THE TRAGEDIES OF TRUMP

The U.S. so needs a new broom to sweep clean.

Trump claiming he was it, failed in almost every respect. He promised a lot but was just another faulty political product, incapable of much and in fact created more dirt than he cleaned.

Trump made great claims on all sides, a political trick used by a majority of politicians these days. Be all things to all men... and women. Advocating an end to regime change wars while being a proponent of outdoing waterboarding. Talking of creation harmony, not wishing to destabilize nations then attempting to unseat the president of Venezuela. Now, after four years of Trump we know that almost nothing he says can be trusted. He took political lying to Guinness Book of World Record levels.

Yet he was the closest we have come to a radical president of the USA. The tragedy is that his mentality was not fit for purpose in the role many believed he was suited to, destroying the old, established order and putting something better in its place. The first part of the task he accomplished to an observable degree (though this will be seen to be temporary, not permanent). The second part, putting something better in its place... he hardly seems to have had any notion of how to do it, I suspect he didn’t even try. In fact what he created was arguably much worse.

Why do I say it was much worse?

I need only name three men and two women:

John Bolton
Mike Pompeo
Mike Pence
Nikki Haley
Gina Haspel

By bringing these five people into his administration at one time or another you know immediately that nothing fundamental was going to change regarding U.S. foreign policy, one of the primary issues he stood on as prospective president.

This was an absolute betrayal of all who voted for him on the basis that he would be beneficial in regard to world peace and harmony. Trump has created the most divided world since the Cold War with aggressive policy decisions regarding multiple nations from Venezuela to China to Russia to Iran to Syria to Ukraine and on. His presidential campaign promises on foreign policy ring totally hollow now.

Imagine what someone who truly believed in what Trump only claimed to could have done.

Such a person in the White House would certainly NOT have surrounded himself with the most blatant war-hungry hawks, black site managers and CIA zealots as Trump did. He or she would have set about finding people who could deliver the cooperation with other nations he promised. It was at this earliest possible stage of Trump’s presidency that I realized that like Obama, we had been gulled once again.

A true and trusted individual could have made the changes America needs by getting money out of politics, ended the pernicious lobbying system, stopped Big Pharma and Big Health overcharging, focused on benefits to U.S. citizens, not to donors on Wall Street and ended regime change wars and all the attendant propaganda and covert pseudo-diplomacy, dirty tricks and Machiavellian plots that go with them.

Such a person could have really cleaned up... at least to the maximum degree his or her powers allowed.

Trump messed up instead.

Yes, I know many millions of Americans still believe he had the right stuff. He talked a good game about bringing jobs back from overseas and solving trading inequities. Perhaps some of what he did even worked (though the data is patchy). But really, taken as a whole I fail to see how more of Trump was going to bring the ideal America that some clearly visualized back into being. Such views are a triumph of fantasy over reality in my view and in truth a sign of the utter desperation many feel due to the Wall Street fix that is killing them day by day vacuuming all wealth up to the elite there. I’m sorry but Trump wasn’t going to fix that... in fact one of his greatest boasts was that the stock market was booming. This “boom” didn’t transfer either into good jobs or vastly improved lives for American citizens.

Trump failed. Yet tens of millions still believe in him. And in January and beyond most of them will continue to do so in a continued war against ‘the other side’ that can only have the most bitter harvest.

Trump is clearly incapable of consistently formulating policies that can lead to new and stable realities. The vast majority of his decisions appear to be on the spur of the moment, informed by emotion and little else, ad hoc plans and plots that are simplistic, taking no account of deeper realities, nuance or any consequences involved. Often they appear to be products of personal prejudices and nothing more.

If Trump had been an individual informed by the best minds in America and in the West in general there is no limit to the good he could have done. By the best minds I mean those such as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Ben Norton and others. But like unrelated chemical elements without the appropriate receptors there was no good fit, there was no way that they could connect to create a new and powerful way to the better place we all know is possible.

Trump, with his enormous ego and mafia-like mentality has an inability to connect which is almost total. He feels omnipotent, all-knowing. And he choose the most arrogant, fixed-mentality people to be a kind of Praetorian Guard around him. This was not the act of a man seeking great change but rather great protection for himself.

These were just some of the failures of a Trump who, like Obama, had offered the carrot of change to a hungry American people. But like Obama he almost totally failed to deliver.

Much was promised. So very little was delivered.

These are the tragedies of Trump.

THE BIDEN ‘UNITE THE WORLD’ UPDATE

I first posted the text at the foot of this update on the 25th of November 2020 and promised to report back as and when there were developments initiated by U.S. president Joe Biden regarding U.S. foreign policy in respect of a tweet he posted the day before.

In the past few days Biden has made his first major announcement in this context.

In a virtual address to the Munich Security Conference he did exactly as I predicted he would and called for an airtight alliance between the USA and European Union states against both Russia and China. This is exactly the policy I predicted below in my post of the 25th of November.

While talking of unity Biden is promoting a permanent division and the continuation and worsening of what I call an 'Ice Cold War' differentiated from the war with the Soviet Union in that no dialogue or true diplomacy will take place, only demands.

 

Biden wishes to unite the USA and Europe... but AGAINST Russia and China, and without doubt against their allies too. Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela et al.

In a textual version of a Freudian slip the official White House text of Biden's address quotes Biden as using 'division' instead of 'vision' (see below).

'You know, I hope our fellow democracies are going to join us in this vital work.  Our partnerships have endured and grown through the years because they are rooted in the richness of our shared democratic values.  They’re not transactional.  They’re not extractive.  They’re built on a vision of a future where every voice matters, where the rights of all are protected and the rule of law is upheld. 

None of this has fully succeeded in this — none of us has fully succeeded in this division [vision].  We continue to work toward it.  And in so many places, including in Europe and the United States, democratic progress is under assault.'

 It is clear to me that Biden has no wish to create a better relationship with Russia and China or their allies. His desire is clearly to form a solid block with Europe and any others with the U.S. orbit as a weapon with which to weaken and undermine them.

Biden will attempt to undermine China's 'Belt and Road' initiative and Russia's 'NordStream 2' pipeline as an integral part of his policy of creating a united front against Russia and China. He will bolster NATO and refrain from any criticism of it as it builds its forces ever closer to Russia's border.

As I predicted there will be no global unification attempt as desperately required at this time of greatest threat for humanity. Future pandemics, quite possibly worse than the present one will certainly require the global unity clearly absent from the present patchy responses. Human-caused climate change presents an imminent threat, an even greater threat than any pandemic and this threat above all others surely demands global unity to ameliorate its effects.

Biden's tweet of November last year therefore rings very hollow now. It represented a deception, not a delivery of hope for the future. Instead of unity Biden advocates division, instead of a desire for change and reconciliation he advocates more of the same previous antagonism and aggression. And quite clearly he advocates more war, a continued reliance on regime change by whatever means the so-called 'Free World' perceives as necessary.

Biden's tweet below offered the hope that the past irresponsibility and highly aggressive stance of the USA might be ameliorated, softened and a potential for agreements between the USA, Europe and the rising nations of China and Russia be begun. However, his speech to the Munich conference shows just how vain that hope was and totally confirmed my predictions below.

