Globalisation, according to the Oxford dictionary, is defined as “the processes by which businesses or other organisations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.” In recent times there has been increasing rise in Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and corporations who are able to exert substantial amounts of power over not only governments, but entire countries. Globalisation began at the turn of the millennium and since then has become a huge threat to democracy through the way in which governments prioritise corporate interests over the rights and safety of the people.
The evolution of globalisation even forced a change in the way crime is researched with the metamorphosis of ‘global criminology.’ During my MSc in criminology I followed this phenomenon closely and even wrote my final research paper on the topic. The paper documented the rise of NGOs and corporations who are now dominant in politics, banking, media, economy, and of course, new forms of global governance. These organisations often go unchallenged for their various crimes and social harms as governments fear ‘upsetting them.’ Therefore, these organisations seem largely ‘untouchable’ in the eyes of the law.
During my research, one of the earliest examples I found of an organisation being ‘untouchable’ was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation had a hand in everything from genetically modified foods, US education policy, global health (vaccinations), technology and media through huge philanthropic donations that then allowed them to influence and dictate to governments. The Gates Foundation’s ‘charity’ had granted them influence over a long list of companies including IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, GAVI Alliance, PACE, Monsanto, CEPI, Unicef, The WHO, as well various media outlets such the BBC, Sky News, Fox News and the fact-checking company Snopes, to name but a few. This all helped the foundation establish control of media and health narratives as well as the institutions that provide them. Due to this their motives and methods are rarely questioned and they continue to profit despite allegations of tax evasion, vaccination harms and human rights abuses. When I was researching the Gates Foundation back in 2022 their endowment was $50 billion, as of 2024 it sits at 75.2 billion. Bill Gates’ other company Microsoft has a capital of 3.1 trillion (Fortune, 2024). All this after the cost living crisis and economies crashing around the world. The foundation and Bill Gates were handed control during a pandemic granting them unprecedented privilege, all because of the influence they exerted over societal institutions. Pretty powerful right?
Well, what if I told you there is another corporation out there, one you have probably have never heard of, who are 50 times more powerful than the Gates Foundation? What if I told you this organisation not only influences, but actually owns all the companies, media corporations and societal institutions that the foundation strives to influence? What if I told you that this organisation effectively runs the world and is now in the process taking over governments completely? It all sounds a bit far-fetched I know, but if you read through the list of sources at the end of the article you will see what I am saying is true.
The organisation I am referring to is one I only recently discovered myself, the global asset-management company called BlackRock. I didn’t think any company could surpass what the Gates Foundation had done in recent years, sadly I was proven wrong. The level of power BlackRock exert over the world is actually mind-blowing. According to several sources BlackRock owns or exerts control over all US banks, all major companies including the pharmaceutical industry, owns up to 90% of the mainstream media network and has assets of 10 trillion. It has gotten to the point where various governments including the US and China are dependent upon BlackRock during times of recession (Moon,2018). This is an old tactic used by the Knights Templar, who created the modern banking system, and later perfected by the Rothschild’s. This tactic ensured certain elite families (bloodlines) would have the Kings and Queens, and later governments, of the world in substantial debt so that they could then control them.
According to Innovation and Tech Today’s Aron Vaughn, there is approximately 40 trillion worth of currency in circulation globally and BlackRock ‘manages’ (owns) at least 15% of it. BlackRock alongside Van Guard and State Street are three of the world’s largest asset management firms. Vaughn points out that State Street is owned by BlackRock and that BlackRock’s largest shareholder is Van Guard. The connections are amazing aren’t they? Vaughn goes on to state that many of the funds held by Van Guard link to some of the oldest and richest families in the world or the global banking elite as I call them. Vaughn’s article shows how BlackRock can “direct and global narratives and influence politics on a grand scale.”
One way in which this is done is by controlling “90% of the US media landscape” (Vaughn, 2024). BlackRock in collaboration with Van Guard control the vast majority of the mainstream media with large shareholdings in Fox News, CBS and Disney as well as Comcast who owns such outlets as Sky News, MSNBC, NBC, and CNBC. Moreover, BlackRock are the biggest institutional investors into social media giants such as Facebook, Google and at one point Twitter (pre-musk).
Another way they exert global power is by controlling companies. BlackRock, Van Guard and State Street are said to own at least 40% of all companies listed in the US (Pluckmarket, 2023). Research by Investigate Europe (2018) shows that Van Guard along with BlackRock were the first and second biggest shareholders in MacDonald’s and that BlackRock are also the third largest shareholder in Coca-Cola. Not exactly the two best things for the human race are they? BlackRock also own Merril Lynch and Barclay’s global advisor. In his book, The Trap, British author David Icke shows that BlackRock and Van Guard were the biggest shareholders in Nike, Verizon and Netflix and also the top 3 shareholders in Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson. They wouldn’t happen to be profiting off a faulty vaccine would they? Surely not. Research by Investigate Europe (2018) attempted to examine how much financial power and influence BlackRock exert over the companies they are invested in. However, BlackRock declined requests for interviews on the matter as well as refusing to answer the written questions (surprise, surprise). Findings from the investigation revealed that BlackRock had been influential in undermining the competition by being invested in competing companies. This also “blurred the boundaries between private capital and government affairs”. The study also found that the company “advocate for privatisation of pension schemes in order to channel savings capital into it’s funds.”
