We seem to live in a strange age where politics relies more than ever on the big lie technique, even as social media makes the exposure of such lies inevitable.
Plaque on the back of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet Room chair, Oct. 19, 2021. (White House, Adam Schultz)
By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
There is an argument for continuing the convention of referring to the president of the United States as the most powerful person in the world. The dollar has not quite yet been replaced as the world’s international reserve currency and Bretton Woods still, creaking and cracking, holds.
China is now the manufacturer of the world and its brands are no longer laughable worldwide. The United States has just sustained massive damage to its soft power from its support for Gaza genocide.
But China still plays the long game, relying on trade, investment and loans to increase its economic reach. It does not depend on military force or covert regime change to secure access to economic resources.
The more direct American methods work in the short term. Israel is benefiting from the Arab regimes of the Gulf — Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia — all being dependent on U.S. military and security service support to protect them from their own populations.
The U.S. is still prepared to project direct military power and fight wars overseas to maintain its influence. China now has greater military capability than the U.S., but sees no advantage in using it.
As China Waits
Train station in Shangqiu, China, 2022. (Windmemories, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Chinese leaders look with disdain at the crazed and sustained violence of the NATO states this last quarter century, and see the West losing, not gaining, global influence. That China is steadily gaining such influence, nobody seeks to deny.
But the U.S. has succeeded, by defying international law, in physically enabling the genocide in Gaza. They will in the next week install a puppet government in Venezuela and quickly move to strip that country’s vast oil wealth into the hands of the U.S. oil giants.
Short-term American crudity can succeed a little while longer, as the Chinese watch their trillions of dollar reserves build, and bide their time. So for now I think we can still go along with the cliché that the U.S. president is the most powerful man in the world.
Except obviously he isn’t. The fact that Joe Biden wakes up in the morning and has to be reminded to remove his pajamas is no longer hidden. That Biden’s mental faculties declined past normal operation some time ago has been extremely obvious, yet denied by the media and the political establishment even when it was obvious to everybody.
There is a parallel to F. D. Roosevelt. The myth is not true that his paralysis was hidden from the American public, though it was minimised in PR output. But what is certainly true is that when he stood for re-election for his fourth term in 1944, his extremely poor health, including heart failure, was hidden and directly lied about. He died after five months in office.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan aboard Air Force One with Biden on March 13, 2023, en route to North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego. (White House/ Adam Schultz)
We seem to live in a strange age where politics relies more than ever on the big lie technique, even as social media makes the exposure of such lies inevitable. My interpretation is that the permanent state of cognitive dissonance and bewilderment of a population that does not know what to believe any more, is a state which power likes to see in the population.
As the radical fall in turnout in the U.K. general election showed, the bewilderment and distrust simply leads populations to disengage.
So now we know that Biden is not running anything much, who is? Certainly not Kamala Harris, who has been completely sidelined as vice president and given only poisoned-chalice briefs like border control. Her function till now, other than the obvious box-ticking of having her on the ballot, was as a lightning rod for public dissatisfaction.
Being president of the United States is a big job. I have no doubt that Biden has enough faculty to make some broad calls, without absorbing a great deal of detail on policy or information on recent events. His career long support for Israel has determined policy; how much he really understands about what is happening in Gaza is a different question.
Most important is that Kamala Harris is absolutely tainted with the active genocide support of the administration; the supply of weapons and direct military assistance to Israel are all on her too.
How does the U.S. operate?
Well, according to my sources, the most powerful man in Washington, and effectively de facto president, is Jake Sullivan. His official position is national security advisor but I am told his work covers far more than this, including domestic policy questions, and he is the person who does the detailed work which Biden cannot do.
Which makes it interesting how seldom he appears in the news — which he does primarily when visiting foreign leaders.
Sullivan has the classic Atlanticist background, as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford to supplement his Yale education. He is fanatically pro-NATO and anti-Russian, unquestioningly Zionist and was the architect of the destruction of Libya as senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton.
Given the obvious inadequacy of Biden, the studied disinterest of the media in analysing how his administration actually functions tells us a very good deal about self-censorship and media ownership.
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We all know the answer. And the big boss was recently in Congress to give the mentally challenged their latest orders.
“The United States has just sustained massive damage to its soft power from its support for Gaza genocide.”