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On Tuesday November 24th 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joe Biden, president elect, posted the following on Twitter:

“Let’s begin the work to heal and unite America and the world.”

I intend to update this text with intermittent updates on the question of to what degree Joe Biden seeks to unite the world or otherwise. I will update whenever I spot items pro and contra this stated goal.

Currently the prospects do not look very good as he clearly intends to install persons who have previously expressed hawkish sentiments regarding nations that have in the past been described as ‘adversaries’ or even ‘enemies’.

It is clear he will wish to unite the people of America, his hopes for the election of yet another Democratic Party president in 2024 to a significant degree depend on this.

And it is clear he wishes to unite all America’s allies to the maximum degree possible.

But it is much, much less clear that he wishes to unite the world. In my estimation his policies so far... as far as I have been able to identify them will divide the world as never before in what I have been referring to as an, ‘Ice Cold War’, distinguished from the ‘Cold War’ in that there will be no dialogue, no discussion, no detente, only a series of demands from the USA.

So, I am skeptical of this tweet of his, it seems to me to run contrary to all else I see occurring in his previous statements regarding Russia and China for instance and the likely policy on Venezuela to name but three nations in question.

I wonder to what degree the sentiment expressed in Biden’s tweet is genuine, and to what degree an attempted deception based on a meaningless bit of ‘feel good’ rhetoric/propaganda.

The proof of the pudding as always, is in the eating... one way or the other.

Will he reach out to China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and others in his stated goal to unite the world?

I will post an update to this text as and when I detect any movement that forwards or detracts from this clearly laudable goal as stated below and whether it can be taken at face value or, as I suspect, it cannot.

WESTERN ELITES HAVE NOWHERE TO GO BUT DOWN

Naturally they justify their existences. They have clawed their way to the top of the heap. Are they likely to be filled with agonizing contrition, longing to descend back down that slippery slope to slum it with the rest of humanity?

The number of consolation prizes for losing your soul in the callous, cynical and single-minded pursuit of personal ambition are many. The hard-headed way such people conceive of others on the way up serves them well when they get there. Such are these wizened souls with super-wizened consciences that they perceive the rest of us in a stony-eyed, clinical sympathy as those they left behind.

Those who strive to reach these heights know well what they are doing and what they have to do to get there and stay there. They are under no illusions that they are going to do widespread good if they ever had such notions to begin with.

It is a cynical as well as a very smug world. Those who enter the orbit of the elites feel they have finally arrived where they always knew they were destined to be. In this world everyone knows the score, the rules are known though never stated. If anything states the rules it is in visual patterns of both speech and dress, in what you wear and how you form your words. If self-censorship is needed it is only until a newbie masters the initial semi-hidden signals. Within a day or two, or at most a couple of weeks this is done.

The elites of our world are little battalions of a much larger army. The uniforms and uniform forms of thought and speech designate them. Those with gravitas lead, those with their office suites, those who have maximal access to company budgets and most of all, those who are known to deploy the perks of license when a release is required to bond the squad.

We, the bovine herd of irrational squabblers, poor in pocket and virtually unemployable are seen as tiny, almost imperceptible specks far below the well-appointed, lofty and super-secure and secluded corporate, government or embassy enclosures. The uninformed, the pretty comical squealers who never made it and who it is their job to control and ensure they don’t trouble their superiors.

Elites love their world. It rewards them well as long as they obey the implicit rules that govern every aspect of their time. And in general they obey very well. They know what the outcome will be if they do not, if they suddenly become concerned that truth has nothing at all to do with their work and how they act, plan or communicate. Only once in a very blue moon does one of their number rebel out of an excess of conscience. Such cases are so extremely rare that they can be seen to be the exceptions that prove the rule of otherwise complete compliance to the ethos of lies, propaganda, PR and falsity that is the standard in whatever elite is in question.

Chris Hedges resigned from the New York Times because he couldn’t stomach the lies, omissions and pressure to conform regarding the second Iraq war. He is arguably the most experienced foreign correspondent the western press ever had. He is now the most prominent critic of the West’s elites and the chaos and misery they cause.

Craig Murray was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan. He got in trouble with the British Government for exposing torture, was sacked and is now an activist and acerbic commentator on western foreign policy.

Glenn Greenwald did rise to elite status within the journalistic profession by his work with Edward Snowden. He could have stayed within the elite he rose so quickly to join, however he has remained an eloquent critic of them instead and recently resigned from the organization he helped form as they tried to censor him.

Those who leave the conformist ranks of whatever elite they find themselves in are few. Most remain and obey the rules, censor themselves and keep strictly to narratives they know will find no resistance within the enormously well-paid clique to which they belong. They will supply what’s wanted in other words. The lesser dogs within these elites make sure  they never, ever bite the hand that feeds them.

With Russia being the whipping boy required for whatever purpose, they dutifully supply the copy needed, no question. is someone to be smeared? Jeremy Corbyn perhaps? Or Bernie Sanders? Maybe Scott Ritter (another luminary within another elite position as a WMD search team leader in Iraq who went “rogue)? It’s as good as done.

And if the CIA, NSA or FBI are required to lend a hand you can be sure they will do so with alacrity... all you need do is append a note claiming it’s a matter of state security. The report and text for the media will be on someone’s desk by mid-morning.

It’s tough at the top they say. But every last man jack and happy presstitute knows just how TRULY tough it is at the bottom however...

And they know if they don’t mind their ‘p’s and ‘q’s and obey all the unwritten laws, if they show any signs of independence of thought or honesty... they will be on their way down there as soon as you can say designer shirt or private school.

These western elites have no where to go but down... so lying and betraying those below who are crying out for truth... becomes their very mindfully, ultra-well-heeled profession.

WESTERN SHITRISE, EASTERN SUNRISE

We have reached a tipping point in the West. Too much shit has risen to the top for anything approaching sanity or normality to have anything more than a tenuous effect on our daily lives.

The wise have drowned, heads forced underwater by hysterical, elitist warmongers screaming “9/11”!

Trump was an anomaly, a dysfunctional spanner thrust into the Washington power machine. Now that he is going the gears of war will be oiled once again in the normal manner, not in the haphazard unconventional mode adopted by him. The machine is emblazoned with the words ‘The Free World’ and all those operating it wear impermeable bubbles of belief on their heads. No contrary thought can make its way through. The group-thought miasma of the new Washington elite will have every mind fixed, every motivation vetted for its kosher focus, all policies set in lockstep, every ally on the battle bus for the final war to save “Western Values”.

This saintly grouping imbued with a massive helping of bullshit will set forth to confront two nations specifically and whatever others ally to them by not bowing to the Shitforce in Washington.

These two nations are an enormous threat to all western elites. They comprise the greatest adversaries western elites have ever faced. But not for the reasons delineated in endless propaganda shitstorms from Washington and its minions abroad. Not because they are a military threat, not at all. Because they are an economic threat and a threat to the political power the USA in particular has inflicted upon Europe and many other regions across our world. All very profitable in terms of economic power and political influence. All ending now as the East rises in prominence and the West declines.

