The term “deep state” remains a popular way for newly awakened normies to think of how their government operates. It is not the people on the ballot at election time who are running things, but a shadowy cabal of people who operate outside the bounds of the political system. Whenever something goes wrong, they naturally assume it is the work of the deep state. The problem is that the deep state, as most people imagine it, does not exist. It is a useful fiction.
The dismantling of USAID is a good example. The reporting on it in the unofficial media made it seem as if this entity was controlling large swaths of the government, when in fact it was just a money laundering scheme. Instead of cleaning cash acquired through illegal means, it put government cash in the hands of media activists, lobbyists, not-for-profits, and policy shops tied to permanent Washington. It was a clearing house and networking hub for permanent Washington.
In a way, the economy of permanent Washington is something like the economies of ancient city states. Those city states operated what is called palace economies where agricultural products flowed into the palace of the ruler and were then distributed back to the populace as needed. Farmers, craftsmen, and traders maintained their own economy, but a substantial portion of their economic output flowed into the palace to be redistributed as the ruler saw fit.
That is how USAID functioned. It got tens of billions from Congress and used some of that to draw in tens of billions more from other sources in the government and private donors, which it then directed to friendly sources. This was not a formal scheme where they sat around in a hollowed-out volcano figuring out how to use the money to further their evil agenda. It was more like an extended network of friends who networked within this large community, underwritten by tax money.
Imagine if the Church of Scientology had infiltrated the government. Members got positions in the administrative state and the political system. They then directed money to organizations run by fellow cult members. Those organizations then used some of the money to lobby for more money from the system in the form of government contracts, but also by influence peddling to private actors. They would then organize these resources to control public policy.
That is the nature of the “deep state.” The people in it do not think of themselves as part of the deep state. From their perspective, they are just normal people working in the media, government, politics, and policy. Everyone they know is a normal person working in one of these areas. This is how they know they are normal and the people talking about the deep state are not normal. All the normal people they know agree with them that the deep state is a conspiracy theory.
As an example, look at the LinkedIn profile of Maggie Mitchell Salem, the current Executive Director of something called IRIS. That stands for Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services. It is an open borders not-for-profit located in Connecticut with a fifteen-million-dollar budget. According to the organization’s website, “IRIS inspired and is one of the seven organizations implementing a new national resettlement program, Welcome Corps.” They want your town full of Somalis.
Now, if you scan down Mx. Salem’s resume, you see that open borders is a new advocation for her. Five years ago, she was the Executive Director of something called the Qatar Foundation International. According to their website, they promote learning the Arabic language, using donations from the Qatari government. That is nonsense, of course, as its real purpose is to buy influence in Washington. They hire people like Mx. Salem to put their money in the right hands.
We know this from a story in the Tablet. According to that report, Mx. Salem was writing anti-Saudi stories for a man named Jamal Khashoggi, who was supposedly a Saudi journalist working for the Washington Post. He was a dissident, in that he did not like new ruler of Saudi Arabia. The Qataris do not like the Saudis, so they paid Mx. Salem to handle Mr. Khashoggi to place anti-Saudi material in the hometown newspaper of the Imperial Capital, the Washington Post.
If you scan down further in Mx. Salem’s resume, you will learn that she started out in life as a foreign service officer, stationed in Tel Aviv. You will note that technically, USAID was under the supervision of the State Department. Mx. Salem used her government job to cultivate friendships in the Middle East and in Washington, so that one day she could get one of those good jobs at good wages in the deep state. By all accounts, the Qataris are very generous with their American friends.
Eventually, the Saudis grew tired of seeing anti-Saudi material in the hometown newspaper of the Imperial Capital, so they kidnapped Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul and then chopped him up in their consulate. One of the reasons the Saudis are planning for a post-America world is they have grown weary of the perfidy of the deep state, which will fink on anyone for money. This is a feature of managerialism. Everyone is for sale, so anyone can buy what they want from the deep state.
This level of bungling by Mx. Salem in the dreaded private sector would have resulted in termination and banishment from the industry, but in the deep state where everyone knows your name, it is a minor bump in the road. She bounced over to the immigration rackets before getting a job in the Biden years running a not-for-profit in Tunisia and then back into the immigration rackets. The lines between the government and those who lobby the government are never very clear.
