Just ONE Simple Question

Herjihad said:   "Remember the world conspiracy theory of a secret
organization of rich dudes who pull the strings?"
- funny you should mention this, sister, I've been discovering these rich
dudes and their 'secret' (it's not) society The Bilderberg Group in a book
written by someone who's been studying them for 15 years.

There's a problem these days with the term 'conspiracy theory', it has
been demonised to such an extent that the use of it successfully repels
intelligent consideration of any theory or idea attached to it. Hence the
9/11 'Truth movement' has been bunched with the JFK murder theories
and the Illuminati and UFO followers are now all grouped under one
heading, and given an image of a collective protecting itself from the
ordinary by wearing tin foil hats.

The theory of the rich dudes controlling government is not a theory nor a
conspiracy, you can observe it with the naked eye. Today, practically
every country's foreign policies are dictated by the requirements of Big
Industry (most notably the Military-Industrial complex, but also hand in
hand with Big Pharma and Big Banking). Just yesterday a report on the
news commented on how succesfull the new French President Sarkozy's
trips abroad are, for french business. He came back from China, for
example, with huge contracts for (partly French built) Airbus planes,
amongst other things. We are led to believe these negotiations benefit the
people of France (likewise, if we were talking about the foreign visits of
practically any other world leader) but in practice we know it only benefits
the share holders and board of directors etc. After all, the riots in the
French suburbs may not have happened had the benefits of all those
millions of Euro contracts affected their lives for the better.

An awful lot of these rich dudes are from so-called American aristocracy
like the Rockerfellers and Rothschilds, and the main share holders of
banking and finance institutions, which in the past (and present) have
been largely responsible for funding the think tanks and organisations
formed to forward their corporate and family interests.It takes some
tenacity to sift through the badly designed webs dedicated to this
organisation, and to winnow out the 'loony' attachments such as occult
worship, UFO connections and such like. And this all helps maintain a
shroud of mystery over their plans.

You might like to check here
Bilderberg Book

I have actually had people call me a liar when I told them the United States sends more foreign aid to Israel than any other country.  I told them to simply look it up on the official website of the US government, but of course they refused. It was easier to just assume I was wrong and stay ignorant.

No. They know you are right, but our self-defense mechanism wants us to forget the sorest wound, specially, when we are so convinced of being able to do nothing about such things.

The saddest thing about the US is that most people genuinely believe that they are helpless about such matter unless you are a millionaire. Perhaps they are right, we have never seen many public figures who aren't.