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Kunstler: The Deepening Deep State
One amusing angle on the news media broadside about Russia “hacking” the US election is the failure to mention — or even imagine! — that the US incessantly and continually runs propaganda psy-ops against every other country in the world. And I’m not even including the venerable, old, out-in-the-open propaganda organs like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe (reminder: the Iron Curtain came down a quarter century ago). Do you suppose that nobody at Langley, or the Pentagon, or the NSA’s sprawling 1.5 million square foot Utah Data Center is laboring night and day to sow confusion among other societies to push our various agendas?
The main offensive started with The Washington Post’s publication on Nov 26 of “The List,” a story calling out dozens of blogs and web news-sites as purveyors of “fake news” fronting for Russian disinformation forces. The list included Zero Hedge, Naked Capitalism, and David Stockman’s blog. There were several whack-job sites mixed in the list for seasoning — The Daily Stormer (Nazis), Endtime.com (Evangelical apocalyptic), GalacticConnection (UFO shit). The rest range between tabloid-silly and genuine, valuable news commentary. What else would you expect in a society with an Internet AND a completely incoherent consensus about reality?
Pretty obviously, the struggle between mainstream news and Web news climaxed over the election, with the mainstream overwhelmingly pimping for Hillary, and then having a nervous breakdown when she lost. Desperate to explain the loss, the two leading old-line newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, ran with the Russia-Hacks-Election story — because only Satanic intervention could explain the fall of Ms. It’s-My-Turn / I’m-With-Her. Thus, the story went, Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC), gave the hacked emails to Wikileaks, and sabotaged not only Hillary herself but the livelihoods of every myrmidon in the American Deep State termite mound, an unforgivable act.
Also interestingly, these newspapers and their handmaidens on TV, were far less concerned as to whether the leaked information was true or not — e.g. the Clinton Foundation donors’ influence-peddling around arms deals made in the State Department; the DNC’s campaign to undermine Bernie Sanders in the primaries; DNC temporary chair (and CNN employee) Donna Brazille conveying debate questions to HRC; the content of HRC’s quarter-million-dollar speeches to Wall Street banks. All of that turned out to be true, of course.
Then, a few weeks after the election, the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 6393, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. Blogger Ronald Thomas West reports:
Section 501 calls for the government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”
The measure has not been passed by the Senate or signed into law yet, and the holiday recess may prevent that. But it is easy to see how it would empower the Deep State to shut down whichever websites they happened to not like. My reference to the Deep State might even imply to some readers that I’m infected by the paranoia virus. But I’m simply talking about the massive “security” and surveillance matrix that has unquestionably expanded since the 9/11 airplane attacks, creating a gigantic NSA superstructure above and beyond the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense’s DIA, and the hoary old FBI.
A little paranoia about the growing fascist behavior of the US government is a useful corrective to trends that citizens ought to be concerned about — for instance, the militarization of police; the outrageous “civil forfeiture” scam that allows police to steal citizens cash and property without any due process of law; the preferential application of law as seen in the handling of the Clinton Foundation activities and the misconduct of banking executives; the attempt to impose a “cashless society” that would herd all citizens into a financial surveillance hub and eliminate their economic liberty.
These matters are especially crucial as the nation stumbles into the next financial crisis and the Deep State becomes desperate to harvest every nickel it can to rescue itself plus the cast of “systemically important” (Too-Big-To-Fail) banks and related institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are about to once again be left holding colossal bags of worthless non-performing mortgages, not to mention the pension funds and insurance companies that will also founder in the Great Unwind that is likely to commence as Trump hangs his golden logo over the White House portico.
12 Comments on "Kunstler: The Deepening Deep State"
makati1 on Mon, 5th Dec 2016 8:50 pm
I can already hear the sound of those gestapo boots on American streets:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Hubert on Mon, 5th Dec 2016 9:11 pm
America has always been a Nazi State. Some brain-dead zombies are beginning to wake up the real nightmare.
Dredd on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 4:18 am
Climate change will likely be an issue that triggers military intervention (Will Elections Cure The Disease? – 3).
The Exxonmobile CEO nominated as Sec. of State has said “I am not an American company” (MOMCOM: The Private Parts).
Anonymous on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 4:52 am
Lol mak. There are hardly any (actual) socialists left in amerika. Plenty of fake ones to be sure. And the few they are, dont worry the deep state at all.
The trade unionists. Another good one. Their senior membership are co-owned by the mafia and the other mafia, uS corproations. The rank and file? Membership at all time lows and do what the leadership tells them to. Which is dont rock any boats.
Coming for the jews eh? That the best one of all. The jews own the place lock and stock. They are the ones sicking the dogs and jackboots on everyone else these days, not the other way around.
The old canard might have be relevant at one time, but those days are long past.
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 5:31 am
Kunstler is smart enough to adapt to the new reality since November 9. Although he was critical of both Trump and Clinton before the election, if you cared to read between the lines, Kunstler had a clear preference for Clinton. Kunstler is taking his loss now and doesn’t waste time pushing a dead horse.
America has always been a Nazi State.
That is such an ignorant remark. In reality the US deep state has always been anti-white and waged war against the Euro’s by pushing mass migration from the Third World. The KKK stopped being an influential movement 100 year ago or so and these bed sheet clowns have been ridiculed by US officialdom (politics + media) ever since.
