“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending
money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is
this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric
power plants, each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine,
fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay
for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single
destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than eight thousand
people. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of
threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” ~ President
Dwight Eisenhower,
The US
Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academe-Think-Tank
(MICIMATT) complex has turned America into a nuclear armed “shithole” with no
hope for the people trapped within its American brig. While the MICIMATT that took over the
American government in 2000 has been trying to convince the American people
that Russia and China are our mortal enemies, the living standards for the
American people have been reduced to that of a third world country.
Americans have been told by the “intelligence community” through
its Orwellian media propaganda that the Russian and Chinese threat is so great
that it’s worth sacrificing our military youth’s lives, our pensions, our food
supply, our universities, our infrastructure, our healthcare and our overall
wellbeing. The MICIMATT that controls America have
engorged themselves on trillions of Federal Reserve notes.
Those Federal Reserve notes were printed up in the trillions
by the foreign banks that comprise the Federal Reserve Bank to be stuffed into
the pockets of the MICIMATT to be spent on wars for Empire, useless war
equipment that is outdated before it leaves the assembly line, poisoned
Monsanto Franken foods, big Pharma’s deadly addictive chemicals, university
endowments that total more than a small nation’s economy, CIA controlled media
giants, corrupt criminal wealth extorters knowns as banks and oligarchy
controlled think tanks rendering the dollar worthless as a world currency.
Russia and China on the other hand have spent their time
since the 2000 coup in America investing in a diversified cultural, banking,
intellectual, industrial and economic revolution leaving their ignorant,
backward adversaries in America and West in a complete “New World Order
meltdown”. Now the Central Banks of the
world seek to abandon these worthless currencies of their creation leaving the
people of America and the West bankrupt and owing these robber baron banks trillions. From Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
New World Order in Meltdown
Last week was full of portentous
events. Only somebody who has not been awake for the last few years will fail
to realize how these at first sight unconnected events are part of the same
matrix.
There was the ever louder talk in
mainstream media about an approaching global recession, inverted yield curves
and the negative yields, which tell us that the Western financial system is basically in coma and kept alive only
by generous IV injections of central bank liquidity. By now it has dawned
on people that the central bankers
acting as central planners in a command economy and printing money (aka
quantitative easing) to fuel asset bubbles are about to wipe off the last
vestiges of what used to be a market economy.
Then we saw Trump taking new
twitter swipes at China in his on-and-off “great trade deal” and the stock
markets moving like a roller coaster in reaction to each new twitter
salvo. Also, we had both Trump and
Macron sweet talking about getting Russia back and again renaming their club
G8. Last Tuesday at a G7 presser in Biarritz, the Rothschild groomed Macron took it one step further opening up about
the reasons why they all of a sudden longed for friendship with Russia: “We
are living the end of Western hegemony.”
In the same series, Britain’s new
government under Boris Johnson was
telling his colleagues in Biarritz that he is now decisively going for a
no-deal Brexit, after which he
went back to London and staged a coup d’état by suspending parliament to ensure
no elected opposition interfered with it.
Perhaps the weirdest news to crown
it all, came from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the Western central bankers were
holed up for their annual retreat. The
president of Bank of England Mark Carney shocked everybody (at least those not
present) by announcing that the US
dollar was past its best-before and should be replaced with something the
central bankers have up their sleeves.
The
New World Order is in its death throes
What these events have in common is
that they amount to an admission that the
globalist New World Order project in its present form is dead, or at least in
its death throes.
It has bumped its head against an
impenetrable Sino-Russian wall of resistance. The heated totalitarian propaganda against Russia since 2001 (when
the NWO realized that Putin wasn’t their man); regime change and color
revolutions in neighboring countries; attempts at Maidan style coups in Moscow;
and finally the sanctions since 2014 were key to the Anglo-Zionist empires
strategy…
They needed to take over either China or Russia to gain absolute world
hegemony. Taking over either one, they would have checkmated the remaining
one, and after that the entire world…
They then figured that economic and
cultural sanctions (e.g. Olympic ban) coupled with doubling down on the propaganda
would break the country. Luckily, the Russian narod, the common people saw
through it all and would not play along with the enemy. At the same time, Russia paraded its resurrected military in
Crimea and Syria as well as its formidable new hypersonic doomsday weapons. The military option to take over Russia
was not in the cards any longer.
Russian
economy from strength to strength
Believing their own propaganda,
they had got that totally wrong. Endlessly
repeating their own self-serving talking points they must have truly fancied
that Russia’s economy amounted to nothing else than export of fossil fuels,
that “Russia’s economy is the size of Holland’s,” that “Russia does not produce
anything,” and that Russia was “nothing
but a gas station with nukes” (somehow managing to ignore the significance
of the nukes part).
I seriously believe, that the propaganda had become so complete
that the Western leaders and the intelligence people actually had come to adapt
their own propaganda as the truth. What is for sure, is that all Western media, including what should be
the most respected business journals and all those think tanks, had not
published one honest appraisal of the Russian economy in 15 years.
Every single piece I read over the
years had clearly been written with the aim to denigrate Russia’s achievements
and economic development. Nowhere to be
found were reports on how Putin by
2013 had totally overhauled the economy transforming Russia into the most
self-sufficient diversified major country in the world with all the
capabilities of the foremost industrial powers.
In fact, I tend to think that even the US presidents from Bush to Obama were
fed in their intelligence briefings cooked up fake reports about the Russian
economy and the whole nation. Actually, I would go one step further. I bet
that the CIA itself in the end believed the propaganda it had given birth to.