The shit-stirrers of Trump will be as nothing compared to those within the upcoming Biden administration. Expect Nikki Haley and Samantha Power-like tropes at the UN, expect Cheney-like ranting from the Secretary of Defense and Pompeo-like sophistry from the Secretary of State. And what about Bush? Biden is Bush with Brains.

The shit is rising in the West just as the sun rises as ever from the East. The new year approaching will see our world riven with greater division than ever. No resolutions except those dividing us will have force. An ‘Ice Cold War’ is approaching where no discussion, no dialogue and heaven forfend no detente will exist... only demands. Demands for compliance across the board. Demands that ‘they’ become just as shitty as ‘we’ are. Or else.

Welcome to the brown-nosed world of U.S. elites where the corporatists, the lobbyists, the necon-deranged, the totalitarian liberals and the vast mass of shit-stirring media tell you what to think. And the message will be unchanging, permeating and constantly reinforced, that we must be in unity against the enemies at the gate, that if we do not accept and conform we will be aiding those enemies. Those who demur, those who attempt to defend their freedom of thought and speech will find themselves called bots, puppets, foreign agents and almost certainly traitors.

All wrapped in a jingoistic patriotism not seen since the days immediately after 9/11.

The shit has risen in such quantities to the top in the USA and UK now that all the above is unavoidable and unstoppable.

The only direction to look now for help is the East. If you look upward in the West hold an umbrella.

The shit from above is coming down...

FALLING IN HATE AGAIN

Americans have an enormous capacity for love.

Warmth is what I most associate Americans with, a comforting acceptance of others; a delightful graciousness and interest in the well-being of others, an attractive characteristic denoting well-mannered acceptance.

Why then are they falling in hate again?

The dismal future of a post-covid America at war with itself and with an administration filled with gun-toting warmongers doesn’t display the America that could be in any good way whatsoever.

Whatever happened to all those romantic movies and rom-com series? Were they all simply for-profit idealistic expressions of the bonhomie and positive emotions, decent behavior and determination to see wrongs righted created as a mirage for money?

Where is the American psyche headed? Has what appeared to be idealism corroded into bitter cynicism and adversarial spite? Surely the world’s richest nation can do better than this, or are my many experiences with Americans informing me incorrectly? Where have the easy smiles gone, the neighborly goodwill and charming fellow-feeling? I swear they were not illusory attributes. But where are they reflected within the American zeitgeist now?

The raging street battles in recent times, the riots, police beatings and worse... what is happening to the nation that originated the Summer of Love?

Why is it falling in hate again? A partisan war where two sides spit hatred at the other with no seeming compromise possible. And why is the Biden administration putting on khaki fatigues ready to make war on the rest of the world?

Nothing good can come of any of this.

This time, unlike The Summer of Love we are more likely to see A Winter of Utmost Discontent. The soft side of the American character is being infected by the hard side we saw in America’s regime change wars, “Kill ‘em all and let God sort them out!” was the cry from those certain Americans who exclusively read The Old Testament, muscular “Christians”, more interested in smiting enemies than turning the other cheek with Jesus.

The ‘Forever War’ against international terrorism initiated by Bush, Cheney and their fellow warmongers is turning inward to drive Trump’s agenda to win with his forces against those of an equally dangerous liberal elite. That war is likely to be just as bloody in the sense of being divisive as any America has waged in the Middle East, and which through the Biden team it is seemingly intent on continuing.

What hope is there that the Americans I knew and loved will rise once more to defeat both the Trump hordes and the liberal warmongers? Sadly they are nowhere in sight as yet. But I’m sure they exist... are they struck dumb, is the present situation simply too overwhelming, did 9/11 put limits on their love, qualifications, suspicions and a series of unfullfillable checks before expressing it?

As we watch America dissolve before our eyes some of us may welcome the reduction of its capacity to do the harm it did to us over the past few years. But the introversion of its population may not at all be reflected in its government, quite the opposite I suspect. The enemy ‘over there’ is always a handy tactic when there’s trouble at home.

I see no Summer of Love in prospect. No renaissance of the ever-friendly American.

Tragically I see only an ever-greater falling in hate... again.

 

THE AMERICAN STAGE IS SET FOR REVOLUTION

All the pieces are in place, the backdrop in development, is now complete.

The audience, no matter how out of touch during rehearsals, has now grasped the unfolding reality.

A tragedy is now about to unfold.

The point about the previous ignorance of the audience is important. It is now clear to everyone in the audience that this play concerns them, that they have something at stake, something, perhaps everything, at risk.

They see to that the players strutting across the stage are so hopelessly lost within the complexities, machinations and maneuverings that keep them locked into what has become the primary insanities that will lead to the coming tragedy.

Various members of the audience call out the very obvious solutions that could be part of averting that tragedy... but they fall on deaf ears. Every aspect of the play has been scripted in depth such as to be totally unalterable. That catastrophic circumstances will ensue, that insane decisions will be taken and clever ones avoided is simply written within the text in indelible ink. The audience sees where this is going and becomes increasingly restless, more and more shouts rise from them with hands gesticulating, faces in tears of rage, fear or sadness. Yet the players on the stage seem deaf and blind to the audience and totally unable to veer from the script, not even to save their own lives.

The USA is going down. It is going down in full view of the rest of the world which has largely ripped up the similar political scripts that the U.S. politicians are unwaveringly sticking to.

The theater may burn down around them but the actors on that stage, in their almost hypnotic trances, where an archetypal fixed notion of what it means to be of this or that political persuasion, holds them completely in its sway. Like wooden puppets they can convey only those emotions and make only those limited gestures that their political strings will allow.

The coronavirus is set to decimate the entire U.S. economy with the possible exceptions of Big Pharma, Big Healthcare and the Military Industrial Complex. Meanwhile the upward transfer of wealth to the elites and the upwardly mobile graduate population plus certain liberal middle class households will continue just as working class households hit existential crisis after existential crisis.

While student loans are forgiven, blessing the upwardly mobile doctors, nurses and others in the academically-privileged soon to be elites, mass layoffs, home foreclosures and the closing of small businesses will hit those far less well off like an almost endless series of economic tidal waves.

The Democrats with Joe Biden at their head won mainly due to the upwardly mobile and already secure who reside predominantly on the coasts of the USA but who also are well represented in U.S. cities and those will be the ones who will now be rewarded for their faith in the Democrat’s message via Joe Biden that nothing will fundamentally change.

Those who crave for something to change and who continued to hope that Donald Trump would be the agent of that change are about to see their jobs disappear along with their homes and access to health care. Calls for them to unify around a Biden version of ‘America First’ will fall on deaf ears as he offers them virtually nothing, but instead transfers even more to those who already have so much.

Virtue signalling, empty of anything substantial will be the order of the day. A roster of women will be placed on stage as evidence of “change”, several of whom are known hawks that will change the political scene only in as much as they breathe new life into the neocon rhetoric of the Bush administration.

