Eyes Wide Shut (The City at the Heart of Darkness Part 2)

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Eyes Wide Shut (The City at the Heart of Darkness Part 2)

Pressenza
17 Feb 2026, 04:13 GMT+

After Following The Yellow Brick Road

Now that youve followed the yellow brick road and youve arrived at part 2 of this article, hopefully afterreading part 1, youre ready to cut to the chase. Youre ready for some Emerald City action. Ok then, here we go. Buckle up.

The central underlying cause of the acceleration of the decline that the US and Europe have been experiencing in the 21st century is the usury-based monetary system theyre ensnared in. This debt-driven closed system has been intentionally structured, by the bankers that run it, in a manner that has facilitated the gradual takeover of all state institutions by the banking system. All attempts to reform this system, none of which have included a reordering of its core structural principle, have failed and will, necessarily, continue to fail unless this core principle (the necessity for constant growth due to the banking systems imposition of disproportionate interest) is changed. The thing in itself, the systems nature is predatory. It's rooted in a form of economic violence. For more information on the basics of how the current monetary system functions, click on citation number one (and go to the suggested 5 minute bit) in the citations section that appears just after the end of this article.

The Rise of the Para-State

Relatedly, over the course of the last forty years, the neoliberal argument that workers (employees) are dispensable and that their general needs, their healthcare and their job security must all be seconded to company growth has become the standard line among CEOs (employers) over the course of the last few decades.(2) Four decades of chipping away at long-fought for rights and regulations that kept Western democracy somewhat balanced have been obliterated by banking oligarchs who now own and control the mainstream legacy media, the electoral system and the military agenda of the US and Europe.(3) Deregulation and the corresponding establishment of a revolving door between consulting firms, big banks and governments has generated an exorbitantly wealthy parallel authority base that supersedes the will of the people and dictates the agendas of elected representatives.(4) What weve been witnessing so far in this century is the rise of the para-state over the democratic will of the people.

The Emerald City

The epicenter of the international banking system is the City of London. But how could the epicenter be in Great Britain?, one might ask. Its a third rate military power at this point, its general economy is in terrible shape and its Prime Ministers are voted out of office every 7 or 8 months due to incompetence! If theres anything like a central heart of financial dark doings, perpetual wars and regime change shenanigans, wouldnt it be the US?

As I mentioned in part 1 of this article, the square mile wide-long City of London is not subject to the laws that other UK countries, or any other countries for that matter, are subject to. This little banking mecca controls over half of the worlds wealth and, according to internationally respected financial experts such as Alasdair Macleod, it holds and trades twice as many US dollars as the US does. Additionally, the City of London is not only its own financial regulator, it adheres to no laws but its own as well as determining its own tax rates.(6) Seems impossible, right? Well, think again. The City of London has existed this way, essentially in its current form, for over 300 years. In a future article Ill delve more deeply into the specifics of how the City of London has used economic violence, war, terrorism and the assassinations of heads of state in order to remain at the top of the global financial period for a long period of time.(6a)

Password: FIDELEO

Put simply, banks and major oil companies that are part of the City of London affiliated Federal Reserve cartel, such as JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Citigroup, Bank of America, HSBC, Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, etc., are all essentially above the laws that apply to all other banks, businesses and individuals. For instance, in 2012 HSBC Bank was accused of and pled guilty to knowingly laundering 881 million dollars for two of the worlds largest drug cartels in Columbia and Mexico. However, before the DOJ was able to prosecute HSBC and its throng of admittedly guilty employees, the heads of the CIty of Londons bank cartel abruptly cut off the DOJs prosecutory procedures, enforcing their unwritten though well understood authority over the US judicial and executive branches.(7)

HSBC ended up getting a slap on the wrist, paying an inconsequential fine for the biggest white collar crime of the decade, arguably of the century. Not one HSBC criminal perpetrator was charged with a crime. Barclays, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank were given similar slaps on the wrist for blatantly violating foreign asset control guidelines by processing illegal transactions for criminal enterprises in Libya, the Sudan, Syria and Iran between 2010 and 2019. It should be noted that when similar criminal activities were perpetrated by noncartel banks and companies, prosecutions duly followed.(8),(9)

Where the Rainbow Ends

The City of London, in collusion with Wall Street and the Western Military Industrial complex, is and has been the behind the scenes financial spearhead of a 21st century international neo-imperialist war and weapons sales driven collective whose operating crew of bit players have come to be known in socio-economic terms as globalists and in military terms as neocons.