It is the same with most Americans… makati, Hubert, Kunstler and even Alex Jones: if they see something they don’t like they stamp the meaningless “Nazi/Fascist” epithet on it, completely ignoring that 700 pound gorilla in the corner of the room, the USSR. Americans and history, rolleyes, nothing but parroting Zionist media propaganda, although there are very good exceptions. Like this American I learned a lot from over the last 15 years, every article a gold mine:
www. ihr .org/main/search.shtml
Standard American practice: turn a blind eye for the horrors of communism, a terrible movement, the European nationalists sought to defend themselves against. And since you can’t defeat a monster with Mother Theresa, you have to become little robust yourself as well. And the reason why the Americans turn a blind eye against communism was because they used the USSR as an ally to destroy the European Mother Civilization and take its place at planetary pole position. And in order to morally defend that move in hindsight, Americans are obliged to picture their European nationalist opponents in the worst possible light.
In 1980 there was no other American alive who better understood what happened between 1933-1945 than Tyler Kent, the right-hand man of US ambassador to Britain Joseph Kennedy (father of JFK), who had insight in all the secret messages between Churchill and Roosevelt and who, like a 1939 Edward Snowden, tried to warn the American public that Roosevelt and Churchill were busy maneuvering the British and Americans into a war with Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_nSF4fQk2c
[2:15-4:24]
The cultural-Marxist BBC tracked the impoverished Tyler Kent down in the US South and were so imprudent to make a documentary about him, providing ammo to right-wingers to attack the official WW2-story as constructed at the victors trial in Nuremberg (“notoriously noble Americans and Soviets liberating Europe from evil Natzis”) and replace it with a more realistic story (“kosher dominated Americans and Soviets organizing a slaughter-fest, destroying and conquering Europe and dividing the European loot between them”).
But Nuremberg is going to be defeated by the internet, bypassing the media.LMAO The Soviet era is over and the other one almost…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGJ0UkReQ4
Tyler Kent failed where Edward Snowden succeeded in warning the world of what the US deep state was/is up to.
Mr Kunstler has some remote affinity with the US deep state…
www .amazon .com/Witch-Hebron-World-Made-Novel/dp/0802145442/ref=sr_1_1
…but has (correctly) concluded that its mission (world conquest) is going to fail. Mr Kunstler would prefer to have the US deep state dismantled as quietly as possibly, without the usual upheaval.
Kunstler has an intuition about what will happen to America… a future George Soros doesn’t like:
America has fractured into three separate countries. The most colorful of these is a confederation of southern states called the Foxfire Republic, led by a former country singer named Loving Morrow. Described by Kunstler as a case of “Dolly Parton meets Hitler
(From a review of Kunstler’s “A History of the Future”)
(I think that the future of European America is the Mississippi basin), see map Wikipedia article Mississippi river.
makati1 on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:33 am
Anon, I don’t think they were talking about specific groups as much as the idea that, If you don’t stand up when others lose their freedoms, you are bound to lose all of yours when the time comes. And, it IS coming. It gets more obvious every day, if you are not blinded by propaganda and bullshit.
makati1 on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:55 am
”Amerika, Banana Republic or Snowflake Kingdom?
“How U.S. Colleges Sell Enrollment to the Highest Bidders”
Banana republic: “Everything is for sale.”
“Students Demand “Sanctuary” From Immigration Laws, Student Loan Debt, And Finals”
America’s future leaders?
“Several students said they would like to make the campus a “sanctuary” from student loan debt, while others favored exemptions from underage drinking laws.
Some students even felt they should be given a pass on final exams due to the stress of the election, explaining that “it’s really hard to focus on your studies when there’s so much else going on.”
I would tell that person that if he/she cannot concentrate, then they should quit college and get a job at McDonalds and see if anyone gives a damn how they feel. LOL
Hubert on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 9:29 am
@Cloggie,
E-lites do not care whether you’re white or black or green. The 1% that rule the world only care about themselves.
Kennedy to 911: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 2:01 pm
Even the internet’s top bloggers can’t agree on Trump, everybody is guessing:
William Engdahl thinks Trump is fake:
http://journal-neo.org/2016/11/25/the-dangerous-deception-called-the-trump-presidency/
The Russian-Dutch blogger The Saker says that Trump “could” be for real:
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/is-donald-trump-really-only-a-showman-who-will-prepare-the-usa-for-war/
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 4:14 pm
Oh look alt right Trumpateers. Bid Daddy is using his rich Jew boy son in law to promote the use of the police state to shut down any dissent.
Troubling op-ed in Trump in-law’s newspaper calls for FBI crackdown on anti-Trump protests
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/troubling-op-ed-in-trump-in-laws-newspaper-calls-for-fbi-crackdown-on-anti-trump-protests/
Hubert on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 5:39 pm
@Cloggie,
Trump is far from perfect but still better than someone suffering from Mad Cow Disease because SHE’s been torturing and muching on dead babies brain for lunch.
KURU disease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__UQQEHuRws
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Dec 2016 6:05 pm
Of course Trump isn’t perfect, but with Clinton we would have WW3 in no-time. I think that Trump is “for real”. Oh, and Trump didn’t pick his son-in-law.
Putin still has a workable relationship with Russia’s Jews. He merely rounded up those with political ambitions like Khodorkovsky and told the other ones: “look, you have nothing to fear; you can do business and even become stinking rich, but stay away from politics, this is Russia”. Trump will never go beyond this, he is no Hitler.
Trump most likely is a civic nationalist who will concentrate on working on America rather than the US empire. He already showed himself to be skeptical about NATO. He will halt immigration by building a wall and make life hard for those companies who want to move employment abroad.
But I keep saying: if he really wants to drain the swamp [wink, wink] he needs to open a thorough independent investigation into 9/11. That would be a torpedo mid ship of the MS-Neocon.