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Will the Deep State Break Trump? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on March 23, 2018 | Leave a comment

The apparatchiks and media mavens who will make a big deal out of Trump congratulation Vladimir Putin on his electoral victory will stop at nothing to oust Trump. From Patrick J. Buchanan at buchanan.org:

“It is becoming more obvious with each passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson’s authority in 1968 are out to break Richard Nixon,” wrote David Broder on Oct. 8, 1969.

“The likelihood is great that they will succeed again.”

A columnist for The Washington Post, Broder was no fan of Nixon.

His prediction, however, proved wrong. Nixon, with his “Silent Majority” address rallied the nation and rocked the establishment. He went on to win a 49-state victory in 1972, after which his stumbles opened the door to the establishment’s revenge.

Yet, Broder’s analysis was spot on. And, today, another deep state conspiracy, to break another presidency, is underway.

Consider. To cut through the Russophobia rampant here, Trump decided to make a direct phone call to Vladimir Putin. And in that call, Trump, like Angela Merkel, congratulated Putin on his re-election victory.

Instantly, the briefing paper for the president’s call was leaked to the Post. In bold letters it read, “DO NOT CONGRATULATE.”

Whereupon, the Beltway went ballistic.

How could Trump congratulate Putin, whose election was a sham? Why did he not charge Putin with the Salisbury poisoning? Why did Trump not denounce Putin for interfering with “our democracy”?

Amazing. A disloyal White House staffer betrays his trust and leaks a confidential paper to sabotage the foreign policy of a duly elected president, and he is celebrated in this capital city.

If you wish to see the deep state at work, this is it: anti-Trump journalists using First Amendment immunities to collude with and cover up the identities of bureaucratic snakes out to damage or destroy a president they despise. No wonder democracy is a declining stock worldwide.

And, yes, they give out Pulitzers for criminal collusion like this.

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74% Of Americans Believe The “Deep State” Is Running The Country, by Tyler Durden

Posted on March 19, 2018 | 3 comments

The American people are figuring out those guys and gals they elect every two and four years are really running the country. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

For the past two years, the long-running narrative, at least that promulgated by the mainstream media which continues to “explain away” Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, is that Americans had fallen for a massive, long-running fake news scam (in part aided and abetted by the likes of Facebook), which boosted Trump’s popularity at the expense of Hillary’s as part of some giant “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin (which Mueller was supposed to uncover, but has instead shifted to investigating obstruction, seemingly unable to find anything).

But what if that entire narrative is dead wrong: what if Americans have become so skeptical in the government process and structure, they never needed a “fake news” boost to vote for an establishment outsider?

According to a new poll, that’s precisely the case because a supermajority of Americans believes the faction of unelected officials, known as the deep state, is orchestrating policy in Washington, D.C. and effectively running the nation.

The Monmouth University Polling Institute found that no less than 74% of Americans believe in a “deep state” when it is described as a collection of unelected officials running policy. Only 21% do not believe this kind of group exists.

As a result of countless “conspiracy theories” being proven as facts in recent years, chief among which the Edwards Snowden revelations which exposed the NSA as nothing short of “big brother”, and the Wikileaks disclosures which revealed how the Democratic Party colluded against Bernie Sanders to promote Clinton’s candidacy and countless more such examples, fully 8-in-10 believe that the U.S. government currently monitors or spies on the activities of American citizens, including a majority (53%) who say this activity is widespread and another 29% who say such monitoring happens but is not widespread. Just 14% say this monitoring does not happen at all. Shockinly, there were no substantial partisan differences in these results.

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Drums Along the Potomac, by James Howard Kunstler

Posted on March 16, 2018 | Leave a comment

Sooner or later the whole Russiagate farce will fizzle to its inglorious end. Paying much attention to it now is like watching the end of football game where one team is ahead by six touchdowns. The Rout Is On, and its continuance says more about the people trying to keep it alive than it does about the substantive merits  of the investigation, which are paltry at best. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:

The amateur psychologist in me suspects that the more the USA heaps Russia with censorious opprobrium and punishments, the closer this floundering polity actually is to completely losing its shit. Friday morning’s front-page headline in The New York Times appears to have been written by Pee Wee Herman:

I can just hear Vlad Putin blowing a raspberry out of the Kremlin: “Nyah, nyah, nyah… I know you are, but what am I…?” We’re also informed today by that august journal that U.S. Accuses Russia in Cyberattacks on Power Plants. (Oh, wait a second, they changed the headline at 8:02 to Russia Wormed Its Way Into Access at Power Plants, U.S. Says.) Hmmmm… well, the amateur detective in me suspects that A) this is exactly the kind of bullshit that US intel excels at making up; plus B) the public was actually told last year that our intel has the ability to place any kind of cyber-footprint and time-stamp it wants on digital information, so that C) this assertion can be neither proved nor disproved.

