Deep State ex Wikispooks
The deep state (loosely synonymous with the shadow government
or permanent government) is in contrast to the public structures which
appear to be directing individual
nation
states. The deep state is an intensely secretive, informal, fluid network of
deep politicians who conspire to amplify their influence over national
governments through a variety of
deep state milieux. The term "deep state" derives from the
Turkish "derin devlet", which emerged after the
1996
Susurluk incident so dramatically unmasked the
Turkish deep state. It has experienced a surge of popularity in 2017, not
always in keeping with the meaning attributed by the
diplomat who coined the phrase.
Official Narrative
The
official narrative of deep states used to be that they simply do not
exist. This position was modified in the last few years to the claim that
they don't exist here. In
2013 the
New York Times defined the deep state as "a hard-to-perceive
level of government or super-control that exists regardless of elections and
that may thwart popular movements or radical change. Some have said that
Egypt is being
manipulated by its deep state."[1]
Since the Times (like the rest of the
commercially-controlled media) is more or less a
under the control of the deep state, such a mention is very interesting.
The implication of the second half of their definition is clear:- other
countries are not being manipulated by a deep state. A 2012 blog post
at the
World Bank takes the same line, "You think your country has undergone
a transition to
democracy...
You realize that there are powerful elite formations bequeathed by years,
even decades, of authoritarian rule still able to block progressive change
and protect their interests." By stating that "deep states that exist
in many youngish ‘democracies’", it neatly skirts the sensitive topic of
deep state control over governments which have long claimed to be
'democracies'.[2].
A 2013 book entitled "Deep State" attempts to soften the term,
mentioning only minor infractions, making no mention of
false flag attacks and poo pooing
9-11 "conspiracy
theorists".[3]
After gradually increasing in use online, the term "deep state"
experienced a meteoric surge in popularity since the
2016 US Presidential election.
Who What Why noted in February 2017 that the term 'Deep State' was as
popular as resistance[4].
Those interested in the deep state could do worse than study the work of the
researcher who coined the term -
Peter Scott. Certainly, it would be wise to be circumspect about
its use by
commercially-controlled media - since there is a mound of evidence of
deep state control of corporate media.
Non-partisan nature
[ alleged ]
In February 2017, the
Washington Post wrote that the "deep state" is a "sexy new label
being used in Washington to describe embedded anonymous bureaucratic bias
against President Trump and Republican rule."[5]
While there may be an entrenched bias against Trump by many in congress, to
characterise this as the "deep state" is to overlook its fundamentally
non-partisan nature.
Mike
Lofgren (himself suspect due to a blind spot in the area of
False Flag attacks expresses the non-partisan nature of the deep state
as follows: “There is the visible government situated around the Mall in
Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable
government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at
the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington
partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching
C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections.
The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which
operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally
in power.”[6]
Peter Dale Scott approves of this 'iceberg' metaphor for giving an
impression of the size of the deep state, but emphasises that it fails to
reflect the fluid nature of the deep state.[citation
needed]
Denialism
The Atlantic echoed the old official narrative in February 2017,
with an article entitled "There Is No American 'Deep State'" which argued
that "The deep state was a kind of criminal organization. What we’re
witnessing in the U.S., it’s basically institutional channels."[7]
This makes use [ of ] misleading metaphors such as "bad apples in government" or
"deadlock in
congress". 'Exposes' of the
revolving door between government and private industry or even the
influence of the
military industrial complex are sometimes presented - but the
fundamental integrity of 'democratic'
government is not questioned.
The
LA Times wrote that "In a country controlled by the deep state,
members of the armed forces and intelligence agencies can overthrow
presidents they don’t like; that’s what happened in Egypt in 2013. They hold
veto power over major decisions. They often run large parts of the economy,
or at least enough government contracts to make their families rich. And
they’re rarely held accountable for their actions. They act with impunity.
