Have you noticed how we seem to be moving from crisis to crisis? With each one comes dictatorial-like powers that present themselves with a promise from the government that their solutions are good for your protection and safety. Is it possible that these various crises are actually false flags that are really about control? Joining Jim to answer that question was William Federer. William is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc. He's the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast. He has authored numerous books including, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America?, and Socialism: The Real History From Plato to the Present. It has the subtitle, How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control.What is the concept of false flags operations? It's the staging of an event against an innocent party and the first quarter hour of the broadcast looked at this phenomenon as William took listeners through history with various examples.Another key aspect of discussion concerned Machiavellianism. This is when an individual or group creates or capitalizes on a crisis in order to consolidate control. Then there's the Hegelian dialectic. It's a triangle where you have a thesis, the opposite corner is an anti-thesis, and the top corner is a synthesis. The thesis is the starting point where everyone's getting along. Next, someone creates the anti-thesis (the crisis) to begin discord. As panic and fear sets in, people become willing to forgo certain freedoms to settle for a synthesis that's only half as bad as the discord. That becomes the new starting point.