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Deep State America
Authored by Philip Giraldi, originally posted at The American Conservative,
It has frequently been alleged that the modern Turkish Republic operates on two levels. It has a parliamentary democracy complete with a constitution and regular elections, but there also exists a secret government that has been referred to as the “deep state,” in Turkish “Derin Devlet.”
The concept of “deep state” has recently become fashionable to a certain extent, particularly to explain the persistence of traditional political alignments when confronted by the recent revolutions in parts of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. For those who believe in the existence of the deep state, there are a number of institutional as well as extralegal relationships that might suggest its presence.
Some believe that this deep state arose out of a secret NATO operation called “Gladio,” which created an infrastructure for so-called “stay behind operations” if Western Europe were to be overrun by the Soviet Union and its allies. There is a certain logic to that assumption, as a deep state has to be organized around a center of official and publicly accepted power, which means it normally includes senior officials of the police and intelligence services as well as the military. For the police and intelligence agencies, the propensity to operate in secret is a sine qua non for the deep state, as it provides cover for the maintenance of relationships that under other circumstances would be considered suspect or even illegal.
In Turkey, the notion that there has to be an outside force restraining dissent from political norms was, until recently, even given a legal fig leaf through the Constitution of 1982, which granted to the military’s National Security Council authority to intervene in developing political situations to “protect” the state. There have, in fact, been four military coups in Turkey. But deep state goes far beyond those overt interventions. It has been claimed that deep state activities in Turkey are frequently conducted through connivance with politicians who provide cover for the activity, with corporate interests and with criminal groups who can operate across borders and help in the mundane tasks of political corruption, including drug trafficking and money laundering.
A number of senior Turkish politicians have spoken openly of the existence of the deep state. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit tried to learn more about the organization and, for his pains, endured an assassination attempt in 1977. Tansu Ciller eulogized “those who died for the state and those who killed for the state,” referring to the assassinations of communists and Kurds. There have been several significant exposures of Turkish deep state activities, most notably an automobile accident in 1996 in Susurluk that killed the Deputy Chief of the Istanbul Police and the leader of the Grey Wolves extreme right wing nationalist group. A member of parliament was also in the car and a fake passport was discovered, tying together a criminal group that had operated death squads with a senior security official and an elected member of the legislature. A subsequent investigation determined that the police had been using the criminals to support their operations against leftist groups and other dissidents. Deep state operatives have also been linked to assassinations of a judge, Kurds, leftists, potential state witnesses, and an Armenian journalist. They have also bombed a Kurdish bookstore and the offices of a leading newspaper.
As all governments—sometimes for good reasons—engage in concealment of their more questionable activities, or even resort to out and out deception, one must ask how the deep state differs. While an elected government might sometimes engage in activity that is legally questionable, there is normally some plausible pretext employed to cover up or explain the act.
But for players in the deep state, there is no accountability and no legal limit. Everything is based on self-interest, justified through an assertion of patriotism and the national interest. In Turkey, there is a belief amongst senior officials who consider themselves to be parts of the status in statu that they are guardians of the constitution and the true interests of the nation. In their own minds, they are thereby not bound by the normal rules. Engagement in criminal activity is fine as long as it is done to protect the Turkish people and to covertly address errors made by the citizenry, which can easily be led astray by political fads and charismatic leaders. When things go too far in a certain direction, the deep state steps in to correct course.
And deep state players are to be rewarded for their patriotism. They benefit materially from the criminal activity that they engage in, including protecting Turkey’s role as a conduit for drugs heading to Europe from Central Asia, but more recently involving the movement of weapons and people to and from Syria. This has meant collaborating with groups like ISIS, enabling militants to ignore borders and sell their stolen archeological artifacts while also negotiating deals for the oil from the fields in the areas that they occupy. All the transactions include a large cut for the deep state.
If all this sounds familiar to an American reader, it should, and given some local idiosyncrasies, it invites the question whether the United States of America has its own deep state.
First of all, one should note that for the deep state to be effective, it must be intimately associated with the development or pre-existence of a national security state. There must also be a perception that the nation is in peril, justifying extraordinary measures undertaken by brave patriots to preserve life and property of the citizenry. Those measures are generically conservative in nature, intended to protect the status quo with the implication that change is dangerous.
