Sept. 1974... 'Stay tuned' afterwards for A. Greenspan's news debut... right after the London RIIA starts peddling the line (who asked them anyway?) that USSR nukes & tin can navy are dangerously superior to the USA's.

Such irony... dripping with irony (no wonder they call this place the 'water planet').  
-- How on Earth could anyone actually try to pull off such shenanigans with a straight face? --

I'm no criminal-elite-social-psychologist, but They have to have at least some reason or rationale for such (organized/coordinated) behavior. 
- Why was the 'golden age' (US mid-40s-mid-70s) put on ice instead of sensibly nurtured and maintained?
- Why was (the at least relatively 'economic nationalist') Nixon 'watergated' and replaced with good-looking stooges for the (then-)new Greenspan-globo-era (mid-'70s-2011)?
- Why was this ("neo-liberal") economic souffle topped off with a big fat dollop of (pseudo) militarist propaganda, eventually blossoming into the (borderline absurdist) 'missle gap' hysteria of the ("neo-conservative") Ronnie RayGun early '80s? 
     Are we citizens really to infer [when/if we eventually catch on to the above] that the politicians we elect- from either Party- are in fact (& increasingly) themselves governed by... how can I put this... something resembling a puerile, phallic death cult of military-industrial-complex GrossDP-worshipers, more linked with each other 'at the top' (horizontally), than with their own 'domestic' media & citizenry (vertically)?... and that the increasingly prevalent 'Zombie Banks' (see Ep. 40) are largely just another layer of middleman between our elected politicians (whom 'the bankers' feed) and the real 'globalist' masters & managers? 

     Returning to the thesis question, concerted organizational activities- yet alone globally concerted organizational activities- require...intelligence, be that intelligence on this side of life or the other. So again, 'how on Earth could anyone actually try to pull off such shenanigans (on an international level, no less) with a straight face?'

     Again, not to be an apologist for the poor management of recent decades, but perhaps some of the following factors could have motivated those 'at the Greenspan level' and above to 'keep the faith':
a. GDP worship is, in many ways, idiotic, but can eliminate interfering hygiene factors, to the point where a politically significant proportion of 'the citizenry' can see through the mechanizations of the GDP machine... i.e., like adolescence, people will eventually outgrow it.
b. the old 'USA consumes a quarter of the world's resources with only 5% of the world's population' line. Thus, various (geograhpic) equalization-globalization schemes.
c. the "private central bank' (PCB) pseudo-religious mantra of 'the modern' West fully allows and enables such manipulations of so-called 'national' currencies, 'national' economies, and national industries (to include Hollywood and all other private media in the US)... depending on how far down the 'control freaks' wish to reach. "A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit." [i.e.- the curiousity factor; how much can they get away with]
d. How far down do They wish to reach (into controlling the prevalent attitudes of society)? Amateur curiosity aside, multi-generational pros [PCBs have been running the currency/circulatory systems of places like England since before it was even the UK] would be expected to be more like a teacher than like a punk... i.e. 'How far down' They go (in controlling culture in the 'modern', media/mediated Age) is simply how far down They NEED to go... in teaching the lesson(s) that They deem necessary to be taught. 

   So what Lessons have They been teaching, over the past several decades lets say, that have- up until now anyway- sufficiently motivated people like Greenspan to 'keep the faith'? Well that's a matter of opinion and there have certainly been many (lessons/themes). But the last one- the last lesson- would certainly be for the teachers to 'paint their own exit'; to start revealing enough clues & evidence for we the people to figure them out (and perhaps even also figure out something better to take their (institutional) place). "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."
   But there can be no full understanding of what They have been up to (these past decades, centuries) simply in terms of economics or materialism. There is also that so often overlooked, or taken-for-granted, factor of Time. Notice that this big transition [CBS News spends so much time telling us about every detail of the 'watergate' transition] takes place in the mid-'70's, the middle of 1974 to be more exact. Why go through so much effort (to drag out Nixon and put in Greenspan), at that particular time, as if the gods-of-globalism had to be appeased, and there was [to look at Gen. Haig at least] no other option? Just to take down the (presumed) US economic threat (to the world at large), in favor of PCB-controlled globo-corps.- the presumed knights of a New World Order of post-nationalism, maybe even post-nations? 
     Not a bad answer (at least compared to how such matters are entertained over the public airwaves these days); but, again, that's only the Economic/material side.  The 'Imperial Presidency' [which Nixon is often said to have started] and resultant ruse of the National (in)Security State, built up over the past 4 decades, can often obscure what has been happening on the cultural-Spiritual side of the plate. They (teachers) have been running- through the denizens of corp. media 'Hollywood' [later expanded to Washington, which began to be nicknamed 'Hollywood East' in the 1980s]- what might be called their own version of Introduction of Astrology/Cosmology, not just for several decades, but for (at least) a century. Now's probably not the best time/venue to explain it all. Here, however, is the basic outline:

Yang side (econ. 'nationalism')              Yin Side (econ. 'globalism')
            [dom./rising=spring]			             [dom./rising=autumn]
1. Aries (card.fire)-      1918.2-1926.6         7. Libra (cardinal air)-    1968.4-1976.6
2. Taurus (stab.earth)- 1926.6-1934.9	   8. Scorpio (stab.water)-  1976.7-1984.10
3. Gemini (mut.air)-     1934.9-1943.2	   9.Sagitarius (mut.fire)-  1984.11-1993.3
          [rec./receding=summer]                                    [rec./receding=winter]
4. Cancer (card.water)- 1943.3-1951.6 10.Capicorn (card.earth)- 1993.3-2001.6
5. Leo (stable fire)-       1951.6-1959.10	  11.Acquarius (stable air)- 2001.7-2009.10
6. Virgo (mut.earth)-     1959.10-1968.3  12. Pisces (mut. water)-   2009.10-2018.3
                                                                                                         [also]-    1909.9-1918.2
     

