Spooks and Scary Stories

We often talk about the "deep state" which I call the mafia branch of our government, but perhaps the "dark state" is a more appropriate descriptor. I've speculated before that Wallace was removed and Truman inserted as FDR's veep in order to insure the creation of the CIA. Of course the FBI has existed longer, starting in 1908 with J. Edgar Hoover joining in 1917. Theoretically the FBI is domestic and the CIA international, but the lines have blurred. I find both organizations rogue agencies ignoring law and promoting their own power and control. I think they are both scary.

This Halloween it seems appropriate to examine the nature and actions of the western "dark state" which sadly is global in nature...

The Five Eyes alliance is a group of five English-speaking countries that have agreed to share enemy signals intelligence with each other – signals intelligence being information learned from intercepting digital or otherwise electronic communications. The countries that make up the Five Eyes are the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and the information gathered by any one is shared with the other members.

My thought is the information is shared when it is convenient and useful.

Larry Johnson former CIA officer explains how the CIA has gone off the rails. He suggests the CIA needs to be destroyed...burnt to the ground.

He describes the merging of operations and analysis, and the loss of the agency's effectiveness.
10-15 min gets to the main point, but the entire conversation is interesting.

Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.

John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, first as an analyst, and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas in Bahrain, Athens, and Pakistan, where he was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.He became the sixth whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration and was sent to prison for two and a half years.

Shadow Government Exposed: CIA Domestic Network (33 min)

CIA Agent Whistleblower Kevin Shipp exposes the Shadow Government. Peeling back more layers of the CIA's unconstitutional control over American citizens.

This channel "the memory hole" reveals many CIA coups and dirty tricks including the following...
John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving seven tours of duty over thirteen years. Having managed American involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies (59 min)

CIA activities in Vietnam were operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in Vietnam from the 1950s to the late 1960s, before and during the Vietnam War. After the 1954 Geneva Conference, North Vietnam was controlled by communist forces under Ho Chi Minh's leadership. South Vietnam, with the assistance of the U.S., was anti-communist. The economic and military aid supplied by the U.S. to South Vietnam continued until the 1970s. The CIA participated in both the political and military aspect of the wars in Indochina. The CIA provided suggestions for political platforms, supported candidates, used agency resources to refute electoral fraud charges, manipulated the certification of election results by the South Vietnamese National Assembly, and instituted the Phoenix Program. It worked particularly closely with the ethnic minority Montagnards, Hmong, and Khmer. There are 174 National Intelligence Estimates dealing with Vietnam, issued by the CIA after coordination with the US intelligence community.

A series of accusations in the early 1970s that the CIA was complicit in drug trafficking in Laos was a contributing factor in the public's opposition to U.S. activities in Southeast Asia. Neither the CIA nor any of its officers were accused of direct activity in the narcotics operations. It is likely that the agency did not focus much energy on the trafficking by indigenous allies until a heroin epidemic broke out among U.S. troops in South Vietnam. There was nothing preventing the hill tribes in northern Laos from producing and selling opium until 1971, as the trade was an economic benefactor to the tribes, but under U.S. pressure, the Laotian government made it illegal. These activities predate the war on drugs in the United States and there was not even a reporting requirement in place until after Nixon's war on drugs had been declared.

Selling arms, drugs, and sex is standard operating procedure to raise dark money and be able to blackmail the powerful. It amazes me how well they control the media. The Epstein story was disappeared as quick as Jeffery and Ghislaine.
Joe Rogan: SHOCKS Roger Waters about EPSTEIN ISLAND (5 min)
When Epstein was prosecuted in Florida, he got a light cushy sentence because the CIA claimed him as an asset.

Operation Mockingbird, CIA Media Control Program (3 min)

notes under the clip...

The Control of media has become stronger over the years with past spooks now being hosted as regular commentators. They don't even try to hide it from the public.

After the Watergate scandal in 1972–1974, Congress became concerned over possible presidential abuse of the CIA. This concern reached its height when reporter Seymour Hersh published an expose of CIA domestic surveillance in 1975.Congress authorized a series of Congressional investigations into Agency activities from 1975 to 1976. A wide range of CIA operations were examined in these investigations, including CIA ties with journalists and numerous private voluntary organizations. None of the resulting reports, however, refer to an Operation Mockingbird.