Those requirements certainly prevail in post 9/11 America, and also feed the other essential component of the deep state: that the intervening should work secretly or at least under the radar. Consider for a moment how Washington operates. There is gridlock in Congress and the legislature opposes nearly everything that the White House supports. Nevertheless, certain things happen seemingly without any discussion: Banks are bailed out and corporate interests are protected by law. Huge multi-year defense contracts are approved. Citizens are assassinated by drones, the public is routinely surveilled, people are imprisoned without be charged, military action against “rogue” regimes is authorized, and whistleblowers are punished with prison. The war crimes committed by U.S. troops and contractors on far-flung battlefields, as well as torture and rendition, are rarely investigated and punishment of any kind is rare. America, the warlike predatory capitalist, might be considered a virtual definition of deep state.
One critic describes deep state as driven by the “Washington Consensus,” a subset of the “American exceptionalism” meme. It is plausible to consider it a post-World War II creation, the end result of the “military industrial complex” that Dwight Eisenhower warned about, but some believe its infrastructure was actually put in place through the passage of the Federal Reserve Act prior to the First World War. Several years after signing the bill, Woodrow Wilson reportedly lamented, “We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
In truth America’s deep state is, not unlike Turkey’s, a hybrid creature that operates along a New York to Washington axis. Where the Turks engage in criminal activity to fund themselves, the Washington elite instead turns to banksters, lobbyists, and defense contractors, operating much more in the open and, ostensibly, legally. U.S.-style deep state includes all the obvious parties, both public and private, who benefit from the status quo: including key players in the police and intelligence agencies, the military, the treasury and justice departments, and the judiciary. It is structured to materially reward those who play along with the charade, and the glue to accomplish that ultimately comes from Wall Street. “Financial services” might well be considered the epicenter of the entire process. Even though government is needed to implement desired policies, the banksters comprise the truly essential element, capable of providing genuine rewards for compliance. As corporate interests increasingly own the media, little dissent comes from the Fourth Estate as the process plays out, while many of the proliferating Washington think tanks that provide deep state “intellectual” credibility are similarly funded by defense contractors.
The cross fertilization that is essential to making the system work takes place through the famous revolving door whereby senior government officials enter the private sector at a high level. In some cases the door revolves a number of times, with officials leaving government before returning to an even more elevated position. Along the way, those select individuals are protected, promoted, and groomed for bigger things. And bigger things do occur that justify the considerable costs, to include bank bailouts, tax breaks, and resistance to legislation that would regulate Wall Street, political donors, and lobbyists. The senior government officials, ex-generals, and high level intelligence operatives who participate find themselves with multi-million dollar homes in which to spend their retirement years, cushioned by a tidy pile of investments.
America’s deep state is completely corrupt: it exists to sell out the public interest, and includes both major political parties as well as government officials. Politicians like the Clintons who leave the White House “broke” and accumulate $100 million in a few years exemplify how it rewards. A bloated Pentagon churns out hundreds of unneeded flag officers who receive munificent pensions and benefits for the rest of their lives. And no one is punished, ever. Disgraced former general and CIA Director David Petraeus is now a partner at the KKR private equity firm, even though he knows nothing about financial services. More recently, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has become a Senior Counselor at Beacon Global Strategies. Both are being rewarded for their loyalty to the system and for providing current access to their replacements in government.
What makes the deep state so successful? It wins no matter who is in power, by creating bipartisan-supported money pits within the system. Monetizing the completely unnecessary and hideously expensive global war on terror benefits the senior government officials, beltway industries, and financial services that feed off it. Because it is essential to keep the money flowing, the deep state persists in promoting policies that make no sense, to include the unwinnable wars currently enjoying marquee status in Iraq/Syria and Afghanistan. The deep state knows that a fearful public will buy its product and does not even have to make much of an effort to sell it.