For the players on our stage have flipped roles. The Democrat players now play for the Big Business team, the elite academics team, the well-heeled liberal team, the rich conservative team and of course for their donors first and foremost. On the second roster are the upwardly mobile strivers who wish to join those aforementioned teams. The drawbridge is being pulled up. Those left outside screaming and shouting will be labeled extremists, populists, racists, fascists and malcontented deplorables. And they will almost all be working or underclass along with the members of the audience who have been shouting their insights from the audience since the curtain went up.

The classic ingredients for a revolution are in place, the vital elements of a full scale class war complete with the same touches seen in previous revolutions, an out of touch, smug and infinitely patronizing and privileged elite and a terminally impoverished class of virtual slaves of those elites who are devastated in every area of their lives including, importantly their dreams, both for themselves and for their families.

Who will lead that revolution? I think we can already see who. The "dying" king who will soon be replaced amid shouts of "Long Live the King!". He will have an ever-increasing number of followers and avid supporters who will continue to see him as having been usurped. The king in exile will have a ready audience of the dispossessed, disgruntled and hurting. The anger he can focus will be huge and ever-rising in volume as the USA goes down.

Check the location of all fire doors to this theater people. The American political stage is about to burn.

THE OTHER TRANSITION

Everyone is talking about the unwillingness of Trump to allow a smooth transition to a Biden presidency.

But there's another transition both are unwilling to contemplate, that of working with China rather than against her.

The resistance of Trump and his people to allowing a smooth transition to Biden and his people is a purely political tactic. They know they can’t win out. Trump will NOT have a second term and will not be able to do what he was determined to do.

In a similar way, the world WILL transition to a new paradigm where the economic power of China will first inhibit and then virtually eliminate the ability of U.S. elites to threaten the world into submitting to them as their masters. That transition is underway and has been the clear and obviously inevitable outcome for many years now. China has won its right to be the forerunner of a more stable world based upon diplomacy, agreement and the mutual benefits of trade. The USA, the power which up till now has assumed the position of world dominator, couching its role in self-rewarding positive terms as the primary guardian of individual liberty and the “obvious” benefits of democracy is refusing to acknowledge this transition. And the world is suffering directly through this refusal.

Many of the regime change wars have this refusal at their basis as well as the more obvious motivation to strike at all anti-American entities as perceived by U.S. elites post 9/11. But make no mistake, as the twin determination; to achieve ‘full spectrum dominance’, also derived from 9/11 accepting the present strength and coming dominance of China was just as unacceptable in its own way as the continuation of those in the first category.

The USA and UK with assistance from most of Europe have primarily, to all intents and purposes, run the world till now. To contemplate giving up this status, especially after 9/11, is unquestionably anathema to their elites. That is not to say that China will run the world instead. China will rather set the climate for agreement across nations that trade and the benefits of trade far outweigh any perceived self-interested benefits in prioritizing differences that can be exploited by threat, destabilization and diverse other forms of warfare either overt or covert. China, along with relatively minor player Russia have no mission to dominate the world or mold the rest of it in their image, politically, socially or in any other way. Their focus is on trade, on creating frameworks and foundations for agreement quite outside of notions of some standard political system that MUST be in place before any benefits can accrue. In short they will focus upon the inviolate nature of national sovereignty.

The focus above is not new. It was demonstrated in 2003 when both Russia and China along with France opposed the illegal attack upon and invasion of Iraq pointing out that there was no legal validity to attacking a nation that had not committed any act of violence against its attacker. China and Russia have been consistent in their principles regarding this and there is no substantial reason whatsoever they will deviate from them in future.

Only the United States and its allies indicate that they have a mission to transform all other nations into mirror-images of themselves. And the elites of the USA are demonstrating on a daily basis that they believe, due to the events of 9/11, that this is a goal which they will not and believe they cannot ever relinquish as their conception is that the United States and its future security will be put at risk by any other eventuality.

These twin circumstances therefore, the desire of U.S. elites in particular (and other exceptionalist elites within the UK and on the European mainland) to maintain their patrician dominance, and their belief that this is of utmost importance for the sake of so-called 'liberal values’, plus the unrelenting and unquestioned determination of the USA to achieve full spectrum dominance, means that they will do everything possible to resist a smooth transition to the new, much more peaceful, stable and secure ethos that would come with a responsible acknowledgement that China, not the West promises the better future by far for humanity than the western era of dominance now ending.

WHY WESTERN DEMOCRACY ISN'T WORKING EXCEPT FOR ITS ELITES

There are two main conditions regarding the state of nations. Relative poverty & affluence.

These conditions determine the mode of behavior of populations in regard to authority figures.

If people are in large part poor they will tend to unify in hopes to elect wise leaders and forego individual independence in favor of the general good. However, those who are highly privileged within such a society will tend to be those who have gained most wealth by a degree of ruthless egotism and it is they who tend to present themselves as candidates for election. Systems are generally arranged so that only such candidates can stand, through prerequisites that exclude most others.    

If a nation is in large part affluent the greediest among them will want and ensure the most ignorant and/or corruptible/irresponsible leaders to be elected so their criminality remains free from inspection. Such people will ensure that either others of like mind to them or malleable ciphers receive maximum funding for their campaigns and so dominate the political ethos of the nation.

Where democracy works for the general betterment of society rather than for the minority of wealthiest individuals or their corporate interests the likelihood is that it arises in desperately unequal and generally poor societies where an individual manages to garner the support of the poor to such an extent that the usual methods of the manipulative rich are surmounted. However, such figures, when they attempt to change the status quo by introducing land reform or nationalization in attempts to distribute wealth and life chances more broadly then become a target for removal. If this eventuality arises, as seen in Latin America, the elites start to use every method in their power to disrupt the change from the status quo which benefits them to the revolutionary acts which bring benefit to the relatively poor majority. Historically, the elites of the USA, distant cousins in spirit of these elites, assist with the fomenting of coups or even assassinations.

In normal situations, where a figure such as Hugo Chavez, does NOT arise the political scene is dominated by the elites spoken of above. Where a generally more affluent society exists and less charismatic but genuine challengers with integrity arise such as Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom or Bernie Sanders in the USA, they are subjected to campaigns organized by the status quo-loving elites to neutralize them, denigrate them, slander them and every possible elite channel such as mass media is used against them.

Internationally the same holds true. Leaders of nations which do not align themselves with the dominant elites of the West, in a similar way to those rare individuals mentioned above who are acted against with maximum venom and vindictiveness, are treated similarly. Such leaders as Vladimir Putin of Russia for instance and, to an ever-greater extent, Xi Jinping of China. (Xi is a more difficult challenge for them however due to the economic power of China and the degree to which it holds western elite debt.) Russia presents a weak enough target and the western elites invariably pick the weakest target available at any one time. China is clearly being targeted too... but Russia has been chosen as the first and weakest target to partially use as a warning to others who would challenge the global status quo.

The global status quo which western elites are now desperately attempting to shore up, defend and maintain to the maximum degree possible, has been long-held as their right and privilege as the most powerful elites of modern times, as demonstrated by WWII and the undermining and destruction of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact union of states. Maintaining this status quo with the patrician dominance of western elites and their allies parallels the situation mentioned above in Latin America where local elites determine to maintain power over all others and enlist the help of the elites of other nations (USA in this example) to assist.