The most extensive discussion of CIA relations with news media from these investigations is in the Church Committee’s final report, published in April 1976. The report covered CIA ties with both foreign and domestic news media.

https://jameslate.medium.com/what-was-operation-mockingbird-9fe3fbfe1720

So how about the domestic wing of the US mafia, The FBI.

There have been books written about their probable involvement in the murders of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X. Of course that falls into the conspiracy theory distraction. However, there is no denial about COINTELPRO

Although COINTELPRO began officially in 1956, at that point, it was just a formalization of preexisting FBI activities. After World War II, the FBI had worked on perfecting the techniques that were later used in COINTELPRO. The FBI played a large role in McCarthyism, and in addition to amassing "friendly media contacts" that would disseminate the information that the FBI wanted, "agents would contact the employers or landlords of party members in efforts to get them fired or evicted."
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At least 29 Black Panther members are known to have been murdered by COINTELPRO between 1968 and 1971, including Bobby Hutton, George Jackson, Arthur Morris, and Babatunde X Omarwali. Out of roughly 295 COINTELPRO operations that were aimed at "the Black liberation movement," 233 were aimed at the Black Panther Party between 1967 and 1971. Unfortunately, the total number of fatalities may never be known.

COINTELPRO is also notoriously behind the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. According to "COINTELPRO: Psychological Warfare and Magnum Justice" by Tim Butz, COINTELPRO often used the "local authorities to do the dirty work the FBI was unable to do itself," as they did in the assassination of Hampton and Clark.
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One COINTELPRO memo explicitly stated that, "The Negro youths and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries."
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According to "COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story," while countless people were "neutralized" through murder or imprisonment, many others were neutralized by "intimidation, harassment, discrediting, snitch jacketing, a whole assortment of authoritarian and illegal tactics." For the FBI, "neutralization" simply meant making sure that someone was "incapable of engaging in political activity by whatever means necessary."
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Although COINTELPRO was technically disbanded after 1971, it was mostly just reorganized. As of 2020, the FBI continues to engage in counterintelligence and surveillance that targets those whom it considers to be political dissidents, especially Black activists.

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Secret COINTELPRO Is Alive Today – A Brief History (1 min)

To my mind the FBI has been weaponized as political enforcers. Russiagate being an excellent example.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/10/latest-revelations-show-team-obama-invente...

In mid-2016, the FBI got word that Russian intelligence believed Hillary Clinton’s campaign was planning to frame Donald Trump as colluding with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to hack her computers. Yet somehow, the crack agents never connected the dots when handed the Steele “dossier” commissioned and paid for by the Clinton campaign that claimed Trump was colluding with Putin.

Instead, the Justice Department used that dossier as a pretext to spy on at least Trump aide Carter Page as it investigated the clearly spurious charges. Justice also distorted the facts about Page’s past relations with the CIA to suggest he had a history of working with Russian agents when his actual record involved turning them in. Meanwhile, it buried the fact that Steele’s main source was himself a suspected Russian agent.
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From Justice to the CIA, the Obama administration politicized a host of nonpartisan institutions to stain the Trump campaign and then sabotage the Trump administration. And, with selective leaks to major media, the plotters managed to convince much of the country.
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Brennan, as Andrew C. McCarthy details in his book “Ball of Collusion,” was the main driver of the early Russiagate investigation. Soon after the start of Crossfire Hurricane (as the investigation was code-named), Brennan briefed Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on alleged Russian election interference. Reid then wrote to then-FBI Director James Comey, warning him not to ignore “the evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.” Reid pointed to reporting that said Page had met Kremlin agents in Moscow — information that came from the Steele dossier, which was nothing but gossip fed to Steele by a man America deemed a security risk.

Court Filing Shows FBI Knew ‘Russiagate’ Was a Fraud in Early 2017
And isn't it interesting these same colluders conducted the raid on Trump?
https://www.newswars.com/report-fbi-unit-leading-mar-a-lago-investigatio...

So much for the spooks, how about some scary stories?

Perhaps we are on the brink of nuclear war. That sounds scary!
Biden quietly moves world closer towards armageddon. Finland ready to host nukes (25 min)

Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now

One of the great ironies of the NATO Russian war is that the US is supporting the bad guys. It is a common CIA technique to promote right wing extremist to do their dirty work...like oust the duly elected President of Ukraine and install pro-western puppets.

