B-Team’s false flag attack against Iran in Gulf of Oman hastens Empire’s collapse

“All empires fall, eventually.”   “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.”  ― Max Barry

The latest Deep State B-Team’s false flag attacks in the Gulf of Oman are just the latest attempt to instigate war against Iran in order to accommodate the neo-Zionist agenda of world domination.  The false flag attacks took place as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran attempting to negotiate a de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran with Trump’s blessing.  This latest lame attempt to drag America onto another war will only hasten empire’s collapse.

A war weary world is turning against the Deep State’s constant unprovoked attacks against people of the free world.  However the ignorant, brain-deadened American people, after decades of lack of free press and a bought-and-paid-for millionaire dominated congress, are unable to recognize what is obvious to anyone with internet access and a few brain cells.  From Fred Reed at The BurningPlatform:

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The View from Abroad

Americans are brought up to believe that the United States is a shining city on a hill, a light to mankind, that the world envies us for our values and freedoms, and hates us because we have them. This is ground into us from birth. Those of us now long in the tooth remember the Fifties when Superman jumped out of a window while the announcer spoke of a strange visitor from another planet fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way,” then thought to be related.

As one who has traveled much and lived in several countries, I can tell you: It ain’t so. The world does not regard America with admiration.  Today the internet profoundly affects the world’s view of America. The Web makes graphic and easily found things that in earlier times would have been out of sight from abroad.

For example, people in Kathmandu and Moscow can see horrifying and entirely truthful photos of the homeless living in piles of garbage in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and dozens of other American cities. They can read of trade conventions avoiding San Francisco because of needles and excrement on the sidewalks. Such scenes are rare even in most upper-Third World countries. To the orderly Japanese, accustomed to spotless cities and responsible government, such things are, in the strict sense of the word, incomprehensible.

Home of the brave, land of the free, the envy of the world. Just ask us. The estimated homeless population of LA is 58,000 and climbing. Swarms of flea-carrying rats, which certainly exist, are said to cause outbreaks of typhus, a medieval disease. Anyone with a smartphone can see this.

The frequent mass shootings in the United States astonish most of the world. Opening fire on a country music concert, randomly shooting to death people in a gay nightclub, seems to most of the world a breakdown of civilization. It is.  Many of these matanzas involve children gunning down their classmates. Even in a country like Mexico, accustomed to recurring slaughters of narcos by other narcos, the school shootings are a shock.

Americans are now used to things that in any other country would be unthinkable: bulletproof backpacks for high-school students, police walking the halls, metal detectors, proposals to arm teachers, “active-shooter” drills. To the rest of the world (or to Americans who were in high school in the Sixties) this is insane.

But normal in the Indispensable Country…  This is the country Americans believe the world wants to imitate. No. From outside, it seems more a country in political and cultural freefall.

To everyone else, the militarism of the United States, its absurd military expenditures, its huge number of nuclear weapons, its desire to upgrade them, to develop small tactical nuclear weapons, its preparation for nuclear war with specialized flying bunkers–seems nutty. No other country does this. None wants to. In Mexico people roll their eyes. What the hell is wrong with the gringos?

““Affectionately known as the “doomsday plane,” the modified Boeing 747 is used to transport the Secretary of Defense and is born and bred for battle. It stands nearly six stories tall, is equipped with four colossal engines, and is capable of enduring the immediate aftermath of a nuclear detonation.” The language is that of a little boy of twelve watching Star Wars. It is the attitude of much of America.

Easily found online: the racial disaster in the US, the dozens of cities with domestic Sowetos in their hearts, the huge, hopeless, entirely black regions where whites dare not walk. In these, entirely black schools turn out millions of barely literates who for the remaining fifty years of their lives will be unemployable…

Freedoms? More sophisticated readers abroad know of our intensifying censorship, the words that can get you fired, the controlled press, the surveillance. Americans know what you can’t say and who you can’t say it about. We know the police are militarized and out of control. We see the cell-cam videos of beatings. So does the world.

America’s foreign policy makes it hated in most of the world. It seems murderous, thuggish, brutal, a menace to everyone. For example, the U.S. killed over a million people in Iraq. This does not bother Americans. Since 2000 it has destroyed Iraq, Syria, Libya, enters its eighteenth year of butchering Afghans, bombs Somalia, sends troops to Africa. It militarily threatens North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, seeks to destroy the economies of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China. It sanctions Europe. No other country does this…

NUMBER OF WARS STARTED SINCE 2000 BY IRAN: O. RUSSIA: 0. CHINA: 0. NORTH KOREA: 0. AMERICA…? Number of countries openly running torture sites while talking of human rights? 1. The country with the largest prison population? The answer is left to the reader as an exercise.

Even today, many Americans speak of American Values, of the country’s devotion to democracy and human rights and freedom. Maybe Americans believe it. No one else does. The United States has a horrendous history of installing or supporting hideous dictators, supporting repressive regimes, overthrowing elected governments. Human rights? In Saudi Arabia? Israel? The world is not blind.

Americans, self-absorbed, perhaps the most historically ignorant of First-World peoples, shrugs such things off. “Oh, get over it.” Whatever it was. The nations involved do not shrug them off…

From abroad, America is a feral, amoral, remorseless empire, rotting from within, willing to do anything to maintain its dominance. From inside the U.S., it seems otherwise. Do you, an American reader, want to kill Afghans? Buy another trillion dollars of nuclear weapons? War with Iran? Russia? But Americans have no influence over what Washington does, and the world judges by what it sees.

Ouch, but so very true. “Americans have no influence over what Washington does” if we did we would be able to change directions by going to the polls and voting.  Why would a Deep State that overthrows the elected governments across the world allow Americans to choose their government?  They don’t, the election of Donald Trump as American president was a shock that the Deep State has yet to get over.  However, Trump has been neutered and the foreign policy is firmly in the hands of the Deep State’s thuggish goons who are completely out of control.    From Caitlin Johnstone at Consortium News:

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7 Reasons to Doubt US Version of Gulf-of-Oman Incident

In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time  scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, CITING EXACTLY ZERO EVIDENCE.

“This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high-degree of sophistication,” Pompeo told the press in a statement.

“The United States will defend its forces, interests, and stand with our partners and allies to safeguard global commerce and regional stability. And we call upon all nations threatened by Iran’s provocative acts to join us in that endeavor,” Pompeo concluded before hastily shambling off, taking exactly zero questions.

Here are seven reasons to be extremely skeptical of everything Pompeo said:

No. 1: Pompeo is a known liar, especially when it comes to Iran.

