The Deep State Is Scared

Psychotropics help some conditions.

I loved the first Matrix movie and was sorry the creators could not find some way to productively elaborate the metaphor.

But, certainly, if you are enbubbled, illusion can be fun. If you are a grinding gear or being ground or just living in co-existence with a grinding gear, not-so-much. I wish I lived an Instagram life.

So is it better to have Trump or Harris in power? Those are our only two options although I’ll likely throw my vote away on Jill Stein.

And in 2016, Cheney supported Trump, https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/06/politics/dick-cheney-donald-trump/index.html although Trump said pretty much the same things back then i.e. that he was going to drain the swamp, etc, etc. We all know what happened afterwards, the swamp didn’t get drained, and instead it’s Trump who got carried out in the 2020 election.

All this talk about Trump making a major change is just nonsense. Trump has a ton of family members and that makes him vulnerable. If Trump is really serious about confronting the Deep State, all it takes is for some Deep State operative to hurt Dear Ivanka, and Trump will immediately see the light. Making a fundamental change in the US will require a “monster”, someone who will be willing to sacrifice anything and everything for the country, someone who will go down in the immediate history as a truly Machiavellian figure. If you think Trump is anything close to that, then I have a couple of bridges to sell you.

Trump is not some kind of Messiah, he’s a 78 years old guy who will soon start losing most of his marbles if not already. The number of right wing schemes that’s predicated on Trump being alive for the next 10 years or so is frankly laughable, like the guy can go to the toilet at night and slip on the floor and hit his head on something and be dead in short order, and then what? An idea is bullet and toilet slip proof, a human being is not.

Before anyone accuses me of being a fan of the Democrats, I’ll just say that I despise both equally.

I had always understood ” Deep State” to refer to the persons and groups who killed Kennedy, X , King, Kennedy and possibly numerous others. And then arranged the coverups and the perception management afterwords.

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty referred to the action-taking parts of the Deep State as the “Secret Team”. He wrote a book about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Team

Canadian Journalist and blogger Jeff Wells wrote many blogposts about various aspects of the policy-setting and orders-giving parts of the Deep State at his Rigorous Intuition 2.0 blog. Here is an article he wrote about one little aspect of Deep State policy, command and control. https://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/01/patterns-of-force.html
There are lots of good articles there.

For a long time Americans were stuck at the level of ” I don’t know much, but I suspect lots of things.” And there was the saying, ” Americans are allowed to believe anything. They just aren’t allowed to know anything.” Now that Americans are beginning to “know things” and “spread that knowledge around”, the various Establishments are all co-operating on trying to build a new Censorship-Industrial Complex all around us.

What Willy referrences Trump as having called the Deep State/ The Swamp was just some handy scapegoats Trump offered people to be scared of. What the Republicans/
Steve Bannon mean by “Deconstruct the Administrative State” is to deconstruct and hopefully abolish the EPA, FDA, and other agencies and departments involved in offering some small safety and etc. regulations and protection to Americans within the scope of what their Business Captors have decided to continue to allow. ” Deconstruct the Administrative State” means end these protections and regulations totally and altogether. Make it completely legal for the business community to fill the air with cancer gas, fill the water with cancer juice and cover the food supply with magic cancer dust, out in the open and legally legally legally. That’s what a Trump re-election will bring us.

A Harris election may well bring us World War Nuke with Russia or maybe Russia-China both. it may not. How small is the risk and is it worth running in order to buy 4 years of social semi-peace which people in different areas can use to build Survivalism in those different areas?

What Grim Jim calls the Deep State is what I would call the Inertial PermaGov. If it disappeared would America become one big Shit Holestan? Maybe. Preparing to survive a Shit Holestani future is what I mean by “building Survivalism”. It is worth remembering that it took the various Elites several decades of patient social and economic dismantlement-engineering to bring America to the point where crash of the Deep State and the Inertial PermaGov would usher in the Shit Holestani future.

Perhaps if a majority of American potential voters were still to vote, that might prevent the Deep Staters and High OverWatchers from realizing just how restless the natives are getting. And perhaps that “failure to realize” might buy us time in the shadows of Elite Imperception to build Survivalism where we are.

