An event of historical significance has occurred with the release of the corona virus in Hubei Province in central China. The origin of the virus is unknown; some say it came from animals (bats) and then jumped to human carriers. Some say it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research institute administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This is the only biosafety level 4 laboratory in mainland China, built by the French in 2015, and it is located in Wuhan city. Then there’s this:  https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/

There is evidence that the number of corona cases in China is being under-reported: https://www.theepochtimes.com/leaked-documents-reveal-chinas-shandong-province-faked-coronavirus-infection-data-real-numbers-up-to-52-times-higher_3251354.html

If you know where to look you can see vids of people literally collapsing on the streets of Wuhan from the virus (this occurred last week). There’s a massive effort by the Chinese Communist Party and those who sympathize with them to minimize the impact of the virus. Minimizing the effect of the virus isn’t a bad thing because it prevents people from panicking and co-creating a negative future. But ignoring a problem isn’t a solution.

Let’s just say that the spread of the corona virus is a marker in the battle between dark and light. It’s another wild card, like the election of Trump. A wild card is an unexpected event or situation that affects large numbers of people. As of Feb 25th the virus has spread to 31 countries. In Italy, half of the industrial production of the country is offline now. The Catholic Church has suspended religious rituals throughout the country. Today, Feb 26, A senior CDC official is warning that Americans should prepare for an increase in the spread of the new coronavirus disease. The CDC is distributing test kits to state and local labs. Meanwhile, the number of infections is sharply increasing in Italy, Iran, and South Korea.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-official-warns-americans-prepare-for-community-spread-of-new-coronavirus_3250191.html

The New York Times reports that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan asked all of the country’s schools to close for a month to help contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The purpose of this blog isn’t to alarm anyone. However, when a wild card occurs people should be informed. By the time you read this, hopefully, the spread of the virus will have slowed or halted altogether.

“Tens of thousands of people die in the US every year from the flu,” you say. “Stop spreading propaganda and trying to scare people.”

Well, let’s talk about the economic impact of the virus then. Within the last thirty years, the world economy has gone to globalist “just-in-time” manufacturing, much of it centered in China. Chinese factories have not reopened (yet) after the Chinese New Year because of the corona virus, so supply chains all over the world are being stressed. This is affecting the production of pharmaceutical products like antibiotics, and many other industries. https://www.theepochtimes.com/coronavirus-hits-supply-chains-saps-us-business-activity_3247352.html.

In Italy (at the time of this writing) 50% of the manufacturing base of the country has been shut down due to concerns about the virus. The Catholic Church announced on Feb 24 that religious events throughout the country have been cancelled. Here in Michigan, the state is monitoring over 300 persons. (https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/02/23/hundreds-in-michigan-being-monitored-due-to-coronavirus/ )

The importance of this wild card virus is that even though it is spreading, it has largely affected only one country: China. China is the source and the Chinese people have been most severely affected. China is the last major country in the world with a communist government. As I explained in a previous blog post, communism is simply fascism with another name. The Chinese people have been laboring under this totalitarian system since 1949, as the Russian people did from 1917-1991. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their military enforcement branch, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) have lost respect within the country, and now in the world, for their attempt to suppress information, to deny that anything was wrong, and their delay in halting the spread of the virus, allowing it to spread outside China.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-internal-reports-on-coronavirus-response-our-main-priorities-are-controlling-public-opinion-social-stability_3253554.html

The corona virus could be the beginning of the end for the communist leadership in China. This would be another blow to the dark army on earth.

The emperor, President Xi, may have lost the mandate from heaven. When the virus runs its course and the Chinese people take an assessment of their leadership, the CCP and the PLA may be found sadly wanting in integrity and competence. For China, the effect of the corona virus resembles the periodic, widespread famines that have occurred over the country’s 5,000-year history. The resilient, hardworking people of China understand this.

Could democracy come to this great nation of 1.4 billion, as it is now thriving in the great nation of India, with its 1.2 billion people?  That is an inspiring thought to me. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the recent election in India with over 600 million votes out of 800 million cast. 800 million votes cast! That is close to three times the population of  the United States. It took weeks for the votes to be counted. Much of it was by hand, on paper ballots, but the votes were tabulated honestly.

Here in the United States, we can learn a lot about democracy from India.