(It has been said that at some point the
genuine Russia analysts had all been
dismissed or demoted and replaced with a team specializing in anti-Russian propaganda)….
Russia indeed had modernized and diversified its economy; that it had a
vibrant manufacturing industry in addition to its energy and minerals sector;
and that its budget revenues and economy at large were not at all as dependent
on oil and gas as it was claimed.
Among other things, we pointed out
that Russia’s industrial production had
by then grown more than 50% (between 2000 and 2013) while having undergone a
total modernization at the same time. In the same period, production
of food had surged by 100% and exports had skyrocketed by almost 400%, outdoing
all major Western countries. Even the growth of exports of other than oil and
gas products had been 250%.
The gist of the study may be
summarized with this quote from it:
“The crisis-torn economy battered by years of robber capitalism and
anarchy of the 1990’s, which Putin inherited in 2000, has now reached
sufficient maturity to justify a belief that Russia can make the industrial
breakthrough that the President has announced.”
Events
have borne out this insight. And it is therefore that Russia won the sanctions
battle.
The report represented an appeal to the Western leaders to give up on
their vain hope of destroying Russia through their sanctions and risking nuclear
war at it. Russia was invincible even in this respect…
A follow-up report of June 2017
covering the sanctions years 2014 – 2016, showed how Russia went from strength
to strength never mind the Western attempts at isolation. This report stressed that Russia’s
economy had now become the most diversified in the world making Russia
the most self-sufficient country on this earth…
Finally in a November 2018 report,
I could declare that Russia had won
hands down the sanctions war having emerged from it as a quadruple superpower: industrial superpower, agricultural
superpower, military superpower and geopolitical superpower.
Macron
et co. realizes that Russia actually is a superpower
These facts have now finally dawned
on certain key stakeholders of the
globalist regime can be discerned from the fact that they have tasked their
handpicked puppet president Macron to make up with Russia. Trump has got
the same assignment, which is evident from the siren calls of the two leaders
in Putin’s address. Both want to invite Putin to their future G7-8
get-togethers.
As it was said, Macron went as far as unilaterally capitulating and declaring the
decline of the West. He went on to spell out that the reason for this
spectacular geopolitical about-face was the rise of the Beijing – Moscow (de
facto) alliance that has caused a terminal shift on the world scene. Curiously,
he also openly blamed the errors of the United States for the dire state of
affairs pointing out that “not just the current administration” were to be
blamed.
No doubt, the foremost of these errors, Macron had in mind, was the alienation
of Russia and pushing the country into the warm embrace of China. It is
quite clear, that this is what they want to remedy, snatch the bear back from
the dragon. Fortunately, that won’t happen…
The
world order is being shaken like never before
“The world order is being shaken like never before…”, that’s
another quote from Macron. Obviously, it refers to the military and
geopolitical strengths of the Sino-Russian alliance, but certainly also to the
economic shifts as the West has lost – and will keep losing – its economic
domination. This brings us back to Mark Carney of Bank of England and his
unprecedented attack on the US dollar arguing that it was time to end its
global reserve currency status.
As one option Carney brought up
that the major Western central banks would instead issue a digital
cryptocurrency. That is to say, a NWO
currency controlled by the central banks. That would effectively mean the
replacement of the Federal Reserve cartel with a cartel of the Western central
banks (the Fed obviously being a part
of it). That’s yet one step further north from any kind of
democratic control and a giant step
towards world government…
What’s sure is that Carney’s
bizarre speech could possibly not have occurred in a normal economic
environment (any more than Macron’s admission that the Western hegemony is done
with)… They cannot rely on the tools they
used before the financial crisis to shape the economic environment, and the US can no longer be considered a
predictable actor in economic or trade policy — even though there is no
imminent replacement for the US dollar in sight…”
On the one hand this can be seen as
an admission on how deeply tormented they are about the financial situation and
what could happen when it comes crashing down. On the other hand, it can be
seen as a sales pitch, “ONLY WE CAN FIX IT, TRUST US, GIVE US A CARTE BLANCHE.” Or
more probably, both. Note from above Carney saying: “the US can no
longer be considered a predictable actor in economic or trade policy.” Bank of England President here directly attacking President Trump.
And just a couple of days later William Dudley an ex-president of New York
Federal Reserve Bank (the most influential of the 12 federal reserve banks that
comprise the Federal Reserve System) followed
up on a direct attack on Trump.
But as they say about spies, there
are no ex-spies, and I would think the same applies for the global financial
elite. And yes indeed, Dudley is a card carrying member of the Council of
Foreign Relations.
Dudley had penned an op-ed for Bloomberg titled “The Fed Shouldn’t Enable
Donald Trump,” where he openly lobbies for the Fed to deliberately damage the
economy in order to neutralize the policies (namely trade wars) of the sitting
president and prevent his reelection chances by willfully ruining the economy…
My, my, the foreign banks and Federal Reserve are jumping
from the sinking Federal Reserve Notes ship that they created, leaving America
in a precarious position of holding a currency no longer recognized by the free
world. Once Republican president Richard
Nixon took America off the gold standard, the Federal Reserve Bank was allowed
to print up money backed by thin air to fund wars for the preservation of the
Federal Reserve Bank.
The Federal Reserve Bank needs for America to be in
continual war and the debt war brings and Trump is a direct threat to the
Fed. But Carney and Dudley went too far
in exposing the real intentions of the Federal Reserve Bank to interfere in
America’s Presidential election and rid themselves of that meddlesome President
Trump. Now Dudley is trying to walk back
what he said in his Op Ed, claiming he didn’t say what he said like a scene
from Alice in Wonderland:
“Then
you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I
do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-at least I mean what I
say-that's the same thing, you know."