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is worth 1.2 Billion (Picture credit: Wikicommons)
Thirdly, BlackRock control all economic and political data through the company’s global asset-management program ALADDIN (Asset, Liability, Debt and Derivative Investment Network). ALADDIN is an AI system that predicts all investment outcomes globally and has 5,000 supercomputers that control both world assets and investor’s alike (Vaughn, 2024). ALADDIN came into being in 1988 and was created by the current CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink and his team in Boston, MA. In 2017 – Fink gave ALADDIN a significant update through a project called Monarch (interesting choice of names), which would replace fund managers of various firms with AI algorithms. This now means 70% of all stock market trades are now executed by robots according to Investopedia. Vaughn states that BlackRock and ALADDIN are “responsible for ushering in the era of sophisticated (almost sentient) AI systems without which, the world would collapse”. Vaughn also states that ALADDIN has been “quietly shaping the world’s economy”. It is hard to argue this when you realise that as of 2024, ALADDIN owns 21 trillion in assets. So let me get this straight. There is 40 trillion in circulation currently, BlackRock own/control 10 trillion of that and ALADDIN has 21 trillion in assets. Is there any remaining doubt that BlackRock control the global economy?
ALADDIN’s creator Larry Fink, an extremely powerful man, is a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the World Economic Forum (WEF). The CFR is an elite organisation that” many view as a group of men set on world domination through multinational business, international treaties and world government” (Marrs, 2000). The CFR, created by globalist banker David Rockefeller boasts members which are said to be the elites of banking, politics, military, intelligence and academia. Some of the most famous members included Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Check the Crimes of the Elite section on my website for more background on these two.
CFR members have been prominent in every presidential administration since Woodrow Wilson. They dominated political decision making during the reigns of Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, George Bush Snr and Jnr, Barack Obama and in particular Bill Clinton whose administration was said to have up to one hundred CFR members who were crucial to Clinton’s rise to power (Marrs, 2000). BlackRock also now has prominent members in positions of power with two of their executives Brian Deese (head of the National Economic Council) and Adewale Adeyemo (Top Official in the US Treasury Department) who were both appointed by Joe Biden (Investigate Europe, 2018). In his book, Rule by Secrecy, Jim Marrs documents that “Nearly every CIA director since Allen Dulles has been a CFR member including Richard Helms, William Colby, George Bush, William Webster, James Woolsey, John Deutsch and William Casey.” The CFR is, in essence, are an extremely powerful group of men who control politicians and political processes. It is therefore no surprise one of their members (Larry Fink), is also the head of one of the most powerful global elite companies of all time (BlackRock).
So how did Fink and BlackRock come to be such a global superpower? Short answer by capitalising on the 2008 banking crisis. An article from Medium.com (2023) entitled ‘The Great Depression and the Rise of BlackRock’ examines some interesting links between Fink, the 9/11 attacks and the rise of BlackRock after the great banking crisis. The article identifies that it was Fink and his team at Boston that were responsible for developing MBS (mortage-backed securities). The article highlights “The 9/11 attacks heavily impacted the US economy, the Federal Reserve responded to the attacks by stabilising the economy to prevent collapse. One key measure taken by the fed was to lower the Federal Funds Effective Rate (FFER). FFER fell from 6.5% in 2000, to 1% by 2003. The decline in FFER contributed to lower borrowing costs for banks and other financial institutions, which in turn led to an increase in the demand for mortgage loans. Growth in mortgage lending during the period 2001-2007 led to the rise in the issuance of MBS.” The 2008 banking crisis was closely related to the MBS market. Coincidence? I think not. As MBS essentially failed, housing prices plummeted, mortgage delinquencies increased and enormous losses were taken by Wall Street banks due to the rise of mortgage defaults (Medium.com, 2023). Trillions of dollars-worth of MBS were undermined severely disrupting the economy. Now everything is a mess, what are we going to do? Step forward BlackRock and Co. to offer a ‘solution’ to this problem.
Fichtner et al. (2017) notes that “the banking crisis enabled companies such as BlackRock, Van Guard and State Street to become large shareholders in a surprisingly high number of firms.” The article claims the rise of these companies, often labelled ‘the big three’, can be viewed as “a transformation of new finance capitalism” and state the “situation resembles early finance capital systems run by tycoons like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.” The Morgan and Rockefeller families were both hugely influential in the creation of the CFR.