The amateur international relations analyst in me sees in these shenanigans a desperate search for a casus belli, an excuse to go to war. But that only brings me back to amateur psychology: the US apparently wants to commit suicide. Wouldn’t war be a great idea a week after Russia announced it had new hypersonic missiles that the US can’t defend itself against?  Hmmmm. Maybe the Russians made that shit up. And maybe they didn’t. Perhaps we’d like to test that, say, by bombing a bunch of Russian military personnel in Syria, just to see what happens.

There is also the matter of the poisoning in Salisbury, UK, of the Russian Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a suspected nerve toxin, Novichok, first developed by the old Soviet military. The two remain in critical condition. A nasty bit of business. Skripal was a Russian-to-British double agent who was exchanged some years back in one of the infrequent swaps of captured intel “assets” by the so-called great powers. British Prime Minister Theresa May had a whack attack over the Skripal hit, reeling out new sanctions and booting a boat-load of Russian diplomats off-island.

To continue reading: Drums Along the Potomac

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A well fed man has many problems, a hungry man has one, by Ol’ Remus

Posted on February 13, 2018 | Leave a comment

Ol’ Remus suggests that violence is coming…against the Deep State. From Ol’ Remus at theburningplatform.com:

The deep state and their financiers are both fearful and hopping mad now that their soft coup has failed so publicly. With the appearance of legitimacy no longer in play, look for a kinetic solution kicked off with direct action by their “arms length” recruits and creations: MS13, Moslem enclaves, Black Lives Matter, La Raza, Panthers, Sinaloa, Antifa, et al. The cammie-clad opposition will react in kind, and rightly so, but the real action begins elsewhere.

As Vox Day pointed out , Detroit became “a” manufacturer of automobiles, not “the” manufacturer of automobiles when the Japanese captured the entry-level market. Poof—the spell was broken. No matter how many punitive regulations it piled up, no matter how many awards it gave itself, the carnage continued—from the bottom up. The principle is obvious and simple, no one respects an outfit that can’t protect its home turf.

This is what to look for when partisan gang and counter gang violence is breaking news. The curtain has truly gone up when associates of the deep state elite fall victim to seemingly random crimes in numbers. DC considers itself “inside the wire” yet what credibility will this have when their office managers and security chiefs are found dead in the elevator or bumped off while waiting at a traffic light or fall out of a tenth-floor window?

The intent is for the deep state and everyone else to see doom approaching like gangrene. Go-fers know their bosses are up to their mirrored sunglasses in criminal enterprises. Again, no one respects an outfit that can’t protect its home turf, including the paid help. Fear spreads fastest among peers. Expect to see a lot of sick time and other absenteeism.

An aside: a good number of mysterious deaths of mid-level operatives in DC during the Clinton and Obama years probably fall into this category. When there’s no other explanation that makes sense, keep the “horse head in the bed” notion in mind. Players know the upper levels of the DC police are a warehouse for comically inept, politicized and otherwise unemployable hacks. Recall the DC Sniper debacle and multiply by several levels of magnitude in a serious insurgency.

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What the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government, by Ron Paul

Posted on February 5, 2018 | Leave a comment

First and foremost, the House Intelligence Committee shows Americans that there is a Deep State with a deeply vested interest in perpetuating the status quo, which in the 2016 election meant getting Hillary Clinton elected, and afterwards meant discrediting Donald Trump. From Ron Paul at ronpaulinstitute.org:

The release of the House Intelligence Committee’s memo on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process set off a partisan firestorm. The Democrats warned us beforehand that declassifying the memo would be the end the world as we know it. It was reckless to allow Americans to see this classified material, they said. Agents in the field could be harmed, sources and methods would be compromised, they claimed.

Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it was far worse than Watergate. They said that mass firings would begin immediately after it became public. They said that the criminality of US government agencies exposed by the memo would shock Americans.

Then it was released and the world did not end. FBI agents have thus far not been fired. Seeing “classified” material did not terrify us, but rather it demonstrated clearly that information is kept from us by claiming it is “classified.”

In the end, both sides got it wrong. Here’s what the memo really shows us:

First, the memo demonstrates that there is a “deep state” that does not want things like elections to threaten its existence. Candidate Trump’s repeated promises to get along with Russia and to re-assess NATO so many years after the end of the Cold War were threatening to a Washington that depends on creating enemies to sustain the fear needed to justify a trillion dollar yearly military budget.