One of the reasons Trump went to India was to cement the relationship between the world’s two greatest democracies. The images and speeches from these meetings between Modi and Trump, and the reception of the U.S. president by the people of India, are inspiring (despite the U.S. media’s complete failure to cover it). Sure, the two leaders signed a military agreement, and the trip was partly for geo-strategic reasons (to counter the influence of China), but the outpouring of love and affinity at these meetings was inspiring. I’m all for anything that advances the cause of world peace – even if Trump is doing it.

One thing is for sure: the global capitalists, who took factories and jobs out of the US and exported them to China (looking for the cheapest labor) are thinking twice about their investments now that their supply chains are being cut. Nothing is more influential to hedge fund managers, bankers, and capitalists than money. Their shortsighted decision over the past 20 years to go for short term profit at the expense of their own people is coming back to bite them.  

The light is winning over the dark, which is being exposed more and more every year.  The spread of the corona virus is shining light on the corrupt practices of corporate capitalism and state-owned corporate communism, both in Asia and in the West. Greed and a lack of humanity, whether it be capitalist or communist, must ultimately fail. Integrity will win the day as the consciousness of humanity slowly rises and people wake up.

2020 is the year when eyes will be opened all across the planet. It’s already begun!

What is emerging from the chaos of America’s ideological war between Democrats and Republicans is the emergence of a four-party system. Right now we have the establishment Republican Party, backed by wealthy corporate donors (the Mitt Romney’s and Mitch McConnells), the corporate Democrats led (still) by Hillary Clinton, who have turned to the $71 billion oligarch Mike Bloomberg to save them, the socialist-populists led by AOC and Bernie Sanders, and the nationalist-populists led by Donald Trump. These are four distinct factions; two of which are breaking away from the traditional Democrat-Republican two-party system.

This is all for the good, for the Dem-Rep system has completely broken down.

In this four-party system there can be leakage and coalitions between them. For example, Steve Bannon (former Trump campaign chief) suggests that an ideal ticket would be Trump as President and Bernie Sanders as Vice President. This ticket would have the advantage of including the two most dynamic representatives of the current political scene: the nationalist-populists and the socialist-populists. Although these two factions are diametrically opposed policy-wise, they contain almost all of the patriots in the US. By patriot I mean someone who wants the US to be as good as it can be, and who loves and supports their country and wants people to live successful lives.

The establishment-corporate factions are in it for themselves. These are the hedge-fund managers, the venture capitalists, the big banks and the billionaires and their sons and daughters who pimp the system for their own benefit without a care to what’s best for everyone. These are the people who got bailed out after 2008 to the tune of $3 trillion. The balance sheet of the Federal Reserve increased from about $800 billion in 2007 to over $4 trillion after all the “quantitative easing” and the infusion of cash from the Fed to bail out these elitists. These two factions are represented by the establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans.

Bernie and Trump represent the two most popular factions in the country. A Trump-Sanders ticket would be a great way to heal the deep political wounds that have been inflicted on the body politic over the past four years.

Could Trump and Bernie work together?

I don’t know but I think it’s worth a try.

Both Bernie and Trump want to withdraw troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. The opposition is what has been called the military-industrial complex, and the corporations who profit from war. Trump has necessarily had to build up the military in order to get the support needed within the military to end the endless wars. He and Bernie will be resolutely opposed by the Raytheons, the Booz-Allen Hamiltons, the Haliburtons,  the Mitres, the CIA and their regime-change foreign policy, and the war hawks in the Pentagon who profit from war. United, however, Bernie and Trump would be a formidable political force for peace.

Most of the rest of the world will support the withdrawal of US troops whole-heartedly. Those who don’t will identify themselves as warmongers.

The troops can come home and rebuild our infrastructure. It will be similar to FDR’s New Deal, where unemployed people were put to work building roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects.

Despite their rhetoric both Trump and Bernie are patriots. They both want what is best for the country. Bernie would push for universal healthcare and free college education, which would be made possible by stopping the trillions misspent on endless war. Trump would get his infrastructure improvements and a focus on America first. Both Bernie and Trump have the same goals but don’t know it. I’d like to see a summit between the nationalist-populists and the socialist-populists to see if a deal could be worked out. The only enemies to such a deal are the warmongers, the haters, and the corporate elitists.