The elites primarily of the USA and UK, with assistance from those of most of western Europe have a strong incentive to neutralize the effect and economic power of others not aligned with them. They will use every method available to them which parallel the methods used against the example figures above, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders. These methods are quite obvious in their ruthlessness (such as the constant slandering of such figures as Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad and others) but western mass media and that of western allies will not convey this in any way, shape or form and thus normalize such behavior.

Such realities and behaviors, for the reasons given initially, are not subject to change via the so-called democracy that is so lauded by the elites of the West and is still agreed to by a perhaps surprising number of its long-suffering populations.

Two quotations from Albert Einstein are apposite here:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

The reasons delineated in the text above are why, in my opinion western democracy can never work, not while the factors exist as I have described them. At least not as long as ‘greed’, ‘overweening privilege’, ’self-interest’ and ‘rampant ambition’ dominate political life and the status quo maintained by those who have risen to power driven by such characteristics, and who then see all rivals as enemies to denigrate and defeat.

If you ask me, “What is the alternative?” I would have to answer a revolution from below such as Bernie Sanders has called for avoiding any of the characteristics in the previous paragraph including taking ANYTHING from elite sources including funding. Then, once in power, moving to maximize socialism and fiercely regulate capitalist enterprise to keep it ethical. In due course there would be no second party as the elite cabal would no longer have the will of the people behind them in anything like sufficient quantities, only the fascistic greedy, already privileged, self-interested and overly ambitious would support them and, in my ideal scenario they would be vastly outnumbered by those content with the wise leaders they trust due to the resultant vastly happier society they have created.

For an example in progress I would point to Russia, but to an even greater extent to China.

Democracy may take western nations to a de facto one party system if things become bad enough (and all indicators point to this). In order for such a fundamental change to occur where the present elites of the West, enormously powerful as they are, are successfully removed from power and the present status quo is undermined, a whole new paradigm opens up potentially leading to the global cooperation required to face the future with pride, in civilized unity.

CHINA, RUSSIA & WESTERN ELITE LIES

It is as if western elites are looking in a mirror when they make accusations against China & Russia.

The suspicion must be that their constant & obvious lies are designed to hide their weakness & growing inferiority.

China and Russia represent the hope of humankind for a better future. The elites of the West represent the outdated aggression that won them economic resources but also a reputation for ruthlessness, enslavement, exploitation and mass murder.

I suppose it was inevitable that the deeply embedded belligerence and sense of innate superiority over those they exploited, enslaved and murdered would not fade with time but would continue to the bitter end of their irresponsible and ultra-violent era.

This is tragic however, and takes their irresponsibility to new levels of primitive behavior where they would rather destroy the world than work hand in hand with the powers rising to eclipse their economic empires. Empires of self-interest they clearly cannot contemplate sharing.

The increasing mental dysfunction inherent in the behavior of western elites now is obvious. There is hardly a trace of sanity to be found within it. The elites of both the USA and UK build massive new and very expensive weapons of war, even contemplating filling the near-earth space with such devices. They create monstrous enemies out of thin air to frighten their populations into agreement with jingoistic rhetoric that has no earthly basis in fact.

China is building a trading network in the Belt and Road initiative which will link the economic benefits of the nations it passes through with the stability that comes through trade, trust and cooperation. Russia is similarly only interested in expanding her trading potential and linkage to nations across the planet. These activities were for decades lauded across the West as the most praiseworthy aspects of capitalist endeavor. But when it comes to Russia and China the tune is now about danger and risk, about adversaries, even enemies. Why?

The economic potential of the West remains high... but it is faltering. Its economies are laden with debt, its societies riven by disputing political factions and general disharmony, it engages in interminable internal squabbles that drive it always in circular arguments and disputes that lead only to what are increasingly troubled societies where solutions are illusive. When everyone wants their own way, then no one gets their way. These are societies with no decent future before them.

This is especially so when their leaders use the methodologies of lies and fear from above generating a chaotic maelstrom of confusion, strife and at times jingoistic hysteria below. The societies of China and Russia are so much more unified in this respect. There is little to no such fervor within them of this kind. Naturally no human society is completely free from a certain degree of division, misunderstanding and strife... but any fair-minded person making a comparison between these societies and those in the West cannot be in any doubt which is more free of these aspects.

There are no totally perfect societies and there is no reason to believe there ever will be... but better societies where the happiness quotient is high certainly are possible, societies where cooperation breeds trust and these together generate higher and higher degrees of harmony.

China has deep cultural legacies, both ancient and modern that emphasize harmony and Russia too has had this emphasis as a necessity in the world's largest nation which has within its borders over 190 ethnic groups. In contrast the USA and UK and lesser so within mainland Europe the strife between the various nationalities within them has been obvious for generations.

The history of the USA and UK has been of national interests exploiting other nations using their economic and military power, subjugating them, even at times enslaving them and exploiting both their people (for slaves) and plundering their resources. In recent times this plundering has been in the form of mega-corporations demanding special favors within weaker economies than those back home. The drive to increase their bottom lines has been all to them and the conditions of those they exploit, next to nothing in terms of priority.

It is primarily China that has shown the more equitable way forward, bringing net worth to the societies, nations and peoples it greets in partnership with investment in all aspects of the relationship where it will remain committed, unlike western corporations that stay only as long as the initial tax breaks remain as an incentive for them.

The lies which have been told by the U.S. and UK elites in recent times have been about the ongoing legacy stemming from their abuses of others and the encroachment of long-term planning and investment by others, primarily China. The lies attempt to convince western populations that Russia and China present military threats whereas the truth is that the only threat they pose is to the economic and military systems of the West that have only succeeded through threats, coercion and exploitation.

The period we are living through currently will more and more clearly evidence these facts. The USA & UK will without doubt use wrecking ball tactics in an attempt to stave off the inevitable... that their era of threat-enforced economic and military dominance is ending. The coronavirus pandemic has brought the demise of their malignant empire ever closer to its end and China rising after her efficient approach to dealing with the virus will ensure she rises to the needed tipping point even faster now than expected.

That tipping point is when the UK and USA are no longer able either economically or militarily to hold the rest of the world to ransom and we will see their influence noticeably wane due to a multipolar world manifesting itself in plain sight. At this point a safer world will inevitably emerge where the constant threat of invasion, war, destabilization of sovereign nations and mass murder can no longer be used by the criminal elites of the West.

During the above process we will see the lies of the western elites increase even from their already high levels due to their panic and desperation, the signs of their long-held grasp on the world noticeably slipping. They may well take even more irresponsible, destructive and murderous acts than those already perpetrated to date and they will inevitably use false flag events as claims of how evil ‘the other side’ is. The ‘other side’ however will simply carry on building the better world that will come after the old one based on the West’s criminal activities expires. The West is like a dying animal striking out at the false enemies it sees all around it... but like that animal it will eventually and inevitably weaken and die just the same.

WE WISH YOU TO BE WISE

Western elites are now progressively having a tough time getting their own way. They are less and less trusted.