U.S. intelligence agencies, on the other hand, are restrained by law."[8]
It seems they missed the
coups d'état that have occurred in the US since November 1963. The
Atlantic's article went so far as to say that there are "dangers in allowing
a deep state to become a real menace in the mind of the public."[7]
Behaviour
As powerful and self-interest groups (probably even more dominated by
psychopaths and
sociopaths than other large hierarchies), deep states seek to frustrate
radical and progressive change, so as to preserve their own power, and that
of the
establishment in general. In contrast to overtly authoritarian rule,
deep states must operate more or less secretly, like
terrorist
groups, so preserving secrecy is a high priority. Control of the
commercially-controlled media is essential to the effective preservation
of secrecy need for the deep state to work effectively. In the US this is
effected through deep state control of the
CIA. With the
apparatus of
nation states under their control, their subterfuges can be elaborate
and complex. The deep states of the world have a natural common interest in
hiding their existence, which predisposes them to mutual assistance. As a
Turkish cartoon put it in 1997 "Deep state protects its own."[9]
Composition
While the exact composition of particular deep state groups and
deep state milieux varies, they appear to be more or less centered upon
what
Dwight Eisenhower referred to as the "Military-industrial-congressional
complex", although
intelligence agencies are essential to their functioning. They are made
up of:
- The leadership of
intelligence agencies;
-
Deep politicians, i.e. individuals who broker agreements between
other members of the deep state.
- Some senior or longstanding non-elected officials within government
(e.g. top civil servants);
- Selected individuals with effective control of key
commercial,
military
and/or
criminal groups in:
Supranational Nature
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- Full article:
Supranational Deep State
The name "deep state" suggests an immediate parallel with
nation state, which is not altogether misleading, at least historically,
since these groups often evolved as secret cabals to control nation states.
However, although originating in particular localities, deep state factions
are highly interlocked in the 21st century
deep politics.
Peter Dale Scott refers in a recent essay to "A Supranational
Deep State", noting how their international integration effectively allows
deep states to evade even the limited control national governments had in
the early 20th century.[11]
Fluid nature
Power relations between deep politicians remain fluid, so deep states
should not be seen as alternative power structures to the visible
organisational structures which they dominate. Relationships between
Mafia families offer a suitable parallel, combining an often uneasy
cooperation with occasional violent and sudden change. All deep state groups
share a common interest in preventing exposure of the real
goings on behind the facade of
electoral politics, so even violently opposed factions can cooperate to
hide the true nature of
deep
events.
Deep Politics
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Deep Politics
"Deep
Politics" is a term used to describe the topics and processes of
importance to the agents of the deep state. These might or might not be
recognisable as connected to the concerns called "politics". Since (by
definition) deep politics are concerns of which the public are ignorant,
they are generally presented instead as politics. In most countries of the
world today, party politics is basically a veneer used to obscure the
real, deep political, considerations. In contrast to multiple levels
of superficial political considerations, deep political motives are
sometimes much simpler;
Charlotte Denett, for example, suggests that the deep politics of
WW1 and
WW2 was actually centered on control of the Middle East's oil and gas
supplies.[12]
Deep Events
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Deep Events
"Deep
Events" are the footprints of the deep state.
Low level deep events are typically unnoticed at the time, and
discovered only as part of later investigations.
Mid level deep events have a set of cover stories which are made
available to a supine or venal
commercially-controlled media to steer attention away from their deep
political significance. The
assassination of
David
Kelly, for example, is often presented as
suicides.
Sometimes a planeload of other victims are used to obscure their deep
political significance.
Deep state groups use
structural deep events to try to change entire societies, sometimes
without them even knowing it. The
JFK Assassination, for example, was actually a
coup d'état that radically changed the US political scene, but corporate
media successfully presented it to US citizens as the work of a "Lone
Nut" devoid of deep state connections.
The defining deep event of the 21st century, the
9/11 attacks, helped launch the era of perpetual war known as the "War
on Terror". While the broad outline is increasingly understood, many of
the details remain obscure even to researchers.
