The Q Phenomenon: Reason for Optimism?

 

Available free as a Word document at https://www.martingeddes.com/open-your-mind-to-change/

Open Your Minds to Change: A Guide to the Great Awakening

By Martin Geddes (December 2020)

Book Review

British computer scientist and artist Martin Geddes self-published this little book in December 2020. It’s a collection of essays he wrote between 2017 and 2020 about the “Q phenomenon,” which he describes as  “a backchannel from the Trump administration to the public to bypass a corrupt and controlled media industry.”*

• Essay 1 “Why I’m Optimistic About the Future.” First published October 2017.

Concerns the pivotal role played by sociopaths throughout history and how they exert their control over society. Essay 2 “The Great Awakening.” First published in May 2018.

Describes role of debt-based money system in current global corruption. Specifically details 1) how private banks control the monetary system by creating 98% of our money out of thin air when they issue loans and 2) how central banks have the additional power to initiate collapses through credit starvation, wars (by funding both sides), and “a parallel system of political bribery, blackmail and corruption.” Geddes believes current Breton-Woods banking system is being gradually replaced by a gold-backed petroyuan system.

• Essay 3 “The Storm: How to Prepare for a Global Corruption Purge.” First published August 2019

Identifies historical and emerging corruption scandals. According to Geddes, international trade (aka globalization) has always been linked to intelligence gathering and narcotrafficking. He makes the controversial claim (which I question) that the Trump government was a de facto military government. Here he asserts the “Q” program of using open–source [military] intelligence to bypass the compromised mass media is evidence that this is a de facto military government with a civilian varnish.”* I also dispute his claim, “Once civilian institutions are vastly compromised, the only remaining way of peacefully reversing these changes is via the military.” In my experience, once you allow a military junta to assume control of government, there is no nonviolent way to remove them from power.

• Essay 4 “Crossing the Schism.” First published October 2019.

Describes the artificial chasm that has been opened up between those who are aware of the immense corruption of the corporate-controlled state and those who continue to buy into the illusion of authority of the mass media.

• Essay 5 “Dark and Light: The Revolution Inside.” First published November 2019.

Challenges current emphasis on dogmatic scientific materialism and emphasizes  importance of spiritual and intuitive knowledge in addressing near-universal childhood trauma.

• Essay 6 “The Silent War and Digital Soldiers.” Published in November 2019.

Discusses the painful awakening the general population to the silent horror occurring all around them (eg millions of children disappearing into human trafficking networks; billions of people poisoned by their food, environment and medicines; everyone ripped off by a banking system founded upon debt slavery, asset bubbles and warmongering) while they are busy being distracted by the corporate infotainment.

• Essay 7 “Death of a Supermafia.” First published March 2020

Geddes asserts we are in the final throws of a war against a supermafia (aka the “Deep State”) that has plagued humanity for longer than we have records. He believes all the recent scandals that have been exposed are cause to be optimistic.

• Essay 8 “Coronagate: The Scandal to End all Scandals.” First published May 2020

Mainly focuses on extreme corruption of Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates in suppressing effective treatments for Covid to maximize their personal investment in vaccines.

• Essay 9 “The Wars of Perception of Heaven and Hell” First published August 2020

Concerns the general subversion of facts to dogma in the mainstream media and how this came about.

• Essay 10 “The Digital Coup.” First published November 27, 2020

Lays out evidence of election fraud in November 2020 election.

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*According to Wikipedia: “QAnon is a political conspiracy theory that later evolved into a political movement. It originated in the American far-right political sphere. QAnon centers on false claims made by an anonymous individual or individuals known as ‘Q’… The Q persona is that of a well-connected individual with access to highly sensitive government information, who put themself at risk by dispensing their knowledge to 4chan, then 8chan/8kun users.” In a prior book (On Q/), Geddes asserts QAnon is a product of US military intelligence  and played a major role in helping Trump get elected. While othersQ who have researched QAnon accept the premise that it originates with US military intelligence, there is active debate whether its true purpose is to mislead the public or to work to dismantle the Deep State. Geddes addresses this controversy in a recent interview with journalist Mark Devlin https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/13-concerns-about-the-great-awakening/

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Just to let people know I’m moving to Substack and Telegram after several readers informed me I’ve been censored from WordPress Reader feed. The link to my Substack account is https://stuartbramhall.substack.com/. The link to my Telegram channel is https://t.me/themostrevolutionaryact I’ll continue to publish on WordPress as long as I’m able, but if my blog suddenly disappears you’ll know where to find me.

 

Shadow Government: Neither Secret Nor Invisible

National Security and Double Government

by Michael J Glennon (2014)

Available as free PDF: http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf

National Security and Double Government is a lengthy article about the highly visible national security bureaucracy that presently runs the US government. The author, Michael J Glennon, is Professor of International Law at the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Glennon disputes the claim by conspiracy theorists that a secret shadow government is attempting to overthrow constitutional democracy. In his view, the deep state is simply a vast, self-serving bureaucracy of technocrats – forty-six (as of 2011) federal departments and agencies engaged in intelligence gathering and analysis, military aggression, cyber operations and weapons development.

Glennon’s description of how the deep state operates, which strikes me as depressingly accurate, shatters any lingering illusions about reforming the US government. It can only be dismantled.

In essence, the real work of the US government is controlled by several hundred officials who run the national security bureaucracy. Removed from public view and the constitutional restrictions that restrain the President, Congress and the judiciary, they make most of the key decisions concerning foreign policy and national security. Although their budget is classified, Glennon estimates it engages millions of employees at an annual cost of $1 trillion.