Pompeo has a well-established history of circulating blatant lies about Iran. He recently told an audience at Texas A&M University that when he was leading the CIA, “We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses.”

No. 2: The US empire is known to use lies and false flags to start wars.

The U.S.-centralized power alliance has an extensive and well-documented history of advancing preexisting military agendas using lies, false flags and psyops to make targeted governments appear to be the aggressors. This is such a well-established pattern that “Gulf of Tonkin” briefly trended on Twitter after the Gulf of Oman incident. Any number of government agencies could have been involved from any number of the nations in this alliance, including the U.S., the U.K., Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Israel.

No. 3: John Bolton has openly endorsed lying to advance military agendas.

I wrote an article about this last month because the Trump administration had already begun rapidly escalating against Iran in ways that happen to align perfectly with the longtime agendas of Trump’s psychopathic Iran hawk National security adviser. At that time people were so aware of the possibility that Bolton might involve himself in staging yet another Middle Eastern war based on lies that The Onion was already spoofing it.

On a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ “Freedom Watch,” Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks publications, and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up.

“Now I want to make the case for secrecy in government when it comes to the conduct of national security affairs, and possibly for deception where that’s appropriate,” Bolton said. “You know Winston Churchill said during World War Two that in wartime truth is so important it should be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.”

“Do you really believe that?” asked an incredulous Napolitano.

“Absolutely,” Bolton replied.

“You would lie in order to preserve the truth?”

“If I had to say something I knew was false to protect American national security, I would do it,” Bolton answered.

This would be the same John Bolton who has been paid exorbitant speaking fees by the pro-regime change MEK terror cult, promising the cult in a 2017 speech that they’d be celebrating regime change in Tehran together before 2019. This would also be the same John Bolton who once threatened to murder an OPCW official’s children if he didn’t stop getting in the way of his Iraq war agenda.

No. 4: Using false flags to start a war with Iran is already an established idea in the DC swamp.

Back in 2012 at a forum for the Washington Institute of Near East Policy think tank, the group’s Director of Research Patrick Clawson openly talked about the possibility of using a false flag to provoke a war with Iran, citing the various ways the U.S. has done exactly that with its previous wars.  “I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran,” Clawson began…

“So if, in fact, the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war,” Clawson continued…  We could step up the pressure. I mean look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day, one of them might not come up. Who would know why? [Smattering of sociopathic laughter from the crowd.]

We can do a variety of things, if we wish to increase the pressure (I’m not advocating that) but I’m just suggesting that this is not an either/or proposition  —  just sanctions have to succeed or other things. We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier at that.”

No. 5: The US State Department has already been running psyops to manipulate the public Iran narrative...

State Department officials admitted to congressional staff at a closed-door meeting on Monday that a $1.5 million troll farm had gone “beyond the scope of its mandate” by aggressively smearing American critics of the Trump administration’s Iran policy as propagandists for the Iranian government, according to a new report from The Independent. That “mandate” had reportedly consisted of “countering propaganda from Iran,” also known as conducting anti-Iran propaganda.

“Critics in Washington have gone further, saying that the programme resembled the type of troll farms used by autocratic regimes abroad,” says The Independent.  “One woman behind the harassment campaign, a longtime Iranian-American activist, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Department over the years to promote ‘freedom of expression and free access to information,’” the report reads.

No. 6: The Gulf of Oman narrative makes no sense.

One of the ships damaged in the attacks was Japanese-owned, and the other was bound for Japan. This happened just as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran attempting to negotiate a de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran with Trump’s blessing, and just after Iran had released a prisoner accused of conducting espionage for the U.S. in what many took to be a gesture of good faith.

Iran has been conducting itself with remarkable restraint in the face of relentless sanctions and provocations from the U.S. and its allies. It wouldn’t make much sense for it to suddenly abandon that restraint with attacks on sea vessels, then rescue their crew, then deny perpetrating the attacks, during a time of diplomatic exchanges and while trying to preserve the nuclear deal with Europe. If Tehran did perpetrate the attacks in order to send a strong message to the Americans, it would have been a very mixed message sent in a very weird way with very odd timing.

No. 7: Even if Iran did perpetrate the attack, Pompeo would still be lying.

Pompeo’s statement uses the words “unprovoked” twice and “Iran’s provocative acts” once, explicitly claiming that the U.S. empire was just minding its own business leaving Iran alone when it was attacked out of the blue by a violent aggressor. SOMETIMES THE THINGS PUT OUT BY THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT FEEL LIKE THEY’RE CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS ON US, JUST TO TEST THE LIMITS OF OUR STUPIDITY…

Either way, we have seen exactly zero evidence supporting Pompeo’s claims, so anyone you see hastening to blame Iran for the Gulf of Oman incident is either a war whore or a slobbering moron, or both. Knowing what we know about the U.S.-centralized empire and its pre-existing regime change agenda against Iran, there is no reason to believe Pompeo and many reasons not to.

“the Pentagon should start using Huawei cameras for better video quality”.

My, my my.  Caitlin is so right and I admire her grasp of the English language to put it so succinctly, “things put out by the U.S. State Department feel like they’re conducting experiments on us, just to test the limits of our stupidity” and “anyone you see hastening to blame Iran for the Gulf of Oman incident is either a war whore or a slobbering moron, or both.”  So speaking of those believing the State Department’s propaganda either being a “war whore” or “a slobbering moron” Zero Hedge is reporting on the mothership of war whores and slobbering morons who are buying this crap.

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Senators Switched Key Votes On Gulf Arms Ban Hours After Tanker Attacks

A brief report from AntiWar.com's Eric Garris suggests Thursday's tanker attack incident in the Gulf of Oman which the United States promptly blamed on Iran has directly impacted bills placed before the Senate which would ban US arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar.

Garris wrote of the vote which came hours after the Gulf tankers incident: "Both votes were considered highly likely to pass up until they were rushed to the floor today. The timing appears almost certainly to have been related to Thursday tanker bombings in the Gulf of Oman, and shifted a number of Senators’ votes in favor of continuing the arms sales." He noted THAT "SOME SENATORS SWITCHED SIDES TO KILL THE BILLS" FOLLOWING NEWS OF THE TANKER ATTACKS.

The vote, according to Defense News, indeed came very close:

The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected Sen. Rand Paul’s measures to block sales of munitions to Bahrain and Boeing AH–64E Apache helicopters to Qatar.