What you see in this one example is how the managerial state operates like a community that rules over the country. It is why voting does not matter, as the people running the thousands of entities that make up the system are always going to be people who have as their top priority the preservation of their class. It is not a deep state so much as a broad state that overlays everything. Every silo of power is controlled by people who believe the same things.
This is why the first bullet out of the Trump barrel this time was at USAID. It is also why they are attacking elite colleges like Harvard. These are important nodes of a system that organized the antibodies against him the first time. It is why they have systematically broken up the media connections within the government. The point is to destabilize and dismember this broad community of people who operate as the unofficial government of the American empire.
It sounds like an impossible task, given the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of people who make up this blob. The Khashoggi story, however, points to something else about this system. It is has grown increasingly incompetent and corrupt since the end of the Cold War. Hard times breed hard men and easy times breed perfidious women incapable of maintaining the structures of power. Trump is a symptom of a system that is collapsing in on itself.
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The problem is that the deep state, as most people imagine it, does not exist. It is a useful fiction. Operative there is “imagine.” People intuit correctly, though. The Deep State is the only state. Elections and “public officials” are window dressing. Maybe there was a time when there was actual public input into government, but that is long passed. The Administrative State, probably the more accurate description, controls all aspects of government. It is why reform likely is impossible. People don’t want to turn over the applecart while they are warm and fed, but when the day comes that… Read more »
Agreed, with the exception that is not a Cloward-Piven strategy, which would have been to increase funding to USAID until USG could simply not afford to keep doing so.
Point taken.
Agreed on the “Administrative State” which is why I highly recommend the following 2 books which predicted it almost 90 years ago:
‘The Managerial Revolution’ by James Burnham
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.17923/page/n3/mode/2up
‘The Technological Society’ by Jacques Elul
https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety
Why does Z Man have this persistent need to assert that the deep state doesn’t exist but “permanent Washington” and the Blob do? It’s a distinction without a difference that he feels the need to protect.
My best guess as to his motivation is that, for him, the term “deep state” implies an active malevolence towards traditional whites while permanent Washington and the Blob just want “the preservation of their class.”
For some reason, Z Man wants to protect permanent Washington and the Blob from being seen as hating traditional whites.
I noticed he qualified with “imagine it,” which is not quite the same as saying it doesn’t exist. The Deep States simultaneously does hate whites as a group and wants to protect its class, to be clear.
The heart of the Deep State is not penny ante outfits like USAID, it is the DoD and the myriad intelligence agencies. They are the product of the American Empire that developed during and after WWII. I have not seen that Trump is inclined to cut back any of that stuff, except DEI (he wants to throw another $150 billion at the DoD). He has failed to negotiate an end to the disastrous Ukraine War and has escalated our military commitment to Israel. He wants to take Greenland by force, if necessary. I guess it’s no fun to be emperor… Read more »
Because he is harmonizing this with managerialism and emergent behavior. I agree with an implication of the middle paragraph, but nowhere does the last paragraph appear in his works – he regularly writes about this animus.
Z argues society is akin to a computer system. I disagree, but the distinction is not one without difference, particularly when written in the context of a larger belief system.
Eh. That’s a bit harsh. Usually, when Z writes about the Blob, his primary concern is delineating its organizational structure and its modus operandi. But that does not mean it doesn’t espouse an ideology and work its wiles against whites. As the case of this Salem witch demonstrates, a key imperative of the Blob is to submerge whites in a sea of mud via open-borders initiatives. Z pointed that out. And, in other pieces, he has discussed the more general anti-white agenda.
“Why does Z Man have this persistent need to assert that the deep state doesn’t exist but “permanent Washington” and the Blob do?”
I also had the same reaction. A distinction without a difference is how it struck me.
Maybe the aversion to the term Deep State is the implication it is all government actors. I’m fine with the term, and the op seems to use it interchangeably with blob, managerial state, admin state, etc.
