Chaos: The Preferred Pattern of Control

What if I told you there are a few powerful & wealthy individuals manipulating our current hellish timeline who thrive on chaos as a way to keep us under control... Would you believe me?

Chaos: The Preferred Pattern of Control

by C. A. Matthews

Sometimes life on Earth appears to be a chaotic mess. There is war and genocide here, there, and everywhere. There is discord and division around every corner. There seems to be no end in sight to global death and destruction. Nobody could possibly be in control of all this confusion.

But what if I told you there are a relatively few powerful and wealthy individuals (oligarchs) manipulating our current hellish timeline who thrive on chaos as a way to keep us under their control? Here’s an analogy to make my point clear.

Will the Hero Get There in Time?

You might have seen a scene in a film or a stage play where the hero is running upstream against the flow of traffic on a busy city sidewalk. There are literally people everywhere. The hero can barely breathe as he pushes his way through the crowd going in the opposite direction. And to make matters worse, he’s on the clock—can he get to the train station in time in order to stop the heroine from leaving town before he can tell her that he loves her? The stakes are high and the situation seems impossible. Maybe he should just give up and give in to fate and let the girl go?

But just when things seem to be at their most trying, there is a ray of sunshine. Our hero looks up and spies the heroine trying to fight her way toward him. Eventually they meet, kiss, and start their lives together. All the fighting, sweating, and swearing turned out to be worth it. They marry and live happily ever after. The end.

Now, to the untrained eye, all the chaos and the momentum of the crowd the hero is fighting against seem impossible to overcome, but the person who choreographed the scene knows better. All the pandemonium has been carefully planned out. The extras portraying crowd members have learned their “steps” or blocking well.

The extras are put into groups, and each group is directed how to act whenever they encounter the hero. “Jostle him, trip him up, block his view of the train station,” are the directions given. Behind the camera or curtains, multiple stage managers watch the action carefully and cue each group of extras as to the exact second (or beat of the song in a musical) they are to enter the street scene. More signals from the sidelines will tell the extras how fast or slow they are to make their way across the set.

There could be upward of a dozen or more extras groups in a film scene or only four or five on stage in a play or musical number—not the millions it seems to be. The chaos viewers think they see is anything but. To the trained eye, it is pure poetry in motion. And it is this “poetry of chaos” that the oligarchs who rule over us excel at.

The following are examples where this “poetry of chaos” has been used recently.

Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Greenland...Who’s Next?

Cuba has suffered sanctions from the United States since the 1960s because it is an “evil Communist dictatorship” that threatens “democracy-loving capitalists.” Cuba recently has experienced brown outs because the US is blockading oil from their shores, and their energy plants are running out of fuel. Food and medicines aren’t allowed through the US blockade, causing hunger and disease that Cuba’s universal health care system could normally handle. Could this blockade be a set-up to invade Cuba, steal its land and natural resources, and give them to rich gusanos like Marco Rubio?

Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife were kidnapped at gun point by US military forces in January and arrested on “drug charges” without evidence. They remain in a US prison to this day. The new leader of Venezuela has since recognized the genocidal apartheid regime of Israel and started shipping its oil to… you guessed it, Israel. Could this have been the reason behind the Marcos’ kidnapping as well as the earlier sinking of fishing vessels in the Caribbean, killing innocent fishermen?

Iran… Unless you’ve been asleep for the past six months, you know what’s happening there. The US says it’s bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure (such as schools and bridges) because Iran could have nuclear weapons and, as such, it poses a “threat” to the US and its interests. Never mind that it was Trump who tore up the US/Iran anti-nuclear proliferation treaty in his first term. Forget all about Iran’s repeated claims that it doesn’t have nor wants nuclear weapons.

To make matters worse, the formerly open-for-business Strait of Hormuz has been shut down to traffic because of the hostile actions taken by the US against Iran. By shutting down the flow of oil and fertilizer components coming through the strait, the US singlehandedly has driven fuel and food prices sky high worldwide. This has benefited primarily the billionaires who own oil stock, not the working classes who are just trying to survive. Could this upward transfer of wealth have been the oligarchs’ plan all along?

American oil explorers with a Trump-linked firm are trying to drill in Greenland without permission—or with “permission” granted on paper a while back to a British oil company that has since passed the paper on to the Americans. Greenland and its colonizer, Denmark, aren’t happy. Could this be a set-up for the US to take over Greenland and appropriate its oil?

Did you notice a similar pattern in all these incidents? In what at first seems like nonsensical chaos is a predictable pattern, a pattern the oligarchs have perfected over time. Their pattern goes something like this:

Step 1: Make a claim that you have been “threatened” or “slighted” by another country’s actions or lack of actions. The bigger the better—so the “threat” of Iran’s imaginary nuclear weapons program is blown out of proportion compared to the known (but never admitted out loud) threat of Israel’s illegal nuclear weapons.

Cuba’s successful Communist revolution and superior universal health care system located right next door to the US are a threat to capitalism’s image and, as such, cannot be tolerated. Venezuela’s President Maduro is charged with smuggling drugs into the US, although there is no real proof that he or anyone in his anti-Israel government was doing so. Greenland and Denmark are just acting plain selfish for wanting to keep the oil in the ground—what do the indigenous people of Greenland need it for anyway?

