What intelligence whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and others have revealed about the scale of human surveillance worldwide was not a revelation to me. Research these subjects at any length and to any depth and you will know that there are two worlds, the seen and the unseen, operating in the same 'space' while masquerading as one.

First there is the world that humanity in general experiences as the seen. This is where governments are chosen by the ballot box through something called 'democracy' and from this come laws and regulations that apply to everyone, including governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, military, and so on. This world doesn't really exist in any form except in theory and the structure of government and 'democracy' in all its expressions is there to control the population, not to hold itself to account. The 'laws' apply only to the 'little people', with increasingly rare exceptions, while the other world does as it likes.

It is the realm of Satanism, secret societies, semi-secret groups, banks and corporations that dictate public policy and the direction of human society by imposing the laws from the shadows which, in the world of the seen, appear on the surface to be the work of politicians accountable to The People through open debate and elections.

In this realm of the unseen there are no laws or checks and balances on unfettered power. It is, after all, the realm created by unfettered power to infinitely expand unfettered power. In short, it does whatever it wants without challenge or accountability, except in the sense that lower levels of the unseen are strictly accountable to those above them.

The unseen hierarchy is accountable only to itself and not at all to the hierarchy of the seen that we see as governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement and military. Once you realise this there is nothing in theme that even an insider like Edward Snowden can tell you that is not already obvious, a gimme.

The fact that so many – not least in the media – have reacted with shock and outrage shows just how firewalled the unseen is from the perceptions of the seen. I share the outrage, but not the shock.