Prof. Peter Phillips & Kimberly Soeiro. Exposing the Ruling Class!

This study asks: Who are the world's One percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in unison for their own private gains over benefits for the 99 percent? We examine a sample of the 1 percent: The extractor sector, whose companies are on the ground extracting material from the global commons, and using low cost labor to amass wealth. These companies include oil, gas, and various mineral extraction organizations, whereby the value of the material removed far exceeds the actual cost of removal. We also examine the investment sector of the global 1 percent: Companies whose primary activity is the massing and reinvesting of the global 1 percent: Companies whose primary activity is the amassing and reinvesting of capital. This sector includes global central banks, major investment money management firms, and other companies whose primary efforts are the concentration and expansion of money, such as insurance companies. Finally, we analyze how global networks of centralized power, the elite 1 percent, their companies, and various governments in their service plan manipulate and enforce policies that benefit their continued concentration of wealth and power. We demonstrate how the US/NATO military industrial media empire operates in service to the transnational capital in the world. The Occupy Movement has developed a mantra that addresses the great inequality of wealth and power between the world's wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of us, the other 99 percent. While the 99 percent undoubtedly serves as a motivational tool for open involvement, there is little understanding as to who comprises the 1 percent, and how they maintain power in the world.