Larry Silverstein's multi-billion dollar windfall and the
insider trading are widely known, but evidence is accumulating that
these were but minor parts of much larger suite of financial frauds carried
out deep political insiders who capitalised on the opportunity.[13][14][15]
Events carried out
Deep State ex Wikipedia
A deep state (from
Turkish: derin devlet), also known as a state within
a state, is a form of
clandestine government made up of hidden or covert networks of power
operating independently of a state's political leadership, in pursuit of
their own agenda and goals. Examples include
organs of state, such as the
armed forces or
public authorities (intelligence
agencies,
police,
secret police,
administrative agencies, and government
bureaucracy). A deep state can also take the form of entrenched, career
civil servants acting in a non-conspiratorial manner, to further their
own interests. The intent of a deep state can include continuity of the
state itself, job security for its members, enhanced power and authority,
and the pursuit of ideological objectives. It can operate in opposition to
the agenda of elected officials, by obstructing, resisting, and subverting
their policies, conditions and directives. It can also take the form of
government-owned corporations or
private companies that act independently of regulatory or governmental
control.[1]
Deep
State In The United States
ex Wiki
Some notable figures in the United States have for decades expressed
concerns about the existence of a "deep state"
In the
United States, the term "deep
state" is used to describe a
conspiracy theory[1][2][3][4][5]
which suggests that
collusion and
cronyism
exist within the US political system and constitutes a hidden government
within the legitimately elected government.[6][7][8][9][10]
Some people believe that there is "a hybrid association of elements of
government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively
able to govern the United States without reference to the
Consent Of The Governed as
expressed through the formal political process",[11]
whereas others consider the deep state to encompass corruption that is
particularly prevalent amongst career politicians and civil servants.[12]
The term was originally coined to refer to a relatively invisible state
apparatus in
Turkey "composed of high-level elements within the intelligence
services, military, security, judiciary, and organized crime" and similar
alleged networks in other countries including Egypt, Ukraine, Spain,
Colombia, Italy, and Israel, and many others.[12]
Following the disclosure of documents released by
WikiLeaks, the term was adopted by people who alleged that the
information points to a deep-state conspiracy that seeks to delegitimize
democracy and the policy goals of "the people".[13]
Definition
According to the journalist Robert Worth, "The expression deep state
had originated in Turkey in the 1990s, where the military colluded with
drug traffickers and hit men to wage a dirty war against Kurdish
insurgents".[14]
The term "deep state" is likely a translation from the Turkish derin
devlet (literally: "deep state" or "deep polity").[15]
In The Concealment of the State, Professor Jason Royce Lindsey
argues that even without a conspiratorial agenda, the term deep state
is useful for understanding aspects of the
national security establishment in developed countries, with emphasis on
the United States. Lindsey writes that the deep state draws power from the
national security and intelligence communities, a realm where secrecy is a
source of power.[16]:35-36
Alfred W. McCoy states that the increase in the power of the
U.S. intelligence community since the
September 11 attacks "has built a fourth branch of the U.S. government"
that is "in many ways autonomous from the executive, and increasingly so."[17]
In a
Foreign Affairs journal article and subsequent expansion in a law
review,
UCLA Law professor Jon D. Michaels rejects "the premise of an American
deep state” in a defense of what he terms the 'administrative state' against
Trump's attempts to “deconstruct" it. Michaels argues that the concept of
the 'deep state' is more relevant to developing governments such as Egypt,
Pakistan and
Turkey, "where shadowy elites in the military and government ministries
have been known to countermand or simply defy democratic directives" than
the United States "where governmental power structures are almost entirely
transparent".[18][19]
According to
David Gergen, quoted in
Time magazine, the term has been appropriated by
Steve Bannon and
Breitbart News and other supporters of the
Trump Administration in order to delegitimize the critics of the current
presidency.[20]
The 'deep state' theory has been dismissed by authors for
The New York Times[21]
and
New York Observer.[22]
University of Miami Professor
Joseph Uscinski says, "The concept has always been very popular among
conspiracy theorists, whether they call it a deep state or something else."[23]
Former NSA leaker
Edward Snowden has used the term generally to refer to the influence of
civil servants over elected officials: "the deep state is not just the
intelligence agencies, it is really a way of referring to the career
bureaucracy of government. These are officials who sit in powerful
positions, who don't leave when presidents do, who watch presidents come and
go ... they influence policy, they influence presidents."[24]
In an opinion piece by linguist
Geoffrey Nunberg, he said the "deep state" is an "elastic label –
depending on the occasion" and its "story conforms to the intricate grammar
of those conspiracy narratives". He also contrasted the change in the "twin
bogeys of conservative rhetoric", from bureaucratic "meddlesome bunglers" of
"big
government" to "conniving ideologues" who "orchestrates complex
schemes".[25]
According to political scientist
George Friedman, the Deep State has been in place since 1871 and
continues beneath the federal government, controlling and frequently
reshaping policies; in this view the U.S.