"Not
the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well
say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"You
might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I
get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
"You
might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in
its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep
when I breathe'!"
"It
is the same thing with you." said the Hatter,”
Yes, Dudley is trying desperately to climb out of the six
foot hole he has dug himself into. From Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
"Deep State" Dudley Doubles Down: "Explains" What
He Really Meant In Scandalous Anti-Trump Op-Ed
There is a saying, when in a hole
stop digging.
Unfortunately for former Goldman
managing director and NY Fed president, Bill "let them eat iPads"
Dudley, that is a saying he is not familiar with, and one week after his stunning Bloomberg op-ed in which he advocated
the Fed to prevent Trump's 2020 re-election by sending the economy in a
recession, resulting in a brutal response from virtually everyone who
slammed Dudley's musings as the final
proof that the Fed was in fact a political animal, one which is more powerful
than the executive branch in its ability to pick and choose presidents,
Dudley is out with an "explainer", seeking to "answer" some
of the main questions posed by his "provocative" piece.
After reading "What I Meant
When I Said ‘Don’t Enable Trump", let's
just say that Dudley fails in explaining why he said is not what he said, and
if anything he has successfully doubled down,
giving Trump even more ammunition to throw the book at the political Fed for
not cutting rates fast enough as the president has been demanding for
months, and for eventually taking the blame for the coming economic and market crash.
Dudley's letter, written in rhetorical Q&A format, begins by asking
himself what motivated him to write this article. His answer is two fold:
First, President Trump’s trade war with China was increasing
uncertainty about how global trading rules would evolve, what tariffs would be
imposed, what changes firms might need to make to their global supply chains,
and what the downside risks might be for the U.S. economy. Just a few days before the article was published, the president ordered
U.S. firms to pull out of China.
Second, the
president continued to attack the Federal Reserve and push it to ease monetary
policy further. He emphasized
that the Fed, not the White House or its trade war with China, should be blamed
if the economy faltered. His attacks on the Fed included characterizing
Chairman Jerome Powell as an “enemy” -- on par, in his view, with President Xi
Jinping of China.
As Dudley "saw it", the
combination of the trade war and the president’s attacks on the Fed
"threatened to put the central bank in an untenable position", one
where Trump was shifting responsibility
for the downside risks from his trade war onto the Fed. "I thought
this was an important issue worth exploring."
What Dudley means here is that
whereas traditionally the Fed has been commended for bailing out banks the
world by throwing trillions of dollars at a problem and hoping it goes away,
even though some time in 2016 it became clear that this approach was doomed to
failure and so it would be great to have
a hapless scapegoat in the White House - i.e., someone such as president
Donald Trump - to take the blame for decades of disastrous monetary policy
which has resulted in the world's biggest asset bubble in history, what happened next was not part of the
program, namely Trump flipping the table on the Fed and making it the key
catalyst for the upcoming US recession.
Indeed, one can say that Trump - painted daily as a bumbling buffoon
by his enemies, and sometimes, friends - has in fact played his cards
perfectly, demanding the Fed cut rates well into late 2018, something which
the Fed eventually did, and giving
Trump all the leverage in claiming that he was, in fact right, and the Fed was
wrong.
Certainly, with the market now expecting 4 or more rate cuts by the end of 2020
and tying the fate of the S&P to this expectation being fulfilled, one can
argue that Trump will be even more right, and that the Fed - who can forget
Powell's famous statement that we are "a long way" from neutral less
than a year ago when THE FED CHAIR WAS
STILL HAWKISH - WAS NOT ONLY WRONG, BUT CLUELESS.
As such, one can counter Dudley's
rambling, defensive op-ed part 2 published today in Bloomberg, by simply
pointing out that the reason for the
former Goldman banker's anger is not so much Trump's trade war with China -
which increasingly more Americans agree with and even Trump's enemies concede
was long overdue - nor Trump's "attacks" on Fed independence… but
because Trump managed to quickly and effectively outsmart the Fed, and box the
Fed chairman so that the Fed is now forced to underwriter Trump's trade war,
as we explained first one month ago.
So, apparently unable to express what he meant the first time around and
sparking a firestorm of criticism, what was Dudley's oh so complicated message
that was lost in translation:
First, the Fed needs to be cautious that it does not
inadvertently enable the president’s trade war with China.
As I wrote: "what if the Fed’s
accommodation encourages the president to escalate the trade war further,
increasing the risk of recession? The
central bank’s efforts to cushion the blow might not be merely ineffectual.
They might actually make things worse.” In
my judgment, there is a risk that the
Fed, by easing, might encourage the president to take even more aggressive
actions on trade and in raising tariffs. This might create even greater
downside risks for the economy that monetary policy might prove ill-suited to
address.
One can argue that this is a
credible complaint. The only problem is
Dudley should be addressing his anger not at Trump, but at Powell, who
certified before the world that any further escalations in Trump's trade war
are effectively a justification for more rate cuts, for one simple reason: the
US economy was doing well enough not to need a rate cut, yet the Fed - having become the world's central bank - desperately
needed a pretext to cut, and found one in Trump's trade war.
Whether this was Powell's intention
is unclear, although as we said at the time, "it certainly means that
Trump is now de facto in charge of the Fed's monetary policy by way of US
foreign policy, and it also means that as BofA wrote, "the Fed is unintentionally underwriting the trade war."