BlackRock’s rise undoubtedly peaked after the 2008 banking crisis as they consolidated power by stepping in after the crisis to offer ’risk management’ programs that would direct and guide governments money-making decisions. The US government contracted (partnered) BlackRock to manage ‘Toxic assets’ which solidified the company’s position as a “global leader in asset management” (Medium.com, 2023). In July of 2024, the position was further solidified as the Labour Party in the UK hired BlackRock to ‘rebuild Britain’. According to the Guardian (2024), “BlackRock will privatise Britain – our housing, education, health, nature and green energy – with our tax payer money as a sweetener.” – Daniela Gabor, professor of economics and macrofinance at UWE Bristol, warning us about the dangers of “handing vital infrastructure to private companies”.
This is evidenced by the way in which BlackRock are utilising their global powers. There is an interesting video on the net posted by a YouTuber named ‘Moon’ which exposes some the darker side of BlackRock’s mentality and behaviours (vid). For the sake of time I will try to summarise the general overview of the video here. Moon’s research shows that not only have BlackRock funded authoritarian regimes in Russia and China, they have also worked with surveillance companies that were previously blacklisted in the US. One example he gives is Hikvision, owned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This company makes civilian and military technology for the Chinese government and also has a long history of “widespread human rights abuses” (Moon, 2018). The video points out that BlackRock and China continue to share a close relationship through vast and endless investments into one another and this is something I have also discovered in my own research. The relationship is definitely one to keep an eye on, but at the same time it is one that doesn’t surprise me at all. When you follow these global elitists as I have over the years, you come to find that their agendas are not hidden they are pretty much right in your face!
In the My Videos section on my website you will find a video I made in 2022 discussing how China, a total surveillance state, were slowly introducing the Social Credit System. I described this as a new method of governance being employed by global elitists and that the SCS had the potential to expand globally. The SCS is basically an online point scoring system where the citizens of China can be rewarded or punished for good or bad behaviour. The CCP will define what that good or bad behaviour is of course. Comply and you will be labelled a good citizen who is ‘trustworthy’, fail to comply you will be labelled ‘untrustworthy’ and could face punishments such as financial and travel restrictions. The SCS was a massive intrusion on privacy and rights which required citizens to hand over mass amounts of data to be stored in a centralised database. Now, who just happens to own the world’s entire data set including bank details/online preferences/habits and have a particularly close relationship with China? BlackRock! Ah, those coincidences eh?
Here’s another one, at around the same time the SCS was coming in, BlackRock just happened to be pushing sustainable rating scores or ESG. ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. It is a set of standards that measure a company’s ‘contribution’ to society. It will assign each company a rating system (sound familiar?). This rating system will decide how investable each company is depending upon their behaviour and political stances. In other words if Nike (owned by BlackRock) do more adverts involving ‘woke’ culture, they get a higher credit score and are therefore more ‘investable’. If a company was to criticise governments or push ‘conspiracy theories’, they are less investable. BlackRock are basically saying we own the world’s currency and if you want some of it you’ll do what you are bloody well told! BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has already said this in not so many words in 2018 when he sent a letter out to all companies stating “ contribute to our society, or risk losing our support” (Moon, 2018).
The introduction of these measures had all major companies and corporations pandering to BlackRock. This is why we now see so much of the Woke agenda being glorified in politics and media. By introducing these ESG standards, BlackRock in essence started the whole Woke movement by enforcing such demands. An excerpt from David Icke’s book The Trap, contains a statement that perfectly sums up Fink and BlackRock’s attitude towards imposing Woke culture on society: “Behaviours are going to have to change and this is one thing we are asking companies, you have to force behaviours and at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviours.” Fink goes on to say “every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net-zero world”. BlackRock are now at the point where they are making demands and they have to power and global reach to enforce those demands.
Woke culture and the LGBTQ movement is nothing more than a political agenda and propaganda machine that is used to not only control people, but to weed out the compliant from the non-compliant. Be more Woke or you are not a good citizen, be more PC or you are not an investable company. The climate change agenda is another political ideology being enforced upon people globally (for more background see my video on the climate change agenda). It is all a manipulation being perpetuated by global elitists such as Fink, the world most powerful financier and Klaus Schwab, head of the WEF and also the man who thought the Covid-19 pandemic was a great opportunity put society through a ‘Great Reset’. Something his buddy, King Charles fully agrees with by the way.
According to The Trap, Fink and BlackRock (10 trillion) now control the US economy along with Van Guard (7 trillion), Fidelity Investments (4 trillion), and State Street (3.9 trillion). They own insurance companies, social media companies, pension funds, all of which possess huge amounts of personal data. Data that they control. They dictate to the banks they should be regulating. They control global media narratives. They have the power to control not only citizens but entire countries, and people say Donald Trump is the biggest threat to democracy?
Sources:
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/posts/blackrock-the-company-that-owns-the-world
https://prospect.org/economy/blackrock-invest-blacklisted-chinese-surveillance-companies
Book: The Trap (2022) David Icke