The vote on Bahrain was 43-56 and Qatar 42-57, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., announced their opposition Thursday. The White House earlier this week threatened to veto the measures.

The Kentucky Republican and prominent Libertarian argued passionately that the US should not be supporting authoritarian governments who are known backers of extremists and who are conducting mass atrocities in Yemen. Sen. Paul has repeatedly called on Congress and the White House to "stop arming radical jihadism".

“Dumping more weapons into the Middle East won’t get us any closer to peace,” Paul said. “A ‘yes’ vote today is a vote for sanity. A ‘yes’ vote is a vote to quit sending arms to people who abuse human rights.”

Paul especially targeted Saudi Arabia in his floor remarks, according to Defense News:

“What are they doing with all the weapons we give them? They’re bombing civilians in Yemen,” he said. “They have been using our bombs and up until recently they were refueling their bombers with our planes. We’ve got no business in the war in Yemen. Congress never voted on it. It is unauthorized, it is unconstitutional and we have no business aiding the Saudis in this massacre.”

Meanwhile the White House has defended its threat to veto on the grounds that such gulf nations remain crucial "security partners" and places where US troops and naval assets are stationed.

The idea of a block on US arms sales to Saudi Arabia — though long a little noted project of libertarians and non-interventionists — gained unprecedented momentum and visibility following last year's brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi hit team at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.

However, at a moment the push to block arms to despotic gulf nations was gaining broad public support, the new flare-up in the Persian Gulf based on Thursday's mysterious twin tanker attacks has likely now caused such efforts to be shelved for the foreseeable future.

Yep, that was the State Department’s intended target, “war whores and slobbering morons” and it was a direct hit.  As Fred Reed aptly put it, “America is a feral, amoral, remorseless empire, rotting from within, willing to do anything to maintain its dominance” that is what is left of America after the 2000 neo-Zionist coup. 

Unfortunately for America these war whores and slobbering morons who are in charge of our foreign policy are very stupid and the world knows it.  Iran as well as the rest of the world are playing “rope-a-dope” with them and they are too stupid to see their own limitations.  They are incapable of deep thought or remorse for their actions.  Trump was a fool to ever allow them near the White House and now he’s in a world of hurt, with few options.  From Tom Luongo at Gold Goats and Guns:

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Did the B-Team Overplay its Hand Against Iran? 

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has a term of endearment for Iran’s enemies, “The B-Team.”  The “B-Team” consists of U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, Israeli Prime Minister (nee Dictator) Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the UAE’s Mohammed bin Zayed.

When we look seriously at the attacks on the oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman this week the basic question that comes to mind is, Cui bono? Who benefits?  And it’s easy to see how the B-Team benefits from this attack and subsequent blaming Iran for it. With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tehran opening up a dialogue on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump the threat of peace was in the air.

And none of the men on the B-Team profit from peace in the Middle East with respect to Iran. Getting Trump to stop hurling lightning bolts from the mountain top the B-Team guided him up would do nothing to help oil prices, which the Saudis and UAE need/want to remain high.

Bin Salman, in particular, cannot afford to see oil prices drop back into the $40’s per barrel. With the world awash in oil and supply tight, even with OPEC production cuts, Bin Salman is currently on very thin ice because of the Saudi Riyal’s peg to the U.S. dollar, which he can’t abandon or the U.S. will abandon them.

Falling oil prices and a rising dollar are a recipe for the death of the Saudi government, folks. Iran knows this.  Netanyahu and Bolton don’t want peace because the U.S. fighting a war with Iran serves the cause of Greater Israel and opens up the conflict in the hopes of regime change and elimination of Iran. 

Bolton, as well, is finally feeling the heat of his incompetence and disloyalty to Trump, according to John Kirakau at Consortium News. 

Of course, a more rational person might conclude that Bolton has done a terrible job, that the people around him have done a terrible job, that he has aired his disagreements with Trump in the media, and that the President is angry about it. That’s the more likely scenario.

Here’s what my friends are saying. Trump is concerned, like any president is near the end of his term, about his legacy. He said during the campaign that he wanted to be the president who pulled the country out of its two longest wars. He wanted to declare victory and bring the troops back from Afghanistan and Iraq. He hasn’t done that, largely at the insistence of Bolton. Here we are three years later and we’re still stuck in both of those countries.

Second, my friends say that Trump wants to end U.S. involvement in the Yemen war, but that Bolton has been insistent that the only way to guarantee the closeness of the U.S. relationships with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates is to keep providing those countries with weapons, aerial refueling planes, and intelligence support.

So, couple the attacks on these tankers with the timing of Abe’s visit and the vote on Rand Paul’s bill to end selling arms to the Saudis in support of their war in Yemen (which flew through the Senate thanks to this attack getting a number of senators to change their vote at the last second) and we have a perfect cui bono.

That’s the entire B-Team’s motives distilled down to a couple of drones flying in to create a casus belli which saves Bolton’s job, keeps the weapons flowing to the murderous Saudis and creates an opportunity for Netanyahu to feed Trump bad information via his ‘intelligence’ services.

The rush to judgment by the usual suspects in the Trump administration should be all the proof you need that we’re looking at a set up to get Trump to fly off the handle which he, so far, hasn’t done.  Remember, Trump wants lower oil prices. He wants a weaker dollar and lower interest rates.

He needs the frackers in Eagle Ford and Permian to keep raising output but they keep bleeding red ink. He’s fighting the Fed as well as former directors of the FBI, CIA and ODNI via his new attorney general, William Barr.  His approval rating is high and he’s going after his political enemies now. But a potential war in the Middle East is a real problem for him.

And this is where Moon of Alabama’s Bernard comes in with his excellent analysis of the current situation vis a vis Iran. The whole article is worth your time but the money-shot, as it were, is right here:

To say that the attacks were provocations by the U.S. or its Middle East allies is made easier by their evident ruthlessness. Any accusations by the Trump administration of Iranian culpability will be easily dismissed because everyone knows that Trump and his crew are notorious liars.

This cat and mouse game will now continue and steadily gain pace. More tankers will get damaged or even sunk. Saudi refineries will start to explode. UAE harbors will experience difficulties. Iran will plausibly deny that it is involved in any of this. The U.S. will continue to blame Iran but will have no evidence to prove it.

Insurance for Middle East cargo will become very expensive. Consumer prices for oil products will increase and increase again. The collateral damage will be immense.

All this will gradually put more pressure on Trump.