Of course, what Dudley is concerned
about is not the trade war itself, but how it could implicate the Fed as the global
economy continues to grind to a halt, and as he says, "the Fed’s problems
might not end there. Not only might the
Fed be unable to rescue the economy, but it also might be blamed for the
economy’s poor performance. This risk is higher because of the president’s
ongoing attacks on the Fed." This is a point he echoes toward the end of
the article as well, writing that
"I don’t think the Fed should be attacked for the economy’s performance
when the president’s own actions are creating the downside risks."
Bingo: that's it right there -
the "risk" that the Fed may be blamed for not just the
"economy's poor performance"
but that the great unwashed masses may one day wake up and realize that the
reason why the global financial system
is facing a crisis of monumental proportions has nothing to do with Trump
- who is merely a vessel and a symptom of a broken system - and everything to do with a central
bank which ever since its creation in 1913 has had one purpose, to make the
rich richer and perpetuate a broken monetary system (even Mark Carney
is saying the days of the dollar as a reserve currency are now over), is why
Dudley is so very much on edge.
After all, those same great unwashed masses, following the moment of epiphany may
pay Dudley a visit in his mansion and demand an explanation of their own why
everything has gone to hell, as it almost certainly will after the next
recession.
Once one realizes that this is the true motive behind not just today's
Dudley article, but also his prior op-ed, then everything falls into place,
including Dudley's hint that the Fed's
actions will affect the "political outcome in 2020."
Addressing what was arguably the most sensitive aspect of his original
oped, namely the conclusion which suggested that the Fed should throw the
economy into recession just to prevent Trump's re-election, to wit:
“There’s
even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview. After
all, Trump’s reelection arguably
presents a threat to the U.S. and global economy, to the Fed’s independence and
its ability to achieve its employment and inflation objectives. If the goal of
monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed
officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome
in 2020.”
... Dudley says that his
"intention was to be provocative." So what was his intention, if not to bring attention to the fact that
contrary to countless lies, the Fed was never independent? …
I was suggesting that if the Fed
pushed backed that it might be able to achieve a better economic outcome. I was
not suggesting that the Fed should do so regardless of the consequences for the
economy or that it should stand by and allow a recession. And I was not trying to
suggest that the Fed should take sides in the upcoming election.
So... Dudley's point is that the
Fed is not political, and yet it should push back on the president's decisions
to "achieve a better economic outcome"? A quick question here: Better for who? The banks, which were the only
beneficiaries of Fed policies for the past decade? The 0.01% who got richer and
richer since the financial crisis as the US middle class disappeared?
And then there is the question of what
mandate does the Fed have, in Dudley's eyes, to one up the president when it
comes to the best economic outcome.
Actually, an even simpler question: who "elected" the Fed? And just
whose interests does the Fed represent? Maybe for the third part of his
increasingly surreal op-ed series, Bill Dudley can start with a discussion of
just how the Fed - an entity which as Bernanke's former advisor once said: "people
would be stunned to know the extent to which the Fed is privately owned" -
represents the interests of the majority of Americans.
Then again, we doubt there will be
a part 3 as by this point the backpedaling in Dudley's "explainer"
was so furious, not even he had any idea what it was he was trying to say… In short: if Dudley had dug the hole 6 feet deep with his original op-ed, he
added a good 6 more feet with the sequel. We can't wait what "Deep
State Dudley" does for part 3...
“Whose interests does the Fed represent?” indeed. The “great unwashed masses” are on the verge
of being “stunned to know the extent to which the Fed is privately owned" and
finding out that “the banks were the only beneficiaries of Fed policies for the
past decade.” The unwashed masses are
waking up to the fact that “the 0.01% are the ones who got richer and richer
since the financial crisis as the US middle class and their pensions disappeared.”
When I was working as an anti-money laundering analysist I
could see the banking crash coming as early as 2004. I saw banks not only giving mortgages to
people with $10’s of thousands in credit card debt and student loan debt but
giving them unsecured piggyback mortgages to cover the 20% requirement to avoid
having to carry mortgage insurance.
These mortgages were packaged up and rated AAA, the most
secure of investments and sold off to unsuspecting pensions holders such as
Teachers Unions and municipalities. When the crash came the people lost
everything and the Federal Reserve Bank bailed out “foreign banks” and Wall
Street to the tune of $43 trillion dollars, saddling the American people with
the debt.
The interest due on that $43 trillion in debt has been
labeled as an “entitlement” so when the government says that entitlements are
what is killing the economy they are referring to “Social Security, Medicare
and interest on the debt.” Social Security
and Medicare are miniscule compared to the interest on the debt. They want the people to believe that
trillions spend on war are necessary so we must slash Social Security and
Medicare to pay for them. Don’t be fooled,
Thomas Jefferson had warned us:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the
issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all
property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers
conquered.... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies.... The issuing power should be taken from the
banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
This hoax perpetrated by the Federal Reserve Bank could
never have occurred if America had a free and honest press. But the oligarchs bought up and consolidated
the media and turned it into a propaganda tool of the Oligarch’s “intelligence
agencies” to be used against the unwashed masses.
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to
poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never
how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to
deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more
power... Their newspapers and propaganda
carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front
against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy… They claim to be super-patriots, but they
would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. ~Henry A. Wallace, Vice President under FDR
Yes “their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate
every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.” That is what passes for a “free press”
today. From Hang the Bankers:
Excerpt:
Washington Post owner receives $600 million contract from the CIA
Editor’s note: The Washington Post was the first to run the story of the CIA’s claim
that Russia hacked the US election, of which there is absolutely no evidence.
It’s been a rough couple days for
The Washington Post. Word emerged that
hackers invaded its internal system—for a few days, no less—all of its
staffers had to change their passwords as the company tried to figure out how
much data had been compromised.
