Liberals and neoconservatives form the foundation of the Deep State and have given us the hideous bureaucratization of America. Theirs is a system structured upon egregious fabrications and fantasies, promoted by amoral politicians, and sustained by the fake news media. Millions of Americans, thus, live in a tyrannical Matrix believing they are free and their government justly governing.
Thankfully there are also millions of clear-eyed citizens who are wise to this fabrication of American politics. We who live outside the Matrix possess the truth. But we have a major dilemma: can we sufficiently instill such truth into our fellow Americans so as to bring about their rescue and the country’s salvation?
If we are to save America, the first step is to turn on the lights to expose the roaches and leeches of the Deep State and all their lies. If the lights are bright enough, we will see these vermin scatter and disappear. We will gradually see America restore her republic. What follows is an explanation of two very important lies that Deep State liberals and neocons have been foisting upon us for years and how President Trump is reacting:
The Bogus BLS
Over the past three decades our federal government has gradually adopted an array of deceptive statistical methodologies in its calculations for the GDP, the CPI, and the unemployment figures. This has allowed the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to come up with figures that greatly overstate economic growth, while greatly understating the Consumer Price Index and the level of unemployment.
Why this is done should be obvious. Any given administration wants voters to believe it is running a great ship and bringing prosperity and happiness to the people, which improves its chances for re-election. Thus there is a natural tendency for all politicians and bureaucrats to lie, misrepresent and suppress the facts.
Economist John Williams, who writes the monthly publication Shadow Government Statistics, www.shadowstats.com, is one of the sharpest watchdogs around reporting on how government authorities misrepresent the facts of reality in order to lull Americans into believing that everything’s running along smoothly.
Williams tells us that the BLS now uses fraudulent statistical methodologies in its calculations to give us false figures on both the level of unemployment and the CPI, which then spill over to corrupt the GDP.
For example, the BLS no longer counts workers who have given up looking for a job. They have redefined them as “discouraged” workers rather than “unemployed” workers. Thus today’s unemployment figures measure only those who are actively seeking a job. This allows unemployment figures to be posted around 4%-5% instead of the more accurate figure of 8%-10%.
In figuring the CPI, the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses “corrupt weighting tactics” to emphasize goods that are going down in price rather than using a generic market basket of all goods. They also employ what is called “hedonic calculation,” which allows them to say a good is not going up in price if its quality has been improved.
Thus bureaucrats now attribute “improved quality” to a myriad of goods rising in prices and declare them not to be going up in price. These two tactics – corrupt weighting and hedonic calculation – allow the Bureau to report price inflation at an average of 3% over the past 30 years when it is really 7%. Combine these two corruptions with the concept of “imputed income” now used in calculating the GDP, and you have a GDP, says Williams, that “has very little relationship to reality.”
More heinously these statistical corruptions allow the federal government to cheat all social security recipients out of rightful “cost of living adjustments” (COLA’s) every month. In other words, if the CPI can be shown to be 3% instead of the 7% that it actually is, the feds can save hundreds of billions of dollars every year in what they have to pay out to retired people. Despicable, but this is the level of propriety we have voted into power in Washington.
Is Russia Still Our Enemy?
“Perpetual war for perpetual peace” was the satirical phrasing used by George Orwell in his futuristic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, to describe Big Brother’s exhortations to the proles of Oceania. This absurdity has now come true.
The most dangerous arm of today’s Deep State is the Pentagon-CIA-NSA complex. The reason it is so dangerous is because it must continually find enemies in the world to protect us from in order to justify its gargantuan budget every year. If there are no enemies that we need protection from, it must then seek to create them by lies and distortions so as to continue feeding its prestige and power.
In addition to this mandatory seeking of enemies, war is the perfect way to enslave a people domestically. Rights and liberties can be nullified in the face of an outside threat. Citizens who would object to oppressive taxes and regulations in peacetime will patriotically endure them in wartime. So “perpetual war” (or threat thereof) is the great need of the Deep State to bring a passive citizenry into acceptance of Washington’s usurpations.
