@snoopydawg

Good article from Zero Hedge snoopydawg. I think we may have a different understanding of the Deep State problem:

There can be no doubt that the chaos in the White House since Trump’s victory has reflected a fight behind the scenes for control of foreign policy, homeland security and military spending. It has been about the CIA’s ultimately successful attempts to ensure Trump backtracked on relevant electoral promises and complies with its own agenda.

So far, Trump has backed down on Russia, North Korea, Iran and on military spending, suggesting he is well on the way to becoming the Deep State’s lackey. It now seems the CIA wants to control the balance of power in Congress.

The suggestion seems to be that "backing down" on Russia, North Korea and Iran is a bad thing.

True. But we haven't had a democracy for quite some time. And it's going to get worse. Of course the never ending gift of 9/11 has stripped us of any freedoms that we thought we had. Russia Gate has just been a new propaganda tactic that has numerous consequences of it. Wars are one. Oppression is one. Censorship of the internet is another one so the government is getting private social media sites to do that for them and then there's the government's action, revoking net neutrality. gjohnsit's essay covered what the Facebook scandal is about and members put their contributions of it in the comments.

FB, Twitter, Google and now Tumblir are being the government's puppets for their agenda to strip us our internet freedoms.

The Death of Democracy

This article goes hand in hand with it.

‘Sinister legislation’: Cloud act passes without fanfare

The Deep State is done letting the courts get in the way of their agenda, so congress stripped the legislative branch of any control over the Bill of Rights. I covered another part of the legislation about this here.

'Insidious' and 'Dangerous': Digital Privacy Groups Issue Urgent Warning Over CLOUD Act

Government demands much more than just transparency and we have watched as any form of democracy has been revoked. I wish I knew what we can do to stop this march towards inverted totalitarianism, but I'm not sure that we aren't already living in it.

Make sure that you take your shoes off when you fly so you stay safe...

@SoylentGreenisPeople

that the Russian spies are supposed to be under everyone's bed, so if you see any and they don't appear cuddly, you might want to sleep on the roof, just to be absolutely safe.

Personally, I keep checking under mine in case one's a male cute enough to keep, but all I ever find are dust kittens and dust puppies (we have no pet bunnies) in shedding season...

Does any body else see the logical contradiction here:

"As part of our COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY . . . "

cf.

" . . . . we want you to know that WE . . . TERMINATED 84 ACCOUNTS . . . ."

If they were truly committed to "transparency," then they should have left the accounts up and identified them as accounts that they had connected with the IRA . . . and then let people decide for themselves who and what they wanted to believe.

But nooooooooooo! Can't risk that.

I'd write them back with words to the effect of "Thank you for PROTECTING me from the BIG, BAD RUSSIANS. (These days, every night I go to bed, I sleep UNDER my bed because I'm so terrified of the BIG, BAD RUSSIANS!!) More importantly, thank you for recognizing the fact that I don't have the ability to think critically and make up my own mind about what's valid and what isn't, and that I need YOU to SPARE ME THE DANGER OF MAKING MY OWN CHOICES AND THINKING FOR MYSELF. Thank you for appointing yourselves to be my mommy and daddy. (And while you're at it, since you want to be my mommy and daddy, can I ask you a favor: How about you pay my utility bills this month for me too? I certainly could use your help in this area of my life.)"

(But of course, tyrants--and make no mistake: we are dealing here with a form of TYRANNY--only want loyalty to go one-way (towards them) and they feel they owe the "little people" no reciprocal obligations. That's why all the Dem loyalists and shills at TOP shame the "little people" for wanting to hold Dem politicians accountable, and get pissed off when the little people stray from the fold and decide not to vote for back-stabbing Democrats. In short: Kos and his minions are also tyrants and/or enablers of tyranny. But I digress . . . .)

What's also fascinating is that the Jimmy Dore segment about Twitter (posted above) mentions that he got a message that used much the same language as the Tumblr message. If I was the conspiratorial type (which my masters and "betters" in the D.C. and in the corporate media have taught me no one in his or her right mind is) I'd think that the entity behind Dore's Twitter message is also the SAME entity behind this Tumblr message . . . . as if a common actor was pulling the strings of both corporations.

But thankfully, I'm NOT conspiratorial. I mean, I BELIEVE the Warren Commission report . . . . as every right-minded American citizen should!!!! Thank you, CIA. Thank you, FBI. Thank, you, CNN. Thank you, New York Times. Thank you, Twitter. Thank you, Tumblr . . . for helping me keep my thinking straight!