How The U.S. Learned To Love Neo-N@zis In Ukraine

It used to be received wisdom in Western media that Ukraine’s Azov Battalion wasn’t merely a “nationalist” or “right-wing” group, but rather a full-blown neo-Nazi outfit. But then the Ukraine War happened, and suddenly Azov was “celebrated” (according to the New York Times) or merely “accused” of committing human rights abuses. So how did this happen? How did a group of neo-Nazis become the West’s primary bulwark against Russian imperialism?
Guest host Aaron Maté (https://mate.substack.com) and his panel of Ukrainian-born journalist Lev Golinkin and America’s Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the curious interaction of the Azov Battalion, Ukraine’s World War II hero/Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, ,Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian populace.

Caity lays out the western narrative...
"The official narrative is that while Russia is in Ukraine solely because its leader is an evil monster like Hitler, the US is in Ukraine solely because its leaders are righteous. The United States is providing arms, military intelligence, and assistance on the ground from special ops forces and CIA officers to Ukraine, as well as implementing an unprecedented regime of economic warfare against Russia, solely because the US loves its good friends the Ukrainians and wants to protect their freedom and democracy."
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"Per the official narrative, if you confront powerful lawmakers on their support for US interventionism in Ukraine, you are “parroting pro-Putin talking points” and spreading “Russian disinformation“. Questioning officials of the most powerful government in the world about the most consequential decisions being made in the world is violence, and is not allowed."
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"The official narrative on Ukraine is that the US empire and its media never lie or circulate propaganda about wars that the US is involved in. If you dispute this, you are lying and circulating propaganda. That’s why it’s necessary to have so much censorship and organized trolling and mass media reports reminding you how good and righteous this war is: it’s to protect you from lies and propaganda.'

More from Aaron sitting in for Jimmy interviewing Scott Ritter...
The Days Of U.S. Hegemony Are OVER Says Putin (6.5 min)
Is Russia Poised To Win The Ukraine War? (9.5 min)
Ukraine WON’T Negotiate Says U.S. Advisor To Zelensky (7 min)
Dirty Bomb Accusations Fly Between Russia & Ukraine (8.5 min)

As if this war with Russia wasn't enough, don't forget western aggression against China. Brian recently argued that Taiwan is not like Ukraine. For one thing it isn't a country, and it would be near impossible to re-equip the island.

As the US wages proxy war against Russia through Ukraine, it is attempting the same process through Taiwan against China.

However, there are some major differences that make America’s hostility and encroachment on China even more dangerous including the fact that even Washington, officially, recognizes Taiwan as part of China while openly arming Taipei’s administration, encouraging separatism, and even placing US troops on what is internationally recognized as Chinese territory.

Besides military tensions, economic tensions continue to grow as China is positioned to surpass the collective West economically. The US has responded with growing lists of sanctions and coercive policies targeting not only China but Washington’s own supposed “allies.”

The Chip 4 Alliance seeks to assert US hegemony over the global semiconductor industry but is instead producing a similar backfiring effect as US and EU sanctions on Russian energy exports.

The west has lost it's collective mind...

Alex and Alexander had a couple of short discussions about China this week too
Xi Jinping's mandate to prepare for smash with collective west (15 min)
China moves up the sanctions escalator (14 min)
Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The global suppression of farmers is scary as well. (5.5 min)

Farming in crisis? Farmer speaks to Neil Oliver over rising costs

The Great Reset is pretty scary too. Neil Oliver explains... (23 min)

‘…it's just another road leading to slavery….’

Well, we've made it to the middle of autumn. We've been having lovely vibrant colors this year. Something to celebrate on this ancient holiday, Samhain which most call Halloween.

Ancient Celts marked Samhain as the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. During this time of year, hearth fires in family homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered.

After the harvest work was complete, celebrants joined with Druid priests to light a community fire using a wheel that would cause friction and spark flames. The wheel was considered a representation of the sun and used along with prayers. Cattle were sacrificed, and participants took a flame from the communal bonfire back to their home to relight the hearth.

Here's hoping your holiday is most excellent. I look forward to your thoughts, insights, and scary stories below.