Trump Update Dec 2017

I've been updating 'Woolsey Watch' and caught The Fear again. Researching this deep state stuff make it real and that gives me shakes sometimes. I need to purge some of this by indulging in pessimism.

I keep thinking of a documentary called 'Tickled' by David Farrier (who must be Louis Theoroux's New Zealand twin).  It's about how the a tickle fetishist gets impoverished teenage boys to be recorded engaging in 'competive (i.e homoerotic bondage) tickling' by waving $$$ in their faces. The driving force is a shadowy, NY trust-fund, 'Internet Tough Guy' who looks like a sickly, shaved pug. The villain would be pathetic except that he is probably a sex predator teacher, he blackmails the teenage boys into continuing to perform, and he is so closeted in his queerness that he viciously attacks every critics as 'childless fags' despite being that himself. His cameraman is a former gay porn director who also denies the tickling fetish videos are in anyway homo-erotic.

A closeted man funding an absurd 'extreme tickling' sport and calling everyone else 'fag' is insane, but it's what happened and there is a trail of ruined lives to prove it. With his parent's trust fund wealth, he has made his twisted, unconscious delusions a living hell reality for everyone else. That's what money does, it allows people to realize their desires. That's what scary about researching the 'neo-conservatives', they are real, they are violently delusional, and they are very wealthy.

Way back in 2003 a journalist and Woolsey were watching a news report on North Korea, Woolsey had just successfully conned 50% of Americans into believing the absurdity that Saddam Hussein assisted 9-11, the reporter asked him if North Korea would be dealt with too.

https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagons-cia-man-iraq/ wrote:
How much longer, I asked him, could this administration wait before dealing with North Korea and its efforts to develop nuclear-weapons material?

A little while, but not too long, he said.

Until after the Iraq war?

Yes, Woolsey said, we can take care of things then. (That was when the prevailing assumption was the war in Iraq would take about as long as a Donald Rumsfeld press conference.)

And, I wondered, is this a challenge that can be taken care of with, say, a well-planned and contained bombing raid, one that strikes the nuclear facilities in question?

“Oh, no, ” he said. “This is going to be war.”

War, full-out war, with a nation that might already have a few nuclear weapons and that does have 600,000 North Korean soldiers stationed 25 miles from Seoul, with 37,000 US troops in between?

“Yes, war.” He didn’t flinch, didn’t bat an eye.

Woolsey wants war in Korea. The disaster in Iraq put a kink those plans, but that may only be a delay, currently that war looks closer than ever. Neither I nor that journalist can really imagine the resumption of the war in Korea, it's absurd to us. Woolsey can see it in his unblinking death stare that hardened as he simulated nuclear strike after nuclear strike on 1960s IBM computers in top secret work for the Pentagon. His stock portfolio is full of hi-tech military contractors so every bomb dropped is more profit for him.  

I have avoided the Russiagate fiasco because it seems reasonable for a president to make deal with other countries and normalizing relations with Russia is the sane move. Yet the FBI/Special Office investigation cannot be ignored because it can be used to blackmail Trump or force his hand. Since Mike Flynn's still mysterious clumsy lying to Mike Pence, this investigation has continued forward and now resulted in Flynn pleading to a minor charge. Supposedly it was potential charges against Flynn's loud-mouth son that forced Flynn to co-operate, who did Flynn sell-out to get such a light charge? The prosecution of Flynn was to flush others out, see how insiders react and who get nervous, or it was to get something on Trump himself. With the conclusion of Flynn's prosecution the next step might be to get Trump on charges of obstructing the Flynn investigation.

And there's Woolsey right in the middle of it. Soon after Flynn resigned, Woolsey piled on by leaking that Flynn had considered kidnapping an anti-Turkey cult leader to send back to Turkish clients. Flynn's lawyers countered that Woolsey had sought the same Turkish contract. Flynn and Woolsey both worked with the Flynn Intel Group, they shared the same platform at neo-con conventions, it may have been Flynn that brought Woolsey over to the Trump campaign.  This summer Woolsey's new wife (remember they went after Flynn's son) came under suspicion for her Congolese lobbying and Woolsey himself was interviewed - at least twice - by the investigation team.  

The weekend before the minor conviction against Flynn was reveled Woolsey was seen having a  “lengthy conversation” with Trump. This is their first reported contact since Woolsey 'quit' being a 'senior adviser' to Trump early in January after he felt he had been "excluded in recent weeks from discussions on intelligence matters with Trump and Flynn" and not given a position in the White House. A month after Woolsey quit, Flynn resigned in disgrace and the investigation began.