They’ve been caught lying too many times.

Too many times they’ve manipulated their own, duping them into agreeing to mass murder overseas, to homegrown spying and excuses for why they must cater to corporations not citizens.

The process of mistrust in politicians has been underway for several decades now. With the regime change wars of choice in the Middle East after 9/11 the situation reached a nadir... but has found even deeper levels since that time.

And the regime change wars go on and on of course...

The cynicism is now at peak levels and has arrived there just as a) the coronavirus arrived, and b) the result of the U.S. presidential election came into dispute.

On a) the coronavirus, both the UK and USA are in constant turmoil with conflicting advice from their governments that are in any case not trusted.

On b) the corrosive division between the two primary political factions of what Noam Chomsky calls ‘The Business Party’, a low level civil war has broken out due to the lack of trust on both sides.

Outside of this melee of hot-headed emotion, mistrust and alternate facts we have a still, as yet relatively small grouping of those who have wised up beyond the arena of highly partisan political warfare they see all around them. They have also seen through the misinformation and misdirections of their elites.

These are the progressive independents who have by whatever set of circumstances been able to hold obscuring elite narratives and violently partisan emotions at bay while they looked for more fundamental realities regarding the path to here, what is truly here and possible ways forward.

I would differentiate these relatively few wise from the merely ‘woke’. There is a world of difference under the facile resemblance one to another that exists merely on the surface of minds still largely asleep.

Those who have wised up are no longer subject to the same degree of control regarding their intellects and emotions that they merely ‘woke’ are still subject to. They are not inclined to suffer any knee jerk reactions but using their hard won insight from a dedication to looking deeper and for longer they can pinpoint truth and falsity much more accurately than those newly woken to some surface manifestations.

It is not certain that the relatively few in number I speak of will grow in sufficient numbers to affect any of the fundamental changes that are so obviously needed in this age of disunity, chaos and manipulative narratives with their attendant agendas. To become wiser and join this select grouping you need certain mental characteristics whose genesis remain a mystery. Those reading this will recognize this in themselves. You simply ARE that way. It is not a pose, it is not something that you can create in any other persons, there is no act or special ability except perhaps to be able to provide clues to others by your way of being and communicating... the content being crucial.

Naturally the vast majority of us would wish that everyone wise up so we can all live lives not tortured by the insanity we see mounting almost everywhere... wars, enmity, division, mistrust, envy, hate... everything we absolutely do not need at this time when, in the face of mounting future threats, we need unity, trust, understanding and agreement like never before. But how to achieve these things when the majority seems intent on tearing each other apart?

I have no easy answers. Those of us who have the benefit of being able to stand outside the fray mourn the world we have envisaged for so long receding, not approaching. We see that the present and continuing chaos is being fomented by ignorance, lack of imaginative insight and the seemingly eternal divisions between political ambitions.

We would wish there could be a recognition of our species as the astronauts in the International Space Station see us, as a unity, as the best of Hollywood ultimately portrays us, as decent human beings who win out over all that threatens us. We would wish our politicians to come together and effect the solutions we see clearly would bring better conditions for all... instead of retreating constantly from those solutions in favor of  more war, more division, more mistrust and more worldwide chaos. They disappoint us. They infuriate us. They make us ineffably sad. We cannot understand why, in this modern era of so many technical solutions and endless wealth you cannot seem to use all this incredible bounty to do the most obvious things that would make life so much better for all.

We recognize there is a deep ignorance and irresponsibility within you and...

We would so wish you to be wise.

THE ELITE NEED YOU TO LISTEN & OBEY

Before the internet you listened to the elites. You had little alternative. That’s all there was except for word of mouth and local issues that established elites cared little about unless someone got very uppity. They controlled most other primary information flows.

The elites in each nation had a monopoly on what was factual. What they said went, via each vehicle present at that time which meant not so long ago, only a very few newspapers. Manipulation of the news stream was easy. All editors deferred to either royalty or politicians or their minions and enforcers such as the church and military. Alternative viewpoints could be expressed in book form which if too objectionable or too great a threat to the elites of the time could well be banned.

Before the advent of newspapers many different scenarios prevailed which ensured the elites and “the rest” remained distance with the elites always able to manipulate any given situation to their satisfaction.

Furthest back in time the elites used the most basic of all methods against those who threatened their power by organizing themselves to change things. They would be executed. Every now and then things would get so bad that people revolted against the powers of that time. Sometimes, as in the case of the French and later Russian revolution they would win out. In other cases such as The Peasant’s Revolt in England they were duped into believing their grievances would be dealt with by the king or other elites then the ringleaders would be found and hanged as an example. At that time of course most of the population were serfs, essentially slaves who were owned by their masters. In later times, after serfdom ended most were still tied to some master or other, then named gentlemen, men who need not work as they had others to do the work for them and guarantee their income.  

The powerful elites of these times used religion as a useful tool to keep populations in line and docile as required. Strict rules of belief and etiquette prevailed. Church and state worked more or less in tandem to manipulate the masses. For them these were highly irrational masses who required to be restrained from running amok by demanding greater rights. it was not only profits that were at stake but the level of control their “betters” had over these “lesser mortals".

With the industrial revolution the processes that would eventually lead to our present day access to diverse forms of information and the diminution and partial disregard of manipulative elite messaging began.

The Sixties in the West saw the turn of the tide against the elites who had, had a fairly comfortable ride to that time presiding over what had been to that time a rather conformist milieu where sons and daughters varied little from their fathers and mothers in attitudes, dress sense and much else besides. The revolt against the establishment began in earnest mid-way through the decade and has continued in some form or other to this day. Naturally western elites have done everything in their power to offset this unwelcome trend. Security forces were applied ruthlessly to teach those who insisted on change that it would certainly not come through them. Tokenism was also used to tamp down the revolts, protests and riots and this continues to be the main weapon used by western politicians to assuage would be revolutionaries. Their greatest asset in this is the liberal class who talk of change but are in fact the guardians of the status quo, working always to minimize the effects of radical activity demanding fundamental changes.


It has only been in the last decade or two, with the advent of the internet and social media that the mechanisms the elites had to control their populations began to break down and the use of liberals to hold the line became paramount.

Then Trump came along and threw a giant spanner into the workings of the liberal elites. A rise in internet use with alternate views being provided and sought out produced a dangerous schism between the predominant elites and those they wished to manipulate as they had always done. They had to develop new tactics to undermine the growing discontent and deviation from their narratives.

Several primary solutions were developed. One was the substitution of the term ‘fake news’ for ‘opinions’ or the more pejorative term ‘verbiage’. Down through history people had opinionated on this and that quite freely as long as it didn’t seem to contain a threat to the established powers. Mythology exists in every nation, fireside tales of derring-do passed down from one generation to the next. Religion itself was almost entirely composed of unbelievable myths that people were often made to accept as unassailable truths. Rumors would spread from time to time down through the ages and elites would often use these to demonize enemies they needed to raise armies against. Nearer our time a whole industry of fabrication arose with novels and films becoming hugely popular. So the fabrication of alternate realities is not new, and when it was not threatening to the elites, when in fact it assisted them in that it kept the masses docile, it was of course fully accepted and profited from.

