francisco with twenty dollahs and his uncle in his pocket.
That explains the early deals with major insurance companies . and later with the big banks.
Walter was at the nexus of politics and big bank, insurance and real estate money.
The network effect and inflation did the rest.
and now his son sits on the board of the Ministry of Inflation, the Fed, while he sits on billions of mortaged real estate and knows when to sell and when to buy.
BTW, These guys , both Walter and Doug are very decent guys, just working the system like everybody else. They are trying to be decent people , and they do well by doing good.
It's just that the road to hell is paved, lit , and signed with good intentions.
Rockefellers and the dozens of powerful foundations funded by them,,,yup.
PTI,
That's a list of gofers......
1918 Rich List: Before they became "philanthropists."
http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/27/0927richest.htmlIf Zuckerbag is on that list, then where are the JOOgle founders?? Wow so many big noses on that list.
Also, Marc Andreeson looks like Darth Vader without his mask...wow, that guy just becoming a conehead.
f you . . . even when there is a list that clearly shows us horrible kikes don't actually control everything you still spew your vile anti-semitism. If we do control everything, I'd hope the first one we go after and silence is you dipshit.
You're right Darth, he should have said Zioogle to be PC.
But as the horrible kikes on the list aren't actually semites, how can his distate for them be anti-semitism?
Did you even read that list? It looks like the invite list to a Jewish wedding for fuck sake.
David Koch is Catholic, yet the Mormon Reid calls him/them the son of satan himself.
Sayin ;-)
Mormonism derived from Christianity,
Mormonism greatly influenced by Freemasonry,
Freemasonry and Catholicism are enemies,
Freemasonry greatly influenced by Judaism,
Jesus said Satan was the father of the Jews.
I'm afraid I'm gonna need just a little more than your word on lines 2 through 5 ;-)
It would take too long to explain.
Do your own research.
Try Google or Wikipedia.
Thanks but I prefer books that can't be edited by irate critics & anoms (wiki) once written and sources that are not so impeachable (goggle, yes I always say goggle, instead of google) as to leave me at the dead end of another rabbit hole.
I do however have a small growing library that will at some point be a threat to the state ;-)
Lmfao. So do I.
If your collection contains anything written by Orwell, Huxley, Rand, Rothbard, Hayek, or Paul, you're already a threat to the state. And, if so, I salute you.
In fairness, Wiki has its Checks & Balances (with its Review Board), to safeguard it from Idiots, Nuts and Crooks.
It may not be perfect, but it's better than what was before.
I have my own library also,
and also use Public libraries,
but there is much more available on the internet,
and Wikipedia usually references books,
more than I can obtain in physical books for my own library,
and the internet is faster for starting a branch of research.
Try this guide to the Mormon 'religion' ....
http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-02/news/mormons-a-shallow-yet-helpfu...
No joos dont control shit really ...but make stunningly good fall guys vis a vis the chosen people complex. The jews are a were/are talented merchant people but dispossesed of their own nation by a European power, rejected by the native peoples of Europe for the aliens that they are ,before and after the diaspora, and pillaged again later by another European power...round 3 coming up.
I want to apologize on behalf of the Gentiles who don't see the world in jew and non jew. Unfortunately this is an anti Semite asylum, posters with a sub 100 IQ need very simple explanations of things. Half of these clowns think the system is rigged to give blacks more privileges than they have. So hey at least you aren't black having to listen to this shit. That would be worse.
To the news control the world bunch, and they are influential no doubt. You think if all the news disappeared there would be peace love and happiness?
Fuck no. Some other small group of psychopaths would team up and play the same fucking game. Nature of power. You would all just start bitching about those evil Tanzanians. Or whatever.
So shut the fuck up already.
“Darrell West's U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index is a ranking of the top U.S. billionaires in terms of overall political power.
“In his forthcoming Brookings Institution Press book, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, Darrell West examines the political use of great wealth, including campaign expenditures, activism through nonprofit organizations and foundations, holding public office, media ownership, policy thought leadership, and behind the scenes influence.”
In short, if you like Brookings, you’re sure to like this list.
At least we know who all the liberal crybabies are all scared of this year. If Brookings serves no other purpose than that, it's about all we can expect.
Brookings: As intelligent as Paul Krugman, as impartial as MSNBC.
True -- fear is why the kochtopus makes the top of the list. If they were as successful as Bloomberg and Murdoch in influencing the public, their views would be held as the mainstream default instead of the media barons.
I think Andreeson ate Balmer.
If Trump's on the list, you know it's bullshit.