Of course I know that the United States of America is not Turkey. But there are lessons to be learned from its example of how a democracy can be subverted by particular interests hiding behind the mask of patriotism. Ordinary Americans frequently ask why politicians and government officials appear to be so obtuse, rarely recognizing what is actually occurring in the country. That is partly due to the fact that the political class lives in a bubble of its own creation, but it might also be because many of America’s leaders actually accept that there is an unelected, unappointed, and unaccountable presence within the system that actually manages what is taking place behind the scenes. That would be the American deep state.
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why are there any poor jews?
Run the numbers. By percentages there are more jews in controlling positions than their numbers would suggest. Jews beget jews. That doesn't mean jews are more capable. They are just more focused. We have all grown up in the midst of jews and know they aren't particularly smart. But they are very focused in their training and direction by their parents. They are a very cohesive sect (when viewed from outside). Within the sect, they can't stand each other either.
Government is infested with jews because they have managed to become the hiring managers. The media is infested with jews because they have become just a covert arm of the government.
The process is very normal. In my career I saw early on a few bright orientals and indians land important positions. In time they were promoted to management and made hiring decisions. When that happened the flood gates opened to hiring orientals and indians. In an amazingly short time, the whole staff were of those sects.
Jews are exceptionally clannish but every ethnic group does the same. Except Whites who are stricty prevented from doing so even in those countries that they built for themselves and their descendants. The main enforcers of this prohibition? Jews.
It is all the jews. Just not all of the Jews....
Why fight it? Are we not all enjoying the Luciferian Technocracy that has been created for us?
May I suggest an enhancement: Obama is a puppet of Groups 1 AND 3 while Bush was a puppet of Groups 2 AND 3. Group 3 (typefied by Cheney and Rumsfeldt) will always be required as it would be too obvious otherwise.
but it might also be because many of America’s leaders
The problem begins right here. America elects representatives and administrators. It doesn't elect leaders. The American people are fully capable of leading themselves. They elect representatives to deal with those issues they cannot resolve by themselves (e.g. acquiring right away for an efficient transportation system).
Look at how "all" the current candidates for our top administrator position are campaigning. They're claiming they should be chosen for their leadership abilities. Wrong. They should be chosen for their administrative abilities.
And just like any other administrative task, that doesn't mean knowing everything about everything. It means being able to learn what is pertinent for issues at their level and administer accordingly.
It's this "leadership" nonsense that brought us the collapse of WTC7.
Let's take them deep state fellas to the woodshed.
The South was right!
Someone should write a protest song.
"The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." - Rothschild Brothers of London
Amazing how this still holds true more than 100 years after it was said.
“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is, perhaps, the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and un-mint the modern ledger-entry currency.” Major L L B Angus.
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.” John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ), former professor of economics at Harvard, writing in ‘Money: Whence it came, where it went’ (1975).
Honestly, the Deep State held sway in the U.S. beginning with the massive government spending of the Civil War and lasting through the Great Depression. An American in the 1930's lived a life not unlike someone from 200 years earlier. The Deep State had to deal with FDR and exploding government programs, then WWII, then the explosion of the middle class in the 1950's. But after knocking off Kennedy, the Deep State resumed control and ensured their power by eliminating the gold standard and re-seizing control of banks, financial markets, politicians, and government spending.
Ordinary Americans frequently ask why politicians and government officials appear to be so obtuse, rarely recognizing what is actually occurring in the country.
Ordinary Americans are clueless ... witness less than 8% know anything about WTC7.
That notwithstanding, government officials "appear" to be obtuse to what is going on in the country because they "are" obtuse. At the Federal level, at best, a representative speaks for 500,000 people. He can't know those people and they can't know him.
Our system is a "fake" representative democracy. What we get is what we should expect from such a charade.
"Deep State America"?
FRAUD is the singular truth. Deception, corruption.
"Rational actor" absent philosophically (and with increasing clarity, empirically via what little remains of classical scientific method)..a once socially respected 'norm' of ethics.
Morality has become hostage to maniacal narcissism. World "leaders" are simply apparatchiks of the now fully globalized machinations of failing souls.
History is repeating itself.
All indications are that death is just fine. Inevitable...
