{"id":36417,"date":"2018-08-04T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36417"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:27:00","slug":"light-it-up-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36417","title":{"rendered":"Light It Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>The Guardians of the Galaxy at National Public Radio were beside themselves Wednesday night reporting that \u201cthe lights are blinking red for a 2018 election attack by Russia.\u201d Well, isn\u2019t that an interesting set-up? In effect, NPR is preparing its listeners in advance to reject and dispute the coming midterm election if they\u2019re not happy with the results. Thus continues America\u2019s institutional self-sabotage, with the help of a news media that\u2019s become the errand boy of the Deep State.<\/p>\n

What do I mean by the Deep State? The vested permanent bureaucracy of Washington DC, and especially its vastly overgrown and redundant \u201cIntel Community,\u201d which has achieved critical mass to take on a life of its own within the larger government, makes up its own rules of conduct, not necessarily within the rule of law, and devotes too much of its budget and influence defending its own prerogatives rather than the interests of the nation.<\/p>\n

Personally, I doubt that President Putin of Russia is dumb enough to allow, let alone direct, his intel services to lift a finger \u201cmeddling\u201d in the coming US midterm election, with this American intel behemoth vacuuming every digital electron on earth into the NSA\u2019s bottomless maw of intercepted secrets. Mr. Putin must have also observed by now that the US Intel Community is capable of generating mass public hallucinations, to the beat of war-drums, and determined not to give it anything to work with. That\u2019s my theory about what Russia is up to. If you have a better one, let\u2019s hear it?<\/p>\n

Another curious incident played out on CNN earlier this week when Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations (the Deep State faculty lounge) faced off against Russia historian\/scholar Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton on Anderson Cooper\u2019s prime-time show. \u201cRussia is attacking us right now according to Trump\u2019s own Director of National Security (Daniel Coates)!\u201d Mr. Boot shrilly declared.<\/p>\n

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Light It Up? The Guardians of the Galaxy at National Public Radio were beside themselves Wednesday night reporting that \u201cthe lights are blinking red for a 2018 election attack by Russia.\u201d Well, isn\u2019t that an interesting set-up? In effect, NPR is preparing its listeners in advance to reject and dispute the coming midterm election if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[694,827],"class_list":["post-36417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36418,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36417\/revisions\/36418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}