It is not uncommon for us to think of a solution as which problem person or people we would eliminate. "If we just get rid of X, Y, and Z our problems would be solved." Another example is "A bomb leveled Washington D.C. and did the world a favor."

These are us doing our typical EASY solution push. We always are seeking the big red easy button. Yet it rarely exists, and for those that tend to only use easy buttons they tend to cause problems, often more than they think they are solving.

I wrote an article a few minutes ago that was basically about illusions. This article here is a spin off of that one and was inspired by some thoughts due to the dialogs I was having with steemit community members in the comment section.

We like the saying "cut the head off of the snake." We often view that as a solution. The fact of the matter is there are somewhere between 100 - 1000 people in the world that might be considered the "HEAD OF THE SNAKE" when it comes to corruption and who is actually manipulating the world stage. That is way less than 1% of the population. So people being angry about the 1% are including a lot of innocent people in their anger. Being wealthy does not make that person suddenly become an oppressor and someone who is set on keeping people down. There are wealthy people that do have such interests, but they also attack other wealthy people for the issue with them is control. As such this entire 1% and Rich vs Poor dance plays just as nicely into their plans and agendas as any of the racism, and religious intolerance type movements.

So let's say you have spent some time looking for the people that seem to be influencing nations all over the world regardless of who the rulers are and you start building up a list. Do you actually think eliminating them will suddenly solve the problems of the world?

The easy answer to this is YES if you see everything as a big red button.

The more difficult realization is that they are the head of a hydra, not a snake. There are plenty that are not calling the shots but who have been there with them through a lot of it and they are more than happy to fill the voids left by the fallen heads. As with the mythic hydra a new head will grow.

The cutting the head off of the snake analogy is actually not a solution to our current GLOBAL problems.

Knowing where the heads of the hydra is, is a valuable thing.

It is important to know how they became a hydra in the first place. How did they gain power, and how do they continue to grow power. For let's get something clear. Money is only one of their tools. They also have influence, intimidation, and potentially blackmail material. They have property and other things as well. They transcend the concept of money even though that IS one of the tools which they seem to have more than they need.

There are some pivotal moments in history where things were done that gave them massive power. They laid the foundation for their global empire. I call it an empire as it mostly is exactly that. They are even starting to occasionally walk around in public and flaunt their power and make it known how UNTOUCHABLE they are by laws and accountability. They do not necessarily call any one nation home, in fact they are so powerful at this point that I wouldn't ever expect any "national pride" from them. They could be content to live anywhere, as they have property all across the world. So if you do see someone espousing "national pride" of any kind then that person is not one of these controllers. That is not to say the person may not be a puppet for a larger agenda.

There is a global class system. There are those that can willfully break any laws and likely will never see the inside of a cell or any punishment at all. Whichever of their corporations that did the dirty work may receive a fine, but if you do the math these fines are always way lower than the profit and could be considered a very low tax. In other words, the fines are no deterrent at all and seem to be more about putting a "see they were punished" show on for the public. Simple math shows exactly how "not punished" they actually were. If you wish to see examples of this just look into the actions and "punishments" for Well's Fargo within the past couple of years.

What do we do?

Find out who seems to be influencing governments everywhere regardless of whom is in charge, or what type of government it is. Keep and eye on them, pay attention. Watch for new heads.

Research history and see what actions they put into place that gave them this power, and what actions were put into place that made them untouchable. Seek their power base, and the tools they use to protect that power base. I'll tell you now that power base is NOT the amount of money they have. They do use money to protect that power bases as one of the tools, but they had to create delivery mechanisms for making the global powers receptive to their money first.

There are many things they have done in history. I know I am likely only aware of a small number of them myself.

I do know that in the United States some truly bad legislature and events happened in our government in 1913. This no only corrupted and forever changed our nation is spread like a plague around the world. I believe there currently only be three nations that are not infected by this plague.

In 1913 the Federal Reserve act was created. This was written by several prominent and COMPETING banking families. They traveled to come up with this under fake names and met at Jekyll Island. They used assumed names because if the press at the time had gotten any hint about this gathering it would have been huge news. News actually was not under the control of these people back then like it is now.

The Federal Reserve was created which created a corporation owned by these banking families. The essentially formed a banking cartel. They had the backing of Senator Aldred, and President Woodrow Wilson. This entity is FEDERAL in name only. It is not owned or operated by the federal government. They were given control of the United States currency.

So now a private banking cartel controlled the flow and creation of currency for the United States. They went on and continue to do insane and crazy things with this. They created it under the auspices of preventing booms and busts like those of the great depression, though there is compelling evidence that they are in fact responsible for some of these things.

So they control the money.

Out of this 1913 time frame also arose the Internal Revenue Services and the thing known as INCOME TAX. Prior to that time the concept of Income Tax was actually a prohibited form of tax by the U.S. Constitution. They had to amend the Constitution to make it legal, and there are some indicators it wasn't even properly ratified (thus not legal) and they simply did it anyway.

So yes... think about that. From 1776 to 1913 there was no such thing as Income Tax. That is around 137 years that somehow the United States existed, had several wars (including the Civil War) and seemed to expand and grow WITHOUT the need for Income Tax. There were actually very good reasons a tax like that was prohibited initially by the Constitution.

So now they had a privately owned bank that was responsible for all of the money, and they had a legal way to steal from the population. For let us not play games with words. If you take something from me non-voluntarily, and me attempting to resist that results in fines, imprisonment, or death then that is theft. It is no different from a person pointing a gun at me and saying give me your money. I can give him my money and he goes on his way. I can attempt to resist and may end up shot, wounded, or dead. If any entity other than the government does these things it is called theft. Somehow the fact that a body of people passed a law made the same type of activities legal as long as it is the government that is doing them.

That was the beginning of a slippery slope. People could have fought back then. They didn't. Even though it was not properly ratified they got away with it. In other words that year they gave a private cartel control of all of the monetary supply, and at the same time they implemented a way to steal from the population and though not properly ratified the population went along with it.

This same process would continue with these SAME banking families in the cartel outside of the U.S. They would go on to form Central Banks in nations all over the world. They would also form things such as the World Bank, and the IMF.

The casual creation of new laws to make formerly illegal acts legal, as well as people simply ignoring laws and not being held accountable continued.

So if you were to cut the heads off of the hydra all at the same time. You would not actually kill or defeat the beast without first eliminating these methods of corruption and control that have been put into place for more than a century.

These are some of the examples I am very familiar with. I know there are other slippery slope actions that occurred prior to 1913, and I know Abe Lincoln himself did some of them. So there are actually many pieces of this puzzle. For me 1913 just happens to be a very large confluence of a lot of them at once.