Meanwhile, a petition campaign was
launched related to news that Amazon,
under the Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, recently secured a $600 million
contract from the CIA. That’s at
least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently
disclosed that the company’s Web-services business is building a “private cloud”
for the CIA to use for its data needs.
Critics charge that, at a minimum,
the Post needs to disclose its CIA link whenever it reports on the agency. Over
15,000 have signed the petition this week hosted by Roots Action. In a statement released by the Institute for
Public Accuracy, media writer/author Robert McChesney observes:
When the main shareholder in one of the very largest corporations in
the world benefits from a massive contract with the CIA on the one hand, and
that same billionaire owns the Washington Post on the other hand, there are
serious problems. The Post is unquestionably the political paper of record
in the United States, and how it covers governance sets the agenda for the
balance of the news media. Citizens need to know about this conflict of
interest in the columns of the Post itself.
If some official enemy of the United States had a comparable situation—say
the owner of the dominant newspaper in Caracas was getting $600 million in
secretive contracts from the Maduro government—the Post itself would lead the howling chorus impaling that newspaper
and that government for making a mockery of a free press. It is time for
the Post to take a dose of its own medicine.”
See article by Norman Solomon for a
fuller accounting. He notes: Bezos
personally and publicly touts Amazon Web Services, and it’s evident that Amazon
will be seeking more CIA contracts. Last month, Amazon issued a statement saying, “We look forward to a successful
relationship with the CIA.”
Yes that’s America’s free press, fully owned by the
oligarchs for the use of their “intelligence agencies” against the American
people. Just as Norman Solomon warned
“it’s evident that Amazon will be seeking more CIA contracts”. From Caitlin Johnstone:
Excerpt
WaPo Warns USA Needs More Narrative Control As Pentagon Ramps Up
Narrative Control
Do you lay awake at night terrified
that the Russians are able to control your mind with information warfare while
the US government’s slavish devotion to democratic values leaves it powerless
to stop them? Me neither. But according
to The Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor and Pentagon board
member bent on hijacking the underlying infrastructure of the economy, we
should be.
WaPo columnist David Ignatius, who has been one of the more hyperbolic
promulgators of western Russia hysteria in written media, has published an
article titled “Why America is losing the information war to Russia” about a
new book by former State Department undersecretary for public diplomacy Richard
Stengel.
Stengel and Ignatius engage in a joyful Red Scare frolic with the
exuberance of two little boys with a box of spray paints, each trying to one-up
the other in hysterical apocalyptic ominousness about the way evil, authoritarian governments like Russia
have been able to weaponize information while freedom-loving democracies can
only look on in passive despair.
“The cruel paradox of the Internet, once hailed as a liberating force,
is that it empowers governments that control information and enfeebles those
that let it run free,” warns Ignatius.
“[Authoritarian governments] have gone from fearing the flow of
information to exploiting it,” cautions Stengel. “They understand that the same
tools that spread democracy can engineer its undoing.”
Unsurprisingly, at no point during this brotherly romp does
Ignatius bother to make mention of the
fact that Stengel is actually on record saying he supports the use of
propaganda and believes the US government should be using it on its own
citizens.
“Basically, every country creates
their own narrative story and, you know,
my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the ‘chief
propagandist’ job,” Stengel said last year at an event organized by the shockingly ubiquitous narrative
management firm Council on Foreign Relations.
“I’m not against propaganda,” Stengel said. “Every country does it,
and they have to do it to their own
population, and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.” When an audience member objected to what he’d
just heard, Stengel curtly dismissed him and ended the talk.
So anyway, that’s what the CIA/Pentagon/plutocracy-tied Washington Post wants
you to be sure of: that evil governments are controlling your mind with
information warfare, and that the US government is struggling to rescue you
from that fate.
Lucky for you, this report just so
happens to be coming out at the same time as we’re learning that the Pentagon is already currently working
on a program to protect you from
wrongthink by controlling your access to information.
Along with a corrupt oligarchical media comes a corrupt
oligarchical judiciary made up of agents of the Deep State who protect the
Federal Reserve Bank and Wall Street war mongers while throwing the book at the
unwashed masses. The entire Russiagate
fiasco was a MICIMATT creation to remove an elected president who does not
represent the Fed’s interests. From PaulCraig Roberts:
Excerpt:
I Feel Sorry For President Trump
Yes, I know. I am lining up on the wrong side. You are supposed to hate him. The presstitutes hate Trump. So does the Democratic Party, part of the
Republican Party, the military/security complex, the entirety of the
liberal/progressive/left, the universities, feminists, and Washington’s vassal
states. No one likes him but the
“racist, white supremacist Trump deplorables.”
Nevertheless, I feel sorry for
him. I started feeling sorry for him
when he announced he would run for President of the United States. You see, I had inside information. I had held
a presidential appointment from a President of the United States. I ended up fighting battles for him against entrenched interests who opposed
his policies to end stagflation and the cold war. I helped to win the battles for him, as his
accolades to me testify, but my success ended any career for me in government.
I knew that, unlike Reagan who had
prepared his run over the years and had a movement behind him, Trump had
not. Moreover, also unlike Reagan, Trump had no idea of what he was walking
into and no idea of who to appoint to important offices who might be inclined
to help him. Generally speaking, the
value of a presidential appointment, such as the one I had, lies NOT in helping
the president, but in helping the ruling private establishment. Any
Assistant Secretary can be very helpful to private interests and end up a
multi-millionaire. Indeed, most of them
do.
But I put the country’s interest
ahead of mine and helped Reagan to cure stagflation and to end the cold war.
