content: Well, they sold their soul, generation after generation now, for about 240+ years.  They intermarried and made alliances.  They networked.  They financed both sides of wars, time and again.  They CREATED the central banks of the world.  They understand leverage and control and usury better than 'us peasants' do.   The intelligence agencies work for them.  Think tanks too. They have literally financed studies about how to control society.  The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ever heard of it?  Carnegie 'Endowment for International Peace' was actually researching how to change society on the international level, through war!    Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, who do you think commissions these studies?    This is why historical researchers will often discuss 'the Octopus', it is because these groups have purposely tried to infiltrate all aspects of society, not just politics and banking, but education and the justice system as well.