Step 2: Take all necessary measures (spy, lie, sanction, blockade, bomb, etc.) to get whatever it is you want—usually it’s oil and other natural resources, but cheap labor, trade routes, and land are also desirable. During past US administrations, a little diplomacy was deployed at first to get the public on their side before the heavy guns (a.k.a. the US military and its allies) were brought out to grab the desired items. But with so few billionaires owning the vast majority of the mainstream media outlets worldwide nowadays, there’s no real need for them to worry about adverse publicity anymore. The “stenographers” of the mainstream press will cover up each and every faux pas for their masters.

For instance, Caribbean fishermen became “drug runners” who needed to be bombed out of the water. The American public was told that Iranians “need a revolution to get rid of their evil leaders” to justify the violence that would be leveled at them later by the US military. Moles and instigators started false flag events in Iran claiming the majority wanted their leaders out, when Iranian public opinion was just the opposite. White Western oligarchs/billionaires see indigenous Greenlanders as obviously inferior, so they can simply ignore them and their wishes. And of course, Cubans of all ages (including children) deserve to starve or die of easily curable diseases because they’re communists and not capitalists.

Step 3: The oligarchy/billionaires profit. The super wealthy now control all the oil, mineral wealth, land, cheap labor, water rights, shipping lanes—whatever it is they wanted. With Iran, the billionaires (including Trump) are making more money from shorting oil stocks on the stock market than by physically holding onto the oil fields. This latest method of wealth accumulation or upward transference of wealth (via manipulating the stock markets) will probably be used more often in the future. But no matter how it’s obtained, wealth is wealth, and usually with money comes power and more wealth building opportunities for the oligarchy.

“Chaos” under US hegemony isn’t something left up to chance. The “stage managers” (oligarchs/billionaires) have been moving things behind (and in front of) the scenes to set up the scene they want that will bring them the most wealth, resources, power, etc., for a long time now. Whenever you find something confusing on the world scene, your best bet to unravel the narrative is to “follow the money” and see where it takes you. It will explain everything with the possible exception as to why some are innately sociopathic and greedy. (You’ll need a good psychologist or spiritual leader to explain their motivations.)

What About Palestine and Sudan? How Do They Fit In?

I’ll admit I’m a big picture person, so I oversimplify, but I do believe the chaos happening throughout the world and particularly in the Middle East/West Asia/Parts of Africa follows a similar pattern.

Step 1: There are oligarchs/billionaires who want something from a particular region. In the Middle East/West Asia, fossil fuels play a big part of it, but it’s not always the oil fields themselves the oligarchs are after. Sometimes they just want to control and profit from the transfer of oil, such as controlling a land corridor to build an oil pipeline or a strait or canal to ship out the goods unhindered.

Israel has been called a “land based aircraft carrier” by many in the US military. It’s seen as a stopping off point in their campaigns to control oilfields and keep the US petrodollar from crashing. I’m not too sure how well Israel still works as an aircraft carrier, but the goodwill of the genocidal maniacs of the apartheid regime is something the US oligarchy wants on its side. They’re afraid of losing control, as the petrodollar is weakening. BRICS countries are trading for oil in Chinese yuan, and this cannot stand in the oligarchs’ minds.

Step 2: The US oligarchs welcome an ally like Israel because their leadership isn’t afraid to use the nuclear option. Israel is not even worried about gaining more bad publicity than they already have, as they’re openly getting away with genocide in Palestine and ethnic cleansing elsewhere. Meanwhile, the US is still living down what it did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The next nuke bomb to be dropped will be far worse, as modern thermonuclear weapons are far more destructive. Modern nukes are approximately 80 times greater in strength compared to the lowly 1945 A-bomb. Just think of destroying 80 Hiroshimas in one blast… As an oligarch, you’d want that country to be on your side, wouldn’t you?

It’s anyone’s guess as to how many nuclear weapons the Israelis actually possess and are willing to drop. They have more than proven to the world that they are determined, sociopathic, genocidal mass murderers. It’s why we can’t put it past the Israelis that they won’t use a nuke on Iran or anyone else—they’re capable of it and seem more than willing to do it. It’s why it’s imperative to shut the apartheid regime down and lock their leaders up where they can’t hurt and kill any more.

The Zionist oligarchs’ obsession with AI taking over the workplace demonstrates how much they don’t care about the fate of the workers of the world. They couldn’t care even less about indigenous people and their homelands. We see this in North America, in Greenland, and especially in Palestine. They don’t care about the Sudanese—they just love all the lovely gold found there that the oil-rich Emiratis want to make into jewelry. They don’t particularly care about child miners being killed and injured while digging for valuable rare earths in the Congo. Genocide to the oligarchy is just another weapon to rid the land of “squatters” so they can get at the resources they want.

I hope you see now that we don’t live so much in a chaotic world—we live in a corrupt one. It’s ruled by corrupt oligarchs/billionaires who take what they want without a worry of how destructive they are to the planet and its peoples. It’s why we the workers, the 99% can’t sit and do nothing any longer. We need to organize ourselves into groups and move ourselves with intention against the chaos, deliberately making our way toward the happy ending… It’s us or them.

I vote us, don’t you?

Next week I’ll show you some “patterns of resistance” we can take together to make the world safer, saner, and far less chaotic. Your homework until then is to get a hold of a copy of Tad Stoermer’s The Resistance History of the United States. I found the book in my local library, but it’s also on sale online and in bookstore. Start reading it as soon as you get it. I promise, you won’t want to put it down.

Conscientious Objectors: Call the G.I. Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487 or the Center for Conscience & War at 1-800-379-2679.

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