Curing stagflation was perceived as a threat by the economics profession which
had no cure and didn’t want to be shown up by dissident supply-side economists,
and much of Wall Street misunderstood
what the media called “Reaganomics” as more inflationary deficit spending that
threatened their stock and bond portfolios. Ending the Cold War threatened
the budget of the military/security complex, a dangerous undertaking.
A decade or two ago a person I had
known when I was in Washington, who was a professor in Massachusetts,
telephoned me. He said he had just
returned from Washington where he had had lunch with some of my former
colleagues. He had asked them about me,
and according to his report, they said: “Poor Craig.
If he had not turned critic , he would be worth tens of millions of
dollars like us.” My former acquaintance said that he stood
up and said that he didn’t realize that he was having lunch with a bunch of
whores and left.
Obviously, my aquaintance did not
intend to return to a Washington career.
What does this have to do with
Trump? Trump’s life was going well. He
is a billionaire married to the most beautiful woman in the world. The last thing he needed was the problems of
the United States. To change the locked
in, interest group controlled course of America requires a superhero. This is
definitely not a job for an unprepared man in his 70s. The
truckloads of mud dumped on him by porn stars and prostitutes are unlikely to
have strengthened his relationship with his wife.
As I predicted would be the case,
Trump had no idea who to appoint to help him.
Consequently, he appointed
everyone opposed to his renewal of American jobs and peaceful relationships
with Russia, China, Iran, and the Middle East. So nothing has changed. Why in the world a successful person covets
an office where failure is the norm is beyond me.
Trump’s first, and perhaps only,
term has been consumed in the Russiagate orchestration. John
Brennan, the CIA director, and James Comey, the FBI director, along with
President Obama, the Obama Justice (sic) Department, the presstitute American
media, and the Hillary Democratic National Committee concocted an absurd
investigation of the elected President of the United States as a Russian agent,
a tool of Vladimir Putin’s plan to rule America.
How anyone could believe such a preposterous story is incredible. But Democrats and the presstitutes claimed it
was true. But Mueller was unable to
establish it. After his failure,
Mueller’s testimony before Congress was immensely embarrassing to him, the
Democrats, and the whore American media.
Trump, with the deck cleared, hoped
to hold accountable those who tried to overthrow him in a coup. Comey was investigated. He was found indictable on a number of
offenses. The Department of Justice (sic)
Inspector General’s report concluded:
“The IG report confirms Mr. Comey improperly kept FBI files on
President Trump at his home and that he illicitly leaked these FBI files to the
New York Times in order to advance his personal agenda of getting a Special
Counsel appointed to target the president. Comey
also misled both the FBI and Congress about his handling of these documents. On
top of all of that, in violation of law, he kept and disclosed classified
information…” The IG report generously forgot that
Comey went before the FISA Court with a fraudulent request, which is a felony.
Comey’s offenses exceed those of Mike Milken, Leona Helmsley, and
Martha Stewart, all of whom were put in prison on false charges in order to raise the name recognization of
ambitious publicity-seeking prosecutors, one of whom was Comey himself. Comey framed Martha Stewart.
Rudy Giuliani framed Milken in order to become New York City Mayor. Helmsley
was framed on the basis of a false statement by an accountant solicited by the
Justice (sic) Department in exchange for dropping prosecution of the
accountant for his own misdeeds.
Mueller presided over the
FBI’s 9/11 investigation and deepsixed all the real evidence in order to
protect the false official story.
So, what did the Justice (sic)
Department IG suggest for Comey? THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO PROSECUTE. Justice
is far less important to the department than protecting its own. The Justice
Department is itself engaging in misconduct by refusing to prosecute a
person that the Justice Department knows
beyond all doubt committed crimes. Did the Justice Department decide that Comey’s crimes can be
forgiven because they were committed for good cause—getting rid of President
Trump?
Former US Attorneys and Assistant
US Attorneys are on record predicting that there would be indictments of those who orchestrated Russiagate in a
conspiracy of sedition to overthrow the elected President of the United States. I would have liked to have believed it, but
I never did. The United States does not
have a Justice system. In the place of justice the US has a weapon in the hands
of the state. It is not a weapon that
the state often uses against its own functionaries…
I
am unable to recall examples of the US government or its officials being held
accountable and do not remember a single incident other than President Reagan’s
prosecution of the Iran-Contra neoconservatives, who were pardoned by President
George H.W. Bush .
Now that Comey has been protected, we have to expect that his
co-conspirators in the plot to overthrow the President of the United States
will also be protected from prosecution. It will be interesting to count all the crimes
that will not be punished and add up all the prison years that won’t be served.
When
you think about the large percentage of innocent people in prison and on death
row and about the mothers of young children who are imprisoned for drug
possession, it makes you sick that Comey who tried to overthrow the elected
President of the United States is permitted to walk.
All future presidents will have learned from Trump’s fate that their
real job is to foment enough American enemies to keep the military/security
complex’s budget expanding. The
United States will continue on its course toward war with its homemade
adversaries.
Dr. Roberts is correct, when Donald Trump became president he
“had no idea of what he was walking into and no idea of who to appoint to
important offices who might be inclined to help him.” Trump had no other alternative than to choose from
the existing members of the MICIMATT.
That is how he ended up with an Administration hostile to his views on
cooperation and collaboration with Russia and China instead of a belligerent
“my way or the highway” foreign policy.
Trump’s vision of the US/Russia/China cooperation was
similar to that of FDR and his Vice President Henry Wallace. The same bureaucratic tape worms who assassinated
FDR and demoted Wallace in favor of war against Russia and China created the MICIMATT. From Lew Rockwell:
Excerpt:
Trump’s Relationship to Russia and China: A Revival of the Henry
Wallace Doctrine for the Post-War World?