The “Trumanite” Arm of Government

Glennon calls them the “Trumanite” arm of government because President Harry S Truman created the US national security apparatus. Under Truman, Congress enacted the National Security Act of 1947, which unified the military under a new Secretary of Defense, set up the CIA, created the modern Joint Chiefs of Staff, and established the National Security Council (“NSC”). Truman also set up the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor  communications abroad. Truman’s vision was to create a civilian infrastructure strong enough to address the Soviet threat and rein in an errant military.

Both the Trumanite arm and the constitutional arm work really hard to maintain the fiction that the President is commander-in-chief. The reality is that the president only has the power to appoint 3,000-4,000 of the millions of federal employees nominally under his control. This means the Trumanite bureaucracy continues to operate pretty much under its own steam no matter which party is in office.

As Glennon describes it,

“President Obama could give an order wholly reversing U.S. national security policy, but he would not, because the likely adverse consequences would be prohibitive. Put differently, the question whether the President could institute a complete about-face supposes a top-down policy-making model. The illusion that presidents issue orders and that subordinates simply carry them out is nurtured in the public imagination by media reports of ‘Obama’s’ policies or decisions or initiatives, by the President’s own frequent references to “my” directives or personnel . . . But true top-down decisions that order fundamental policy shifts are rare.

The reality is that when the President issues an “order” to the Trumanites, the Trumanites themselves normally formulate the order. The Trumanites cannot be thought of as men who are merely doing their duty. They are the ones who determine their duty, as well as the duties of those beneath them. They are not merely following orders: they give the orders. They do that by ‘entangling’ the President… To avoid looking like a bystander or mere commentator, the President embraces these Trumanite policies, as does Congress, with the pretense that they are their own.’

Obama Forced to Agree to Drone Policy

As an example, Glennon quotes Vali Nasr’s* description of how the national security network strong armed Obama into expanding his drone policy:

When it came to drones there were four formidable unanimous voices in the Situation Room: the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Pentagon, and the White House’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, also strongly supported an increase in drone strikes. All five also suppressed any debate in national security meetings of the broader implications of this policy.

According to Nassr, it was the classic Henry Kissinger model: “You have three options, two of which are ridiculous, so you accept the one in the middle.”

Obama openly complained about the Trumanites only given him one option: “The military was “really cooking the thing in the direction that they wanted. They are not going to give me a choice.”

Obama Also Opposed Increasing Troop Levels in Afghanistan

Obama’s 2009 proposal to lower the military’s proposed troop levels in Afghanistan ran into the same unified opposition. According to Glennon, the Commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces (“ISAF”) in Afghanistan (General Stanley McChrystal), the Commander of U.S. Central Command (General David Petraeus), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Admiral Michael Mullen), and even Secretary of Defense Gates all threatened to resign over it.

As Glennon observes,

“No president has reserves deep enough to support a frontal assault on the National Security network. Under the best of circumstances, he can only attack its policies one by one, in flanking actions, and even then with no certainty of victory. Like other presidents in similar situations, Obama thus had little choice but to accede to the Pentagon’s longstanding requests for more troops” in Afghanistan.”

Clinton’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Fiasco

He reminds us of the uproar in the military and Congress when President Bill Clinton moved to end only one national security policy shortly after taking office—the ban on gays in the military. Forced to backtrack, Clinton ultimately enacted his “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Glennon goes on to explore similar paralysis the President and Congress are experiencing in attempting to curtail spying by the NSA.

The final section of the article reviews possible options for reform and concludes the national security bureaucracy is too powerful (and has too much control over the media) to be reformed by constitutional means. Glennon believes that the only option for change is a bottom-up mobilization by the American people.

*Vali Nasr is dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. David E Sanger quotes him in Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Secret Use of American Power.

The CIA Role in Narcotics Trafficking

 

Part 2 of Counter-intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations

“Deep state” is Part 2 of a five part documentary by Scott Noble called Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations. Historian and former diplomat Peter Dale Scott coined the term Deep State to describe the shadow government that operates outside our so-called democratic institutions to service the needs of America’s wealthy elite.

This episode focuses on close historical links between the Mafia and CIA and the role of narcotics trafficking in all major CIA covert operations. CIA drug trafficking serves two main purposes. In addition to providing off the books (not reportable to Congress) income for clandestine operations, it’s also a source of ready-made criminal networks. The latter are valuable as a conduits for weapons delivery to CIA mercenaries and as lethal enforcers of corporate interests against labor and human rights activists.

Scott, who is interviewed at length, stresses the instrumental role of the CIA in ALL global narcotics trafficking. The converse is also true. Citing the French Connection (centered in Marseilles) and the Golden Triangle (in Southeast Asia) as prime examples, he makes the case that all major narcotics hubs collapse following CIA withdrawal from the region.

“Deep State” also shines a light on current drug operations in Afghanistan and Columbia. At present Afghanistan is the world’s leading heroin producer,  a direct result of CIA involvement in the region. Colombia, in turn is the world’s largest purveyor of cocaine, thanks to the CIA decision to use Colombia to “block the spread” of communism from Cuba to the rest of Latin America.

According to filmmaker Scott Noble,  all major Wall Street banks have engaged in laundering profits from illicit narcotics. Illegal drugs are America’s third biggest commodity, with the wealthy elite siphoning off the vast majority of drug profits. They also rake in immense profits from the prison industrial complex, a growth industry that owes its existence to the so-called War on Drugs. Wells Fargo and other Wall Street banks are major investors in the prison privatization industry.

Counter-intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations

Scott Noble
Metanoia Films (2013)

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Also posted at Veterans Today