civil service, was created to limit the power of the president. Prior to
1871, the president could select federal employees, all of whom served at
the pleasure of the president. This is no longer the case.[26]
On March 20, 2018,
Senator
Rand Paul said "Absolutely there is a deep state because the deep state
is that the intelligence communities do not have oversight." He continued,
"There is no skeptic" [emphasis in original] among the four
Republican and four Democratic Senators "who are supposedly" providing
oversight, so that the intelligence communities, "with their enormous power
... have become a deep state."[27]
On December 4, 2018, Paul, in commenting on the CIA Director briefing only
those eight Senators rather than the entire Senate, added "The deep state
wants to keep everyone in the dark. This is just ridiculous!"[28]
On December 10, 2018, he said "The very definition of a 'deep state’ is when
the very people, congressional leaders – people who are elected by the
people – are not allowed to hear the intelligence."[29]
Writing in a piece for the
Moyers & Company website, John Light asserts that the term deep
state "has been used for decades abroad to describe any network of
entrenched government officials who function independently from elected
politicians and work toward their own ends," but during the era of Trump the
term has been twisted to mean "a sub rosa part of the liberal establishment,
that crowd resistant to the reality TV star’s insurgent candidacy all
along."[30]
Michael Crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent for
Politico
wrote, "Beneath the politics of convenience is the reality that a large
segment of the United States government really does operate without much
transparency or public scrutiny, and has abused its awesome powers in myriad
ways."[31]
Supranational Deep State ex
Wikispooks
The Supranational Deep State (SDS), or The Deep State
for short, is the alliance of formerly separate
deep states which quickly began to coalesce in the second half of the
20th century, and which were demonstrably fused into a coherent whole by the
time of the
9-11 cover up. It is not an alliance of
business or
military leaders or
politicians, but of
deep politicians. It is not inter-national, but supra-national,
that is to say, it has de facto control over most[1]
national governments.
Deep state groups traditionally try to operate in a stealthy fashion, but
since the 2010s
the SDS has become increasingly blatant in an effort to force the pace of
social change. The UK government for example admits to conducting
secret trials, while the
2012 NDAA claimed it was legal for the
US president to murder suspects, keep them incommunicado or
torture
them[2]
without the need to publicly present any evidence of wrongdoing. The SDS is
orchestrating the global introduction of ever more
totalitarian measures such as
universal surveillance, and the concerted efforts to remove
civil liberties under the "war
on terror" dogma.
The group's control over key institutions such as
intelligence agencies, the global
money system, most
national
governments and the
commercially-controlled media is unprecedented, although the speed of
technical innovation means that their
control of the narrative is uncertain. Their ability to control the
public imagination is proving far less convincing in the
2010s than in
the decade before. Awareness of this may have been behind the 2016 "Fake
News Website" campaign that was intended to increase faith in
commercially-controlled media, but which had the opposite effect by
promoting awareness of "Fake
News". The SDS' efforts to
censor the internet are ongoing.
Deep Throat
ex Wikipedia
Deep Throat is the
pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972
to
Bob Woodward, who shared it with
Carl Bernstein. Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for
The Washington Post, and Deep Throat provided key details about the
involvement of
U.S. President
Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the
Watergate scandal. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11
years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director
Mark
Felt was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and
had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein
confirmed the attorney's claim.
Peter Dale Scott ex Wikispooks
Background
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat, and
retired English professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The son
of Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian
Dale Scott,
[1]
he is known for his anti-war stance and his criticism of U.S. foreign policy
dating back to the
Vietnam War.