Because Zman is not a hu-ight nationalist and is, in his own way, a gatekeeper. A deep state / managerial state with hatred toward hu-ights is deserving of violence in response (destruction) and forcible expulsion of all its creatures and especially its tens of millions of pets. Probably 100MM total. So downplaying that is helpful to gate-keeping. Zman’s bipolar points for years have been: “All we need to do is regain freedom of association.” (manic) and then, “There is no fixing the system.” (depressive). The first is a cope & the second is correct, but Zman shies away from the… Read more »
To me, Deep State is an excellent name for what is going on. It is deep as in it is permanent and is not affected by elections and seemingly impervious to changes in leadership. The one major vulnerability it has is the vast sums of money required to run it. USAID was a good first step, but far more needs to be done in order to starve the beast. The whole deep state as a massive conspiracy with shadowy figures controlling the whole thing is what is the fiction. In fact, it’s probably a media invention meant to discredit the… Read more »
Deep State does exist but rather than a tiny cabal of people running things, it’s more about just the ingrained culture and way of doing things. The US government is like a sick corporation that can never turn itself around because because of this inertia, unwillingness to change and inability to get rid of the people responsible for the cancer.
Having experience with the Blob in my youth, it’s difficult to explain the level of ideological uniformity within the system. There were simply no alternative mindsets within it because the people allowed into the Blob were so stunningly similar in personality and outlook. They were the same person. Even the few flyover whites who managed to get into the Blob were the same. Indeed, they were the most loyal as they hated the local hillbillies of their childhood. Of course, this is their Achilles’ Heel. They can’t understand what is happening because our thoughts, our ideas never penetrate their world… Read more »
Can attest. It goes a large way toward explaining why the Deep State has become so ossified and dysfunctional, too. The world outside of D.C./D.C. mindset changed dramatically but those within the sphere remained the same.
Agreed. In my mind, a Venn Diagram of the drivers of the Deep State would consist of two overlapping circles: the dirty money rackets and the broad policy consensus. It’s not just the uniparty…it’s a set of shared assumptions & worldview (globalist, functionally progressive) of everyone who matters in all the institutions. Working-level flunkies in the bureaucracy never question it. It’s like a fish questioning the water in which they swim. I always think of Z’s point that it’s who, not how, that matters. Imagine a Deep State populated by people who think like Pat Buchanan, and who see it… Read more »
There was a seminal book written in 1968, THE CENTER, about how the imperial capitol worked. I read it about ten years back. Recommended. The operational model was brilliantly explained, and you see it employed almost identically today even though the world sort of changed over the last sixty years. “Bubble” doesn’t even come close to describing this situation. These people think they are fighting Lester Maddox and George Wallace.
Do you have an author by chance? I can’t seem to find it anywhere, even at places like Second Sale. Thank you.
Stewart Alsop.
It is wild that rather than describing a world in the distant past it comes across more as a contemporary user’s manual.
Stewart Alsop was a closet homosexual who was seduced by a KGB male agent once while the Soviets filmed the encounter. He was also the man who pushed LBJ into appointing the Warren Commission. At one time, he was one of the most influential journalists in the US.
As such, he was able to do something that most would never consider. Alsop turned around and went to his friends in the USGOV like Dulles and Wisner and admitted that the Soviets had homosexual blackmail on him, and was even more eager now to hup-hup-hup along to any instructions from Uncle.
Once again, thanks!
Mister we could use a man like Lester Maddox again.
But I honestly don’t know how you’d ever change it. Even if you tried to overhaul it, the nature of the jobs would drive out anyone who thinks differently. The Blob can only be killed, not reformed. But the nature of DC would immediately set to recreate it.
This sounds crazy, but a Constantinople solution might–might–save it. Simply relocate the capitol to, say, Houston. I don’t think the GAE could be sustained as long as Byzantium, to be clear. That is sort of killing it.
“Simply relocate the capitol to, say, Houston.”
Might I suggest Amundsen-Scott?
They wouldn’t be any less hunkered down in the bunker there.
It would definitely help to break it up physically. Dept of Ag in Kansas City. Labor in Cleveland. State Dept in Albany. Flyover country and smaller cities.
Not Houston, but a place like Omaha, Indianapolis or Des Moines.
