“They” Live, We Sleep

“There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge.” - Queen Elizabeth II to Paul Burrell in november 1997, at Buckingham Palace.

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes (...) Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.” - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), founder of the British Conservative Party and first British Prime Minister of the UK in his novel ‘Coningsby’ (1844)

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” - Woodrow Wilson, US President from 1913 to 1921, in his book “The New Freedom” (1913)

“A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.” - Representative Louis T. McFadden, later the chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, in 1913, after the Federal Reserve Act was passed.

“Only 300 men, each of whom knows all others govern the fate of Europe. They select their successors from their own entourage. These men have the means in their hands of putting an end to the form of State which they find unreasonable.” - Attributed to famous German politician Walther Rathenau, ‘Wiener Presse’ of December 24, 1921.

“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan in 1922

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” - Franklin D Roosevelt, the only US President to serve 3 terms (1933-1945), in a letter dated November 21, to his advisor Colonel House.

“Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure.” - Joseph Kennedy, the father of president John F. Kennedy, in ‘The New York Times’ of July 26, 1936.

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”- Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice, 1952.

“The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which (....) pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.”- MajorGeneral J.F.C. Fuller, British military historian, l941

“Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women) (...) It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order (...) A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.” - Arthur S. Miller, the George Washington University law professor who studied the rulers behind the scenes for decades.

“There exists in our world today a powerful and dangerous secret cult. This cult is patronized and protected by the highest level government officials in the world. Its membership is composed of those in the power centers of government, industry, commerce, finance, and labor. It manipulates individuals in areas of important public influence - including the academic world and the mass media. The Secret Cult is a global fraternity of a political aristocracy whose purpose is to further the political policies of persons or agencies unknown. It acts covertly and illegally.” - Victor Marchetti, who worked for the CIA from 1955 untill 1969, in his book “The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence” (1974).

“[The Kennedy] assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one overridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.” - L. Fletcher Prouty in his book “ JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy”

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control (....) Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” - Congressman Larry P. McDonald in 1976. McDonald was killed after the Korean Airlines 747 that he was on was shot down by the Soviets.

“An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public pressure” - Scholar Edward Said (1935-2003), who amongst others taught at Harvard and Yale, in March 2003 in Al-Ahram.

“In 1983/4 I warned of a take-over of world governments being orchestrated by these people. There was an obvious plan to subvert true democracies, and selected leaders were not being chosen based upon character but upon their loyalty to an economic system run by the elites and dedicated to preserving their power. All we have now are pseudo-democracies.” - Dr. Johannes Koeppl, former German Minister of Defence official and former NATO official, in 2003.

“It was a criminal society that I was dealing with.” - Dr. Johannes Koeppl in 2003.

"... closed orders and secret societies, whether they be religious or governmental, are the groups that have the hardest time reforming themselves in the face of failure without outside input." - Chief Weapons Inspector David Kay mentioning secret societies while testifying on the weaponsinspections in Iraq to the US Congress on February 9, 2004.

“...the amazing thing is we are being taken over, basically, by a cult....” - Seymour Hersh talking about the Neocons in American politics during a speech at the Stephen Wise Free Synagoge, December 2004.

“In President Bush’s first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.(...) I believe that the decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less. More often than not, then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice was simply steamrolled by this cabal.” - Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, adressing the Neocon cabal in the LA Times. The word “cabal” refers to a group of plotters and is derived from the word “kaballah”.

“You have a collapsed Congress, you have a collapsed press. The military is going to do what the President wants. How fragile is democracy in America, if a president can come in with an agenda controlled by a few cultists?” - Seymour Hersh during a speech in October 2006.

“Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right.” - Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), member of the US House Homeland Security Committe, after being denied acces to classified documents about the way government is preparing to handle a terrorist attack.