LoL. Anglos like Craig Murray are very obsessed with Anglo-American “soft power” (aka, propaganda image)–primarily as a means to maintain Anglo-American unipolar dominance against its multipolar enemies like China.
Murray apparently has not received the memo, but America (and Britain’s) so-called “soft power” never had any legitimacy to begin with–and indeed was long ago shredded with their multiple wars of aggression against Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Serbia, and bogus War on Terrorism.
These Anglo-American wars have murdered millions of people directly and indirectly. They are the ultimate crime against against humanity, which the Gaza Genocide still pales in comparison with.
People who act like Anglo-American involvement in the Gaza Genocide is an outlier, an isolated “mistake”, or a case of the Israel Lobby controlling the USA are simply gaslighting.
Anglo-American sponsorship of Gaza Genocide is merely the latest example of the horror that the USA and its allies are guilty of throughout their entire bloodstained history as nations.
US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
hxxps://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/18/us-911-wars-million-deaths-displace/
Freely casting aspersions, from where he’s coming from, is the pot calling the kettle black:
Well, according to my sources, the most powerful man in Washington, and effectively de facto president, is Jake Sullivan.
Is this reporting or helping to concoct a narrative?
Craig Murray also emphatically states:
“But the U.S. has succeeded, by defying international law, in physically enabling the genocide in Gaza. They will in the next week install a puppet government in Venezuela and quickly move to strip that country’s vast oil wealth into the hands of the U.S. oil giants.”
He knows this, how? Because he was once, long ago, a trusted British diplomat?
This is precisely what mainstrean media does in its reporting, always claiming “according to our sources” and the public is meant to simply swallow, hook line and sinker.
In this day and age, protecting sources of any regime, is clandestine, and makes him part of the problem
We, the public need to be truthfully informed of who the sources are, otherwise its simply spreading the propaganda, adding to the confusion of the chaos in the fairytale of democracy and humanitarianism.
This man is an friend, ally and confidant of Julian Assange???
Sullivan is also implicated in Russia gate, although I forget the details. A functioning justice system would have prosecuted him.
I know of several people including Craig Murray that can put an end to the RussiaGate fiasco.
Mr. Murray and the others (Dana Rohrabacher, Ellen Ratner, Kim Dotcom, Julian Assange, Aaron Rich, WikiLeaks, +) need to organize and reveal the source of the stolen DNC files that WikiLeaks published in 2016.
Once the RussiaGate fiasco collapses, huge masses of normies will awake and the Deep State will begin to collapse.
I believe it is imperative that these people MUST organize and reveal the truth before the U.S. election on Nov. 7.
What do you say Mr. Murray? Are you going to save the planet or are you not?
Here is a important and timely reminder from Bill Binney and Larry Johnson about the DNC internal download, not a hack, yet alone a Russian hack.
RIP Seth Rich !
hxxps://sonar21.com/a-crowdstrike-update-why-the-dnc-was-not-hacked-by-the-russians/
WHO SHOT DT?
Hint: the Butler didn’t do it, although it took place in Butler.
A motivated lone gunman intent on making his mark in history would have left a detailed manifesto. Instead, all personal trace of Thomas Crooks has mysteriously vanished from the Internet.
ACT 1: somewhere in the BELTWAY SWAMP, June 29, 2024, the day after the Biden-Trump debate: a disaster for brain-dead Biden
Droolin’ Nuland: Hell and Damnation. Will no one rid us of this turbulent Trump?
Jerkoff Sullivan: We successfully installed near brain-dead Biden and prevented Trump’s re-election in 2020 and we can do it again in 2024. We have six ways from Sunday to do it.
Stinkin’ Blinken: But now that Biden is completely brain-dead, he is completely unelectable, I don’t see how we can prop that cadaver up against Trump today. Back in 2020 when Biden was less gaga, we succeeded in sabotaging Trump’s re-election. We blamed the DNC email leaks on Russian hacking, so-called Russiagate, and painted Trump as Putin’s puppet. All total lies of course, but if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted truth. I was especially proud how we convinced our FBI to sit on Hunter’s laptop for more than a year and refuse to confirm that it truly belonged to that cokehead c*nt Hunter.
