State of the Union before US Elections
The US midterm elections will soon be
over. Some will be celebrating, with others passing the crying towel around.
Another group of spinmeisters will then go to work for those who have lost,
claiming Russian interference or whatever they can invent to dodge
responsibility for their own failures.
My goal here is not to make election
predictions, as that is a fruitless game. We live in an age of rigged polls and
corporate journalists taking assignments from paying clients on their political
reporting. And then of course we have social media, one of the biggest election
“interferers” of all.
The winding up of this midterm
election had a new twist with the invasion of instant messages into my phone,
some from Trump himself and even the washed-up Republican religious phony Ralph
Reed invading my in-box. I am told I am powerless to prevent this, a sign of
the times, that we have only the rights that “they” have not decided to take
away from us yet.
I thought a better focus before the
big day next Tuesday would be to reflect on what is happening to Americans as a
people, a country, and the ripple effect that can have on the rest of the
world. Sure, we will have some political changes on November 7th, but might
that be just rearranging the deck chairs on the good ship Titanic that is
sailing on a steady course to disaster?
What difference will the election
make?
If the US House is retaken by the
Democrats, the major impact will be that we are going to see two years of
revenge on Mr. Trump. Whether the House will have the courage to dig into those
behind him is a different matter. The Deep State boys play a group defense and
have a history of discouraging troublemakers via their extensive tool kit.
The chairmanships of the committees
would have senior Democrats in charge, including the investigation ones. They
would focus on tearing Trump down before the 2020 elections by digging deep
into his full dirty closet, and this would include his family.
General Michael Flynn knows he made a
big mistake bringing an underqualified son into his influence pedaling,
get-rich-quick consulting business, where he got indicted right beside his father.
Flynn should have known better. When you are doing doggy business deals, keep
your family far away, and your legal litigation savings account full at all
times.
One of the “winner take all” ploys
the Republican majority inflicted on the Democrats was a rule change where the
ranking committee chairman can issue subpoenas on his sole authority. The
opposition party has no say whatsoever. Democrats are already saying that if
they take the House back, the Republicans will regret making that move with the
Dems now able to use that tool on them.
Jared Kushner will be one of their
main targets as he has been Trump’s secret messenger to arrange deals and
“arrangements”, which no staff witnesses or any paper trail would be left to
reveal. These types of insider dealings have involved Netanyahu and of course
Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince.
News coverage of the Khashoggi case
has only lightly touched on a below-the-surface reason why the US Congress was
so quick to condemn the Saudis. It surprised my old-timer Washington watchers,
as the Saudis have long been known for spreading a lot of cash around
Washington to have friends when needed.
To see both parties criticizing the
Saudis publicly, even using the sanctions word, caught many of us off guard. We
then learned that the so-called $110-billion arms deal was in effect a paper
deal, something for Trump to brag about, but where nothing has been done.
Worse, a deadline had passed on the Saudis beginning one of their biggest
purchases.
Lockheed has spun the delay as still
being in negotiation, stating that it is “the largest order we’ve been waiting
on”, and “has not taken place yet”, and is “not sure when that will take
place.” That is PR talk that there really never was an order.
Veterans Today’s sources tell us the
hang up has been over Lockheed’s THAAD missile system being too expensive and
second rate, compared to the Russian S-400 system. The Pentagon and State
Department have pressured countries not to buy Russian arms which keep its
defense industry running at a higher volume and also help to fund research and
development to maintain its qualitative defense on a much smaller budget than
the 10 to 1 superiority of the West.
The US high-ticket weapons platforms
with their endless performance issues and cost overruns like the F-35s have
given Moscow the opportunity to offer a better and cheaper model. Whose fault
is that?
Where will the Iran sanctions go?
The Big Bad Wolf Iranian oil
sanctions have collapsed before our eyes. It appears that there really was no
excess production capacity to come on stream to prevent a big price hike on oil
and gas. Saudi Arabia claimed it had replaced the Iranian production as a favor
to them, but that turned out to be a bluff.
While the EU has talked a good game
on its commitment to defeat the US sanctions by doing business with Iran, it
could not find a member country willing to physically host its vaunted Special
Purpose Vehicle operation, which would find itself in the cross hairs of the US
Treasury Dept.
Closing Iran’s oil production down to
zero has been exposed for the wild dream it always was, something the Israelis
will be unhappy to see, as they view themselves as future oil and gas exporters
when their offshore wells come on stream, and what they later plan to get out
of the Golan Heights.
Targeted countries, which include
everyone but the US, are working full speed to build financial settlement
workarounds to prevent being colonized by the US financial system, which has
openly been turned into a geopolitical weapon under Trump.
Will there be a WWIII?
Yes. We are already in it. The proxy
terror wars have been going on full bloom for some time, with the UN powerless
to do anything to stop them. Anyone who does not see that the US has launched a
full-scale financial war has been asleep. Read Gordon Duff’s recent NEO, The Wizard War
against humanity, the threat of hidden science.
Corporate media has not dug deeply
into the motivation for the current US offense, even though they only have to
scratch the surface to find it. What did they expect from a US that is over $20
trillion in debt? How does it keep from imploding at some point?
It has to turn the world into the old
Pac Man computer game, where it goes around gobbling everything up to keep the
bubble afloat.
And even worse, the US has already
shown its cards that it will use its military to protect itself financially.
WWII saved Roosevelt, as none of his stimulus work programs had created a
single permanent job.
That is why he and Churchill backed
Japan to the wall in cutting off its oil and scrap metal imports, forcing it
into its preemptive Pearl Harbor strike plan to win a short war. It did not
work out.
Could the world financial system
collapse?
That is a growing concern. Even Baron
Rothschild is worried. As for stock holdings he says, “The cycle is in its 10th
positive year, the longest on record”, adding to that, “potentially
destructive” debt levels in Europe and now the Trump trade wars.
As happened during the last banking
implosion, the US came to the rescue, the only player that could create money
out of nowhere to supply the needed liquidity to run a world where short term
credit is the lifeblood of trade.
Triggering a war usually triggers
emergency financial powers, price controls, rationing, etc. Can you imagine
Trump exercising such power? Baron Rothschild is shaking in his shoes at the
thought of it, and so should we.
What will happen to Trump?
The Robert Mueller FBI investigation
went super quiet prior to the coming elections, following the rules of taking
no action that could influence an election. No one really has a clue as to what
Mueller will do.
We see the Republicans quietly
planning a safety net for themselves in a post-Trump world, just in case,
starting with the grooming of replacement candidates. We are hearing that Nikki
Haley’s job will be to make a primary run and fire up the women who are
bleeding away from the Republican Party due to the long abuse record of Trump.
Trump had only been attending
carefully controlled events which can be safely choreographed in places like
Montana, where the crowd had to be bused in from hundreds of miles away. A lot
of his original base has melted away.
Even yesterday he was cautious in his
remarks on the House remaining Republican, unlike his usual bravado, “when in
doubt, just fake it”.
But he has been campaigning as hard
as he could to keep the Senate, and what the Republicans are openly admitting,
to “minimize” losses in the House. The 43 Republicans retiring created a lot of
open contests for Democrats.
Regardless of what happens next
Tuesday, we are all sailing through dangerous waters, where a number of bad
things could happen to spin a world economy out of control. Since 2000, we have
endured economic downturns twice, and I fear number three is waiting in the
wings.
Jim W. Dean, managing
editor for Veterans Today, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for
the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/11/06/state-of-the-union-before-us-elections/
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