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The MoA Week In Review – Open Thread 2018-31
[Please excuse the lack of posts this week. I am with my larger family and the kids keep me busy.]
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
The U.S. embassy in Jordan let the "rebels" in southwest Syria know that they are on their own: ".. you should not base your decision on the assumption or expectation of military intervention by us." Several towns in the area have already decalred their will to reconcile with the Syrian government. More will follow. The Russian air force started to support the Syrian operations around Daraa with heavy bombing. The U.S. or Israel are now unlikely to intervene with anything but the usual propaganda. Get ready for new "last hospital", "barrel bombs", "chemical attack" and other nonsense headlines. Eva Bartlett is on the ground and reports from Hader, A Village Under Siege by al-Qaeda and Israeli Forces Alike.
Use as open thread …
J Swift @14 tempers Jack’s post and goldhoarder @16 goes one step further. (No criticism, just another view. See also Jack @26.) More:
The expression Deep State: implies a ‘state’ which the various strands of power behind the scenes are not; the word ‘deep’ implies hidden, again, not specially, at least some vague description can be made.
The US is a corporate oligarchy and the politicians are brokers of influence and votes (in congress, senate, and from their constituents..) They are paid to ‘support’ or ‘champion’ this or that in a complex criss-cross of relationships and money/favor exchanges. The complexity makes for obscurity. The fake Dem-Rep duopoly in fine rests only on a kind of tribal preference linked to cultural issues (abortion, sex, race, identity politics, hate of communism, religion, splinter oddities, etc.) as touted to Joe Public.
Behind the scenes, in no order of importance:
Banking and Finance, Big Energy/Oil, Military-industrial (entwined with the two previous), Social (medical, insurance, Big Pharma, education, all partly controlled by non-Gov. and/or privatised to the max), Real Estate + Territorial (linked to banking and finance, water control, mining, energy and transport), Big Agri (Monsanto, etc.) Manufacturing is not up there (see Trump trying to correct) except in small splintered stakes. For ex. one might speak of a Security Industry which includes TSA employees (fastest growing employment) to airbags (car industry) to anti-virus programs to Guns sales…who are they supposed to pay? etc.
The joker in the pack is the MSM coupled with a section of the performance arts (Hollywood) and communications in general (internet, Silicon Valley, etc.)
Overall, the free-wheeling secretive corrupt system of deal-making and pretend-governance makes it that the USA has not a Gvmt for the people and is thus, it follows inexorably, extremely vulnerable to any outside influence. First is of course the Israel lobby/infiltration, but others, very varied, try the same tricks and succeed. Globalisation, in a kind of supposedly ‘more moral’, purely greed-based, i.e. commercial vein, move, is implemented to re-create a better, different Empire (as compared to the British, too heavy handed..) is another facet of the picture. That is now failing.
Posted by: Noirette | Jun 25 2018 14:23 utc | 63
Noirette@62,
I agree with your points, but would like to build on them a bit.
The ‘Banking and Finance’ cartel behind the U.S. deep state is said to consist of eight families, half American and half European. (The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families, Dean Henderson, Global Research, May 19, 2016)
This banking and finance cartel (which, as you say, is interlocked with big oil, the military/industrial, big tech, etc.) forms the core of what are called the ‘Globalists’, an international financial elite that use their wealth to exert political control over as much of the world as possible. In addition to the banking families, the ‘Globalists’ include any number of extremely wealthy people, (Industrialists, Tech Entrepreneurs, Middle-East Sheiks, Saudi Royals, and Nouveaux Riches such as Soros, Ukranian and Russian Oligarchs, etc.). The ‘Globalists’ directly control virtually all Western NGOs (Soros), think tanks and major media.
The ‘Globalists’ control not only the U.S. Deep State, but also the European Union structures. They also have purchased a large number of politicians throughout the Western World. Through this control they have stripped sovereignty from both the U.S. and Europe, and converted them into effective ‘Oligarchic Dictatorships’. These dictatorships are set-up for the benefit of the ‘Globalists’ themselves, and have little interest in the well-being of their citizens. This is seen in the impoverishment and societal collapse rapidly progressing in both the U.S. and Europe.
Globalization is the ‘Globalists’ project of Global Governance, which effectively strips nation-states of their sovereignty (and democracy) and transfers it to ‘Global Institutions’ (IMF, World Bank, International Trade Agreements, U.N., Climate Agreements, etc.), enforced by U.S. military might.
The ‘Project for a New American Century’ was the ‘Globalists’ blueprint to ‘Globalize’ over the parts of the world that they did not already control. Almost all current and recent international conflicts, from the Middle-Eastern Wars, to Ukraine, the Korean crisis, the cornering of Russian and Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ are all related to this project.
Unfortunately for the ‘Globalists’, Global Governance is extremely harmful to citizens that are subject to it. That is why we see ‘populism/nationalism’ rising throughout the U.S. and Europe, in an attempt to block the stripping of these citizens’ democracy, their nations’ sovereignty and their personal security and well-being.
I believe that President Trump is part of this populism/nationalism movement, and almost all of his actions can be interpreted as an attempt to counter Globalization, to restore U.S. sovereignty and to redevelop the U.S. economy, which has been devastated over the past four decades by the ‘Globalist’ elites.
Posted by: dh-mtl | Jun 25 2018 21:01 utc | 80
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