Jerkoff Sullivan: Yeh. Revealing the dirt on cokehead’s laptop about how we were funnelling billions from Ukraine to the Biden crime family and into our coffers, would have lost Biden the 2020 election. We even got 51 senior ex-Intelligence officers to declare that the stuff on the laptop was Russian disinformation, even though it was 100% genuine. We have the best officials that money can buy. Even now, the public remain confused. Most think the laptop is fake and Russiagate is true, the exact opposite of reality, thanks to our mainstream media cronies and exTwitter accomplices and Facepoop stooges who followed every disinformation instruction of the CIA and FBI.
Lloyd Raytheon: I gotta say, Trump winning this November won’t be a huge deal to me. He complied well with our MIC agenda last time he was in office. He pursued carpet bombing genocide in Yemen via Saudi proxies, continued the war in Afghanistan and occupation in Syria and assassinated Soleimani by drone, which could even have triggered WW3. All helped keep money flowing to our MIC and pad my own personal bank account, so I ain’t got no grievance against Trump.
Droolin’ Nuland: Listen boy, you are a nothingburger at warmongering compared to me. I was the one who masterminded the overthrow of Yanukovich in 2014 using my boy bitches Linseed Graham, Johnboy McCain and Geoffrey Peeshat in Maidan. I paved the way for money to flow to us like a deluge from Ukraine via fossil fuel scams, agri scams and land acquisition scams as well as crypto scams like FTX. Trump’s previous weapons expenditures to kill Yemenis and Afghans were peanuts compared to the hundreds of billions we laundered through the Ukraine war that we provoked in 2022, disguised as “defending the freedom of a sovereign state”. If Trump is re-elected he threatens to derail the Ukie gravy train that we so carefully constructed.
Stinkin’ Blinken: Worse than that, those of us who have been getting kickbacks from our project Ukraine could face prosecution and even go to jail if Trump gets re-elected and opens an investigation.
Smellin’ Yellen: My friends in Blackrock bought up vast swathes of Ukie land for peanuts. If Trump sues for peace and accepts Russian demands, those Blackrock investments will evaporate.
Lloyd Raytheon: More than half a million Ukies have died so far, achieving peace could prevent another half million from dying.
Droolin’ Nuland: Fuck the Ukies. We must prevent Trump from being re-elected in November at all costs. What’s the story so far?
Stinkin’ Blinken: We resurrected old lawsuits of sexual misconduct and rape allegations but that did not work. We tried other lawfare including prosecution for false real estate pricing and even got multimillion dollar judgements declared against Trump, but that seems likely to fall apart on appeal. So it looks like we will be back to square one again.
Jerkoff Sullivan: Well we still have six ways from Sunday to get rid of Trump, including termination with extreme prejudice.
Stinkin’ Blinken: Ratatat.
Droolin’ Nuland: [cackles insanely… while drooling profusely]
ACT 2: somewhere in the BELTWAY SWAMP, July 12, 2024, the day before the Trump assassination attempt
Stinkin’ Blinken: How are the preps for the perp?
Jerkoff Sullivan: Going well. As a security advisor, I know how to create focal failures and weak spots in a security framework through which we can insert our stooge to do our bidding. We will ensure all security teams do NOT secure the most obvious kill platform, only 130 yards away from the target, so close that even an inexpert shooter can easily make a kill, no scope needed. Our stooge has had intensive training, we had to ensure he could reliably achieve tight groupings, before zeroing his rifle to suit that 130 yard range. We will put incompetent security managers in charge on the day and ensure the local police, state troopers and the close security team cannot communicate properly with each other and are unfamiliar with each other’s staff so they will not be able to identify friend from foe. We have our own agents working from within to sow confusion that the shooter could be part of another security team. If the crowd spot the kid and call him out as a sniper, we have people who will ensure that Trump keeps talking at the podium, rather than use common sense and herd Trump off immediately. We will also ensure that our counter snipers train their scopes on our stooge in advance, so they can blow the kid’s head off immediately after has he has fired some shots off, but definitely not before. Cannot allow him to live and provide his own testimony.
Stinkin’ Blinken: And this kid cannot be traced back to us?