During the course of the G20
important agreements and alliances were reached between Russia-China and the
USA which indicate that President Trump
is not “just another neo-con” as some of his cynical detractors have claimed,
but is actually working to re-orient the United States into a strategic
alliance with the Eurasian superpowers.
This was seen with his announced
lifting of the Huawei ban on American companies, his promise to cancel the
additional $300 billion in tariffs with China, his cancelling the sanctions on
Turkey for its purchase of Russia’s S400 defense system (which renders a big
chunk of the NATO ABM shield against Russia impotent), not to mention the president’s historic visit to North Korea’s
de-militarized zone to meet with Kim Jong-un.
While not directly discussed at the
event, the melt-down of the
Trans-Atlantic banking system now bursting at the seams with over $700 trillion
of derivatives, and corporate debt bubble which the Bank of International
Settlements is warning will be the new sub-prime junk bond meltdown was on everyone’s
mind. Whether the USA would be willing
to re-organize itself in harmony with the new system driven by the Belt and
Road Initiative was a question which only the braindead could avoid thinking
about.
Our Job in the Pacific ~ Henry A.
Wallace
While some commentators are trying
to spin this emerging re-orientation in global affairs as a mere “trick to get
re-elected”, the reality goes much deeper than many realize, as Trump is merely tapping into an American
strategy which was firmly established during the 1941-1944 presidential term of
America’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his loyal collaborator Henry
A. Wallace who had planned a grand
design for a US-Russia-China New world order founded upon principles enshrined
in the Atlantic Charter and enunciated in his 1942 “Century of the Common Man”
speech.
Wallace’s Fight for a Just World
Order
While serving as FDR’s Vice
President, Wallace wrote in his 1944
book Our Job in the Pacific: “It is vital to the United States, it is vital to
China and it is vital to Russia that there be peaceful and friendly relations
between China and Russia, China and America and Russia and America. China
and Russia Complement and supplement each other on the continent of Asia and
the two together complement and supplement America’s position in the Pacific.”
In another 1944 piece Two
Peoples-One Friendship (Survey Graphic Magazine), Wallace described the destiny
of the US-Russia for mutual arctic development with transportation connections
across the Bering Strait: “Of all
nations, Russia has the most powerful combination of a rapidly increasing
population, great natural resources and immediate expansion in technological
skills.
Siberia and China will furnish the
greatest frontier of tomorrow… When Molotov [Russia’s Foreign Minister] was in
Washington in the spring of 1942 I
spoke to him about the combined highway and airway which I hope someday will
link Chicago and Moscow via Canada, Alaska and Siberia. Molotov, after
observing that no one nation could do this job by itself, said that he and I
would live to see the day of its accomplishment. It would mean much to the peace of the future if there could be some
tangible link of this sort between the pioneer spirit of our own West and the
frontier spirit of the Russian East.”
Expressing a mode of long term
thinking and sensitivity to the Asian psyche rarely seen by westerners, Wallace
wrote that “Asia is on the move. Asia distrusts Europe because of its
“superiority complex”. We must give Asia
reason to trust us. We must demonstrate to Russia and China, in particular that
we have faith in the future of the Common Man in those two countries. We
can be helpful to both China and Russia and in being helpful can be helpful to
ourselves and to our children. In planning our relationships today with Russia
and China, we must think of the world situation as it will be forty years
hence.”
So What Went Wrong?
With the early death of Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945, the nest of
Wall Street lackeys (many of them Fabians and Rhodes Scholars) embedded in the
American bureaucracy quickly took over under the Presidency of Harry Truman.
Wallace was quickly demoted to Commerce Secretary, and the Bretton Woods
institutions such as the IMF and World
Bank were cleansed of all New Deal economists loyal to the Wallace-FDR vision
of the post war world.
This was done through the creation of a fascist police state run under
the control of Hoover’s FBI and McCarthy’s House Committee on Un-American
Activities which ran the witch hunt that destroyed the lives of countless
patriots, labelling them as “Soviet agents”. The 1947 Security Act evoked the
Executive Order 9835 that made
“reasonable grounds for belief that a person is disloyal”grounds for firing
someone from any government position.
One early victim of the witch hunt
was the IMF’s first director Harry Dexter White who had been accused of being a
soviet spy and died in 1948 after a McCarthy hearing. Wall Street agents such as John J. McCloy, Averell Harriman, and
George Keenan quickly took control of these banks and re-organized them as
instruments for a neo-colonial enslavement of the world rather than as the issuers of long term
productive credit which they were meant to be.
Truman’s immediate belligerence to Russia caused the Russia cancellation
of its $1.2 billion subscription to join the World Bank agreed to in 1944, and Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
enshrined the bi-polar dynamic of Mutually Assured Destruction as the bedrock
of the post war age of nuclear terror…
As Truman unleashed the “Truman Doctrine” of US foreign entanglements in
the new Cold War against Russian expansion starting with America’s enmeshment
into the Greece-Turkey conflict orchestrated by London in the Spring of 1947, Churchill said in Fulton Missouri: “Neither
the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organization will
be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the English
speaking peoples.
This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and
Empire and the United States.” The Truman doctrine and Special Relationship
represented the total reversal of the
“community of principle” policy to avoid “foreign entanglements” advocated by
George Washington, John Quincy Adams and adopted by FDR and Wallace.