Delusional? Maybe. But we have to start somewhere. The populists on left and right should divorce themselves from the one-percenter elitist corporatists who couldn’t care less about the rest of us. The corporate Democrats are hard at work trying to steal the Democratic nomination from Bernie. Win or lose, I’d like to see Bernie and Trump combine forces. This way both populist factions will be united. Who would run on the other side? More than likely Hillary would run again, with VP Mike Bloomberg, representing the corporate elitists. A Hillary Clinton-Mike Bloomberg ticket would be the perfect representative for the corporatists.

Bloomberg has already spent almost $400 million on a nationwide blanket ad campaign. He’s worth $70 billion, a true American oligarch (Trump’s paltry $3.1 billion net worth, according to Forbes magazine, pales in comparison). He’s literally got billions to spend in an attempt to buy an election.

The 2020 election would be the populists versus the corporatists. I think Trump-Sanders would win in a landslide.

I occasionally look at a crazy (and unreadable) site called whatdoesitmean.com. These guys write in long, run-on sentences that are almost impossible to decipher. The site is a mess. On Jan 7 they published an article that was inspiring, although it is most likely a conspiracy theory. Well, it’s a positive conspiracy theory about peace in the Middle East, and Trump vs. the military-industrial-complex, which I talked about in my last post.

I’m simply going to quote verbatim from parts of the article and rewrite it in intelligible form. Here goes:

On December 6, 2019, AP reports that an elite Saudi Arabian military officer training at a US base in Florida to open fire and kill 3 American military officers. “An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, killing three people in an attack the Saudi government quickly condemned and that U.S. officials were investigating for possible links to terrorism.”

On December 10, the New York Times reports that “The Pentagon has suspended operational training for all Saudi military students in the United States, indefinitely halting flight instruction, firing range training and all other operations outside the classroom in the wake of a shooting last week at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida by a member of the Saudi Royal Air Force.”

On December 11, 2019, BBC News reported that “the UN has reportedly so far been unable to confirm Iran was involved in drone and cruise missile attacks on two key Saudi oil facilities in September. Saudi Arabia said Iran was behind the attacks, which temporarily knocked out half of the kingdom's crude production. But a leaked report by the UN's secretary general says investigators could not corroborate that the drones and missiles were of Iranian origin.” The UN report was issued on December 10th. Okay, so Iran was not behind this attack. The US has troops and missiles in Saudi Arabia to defend against such an attack. In September, this missile system mysteriously failed, even though it was an advanced U.S. system. How could such a sophisticated missile system fail precisely when it was needed? The result was a big (although temporary) blow to Saudi oil production.  

On December 27, 2019, Trump order[s] the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani 

At Soleimani’s funeral in Tehran, on January 6, 2020, “Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA reported chants of “Death to infidels,” “Death to seditionists” and “Death to al-Saud” — a reference to the Saudi ruling family.” This demonstration was choreographed by the regime. If people are shouting “Death to Saud,” it has the sanction of the regime in Iran.

On January 7, the Farsi News Agency reported “A number of family members of the Saudi princes have fled to the European states for the fear of Iran's retaliation for the US assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, Arab media reports said.”

If you follow the news you remember “news people” speculating about an escalation of tensions in the Middle East that could lead to World War III – something so absurd that it was almost funny. The news media EXISTS to spread fear and hatred, and is a tool of the warmongers and the MIC. No surprise, actually, but this speculation was all over the place.

US-Iran war fears devolved into a “farce spectacle,” according to this article, “of Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnouri threatening to strike 6,236 US targets, which is the number of verses in the Koran.  This was quickly followed by Trump ordering 52 fully armed stealth fighter jets to do an “Elephant Walk” at their Hill Air Force Base in Utah, which is the number of American hostages Iran held in 1979.  

OK, enough! This is comical, and can’t be taken seriously by anyone. Except maybe warmongers in the MIC and in the press, who seem to delight in scaring the shit out of people. If Iran has the capacity to hit over six thousand U.S. targets, they could take over the world. Obviously they don't. It's just theater.

