{"id":106681,"date":"2018-10-25T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=106681"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:23:06","slug":"the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=106681","title":{"rendered":"The Swamp Need A Super Big Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE SWAMP \u2013 I\u2019M JUST SAYIN\u2019 \u2026 WE\u2019RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER DRAIN<\/h1>\n

By Norman Ball \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Like most extended metaphors,\u00a0draining the swamp<\/em>\u00a0works until it doesn\u2019t. A swamp is an anomalous patch of geography whose\u00a0swampiness<\/em>\u00a0can only be drained and dissipated provided there\u2019s a preponderance of surrounding dry land to absorb the muck. Straining an already-swamped metaphor, what happens when the swamp\u00a0becomes<\/em>\u00a0the preponderance?<\/p>\n

In fact, when the scale of displacement approximates the Seven Seas (or as we\u2019ll see, the Five Eyes) swamp-draining requires a whole \u2018nother planet\u2019s worth of real estate. Then there\u2019s the real Sysyphian kicker: if you\u2019ve gotta move everything then you might as well leave everything alone.<\/p>\n

Relax, we\u2019ve got the outside covered. How? We brought it inside.<\/p>\n

With the swamp closing in, our sympathies renew for Mia Farrow\u2019s claustrophobic predicament in the final scene of\u00a0Rosemary\u2019s Baby.<\/em>\u00a0If everyone\u2019s in the coven, then Evil ceases to be an aberrant condition, graduating to ubiquitous atmosphere. Good becomes a mythic outpost. After all the universe can\u2019t be a wall-to-wall pejorative.<\/p>\n

One day looking back, we might wonder, did evil ever really exist or was it always just a fragmentary bad dream before they drew the 5G curtain around us? The present pens the past. Authentic retrospectives pose a diminishing threat. In time, Winston Smith makes peace with Big Brother.<\/p>\n

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For the moment there are still pockets of fear and loathing held up by faith. We right-wing conspiracy aficionados were right. There was in fact a tightly coordinated, multi-departmental Deep State effort aimed at denying Donald Trump the White House. Moreover Trump Russia collusion was concocted to substantiate this effort. Slowly the mainstream is getting its arms around the stunning magnitude of these Big Lies.<\/p>\n

This has been a dominant theme of thought-leader\u00a0The Conservative Treehouse<\/a>\u00a0for over two years. In their own words:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can call it a soft-coup, or you can call it politicization of the DOJ and FBI, but the end result is the same \u2013 [there was an] intentional effort to manipulate, influence, and ultimately subvert an election for the Presidency of the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

An intentional effort, to be sure. But an\u00a0international<\/em>\u00a0effort no less.\u00a0The coven is growing. The coven is the swamp with its eyes on the world.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s every reason to suspect The\u00a0Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence consortium (since morphed to at least fourteen cooperating Eyes) played a commanding, if not an initiatory, role in the attempted coup. At the least, a number of Russian collusion players have relationships with FVEY affiliates: Stefan Halper (CIA, MI6), Joe Mifsud (MI6), Christopher Steele (MI6), Alexander Downer (ASIS, MI6), Robert Hannigan (GCHQ).<\/p>\n

Some will ask what FVEY is. Here\u2019s\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u201cFive Eyes\u201d (FVEY) refers to an alliance comprising\u00a0Australia,\u00a0Canada,\u00a0New Zealand, the\u00a0United Kingdom\u00a0and the\u00a0United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral\u00a0UKUSA Agreement\u00a0for joint cooperation in\u00a0signals intelligence,\u00a0military intelligence, and\u00a0human intelligence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

FVEY\u2019s key threat of course is that it opens up the possibility of neatly circumventing the domestic spying prohibitions imposed by statute on all national intelligence agencies. Under FVEY, New Zealand spies for Canada, The UK spies for the US, etc. Add enough Eyes and you\u2019ve got the outside covered.<\/p>\n

This nightmare of seamlessness plays havoc with the received notions of divisible sovereignty and actionable national borders. It\u2019s all the same battle. The geographic is the conceptual draped in maps and cartographers\u2019 once-solid lines. Where\u2019d the outside go? Or has Peter Sutherland\u2019s \u2018absolute illusion\u2019 finally retired to a\u00a0tired old shibboleth near you<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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In their essay\u00a0\u2018Unmasking the Five Eyes\u2019 Global Surveillance Practices\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Privacy International\u2019s\u00a0Carly Nyst and Anna Crowe\u00a0offer up a chilling synopsis. An excerpt appears below. Notice the heavy emphasis on\u00a0cooperation<\/em>,\u00a0indistinguishability<\/em>,\u00a0joint collection<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0overlapping staff.\u00a0<\/em>The seamless canopy is closing in overhead. Where\u2019s the sky for the clouds? If Australia looks, for all the world, like Canada, then world-citizenry has become our lot by default. Relax comrade, no one sent me a referendum ballot either.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s on the outside-coming-in with all the loneliness (and stamina) of a long-distance runner.\u00a0Sensing his outsider-disdain, even the usual knee-jerk jerks, the Swamp creatures, are obliged to disdain him right back. In fact his presence is so disruptive and unsettling, no one can resume the traditional bad-kabuki with any conviction. He unleashes waves of self-consciousness.\u00a0Kayfabe<\/a>\u00a0is broken. Prior to Trump, politics was a sleepwalk. Everybody knew what to do.<\/p>\n