Wallace Fights Back
Before being fired from his post as
Commerce Secretary in 1946 for giving a speech calling for US-Russia
friendship, Wallace warned of the emergence of a new
“American fascism” which has come to be known in recent years as the Deep
State. “Fascism in the postwar
inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon imperialism and eventually for
war with Russia. Already American fascists are talking and writing
about this conflict and using it as an excuse for their internal hatreds and
intolerances toward certain races, creeds and classes.”
In his 1946 Soviet Asia Mission,
Wallace said “Before the blood of our
boys is scarcely dry on the field of battle, these enemies of peace try to lay
the foundation for World War III. These people must not succeed in their
foul enterprise. We must offset their
poison by following the policies of Roosevelt in cultivating the friendship of
Russia in peace as well as in war…”
Henry Wallace did not disappear as his enemies would have liked, but
became a third party candidate for the 1948 presidency… Wallace’s presidential
speeches are a stirring call to action which can educate and inspire today’s
generation. It is a tragic reminder that the
American people, having just heroically given so much to stop a global fascist
movement during WWII, failed to stop the emergence of a new fascism in America
itself…
A Last Chance?
Although John F. Kennedy did attempt to revive the spirit of FDR during
his three years in office, his early assassination, (followed by
those of his brother, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X), sabotaged the
re-awakening of the true constitutional America.
Decades after the assassinations of
the 1960s, many cannot be blamed for having believed that all hope for America
was lost. Yet in spite of this disbelief, we have found a US President at war with
the same Deep State structures that took control of America over FDR’s dead
body, not only meeting
with the leadership of Russia, China and India but calling for good relations
and an end to the age of war.
Today, the great infrastructure programs driven by credit which epitomized the
New Deal under Wallace and FDR is alive in the surprising Belt and Road
Initiative. Russia and China have thus found themselves in the ironic role
of having become more American than the America which has ran roughshod over
the world for the past half century. Whether
Wallace’s dream finally be revived by a US-Russia-China alliance for a new just
economic order will occur or not has not yet been answered.
The US
Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academe-Think-Tank
(MICIMATT) complex has turned America into a nuclear armed “shithole.” When
Trump was running for President he compared America’s airports and
infrastructure to that of a Third World Country, an embarrassment. That is what the MICIMATT that overthrew the
American government has turned America into.
From Information Clearing House:
Excerpt:
The West Oppressed the Third World for So Long It Became the Third
World Itself
Many have already noticed: The U.S. really, really doesn’t feel like
the world leader, or even as a ‘first world country’. Of course, I write
that sarcastically, as I detest expressions like ‘first world’, and the ‘third
world’. But readers know what I mean.
Bridges, subways, inner cities, everything is crumbling, falling apart.
When I used to live in New York City, more than two decades ago, returning from
Japan was shocking: the US felt like a
poor, deprived country, full of problems, misery, of confused and depressed
people, homeless individuals; in short – desperados. Now,
I feel the same when I land in the US after spending some time in China.
And it gets much worse. What the West used to accuse the Soviet
Union of, is now actually clearly detectable in the United States and the
United Kingdom themselves: surveillance is at every step, these days; in
New York, London, Sydney, and even in the countryside. Every move a person makes, every purchase, every computer click, is
registered; somewhere, somehow. And this monitoring is, mostly, not even
illegal.
Speech is controlled by political
correctness. Someone behind the scenes decides what is acceptable and what is
not, what is desirable or not, and even what is permissible. You make one ‘mistake’ and you are out;
from the teaching positions at the universities, or from the media outlets.
In such conditions, humor cannot
thrive, and satire dies. It is not
unlike religious fundamentalism: you get destroyed if you ‘offend’. In such
circumstances, writers cannot write ground-breaking novels, because true novels
offend by definition, and always push the boundaries. As a result, almost
nobody reads novels, anymore.
Only toothless, ‘controlled humor’
is permitted. No punches can be administered intuitively. Everything has to be
calculated in advance. No ‘outrageous’ political fiction can pass the
‘invisible censorship’ in the West (and so, novels as a form have almost died).
Those who read in Russian or Chinese
languages know perfectly well, that the fiction in Russia and China, is much
more provocative and avant-garde.
In the West, poetry has died, too. And so has philosophy, which has
been reduced to a boring, stale and indigestible academic discipline.
While Hollywood and the mass media
keep producing, relentlessly, all sorts of highly insulting and stereotypical
racist junk (mainly against the Chinese, Russians, Arabs, Latinos and others), great writers and filmmakers who want to
ridicule the Western regime and its structure, have already been silenced.
You can only humiliate
non-Westerners in a way that is approved (again: somewhere, somehow),
but God forbid, you dare to criticize the pro-Western elites who are ruining
their countries on behalf of London and Washington, in the Gulf,
Southeast Asia or Africa – that would be ‘patronizing’ and ‘racist’. A great
arrangement for the Empire and its servants, isn’t it?
We all know what has happened to Julian Assange, and to Edward Snowden.
In the West, people are disappearing,
getting arrested, censored. Millions are losing jobs: in
the media, publishing houses, and in the film studios. The Cold War era appears
to be relatively ‘tolerant’, compared to what is taking place now.
The US
Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academe-Think-Tank
(MICIMATT) complex has turned America into a nuclear armed “shithole.” President
Trump is probably our only hope for a future living in peace with Russia and
China. The Democratic National Committee
will never allow a peacemaker to capture the nomination so Trump is our only
hope, let’s hope he’s not assassinated like FDR and JFK.
Only the absolute defeat of the Federal Reserve Bank and the
MICIMATT that serves it will America and its people survive. President Donald Trump is our only hope. Hopefully in his second term he will clean
out his Administration of the MICIMATT and embark on the peaceful prosperous
future he originally envisions.