Don’t forget that the U.S.’s sanctions on Iran makes it difficult for Iran to insure its cargoes. So, even if a company or country wanted to still do business with NIOC, they can’t because they can’t get insurance on the cargo  It’s been a real problem that Iran had to solve by having its own fleet of tankers which it also insures domestically to keep what oil it can export flowing. So it only makes sense to begin hitting the rest of the world via the same weapons being used against Iran.

But as Trump has ratcheted up the pressure he’s put Iran in the exact position that makes them the most dangerous. Acting through deniable proxies Iran can now drag this out as a low-grade conflict far longer than Trump can bear politically.  They don’t need to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. They just have to screw with its enemies’ ability to make a living.

The political pressure that will come to bear on a global economy imploding because of instability in the flow of oil is not something a butcher like Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is capable of handling.

Bernard calls Trump’s administration ‘notorious liars’ and that’s the key. People can look no further than the ludicrous and inept handling of the regime change operation in Venezuela and see the mendacity first hand.  That operation was so bad, culminating in the pathetic “Bay of Fat Pigs” coup attempt, that it has left every country that backed Bolton and Pompeo’s play there, including Trump himself, looking like morons.

You don’t embarrass the narcissists who inhabit high-level government offices and not suffer in some way. This is why I give a lot of credence to John Kirakou’s conclusion that Bolton being one approved candidate away from unemployment.

Firing Bolton and having Abe and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas go to Tehran are good will gestures. But Trump has let his B-Team badly mismanage this situation in the same way that he let Bolton and Pompeo mismanage Kim Jong-un and North Korea.  No one believes he’s capable of peace or showing shame. He’s left himself in no position to climb down from this position without the help of Iran itself.

This is exactly the argument I made in April of 2017 after his missile strike on Syria over a “beautiful piece of chocolate cake.” He revealed himself to be both tactically and strategically incompetent. 

He has to come groveling to them now. But he won’t. And Iran and its benefactors, Russia and China, have no incentive to come to him. He can’t keep his promises since he’s not really in charge of policy. As Ayatollah Khamenei pointed out on Twitter (oh, the irony):

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 We do not believe at all that the U.S. is seeking genuine negotiations with Iran; because genuine negotiations would never come from a person like Trump. Genuineness is very rare among U.S. officials.

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.@AbeShinzo U.S. president met & talked with you a few days ago, including about Iran. But after returning from Japan, he immediately imposed sanctions on Iran’s petrochemical industry. Is this a message of honesty? Does that show he is willing to hold genuine negotiations?

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After the nuclear deal, the first one to immediately breach the JCPOA was Obama; the same person who had requested negotiations with Iran & had sent a mediator. This is our experience, & Mr. Abe, know that we won’t repeat the same experience.

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Trump thought the B-Team was giving him negotiating leverage. But what happens to your leverage when the other person takes his chips, walks away from the table and says, “No. I won’t deal with you.”

So now the screws will be put to everyone. Trump pushed Erdogan of Turkey away over the S-400 and Putin called in his marker forcing Erdogan to end his support for Al-Qaeda in Idlib. That campaign will be slow and excruciating but it will eventually grind them out.

Iran has been handed all the cards they need to become the exact thing Pompeo, Trump and the B-Team have been accusing them of being but now with the cover of deniability and asymmetry. All of the things Moon of Alabama laid out are now going to happen even if Trump fires Bolton, pulls troops out and lifts the oil embargo on Syria, etc.

Netanyahu will scream bloody murder and up the ante until Putin slaps him down. Because now that Trump has made it clear he doesn’t want war with Iran we know there’s a limit to what Bibi can incite.  If Trump was serious about war with Iran it would have already been declared. The smoke, however, is blowing in a different direction.

Iran will retaliate here just to make the point that they can. They will make Saudi Arabia and the UAE pay the biggest price directly while Trump finally has to start thinking things through or his presidency will end badly next year.

The war of attrition against the fragility of the Western financial system will enter the next stage here. Iran, China and Russia will now, sadly, activate the weapons they have been holding back for years, hoping that Trump and his B-Team would come to their senses.

This is what happens when you let the B-Team overplay your hand for you against people who are 1) smarter and 2) more patient than you are.  And, frankly, I don’t blame them one bit. Because as the only thing that American power brokers understand is strength. And you have to hit them between the eyes with a stick to get them to respect you.

Yes indeed Max Barry is right, “All empires fall, eventually.  It’s not for lack of power. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined.”  Has there ever been a more undisciplined bunch of “war whores and slobbering morons” than those who seized power in America December 12, 2000? 

There is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans in congress they are almost all self-professed “Zionists” who serve the interests of the war whores who have seized control over the government of Israel.  I have no doubt that the people of Israel, just like the people of America do not share the bloodthirsty empire lust of their leaders.  Yet it is they and us who will suffer when the chicken hawks come home to roost.  

Spooks go nuts as the worm is turning can judgement day be far behind

The 2016 election was interfered with in a major, egregious way and it wasn’t Russia doing the meddling.  The meddling done by “Spooks Gone Wild” and was unprecedented.  Britain’s MI6, the CIA, the FBI and Israel’s Mossad combined efforts to ensure that Donald Trump would not upset the “unending war” applecart.  These “intelligence” agencies had set in place the building blocks of a coup long before the election.  Eleven days before the election when they believed Hillary Clinton would win, FBI Director James Comey reopened the “e-mail” investigation in order to fatally injure Hillary’s campaign keeping her from attaining the 270 Electoral College votes.  From Down the Rabbit Hole:

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Oligarchs cheer Comey's “hail Mary pass” to defeat Clinton & Trump on November 8^th

On Friday, October 28th just eleven days before the presidential election, the oligarchs threw a “hail Mary” pass, not to Donald Trump but to Paul Ryan, the oligarch’s speaker of the house.  The oligarch controlled congress has been teed up to decide the election should neither candidate garner the 270 electoral votes required to become president. 

Republican James Comey, Director of the FBI and oligarch’s handmaiden delivered a blow to the frontrunner in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton when he sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee stating the FBI was “reopening an investigation” into the e-mails of Hillary Clinton.  From Newsweek:  

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The disclosure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late on Friday, October 28 that it had discovered potential new evidence in its inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of her personal email when she was Secretary of State has virtually nothing to do with any actions taken by the Democratic nominee, according to government records and an official with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity.

The revelation that the FBI has discovered additional emails convulsed the political world, and led to widespread (and erroneous) claims and speculation…  The truth is much less explosive. There is no indication the emails in question were withheld by Clinton during the investigation, the law enforcement official told Newsweek, nor does the discovery suggest she did anything illegal.