Career
Scott spent four years (1957-1961) with the
Canadian diplomatic service. He retired from the UCB faculty in 1994. He
is now an active researcher into
Deep politics. He was a committee member at
Cynthia McKinney's Dissertation Defense in 2015.
Research
Scott has earned a reputation for
painstaking research and caution in his publications. He has been called a
"virtuoso when it comes to what sometimes seems like grabbing smoke —
capturing proof, however elusive, of motives and objectives that could
explain the machinations of US intelligence agencies — and then analyzing
the residue."
Scott rejects the label of "conspiracy
theory" and coined the phrase "deep
politics" to describe his extensive investigations into the role of the
"deep
state" (as opposed to the "public state").
Daniel Ellsberg commented about his book,
American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the
Road to Afghanistan (2010), "I said of Scott's last, brilliant take
on this subject,
Drugs, Oil and War(2003), that 'it makes most academic and
journalistic explanations of our past and current interventions read like
government propaganda written for children.' Now Scott has written an even
better book."[4]
The Road to 9/11 (2007), deals with historical and geopolitical
context of the events of
9/11, and describes "how U.S. foreign policy since the
1960s has led
to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including,
perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11.[5]
An interesting aspect of Scott's work that combines both his
investigating interests and his poetry is illustrated by
Lobster Magazine article
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.
Literary Works
Scott has described his poem
Minding the Darkness
as his most important, though he concedes that "Like other long poems by
older men. . . it toys dangerously with abstract didactic principles."
Introductory matter to excerpts from
Minding the Darkness.
[6]
The poem is intended as the culmination of a major poetic project of which
Coming to Jakarta
was the inception.
Power
Behind The Throne ex Wiki
The phrase "power behind the throne" refers to a person or
group that
informally exercises the real power of a high-ranking office, such as a
head of state. In politics, it most commonly refers to a relative, aide,
or nominal subordinate of a political leader (often called a "figurehead")
who serves as
de facto
leader, setting policy through possessing great influence and/or skillful
manipulation.
The original concept of a power behind the
throne was
a
Medieval-era figure of speech referring to the fact that the
monarch's
policies could be set by a counselor not seated in the throne but standing
behind it—perhaps whispering in the monarch's ear—out of common sight. Among
the earliest examples of such powerful advisors were the
Mayors of the Palace under the
Merovingian kings.
Éminence grise
ex Wiki
An éminence grise or grey eminence is a powerful
decision-maker or adviser who operates "behind the scenes", or in a
non-public or unofficial capacity.
Shadow government (conspiracy) ex Wiki
- a smear job
The shadow government (cryptocracy, secret government,
or invisible government) is a family of
conspiracy theories based on the notion that real and actual political
power resides not with
publicly elected representatives but with private individuals who are
exercising power behind the scenes, beyond the scrutiny of democratic
institutions. According to this belief, the official elected government
is subservient to the shadow government which is the true executive power.
Some of the groups proposed by these theories as constituting the shadow
government include
central banks;
Freemasons,
intelligence agencies;
think tanks;
organized Jewry;
the
Vatican;
secret societies;
Jesuits;
moneyed interests;
globalist elites and supranational organizations who seek to manipulate
policy in their own interest or in order to serve a larger agenda that is
hidden from the general public.
PS Believe the Wiki? Not me, not this time. Why not? Look at
How To Frame A Patriot to see how
the experts do it.
Mutiny ex Wiki
Mutiny is a
criminal conspiracy among a group of people (typically members of the
military
or the crew of
any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change, or overthrow
a lawful authority to which they are subject. The term is commonly used for
a
rebellion among members of the military against their superior officers,
but it can also occasionally refer to any type of rebellion against
authority figures or governances.
During the
Age of Discovery, mutiny particularly meant open rebellion against a
ship's
captain. This occurred, for example, during
Ferdinand Magellan's journeys around the world resulting in the killing
of one mutineer, the
execution of another, and the
marooning of others; on
Henry Hudson's Discovery resulting in Hudson and others being set
adrift in a boat; and the notorious
mutiny on the Bounty.