The whole prosecution is the Clinton's revenge (just as joining Trump was Woolsey revenge on the Clintons) and it seems to be exploiting a rift between Woolsey and Flynn in their petty neo-con in-fighting over positions in the Trump White House, Woolsey recently claimed that Flynn had offered him his old job as CIA director but he had refused it on moral grounds(!). Little is as it seems when Woolsey's involved.

I get the feeling Trump is a 'burner' - a disposable president who will get the dirty work done while both parties wash their hands. No party wants to be saddled with having openly liquidated the US government to billionaires, neither do they want some crazy war - these things are normally done silently or cloaked in human rights - but times are getting tight and the profit to be had by blunt action is too tempting...

An elderly ego-maniac president surrounded by relatives, generals and neo-cons and boxed in by a corrupt FBI investigation is a dangerously volatile situation.

It is also an exploitable situation. Blackmail is how intelligence operations work.

Far worse is that Woolsey's 'death stare' neo-conservatism has so thoroughly spread throughout Washington since 2003 that Woolsey might not even matter. Is there any actual resistance by Trump to military options - does he even need blackmailing? Doesn't he want to be a war-time president as long as he can blame the generals for any problems. There has been a cultural right-ward lurch among liberals, even some saner ones are saying things like, "We cannot accept a situation in which minor powers like NoKo can be seen to have defeated us in this kind of staring match." The onslaught of sexual moral panics and mass shootings give a whiff of the Roman Colosseum to America at the moment. Everyday the US's 'wars of terror' breed new monsters. War is the great national uniter, the force that gives meaning to our social lives.

War with North Korea is unimaginable but it also seems overdetermined.

On October 5th Trump issued an unprompted, cryptic message after meeting with military officials at the White House, “Maybe it’s the calm before the storm?” he said with a wink, like a showman plugging an up-coming event. Asked what he meant the next day, Trump said, “We can’t let this to go on. We just can‘t,” adding that China has been very helpful in the situation because “they cut off banking to North Korea.” When Woolsey was asked in October 2001 what would happen after the invasion of Afghanistan was done, he replied, "In the American vernacular - you ain't seen nothing yet." These are weak men performing their masculinity though the blunt instrument of the worlds most armed state.

Typing this up feels like shuffling around dark pieces in a shaded box - apocalyptic threats, shadowy prosecutions, winks and unblinking stares - with Woolsey's shining, grinning totenkopf providing the only dim light.

It will be hard to get a real war in North Korea with some sort of 'false flag' attack.

Woolsey's been pushing the EMP armageddon scenario pretty hard since January 2010, so he should consider just shutting down the North American internet for a few days and claim it was a North Korean anti-satellite missile (or actually destroy a satellite or two - it would be even harder to do a crime scene analysis in low-earth orbit than on WTC skyscrapers melted to slag) and as the nation plunges into internet withdrawal, you'll have all the rage you need to justify whatever you want...


Here is a sample of just one of Woolsey's rational, no-nonsense statements that have made him so respected in Washington. Google lists dozens of such nuggets of wisdom.



Ex-CIA Director Warns: North Korea Could Kill 90 Percent of Americans

Woolsey wrote:Even if it were true that North Korea does not yet have nuclear missiles, their “Dear Leader” could deliver an atomic bomb hidden on a freighter sailing under a false flag into a U.S. port, or hire their terrorist allies to fly a nuclear 9/11 suicide mission across the unprotected border with Mexico. In this scenario, populous port cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, or big cities nearest the Mexican border, like San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and Santa Fe, would be most at risk.

According to the Congressional EMP Commission, a single warhead delivered by North Korean satellite could blackout the national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures for over a year—killing 9 of 10 Americans by starvation and societal collapse.

For some actual sanity on the subject here is Popular Mechanics' No, North Korea Can't Kill 90 Percent of Americans where they trace the 90% fatalities claim to a 'The Road'-style post-apocalyptic novel from 2009 where "an alliance between Iran and North Korea was responsible for the attacks, and that the United States attacked Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons in retaliation. The book also describes the increasingly intimate relationship Matherson develops with a single and child-less nurse, Makala Turner, who was stranded by the pulse."

Optimism: This situation is little different from Reagan's bellicose theatrics in the 80s. Woolsey has been shut out of the White House and his bellicose theatrics is not taking hold.

Late March 2018 - So now Pompeo is Sec of State and Bolton is NSA.

War is preordained. The USA is the Evil Empire. Imperialist Capitalism is the cancer killing the planet. The shrillest slogans of the left are factually true, the annuals of history records crime after crime by the Imperial West.

Spent an hour on Twitter, just to watch the last sane 'alt_right'/libertarians finally jump ship on Trump. They did. Now its just #MAGA bottom-feeders and Q_Anon crowd left, who are all heartily endorsing the Bolton to "drain the swamp" while Trump recreates Bush Jr.'s neo-con cabinet by recruiting the very same people.