The conspiracy theory here is that Trump wants to get the US out of endless wars, but he is being opposed by those who profit from war. So, he has to practice a diplomacy that shakes up the system and tries to expose the stupidity of spending trillions on killing people halfway around the world. (Of course, those who hate Trump will simply say that he’s a tool of the MIC and a warmonger himself, but I don’t believe this. Trump is no peacenik but he is a businessman who likes deals, and making money. And the warmongers (on both sides) are simply in the way.)

Sylvain LaForest  writing in Oriental Review, says this about Trump (I posted this article on my Facebook page):  

Early in his mandate, Trump naively tried the direct approach, by surrounding himself with establishment rebels like Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon, then by annoying each and everyone of his foreign allies, shredding their free-trade treaties, imposing taxes on imports and insulting them in their face in the G7 meetings of 2017 and 2018. The reaction was strong and everyone doubled-down on the Russiagate absurdity, as it looked like the only option to stop the man on his path of globalism destruction. Predictably, the direct approach went nowhere; Flynn and Bannon had to go, and Trump was entangled in a handful of inquiries that made him realize that he wouldn’t get anything accomplished with transparency. He had to find a way to annihilate the most dangerous people on the planet, but at the same time, stay in power and alive. He had to smarten up.

That’s when his genius exploded on the world. He completely changed his strategy and approach, and started taking absurd decisions and tweeting outrageous declarations. As threatening and dangerous as some of these first looked, Trump didn’t use them for their first degree meaning, but was aiming at the genuine second degree effects that his moves would have. And he didn’t care about what people thought of him as he did, for only results count in the end. He would even play buffoon over Twitter, look naive, lunatic or downright idiotic, perhaps in the hope to impregnate the belief that he didn’t know what he’s doing, and that he couldn’t be that dangerous. He’s willfully being politically incorrect to show the ugly face that the United States are hiding behind their mask.” 

https://orientalreview.org/2019/11/15/about-trump/

OK, this is a bit much I think. But it fits with the title of this post, that things are not always what they seem. Trump seems like a moron and a warmonger. But maybe he’s not! Maybe there’s a plan behind the madness. I hope there is and I’ll grasp onto any straw I can find! Why wouldn’t you take a positive attitude? The law of attraction tells us that what you expect you get more of. Having a defeatist attitude just puts that on the timeline of future events. Hate is hate, even if it’s hate of Trump. It’s harmful. So I don’t do it! I look for positive explanations.

Now, according to this article, “President Trump stripped away the mask from the ugly face of America’s endless wars by his secretly ordering released to The Washington Post what are now infamously known as The Afghanistan Papers.” The Post declares in a blaring headline: “Those Who Ran The Afghanistan War Lied…They Must Be Held To Account”

Nine days later the warmongers and the MIC retaliated, voting to impeach Trump on December 19. Here is where it gets fantastical. According to this too-flattering article, Trump embarks on an historic quest to make peace with the entire Muslim world.

Now, we know that there is a Swiss backchannel between Iran and the US. This is how Trump communicates with the mullahs in Iran. This back channel was instrumental in calming tensions after the killing of Soleimani and the Iranian attacks on US bases in Iraq – no Americans were killed in these attacks because the Iranians told the US beforehand so we could get our troops out of  there. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/id-see-them-call-me-how-trump-used-encrypted-swiss-fax-machine-defuse-iran-crisis

The theory is that Trump is making a deal with the Iranians – dealing is what he’s good at – and wants to let Iran deal with the terrorist state of Saudi Arabia, instead of us. Saudi Arabia isn’t popular in the Arab world, even among Sunni Muslims. A recent Gallup poll shows that just 4% of Americans have a “very favorable” view of Saudi Arabia—numbers that are worse than Venezuela or Cuba. Of course this idea flies in the face of the Pertrodollar agreement back in the 1970s with the Saudis, but the world’s financial system, and the Petrodollar system, can’t keep going much longer. More and more countries in the world are abandoning the dollar to pay for oil. Maybe Trump sees his chance.

Is this a far-fetched theory? Probably. But it’s a hopeful one.   

Some have suggested that  General Soleimani was lured into an ambush by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, who invited him to Iraq to talk peace about Syria, and then killed him—and that General Soleimani was killed while on a mission to make peace with Saudi Arabia. The article says (perhaps naively) that “both Trump and Iran’s Supreme Leader agreed that General Soleimani would be sacrificed—a sacrifice intended to achieve two goals—the FIRST being a cessation of any war between the US and Iran occurring—and the SECOND being the removal of all US military forces from Iraq.”

