Crime Against Humanity: Pensée Unique in Economics, 71

My two cents, central bankers and their acolytes in the abovementioned supranational institutions aren’t puppeteeers, they are puppets. The “wisdom” of their “independence” lies in serving their puppeteers better, and their interests and incentive structure, rather than sectarian, are merely those of their puppeteers. Each crisis they create and perpetuate is a tool to suppress both directly and indirectly: they starve and disenfranchise people tactically, and in doing so they strategically create the ‘opportunity’ to implement ‘structural reform’ and ‘transfer ownership’, which in turn advance the reshaping of the pyramid towards an increasingly oligo−monopolistic profile whose outcome in turn is going to be an increasingly deeper hell for their own kind.

To realise that I’m not speaking figuratively at all, it is apt to understand and bear in mind how both the nature and the order of magnitude of the power we’re studying lay the foundation for dictatorship; Werner calls it “the power of allocators”. Being based on scarcity, it constitutes another reason why scarcity is suppressive and suppressives aim at scarcity in order to exploit it: “Every market that is rationed gives the short side of supply or demand a type of power that does not exist in market−clearing economics: the power to allocate; the power to pick and choose. Whenever a market is rationed, allocative power is exerted. The allocator can decide A or B or C, and the market has nothing to do with it.”
The dictatorial, arbitrary power of allocators is a universal plague; just as an example: “Public announcements of job vacancies or public competitions may only provide a cover of openness and fairness, while the insiders at the firm or institution have long chosen their preferred candidate.”
But such endless examples become even secondary in comparison to the fields in which this plague becomes mass manipulation: “Of the thousands of news items that newswires report on a daily basis, only a few hundred or even only a few dozen are reported the following day by the press and only a handful make it on TV. Somebody – usually a small number of senior editors – made a selection and allocation decision. As a result, many important news items never get reported, because the mainstream media have refused to cover them. Those who make these allocative decisions wield enormous power. They can say yes or no to a piece of news. Since we do not possess perfect information, but are dependent on the objectivity of the reporting services, our view of the world will be influenced, even manipulated, by the news reported in the media. This editorial power is not the power of the markets, but the power of a small number of individuals who select and allocate in rationed markets.”