I was thinking (always a dangerous thing), instigated by this reminder (http://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-can-you-trust) of what Our Masters clearly have in store for us.
As Kunstler says, "I think they are working overtime at that because the sore-beset citizens of Western Civ are onto their game, and getting restless about it. So, the Geneva cabal is in a race against time before the center pole of their circus tent collapses and the nations of the world are compelled to follow the zeitgeist in the direction of de-centralizing, foiling all their grand plans." Of course, it could also be that they are space aliens. But Occam's Razor suggests we go with thesis #1. And see what it suggests.