Robert Mueller is considered to be a man of integrity, of
impeccable credentials and character. His appointment to investigate Russian
involvement in the 2016 election was lauded by the Establishment political
class, media and a great deal of the public.
And yet the same media is utterly failing to connect his name
to the recent Saudi scandal that's been quietly making the news. It seems the
media would rather this story just went away.
For years some of the families associated with the victims of
9/11 have been dissatisfied with the official investigation. With good reason
they view it as insufficient, truncated and even corrupt.
Many angles of the 9/11 story were not investigated and many
more received only a surface level consideration. The Saudi angle as some would
have it has not been sufficiently considered and as the years have gone by
numerous investigations and inquiries seem to point to Riyadh playing no small
role in the attacks. Many believed this to be the case even in the fall of 2001.
Saudi politics have always been confusing and the relationship
of the extensive royal family with jihadist groups has always been a present danger
but murky and difficult to grasp. On the one hand there's a real antagonism
between the House of Saud and groups like al Qaeda. On the other hand the
Saudis have provided extensive funding for the spread of Wahhabism and they
certainly played no small part in funding some of the Mujahideen groups in 1980's
Afghanistan. Some of these same figures (including but not limited to bin
Laden) would be instrumental in the founding of al Qaeda.
This part of the story isn't all that controversial. Where it
becomes problematic for many is that the US and all too often Israel have been
right there, right alongside Riyadh in backing these various projects. US
intelligence continues to struggle in distancing itself from the founders and
initial characters surrounding the founding of al Qaeda and even some of the
important figures that later affiliated with the Taliban. You can be sure the
media has done all it can to facilitate the re-crafting of the narrative.
The so-called 9/11 families were always suspicious of Riyadh.
It's understandable considering the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi
Arabia. Investigations have shown that Saudi diplomats and intelligence were in
contact with some of these men and even high ranking figures like Ambassador Prince
Bandar were involved in funding them.
The thing is, the connections point not only to the Saudis
but to American intelligence... both the FBI and the CIA. These terrorists were
facilitated. The story of their entry and surveillance is more than a little
remarkable. There were agents that were on to them but they were silenced and
set aside. The scale of the 9/11 cover-up ranges far beyond some Saudi
connections to the hijackers.
Some believe this is all about money, the connections between
the Bush family and the House of Saud. Michael Moore and others have intimated
as much. But that can't be the whole story. That might explain some of the
cover-up, though such an explanation is hardly sufficient.
It does not explain the way in which these men were
facilitated by the FBI in the days leading up to 9/11. The CIA angle is also
worth looking into and is potentially vast and certainly more than a little
suspicious.
Mueller as head of the FBI played a leading role in the
suppression of the 9/11 investigation. If there is a cover-up, as indeed I and
many others believe there to be, then Mueller is one of the chief perpetrators.
Mueller at this point must be reckoned a top figure (or more likely an
actor/agent) within the Deep State. His task vis-à-vis the 9/11 investigation
was to obscure the hijacker's connections to US intelligence and to deflect any
investigation of the Saudi's.
For those that have sought to peel back the layers of
deception surrounding 9/11 and its cover-up, Mueller is undoubtedly reckoned
one of the great villains of the whole affair. To reckon him a man of integrity
is laughable... if such things can be laughed at.
The fact that he was selected to investigate supposed Russian
manipulation of the US election is more than a little interesting. The ironic
part is this... those who question 9/11 are deemed conspiracy theorists. And
yet the whole Putin/Trump/Wikileaks narrative which Mueller will supposedly
uncover is... a conspiracy theory and yet one without merit.
All too often conspiracy theories are rooted in conjecture
and inference based on circumstantial evidence. That they all too often err
does not discount the reality of a conspiracy. It's simply that there are too
many gaps in knowledge or often false assumptions driving the inference.
The Ockham's Razor reductionist method of focusing purely on
so-called brute facts also proves insufficient to postulate unifying theories
and in fact is often hostile to the attempt.
For a conspiracy theory to be plausible the inference has to
make sense in light of the larger context and what can hopefully be described
as overwhelming circumstantial evidence. It's akin to and often is criminal in
nature. There has to be motive and intent. There has to be some benefit in
terms of the outcome. These questions do not guarantee a correct answer or an
accurate interpretation of events but they are at the very least necessary to
employ the inference that is at the heart of all such inquiries and investigations.