My grad school program in DC was a farm system for The Blob and it was definitely the flyover types most determined to ingratiate themselves with their fellow drones. I discovered that a classmate of mine (of course he was a donut puncher) was from the same neck of upstate NY as me. When I asked him about it he gave me a blank stare and looked like he wanted to bolt from the room in shame. These are types that thrill at the idea of forcing the blessings of diversity into their former neighborhoods.
Yes. These types are to be pitied, really.
The middle-class flyover types trying to get into the Blob were generally like the character Tracy Flick from the movie Election. Of course, there were a fair amount of wealthy flyover types who went to nice public high schools or private schools in the Midwest or Far West. They weren’t quite as pushy as the middle-class strivers as they felt a bit more at home with the East/West Coast elites, but they still retained their dislike of their fellow flyover whites. Regardless, the personality types were overall pretty similar. They had to be. Any normal person wouldn’t want to be… Read more »
Our World is now run by Tracy Flick, at the time I assumed she was based on Hillary
Good film BTW
This ideological uniformity mirrors precisely the ideologal uniformity of academia. That is hardly coincidental inasmuch as the Blob’s inmates all matriculated through the academy, and a high percentage of them through its elite nodes. This being the case, punishing academia severely will be a necessary component of any plan to vanquish the Blob.
Mx. Salem has the exact smug libshit mug that you’d expect. And to think there are millions more exactly like her – good grief. Further, who would have ever known the “refugee resettlement” business was so massive. I guess the old “invade the world, invite the world” was no freaking joke. An epic flood is going to be required to clean out these stables…
It is soul destroying reading a few interviews with her and her fellow travelers. They really do believe they are changing the world and our country for the better. Especially women.
“A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.” C.S. Lewis
“I’m a good person” is one of the biggest red flags a person can utter. Along with variations thereof, such as “he’s a bad person.”
That is what you said when you were five and in trouble, 10, maybe 15, and then one day after countless arguments with your dad, you wonder what am i even saying? What does that mean? But only if you’re on your way to becoming an adult
Likewise use of ‘human’ as a noun, outside of a zoological/ecological context.
As I wrote before, choose either Pleasantville, or Bartertown.
Infuriating that I pay that f***’s salary when I presume she disdains everything I care about. The only sliver we share on a Venn diagram is a preference for White neighborhoods and croissants over frosted cake donuts. I doubt she is living down and dirty among either American or imported proles.
The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing
E. Michael Jones wrote about internal refugee resettlement that occurred decades ago. He noted the impacts of Lutheran Family Services and others on driving wedges into the Catholic communities of so many Eastern and Midwestern cities.
“Imagine if the Church of Scientology had infiltrated the government. Members got positions in the administrative state and the political system. They then directed money to organizations run by fellow cult members. Those organizations then used some of the money to lobby for more money from the system in the form of government contracts, but also by influence peddling to private actors. They would then organize these resources to control public policy.”
haha yea imagine if some religious group with extremely high in-group preference took control of our government and did all that that would really suck haha just imagine…
Point taken.
The Deep State does exist within the MIC and law enforcement, but it is a different entity than the Blob of shitlibs, strivers and busybodies that control the elite class. The analogy with Scientology is a good one — the elite class operates like a cult and to be a member of it you must adhere to its belief system, norms and attitudes. You do not get ahead an America by knowing or accomplishing things, you gat ahead by knowing the right people and having the right attitudes and joining this cult. This is the great divide that separates practical,… Read more »
The problem with these “rackets” is that they do real damage. It’s hard to believe that these people are just cynical money makers, when their activities have such monstrous consequences. It’s more likely that they are true believers. They just “know” that bringing in Somalis or Arabs into your neighborhood will make it a better and more vibrant place. The fact that they can make a lot money doing this is a bonus that confirms that they are right side of history.
Just like the billion dollar house & feed the bums racket.
These are the worst criminals in human history. they must be punished.
Right, and I think that’s probably why you see the mainstream sects so involved in it. Most sects had already been taken over before the Civil Rights Act and the Hart-Cellar Act. The faithful (and in some cases, their great-grandparents) had been indoctrinated via the pulpit, so it is only natural they entered the (reverse) “crusade” filled with moral certainty.
