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“The Deep State won.”
The
Deep State [aka: the bureaucracy, career diplomats, career government workers
(including intelligence agencies) and special interests prefer to keep the
status quo and power to themselves vs. allowing someone who has been elected,
to get in their way. The vast majority
of them in DC are Democrats & very well paid…on average, they earn twice as
much as their private sector brethren and have better benefits and retirement
packages.
Congress, over the years, has ceded too much
authority to them. They create the endless red tape which has strangled America’s
growth and competitiveness. They are the
true scourge of our nation.
Hell will break loose if/when bureaucrats lose their cushy
jobs [twice that of private sector] benefits & pensions.
Government workers aren’t an oppressed class; just overpaid
spoil -sports. Our nation has been
despoiled by unsustainable levels of government growth at all levels costing
taxpayers an arm and a leg.
For an insightful perspective, here’s a post from financial guru
and author, Bill Bonner.
The epic battle for the
soul and future of America, says Bill Bonner, is over:
“No victory parade was
held. And the Constitution was not repealed or rewritten. But the Deep State
now controls the White House, Congress, the courts (more or less), the
universities (more or less), the Pentagon, the bureaucracy, the dollar, the
budget, and the press.”
To be sure, the Deep State is not a centrally controlled organization.
It’s far more insidious than that.
Rather, says Bonner, it’s “a loose and tacit alliance of cronies, politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, experts, economists, lobbyists, the press, professors, the whole medical care complex, and the military and its contractors.”
On the surface, it’s pretty banal.
The Deep State is a bunch of people with a bunch of mouths to feed who are just doing their jobs.
Dig deeper, however…
It’s a psychic epidemic, a mass psychosis, an ideological possession.
Those who are driven by the whims of the Deep State do so at the expense of their own autonomy, individuality, and critical faculties.
One tell-tale mark of possession by the beast is that the accuser is (sometimes without even realizing) doing the exact thing they are blaming others for doing…
They are quick to cast the first stone, oddly enough, so that they can do more of the very thing they chastise in the other.
(Imagine a man stabbing you with a knife while screaming, “You’re killing me!”)
Tulsi Gabbard is an apt example.
An American veteran speaks out against the endless Middle East wars…
Only to find Clinton accusing her of being a “Russian asset.”
Ironically, Clinton has not just proved over and over in the past to be a massive boon for foreign interests (including Russia), but is also, as Gabbard rightly put it, “the queen of warmongers.”
The accuser is indeed the accused.
To be sure, the Deep State is not a centrally controlled organization.
It’s far more insidious than that.
Rather, says Bonner, it’s “a loose and tacit alliance of cronies, politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, experts, economists, lobbyists, the press, professors, the whole medical care complex, and the military and its contractors.”
On the surface, it’s pretty banal.
The Deep State is a bunch of people with a bunch of mouths to feed who are just doing their jobs.
Dig deeper, however…
It’s a psychic epidemic, a mass psychosis, an ideological possession.
Those who are driven by the whims of the Deep State do so at the expense of their own autonomy, individuality, and critical faculties.
One tell-tale mark of possession by the beast is that the accuser is (sometimes without even realizing) doing the exact thing they are blaming others for doing…
They are quick to cast the first stone, oddly enough, so that they can do more of the very thing they chastise in the other.
(Imagine a man stabbing you with a knife while screaming, “You’re killing me!”)
Tulsi Gabbard is an apt example.
An American veteran speaks out against the endless Middle East wars…
Only to find Clinton accusing her of being a “Russian asset.”
Ironically, Clinton has not just proved over and over in the past to be a massive boon for foreign interests (including Russia), but is also, as Gabbard rightly put it, “the queen of warmongers.”
The accuser is indeed the accused.
The Unwitting Agents
Deep State operatives,
“are like fish not realizing that they are in water,” Bonner writes. “All swim
along happily with the Deep State program. And if any has the wit to understand
what is going on… or the gumption to try to do something about it… he is soon
eaten up by the sharks.”
Just like in the
movie The Matrix…
Anyone who doesn’t realize they are in the Matrix-- from the right, left, or center -- can transform into an Agent at any moment.
From within the belly…
Not a single individual is able (or, more accurately, willing) to account for the consequences of their own actions (order followers!), let alone the actions of the Beast.
A healthy economy (and culture) runs on a mixture of cooperation, competition, and win-win interactions.
But the beast, and those who ride its back, can only get richer by plundering the private sector.
“There are so many mansions in this house,” Bonner writes, “the walls bulge and the nails pop. And the people who live in them have many different competing interests. But they have one single overriding common agenda – to shift power, status, and wealth from the public to themselves. And that and only that, is the reason federal spending, debt, and fake money go in only one direction – up.
Anyone who doesn’t realize they are in the Matrix-- from the right, left, or center -- can transform into an Agent at any moment.
