Revealed: The Capitalist Newtork That Rules The World

[elder999]

Seen here :

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

Told ya....

 

[Makalakumu]

Science confirms?

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[elder999]

Science confirms?

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From further into the article:

the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs).

Bwahaha....haha and all that....:lfao:

 

[Sukerkin]

Aye the concentration of real economic power is something that has been going that way for quite some time. Even as a newly minted economics graduate I knew enough to say that how the stock market went on any given day depended on how half a dozen people felt when they got up in the morning.

Note: The "half a dozen" figure is not a precise estimate .

 

[Makalakumu]

This some how doesn't strike me as capitalist.

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[Jenna]

This does not scare me. Not from here in my self-sufficient, stockpiled, financial-apocalypse-surviving, bunkered, fortified, armed hilltop retreat.

 

[Xue Sheng]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

As long as you all believe that..... you will never find out that it is really Xuefu :EG: %-}

 

[elder999]

This does not scare me. Not from here in my self-sufficient, stockpiled, financial-apocalypse-surviving, bunkered, fortified, armed hilltop retreat.

Indeed.Bwahaha....haha#..and all that.:lfao:

 

[JohnEdward]

Seen here :

Did someone say Bank of America?

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Did anyone actually read the article Elder quoted? No, you didn't. Or you would not be playing Trilateral Commission, Counsel on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg conspiracy freakout games now.

One thing won't chime with some of the protesters' claims: the super-entity is unlikely to be the intentional result of a conspiracy to rule the world. "Such structures are common in nature," says Sugihara.

Seriously.

Or as Braha puts it: "The Occupy Wall Street claim that 1 per cent of people have most of the wealth reflects a logical phase of the self-organising economy."

So, the super-entity may not result from conspiracy. The real question, says the Zurich team, is whether it can exert concerted political power. Driffill feels 147 is too many to sustain collusion. Braha suspects they will compete in the market but act together on common interests. Resisting changes to the network structure may be one such common interest.

So, the big news? There is no news. That's the big news. Whoo-hoo.

 

[Jenna]

Did anyone actually read the article Elder quoted? No, you didn't. Or you would not be playing Trilateral Commission, Counsel on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg conspiracy freakout games now.

Tut tut! How could you forget the Skull & Bones or the Bohemian Grovers!!!

 

[Cyriacus]

Great. The Illuminati is really just the Dudes who control the Economy.

 

[granfire]

Great. The Illuminati is really just the Dudes who control the Economy.

Yes, they control everything - they and the Freemasons...

 

[Cyriacus]

Yes, they control everything - they and the Freemasons...

What, Freemasons?
nonononononono, Freemasons are just dudes who hang out in fancy clothes.
Its all the Illuminati.

 

[granfire]

What, Freemasons?
nonononononono, Freemasons are just dudes who hang out in fancy clothes.
Its all the Illuminati.

I see they are succeeding in keeping their involvement secret! :bangahead:

 

[CanuckMA]

What, Freemasons?
nonononononono, Freemasons are just dudes who hang out in fancy clothes.
Its all the Illuminati.

My peeps control everything.

I\And I know who you guys are.

 

[granfire]

Nu-uh

 

[Sukerkin]

Did anyone actually read the article Elder quoted?

:raises hand: I did . Not exactly news to me but the methodology of actually mapping the inter-relations is something I've not come across before.

The only 'conspiracy' type bit is the fact that a lot of the top dogs in the 'controlling interest' companies tend to be part of the same group of people i.e. they make the calls for more than one corporation or cartel. That's why they have an inordinate affect on global economic activity by sheer dint of 1% of the 'players' hold 40% of the 'cards'.

Whether there really is a conscious global commercial oligarchy is another matter entirely {hides odd hat, compasses and severed noose behind back}.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Whether there really is a conscious global commercial oligarchy is another matter entirely {hides odd hat, compasses and severed noose behind back}.

Yes, it is. And this article doesn't offer any hints in that direction. The problem, of course, is that the lack of a 'and therefore' clause doesn't stop conspiracy theorists from inserting whichever one is their favorite. And may I please note that it is an "X control everything, so we really ought to do away with them and our problems will be solved," argument that has led to rather bad things happening. Insert your own value for X.

 

[granfire]

Nothing stops conspiracy nuts.