Wake me up when America is a safe, fair, functional, democracy

Or at least a couple months before that, when the people wake up and revolt. A revolution is like a good library book: way overdue.

1984 in 2017. Twilight Zone in full effect. Night of the Living Dead, up is down. You wander the streets and everything appears normal, but, as you hear people talk, you realize that they are possessed by evil forces, zombies, walking in a corporate, propaganda fog that means they are less than human. Then you find another member of your tribe, a human being.

Here are the major incongruencies between what appear to be obviously true and what you hear from all authorities, including the media, and then hear actual people in your social world repeat the impossible, irrational hype as if it were true. The gap between the truth and what is accepted as the truth by those around us is so vast that the world is a genuinely scary place.

Tech giants are conspiring with the government to control us. The enemy of the American people is not Russia but the American deep state (the nexus of various undemocratic oligarchic forces) obviously.

Facebook, Google and Twitter were called before congress to testify about Russian interference in the 2016 election this week. Apparently, Wikileaks is not the only website to blame for the “election hack” this month.

Meanwhile, Google routinely uses its monopoly position in search to crush competition in areas like maps, reviews, and online sales. Google further is using its search engines to stifle free speech by downgrading anti-corporate media. Freedom of speech is about what you are able to hear as much as what you allowed to say. Crowdstrike, an internet security firm owned by Google. This is the company that outed the Bernie campaign for apparently breaking DNC Minivan rules. This same firm now says there are links between Russia and Wikileaks. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google (Alphabet), promised to help Clinton win in the leaked Podesta emails. The emails between Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook show that Schmidt met with Podesta and was interested in assuming the role of “head outside advisor.”

Amazon collaborates with the CIA to run the Washington Post. With 70 billion dollars in the budget, the CIA can give money to Amazon to buy the Washington Post and pay software developers to let them in.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wanted Hillary Clinton to win “badly”, provided research to her in March 2015 and met privately with her on multiple occasions. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg met many times with the Clinton campaign.

Twitter does not allow RT to advertise and admitted in prepared statement before congress on November 1, 2017 that it hid up to 50% of tweets with the hashtag #DNCleaks, without being able to verify if the tweets were by bots or were genuine tweets. While Amazon, Google, Twitter and Facebook try to limit free speech and competition, what does congress call them to account for? An non-existent Russian “hack” of the 2016 American election.

We have a dangerous state opposed to our interests that is watching us, controlling us, and manipulating our thoughts.

The government is manipulating and infiltrating tech and setting up “contractors” who then work for industry to suppress dissent. Can the CIA murder anyone at any time by turning their own car against them? Michael Hastings was investigating the CIA, then died in a car crash. You can go to jail for reporting the truth in America. Barrett Brown committed the crime of reporting on the nexus of contractors, the military and corporations that suppress dissent. Assange. Snowden. Manning.

Wikileaks Vault 7 is filled with strange and disturbing comments by CIA hackers. Here we read, “Mendicant Engineer — reserved for the next tool delivered during a gov’t shutdown.” Nice to know they are ready for the shutdown. The rest of us? Not so much. Fake-off mode is scary. “Suppress LEDs to improve look of Fake-Off mode… Turn on or leave WiFi turned on in Fake-Off mode… Parse unencrypted audio collection… During initial development, a rough approximation of bit rates for different audio quality settings were made. Quality 1 settings required 100 kB/minutes. Quality 5 settings required 250 kB/minutes. Quality 7 settings required 350 kB/min. Quality 5 seemed to provide very nice results and is usually used.”

The government has dummy companies investing in startups, venture capital, in order to have access to AI and manipulate other technologies from the beginning.

Treason and betrayal are routine. While working with a foreign government is apparently a scandal, being an agent of CitiGroup is normal and accepted.

We have an investigation going on as to whether Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. If this collision occurred, the deal would be, say, that as President Trump would try to end the sanctions imposed under Obama after the Russian occupation of the Crimea. You scratch my back (help me beat Hillary) and I’ll scratch your back (sanctions lifted).

Meanwhile, there is no doubt that Obama made a secret quid pro quo with CitiGroup during the 2008 election: if Wall Street would back his campaign, Obama would be sure to administer the TARP bailout passed under Bush such that CitiBank would make billions of dollars in profits, then cycle a nice kick back to Obama in the form of “speaking fees” after he leaves office.

Every piece of the treason is on the record. 10/2008 Michael Froman’s team at Citigroup vetted Obama’s cabinet; 2009–2011 Obama approves 470 billion in TARP funding for Citibank; 2017 Obama makes 60 million in one year from Wall Street speeches and book contracts for books he isn’t writing. Obvious conspiracy in plain sight.

He’s hanging out on the super yachts of billionaires. He’s dining with rock stars. His daughter got a job in Hollywood. He is trying out new fashions. And he’s made 60 million dollars. He probably did not write “Dreams From My Father” and is getting a big check for doing nothing for his next book, as he is not in fact a good writer. Obama sent his daughter over to Weinstein.