It's just the dying part that causes pain.
re In truth America’s deep state (...) operates along a New York to Washington axis.
In an even bigger truth America’s deep state (...) operates along a New York to Washington to TEL AVIV axis
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Eliminating Government is the Answer
All affairs between men can be addressed through contracts between private paying individuals, guns, shame and the internet.
When this is all over, government and not just central banks, is going to have such a bad name that we're going to see a clamoring for lean, local, individual
contracts managing roads, bridges and title offices and whatever else people see an absolute need for, that the free market can't address on an individual basis.
When all the past government deception, corruption and harm is finally revealed, the public is going to be so outraged, that government at all levels will be banned forever.
This includes revelations of all the false flag attacks justifying wars, all the government-protected monopoly medicine programs and miracle foods that were really disabling and harming us.
I won't get too specific because most Americans still get upset when messengers criticize their sacred cows that they believe are "saving" them.
One other universal problem-solver besides individual contracts, is the extreme health, independence and competence of tomorrow's super citizens.
The free market and internet communication will reveal the best health remedies and we as a society will produce healthy, independent individuals with few needs so there won't be many if any conflicts over physical possessions.
Tomorrow's lean, clean and moral people will be focused on health, sports, leisure and the seemingly infinite performance of internally clean bodies and minds.
You see man has forgotten that unpoisoned, internally clean, healthy people with strong natural immunity have few needs. They have little hunger and little appetite for drugs, reproduction or to build up physical possessions.
They have little need to impress anyone and prefer to be around people who are also extraordinarily healthy, smart, witty and fun.
These people have a natural contempt and defiance for any coercive force over them and are true libertarian rebels as a default natural state and not a conscious choice.
They don't need government coercion to protect them from anything because they have tapped into a powerful natural energy that empowers all individuals who have detoxified and internally cleansed themselves.
Our medicine was on the right track in 1922 when Dr John Harvey Kellogg wrote Autointoxication. That era was when the direction of our medicine and money was hijacked.
You see the basis of our sick society goes deeper than corrupt government and central banks. Where we get deceived and finally captured is through toxic injury and this handicapping process starts within an hour of birth.
Our clever, hidden and criminal rulers know exactly what they are doing and how to disable us individually using government in the guise of protecting us from false threats while poisoning us all the while.
When all this gets shaken out, the healthy and aware are going to come out of this gauntlet on the other side, prepared to start fresh, developing a new world of health, purity, independence and spiritual awakening.
The Samson of individual liberty and defiance is going to topple many seemingly eternal government columns of deception and enslavement before this is all over.
The sickest and most obstinate will perish first leaving the flexible, braver and healthier to rebuild a new
world based on honesty, caring, independence, spiritual awareness and empowerment with a new energy that comes from natural healing and health.
I wish these ‘super citizens’ would hurry up, step up to the plate and reveal themselves.
Here is one guy I respect for his grit and perseverance if nothing else. His story shows you what happens to people with good intentions. …… We’ll see how much further he gets against the dot gov meat grinder.
~ DC
STOP whoring for Wall Street.
DO SHOW this:
Dow, Inflation Adjusted
http://patrick.net/investing/Dow%2C+Inflation+Adjusted
The U.S. is still under the rule of the elite Londoners. (The Red Shield Banksters)
I have to laugh everytime the 4th of July comes along and all the idiots parade and shoot off fireworks to celebrate our independance.
We didn't win no war. What happened was that the elite Londoner's (The Red Shield Bankers) and the elite American rulers of the time sat down in their secret room and came to a secret agreement (most likely the americans were bribed) which would continue to keep them in power and make it look like "we the people" won something. What we won was paid off politicians and red shield debt.
And! The puppet show goes on in 2015 just as it did in 1776.
Handshake treaty gives the US "sovereign control" from England. A bunch of paper ensues. You want a deep state? Think of a Colony too dumb to realize it's still a Colony.
We call the Canadians slow, eh, but at least they recognize Her Majesty for who she really is. That's why they're probably so goddamned smug.
I believe it, read tons about it, now I want names.
.....and retribution/
These are your puppet masters.
https://youtu.be/ZPWH5TlbloU