Jerkoff Sullivan: We had to avoid anybody with Dem party sympathies to throw people off the scent. We found this alienated kid with lifelong conservative GOP sympathies who had even posed for some Blackrock advertising. We manipulated him with our usual carrot and stick methods and drug enhanced psyops to convince him that he is being recruited as a covert CIA agent, just like Lee Harvey Oswald, and that he will be killing the next Hitler. We messaged him for meetings and training sessions using encrypted phones. We showed him the layout of the location and explained that he needed a ladder to get up there and wear padded clothing to cope with the heat of the hot tin roof. A random dumbass 20 year old would never be able to pull this off on his own. Random security lapses, no matter how incompetent, would never allow all the relevant factors to come together at this particular time and place. Even the most dumbass security novice knows that a rooftop 130 yards away along the line of sight needs to be secured, so we will actively prevent that. The shooter must have prior training and it is essential to create specific, targeted holes in the security framework, which we have instructed him where, when and how to breach.
Stinkin’ Blinken: But no suspicion can ever lead back to us?
Jerkoff Sullivan: He donated 15 bucks to a progressive group years ago, but that is nothing. We have wiped all his social media presence off the Internet. If anybody tries to point a finger at us using “cui bono?”, we will smear them as crazy conspiracy theorists. That tactic worked a treat after the Warren commission.
Stinkin’ Blinken: Sounds pretty slick.
Jerkoff Sullivan: I was so orgasmically impressed by my own genius plans, I creamed my pants.
Stinkin’ Blinken: Gotta thank Blackrock that we found that kid, a perfect dumbass patsy. You know, a Vulture Capital insider trader could make a stockmarket killing by short selling Trump related shares just before Trump karks it. Just thinking about all that money makes me drool.
Droolin’ Nuland: [cackles insanely… while drooling profusely]
ACT 3: somewhere in the BELTWAY SWAMP, July 14, 2024, the day after the Trump assassination attempt
Droolin’ Nuland: Hell and Damnation. Will no one rid us of this turbulent Trump? The failed kill attempt now makes Trump’s re-election a virtual certainty. What went wrong in your planning?
Jerkoff Sullivan: Nothing. The planning was perfect, things went as well as they possibly could, we got off an accurate kill shot. Trump was only saved by the random movement of his head at the last second.
Droolin’ Nuland: Well shit. What do we do now?
Stinkin’ Blinken: Brain-dead Biden has less than zero chance of winning an election against Trump now. We need to find another candidate, a desert cactus or a laughing hyena would stand a better chance.
Droolin’ Nuland: I know which laughing hyena you are referring to. In the meantime it is still several months till November, so we still have more opportunities to snuff out the orange guy.
Jerkoff Sullivan: Six ways from Sunday.
Stinkin’ Blinken: Ratatat.
Droolin’ Nuland: [cackles insanely… while drooling profusely]
The above is not written as support for Trump, it is meant to expose the Demoncrat Neoconartists as they truly are: devious psychopathic weasels who will do anything to eliminate Trump as a political threat. Documented facts prove the Demoncrats colluded with the FBI and CIA and media companies to sabotage Trump’s re-election and favour Biden’s election in 2020.
Trump winning office in November 2024 will do nothing to stop genocide in Palestine or benefit ordinary Americans who face collapsing living standards. Trump is merely a fascist pig of a different breed who remains a loyal war mongering servant of the Deep State, albeit serving the anti-China rather than anti-Russia faction. He is hated and feared by the incumbent Demoncrat/Neoconartist Russophobes who have been gorging like pigs at the trough of the Ukie corruption scam. Those crooks risk jail if investigated and they want Trump gone.
An absolutely Georgeous sit up straight manifesto!
…now recognize that the neocon plot to distract from ukraine FAIL was provoke Hamas by “settlers” at 3rd largest – most reverent mosque 3 days prior….
…and U.S. plan to next year introduce A.I. autonomic thousands – drones, satellite contolled, over all ukraine motion…(and Putin space. response, already threatened by neocons as “illegal nukes in space”), you have near complete picture…..(though a bit over-dramatized–good work!)
Your reply to me was definitely a nonclassical read in that it is somewhat disjointed, though I do recognize the message… I think!
A ‘snapshot’ may be a complete picture, while the unfolding of history is in constant flux, and changes every second, from one frame to the next.
Thanks
One more thing: do not forget that Droolin’ Nuland publicly promised Trump a “nasty surprise” just before the kill attempt
“They will in the next week install a puppet government in Venezuela and quickly move to strip that country’s vast oil wealth into the hands of the U.S. oil giants”????????
Craig, am I missing something, or do you know something I don’t? Has something happened in South America? If this is true, it should be a big story
Yeah, I missed that too!