I wouldn’t even use the term “deep state” as the right itself (who are the ones who gave the term currency) have moved on to half the time using the term for civil servants.

No, most civil servants aren’t part of any secret cabal, they are just the government as it is actually implemented in practice. And how it works everywhere. Nor do they have anything to do with Dick Cheney. But that’s where the right is now.

SocalJimObjects,
It’s not Trump that’s the worry. It’s the more intelligent of his handler/manipulators (conservative judges and Supremes being good examples) that’s the worry. They’re clearly preparing to replace Trump with something truly theocratic, more horrifying, and much, much longer lasting.

The Cheney wing, which successfully handled/manipulated W, did so to their own satisfaction with their old system, backed by their own plutocrats who are likely competing with Trumps plutocrats for power.

It will never NOT blow my mind that “we” seem to believe such people as Dick Cheney (and other VIP members of the Deep State Dinner Club) are always sincerely transparent in word and deed, *never* do or say things for effect and *never* do or say things to f*ck with us Serfs, or to nudge us, one way or another, on a chess board we remain naively blind to. All I need to do is see two rather blatant skits, in as many months, meant to imply, to the viewers at home, that Der Bumble Trump is “dangerous”… before I suspect that Der Bumble Trump is the beneficiary of a plot to make him seem (for whatever reason) sexier. Why? I shudder to think. But not because Der Bumble Trump is “dangerous” to anyone but his unregistered illegal domestic staff…

Trump and his people plan to rip the entire establishment of career bureaucrats out at the roots.

They will replace some of it, a small portion of it, entirely with people who are chosen not for their abilities, not for their merits, but entirely for their loyalty to Trump.

Most of these will be white, young, and marginally educated legacies from all the “right” families and political groups.

Imagine the entire bureaucracy replaced with young, nattering Aileen Cannons, Faux News bleach blonde wannabes, and Elon Musk devotees.

None with any skills, training, or experience other than kissing Trump’s ass and parroting his handlers.

The USA will be a laughingstock.

Imagine them trying to renegotiate treaties based on Trump’s history of handling contracts, while spouting all the lies and BS just like Trump?

International trade and law will break down in a matter of weeks.

And that’s not even considering the disaster that will befall the states, as they plan to get virtually every program that regulated interstate trade and every program that provides tax dollars back to the states.

They plan to eliminate the IRS and replace it with tariffs on goods from China.

That’s all just the opening shots.

It is to laugh.

Sites like Naked Capitalism and Aurellien have run articles documenting the ongoing and unstoppable decline in the level of executive competency in the West. The US foreign policy has been a disaster for the last two decades under various administrations, the CDC likewise bombed public health under both Trump and Biden, and lest we forget, companies like Boeing and Intel which used to be world class are pretty far along the enshittification process. When people tell me that there are “intelligent” people waiting in the wings to serve the country or Trump is going to replace competent people with political sinecures, they’d better provide some undeniable proofs that there’s still a sizeable number of competent people in the US. Right now, from my point of view, Americans are nothing but exceptional in crafting and pushing mostly false narratives, and that’s about it. Google, Facebook, Big Data tech, AI, they are nothing but narratives packaged in fancy wrappings.

Re: competency, you are mistaking corruption for incompetency. The common bureaucrats do what they are told, and are generally competent in getting things done, even if it is overall corrupt, and immiserating the masses… Because that is the plan, because rich, wicked, greedy bastards are in control.

Is there food on your table? Gas in your car? Can you drive between towns without a significant chance of being killed by highwaymen or rebels? Can you expect the power and water to be running tomorrow? Can you buy something on eBay from Europe and expect it to get shipped to you? Can you expect the crap you buy at WalMart to be on the shelves when you go there? These are not the result of merely capitalism, for that to work you need ground rules, organization, and judicious use of force. That’s government, in the case of the US.

All this stuff is enabled by the US government, which is sufficiently competent to get all the basic shit done. If you doubt this, and truly think that the US government is incompetent, there are plenty of other governments that are not for you to see how truly enshittified things could and can and will get here in the US when the government has truly fallen into incompetency.