The first ones are a double Cock...I mean Koch
Fun fact: The Duke Brothers (Mortimer and Randolph), who make a $1 bet to ruin the life of loyal, long term employee Louis Winthorpe III (played by Dan Aykroyd) and replace him with homeless bum Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) in the 1983 comedy "Trading Places", are based on the Koch Brothers. Jewish Director Aaron Russo knew them personally.
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!!!!
All lying, hypocritical fucks who get their marching orders from the NWO.
But I thought we lived in a country where "all men are created equal", where I have as much clout as someone much richer than me. I just know that if I called the WH and asked for 30 minutes with the president I'd be afforded the time, right? Money doesn't buy influence because that's not what our system is all about.
/sarc
Bartender, another scotch please.
A tiny speck of Gold the size of a God particle.
On a long enough timeline...it doesn't matter who has stashed away all the billions. If Hawking is to be believed, someday the Universe may do the disappearing act.
http://www.techly.com.au/2014/09/09/stephen-hawking-warns-of-the-god-particle-destroying-all/
Which brings a good point up that even the well-healed rich educated-politically connected cocksuckers do not know what is in store for them on the carnal plane, let alone the spiritual plane.
Evil tends to eat itself.
Yes, but many don't appear on any list folks. There is a reason why they don't want you to know who they are.
David Rockefeller comes to mind..
These are the PR, CNBC fall guys for the individuals who attend Davos and Bilderberg that you've never heard of and likely never will.
or Kennedy.. or Bush or Clinton ...
The next tier down are just traitors.
My thoughts exactly. The real power brokers won't appear on any of these lists. They're happy pulling strings in obscurity.
They're the ones who stick their hands up these Douche Bag Asses & use them as Sock Puppets.
The trillionaires/billionaires next door.
They don't need ,or want the ego trip of being on that list.
They learnt long ago to stay in the shadows and never boast about their wealth. If the planet was aware of what one family actually controlled and how they have fucked over everyone in one way or another we might actually turn our attention away from quarrelling and fighting amongst each other and getting rid of this stain upon humanity.
Would explain why Oprah isn't on the list
Money fetish, power fetish. Two different lists. The money loves being tied up, the power loves to beat up.
Front men for the Real control.
Red Ice Radio - Catherine Austin Fitts - Hour 1 - Secret Space Program & The Black Budget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKZ0HKbijQ (54:46)
I'm a big fan of Catherine. She survived two poisoning attempts AND lost her mom to 'them'. The one thing I wonder about is if this secret space program thing is genuine then NASA doesn't even know about it.
http://www.aulis.com/moonbase.htm
"Nothing more disappointing than a trip to the space station." You're there in five minutes.
It's only three days to the moon...and that article makes it sound like going to the moon is really a let down. Thing is "Earth's moon is huge." Lot of really interesting exploration that can be done "just a few days away."
My guess is there are already lunar bases "on the dark side" but who knows.
duplicate
Linkin Park - In The End (Official Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU (3:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWi6gtujDI
which makes one wonder just who the fk linkin pork is related to, because their singer cannot open his mouth without an autotune and perchance he does, sounds like a dying cat
Its nice that the first one is that elderly gay couple.
On a long enough timeline
the political influence for
everyone drops to zero.
God and the worms don't give a shit about how much money you have.
The TPTB think in GENERATIONS and centuries.
You represent the "thinking" of sheeple: now = everything.
Gods think in terms of Generations and Centuries also - because they can.
So do TPTB, who see themselves as 'gods' on a collective basis: Having the power of life & death, fortune & poverty, fame & infamy over sheeple. That's why they see themselves as "Doing God's work".
Meh. You can have money..."you can also have a budget." If you're talking the War on Terror that number is huge. With zero economic recovery the value of a billionaire "is but a string." Having a three hundred billion dollar budget...yearly...on the other hand...
Jesus said, Do not fear him who can destroy the living body,
but instead fear God who can destroy the living soul.
Because the soul lives after the death of the body.
Let's hope so. But we have no proof of that and only ancient anecdotal evidence, that's not robustly recorded by today's standards.
In an updated version, I'd describe Heaven as your Virtual Residual on a computer network - a Matrix in the Sky, or on a Holodeck.
Destroying the 'Soul' then is deleting the virtual person and sending it into electronic Oblivion.
Good luck in explaining this to a bunch of illiterate or semi-literate goat/sheep herders of questionable hygiene, thousands of years ago.
Too bad everything the tibetans did is only considered "anecdotal evidence"...
electronic oblivion = the great street sweep at the end of the universe
enlightenment = getting past the physiospiritual coefficient of friction
you have until then to complete the task...
Oligarchy. The USA is an oligarchy.
- get your flu shot this year 'cause you're gonna need it.