Same here. The Venezuelan election is 2 days hence, and it is highly doubtful that the US will be installing a puppet government in that country. Maybe Craig means another faux president like Guaido, based in the US.
I frankly don’t think the US can pull off a coup in Venezuela anymore. Chavez brought the military into the Bolivarian Revolution. You can’t pull off a coup without the military being onboard.
The NSC effectively surrounds the president and cabinet with war propagandists.
But control is exercised not by individuals but via hidden organized interest groups.
The oligarchy controls USG and MSM through money power, information/propaganda control, military/force threat/coercion, and careerist pressure. The 18th-century USG institutional design has been dysfunctional, undemocratic, and unreformed since the early 19th century due to these forces.
…$olid analysis…reflected, documentation here:
hxxps://rumble.com/v4dxvjo-ep.75-tucker-carlson-interviews-mike-benz.html
(Carlson largely stays out of way of interview, “Censorship Industrial Complex”)
“My interpretation is that the permanent state of cognitive dissonance and bewilderment of a population that does not know what to
believe any more, is a state which power likes to see in the population.”
I think that is an accurate analysis. The US population is unable to agree on basic facts, and cynical about the usual sources of information, and trending toward belief in grand conspiracies. The society is fragmented and many people feel isolated. These are ideal conditions for the powerful elite to exploit and use for political and social control. Especially as the central state apparatus has continued to grow in power.
And I do not think that anyone planned this to happen. Instead, a variety of things happened: political polarization, the rise of social media, Fox News, the general decline of journalism, among others. And alert people in positions of power recognized the opportunity to exploit the resulting social chaos.
“Censorship Industrial Complex” documented here:
hxxps://rumble.com/v4dxvjo-ep.75-tucker-carlson-interviews-mike-benz.html
Who runs the US? Not the US government.
‘….nod nod, wink wink, say no more…” (thanks as always go, good sir, for cleaning all that up)
Joe Biden along with Sullivan, Blinken and Nuland have already gone down in history as creators of the greatest catastrophe in U.S. foreign policy ever imagined in a single Presidential administration.
Accomplishments in 3.5 years.
1. Scripted a coward’s retreat from Afghanistan. scores of deaths resulted
2. Provoked then lost a war with Russia in Ukraine. one million dead
3. Now enabling and feeding the genocide in Gaza. still counting the dead
4. Spoiling for a fight (war) with China over Taiwan.
5. Spoiling for a fight (war) with Iran over Israel and the Mideast
6. Spoiling for a fight (war) with North Korea over ?
7. Spoiling for a fight (war) with Russia over former Soviet Union states joining NATO.
Next time maybe skip hiring the Rhodes Scholars and appoint someone with actual competence if not common sense.
Each one of these crises would be manageable in the hands of skilled diplomats.
But lacking any diplomatic skill, these people have conducted our foreign relations as complete morons in plain sight.
The problem has always been the boss.
Insecure people like Joe Biden fear hiring anyone who might be too bright.
Lest he outshine his boss.
It is one of life’s great mysteries why a country full of leaders like the U.S. cannot seem to agree on a President with any prominent leadership qualities whatsoever.
How else to explain the rise of lifelong loser and con-man, Joe Biden to the seat of supreme power.
The scene suggests that concealed forces are at work who usurp the power of a stooge/puppet for their own benefit.
@james
imo, the problem is not so much the boss
but the insatiably greedy lot behind him, or her.
all they care about is getting rich.
and instead of being happy once they are,
they want to get richer, and richer still.
“making a killing” is incredibly telling.
and “peace does not pay!”, as they say.
Thank you for your reply Julia.
George Soros and his son have amassed wealth that will last their extended family for generations.
They use their wealth to fund anarchist D.A.’s who release violent criminals and refuse to prosecute others. The result is more rapes, murders and assaults committed by people who should be incarcerated. Getting richer hardly matters to them, so they must have some other agenda. Their wealth is used to punish people living modest lives. It is unclear why, but they should be stopped.
Defense contractors and Congress are part of the problem you describe.
Laws against corruption are part of the solution. But we also need to have people in positions of responsibility who are sincere in enforcing justice and equality under the law.
Effective leadership is what is always needed and in this we have lost our way. Theodore Roosevelt was the type of leader who was never intimidated by pirates, dictators or captains of industry. We need to find more like him and elect them. The weakness of Joe Biden as a leader is the root cause of most of our current national problems.