This is interesting, because Press TV reports that

The the US-led military coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terrorist group has reportedly relocated its headquarters in Iraq to Kuwait in the wake of recent assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and public rage over the targeted killings. Iraq’s Arabic-language al-Forat news agency reported that the alliance took the decision on Tuesday to move its command center from the Iraqi capital Baghdad to Kuwait City. The Qatar-based and Arabic-language al-Jazeera news network, citing a report published by German DPA news agency, later confirmed the account. The report came only a day after Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said his country and the United States should work together on implementing the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country.”

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/07/615578/US-led-coalition-temporarily-relocates-headquarters-from-Iraq-to-Kuwait:-Report

Interesting. A temporary relocation? Maybe.

The article continues: “The Netherlands suspended all of its military operation in Iraq and Germany pulled all of its military forces out of Iraq, too. [This is] a Western military strategic retreat occurring while Iraq has restricted the movement of the international coalition’s forces as part of preparing a mechanism of the foreign troop pullout from the country.”

Could this explain the chaotic 24 hours that “saw the US announcing in a letter that it was pulling all of its troops out of Iraq—a letter quickly modified by US Army General Mark Milley, the Commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said this letter was a draft and that it should not have been released.” Maybe.

I talked about this in my last post – that there is a struggle between Trump, who wants our troops out of the Middle East, and the warmongers, who control troop deployments, and who want war.

According to this article,  “This letter’s premature release was ordered by Deep State warmonger Defense Department Deputy Eric Chewning, whom Trump immediately fired—thus making this warmonger yet another causality of Trump’s chaos theory masterplan to end his nation’s endless wars and bring a lasting peace to the Middle East. The only actual battlefield death, so far, in the maelstrom of this chaos remains General Soleimani—the sacrificed chess piece pawn who began the most critical game of war and peace ever seen since World War II.”

According to the article, Trump made a deal with the Iranians and the mourning about Soleimani is just theater. Crazy? You betcha. But it’s a hopeful crazy.  

It’s hard to believe that the US would simply abandon Saudi Arabia – we just sold them $100 billion worth of weapons. But these weapons sales may be the work of the warmongers, who just fattened their balance sheets. If it’s Trump vs the warmongers, maybe the president is ready to strangle the alliance between the Kingdom and the US in exchange for a chance at Middle East peace.  

The inexplicable “failure” of the US missile defense system in Saudi Arabia, the Swiss backchannel between the Iranians and the US, the Iranian notification to the US about their retaliatory missile strike, the surgical elimination of Soleimani with no other casualties, the reports of U.S. withdrawing from Iraq, Trump’s deal-making propensity, the collapse of the Petrodollar system, the fleeing of Saudi princes to Europe –  well, this could be good for both Iran and the US. Remember, the Saudis were involved in 9/11. Just today, Attorney General Barr announced that the shootings by the Saudi airman of three U.S. military personnel at a U.S. naval base in Pensacola, Florida, is an “act of terrorism.” Can all this spell doom for the Kingdom, and a chance at peace in the Middle East?

People my age have been hoping for Middle East peace for decades. Perhaps a wrecking ball like Trump is the guy to finally get it going. If nothing happens...well, nothing has been happening for 70 years. Before world peace can happen, Middle East peace must happen. Let’s watch events and see how things unfold.

Before you read this understand that I don't have any "sources." I'm just a civilian sitting at his desk doing some research. The old saying is, "Those who don't know talk, and those who do, can't." But here goes anyway.

Raise your hand if you think that the President of the United States has control over the U.S. military.

The president is supposedly commander-in-chief, but this doesn’t include the military-industrial complex (MIC). President Eisenhower told us that way back in January 1961. A good example is what happened when Trump ordered U.S. troops out of Syria. The soldiers didn’t move out of the country, they were just recycled to guard the Syrian oilfields.

We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we’re keeping the oil,” said Trump on Friday, [Nov 1], before adding, “I like oil. We’re keeping the oil.”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-04/trump-syria-oil-problems

Seriously? Here’s a graph of US oil imports by country:

https://www.kjmaclean.com/Newsletters/US_crude_imports_by_country.jpg

Syria isn’t even on the list. So why are U.S. troops in Syria? Ask the MIC. War is good for the balance sheet.