Consequently, the Pentagon-CIA-NSA complex is automatically driven to spin lies, especially about Russia being an ominous threat to America today. In this way, it can strike enough fear into the voters so that they will continue to allow hundreds of billions of dollars every year to be siphoned from their earnings.
During the cold war (1946-1991), the USSR was indeed our enemy. The Kremlin posed a potent military threat to our survival and had to be met with massive military strength of arms. The conservatives faced such a threat properly. They geared up. The USSR eventually collapsed as many in the freedom movement knew it one day would. As a result most of us thought that in 1991 Congress would begin to ratchet down the national defense budget and move toward a more limited government. But it didn’t happen.
Neocon intellectuals such as Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, etc., magazines such as The Weekly Standard, and think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute had by the mid 1990s grown to powerhouse status in Washington influence. And their vision was not to shrink the statist establishment with the end of the cold war, but to continue its power and even increase it by making America into an imperial force throughout the world that would be able to dominate Europe, Russia and China. Their goal became, not peace and co-operation with the world powers, what is known as “realpolitik”, but hegemony over them.
The neocons advocated this openly and boldly. They felt it was the right and duty of America to become a world hegemon. To bolster their ambitions, they naturally needed a powerful military and massive spending for armaments. Russia, thus, had to continue to be portrayed as a dangerous threat to American survival. Consequently ever since the fall of the USSR, Russia has been demonized as still having imperialist goals in Europe and the Mideast despite numerous overtures of peace by Vladimir Putin, and despite the fact that Russia’s economy became a basket case after 1991, and at present has a nominal GDP of $1.5 trillion versus America’s $20.2 trillion. [Source: Statistics Times / International Monetary Fund.]
As an example of this demonization, neocons in Washington continue to spew falsehoods regarding the Ukraine and Crimea, exclaiming repeatedly that “Russia is guilty of invading Ukraine and forcibly annexing Crimea.”
This is so blatant of a lie it is inconceivable that neocons could continue to get away with it. But they do, and the fake news media reinforces it at every turn. Yet Crimea voted overwhelmingly (96.7% in favor) in a democratic referendum on March 16, 2014 to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia whom they had been part of for centuries going back to Catherine the Great in the 1700s. There was an 83% voter turnout. Crimeans are very happy being back in Russia. See Forbes Magazine for the report.
In addition to Crimea, several provinces of eastern Ukraine (e.g., Donetsk and Luhansk) are also trying to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. They speak Russian, and their sympathies are with Moscow, not Kiev. But Washington neocons spin this as another indication that Russia, under Putin, wants to reignite the old imperialistic ambitions that prevailed in the USSR during the cold war.
On the contrary what Putin wants is not to expand territorially (he knows communism is dead); he wants simply to unite ethnic Russians who got mislocated in the breakup of the old USSR in 1991, which is a legitimate policy goal. Moreover it is neocon Washington who is the aggressor here by violating the 1990 Malta agreement between Gorbachev and Bush Sr. that promised no expansion of NATO into Ukraine once Germany was reunited.
Putin is duly alarmed with neocon Washington’s manipulations of Ukraine to get missiles closer and closer to Russian territory as he well should be, just as we were alarmed when Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba back in 1962. Russia is being backed into a corner by the neocons in Washington who are increasing the possibility of nuclear war, not decreasing it.
Why do such lies emanate from neocons so profusely? Because lies are necessary to keep Russia fixed as a perpetual threat in American voters’ minds. This allows the state to confiscate hundreds of billions of dollars from our paychecks every year to pay for more armaments and aggressive foreign policy plays.
The neocons are naked imperialists who have actually designed a rationale for their imperialism. They call it “benevolent global hegemony.” And it has apparently become Washington’s perennial plan for world governance. Both major political parties seem to be comfortable with its advocacy. This can only bring us more oppressive debt, economic decay, and moral vitiation.