True Believers are drones. Malice and greed are the motives for those who make this possible.
Right, the drones just believe the “beautiful” lies. The other, more malicious true believers believe in the necessity of polluting White countries with the mud of the world.
How can you blame the malicious true believers? The arrogant “white” man refuses to abandon his obscenely evil civilization and the sophistries with which he defends it. How can he be stopped? How can something so complicated and resistant to correction be overcome?
It’s exhausting to work out a plan which preserves the perp, who defeats every attempt to love him. So the chosen solution, extinction, is accepted less for its merits than as a matter of mental economy and strategic simplicity.
“Imagine if the Church of Scientology had infiltrated the government.”
Substitute Church of Scientology with Jews and you’re on to something.
“Hard times breed hard men and easy times breed perfidious women incapable of maintaining the structures of power.”
Or as today’s WSJ reports, the air traffic control system “isn’t working”. Maybe they need more women or Somalians or women Somalians.
I don’t know how you stop this. There are so many of these people throughout every one of our institutions in the West now. It’s been occurring for decades, and schools have been churning out these types for at least two decades as well. It’s an entire priesthood and there are hundreds of thousands of them throughout our society. Let’s say we make NGOs and quangos illegal in the US tomorrow. Overnight, they’re all out of work. Do they sit at home for the rest of their lives? Obviously, they won’t. They’ll find other avenues to eat away at the… Read more »
It only gets solved one way, and most here won’t like it “What sense can we make of James Madison’s famous Federalist No. 10 today? This is his essay on the danger of divisive and controlling factions to government, and how the Constitution would guard against them. His solution was to eliminate the problem by encouraging factions and fragmenting them, so that none of them could abuse its influence and upend the system, and by structuring the scale of the republic so that no faction could have undue influence and deprive others of their rights. It’s not clear, from Madison’s point of view, just… Read more »
The factions seem to be the nomenklatura, which seems blithely unaware or disinterested that their world is going away, and the high stakes grifters looting at an ever-accelerating pace because they know it is not sustainable. There have been hints that the theft is unfathomable.
“Do they sit at home for the rest of their lives? Obviously, they won’t. They’ll find other avenues to eat away at the nest.”
Either that or they will have to find ways to put food on the table and pay the mortgage, like everyone else. Mostly, the only ones who will find ways to eat away at the nest are the trust-fund babies.
Ah, yes, they will start combing the “help wanted” sections of the local paper. They’ll just have to act normal, like everyone else.
This was the strategy conservatives employed with higher education after the 1980s. “Let ’em take basket weaving as a major. They’ll never get a job. Let the universities churn out useless homeless people with degrees in African feminism. Eventually they’ll just have to settle down and get a mortgage. No sweat.”
Worked out superbly, don’t you think?
Did OK until The Chimp made student loans easier to get. The basket weavers got jobs at drive thrus. Then Obongo both took over the whole thing, plus created “jobs” programs to pay the unemployable to do what their training prepared them for, which was mostly infiltrate and agitate.
That’s why stuff went to heck so fast in recent years. Obongo made sure the least competent and most ideological among us were the ones calling the shots.
Remember the trillion dollar Obama “stimulus?” I’ve read that this was added to the baseline budget and spent in every year since. Plus annual cost of living increases from the baseline.
Is it any surprise that they aren’t passing budgets anymore?
Yes. It is why reform is likely impossible. Throwing a wrench into the system, which is what the Trump Administration is really doing, is the only viable option. They think it can save the system but it might help neuter it, which is the best-case scenario.
And if anyone liked that last one, this one is also good. Its funny, they were written over a decade ago and nothing has changed. This one talks about that:
https://deflationland.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to.html
You don’t fix it any more than you could “fix” Constantinople in 1440 or the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires in 1914.
As Derbyshire so eloquently put it, “We Are Doomed.” It’s gonna get “fixed” by some unanticipated, exogenous event. Not reformed from within.
I actually hate to take that attitude, frankly it’s un-American. Americans were once practical, roll-up-your-sleeves and git-‘er-done people. But it’s a realistic attitude.