The Russian narrative with regard to the 2016 US presidential
election fails this most basic of tests. The motives and outcome of the
supposed conspiracists fails on all fronts. I'm speaking politically at this
point. Profits and dirty business deals (of which there is some evidence) cannot
be entirely divorced from politics, but the motives, means and desired outcome
are often quite different.
There a host of narratives being spun about Trump and the
nature of his administration. Once again I would argue the proper way to
understand these events is in terms of an Establishment internecine battle. The
present political struggle is not about an embattled Establishment at war with
an insurgent rogue power. Rather I view it as a battle of intramural factions
and yet undoubtedly some of those factions view this struggle as existential...
or it is in their tactical interest to cast it thus.
The DNC is in a state of crisis. It has turned to the media,
to Hollywood and entertainment figures and to conspiracy theories to explain
the election. The results of the 2016 election have discredited their narrative
about the United States, what it is and what direction it is heading. Are they
that different from Trump? The answer is a resounding 'no' and while they
grandstand for the cameras in decrying his thuggish buffoonery they have offered
little political resistance to his agenda.
Hillary Clinton is trying to salvage her legacy. Her defeat
in 2016 discredited her life-narrative and historical legacy. She was to go
down in history as the great pioneer in modern American politics. Obama stole
some of her thunder. Her subsequent defeat at the hands of Donald Trump has
completely discredited her. Corrupt, plastic and probably self-deceived she has
turned in desperation to a grand conspiracy theory in order to justify her
loss. As she sees it, she is not a defeated politician but the victim of a
crime. It would seem that in her distorted mind she is only one tier below the
assassinated Kennedy brothers. Hers is a great administration stolen, a tragic
'what if' that will haunt American political history.
But it's all nonsense of course as are the often contrived
Kennedy narratives. The two slain brothers are intriguing figures to be sure,
complicated and yet hardly the virtuous paragons they are often made out to be.
They represented possibility and yet the change in their character came too
late.
Clinton has also changed and shifted in her outlook but in
quite the opposite direction. She is not the 'liberal' woman many took her to
be in the 1990s. And yet she has only grown more deeply entrenched and tied to
the US Establishment. She ranks high on the list of corrupt politicians and she
utterly lacks the charm and personal connection that many colourful political
figures have possessed. She can't even compete with her husband. Odious to be
sure he is nevertheless a masterful politician.
The dirty secret of modern democracy is that it has little to
do with objective consideration of issues. Some people vote for tribal factions
and some vote on the basis of personality. The latter are the folks who are
most easily manipulated by the Madison Avenue types and the camera-work of
television producers and directors.
The Democrats who were once perceived to have stood for the
working class have been exposed. Generations of betrayal and the breaking of
the trade unions have destroyed that old base that helped put them into office
for several decades. They still command a great deal of the minority vote but
their grip is not as solid as it once was and social disintegration has led to
a great deal of apathy. Figures like Hillary Clinton are not capable of stirring
the disengaged masses to participation.
The truth is that Hillary Clinton has long been hated by a
huge section of the electorate. The DNC has lost vast portions of its base. The
Democrats have embraced sexual perversion and identity politics and yet have
done so while moving to the Right in terms of economics and militarism. The
Left is beginning to peel off and the Right has moved even farther to the Right
leaving no Centrists or working class sector who would still vote democratic or
possible consider swinging that direction in a tight contest. We are left with
two Right-wing parties...a Centre-Right
and a Far Right.
The US Establishment has been concerned with the direction
the Far Right has headed. It has clearly taken the government into a position
of being unable to govern. It is generating too much chaos and
dysfunctionality. In 2016 the bulk of the US Establishment was invested in the
DNC and Hillary Clinton. Please understand the bulk of the Establishment is
really above the political factions. Much of that is just theatre for the
masses. The pseudo-political war between the Red and the Blue also spawns vast
sums of money and creates occasions to generate and launder even more.
The Clinton defeat created a crisis because it signalled that
many assumptions that have dominated for more than a generation have collapsed.
