Outlooks of the String Pullers

Part IV

Qualifications For The Barge

April 27, 2000

The notion of "The Barge" I've borrowed if not stolen from Eve Babitz, a popular writer of fiction and a chronicler of society and events centering in LA. Many years ago, my late wife was reading one of her books and asked me if I knew about "The Barge." I laughed and said, "of course, it's the phrase Eve Babitz uses to describe the elite." "Well," she said, "I think Eve has nailed it." The kinds of conversations my late wife and I had back in those years, now fading farther into the past, since she passed on in 1994, concerned the machinations of those whose very power was so great that their persons were barely known and their actions mostly went unnoticed by most of us.

We had come into very indirect contact with some of it and had tried to fathom a pattern. As time went by our curiosity led us to meet and interview many people with much closer access to The Barge, whose experiences and insights have contributed to this geopolitical paradigm.

Were this an "academic" exercise, I would be forced to name names, quote sources, etc. as if any of this is ever investigated in "real" academic circles, or as if it matters in convincing anyone of anything of real truth. These very academic circles are themselves manipulated, what they can and cannot pursue in any field of research is influenced by outside interests and their finances are controlled by surrogates of The Barge anyway. There can be no honest search for truth when everything becomes a matter of politics. The ideas of that young woman from China who many years ago had ventured to tell me that nothing could be true unless one had the force to back it up is becoming more and more true all the time. The most successful conspiracies are those that have already happened.

Even if you're pretty successful or very rich, you probably are not on The Barge. Just what qualifies one to be a member of this small but select group of individuals who in one way or another have been the power behind the scenes in human affairs for at least the last 200 years?

At this point in time, the following are minimum requirements for Barge membership;

| You must be a male probably at least forty-five years of age. If you're any younger than that, then your father is also on The Barge. Women are mere objects on The Barge, Eve Babitz had that one dead on. Women are never expected to do anything but look stunning and be willing to escort any of the men and do whatever they require. When a woman turns twenty-eight or so, her social days on The Barge are numbered. She's expected to go into seclusion and raise the children of her overlord. The Barge is the most sexist organization on earth.

| You must personally be worth and control at least $100 million and usually many times that much.

| You usually spend a lot of time in the air. When you're not aboard a private jet, you're at one of your string of secluded villas scattered around the world. You never spend more than a quarter of the year in one place.

| Your profile is that of a PT or Perpetual Traveler; you may carry half a dozen passports, your legal residence, where you do business and where your businesses are legally registered are all in different countries.

| You speak several languages fluently.

| Your outlook is beyond any locality, people or culture. You are a "citizen of the world", a cosmopolitan.

| You went to a big name university and maybe even earned an advanced degree, but that is far less important to you than the contacts you made there with other eventual Barge members. You pride yourself on being Informed.

| You sit on the boards of many international corporations.

| You are a major contributor to a few philanthropic organizations.

| You belong to a few secret societies. These are where you make your deep contacts and contract business that needs doing. These are all linked into a network of intelligence organizations around the globe; the "string pullers."

Aside from their rather negative view of religion; Christianity, which they usually assume is a dead issue, The Barge are very concerned that various renegade or radical elements don't get out of hand. These elements are often helpful to The Barge, but after they've served their function, they and their activities must often be eliminated. The usual means to do this is to prop up a rival gang that will go after the first gang. The Brage has resorted to this "divide and conquer" strategy many times since the age of Napoleon. Occasionally their plans have gotten out of hand; Hitler.

Besides deciding historical trends if not actual events, members of The Barge group are principally involved with high technology. They rightly suspect that it is and will be the basis of their continuance in power over the long run and are keenly involved in anything that will EXTEND THEIR LIFESPANS and even enable them to bring down their enemies one at a time or by the millions; genetic and biological weaponry.

Meanwhile, in order to keep the rest of us in "bread and circuses," The Barge promotes greater interest in the pacific or mystical religions; note all the increased interest in the popular culture on past lives, life after death, near death experiences, angels, demons, witchcraft, magic, vampires, horror, etc. There is a connection, a reason behind it all. In part, The Barge doesn't believe in any of it since theirs is usually a purely materialistic outlook, which is why they promote a logical positivist scientific outlook that supports the unproved contentions of Hobbes, Malthus (both ironically named Thomas) and Charles Darwin. But in reality they also very much believe in it, especially ceremonial magic, both white and black, and a few are quite adept at it. A form of materialistic Shamanism is their religion.

From a superb position above and beyond local affairs, The Barge also promotes cultural dilution in the advanced countries, especially the watering down of nationalities and customs, which impede the flow of trade, and which furthers the erosion of the solidarity of the middle classes, the only real political challenge that has ever faced them. In the United States this is being carried out against the traditional White Anglo-Saxon Protestant preference and center in order to "divide and conquer" or to keep the middle class in a state of continual anxiety against those who are in fact their natural allies against The Barge.

"Political Correctness" is at present one of the chief weapons of the agents of The Barge used as a means of making the world safe for Them. If they can continue to convince the vast majority of Black Americans that they are victims of the traditional White middle class, they can and will be used to keep that traditional middle class from ever opposing their real enemies operating from way above their heads.

Of course other factors include the deliberate or provoked staging of psychotic acts of random violence in order to support the call for "turning in the guns," furthering their goal of turning the advanced countries into "banana republics" with the members of their elite class as "the new aristocracy" and even if their biology can be aided by advances in genetic technology, "the new gods."

At present there would seem to me no real way of reversing the trends toward greater repression for most, since even amidst a greater flow of information, fewer people know anything and more people are opting out of trying to stay informed. The truth is that in "the People's Republics" all people are slaves.

"be seeing you..."

The Polar Bear

References: There are so many, why not begin here.