As the old saying goes, “It’s too late to fix anything, but too soon to shoot the bastards.”
This is what late stage empire looks like, unfortunately. You can’t rely on the system to reform itself. It can only fail. The rate at which it fails is dependent on the circumstances of the empire. In the case of the United States, it has extremely defensible borders, no nearby enemies, no real global threat, and a magic money printing machine that can (literally) paper over problems. It can last a long time and likely will last a long time. But we are already starting to see the signs of fissure as the Romans did in the late 200s and… Read more »
zman and readers, what is the rationale for increasing the military budget to 1T and more? Isn’t that another node of corruption? Or does trump and his admin members think that it will always remain a friendly node and thus deserve rewards?
Not complicated. Pentagon wants more money, tells president they want more money. President, being BoomerCon writ large personified, believes increased defense spending is always the greatest good. So Pentagon gets more money.
There is something to what @Jeffrey Zoar says, but the lion’s share of it is the Ukraine War, and now, Yemen. The Bidet regime emptied the arsenals and it will take a decade or two plus a fortune to get them back to where they were. Ran into a guy who just finished one hitch in artillery, and he said they aren’t training with dummy rounds anymore. They don’t even have those. They just go through the motions, pretending to load and fire. Assuming anyone in MIC has half a clue, they’ve seen the effects of drones and hypersonics, for… Read more »
Trump is a boomer who believes in that “peace through strength” malarkey. Even if that were true, our military is a paper tiger at this point that exists to procure weapons and make contractors rich. So Trump says “our military sucks how does it get better”, the Pentagon tells him that it can be done… if they get more money to buy more weapons. That is by the way the Pentagon’s answer to every question.
“Peace through strength,” is a direct lift from at least one Reagan speech.
The US can no longer project power against all but the weakest of players. Air defense has negated our navy and air force. It’s why we won’t attack Iran.
The world is a different place than just a couple of years ago. Trump can give the MIC all the money that it wants, but that won’t change our new situation.
It’s not just that the MIC can’t deliver the hardware for a revitalized modernized US military. It’s that US military substantively isn’t American anymore, and absolutely does NOTHING to defend the actual American people. The army just cut 80,000 billets. Why? Because while some white boys came back, not enough did to even maintain the old level of force structure. The Marine Corps had already fixed their shortfall with force structure cuts some time ago. Modern militaries require even the lowest levels to have a minimum level of intelligence/capability to learn complex tasks/behaviors. Most 3rd-worlders who are capable aren’t willing… Read more »
Peace through strength isn’t wrong, but there seems to be some confusion over what constitutes strength. For regime purposes, usually whatever enriches the MICOM the most = strength.
The US has been in a more-or-less constant war footing since 1941. Where is the peace?
According to Mr. Anglin: “Trump was allowed to win the fake election because he is the perfect figure to reframe the American culture to make it into something that is maybe capable of doing a big war. It’s the biggest war budget in the history of any country. To what end? Where is the threat? America cannot be invaded and insofar as there are interests in the Western hemisphere, any of these countries can be bullied with psychological operations and special forces squads. Trump’s administration is doing a Hitler-style military buildup but Hitler actually had people trying to destroy his… Read more »
Anglin is a Chinese mouthpiece these days.
The 1T military budget is to prep for a three or four front WW3 scenario.
The budget figure is an accounting trick to make it look like they are not cutting the DoD. They are including in this new number the supplemental passed this year.
“what is the rationale for increasing the military budget to 1T “
Trump thinks he can return the nation to 1961.
Unfortunately limiting the federal government to enumerated powers only not will get us to where we need to be. It will take more. It all looks like calculated opportunism to me. Hard to quell those types of mindsets. Choking off the money should help. Visible prosecutions appropriate to the obvious criminality will also. I like the idea of caning prior to any jail time followed up with one last cane strike before release. Can any of us really go Galt? I don’t think so. Well, maybe.