Incompetent? Hardly. Corrupt? Certainly! But never mistake the two.

Re: routines, Trump’s people plan to root those out, entirely, as with the current bureaucrats, and build their own. The fact that those routines will be complete pie in the sky nonsense does not matter. You want to see a truly incompetent AND corrupt bureaucracy? Wait till Trump’s people take over.

I’ll take competent and corrupt over incompetent and corrupt any day.

The ‘deep state’ begins with military/intel and media. This is how you take over a country! The pols and bureaucrats proceed from that.

Most major corporations also have their own ‘intel’ which overlaps with state intel. They are part of ‘the deep state’ as well.

There are various levels of actors within. Obviously certain pols have more access to more things depending on their position. Your local rep doesn’t know what Schumer knows. The heads of National Security will know more about the entire goings-on then others.

Levels of security clearance and the specifics of what a security clearance allows access to are never talked about, but are very very important. If a former pol-turned writer boasts that they had a security clearance, that doesn’t tell you anything at all. Nothing. But this is somewhat common practice.

Operatives may get ‘turned’ or they may pretend to be ‘turned’ while still actively working for their original side. This is where it gets really messy. And of course there are rogue players who work independently but who overlap with others, like Max von Sydow’s Joubert in Three Days of the Condor.

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‘Julian Assange’ (Julian Paul Hawkins) is a superhero to many on ‘the left’ as well as many ‘free speech libertarian’ types. It’s interesting to note that Assange was introduced to the world via pieces in both The Guardian and a US mainstream periodical. The alleged independent hacking mastermind showed up wearing thousand-dollar suits.

Julian Assange’s history and background are never seriously broached by anyone in these circles. That is by design. Assange was raised for years in a cult in Australia called ‘The Family’ which his mother was intimately involved with.

Caitlyn Johnstone, an obvious propagandist of some sort much like ‘China expert’ Danny Haiphong, wrote a piece allegedly intended to ‘debunk’ the idea that Assange is a CIA agent. Johnstone asks how could Assange have been an “CIA asset-limited hangout” and also be imprisoned in Belmarsh, awaiting extradition to the U.S?

Oh dear, Caitlyn. You’re not seriously asking a question as stupid and phony as that, are you? This must be some form of ‘leading’ question.

Who knows what’s going on here, as Assange (who began his hacking with the handle ‘Mendax’ which means ‘liar’) could just as easily be a Russian agent, given all his past travels and contacts in Russia, his former Russian girlfriend, his intimate involvement with the Russian intelligence-linked German ‘Chaos Computer Club’ that featured ‘PENGO’ and which sold stolen US military secrets to Russia.

I’m of course not here to defend ‘the empire’ which I largely despise, but there is definitely a lot more going on with old ‘Julian Assange’ then we will ever know. Assange’s disinterest and outright hostility to investigating the obviously fraudulent 9/11 event was infuriating, but then I still took the man seriously back then:

“I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.”

Sounds like Noam “if there was a flight (with Israeli operative and noted child rapist Jeffrey Epstein) which I doubt” Chomsky.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100720202218/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/features/wanted-by-the-cia-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-14880073.html

Caitlyn Johnstone, incidentally, is another of these fascinating ‘anti-empire’ ‘commie’ personages that get rolled out to regularly craft these neat little invectives designed to both nudge her audience…and keep them in line. She plays her role and her side of the game pretty well.

Oh yeah: ‘Wikileaks’ contained nothing substantive on Israel. Nothing.

John Young of Cryptome, itself a shadowy endeavor that doesn’t seem to amount to much for we mere mortals in the end – Young said that Wikileaks was essentially worthless from the get-go. He’s the one who was intmately involved with it in the early days and published Wikileaks’ own internal messages.

Now, just because he’s outing the silly ‘Julian Assange’ doesn’t mean Young himself should be trusted or taken seriously:

“There are no secrets that shouldn’t be published,” Mr. Young said. He doesn’t believe that Cryptome or WikiLeaks has published risky secrets. “Only low-grade stuff like what WikiLeaks does, but they just exaggerate it.”

