There are about 17 US intelligence agencies. Some are enormous. The senior executive ranks are divided into a complex web of mafias competing for influence. Some sponsor Left causes, others Right, not from conviction, but convenience. The motivations of the mafias are constant: agrandisement, in both power and resources. Some of these mafias are loyal to the system, others purely mercenary. The political agendas at the top are concealed from politicians and subordinates and they have zero loyalty towards those they use. As a rule, the mafias undermine one another all the time, but they will unite to protect the intel community and they mostly keep each others secrets.
The real oligarchs are the 1,000 plus billionaires. The people at the top of the Deep State are desperate to join this strata. The agendas (foreign and domestic) are all about making that happen.
This is an accurate description of the national security state.
In "Harlot's Ghost" Norman Mailer wrote the first half of what was supposed to be the "War and Peace" of the Cold War. Even if you already knew about the evil shenanigans of the CIA etc. Mailer brings to life the insanity required at the individual level to be a part of it all.
Yes, there are definitely factions. How could there not be with $5 trillion sloshing around inside some of the worst accounting systems ever devised, with the most incurious workforce imaginable who choose to be oblivious to protect their sweet defined-benefit pensions, with information classified in perpetuity, with organizations siloed so the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, with most of the real secrets placed in special access programs run by corporate “partners”?
Add to that the secret competing agendas of your 1000 billionaires, the intra-imperial competitions between the five eyes intelligence agencies, the penetration of all US intelligence agencies by Israel (and others), and the absolute control of all politicos through blackmail programs (of which Jeffrey Epstein’s was just the tip of the iceberg). And add into that the power of the central banks, the World Bank, the IMF, the secret societies like the Bilderbergers, the WEF, all those webs of public-private NGOs that are de facto extensions of the deep state, and, yeah, factions.
But how is it that all those rabid cats get more or less herded together by a single dominant narrative? What or who manages that vast rabble into a kind of coherent totalitarian unified program of coordinated international actions? Is there an ultimate puppet master, or an eye in the Pyramid? If so, who (or what) the hell is it? Because if we really want to change things, we have to clearly identify the head of the snake. So, who is The Boss?
There is no boss of bosses, no capo di capi tutti. The Bond villains (Murdoch, Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, Schwab, Musk) are flak catchers and fully expendable should the powers that be ever need any one of them gone. Coordination is instinctive and informal, like a flock of birds forming around whatever temporary leader sends the right signals. There is no narrative beyond power and money. The agenda re global integration is negotiable. So long as things between Washington and Moscow do not get out of hand (always a possibility) arrangements can be made.
There are about 17 US intelligence agencies. Some are enormous. The senior executive ranks are divided into a complex web of mafias competing for influence. Some sponsor Left causes, others Right, not from conviction, but convenience. The motivations of the mafias are constant: agrandisement, in both power and resources. Some of these mafias are loyal to the system, others purely mercenary. The political agendas at the top are concealed from politicians and subordinates and they have zero loyalty towards those they use. As a rule, the mafias undermine one another all the time, but they will unite to protect the intel community and they mostly keep each others secrets.
The real oligarchs are the 1,000 plus billionaires. The people at the top of the Deep State are desperate to join this strata. The agendas (foreign and domestic) are all about making that happen.
This is an accurate description of the national security state.
In "Harlot's Ghost" Norman Mailer wrote the first half of what was supposed to be the "War and Peace" of the Cold War. Even if you already knew about the evil shenanigans of the CIA etc. Mailer brings to life the insanity required at the individual level to be a part of it all.
Yes, there are definitely factions. How could there not be with $5 trillion sloshing around inside some of the worst accounting systems ever devised, with the most incurious workforce imaginable who choose to be oblivious to protect their sweet defined-benefit pensions, with information classified in perpetuity, with organizations siloed so the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, with most of the real secrets placed in special access programs run by corporate “partners”?
Add to that the secret competing agendas of your 1000 billionaires, the intra-imperial competitions between the five eyes intelligence agencies, the penetration of all US intelligence agencies by Israel (and others), and the absolute control of all politicos through blackmail programs (of which Jeffrey Epstein’s was just the tip of the iceberg). And add into that the power of the central banks, the World Bank, the IMF, the secret societies like the Bilderbergers, the WEF, all those webs of public-private NGOs that are de facto extensions of the deep state, and, yeah, factions.
But how is it that all those rabid cats get more or less herded together by a single dominant narrative? What or who manages that vast rabble into a kind of coherent totalitarian unified program of coordinated international actions? Is there an ultimate puppet master, or an eye in the Pyramid? If so, who (or what) the hell is it? Because if we really want to change things, we have to clearly identify the head of the snake. So, who is The Boss?
There is no boss of bosses, no capo di capi tutti. The Bond villains (Murdoch, Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, Schwab, Musk) are flak catchers and fully expendable should the powers that be ever need any one of them gone. Coordination is instinctive and informal, like a flock of birds forming around whatever temporary leader sends the right signals. There is no narrative beyond power and money. The agenda re global integration is negotiable. So long as things between Washington and Moscow do not get out of hand (always a possibility) arrangements can be made.