From within the belly…
Not a single individual is able (or, more accurately, willing) to account for the consequences of their own actions (order followers!), let alone the actions of the Beast.
A healthy economy (and culture) runs on a mixture of cooperation, competition, and win-win interactions.
But the beast, and those who ride its back, can only get richer by plundering the private sector.
“There are so many mansions in this house,” Bonner writes, “the walls bulge and the nails pop. And the people who live in them have many different competing interests. But they have one single overriding common agenda – to shift power, status, and wealth from the public to themselves. And that and only that, is the reason federal spending, debt, and fake money go in only one direction – up.
“America won’t be the first nation laid low by a combination of
a Deep State, runaway spending, and a too-powerful military. The formula is
classic. From ancient Rome to modern Venezuela, the road to ruin is clearly
marked, well lit, and well trod.”
America, the Doomed?
But, is America truly doomed?
We’ll explore more tomorrow.
America, the Doomed?
But, is America truly doomed?
We’ll explore more tomorrow.
Whatever the case, one
thing is certain:
It’s never been a better
time to prepare for the worst.
“Thank God for the Deep
State,” said John McLaughlin — who for a time
was acting CIA director under the younger President Bush — last month during a
panel discussion at George Mason University.
Barack Obama’s CIA
director John Brennan, speaking on the same panel, freely acknowledged how “Mr.
Trump has this very contentious relationship with CIA and FBI and the deep
state people.”
How times have changed.
As recently as a few months ago, anyone who spoke of the “Deep State” was
dismissed as a conspiracist loon, to be outfitted with one of these...
But something about “Ukrainegate” has liberated
the establishment to drop the pretense.
“Over the last three weeks,” said a New
York Times story of Oct. 23, “the deep state has emerged from the
shadows in the form of real live government officials, past and present.”
“The concept of
the ‘Deep State’ was first applied to countries such as Turkey and Egypt,” writes Bill Bonner — who founded The Agora Companies more
than 40 years ago.
“These were places where
military-police-security insiders put screws to your thumbs, forcing you to do
as you were told. Elections changed ruling parties and their leaders. But the
real power was elsewhere.”
It was a former
congressional aide named Mike Lofgren who first applied the term to the United
States, in a 2014 essay for the Truthout website, and later a book.
“The Deep State is the
story of our time,” writes Lofgren. “It’s the thin red line that runs through
the war on terrorism, and a militarized foreign policy. Also the
financialization and deindustrialization of the economy, and a social structure
that has given us the most unequal income distribution in almost a century.”
Ponder the following...
Years before the term
“Deep State” entered popular usage, we took note of a report by McClatchy
Newspapers (Miami Herald, The Charlotte Observer, etc.)
stating that the number of Americans with “access to classified material”
numbers about 5 million.
The over-18 population of
the United States is roughly 256 million. So just under 2% of American adults
are privileged to have “access to classified material.”
In the Oceania of
Orwell’s 1984, the Inner Party made up 2% of the population.
The Outer Party made up
another 13%, and the rest were proles.
“Orwell’s division of
labor and power,” observes journalist Sam Smith, “was almost precisely
replicated in East Germany decades later, where about 1% belonged to the
General Secretariat of the Communist Party, and another 13% being far less
powerful party members.”
East Germany, with its
infamous Stasi secret police, was the ne plus ultra surveillance
state of the pre-internet era. Helluva model to be following in the “Land of
the Free,” huh?
“The Deep State is
not a homogenous or centrally controlled organization,” elaborates Bill Bonner.
“It is not a conspiracy
of spooks, meeting in secret and plotting a takeover of the country. Instead,
it includes hundreds of thousands of people who already run the country.
“It is a loose and tacit
alliance of cronies, politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, experts, economists,
lobbyists, the press, professors, the whole medical care complex and the
military and its contractors.
“There are so many
mansions in this house, the walls bulge and the nails pop. And the people who
live in them have many different competing interests. But they have one single
overriding common agenda — to shift power, status and wealth from the public to
themselves.
“That is what makes them
different from you and us: They can get richer only by making us poorer. And
that, and only that, is the reason federal spending, debt and fake money go in
only one direction — up.
“There are three legs to
the Deep State stool,” Bill continues. “One
controls the guns. Another seeks control over the voters. The third controls
the money.
“The most powerful and
dangerous of the three legs is the one Dwight Eisenhower warned about: the
military-industrial complex. It’s gotten much more complex… and much more
powerful… since Eisenhower outed it in 1961.
“The second leg is the
politically correct, mostly culturally liberal, non-‘deplorable’ elite who
dominate the universities, the media and the health, education and welfare
complex.
“Wall Street is the third
leg. It is not interested in politics. It is interested in money itself. But it
knows that today’s fake money comes from politics, and it does its part, along
with the rest of the Deep State, to keep it flowing.”