I got no beef with Russia. During Obama’s presidency, life expectancy for White men with no college declined. Life expectancy is one of those statistics that is really deep, showing something profound about being alive. Life expectancy is much higher in northern Europe and Japan than in the US (and pretty good in Cuba, by the way, not to argue for or against the Cuban system). These are statistics that show that politics is important and represent a serious indictment of our system of government. You can’t have declining life expectancy and call your administration a success.

Black households lost 40% of their net worth on average during the early years of Obama’s presidency, never recovered much of that wealth and now, in general, the wealth gap between white and black households increased under Obama. Obama bailed out the bankers, not the homeowners. So, black households lost out disproportionately.

CitiGroup is hurting the American people, not Russia. Trump might have conspired with Russia but Obama definitely conspired with CitiGroup.

The “Russia Hacked the Election Story” is still not only not true, it’s not even vaguely plausible.

With special counsel issuing indictments against Mannford, Gates and the guilty plea of Papadopoulos, some people seem to think that the link between Russia and Trump and the role of Wikileaks and the source of the emails published in 2016 has all be determined. Far from the case. No facts have changed since I wrote this.

Of course Mannford and Gates may have been dirty. No one should really be surprised that Trump and those close to him are corrupt and crooked. If a guy with a badge wants to bring Trump down, a determined investigator should be able to do. The same applies to almost all the politicians in Washington, certainly to Hillary and Bill Clinton.

Let’s think this through a bit.

Many politicians have conspired with foreign governments to influence American elections. Nixon went behind Johnson’s back and encouraged the South Vietnamese not to sign a peace accord prior to the 1968 election. No one has explained why Iran rejected Carter’s offer to trade millions in spare parts and kept the American hostages in captivity until Reagan took office, the same Reagan who was later caught selling arms to these very same Iranians. One source. Looks like a dirty deal and there is no other logical explanation for Iran’s behavior. To guarantee the deal, Iran would have to have kept some kind of evidence of collusion, perhaps a tape of George Bush Sr. made in Paris, or some other clear evidence of Reagan-Bush collusion with Iran to keep the hostages until after the 1980 election.

So, it is not unthinkable that presidential candidates would put their own campaigns above ideas of country and patriotism. Did Trump?

For the sake of argument, let’s say Russia hacked Podesta’s and the DNC’s email. Anyone could have hacked Podesta’s email, but let’s say it was Russia. Russia was all set to pass the emails off to Wikileaks. But then they decided to collude with Trump before passing the emails along. Why? Presumably, to get Trump to commit to removing sanctions when he takes office. Trump couldn’t help publish the emails. His campaign could only promise to scratch Putin’s back.

It is now clear that Trump is worthless to Russia. They have the goods on him. They have no reason to protect him now. Why wouldn’t Russia just drop him, if they can? They could make a deal now to drop Trump into Mueller’s lap in exchange for something else, not an end to sanctions, but something. Would be a good time to cash in that tape or whatever they have the proves a quid pro quo. No sign of that, though.

Meeting with Russian can’t be illegal, since Robert Mueller himself delivered highly enriched uranium right to Russia in person. Digging for dirt on an opponent also isn’t illegal and the Clinton campaign did the same thing, also working with a foreign government. So, to prove a case, Mueller will have to show that Trump promised the Russians’ something in exchange for some kind of promise by Russia to sway the 2016 election. He will have to show that the Russians in fact passed the emails to Wikileaks, or come up with some other kind of “influence.”

The Russian government and Wikileaks would absolutely have concrete evidence as to whether either of these things happened. But Mueller isn’t asking the Russian government or Wikileaks to testify. No one else is likely to have proof. Even if a Russian agent says, “We have Hillary’s email and we will make them public” doesn’t mean that said agent isn’t lying and trying to get a commitment to end sanctions based on inside knowledge of what Wikileaks was already planning to publish.

If the Russians want to have leverage over Trump through a dirty deal, they also seem to have wanted to have leverage over Clinton in the same way. Did they really need the uranium they bribed the Clintons to provide them or did they want to use the evidence of quid pro quo over Clinton’s head should she win?

In any event, lifting Russia sanctions in exchange for help winning the election, if that was the deal, would be no worse than the deal Obama struck in 2008, getting Wall Street money to win an election in exchange for low interest loans, trillions, to Wall Street firms. It’s hard to see how Mueller could ever build a case against the Trump campaign without someone at Wikileaks or a Russian agent, or both, cooperating and admitting that there was a axis of information between those players… when there almost certainly was no axis.

This shit is all fake, you know.

Congress is a not a democratic institution of the people. When one of them appears to be calling a wrong-doer to task in a hearing, that is in fact not what is happening. It’s just a show trial.

Comey or tech CEOs get asked questions be senators. These hearings are designed to give the public a sense of a functioning democracy. Anyone who think the US is a democracy is not paying attention to what John Podesta says in his private emails. Right from the horse’s mouth. Power works the same way in the US as in communist China, only we have a more comprehensive totalitarian system.