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The Global Capitalist system, which since 2008 has been visibly collapsing under the strain of the finance debt bubble, now requires the creation of massive new markets for investment and speculation, in order to survive.
Operation Gladio, in reality, it was a bunch of fascists and literal “ex”-Nazis and others who staged false flag terror attacks to blame on left-wing governments, assisted in and/or organized and/or helped in various ways with political assassinations and other assorted nastiness.
The Battleground Thanksgiving articles purport to wish us calm and happy feasts, but their cumulative practical effect is to make people want to hole up in their bedrooms planning their purchases at the next day’s sales.
We can educate and coordinate ourselves, we can refuse the system ourselves. What’s more, demands, like leaders, can be managed. The greatest threat to the system is un-needy silent action.
It is not hard to realize that all presidents since John Kennedy have been fully aware that a bullet to the head in broad daylight could be their fate if they bucked their bosses. They knew this when they sought the office because they were run by the same bosses before election.
Sam Bankman-Fried was able to pull this scam off because of his philanthropy. There’s a history of influential scammers doing this—Bernie Madoff made lots of philanthropic gestures, for example. People engaged in all sorts of scumbaggery do this.