The Trump victory signalled not just a crisis for the 2016-2020 political
cycle, but a looming threat of social unrest. The Establishment fears the
masses and if the working class starts to unite they are in trouble. Seeds of
distrust and fear must be sown. Identity politics divides the populist street.
Discrediting Trump will not only hinder his agenda and ability to be effective
but it will keep the street divided. People will focus on events like
Charlottesville and Trump's foolish comments rather than the real issues that
place this society, even this civilisation in danger.
The Establishment is banking on the fact that the generals
can restrain him from disastrous war. Mueller's task will be to expose enough
of the obvious corruption within his family and organisation to leave him
paralysed. Mueller is the Establishment's Sword of Damocles, an ever present
threat.
Like Kenneth Starr, he will continue to dig and gather dirt,
whether related or not. With Trump the pile of refuse will be all but endless
and he will likely generate as many problems in trying to cover up his deeds as
the actual acts and problems themselves.
Mueller's placement remains an ongoing threat to Trump... and
yet it's one that may not work as Trump seems all too often divorced from
reality. Obstruction of justice is as likely to bring him down as anything
else. His own hubris and attempts to cover his tracks will further destroy what
little integrity he has left. Eventually someone like Mueller will be able to
issue a report and say almost whatever he wants. The political class will
believe it, because they want to.
If they can restrain him... good. If he self-destructs...
that's okay too.
If he wages war that's also a fine thing. No one in ruling
circles has a problem with US militarism. What they don't like it was it's done
unilaterally and without utilising the proper mechanisms that proved
plausibility, cover and a right narrative. I am certain there are some that are
very concerned about what's happening with regard to North Korea and rightly so.
They are not opposed to war but how it is being set up and prosecuted.
In the meantime the Establishment will continue to spin out
the narrative that the country was undermined by dark foreign influences. A new
Cold War, a new age of McCarthyism is upon us. Censorship, often voluntary has
returned with a vengeance. The corrupt moguls who dominate the media and the
neo-media centers of Silicon Valley are part of this re-tooling of American
society. Even the Trump interlude is being used to re-shape the Internet and to
bolster the surveillance state. It's not that hard when millions are apparently
more than willing to not only to reject any notions of privacy but are eager to
give up their biometric data to the realm of cyberspace and its corrupt and
incompetent guardians.
Mueller is no man of integrity. He is a shill for the powers that
be. His evident lack of virtue and honesty has no power to render judgment as
to what Trump is or is not. These are all evil people. Some seem to be fooled
into thinking that there are some 'good' folks who make it into these positions
of power.
Mueller will investigate Manafort who is obviously a corrupt
businessman if not something else. He actually looks more like a CIA connected
figure to me. His history and placement within the Trump campaign raises some
very interesting questions... as does the timing of his departure.
Yet thus far the evidence surrounding Manafort seems to
actually exonerate Trump and his campaign, a point the media seems unwilling to
acknowledge. Did Trump's people go after dirt on the Clinton's? Of course they
did and so did the Clinton's. Are they tied in with corrupt business people in
Ukraine and Russia? Yes. So are the Clinton's. Are these people tied in with
the political powers within Ukraine and Russia? Of course.
But once again the notion that the Putin collaborated with
Trump and Assange and that it was these leaks and some ads taken out on social
media that somehow stole the election and led to Clinton's loss... is absurd.
The evidence is not there and thus far the policies of the Trump administration
do not support this. If this were the case then Putin must be seething. It's a
betrayal on the order of the Kennedy double-cross of Sam Giancana and the
mafia. But I doubt anyone wants to revisit that chapter of history.
In a way Mueller's position is both interesting and ironic.
All the events of the present, the discussions about leaks, media, wars,
politics, Russia etc.... all rest on the foundation created by 9/11.
And so now the investigator of corruption is one of the
guardians who continues to protect that fortress of lies upon which the new
order has been built. For if 9/11 were to come undone the Orwellian regime wed
to the War on Terror narrative would collapse.
It is therefore appropriate that Mueller continues in his
role as guardian and the media will do all it can to make him out as a man of
integrity.
When in reality he is already known as one who is utterly
lacking character, an obstructor and facilitator of mass murder. He can claim
no moral superiority vis-à-vis someone like Trump...and you can be sure Trump
knows it.
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