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The World in a weird place or ( The Truman Show)

The world is in a very weird place.  After having read some research ( http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1023-financial-tyranny ) about how we have all been hoodwinked by the US Fed to the tune of $26trn ( yes  -  that is trillion not billion ) I am beginning to wonder whether we aren’t all on the set of some giant Truman Show (without the great weather and white picket fences !)  So according to this research,  which I would have dismissed as some kind of latter day Zeitgeist conspiracy theory if I had not clicked through some of the links and seen an article written by a US Senator ( not that that should somehow give it legitimacy given the intimate role of members of the US Govt in this tragedy),  economic power globally rests in the hands of a very tightly knit group of corporations and institutions – mainly banks.   Hence the bailouts.    Believe me TARP was a tip of the ice-berg.  That was like Sunday School colle...