Where's David Rockefeller? This list while accurately listing the prominent billionaires is exactly what you'd expect from the globalists at Brookings. Why Warren Fucking Buffett, Georgie Boy and the Bill 'planned parenthood' Gates aren't tied for 1st is beyond me.
+1 for the comment, another +1 for the Point Break reference in your handle. A classic movie directed by a hottie boombalottie. And I've always loved Gary Busey, who must be one of the most underrated actors of all time. I've never once seen him drop a scene, ever.
Mark Zuckerberg has one of the most punchable faces I've ever seen - smug, stupid, and utterly devoid of grit. It's also telling that he is so shrimpy that he makes our Mulatto Farquaad President, Barack Obama, look huge by comparison.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=obama+and+zuckerberg&qpvt=obama+and+zuckerberg&FORM=IGRE
He's such a fuck mook. I can't fucking stand that piece of garbage.
He is also extremely autistic, like Bill Gates is as well.
I suspect he has no real power or wealth - a puppet placed in their -like Obama. All of his wealth will go to foundations at his masters direction -just like gates, Michael dell, Buffett -and others. They're front men. They don't really own anything.
Well, they did own a few things, then they were convinced it was in their best interest to "Play Ball!"
Buffet's silver, Gates' DC monopoly follies. Good times.
These individuals are mid-tier.
Rogues Gallery.
"Behind every great fortune there is a great crime." - Balzac
Perhaps, but not all of 'em. I'd exclude shooting arrows at John Arnold.
"Behind every great criminal is a great criminal culture" -Kirk
And behind every great criminal culture is a fake deity, to justify the criminal culture.
Fake deity du jour?
The state.
Thanks for that, now I need to clean all the spit off my screen!
The list of TRILLIONAIRES still remains secret.
British and Dutch Royal families, Rothschilds et al, Rockefellers et al
Feel free to add to the list..
Red Shields? What are they worth?
Financially speaking not ethically speaking?
Last check about about 300 Trill. Give or take a few Trill.
Most of it being War profits.
Where's Oprah?
Lloyd Pye - Everything You Know Is Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe6DN1OoxjE (1:58:34)
Owners don't show up on these lists. I don't see the name Warburg or Loeb on that list for starters.
You are going to tell me a name Rockefeller or Dupont is absent also?
Also am I the only one who finds it fitting that Geithner who as former head of the Federal Reserve of New York and Treasury Secretary (we all know his banker friendly record there) wound up in employment of a Warburg once he jumped into the revolving door.
You going to tell me that that is accidental and the Warburgs one of the main founders behind the Federal Reserve aren't still influental in a world where petrodollar is king the Federal Reserve is one of the key players.
Nope. It's all ZuckerBux and BezoPosts and WindowGates and BerkaBuffets.
For the vast majority of us, what you see is what you think is reality.
All about the money? Great Movie Scene.
BULWORTH - WARREN BEATTYWould the country be better off if
The EBT/FSA was calling the shots?
Or maybe
Leave it up the the academics like Yellen, Bernanke, Krugman and Summers.
Or the religious fanatics, or the middle class or how about the fucking Rainbow Coalition.
Go ahead and slam me with down arrows - but please have the fucking balls to tell me who you think should be "in charge".
Globalist economic royalists have no sovereign loyalty. The minimum I ask of our leadership is that.
So would that be the military? :-(
My point is not that I want billionaires controlling things either - but who?
As far as military goes, the interest of the sovereign should be protection of its citizens. Military engagement abroad, to advance the interests of globalists, does not meet that standard.
We need to end the duopoly's grip on our election process. The candidates it produces are bought and paid for by the corporate interests above. We need a new Bull Moose party to take on the oligarchs.
I should be the One controlling, at least, New Jerusalem, New Israel,
also known as the United States.
When my secret identity is revealed.
The Government already knows my identity, watching me for more than fifteen years, reading all my email, reading all my blog posts.
I suppose Nobody wishes to take a wrong chance with Destiny.
Prophecy is unclear in the details, Judgement Day for who?
New Jerusalem, New Israel, Not the same as Old Jerusalem, Old Israel.
My credentials? Study Biblical prophecy. Opening the sealing wax seals of the books of the secrets of prophecy.
World Trade Center Twin Towers destruction on 9-11 prophesied,
in Old Testament Book of Amos chapter 9,
in New Testament Book of Revelation chapter 11.
There is much more explanation of prophecy I could reveal,
I have tried to tell the World, but very few believe.
Waiting for Destiny to be completely fufilled.
Did I mention that I am a "Truther" and a "Birther"?
I think you should get back on your medication.
Just think of it being a Black Swan event.
>Lost Word...
Isn't it fun being a TI ( targeted individual ) ?
:-)
No sovereign loyalty from your central gov't as well.
Because they are owned by globalist corporate benefactors.
me