[Pyro7480]

Call me the "eternal skeptic" of the existence of the NWO. The elites can be really dumb. I don't give them that much credit. They can barely keep each other from being at each other's throats. Yes, they are power hungry, but that's why we have the Second and First Amendments.

[Coyote]

Well, I use that NWO term loosely, understanding that power seeks power, and that there are clearly interests in this world constantly working toward their own ends. I'm not implying excessive conspiracy, much less embracing it, but if anyone just get's a grip long enough to listen, the power brokers of the modern world have been using that term to describe their own efforts on both side of "New Atlantis" for the past century. They don't have to take secret orders from mystical descendants of Adam Weisphalt. They just do much of the world's business together.

And while the Skull and Bones may not necessarily be the work of Satan, or the so called NWO have to represent a simple 'sinister plot to take over the world', they do represent the kind of kindred that helps to link power brokers and their natural dynasties together, as with ANY fraternal orders. If anyone doesn't think they have power, at least to discriminate, I suggest they attend Yale and attempt to join. You don't have to believe in chemical contrails to get the picture that power begets power, and as with any orgainzations, related groups leave an open trail for each other to follow. And if anyone accepts that basic street thugs like La Cosa Nostra represented power thrugh organized crime, it's not a great leap of faith to imagine highly educated, highly placed, highly wealthy power brokers in the world of finance and resources doing what they do best as well.

So you don't have to look too far to find their 'conspiracies'. The truth is that they don't really bother too much to hide them. It's just that most people don't bother to look beyond their daily lives in any attempt to understand the power policies of the planet.

As far as them being powerful, compared to me (and I assume you too), they're MUCH more powerful acting in concert toward what they want, than I am acting toward what I want. I think that should be axiomatic. But given this last little 911 hit, I think it shows just how human and fallible they really are. They make mistakes, just like the rest of us.