Let me interpret Trump’s statement above: “I have no control over where our troops are going. Syria doesn’t export oil to the US. But if I don’t go along they’ll make lots of trouble for me. So I’ll try to tell you this tongue-in-cheek.” If you substitute “military-industrial complex” for the words “we” and “I” in sentences 2-4 you get the meaning.

On Nov 3, Trump meets with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office. He says it again.  

We’re keeping the oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/13/donald-trump-syria-oil-us-troops-isis-turkey 

Substitute “military-industrial-complex” for “we” and you have the meaning.

ABC News explained that keeping Syria’s oil is illegal:

After President Donald Trump said on Monday the U.S. will be "keeping the oil" in northeastern Syria, his administration is looking into the "specifics," according to a senior State Department official -- but it's prompted renewed cries that doing so is a war crime.

“Trump has a long history of calling for the U.S. to "take the oil" in the Middle East, in Iraq and Syria in particular. But any oil in both countries belongs to their governments, and according to U.S. law and treaties it has ratified, seizing it would be pillaging, a technical term for theft during wartime that is illegal under U.S. and international law.

"We're keeping the oil," Trump said Monday to a conference of police chiefs in Chicago. "I've always said that -- keep the oil. We want to keep the oil, $45 million a month. Keep the oil. We've secured the oil."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/keeping-oil-syria-trump-considered-war-crime/story?id=66589757

There it is again. Trump is pointing out that the actions of the MIC are illegal, and there’s nothing a President of the United States can do about it. Did anyone get it? Nope. Appalling? Damn right it is!  

Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project told us a long time ago that the President of the United States is 20-something security clearances below “need to know” level regarding the black, hidden, special access programs, which are the heart of the MIC. These programs are way, way beyond Congressional oversight and are funded secretly. They are beyond public scrutiny. The president (and Congress) hasn’t a clue what’s happening in these programs. The president has the authority to appoint the Secretary of Defense and other officials in the DoD. But he doesn’t have authority over the MIC.

Did Barack Obama want troops in Afghanistan? My guess is no. Remember what happened after President Obama received the Nobel Prize in 2009? The MIC increased troop strength in Afghanistan a few weeks later, making the award a complete joke. That was the MIC’s message to Obama: “ You’re just the president. Make speeches, look presidential. We’ll take care of our business, which is the business of profiting from war.”

Do you seriously think Obama had any control over that? I don’t think so. Like Trump, he had to go along. Or else.

Of course, the war criminal George W. Bush happily went along with the MIC. He was the MIC’s man in the White House. No problems there! War on Terrorism, yay!

Trump is trying to tell us this. The tweet below, to me, is so absurd it’s proof positive that the president understands his position vis-a-vis the MIC and is trying to tell us. It’s the ultimate troll.

Ladies and germs, this is called TROLLING the media. Because of course, this dog was a key factor in capturing and killing Baghdadi? How can anyone take this seriously? Most of Trump’s tweets are sarcastic, contemptuous even, of the mass media. He’s trying to send people a message, but it’s not getting through apparently.  

So: the president was telling us that he wants troops out of Syria but the MIC doesn’t. Whoever is giving the orders to the troops isn’t listening to the president!

Those reading may be too young to remember JFK. On November 23, 1963, the President of the United States was publicly executed on a street in Dallas, Texas. This was the corporate warmonger state coming out into the open and announcing: “We're in charge now.” This was two short years after Eisenhower’s famous “beware of the MIC” speech in 1961. Coincidence, of course. Just another “conspiracy theory.”

After that we got Vietnam, two wars in the Gulf, Afghanistan, Panama, Libya, Syria, attempted coups in Venezuela and Bolivia ...

Why are we in Afghanistan? No one knows. We do know that after spending $1 trillion dollars on that pointless war, U.S. officials constantly lied about the “progress” they were making.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/

It's pretty simple: War is good for the balance sheets of corporations like Raytheon, Mitre, Lockheed, Haliburton, Booz-Allen Hamilton, etc. All for profit.

Don’t blame Trump for this. People say, “Trump ran on getting our troops out and ending foreign wars, but nothing is happening.” Well, he’s butting heads with the endless war crowd, the people who are making money from war.