One step above the visible players though, the small group of families and family associates who own the aforementioned above the law banks have followed the blueprint that their predecessors laid out for them in the 19th and 20th centuries. They have funded and profited enormously from every major war and the sale of weapons to friends and foes alike.(10),(10a) So far in the 21st century, British-European and American banking oligarchs have endeavored to spread their finance-based, growth and debt dependent economic model to every part of the planet via illegal invasions, all out wars, NATO assisted color revolutions and regime change operations.

The plan was to accomplish this takeover via a series of key steps, one of the first being a commitment to Seven Wars in Five Years in the Middle East.(11) This brutally psychotic romp through Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia and Iran has ended up taking a bit longer than theyd originally expected. In fact, tremendous pressure is currently being exerted by the banking system upon its donor-dominated politicians and upper-guard military associates to finish the aforementioned job. Aside from the huge profits that banks would make from a war involving Israel, the US and Iran, the oligarchic class has long standing ties to/with Israel that go back over a century. That said, its beyond the scope of this particular article to go into the details of this relationship.(11a),(11b),(11c)

As for the Eastern European portion of this project, the plan has been to extend NATO right up to Russias borders while continually drumming up anti-Russian propaganda over a period of two decades. The goal was to eventually instigate, fund, arm and assist Ukraine in a war against Russia.(12) The aim of this proxy war was to produce regime change in Russia in order to gain access to its 75 trillion dollars worth of mineral resources. As Ive illustrated in at least 5 of my previous articles, this is where the US/NATO dominated unipolar (1990-2023) rainbow ended. Despite the US and Europes pouring hundreds of billions (and still counting) dollars into Project Ukraine, its now pretty much universally agreed that Ukraine has no chance of winning the war.(13)

In fact, all indications are that the centuries old Western colonialist rainbow is also fast approaching its fading point. For more information about this paradigm shifting (though rarely reported on in mainstream legacy media) change that the world is currently undergoing,see this article.

Pay Attention to (the System Behind) the Men Behind the Curtain

Notice, there's been no mention here of the recent enormous dump of information that has been trickling out the names of some of the elite foot soldiers and field operators that have been beneficiaries of this unjustly assembled, casino-like global monetary system. Nor have I spoken about political parties and their donor owned representatives in this article. This is because the interest of this inquiry is to see behind the curtain of personalities and scandals and to get to the inner workings of this system; to see and understand the engine driving this rigged, anti-human construction.

If you follow the links I've provided in the citations section youll be able to get a broader, deeper look at how the current monetary system operates and who controls it. It's not enough that our eyes have opened to all that's being revealed of late. What's important now is where we direct our gaze, our attention and our efforts.

CITATIONS

1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2b_youfAg&t=1662s(go to 20:00 - 25:00)*

2-https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/rise-and-fall-neoliberal-order-america-and-world-free-market-era

3-https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/media-oligarchy-trump-corruption/

4-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9nu1HRmCw(see 6:00 - 8:00)

5-https://www.amazon.com/Letters-My-Friends-Personal-humanism/dp/1878977237

6-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcHvksQhU4A

6a-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrWOmOI3Pk

7-https://www.bbc.com/news/business-18880269

8-https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-news-for-jan-29-hsbcs-money-laundering-scandal-hbc-scbff-ing-cs-rbs0129.aspx

9-https://www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/dirty-money-destroying-sudan

10-https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-eight-families/25080