I have never seen a better briefing on Empire and how it works than this video.
It's one minute. It's silent. It's all infographics; pause early and often.
Most of the language comes from EM Burlingame, but the details are confirmed by Gen. Holt and Col. Watkins- and independently so by Promeathean Action and the LaRouche Organization (in their own terms).
This is how Globohomo works. They control Intelligence and Finance--Knowledge and Wealth, respectively--and exercise it through control of Security and Banking.
This is the trans-national layer of control. The faces you see on TV, online, etc. are the cutouts--the upper bound of Middle Management--while the Owners and their chief Controllers remain out of the public eye entirely; this is not unbelievable, as it is well-known that the richest and wealthiest people and persons are deliberately omitted from any public register or accounting at their strident urging- and when they urge, there is an implied "OR ELSE" behind it.
As Normies run off vibes, raw data is Greek to them; you have to use Pop Culture to get the truth to them. Fortunately we have a go-to example of how this really works.
The details are off a little, but only a little. (NB: This also means that yes, Revenge of the Sith was also revelatory in a kid-friendly manner on How Things Really Work.) Compare the above clip to the slideshow, and both to acknowledge historical records; this is how things work. Realize that the major banks of the British Empire financed both sides of both world wars, the "enemy" side via cutouts (why Switzerland was, until recently, permitted its fake neutrality and why Singapore was set up to be in a similar liminal position), and that such conflicts not only have been managed since World War 2 but the World Wars themselves, and everything 1789 has been just as Fake And Gay.
That's just the Western side. You better believe they've been trying to capture the East for centuries, which is what the source of Russo-European and Sino-European tensions have been about since 1688 and Continental forerunners even longer than that. Shogun and Taipan look differently in light of this proto-corpo structure of Imperial control, which John Perkins wrote about since 2005 (see Confessions of an Economic Hit Man).
This is how you get things like Heads of State or (where relevant) Heads of Government (e.g. the UK) with no true power, and thus why Yes, (Prime) Minister was revelatory as much as it was comedic- as was House of Cards for drama. It also explains legislatures that don't do what the majority wants, but instantly ignore all laws and impose their will upon a populace without even trying to pretend they have a mandate, as well as judiciaries that will rule in favor of outright criminality or against native populations regardless of established precident or law- to the point of displaying seditious or treasonous contempt.
Find the Daggermen holding the knives. Find the Coincounters controlling the accounts. Then you'll find the Imperators, and their removal will cut the strings of those in their thrall- this is what we believe is how Maduro got snatched out of Caracas instead of blown up like the Ayatollahs are; the former got his strings cut, the latter did not.
As a parting remark: remember that I do not think of Russia or China as Good Guys; they are rival thralls of Empire, buth both are Land Powers and Globohomo has always been a Sea Power. It is interesting, therefore, that we are seeing an Out Of Context solution being applied: The Air Power Conception. (More of these distinctions another time, which will also be building out from EM's language on the matter.)
Empire is Over. Vox Day is wrong.