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Ivor
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Adam Taggart
In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- The Intelligence Wars
- When everyone is pointing fingers, whom are we to believe?
- The Need For Humility
- Our current hubris is destroying the systems we depend on
- The Enemy
- Is our our "neo'" agenda, whichever side of the aisle it's on
- Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
- Reform needs to start with our own behavior
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
~ Pogo (Walt Kelly)
This week Chris and Charles hold up a harsh mirror to American society. So many of the long-term predicaments we face are issues of our own making, pursuits that benefit an elite few at the expense of the rest of us. The good news here is that we still have time to dramatically improve our odds of a better future by choosing to make different decisions going forward. The all-important question is: But will we?
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Off The Cuff: Meeting The Enemy
PREVIEW by Adam TaggartIn this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- The Intelligence Wars
- When everyone is pointing fingers, whom are we to believe?
- The Need For Humility
- Our current hubris is destroying the systems we depend on
- The Enemy
- Is our our "neo'" agenda, whichever side of the aisle it's on
- Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
- Reform needs to start with our own behavior
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
~ Pogo (Walt Kelly)
This week Chris and Charles hold up a harsh mirror to American society. So many of the long-term predicaments we face are issues of our own making, pursuits that benefit an elite few at the expense of the rest of us. The good news here is that we still have time to dramatically improve our odds of a better future by choosing to make different decisions going forward. The all-important question is: But will we?
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Adam Taggart
On Monday we covered the release of an open letter written to President Obama, issued by a committee of notable political, security and defense experts — which includes past and present members of Congress, ambassadors, CIA directors, and others — on the country's concerning level of vulnerability to a natural or man-made Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP).
This week, we've been fortunate enough to get several of the authors of that open letter to join us and explain in depth what they conclude needs to be done to protect against the EMP risk: former CIA Director and current Ambassador James Woolsey, Executive Director of the EMP Task Force Dr Peter Pry, and security industry entrepreneur Jen Bawden.
Former CIA Director: We’re Not Doing Nearly Enough To Protect Against The EMP Threat
by Adam TaggartOn Monday we covered the release of an open letter written to President Obama, issued by a committee of notable political, security and defense experts — which includes past and present members of Congress, ambassadors, CIA directors, and others — on the country's concerning level of vulnerability to a natural or man-made Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP).
This week, we've been fortunate enough to get several of the authors of that open letter to join us and explain in depth what they conclude needs to be done to protect against the EMP risk: former CIA Director and current Ambassador James Woolsey, Executive Director of the EMP Task Force Dr Peter Pry, and security industry entrepreneur Jen Bawden.
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JHK
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JHK
Executive Summary
- A middle ground approach is best at this stage
- While the Deep State is threatened by its own dysfunction, a collapse will not be pretty for citizens
- How not to volunteer for victimhood
- Where hope lies
If you have not yet read The State of the Deep State, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
On general principle, the sort of odious operations represented by the Deep State, including warrantless police actions, immersive surveillance, and even assassination, ought to be opposed by Americans who care about their country and the ongoing project of remaining civilized. The Deep State’s totalitarian tendencies are self-evident. Therefore, “we the people” are obliged to dismantle it as expeditiously as possible, ideally by voting for electoral candidates who vow to work toward that end, but by resistance if that fails. Political actions might include getting rid of all the redundant “security” agencies piggybacked around the CIA since 9/11; voting the Patriot Act out of existence; and introducing legislation to re-define the “personhood” of corporations and their putative “rights” to “free speech” as defined by flinging money at elections.
However, the electoral process, being subject to the depredations and manipulations of the Deep State, may itself be too much a part of the problem at the present time. Resistance, on the other hand, can beat a fast path into the perilous realm of revolution and sedition, inviting punishment by the Deep State. For the moment then, the preferable action probably lies in the middle ground: political persuasion, speaking out against the Deep State. There is simply not enough of this now, especially among serious people in positions of authority. This, by the way, was exactly what turned the nation against the folly of the Vietnam War.
It begs the question: where are the Bobby Kennedys, Gene McCarthys, and William Fullbrights of our time? Where are the visible people of stature willing to take a stand, to put their careers on the line? Not just…
How To Oppose the Deep State
PREVIEW by JHKExecutive Summary
- A middle ground approach is best at this stage
- While the Deep State is threatened by its own dysfunction, a collapse will not be pretty for citizens
- How not to volunteer for victimhood
- Where hope lies
If you have not yet read The State of the Deep State, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
On general principle, the sort of odious operations represented by the Deep State, including warrantless police actions, immersive surveillance, and even assassination, ought to be opposed by Americans who care about their country and the ongoing project of remaining civilized. The Deep State’s totalitarian tendencies are self-evident. Therefore, “we the people” are obliged to dismantle it as expeditiously as possible, ideally by voting for electoral candidates who vow to work toward that end, but by resistance if that fails. Political actions might include getting rid of all the redundant “security” agencies piggybacked around the CIA since 9/11; voting the Patriot Act out of existence; and introducing legislation to re-define the “personhood” of corporations and their putative “rights” to “free speech” as defined by flinging money at elections.
However, the electoral process, being subject to the depredations and manipulations of the Deep State, may itself be too much a part of the problem at the present time. Resistance, on the other hand, can beat a fast path into the perilous realm of revolution and sedition, inviting punishment by the Deep State. For the moment then, the preferable action probably lies in the middle ground: political persuasion, speaking out against the Deep State. There is simply not enough of this now, especially among serious people in positions of authority. This, by the way, was exactly what turned the nation against the folly of the Vietnam War.
It begs the question: where are the Bobby Kennedys, Gene McCarthys, and William Fullbrights of our time? Where are the visible people of stature willing to take a stand, to put their careers on the line? Not just…
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