There is a point where a bureaucracy gets so big it neither fears nor obeys the elected politicians. Whatever they want, they will get, even if they have to come back. When Poindexters's Total Information Awareness was shot down, the CIA set up shop in Silicon Valley and Google quickly emerged, a young and hip version of TIA, with the motto, "Don't be evil."
Dr. North's essay on Snowden and the NSA has disappeared, but in essence he made this point: Snowden made the world safe for the NSA by exposing the NSA, because nothing has been done to reign in the NSA. I've made the same point, Snowden himself let slip in an interview he still sees himself as a spook. Just so.
So when comes along a brand-new NSA-proof email service, well, hmmmm... why believe it? Once exposed, would not the NSA get busy making up such stories and putting out alternatives that they in fact control? Mish takes it apart.
Cisco asks for clarification from the White House on news their products are hacked before delivery. Bad for sales, which are dropping. That is a good cover story, consistent with being innocent.
And to add to the whimsy, the FBI has put out wanted posters for five Chinese spies. Here is a an example of the crimes alleged:
The PR angle here is USA spies, naturellement, but only in national defense, but the Chinese spy for economic advantage. (Never mind collecting your every internet activity is part of "national defense" spying) Ergo, our poor economic performance is because the Chinese know our plumbing schematics for buildings we build in China. And we would never spy for economic advantage.
In this way again, we can blame the Chinese for our own problems. That will sell in USA. We excel at blaming others.
But there is a new aspect, uncharted territory. Dissent was once against the government, implying dissenters believed things could be fixed. There is little dissent any longer. The elected politicians are doing nothing to make the USA a better place. Few really care if the NSA has gone rogue and false flags abound. The permanent bureaucracy neither fears nor obeys the elected officialdom. The few who still care, whistleblowers, are targeted for prison.
Credit is expanded, the checks go out, no one believes in the system anymore. We need to restore an organic economy again. I'll say it again. If USA business people were free to trade, if we got rid of capitalism, we'd run circles around every other economy in the world. We know free markets work. But perhaps there is a price to be paid for crimes committed, something metaphysical going on. How else to explain the madness?
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Dr. North's essay on Snowden and the NSA has disappeared, but in essence he made this point: Snowden made the world safe for the NSA by exposing the NSA, because nothing has been done to reign in the NSA. I've made the same point, Snowden himself let slip in an interview he still sees himself as a spook. Just so.
So when comes along a brand-new NSA-proof email service, well, hmmmm... why believe it? Once exposed, would not the NSA get busy making up such stories and putting out alternatives that they in fact control? Mish takes it apart.
Cisco asks for clarification from the White House on news their products are hacked before delivery. Bad for sales, which are dropping. That is a good cover story, consistent with being innocent.
And to add to the whimsy, the FBI has put out wanted posters for five Chinese spies. Here is a an example of the crimes alleged:
In 2010, while Westinghouse was building four AP1000 power plants in China and negotiating other terms of the construction with a ChineseSOE (SOE-1), including technology transfers, Sun stole confidential and proprietary technical and design specifications for pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing within the AP1000 plant buildings.Wait, what? A spy took plumbing plans for a proposed factory in China? On a building Westinghouse was building with the Chinese Government? Ummm... don't those have to be filed with the building permit dept anyway, as apart of the permanent public record?
The PR angle here is USA spies, naturellement, but only in national defense, but the Chinese spy for economic advantage. (Never mind collecting your every internet activity is part of "national defense" spying) Ergo, our poor economic performance is because the Chinese know our plumbing schematics for buildings we build in China. And we would never spy for economic advantage.
In this way again, we can blame the Chinese for our own problems. That will sell in USA. We excel at blaming others.
But there is a new aspect, uncharted territory. Dissent was once against the government, implying dissenters believed things could be fixed. There is little dissent any longer. The elected politicians are doing nothing to make the USA a better place. Few really care if the NSA has gone rogue and false flags abound. The permanent bureaucracy neither fears nor obeys the elected officialdom. The few who still care, whistleblowers, are targeted for prison.
Credit is expanded, the checks go out, no one believes in the system anymore. We need to restore an organic economy again. I'll say it again. If USA business people were free to trade, if we got rid of capitalism, we'd run circles around every other economy in the world. We know free markets work. But perhaps there is a price to be paid for crimes committed, something metaphysical going on. How else to explain the madness?
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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