Also, none of the emails were to or from Clinton, the official said. Moreover, despite the widespread claims in the media that this development had prompted the FBI to “reopen” of the case, IT DID NOT; such investigations are never actually closed, and it is common for law enforcement to discover new information that needs to be examined.

After meeting in London with CIA Director John Brennan, British intelligence prepared the “pee pee dossier” a disgusting personal attack on Donald Trump designed to sicken and revolt the American people.  Rupert Murdoch’s media breathlessly echoed every “unverified” salacious detail.  In the event the dossier failed to produce the desired effect, there was an insurance policy put in place by Paul Ryan and the “Never Trumpers.”   

Should neither Trump nor Clinton garner the required 270 Electoral College votes to win the election, the president would be chosen by Paul Ryan’s House of Representatives.  From Down theRabbit Hole:

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Debate or “Never Trump” prelude to election theft

Presidential candidate, former CIA operative and GOP House policy guru Evan McMullin revealed on Sunday the “Never Trump” plot to steal the election.

Evan McMullin, the former chief policy director for the House GOP Conference and former CIA operative laid out the “Never Trump” plot to steal the November election from Clinton and Trump.  Appearing on Wisconsin’s Sunday morning political show, Upfront with Mike Gousha, Mc Mullin revealed his backers’ plot to take the election out of the voters’ hands and punt it to the GOP controlled House of Representatives. McMullin revealed the plan is “to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from winning the Electoral College so that the election goes to the House of Representatives to choose the winner.”

GOP establishment candidate

McMullin entered the race in August as the “Never Trump” candidate with backing of the Republican establishment’s most well-known operatives Bill Kristol, John Kingston, Joel Searby and Rick Wilson.  Within days of the announcement of his candidacy on August 8, 2016 McMullin gained access to the ballots in Utah and Colorado and announced legal action would be taken against states with deadlines on or after August 15.  By August 14, the Independence Party of Minnesota declared McMullin their presidential nominee.

GOP House breaks the tie

McMullin's chief strategist Joel Searby outlined the campaign strategy on August 22nd in a memo, the campaign plans to block Hillary Clinton from reaching 270 electoral votes, thus sending the election to the House of Representatives…

Needless to say, the best laid plans of “rats and spooks” failed and Donald Trump became President.  That did not stop the spooks from using every seditious tool in their nefarious tool bag to remove Donald Trump from office.  Now the treacherous cabal is in a full state of panic, the worm is turning and Donald Trump is fighting back.   From Russia Insider:

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The RussiaHoaxers Are Headed for Grand Juries, and Prison - Fireworks Guaranteed

Not long ago, few Americans of the thinking persuasion might have imagined that such a well-engineered republic, with its exquisite checks and balances, sturdy institutions, and time-tested traditions would end up as so much smoldering goop in a national dumpster fire, but such is the sad state-of-the-union moving into the fateful summer of 2019.

The castle of the permanent bureaucracy is about to be torched by an uprising of deplorable peasants led by a Golden Golem made furious by relentless litigation. It’s Game of Thrones meets the Thermidorian Reaction with a Weimar-flavored cherry on top — really one for the ages!

There’s perhaps a lot to dislike about Donald J. Trump, US President No. 45. Despite all the grooming and tailoring, there’s little savoir faire there. He tweets not like a mellifluous songbird, but in snorts like a rooting aardvark. His every predilection is an affront to the refined Washington establishment: his dark business history, his beloved ormolu trappings, his Mickey-D cheeseburgers, the mystifying hair-doo.

Even so, the bad faith of his antagonists exceeds even Mr. Trump’s defects and vices. The plot they concocted to get rid of him failed. And, yes, it was a plot, even a coup. And they fucked it up magnificently, leaving a paper trail as wide as Interstate-95. Now all that paper is about to fall over the District of Columbia like radioactive ash, turning many current and former denizens of rogue agencies into the walking dead as they embark on the dismal journey between the grand juries and the federal prisons.

Hence, the desperate rage of the impeachment faction, in direct proportion to their secret shameful knowledge that the entire RussiaGate melodrama was, in fact, a seditious subterfuge between the Hillary Clinton campaign and a great many key figures in government up-to-and-including former president Barack Obama, who could not have failed to be clued-in on all the action. Even before the declassification order, the true narrative of events has been plainly understood: that the US Intel “community” trafficked in fictitious malarkey supplied by Mrs. Clinton to illegally “meddle” in the 2016 election.

Most of the facts are already documented. Only a few details remain to be confirmed: for instance, whether international man-of-mystery and entrapment artist Josef Mifsud was in the employ of the CIA, and/or Britain’s MI6, and/or Mrs. Clinton’s Fusion GPS contractor (or Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence company, a subcontractor to both Fusion GPS and the FBI). Questions will now be asked — though not by The New York Times.

The evidence already public indicates that Robert Mueller must have known as early as the date of his appointment (and likely before) that the predicating evidence for his inquiry was false. After all, his soon-to-be lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, was informed of that in no uncertain terms by his DOJ colleague, Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, in 2016.

Justice may seek to know why Mr. Mueller did not inform the target of his inquiry that this was so. The answer to that may be that Mr. Mueller’s true mission was to disable Mr. Trump as long as possible while setting an obstruction of justice trap — which also failed tactically.

Notice that Mr. Mueller declined to testify before the House Judiciary Committee last week. Chairman Jerrold  Nadler (D-NY) was a fool to invite him. Did he not know that minority members of his committee get to ask questions too?

In an interesting turn of the screw last week, polling showed that a majority of those asked were in favor of investigations into the origin of the RussiaGate story. The FBI, being an agency under the direct supervision of the Attorney General, will be hosed out for sure. The CIA, on the other hand, has a sordid history of acting as a sovereign state within the state — hence the derivation of the Deep State.

They are renowned for protecting their own. Remember, the Senate Minority Leader, Mr. Schumer, snidely told the incoming President Trump at the get-go that the Intel community “has six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”  I guess we’ll finally get to see about that because the CIA’s former director, the wicked Mr. Brennan, is grand jury bound. I suspect he will not be protected by his former colleagues. His downfall may presage a more thorough cleanup, and perhaps a major reorganization, of this monstrous agency.

The indictment of Julian Assange adds a big wrinkle to these upcoming proceedings. Apart for what it means to First Amendment protection for a free press (no small matter), Mr. Assange is the one person who actually knows who handed over the “hacked” DNC emails to Wikileaks. Perhaps getting the answer to that question is the real reason that the DOJ is throwing the book at him. The trial of Mr. Assange is sure to be a humdinger.