Imagine if candidate Trump had kept his campaign promises when he became President. Without the “Russia threat” and without the “China threat” and without the need to dump billions into NATO, we might actually have reaped a “peace dividend” more than a quarter century after the end of the Cold War. That would have starved the war-promoting military-industrial complex and its network of pro-war “think tanks” that populate the Washington Beltway area.

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Biggest Nunes Memo Revelations Have Little To Do With Its Content, by Caitlin Johnstone

Posted on February 4, 2018 | Leave a comment

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie had the $64 question: “who made the decision to withhold evidence of FISA abuse until after Congress voted to renew FISA program?” The issue was analyzed in “Bad People Lied to a Kangaroo Court,” and its more important than the issues raised by the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum. Caitlin Johnstone’s take, at consortiumnews.com:

The most important revelations of the Nunes Memo relate not to its content, but the political establishment’s response to its release, argues Caitlin Johnstone.

It’s fitting that the ever-tightening repetitive loops of America’s increasingly schizophrenic partisan warfare finally hit peak shrillness and skyrocketed into a white noise singularity on Groundhog Day. Right now, we’re right about at the part of the movie where Bill Murray is driving over a cliff in a pickup truck with a large rodent behind the wheel.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2017, in Washington, DC.
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If you only just started paying attention to U.S. politics in 2017 what I’m about to tell you will blow your mind, so you might want to sit down for this: believe it or not, there was once a time when both of America’s mainstream political parties weren’t screeching every single day that there was news about to break any minute now which would obliterate the other party forever. No Russiagate, no Nunes memo, no Rachel Maddow red yarn graphs, no Sean Hannity “tick tock,” no nothing. People screaming that the end is nigh and it’s all about to come crashing down were relegated to street corners and the occasional Infowars appearance, not practicing mainstream political punditry for multimillion dollar salaries on MSNBC and Fox News.

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing that Americans are starting to look critically at the power dynamics in their country, but the partisan filters they’ve pulled over their eyes are causing mass confusion and delusion. Now everyone who questions the CIA is a Russian agent and the term “deep state” suddenly means “literally anyone who doesn’t like Donald Trump.” Your take on the contents of the Nunes memo will put you in one of two radically different political dimensions depending on which mainstream cult you’ve subscribed to, and it will cause you to completely miss the point of the entire ordeal.

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Numerous and Burning Scandals Within The FBI Forces The Deep State To Further Expose Themselves, by Jon Hall

Posted on January 24, 2018 | 2 comments

Perhaps an unfortunate choice of words in the title of this article, but it’s a good article. From Jon Hall at fmshooter.com:

At the start of the week, it was revealed that – along with the 50,000 text messages originally exchanged between the FBI’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – even more messages were deleted and left unpreserved, about five months’ worth of communications in total.

Back in December, Peter Strzok ignited a firestorm after being exposed as sending anti-Trump texts to his mistress, Lisa Page, whilst part of the bogus Russia investigation being led by Robert Mueller.

Strzok was demoted and re-assigned from the Russia investigation last summer but the damage had already been done…

Strzok’s scope of power was massive. He oversaw the Clinton e-mail investigation and even interviewed Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, two of Clinton’s top aides. Strzok was also involved in the changing of the language used in James Comey’sstatement regarding Clinton’s use of a home e-mail server.

Strzok even spoke of an “insurance policy” in case Trump won the election and told Page “we can’t take the risk” of a Trump presidency.

Fox News also reports that “high-level FBI officials” allegedly had “secret society” meetings and were involved with Strzok:

The “secret society” referenced in a text message between… Strzok and… Page allegedly involved multiple “high-ranking FBI officials“…

After the claims of alleged Russian interference in our election, the fact that our own intelligence agencies were attempting to orchestrate and usurp our democracy is inexcusable – and disgusting.

As pointed out by Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC), Strzok even told Page on May 4, 2016: “Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE…” This is notable because MYE – or “Mid-Year Exam” – was the FBI’s code for the Clinton investigation…

May 4 was also the same day Ted Cruz dropped out of the race, leaving Trump the sole nominee for the Republican nomination. Going even further, Meadows also points out…

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America’s Civil War, by Justin Raimondo

Posted on January 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

A civil war rages between America’s ruling class and its supporters, and everyone else. From Justin Raimondo at antiwar.com:

It’s here, it’s real, it’s now – and I know what side I’m on

For nearly twenty-five years I have been writing in this space about war: that is, the wars we have waged against other countries. I’ve heard every possible rationalization for these conflicts, from “weapons of mass destruction” to “he’s killing his own people” to babies being bayoneted in their incubators and on down the line.

Now that I’ve reached a milestone in my career as a chronicler of this kind of folly, and thought I’d seen it all, I’ve come upon something entirely new and that totally outdid my experience and expectations: civil war in America.