The Mixed Bag of Trump
President Trump swept into office like a gale force for change from the idiocies of the past 30 years of rule by liberals and neocons. He has brought about numerous major accomplishments. Here are 10 of the more important ones:
1) Passed an historic Tax Reduction Bill, 2) confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, 3) massively rolled back government regulations, 4) placed a travel ban on the major Muslim countries, 5) withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, 6) pulled out of the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership, 7) repealed Obamacare’s individual mandate, 8) dealt serious blows to ISIS in the Mideast, 9) eliminated prohibition on interstate health insurance sales, 10) arrested 97,482 illegals and deported 52,192 of them.
These are just 10 out of about 80 crucial accomplishments that he has brought about. But there are three major mistakes so far in Trump’s first year in office, and they threaten to upset his hope for a genuine purging of the Deep State swamp. They are:
1) Failure to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General upon his recusal in the Russian collusion issue and to also reassign the odious Obama appointee, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, because of his blatant anti-Trump colors. All U.S. Presidents are entitled to appoint Justice Department heads who will be sympathetic to their vision for the country. Because Trump did not act thusly, he now endures a DOJ that has no desire to clean up the swamp and regularly thumbs its nose at Congress in response to its oversight duties. In addition Trump must also endure a corrupted investigatory sham via Rosenstein’s appointment of fellow comrade, Robert Mueller.
The claim that Mueller is nonpartisan is ludicrous. He is a vehement Deep State careerist and thus highly prejudiced against the rebel, Trump. One has only to check out his staff (all Democratic supporters) to realize he is flagrantly biased. There can be no fair hearing from the likes of this big government Clinton apologist.
Despite his recent declaration that Trump is not a “target” of his investigation, but a “subject,” we should not count on any relief (and certainly no legitimacy) from his witch-hunt proceedings. Mueller will hang around like the putrid smell of a charnel house all the way up to the elections of 2020 performing what David Stockman calls a “comic book investigation.”
2) Trump’s second mistake has been his apparent capitulation to the neoconservatives on foreign policy and how Russia is to be treated. His instincts at first were spot on, when he said during the campaign, “Wouldn’t it be nice to get along with Putin and Russia for a change?” Putin has sent firm signals for many years that he wants to join the West in cooperation rather than remain apart in conflict. Russia is not really “Eastern.” Its long historical links and cultural ties lie with Europe. Russia is a fervent Christian nation. It belongs with the West, while China lies with the East.
A wise foreign policy would have seized upon Putin’s overtures for détente and cooperation over the past dozen years. Unfortunately the neocons dominate Washington foreign policy, and their motive is to demonize Russia as the necessary means to feed their war machine and policy of “benevolent global hegemony.” Has Trump accepted this policy with his appointments of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State and John Bolton as his National Security Advisor, both strident war hawks? Or is he playing military hardball so as to deal from a position of strength with Putin in a future détente proposal? We can only hope it is the latter.
3) Trump’s third mistake was his acceptance of the Omnibus spending bill that has passed both houses and will insure that the federal government will run a monstrous deficit of $1.2 to $1.5 trillion dollars for fiscal 2018. Trump got his funding to expand the military, but nothing toward immigration reform and the wall. He should have hung tough and said to the Democrats that their domestic prodigality is grossly irrational and pushing budget deficits through the roof. If they refused to cooperate, he should have threatened to go to the people with weekly rallies (like Roosevelt’s fireside chats) to let them know in fiery rhetoric that Congress is bankrupting the country with its domestic spending.
Despite these mistakes our conclusion is that Trump is a brilliant improvement over our past four presidents. Hopefully his first year has taught him more about the treachery of Washington and its droves of weasels like Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell, Ryan and Rosenstein who believe the Deep State should not be dismantled, that it works just fine.
What Trump needs is to simply ignore the Mueller Probe as the partisan farce that it is and replace Sessions and Rosenstein as the failures they are. He needs to get much tougher with the congressional weasels on domestic spending, and he needs to defy the neocons on Russia, orchestrate a meeting with Putin at Camp David and bring about détente between our two nations. Once this is done there will be less need to expand annual defense spending, and perhaps then we can begin to approach fiscal sanity and a more limited government. Nothing less than this will right our imploding ship of state.
