The chiefs of America’s intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said.
The summary is based on memos generated by political operatives seeking to derail Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Details of the reports began circulating in the fall and were widely known among journalists and politicians in Washington.
The summary was presented as an annex to the intelligence agencies’ report on the Russian hacking of the election, the officials said. The material was not corroborated, and The New York Times has not been able to confirm the claims. But intelligence agencies considered it so potentially explosive that they decided Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders needed to be told about it and that the agencies were actively investigating it.
This is part of the Neocon drive to war Zerohedge spoke of:
First, we need to understand the motivation of those driving us in this disastrous direction. Their primary motivation is pretty simple, a desire to retain power and status. They can see the writing on the wall when it comes to the disintegration of status quo authority and credibility, and they fundamentally understand the need to focus on an outside enemy in order to distract attention away from internal failures. Second, we need to understand where we are in the war-creating process. We must acknowledge that very powerful interests have already decided they want this war. To them, this isn’t about weighing facts and being reasonable, they’ve already made up their minds. As such, we are currently in the sales process.
Right at this very moment, we are being sold on this war by the media, politicians, intelligence agencies, as well as various other vested interests who benefit from imperial dominance abroad (unlike the vast majority of us who are severely harmed by it). When you understand that this is simply a huge sales pitch to herd the American public like sheep into a conflict that
Things are turning K, and the r-strategists in both the democrat and republican parties realize they need to focus that K-selected urge to out-group and destroy on some outside group of K-strategists. I suspect they chose Russia because they know if they can just gather up all of America’s K-strategists and send them into war with the Russians, their little K-selection problem at home will become markedly less than if they chose some lesser enemy like the Muslims.
I also suspect they have realized that they will not force Trump into war themselves through bullying, so they are hoping to create an external framework of perceptions in the nation, where every time Trump aligns with Russia they can say it is because he is compromised/bribed/corrupted, etc. Their hope is this will frighten Trump into being hostile to Russia to prove to the masses that he isn’t those things, and they can then cause that incident to spiral out of control.
Fortunately, only a rabbit is afraid of out-grouping.
But it signals the perilous times that are approaching. The rabbits do not just want to let a little spate of apocalypse trigger some random K-selection that might cull the rabbits. They intend to try and exploit it to clean out a goodly swath of K-strategists, and probably make a little profit in the interim.
Help spread r/K Theory, because the rabbits intend to kill the K-strategists
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And this is just blowing up in their face. People already were having trouble believing it, but the report that reads more like erotica than an intelligence report and the evidence that it might be a big troll by 4chan have blunted the attempt to pin this on Russia.
If they wanted to start a war, China or Cuba would have been better target. The danger comes once they realize they won’t be able to provoke the nation into war because nobody believes them anymore. Will they stage a false-flag attack? Will they assassinate Trump and Pence and then go to war? Once they realize how impotent their manipulation attempts are, the more rabid they will get. Surveillence and blackmail will work on targeted people, but when you lose influence over the populace you have to go into major oppression to keep control.
It is true, it feels like something is coming. Entities are most dangerous when they are at risk of losing everything. And the deep state does seem close to losing everything.
The complacency I see from many rightists is also concerning. Since Trump won, there’s a sense that the danger of WWIII is abated. I don’t think so at all.
Great analysis as always, AC.
Thanks!
Apparently Drudge says McCain had a hand in this, I suspected as much seeing how Fox was pushing his daughter for the past week.
Trump flat out destroyed Buzzfeed and CNN in the press conference. “No, you don’t get a question. You’re fake news.”
I loved how after that be said, “I’m not giving you a question!” in a tone like he was talking to a little child. How humiliating.
OH man, this report is EVEN BETTER than what you think. It is actually a hoax by 4chan meant to discredit the CIA, CNN, and Rick Wilson. It is GOLD.
Amazing times. Just amazing.
The neocons, Deep State, and John McCains of this world are playing with fire. They are going to find themselves knee-deep in blood, most of it their own.,
It is shocking how bad they want that war with Russia.