Perhaps you’re familiar
with Operation Paperclip — an effort by the U.S. Joint Intelligence Objectives
Agency in the 1940s, bringing 1,600 German scientists and engineers to America.
The aim — leveraging their knowledge to wage the emerging Cold War with the
Soviet Union.
“Although he officially
sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from
recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters,” says the History
Channel website.
“Nevertheless, officials
within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services — the forerunner to the CIA —
bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence
of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their
intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts.”
And that’s how it’s gone
ever since. In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower had ordered the CIA to cease its U-2 spy
flights over Soviet territory. CIA chief Allen Dulles ignored him, Gary Powers
was shot down and plans for an Ike-Khrushchev summit were blown up.
In early 1986, Reagan got
a letter at the White House from the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev
had been on the job less than a year, but he’d already begun his program of
epic reforms. For his part, cold-warrior Reagan felt Gorbachev was a Soviet
leader he could work with.
The letter proposed
eliminating all nuclear weapons by 2000.
Reagan mused about upping
the ante. “Why wait until the year 2000?” he asked his aides in the Oval
Office.
The Deep State swung into
action. “Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey,
who had done their best to sabotage earlier nuclear treaties, were appalled,”
wrote Jacob Weisberg in a 2016 Atlantic article. “Few others
inside the Reagan administration took the idea of nuclear abolition seriously.”
The best Reagan and Gorby
could pull off was eliminating a single class of nukes in contienental Europe,
with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987.
Which Donald Trump
withdrew from this year, swayed by his own Deep State advisers.
Reagan appointed a U.S.
Gold Commission early during his first term to investigate whether the United
States should return to some sort of gold backing for the U.S. dollar. In the
end, the Commission voted 15-2 against. (Rep. Ron Paul was one of the two
dissenters.)
During his second term,
Reagan granted a one-on-one interview to Novak at the White House. From Novak’s
2007 autobiography:
I asked Reagan: “What
ever happened to the gold standard? I thought you supported it.”
“Well,” the president
began and then paused (a ploy he frequently used to collect his thoughts), “I
still do support the gold standard, but —” At that point, Reagan was
interrupted by his chief of staff. “Now, Mr. President,” said Don Regan, “we
don't want to get bogged down talking about the gold standard.””
“You see?” the president
said to me, with palms uplifted in mock futility. “They just won't let me have
my way.”
It was Donald Regan — the
Merrill Lynch veteran who was Treasury secretary during Reagan’s first term —
who stacked the U.S. Gold Commission with supporters of fiat money.
Somehow your editor
missed this bombshell that emerged from WikiLeaks’ dump of John Podesta’s
emails in 2016, when Podesta was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign. (And I don’t miss much.)
In October 2008, Podesta
was soon to be co-chair of Obama’s transition team. He got an email from a
Citigroup executive named Michael Froman with the subject line “Lists.”
The lists were of
prospective Cabinet members. “These are the names to date that seem to be
coming up as recommended by various sources for senior level jobs,” Froman
wrote.
The list eerily
anticipated the actual makeup of Obama’s Cabinet and senior aides. Rahm Emanuel
as chief of staff. Eric Holder as attorney general. Robert Gates staying on
from the Bush administration as defense secretary. Three names were floated as
Treasury secretary — including the one who got the job, Timothy Geithner.
“This was Oct. 6. The
election was Nov. 4,” wrote David Dayen at The New Republic. “And
yet Froman, an executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the
recipient of the largest bailout from the federal government during the
financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama Cabinet, a month
before votes were counted.”
The Deep State’s attitude
was on display for all to see last week on the first day of the public
impeachment hearings.
Diplomat Bill Taylor
testified that “the official foreign policy of the United States was undercut”
by the White House’s “irregular efforts.”
Ditto for the closed-door
testimony of National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. He
carped that Trump was “promoting a… narrative [that was] inconsistent with the
consensus views of the interagency.”
(“The interagency.”
That’s how these people talk…)
Perhaps the most brazen
deep-state ploy came in the pages of The New York Times last
month — when a four-star retired Navy admiral and former head of U.S. Joint
Special Operations Command, William McRaven, declared...
If this president doesn’t
demonstrate the leadership that America needs, both domestically and abroad,
then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office — Republican, Democrat or
independent — the sooner, the better. The fate of our Republic depends upon it.
Can’t wait another year
for an election to replace him? Or even a clunky impeachment procedure? Hmmm…
Dave Gonigam
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4 comments:
Terrific insights & analysis...more folks need to read this. As always, you perform a great service to those who still care about freedom.
Saw your link on twitter & read this-DAMN GOOD!
Das is gut!
TV news is all over the board with this. Of course Leftist media paints Trump in a horrible light [nothing new about that] Overall, deep in our hearts most of us know there is too much government at every level and it is crushing the lifeblood from America's competitiveness & spirit. Far too many unelected pinheads in the kitchen screwing up the pot; eventually, it will crush itself along with the country.
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