I’m convinced, personally, that all this melodrama will play out against the background of a cratering global economy, tanking financial markets, and epic disruption of the established international order. Consider laying in some supplies.

Whoa Nellie, the worm is turning indeed.  As is the norm the rats are turning on each other in a desperate attempt to cover their own asses.  Let the finger pointing begin.  From Zero Hedge:

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FBI-CIA Dispute Erupts Over Whether Comey Or Brennan Pushed Steele Dossier

A dispute has erupted over whether former FBI Director James Comey or his CIA counterpart, John Brennan, promoted the unverified Steele dossier as the Obama-era intelligence community targeted the Trump campaign.  In a statement to Fox, however, a former CIA official "put the blame squarely on Comey."

According to Fox News, an email chain exists which indicates that Comey told bureau subordinates that Brennan insisted on the dossier's inclusion in the intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference. Also interesting is that the dossier was referred to as "crown material" in the emails - a possible reference to the fact that Steele is a former British spy.

In a statement to Fox, however, a former CIA official "put the blame squarely on Comey." "Former Director Brennan, along with former [Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper, are the ones who opposed James Comey’s recommendation that the Steele Dossier be included in the intelligence report," said the official.

"They opposed this because the dossier was in no way used to develop the ICA," the official continued. "The intelligence analysts didn't include it when they were doing their work because it wasn't corroborated intelligence, therefore it wasn't used and it wasn't included. Brennan and Clapper prevented it from being added into the official assessment. James Comey then decided on his own to brief Trump about the document."

Former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy - a longtime defender of the FBI - told Fox News' Martha MacCallum on Tuesday night that "Comey has a better argument than Brennan, based on what I've seen."

In March, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested over Twitter that Brennan had "insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier" be included in the January 2017 ICA.

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 BREAKING: A high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report... Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP.

The dossier was ultimately not included in the ICA according to previous testimony by Clapper. Meanwhile, word that Comey had briefed President Trump personally on the dossier - "because he understood reporters already had that information and it could become public soon if journalists had a "news hook," according to the Associated Press. And as it so happens - the fact that Comey briefed Trump is what CNN and Buzzfeed claim legitimized their decision to publicly release the salacious and unverified dossier.

Whether the FBI acted appropriately in obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to Trump campaign aide Carter Page is now the subject not only of U.S. Attorney John Durham's new probe, but also the ongoing review by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber has been conducting his own investigation separately, although details of his progress were unclear.

As one example, in its FISA application, the bureau repeatedly and incorrectly assured the court in a footnote that it "does not believe" British ex-spy Christopher Steele was the direct source for a Yahoo News article implicating Page in Russian collusion, and instead asserted that the Yahoo article provided an independent basis to believe Steele. -Fox News

On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that he was pushing to declassify documents which would expose the FBI's dismal efforts to verify the claims within the dossier.  "There's a document that's classified that I'm gonna try to get unclassified that takes the dossier -- all the pages of it -- and it has verification to one side," said Graham. "There really is no verification, other than media reports that were generated by reporters that received the dossier."

Graham noted a report by The Hill's John Solomon that the FBI was specifically told that Steele was "keen" to leak his salacious dossier for the purpose of influencing the 2016 US election. The agency also knew that the document's claims were either unverified or disproven, yet it was used anyway against Trump and his campaign.

Clapper and Brennan are known to lie under oath before congress in the past with absolutely no consequences so why would anyone believe them now.  What a den of thieves and liars.  And just think of the lives of people who were destroyed by these “Spooks Gone Wild.”  The worm is turning.   According to State of the Nation, America is in for the “War of the Century.”  

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War of the Century Trump vs. the Deep State

COLLISION COURSE 2019: It’s gonna get ugly—REAL UGLY!

What will happen first: Trump’s IMPEACHMENT or the Swamp’s INDICTMENTS ?

At this critical stage of the American Experiment, there’s simply no stopping the Trump ship of state from hitting the Deep State iceberg.  It’s not if but when… and the deafening collision will take place very soon.  Truly, it’s getting very ugly out there with no signs of either side reversing course.  Just as Trump is determined as ever to expose the RUSSIAgate hoax, Deep State is resolved to keep it covered up.

In the lead-up to the 2020 election everything points to both sides TAKING NO PRISONERS.  That’s because only a slash and burn war strategy will secure victory, especially given the all-out war raging inside the Beltway.

Impeachment

The Democrats know that President Trump has the evidence on ALL of them to prove ongoing sedition and outright treason.  The DEMs are so desperate they’re still attempting to carry out a soft coup IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.  Therefore, short of an assassination attempt, Deep State’s primary weapon is impeachment.  Even though a Senate conviction cannot happen given the GOP majority, the DEMs need a stirring political drama to use against Trump to preclude his re-election.

Speaker Pelosi is merely biding her time before she pulls out the “impeachment card”.  When there is a critical of mass of support within the Democrat caucus, and more RINOs have joined that cause, Pelosi will call Trump in this high-stakes poker game.   It’s of paramount importance for patriots to understand that dirty cop Robert Mueller was empowered by Deep State to launch his corrupted investigation for 2 main reasons.

First, to use the DoJ to dig up dirt on Trump’s businesses that could then serve as evidence which would be farmed out to the various jurisdictions where he operated (e.g. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York).  Deep State Democrats knew the Russiagate witch hunt was utterly fake but used it as cover to go after Trump in every other way possible, which they did…

Secondly, Deep State knew from the very beginning that Trump would fall into their ‘obstruction trap’, which he did.  Even though Trump was just twittering Trumpese, the Deep State co-conspirators knew that it would not take much for him to use language that could be legally construed as “obstruction”.  However, GIVEN THE ABUNDANCE OF HARD EVIDENCE PROVING SEDITION, Trump has the perfect excuse for attempting to stop the patently obvious Democrat coup d’état. 

What else is a POTUS to do except OBSTRUCT a coup d’état by every means necessary?!  Although some of Trump’s many RUSSIAgate proclamations may technically and legally fit into an obstruction charge, his “mens rea” was clearly a very strong desire to thwart a white-collar insurrection.

After all, Obama & Company did everything possible to steal the election from Trump, just as they have transparently attempted to overthrow his administration since Inauguration Day…

The “real beauty” of this unparalleled coup is that the American people have been WITNESSING THE DEMOCRAT CRIMES AND CORRUPTION — DURING PRIME TIME — since Trump first declared his candidacy in June of 2015.  Hence, the Democrats have been given a LOT of rope to hang themselves, which is exactly what they have all done.