Oh, and you should hear the rationales! They make George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Richard Perle come off like paragons of honesty and rectitude.

According to a coalition of forces including the Democratic party, the FBI, the CIA, and most of the “news” media, the country has been taken over by Vladimir Putin and the Russian State: President Donald J. Trump is an instrument in their hands, and the independence of the United States has been fatally compromised: the President and his top aides are taking their orders from the Kremlin.

This wouldn’t even pass an elementary course in formulaic script-writing, not to mention that gigantic plagiarism problem such a project would pose: it’s been done to death. But a lack of originality isn’t something that would stop our spooks, as dogged as they are.

Our intelligence agencies are at war with the executive branch of government, and they have been ever since Trump triumphed in the Electoral College and decisively defeated Hillary Clinton. The FBI/CIA/Deep State have been trying mightily to reverse the election results since that moment, to no avail.

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Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising, by Alastair Crooke

Posted on December 19, 2017 | Leave a comment

The US Deep State, bruised in its encounters with Trump, is looking for new ways to make trouble. From Alastair Crooke at strategic-culture.org:

It seems that we are coming to the crux: President Trump, like Reagan before him, was elected by ‘the people’ rather than by (what Paul Craig Roberts calls the ‘ruling interest groups’): “As a high official in Reagan’s government who was aligned with Reagan’s goals to end stagflation and the Cold War, I experienced first-hand, the cost of going against the powerful interest groups that are accustomed to ruling. We took away part of their rule from them, but now they have taken it back. And, they are now stronger than before”. I too, experienced something of the panic that the end to the Cold War induced amongst the ‘ruling interest groups’ — after all, American policy in the Middle East (and western Europe) was entirely dominated by an unstoppable momentum to cleanse it of all Russian influence. And then – ‘pop’ – the Soviet enemy suddenly, was ‘enemy’ no more. Yet, the ‘ruling interest groups’ were, by then, fully committed to a globalized (i.e. a culturally non-nationalist, consumerist, life-style,) rules-based, political and financial, ‘world’, shaped by the US. Serendipitously, after 9/11, terrorism emerged served to underpin the perceived need for a common defence-based, NATO-esque, global ‘order’, as the glue to America’s unipolar moment.

President Obama lay very much in the globalist ‘struggle for a democratic-liberal world’ mould, (though he did try to make the ‘ruling interests’ understand that there were limits: that there had to be boundaries to US commitments). In other words, Obama accepted the globalist premise, though he tried to mitigate some of its military impulses. Notably however, he acquiesced to re-heating the Russia ‘threat’ (after Medvedev gave place to Mr Putin (thus ending Obama’s hope to seduce Russia into the embrace of the global economic order).

To continue reading: Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising

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The Internecine Deep State Conflict Moves to Stage Two, by Charles Hugh Smith

Posted on December 1, 2017 | Leave a comment

Like SLL, Charles Hugh Smith likes trying to peek behind the Deep State’s curtain. From Smith at oftwominds.com:

It now seems evident that the Neoliberal Camp of the U.S. Deep State is highly vulnerable on an individual basis.

I tend to notice things like a year-old blog entry suddenly getting thousands of page views. The essay that received a surge of recent interest: Is the Deep State at War–With Itself? (December 13, 2016).
I’m reprinting the essay below for those interested, as nothing has emerged to change the conclusions.
That in itself reveals that the internecine war within America’s Deep State is if anything heating up as those attempting to hang a “Russian collusion” narrative on their Deep State opponents have failed to produce any proof of this collusion despite a year of effort.
Then all of a sudden big political donor Harvey Weinstein gets taken down for behaviors that have been well-known within the circles of power for 20+ years. So what changed? Why did Mr. Weinstein’s protective wall suddenly fail after serving him so effectively for decades?
But Mr. Weinstein was only the first to fall. Now high-profile figures across the mainstream media are toppling like dominoes. Doesn’t it seem a bit peculiar that all these Protected Privileged are suddenly being exposed, disgraced and removed from positions of influence and power?
Maybe it’s just random coincidence, but I doubt it. It has the scent of an intentional covert campaign. It’s well known that the mainstream media and Hollywood has been in bed with the security agencies for decades, and so it seems non-random that suddenly all these big-shots have lost their Protected Privileged Status more or less at once.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but it looks like those who played on the losing side’s team (or cheered from the sidelines) just had their privileges revoked.
Were we to speculate on the meaning of this first-sweep of the media: how about a campaign to strip the failed narrative of its media supporters? Now that everyone sees the lay of the land, the Second Stage will be to collect all the dirty laundry that’s been hidden away out of fear, and then methodically expose, disgrace and remove the next layer of media/entertainment supporters of the failed narrative.

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