The problem with social media for the elites is not that there is fake news on it, it is that there are alternate views on it, views that do not reflect their narratives, narratives that they need to maintain in order to keep control. The liberal press and media were the two primary weapons against those insisting on having an alternate opinion to that of the elites. Their opinions would be termed ‘fake news’, they themselves would be denigrated as trolls, bots and as near as dammit, traitors. This was all quite premeditated. All those with an alternate opinion to those in power were to be rubbished, denigrated and their reputations ruined wherever and whenever possible. And the liberals who controlled most of the mainstream milieu, within media and across the worlds of academia, art and other intellectual pursuits were extremely happy to help with this as their position was also threatened as arbiters of what was acceptable and what was not.

The case of Stephen F. Cohen was a case in point. It was unacceptable for even such an erudite person well-respected in his field as an emeritus professor of Russian studies at two of the USA most prominent universities to express views not in line with prevailing elite narratives. For merely having an informed opinion on events surrounding Russia he was ruthlessly and publicly denigrated from multiple sources and on many mediums. Mr Cohen’s views did not tally whatsoever with the believable lies the liberal elites within the Democratic Party required the American public to believe. Therefore he was labeled as ‘Putin’s Puppet’ and worse in an effort to stifle him and to spread the concept far and wide that he was not to be trusted. 

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, both threats in their own ways to the established order of the elites were treated in similar fashion to Stephen F. Cohen by the use of key concepts to demean and negate them as challengers. False accusations of thuggery in their support base was one, Vladimir Putin being partial to their campaigns was another and finally antisemitism. The established elites supposedly on the left are just as ruthless and dirty in their tactics than those on the right when it comes to their self-preservation.

This is the sole aim of the ‘fake news’ tool developed by the liberal elites and those they maintain in power, to reduce the respect given, as much as humanly possible, to all views that do not coincide with required elite narratives. Naturally there must always be some elements of truth in any propaganda operation and the field of conspiracy theory provides a certain power to the ‘fake news’ motif. However, people have always speculated in such terms, it is nothing new and whether more people are exposed to these speculations now is no business of the elites, the only reason they are active at all on the subject is their need to constantly assert as full control over all narratives as possible. Therefore to denigrate all unhelpful speculations across the board the concept of ‘fake news’ was developed.

Now, with the almost certain defeat of Donald Trump it seems certain we will see an ever greater attempt by western elites to bear down hard on all views and narratives but their own. I predict cancel culture will go into overdrive with any and all alternative voices being silenced or attempted to be silenced starting with the most popular and frequently listened to voices such as Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Jimmy Dore and many others. They will be demonized in the context of a “free world” at war with powerful foreign “enemies” where false flag events will be arranged to motivate solidarity in the general public against all such voices. 9/11 caused this chilling effect which prevailed for years thereafter. But western elites need ever more false flag events to maintain their dominance. The regime change targets western elites wish to render weak if not totally destroyed will be demonized through such events and similar propaganda to that used during Russiagate will be deployed to demonize also those who do not toe the establishment line. The discrediting of insightful observers will become commonplace as the endless effort of those in power to stay in power and maintain the status quo continues in fiercer form than ever.

The order to listen and obey will be more insistent than ever in an age where freedom of speech has become a major threat to those who would keep us controlled. 

WHAT IF...?

What if the USA is not the most powerful force for good in the world but the most powerful force for evil?

What if Russia acted as the USA purports to do in freeing nations from the evil acts of their leaders? What then if it freed America from that evil? Wouldn’t that be a noble act of assistance to Americans?

What if the aim in Ukraine was not to enable the Ukrainian people to have better lives but instead was merely a geopolitical move by the EU and USA to weaken a Russia that was not falling in line with their plans?

What if the aim in Iraq was not to find weapons of mass destruction as was claimed but as a way to weaken Iran, Syria and other states for the sake of Israel?

What if all the exceptionalism claimed for the USA was just a cover to legitimize all possible war crimes and crimes against humanity its elites sought for their own self-interest by gaining global hegemony?

What if destroying Libya was a choice not a necessity?

What if employing NATO against Serbia was not for the good of people living in the region but just to ensure that a successful Yugoslavia could not be saved?

What if the tens of thousands of people working for the CIA, NSA and every other intelligence agency across the western world are there to prop up an evil elite and for no other purpose?

What if the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact were destroyed not out of concern for the citizens living in these states but because their governments saw those nations as economic rivals?

What if all western mainstream press and media are working to preserve the dominance of western elites over all other nations for the sake of economic power and the influence to manipulate nations that this brings with it?

What if almost everything you’ve ever been told by those in authority is a lie?

 

THE UNACCOUNTABLES

They operate well beyond democratic reach, making plans with detailed precision to shift geopolitical realities. They work in exclusive isolation, immune from all far-flung realities stemming from their dedicated efficiency.

These are the members of an extremely elite group which exists in every western nation but which are in greatest numbers in the USA and UK. They are the enforcers of elite will, the architects of military missions and of diplomatic initiatives. With logistical precision they transform requirements from above via in-depth knowledge of all personnel and materiel utilities to action plans. The conversion of state requirements, complete with short-term, medium-term and long-term goals is the constant activity of tens of thousands of specialists, analysts and experts both civil and military, delivered with all the detail required to mobilize all available resources in order to attain them.

This is a bloodless, methodical task taking place in an atmosphere of perfect calm, in a highly-regulated and coolly efficient workplace within well-appointed offices where every possible technical facility is at the disposal of those who work there. The final products are detailed plans with all logistical features in place, the movement of military units, the in-depth design of training facilities, the structure of need-to-know connectivity or exclusivity, all timescales delineated, project goals and mission statements set, ambitions communicated in terms of high, medium or low risk assessments, every possible aspect of every action plan set out to long agreed uniform, bureaucratic standards.

The atmosphere is calm though the activity engaged in is never less than constantly busy within this well organized hive. Information flows in at high volume, contacts are made at all levels with military precision with usual norms and protocols in place via high security fully-encrypted lines. Government officials meet with high level specialists here, a Middle East specialist is called in for consultation there, the various CIA or GCHQ contacts deliver their in-person briefings in this or that tightly closed environment with all necessary security protocols in place and strictly observed. The hive of these urbane, neatly dressed, well coiffured and calmly efficient men and women operates as a highly efficient machine in an atmosphere of dedicated civil service duty and constant desire to deliver meeting all delineated requirements.

These are the unaccountables... and what is it that they deliver you may ask.

What do all these hard-working, highly intelligent, immensely well-educated and scrupulously vetted people produce? These incredibly well-paid men and women with beautiful homes in leafy suburbs with lovable fresh-faced children going to the very best schools and universities... what is their ultimate product? What is it that all this activity, completely beyond all public scrutiny and the supposed systems of democracy that are meant to give the people a say, brings forth to the light of some far away day?

The fruits of the labors of all these tens of thousands working within the auspices of western governments in this tightly controlled and methodically regulated world are several.