One wonders how they could have been so stupid and so clueless while conducting a coup against a sitting POTUS?!  Essentially, these Soros-funded purple revolutionaries allowed themselves to be videoed and recorded at their multi-location crime scene throughout the country.

The crucial point here is that, once Hilary lost, everything changed and Trump got access to all the records proving rampant criminality and endemic corruption—EVERYTHING!  The NSA has a digital record of every crime committed in the conduct of this highly complex criminal conspiracy to overthrow the POTUS.  So do other secret data-gathering agencies, by the way, some of which are located in foreign nations.

Collision Course 2019

Given this rapidly intensifying state of affairs, there’s a Perfect Storm brewing inside the Beltway.  Hence, this unprecedented political superstorm is guaranteed to tear apart Washington, D.C. like none other in U.S. history.

When you pit an all-pervasive and all-powerful Deep State against the indomitable Trump movement, you have nothing less than the Titanic hitting the iceberg.  Only in this particular case, “Captain Trump” may be navigating a Russian-built icebreaker.  In which case the Deep State iceberg is about to be rent asunder.

What’s really at stake for both sides in this epic war is not only the final control of the U.S. Federal Government, but also serious jail time for the many traitors who continue to attempt to oust the POTUS at every turn.

As for Trump, if he loses this critical 2019 battle, Deep State will continue to make his life so miserable he’ll regret ever running for POTUS.  Likewise, his family and close friends will also suffer greatly as will his many key political supporters and donors.  However, it is those who have staffed his administration who stand the bear the greatest consequences in an effort to dissuade them from backing future “Donald Trumps”.  If Trump loses the 2020 contest, the Democrats will surely prosecute him till the end of his life.

In any event, July 4th 2019 is quite likely to see a fireworks show in D.C. like none other.  The sheer panic being exhibited by the leadership of the Left is unparalleled.  Their actions reveal a level of fear about Trump’s declass initiative which is now seeing the perps turn on each other like crazy.  It’s as though the rats leaving the sinking Obama ship are now eating each other in a feeding frenzy.  Such an extraordinary spectacle has never been seen before on American TV.

All of this is only happening, incidentally, because the Democrats never doubted that Hillary would win.  Once Trump won, the fundamentally communist Democrat Party literally went insane in their endeavors to push Trump out of office.  In so doing, they have broken so many laws in the process it boggles the mind.

There are now so many scandals ending in “……gate”  that no one can keep track of them all.  And, each criminal conspiracy is not only very deep and broad in the SES staffing and top-level involvement, each one still requires an elaborate cover-up.  The stark reality is that it’s simply impossible to effectively manage so many concurrent cover-ups simultaneously.  No one can do it, not even AI brains strategically positioned throughout Deep State and the rogue C.I.A. black ops apparatus. 

False Flag Mass Casualty Event

Because of what’s truly at stake for Deep State, everything points directly at yet another false flag mass casualty event (MCE) in the very near future.  Depending on how successful or unsuccessful that black operation turns out to be, the same perps will likely conduct a second false flag; and maybe even a third.

Their highly purposeful mission will be to sufficiently shock and awe the American consciousness into a PTSD mode.  Only in this way can they completely take over the dominant narrative that might then revolve at that time around the first American coup d’état to be outed from the top down. 

Let’s face it: the U.S. Intelligence Community will simply not permit the complete exposing of SPYgate.  Every single intel agency was likely involved to include the FBI, DoJ, CIA, as were many senior officials in the Obama administration.

Obama himself knew of Hillary Clinton’s illegal home server and private email yet lied about it because he actually approved to the unlawful arrangement.  Therefore, the ex-prez is quite vulnerable to prosecution for many of the broken laws directly associated with both EMAILgate and SERVERgate, separate scandals unto themselves.

Why is the Clinton Emailgate Scandal so HUGE?

When you throw in all the other much bigger scandals in the Trump era — WIRETAPgate, SPYgate, FISAgate, DOSSIERgate — Deep State will feel compelled to blow the whole place up, if it must to keep a tight lid on all the threatening investigations.

After all, when SWAMPgate is blown wide open, the entire D.C. swamp will be full of indicted (i) agents of Deep State, (ii) rogue Intel operatives, (iii) traitors in Congress, (iv) SCOTUS imposters, (v) perfidious appointees from previous administrations, and (vi) former POTUSes who sold out their country.

SWAMPgate: You won’t believe how ALL the perps are connected…as in joined at the hip!

Hence, the primary and most effective way of keeping this all under wraps for Deep State is to pull off a 9/11-level type of terrorist attack.  Or, multiple MCEs that distract and divert over the course of this very tumultuous time period…

Conclusion

Things are quite combustible right now and getting more so for the foreseeable future.

This is really the only way it can end — WITH A BIG BANG — because the well-hidden movers and shakers who really run the whole place will not be dislodged without a HUGE fight.  The wealthy elites have had full control for centuries and will not surrender their power and influence without a knock-down-drag-out fight. That time has come!

This is why there has been a major drive throughout Big Social Media to eliminate all the truth-speakers and -writers from their platforms.  Similarly, Big Tech has been manipulating the newest IT technology, hardware, software and WiFi so that they can terminate any patriot/nationalist with the single push of a button.  They can’t have patriot bloggers and truth-tellers such as SOTN predicting their schemes before they’re even executed…

Bottom Line: Come Election Day 2020, the USA will be in a radically different place. Exactly what that will look like is anyone’s guess.  Therefore, we pray…we pray that the United States of America will somehow pass through this superstorm intact and cleansed of those nefarious forces that seek to do it harm.

Yes, indeed “Come Election Day 2020, the USA will be in a radically different place.”  The Deep State is already preparing for Election Day 2020, they cannot afford another four years of sunlight in the Trump Administration.  The worm is turning and there will be no stopping it so you can be sure the Deep State will do anything to protect themselves.  The Deep State hopes by turning over the election process to the Military Industrial Complex they can avoid the inevitable.  From Whitney Webb at Geopolitics:

Note:  This is a very long article and well worth your time to read the whole thing.

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Microsoft’s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.”  The election technology IS ALREADY SET TO BE ADOPTED BY HALF OF VOTING MACHINE MANUFACTURERS AND SOME STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTION. Though it has been heavily promoted by the mainstream media in recent weeks, none of those reports have disclosed that ElectionGuard has several glaring conflicts of interest that greatly undermine its claim aimed at protecting U.S. democracy.