His dream leaks: The IAEA, the Red Cross, tax authorities, banks and the Vatican. “Go down the list of all the sacred cows and say, ‘Open them up.’ That stuff will come someday but not easily and it will be fought over fiercely.”

https://archive.ph/xY4VZ

If you read the entire article and you have some idea how this ‘deep state’ thing works you’ll come away knowing that Young and Assange are both stooges. Young ultimately likes Assange and has privately experienced the man as ‘funny’ – a trait he not only never exhibits publicly, but one that he probably couldn’t fake if he tried. According to John Young, Assange doesn’t like ‘pretentious people’ depsite being an utterly pretentious personage himself.

The IAEA and the Red Cross mixed in with the Vatican and the generic ‘banks.’ Uh huh. Thanks John, you worthless, self-absorbed piece of sh*t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome

The bottom line is that no one who plays a role in the deep state is scared, If they are high level they are very well protected. Then the lower one goes down the totem pole the more difficult it would be to identify a person’s role in the deep state. Whether at the top or the bottom of the deep state everyone who plays a role can deny their own guilt by pointing their finger at someone else and claim that they are the ones responsible for evil policies being carried out.
There is not much room for optomism that justice will prevail in the next 10 years. Even less room for optomism that justice will prvail in a longer run. The best that we can hope for is that the Russians and Chinese can spoil the wet dreams of the western deep state members. But the odds of that are less than 50-50 because in the short term BRICS nations are at even greater disadvantage due to climate change than the western empire nations. In the medium term nothing will survive.
I do not take pleasure in reporting that hope for any kind of sustainable future let alone a just sustainable future has become extinct. But what we plan to do with our lives in the shot term future should be based upon realistic assessments not based upon fantasies.

I would recommend some of the commentators above to read Aurelien’s piece War in dreamland, https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/war-in-dreamland, about how we let our thoughts be ruled by ancient myths. For example the myth about the Evil potter, the myth about the Mastermind, the myth about the Conspiration etc.

And not only we! It seems that the politicians are governed by the same myths. They also believe in conspiracies, evil plotters and masterminds. Otherwise much of their blundering would be incomprehensible.

And concerning the “deep state” – the term was invented to cover the sum of the routines of the state, never mind who handles them. The routines are put together through ages, and are now so complicated that nobody understands why the result of the routines is as lousy as it is. They can be re-negotiated, though, but that is equivalent to revolution.

“I don’t necessarily dislike managed reality. I’ve seen direct reality and experienced a bit of it myself and it ain’t all its cracked up to be. I’d just like better managers.”

I’m not even sure what this is supposed to mean. But reality is reality. Dislike it all you want, but in the end the only sensible course is to interact with it as it actually exists. Delusions or filters are not conducive to survival.

Are we really paying trillions upon trillions of dollars for abject incompetence and imbecility so utterly implausible that it’s beyond a bad movie at this point? This movie isn’t ‘so bad it’s good.’ It’s just really really bad. Rich Koz won’t even show it on Svengoolie.

How bad is it?

Returning briefly to the Belfast Telegraph article on Julian Hawkins, whose hero image has been implanted in so many well-meaning people’s psyches:

“The US has wanted him for questioning since March, after he posed a video showing an American helicopter attack that left several Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists dead.

Understandably, he now avoids the US, and keeps his movements secret, though it’s thought he operates out of Sweden and is spending time in Iceland, where a change in the law is creating a libel-free haven for journalists. But if the CIA spooks wanted him that badly, couldn’t they have turned up, as a hundred adoring student journalists did, to hear him talk at the Centre for Investigative Journalism 10 days ago?

Now, returning briefly once again to ‘Osama Bin Laden’ let’s quickly review:

In the months and years prior to 9/11 ‘Osama Bin Laden’ was on the CIA’s Most Wanted List. In fact, the page featuring ‘Usama Bin LADEN’ remains on ‘the company’ website to this day:

https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/02/020D20B822429AA8AD3287FA3F19CA54_rjfenglishq16caps.pdf

Usama was worth a cool $25 mil, as was Zawahiri. Bringing Mullah OMAR in would net you $10 mil. Any of the other guys are only worth $5 million. I guess to the superheros who eventually bring these guys in, those guys are a little easier – sort of like your odds are better with the scratch-off lottery tickets versus the bigger payouts.