Who are these people?

We’re going to find out eventually, and it’s hopefully going to begin in 2020. Eventually the entire sordid history of these warmongers – sociopaths, every one of them – will come out. But that’s in the future.

Update 1/8/2020: After Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani the Iranians attacked Iraqi bases with missiles. I found this gem today:

So let's see: who has the power to get U.S. troops out of Iraq? The Commander-in-Chief. That's the president. Who has the power to countermand that order? Your guess is as good as mine. Somebody in the Pentagon who doesn't listen to the pres? A group of people who like war because it's good business? Clearly, if no U.S. troops are in countries that are conflict zones (like Iraq) then no harm can come to them.

This image might tell us a little more about the situation with Iran:

Yup. Lots of chances for U.S. troops to come into harm's way. A perfect scenario for the warmongers.

Progressives rightly say that Trump raised the military budget over $100 billion, that he’s a big military supporter, and that this doesn’t serve the cause of peace. All sane persons want peace, not war. But what happens when a president wants troops out, but the people in charge of those troops don't listen? It's a problem.

The Southern Border

I’ve been defending Trump solely because he’s the perfect guy at the perfect time. He’s here to crack open the darkness and expose the massive, global corruption networks that allow elites who control the world’s financial institutions to create an ocean of fiat money that is used to buy off politicians and entire governments, and to enable the free flow of drugs, arms, and most sickening, human beings and children.

That’s what free and open borders are about for the dark army.

Does anyone think that the Border Patrol controls our southern border? Our southern border is controlled by drug cartels and human traffickers who run drugs into our cities and abuse children and make money trafficking immigrants who come here for a better life. 

Here’s an article from 2015: https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/dea-most-illegal-drugs-enter-via-mexico-cartels-greatest-criminal-threat-to-u-s/

And another from 2018: “Mexican Cartels ‘Absolutely’ Control the Southwest Border, Sheriff Says,” https://www.theepochtimes.com/mexican-cartels-absolutely-control-the-southwest-border-says-sheriff_2568412.html

The sad fact no one wants to confront is this: To clean up the evil and the darkness on our southern border, and across the planet, eventually our military will have to be used as a threat, or even a blunt weapon, against the drug cartels, the human traffickers, and the arms dealers. These networks are world wide. It’s not something anyone wants, but the magnitude of the corruption and the evil is massive. In Mexico, drug cartels control large swaths of the country.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-mexico-a-narco-state/19430

I don’t like it but I understand it: We need a strong military for the present. After the dark army networks are exposed and neutralized, we can turn swords into plowshares.

On the political front, Trump is going to keep banging. First came the OIG report about the weaponization of the FBI. Next is the FISA declassification documents, which Trump agreed to in 2018. These may come out in his defense if the House ever delivers the articles of impeachment to the Senate. After that comes the report from attorney John Durham next summer, who began his investigation back in 2017.

All of this to break apart the network of sociopaths who run our planet. Donald Trump isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon. Trump is a huge, massive, planetary wild card that no one saw coming. He’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing. He’s a blunt instrument that no person with any sensitivity will like. But he’s necessary.

Because of Trump, whether you're left or right, people aren’t sitting on the fence anymore. People are looking for answers now. Those who still are on the fence won’t be able to stay there for very long.

The Intelligence War

Things are not always as they seem. A massive intelligence war is being fought in this country behind the scenes, between white and black hats in the intelligence community: the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI. The mainstream media is there for covering fire.

Snowden exposed the NSA and its domestic intelligence gathering programs back in 2013. The controversial FISA warrants used data gathered by the NSA. No one needs to be told the sordid history of the CIA, an organization that lies as a matter of course and that has been involved in coup after coup, regime change war after regime change war. The CIA needs the FBI because the CIA can’t spy domestically. Snowden showed us how the FBI gathers data domestically and shares it with the CIA.

Going to the Light Is Difficult

Going to the Light is difficult because it means confronting the darkness. Light exposes darkness. Don’t let your knickers get in a twist when some of this info starts coming out. It’s not worse than ever, but better than ever, for the light is beginning to shine powerfully into dark places where the world’s cockroaches are hiding. The worst cockroaches are those who traffic human beings.

Light >> Dark. It’s happening. Some of the unlikeliest players are leading the charge.