In this investigation, MintPress will reveal how ElectionGuard was developed by companies with deep ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities and Israeli military intelligence, as well as the fact that it is far from clear that the technology would prevent foreign or domestic interference with, or the manipulation of, vote totals or other aspects of American election systems.

Election forensics analyst and author Jonathan Simon as well as investigative journalist Yasha Levine, who has written extensively on how the military has long sought to weaponize public technologies including the internet, were consulted for their views on ElectionGuard, its connections to the military-industrial complex and the implication of those connections for American democracy as part of this investigation.

In January, MintPress published an exposé that later went viral on a news-rating company known as Newsguard. Officially aimed at fighting “fake news,” the company’s many connections to U.S. intelligence, a top neoconservative think tank, and self-admitted government propagandists revealed its real intention was to promote corporate media over independent alternatives.

Newsguard was among the first initiatives that comprise Microsoft’s “Defending Democracy” program, a program that the tech giant created under the auspices of protecting American “democratic processes from cyber-enabled interference [which] have become a critical concern.” Through its partnership with Microsoft, Newsguard has been installed in public libraries and universities throughout the country, even while private-sector companies have continued to avoid adopting the problematic browser plug-in…

However, according to Jonathan Simon, election forensic analyst and author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy, this public relations campaign is likely just cover for more insider control over U.S. elections. “It’s encouraging that after close to two decades of ignoring the security issues with computerized voting, there’s suddenly a scramble to protect our next election that suggests those issues are finally being taken seriously,” Simon told MintPress. “Unfortunately the proposed solution is just more computerization and complexity — which translates to more control by experts and insiders, though of course that is not part of the PR campaign.”

As to the likely identity of those insiders, the fact that Microsoft’s ElectionGuard was developed in tandem with a private military and intelligence contractor whose only investor is the U.S. Department of Defense offers a troubling clue. As a consequence, ElectionGuard’s promise to “secure” elections is dubious, especially given that Microsoft itself is a U.S. military contractor.

Furthermore, amid the unfolding scandal of Israeli meddling in foreign elections, Microsoft’s growing ties to Israeli military intelligence and private Israeli cybersecurity firms raise even more concerns about WHETHER ELECTIONGUARD’S REAL PURPOSE IS TO “SECURE” AMERICAN ELECTIONS FOR CANDIDATES FRIENDLY TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, ESPECIALLY THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX…

Another interesting, and deeply troubling, admission in the Microsoft announcement is that Microsoft’s ElectionGuard development partner, the Portland-based cybersecurity firm Galois, “recently received $10 million in funding from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build a demonstration voting system to help evaluate secure hardware DARPA researchers are developing as part of a separate DARPA program…”

As deeply troubling as DARPA’s $10 million indirect investment in ElectionGuard may seem, it is merely scratching the surface, as Galois itself is essentially an extension of DARPA in the private cybersecurity industry.

THE “PRIVATE” COMPANY WHOSE ONLY INVESTOR IS THE PENTAGON..

Though it describes itself as “a privately held U.S.-owned and -operated company,” public records indicate that Galois’ only investors are DARPA and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), both of which are divisions of the Department of Defense. In other words, while “officially” a private company, its only investor is the U.S. government, more specifically the Pentagon…

Aside from the numerous links to major corporations, government agencies and neoconservative think tanks, of particular concern to Free & Fair’s mission to develop “secure” election technology are its connections to DHS. This is because, before, during and after the 2016 election, DHS was caught attempting to hack into state electoral systems in at least three states — Georgia, Indiana and Idaho — with similar accusations also being made in Kentucky and West Virginia.

In Indiana’s case, the DHS’ attempted hacks occurred nearly 15,000 times over a 46 day period. In an official answer to Georgia’s claim the DHS had tried to penetrate its electoral system’s firewall, DHS which initially denied being behind the attempted hack, later responded that the attempted breach was “legitimate business” aimed at “verifying a professional license administered by the state.” Some of the states targeted by DHS had turned down the department’s offer to “shore up” election systems prior to the 2016 election.

Compare this to the alleged Russian hacking into state electoral systems, which – to date – includes only the claim from the FBI that hackers alleged to be affiliated with Russian military intelligence penetrated voter registration data in two counties in Florida. That alleged hack, the details of which remain classified and for which no evidence of it even happening has been made publicly available, did not result in any alterations to data or other manipulation of those systems, per FBI officials.

The DHS, in contrast, attempted to hack into the systems, not of individual counties, but entire states and acknowledged that it did so, even though they chose not to use the work “hack” and defended their activity. While focusing on foreign — and especially Russian — interference may make for a more patriotic story, the dangers posed by domestic actors with at least as great a stake in U.S. election outcomes appear to have been grossly underestimated and virtually ignored by the media…

Given that ElectionGuard’s system as currently described is neither as “secure” nor as “verifiable” as Microsoft is claiming, it seems clear that the conflicts of interests of its developers, particularly their connections to the U.S. and Israeli militaries, are a recipe for disaster and tantamount to a takeover of the American election system by the military-industrial complex.

“The great irony, and tragedy, here,” according to election forensics analyst Jonathan Simon, “is that we could so easily go the opposite direction and quickly solve all the problems of election security if we got the computers out of the voting process and were willing to collectively invest the modicum of effort needed for humans to count votes observably in public as they once did. If democracy is not worth that effort, perhaps we don’t deserve it.”

Yes indeed the worm is turning and things are going to get real ugly.  Should the Deep State prevail, life in America will be even more devastating for Americans, in the future there will not even be the illusion of a Democratic election.  The 2016 election was interfered with in a major, egregious way and it wasn’t Russia doing the meddling. 

The meddling done by “Spooks Gone Wild” and was unprecedented.  2016 wasn’t the first time Britain’s MI6, the CIA, the FBI and Israel’s Mossad combined efforts to steal the election.  The 2000 election was the first and America has been in decline ever since.  All Supreme Court judges place on the high court since 2000 are illegitimate.  All justices on the appellate and lower courts since then are illegitimate.  All voter ID and election laws passed since then are illegitimate, all wars started since then are illegitimate. 

Unending war for profit, corrupt intelligence agencies producing lies and destroying lives, grand theft of the wealth of nations and the criminalization of investigative journalism is rampant.  Now the Spooks are going nuts and the worm is turning. 

America must abandon electronic voting and return to paper ballots with people counting the votes.  Our elections can only be secure when these criminals are brought to justice and the full faith of the American people in their election process is restored.  The worm is turning and justice for the American people must prevail.