Oh yeah: Everybody on the list is Arab and/or Muslim, including the white dude. Evidently, there’s not much else going on of note with anybody else in the entire world.

Continuing this script: Supposedly in 1997 a CNN reporter ‘found’ Osama Bin Laden, took a television camera crew with him into Osama Bin Laden’s hideout and interviewed him and his top leadership – his top lieutenants and colonels and generals and what have you.

Now, isn’t this a little strange? The most powerful intelligence apparatus in the history of the world cannot find the man for years and years and years but a reporter and his camera crew waltz right into his hideout and interview him?

This tells us two things: Either everyone in the intelligence community and all the intelligence agencies of the United States are blithering idiots and incompetent fools, including the entire apparatus of the FBI and its personnel.

Or they’re lying to us.

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If you’re interested in helping the US and the world fight bogeymen, the Rewards for Justice program might be for you:

“The Rewards for Justice (RFJ) mission is to generate useful information that protects Americans and furthers U.S. national security. The program offers rewards for information on terrorism, foreign-linked interference in U.S. elections, foreign-directed malicious cyber activities against the United States, and the financial mechanisms of individuals engaged in certain activities to support the North Korean regime.”

They’re specifically looking for a whole lot of Russians, some ISIS-K, and a one Mr Rim Jong Hyok of North Korea:

https://rewardsforjustice.net/

Simply click on “Submit a Tip” and you’ll be entered for a chance to catch a really really bad guy.

I’m going to submit everything I have on Netanyahu et al. And the Office of Special Plans. Let ’em know the ADL has infiltrated the FBI, and frankly much of their own apparataus is quite obviously infiltrated by Israel and its people.

This should certainly qualify, as “the program offers rewards for information on terrorism, foreign-linked interference in U.S. elections, foreign-directed malicious cyber activities against the United States, and the financial mechanisms of individuals engaged in certain activities to support…” Well, in this case Israel. But that shouldn’t matter, right? Terrorism is terrorism.

I hope my goodwill in the interest of the naton is received well by our friends at the CIA.

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“When they do it, it’s terrorism. When we do it, it’s fighting for freedom.”

Philip Taubman is currently a lecturer at the “Center for International Security and Cooperation” at Stanford University. Prior to this, he was reporter and editor at the NY Times, specializing in national security issues, specifically intelligence and defense policies and ops. Back in early May of 1981 the NY Times ran an article penned by Taubman entitled “U.S. TRIES TO BACK UP HAIG ON TERRORISM.”

The article was presented as a “Special to the New York Times.”

it begins, “In late January, eight days after the inauguration of President Reagan and three days after the new Administration’s first Cabinet-level meeting on terrorism, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. accused the Soviet Union of ”training, funding and equipping” international terrorists.”

The article next states: “His words caught the Government’s intelligence agencies by surprise.”

Really?

The article then goes on to say, “Now, three months later, with resistance to terrorism firmly established as a main focus of foreign policy, the agencies are still scrambling to catch up with Mr. Haig’s comments, intelligence officials said.”

There is an abundance of ‘deep state’ activity that can be gleaned from this prominent article printed in the Spring of Reagan’s first term, but I’d like to focus specfically on one ‘deep-state’ player in particular, and a potential op most likely intended to create administration policy:

“Mr. Haig has not identified the evidence that formed the basis for his remarks. Friends said that he had received briefings on terrorism from Western European intelligence services when he served as the commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in the late 1970’s. They said that he might also have been influenced by the work of Claire Sterling, whose book, ”The Terror Network,” speaks of alleged links between terrorist groups and the Soviet Union.

Mr. Haig is said to have particularly strong feelings about terrorism because he was the target of an unsuccessful terrorist attack in Belgium in 1979.”

Claire Neikind Sterling has been promoting terror as a ‘terror expert’ for decades. She’s a member of the CIA-linked CSIS where she worked with Michal Ledeen and acted as a bridge between elements of Italian intel and US intel. Sterling attended the 1984 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism.

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib278997

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Sterling

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