“It is not a deep state so much as a broad state that overlays everything.” We’ve been over this terrain before. You seemingly have this fixation of deep state as an evil cabal whose members fiendishly rub their hands as they hatch some new diabolical scheme. But if I used terms like “blob” or “status quo” you would have no objection. People are invested in the status quo — their livelihoods and status depend on it. And they are invested in the status quo — dare I say the “deep state” — to different degrees. There’s an outer party and… Read more »
The main reason for this is words have meanings. “Deep state” does not conjure the same images in the mind as “:status quo” because they describe different things.
Deep State as a concept was introduced into Right Wing Thought by a guy called William S. Lind. He used Turkey as the defining example. The Turkish military inherited the spirit of Kemalism. For Muslim societies to function in the modern liberal world, the nilitary/government agencies have to ruthlessly enforce liberalism against the will of the people. Mustafa Kemal did a classic “Young” nationalist coup in 1919 and set the pattern. This means that every couple of decades, the military had to coup the newly elected extremist Muslim government. Ironically a few years after this popularization, the Turkish military failed… Read more »
A person’s opinion about the Khashoggi incident (which I feel pretty certain I still haven’t been told the whole truth about) is a very reliable baizuo litmus test. This one killing makes the entire Saudi regime and nation into evil personified (so goes the narrative). Denounced as such by the denizens of AINO, whose GAE has never killed anyone, and are thus entitled to judge. See this a lot among golf fans, references to LIV “blood money.”
BTW – NOBODY likes Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are a particularly offensive mix of wealth, arrogance, and hypocrisy.
well funny enough Scientology did infiltrate the federal government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
Scientology’s methods and their extremely pervasive effects on the minds of its own cult members only truly begin to make sense when understood within the context of the non-redacted history of founder L. Ron Hubbard, including the Church’s primordial Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation connections to the intelligence community, and Hubbard’s own intelligence career. His role in under-discussed operations, on the behalf of US Naval and other intelligence agencies, include Hubbard’s work at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. in the 1930s –– the hot-bed of psychiatric research during Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke, the precursors to the infamous MK-ULTRA program… Read more »
As an aside, Parson wrote to Hubbard that he created a homunculus in the Trinity test site – in that metal container right beneath the blast (Jumbo). The occult rabbit hole is a deep warren.
Hubbard was a drug fiend and an Alistair Crowley fan, that’s pretty much it, all his BS stories about Asian mystics. Indian tribes, CIA, US navy record 1% true 99% BS
His scam made him rich, so in that regard he was a big success
How about those fellas at the JPL, though? Parsons and others. Then you have guys like Michael Aquino, a high-ranking Satanist, in charge of major propaganda programs for the US military for 20-some odd years.
Read that piece I linked. That’s not fiction.
Michael Aquino is also the one who ran the base right next McMartin Preschool, where the “Satanic Panic” began. But nothing to see here!
Presidio school, sorry
Someone who, based on the parentheses in his name believes in secret cabals, is so ignorantly dismissive of those theories that do not fit into his narrative, should reflect on his arrogance. Yes, Hubbard was a druggy. He was also a lesser acolyte compared with someone like Parsons. That is what makes him a more visible member of the usually opaque.
Time to go full Saudi on the hyphenators?
In other other words, Washington is a company town and they want America to build cars while the rest of us want high speed rail.
I thought it was more like they wanted rail and buses (for us) and cars for themselves…
Nothing changes until the environment changes. Systemic infection can only be cured by systemic remedy. Diagnosis is not remedy. You cannot talk or vote your way to a cure. You cannot indoctrinate or bribe a virus into submission. Laws do not eliminate crime. Ukrainian men are learning that you cannot win a war with a snazzy internet campaign. The United States was founded by men who were realists and bled in pursuit of that goal. Only tangible action can save us, and we must be smarter about it.
“Hard times breed hard men and easy times breed perfidious women…“
And hard men breed perfidious… never mind.
Every government in the Western World operates a bureaucracy that is immune to change. They work steadily at pushing papers to present an image of industry. Perhaps 1 in 10 is really necessary, although they would have you think otherwise. The civil servant, hunkered down in his office or cubicle, moves with his peers like the cells in a jellyfish. And, like a jellyfish, he is spineless. The slightest hint of controversy makes him curdle up and die — he lives and dies by the public-relations sword — and he assiduously avoids career danger. It is a boring life being… Read more »