They are seen in far away places such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, The Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen and in the recent past, primarily Syria. But not only... the unaccountables work much closer to hand to achieve their employer's goals also, you may even recognize some of their "fruits" in your own location from time to time.

Action plans are drawn up for myriad missions and initiatives, flowcharts for delivering coordination of events, detailed connection displays and the mobilization of all “devices” to attain sub-goals leading to primary objectives, tools and projects for opinion-moulding, initiative tweaking, dynamic planning and overall the minute detail and planning in depth required to effect to effect the rendering of plans to meet western state needs.

It is all very efficient. All very sanitized, compartmentalized, without emotion, all contained within known mental guidelines excluding any extraneous thoughts regarding untoward eventualities. These are all men and women who have been vetted for such thoughts, thoughts that indicate conscience levels that are too dangerously active. Such people were rejected after the multiple interviews that feature in any selection process for this sensitive work. Willingness to dedicate oneself completely to the work with total faith that all that is done is right and proper and for the safety and security of millions, never to be doubted or mistrusted. Only those with the “right” characteristics will ever be allowed within the ranks of the unaccountables.

They are monitored closely and in depth in many ways, physically, mentally, by personal contact, even interrogation, study of social media use in all locations not excluding their homes. They are certainly not unaccountable to their superiors but to us, the general public, they certainly are. As millions walked the streets of western capitals prior to the second Iraq war stating by their vocal presence they wanted no attack on that nation based on flawed intelligence those unaccountables worked on as efficiently as ever. So many logistical demands were made upon them at that time to coordinate the war to come. As yet they had not received instruction regarding what would follow. At that time, so soon after the events of September 11th 2001 this was too large a task, too unpredictable and not the overwhelming priority of the main task which demanded their full attention and time.

While the people protested and were perhaps even within earshot of the Whitehall or Washington office blocks where they worked the unaccountables without doubt simply worked on as usual, heads down, doing their tasks with unaffected, assurance, measured consistency and with their required efficiency.

These intermediaries are a vital necessity, the indispensable medium by which elite requirements gain the traction required on the ground to effect their goals whether that ground is located in Idlib, London, Belgrade, Yerevan, Chicago or Beijing. Without the unaccountables using all their modern technological utilities, their access to unlimited expertise, in-house and allies’ software of surveillance, web of NSA, CIA, MI6 contacts and input, armed forces liaison and global satellite big data with all contacts, information, planning coordinated to exquisite depths... what could those state elites do other than wage war in the old bloody ways of the chaotic and barely predictable past?  

Now war could be waged with every aspect controlled, with all message systems in place to assuage the needless fears of those of lesser concern, the great mass of uninformed irrationality that was the general public. Yes, certain deeds would not be moral or ethical... but they were necessary, now that 9/11 had revealed that necessity. Not that the unaccountables should be affected. Monitoring of this vital asset had to be even more strictly observed across all such assets. For they are truly indispensable. The foot soldiers in civilian dress, the conduit to the overt or covert management of nation take down, the delivery of the needed distress in targets where public unrest would serve best, the coordinators of controlled chaos and enlightened militarism with a humanitarian hue.

Only for all the best possible reasons of course...

THE ARCHETYPES & ADVOCATES OF TERROR

One of the most lucrative enterprises of all in the USA is the Threat Creation and War Incentives Industry.

Its elite look like able, serious-minded people who are very well-informed. They talk a very good war game...

They have set up their stalls within a fixed milieu of U.S. exceptionalism from the end of the Second World War till now and since 9/11 they are entrenched at deeper levels than ever before.

All the peacemakers, such as there were, went out of business after 9/11 and the decisions made immediately after those events mean there will be no new start-ups. The goal of total global dominance for the sake of U.S. safety is not subject to change and the incoming Biden administration will do all it can to forward that goal.

This is why upward of fifty who work within or used to work within the national security state of the USA came out in favor of Joe Biden before the election and why another one hundred and fifty or so are speaking out against Trump now.

Trump is his own worst enemy on many fronts. He encouraged irrationality and discord across a wide range of issues and created situations which demonstrated the very worst of his characteristics. This ultimately led to his downfall. The areas where his innate sensitivity to criticism and aggressive responses were seen, were many. As one example, his reaction to the coronavirus pandemic most certainly lost him votes. As with Bush immediately after 9/11, if he had simply reflected a strong core of stability on which the country’s citizens could rely he would have actually gained in popularity, not lost it. But Donald Trump has little feeling for such niceties and prefers a rather vain bluster and diversion of attention away from him thinking that’s what’s appropriate. It is not.

Where he deserves some praise is in his unwillingness to indulge the warmongers he fatally surrounded himself with. John Bolton. Mike Pompeo. Elliott Abrams. Nikki Haley and others. Why he chose such inveterate warmongers when his primary foreign policy statements during the 2016 presidential election indicated an entirely opposite ethos was his goal remains a mystery.

This may be the most important own goal of all those that Trump scored against himself and his support base. The warmongers were perhaps supposed to protect him from criticism from a Democratic Party that has become the go to place for such warmongers. As he found out this was never going to work. The hatred for him in the Democratic Party was and is such that precisely nothing he could have done would have saved him from that criticism.

The interests of Wall Street and the warmongers coincide almost completely and this was shown most clearly in the fact that the Democrats received around four times as much in donations from Wall Street companies as Trump did in the run-up to this year’s presidential election. War is such good business and those on Wall Street who are within the so-called Defense Industry know that it is the Democrats now who are most likely to keep their cash registers ringing.

There is a plethora of so-called think tanks subsidized by these “Defense” Industry corporations. They are the main source of assistance now to the assembly line of potential members of Biden’s cabinet. This cabinet will very obviously be the most neocon grouping seen since that of George W. Bush. What’s more they will be backed by every prominent member of the Democratic Party and that goes for those who call themselves progressives such as AOC. They will all defer to the official line of the Democratic Party leadership.

The unity among those warmongers Biden surrounds himself will be much more total that any seen from the Trump cabinet, especially so in regard to the president himself. You will hear no criticism of any allies and none of NATO. A fully weaponized unity across the board will be demanded and will be received... and this includes all liberal press and mass media. Those voicing any doubts will be cast as misinformed at best and foreign agents as worst, if not actual traitors. To be anti-war will be to be anti-American. Just think about that for a second as I am certain that is what we are about to see as a consequence of the Biden stance as a mirror opposite of that of Trump on foreign policy. Having said that, where Trump showed (to them) an admirable belligerence (in the case of Venezuela and Iran for instance) that will be continued.

The national security state, the military industrial complex, the serried ranks of warhawk advisers with the full compliance of wall street and liberal mainstream media will all be as one and in lockstep to talk in utmost jingoistic terms about the “enemies” of the “free world” and the need to do all in terms of threats, warnings, demands and acts of war to face them down, make them desist, surrender and obey.

These together are the archetypes and advocates of terror that will reign supreme for the next four years of a Biden administration.

So... better batten down the hatches folks. We are in for a VERY bumpy ride.

(And that is without even considering what Trump and his people will get up to in the forthcoming four years.)