I was asked to write an Op-Ed for the Financial Times as an assignment for my International Relations class. For over an hour I sat uninspired to write anything that fit into their paradigm. Instead I wrote this: I got an A. Then I laughed.

“Here is an Op-Ed You Will Never See in the Financial Times”

The G7 met in Washington DC over the weekend. The world’s most powerful men, who control the direction of the world’s largest sums of currency, met to discuss the problems with the world’s economies. It is clear to me that these fellas have been in power for too long and every day that passes without massive social movements across the world is another day closer to a global police state.

This weekend’s meeting marks a first time that the G7’s finance and treasury leaders have invited leaders from private banks and institutions to to the conference.

Wow, big surprise! Powerful private bankers are involved in public official’s decision making? Good job FT, wouldn’t know what to do without you. While the Financial Times was busy regurgitating the useless information given to its repeaters (reporters) by public relations, financial and government propagandists the information worth knowing goes one more day marginalized and buried.

Why doesn’t the FT report the biggest financial success recipe the world has to offer, all the big wigs are cashing in on it. ..
1. Own a bank,
2. Loan people money that you do not actually possess
3. Earn interest on money you never actually owned
4. Become filthy rich
5. Enslave the majority of humanity in debt. (cars, school loans and homes, if you ever finish paying them off, you are too old and entrenched in the system to ever threaten it)
6. Finance wars and other forms of murder and mayhem
7. Buy politicians and the media to keep up the illusion that everyone lives in an open, free, and democratic society.
8. Fund schools, writers and artists who advance your agenda and indoctrinate more
people into the cults of consumerism, racism, militarism and the idea that human
beings MUST live in a world devoid of equity, sustainability, and justice.
9. Keep people scared so they think they need big brother
10. LIE to people constantly so they never know what to believe, make the truth obscene and dangerous

There you have it, ten easy steps to controlling the world. Well, that is the news. The truth is that it is not new at all, but it certainly is unfamiliar to most.

I have an outstanding idea, let’s stop this insanity. It is THEIR insanity imposed on us; we can stop it at any time. The wars they want can not be without ordinary people to fight them, the debts they want can not be without our ignorance of their criminality, and the fear they want can not be without a people willing to stay afraid.

1. Soldiers come home, “poor men fight and die for what rich men only believe.”
2. Teachers start teaching about the 10 steps above.
3. Get 1,000,000 people together and walk into the white house, the pentagon, the CIA, the banks, the defense contractors, and congress, and drag all the criminals outside and put them in prison. Just walk in with a million people.
4. Start working to fix our communities, our schools, our prisons, our drug problems, our transportation systems, our energy systems our health care, our food, our minds, our bodies and our spirits.
5. Make the world a dream instead of a nightmare. Feed everyone; give everyone health care, electricity, clothes, homes, and a clean planet. Let the people be free to do what they want with 80% of their time, let technology do the dirty and boring work and smile about the little things.