This is going to make me sound old, but Once Upon a Time the oscars was mildly fun and entertaining. The failure of this entertainment venue is down entirely to the obliviouslness of the people running the AMPAS.
No, you have another 30 years to go before you can claim that title, sorry honey (showing you just how old I am); besides haven’t you heard 60 is the new 50 or something like that.
I was thinking the same thing then remembered I knew less than zero about editing videos, graphics and writing satire. Other than that, my video would have been fantastic.
There's no doubt that these videos are going to be awesome. Hopefully Orf is DQ'd from submitting. That'd be like Lebron playing in a college game.
OMG, that video is unwatchable. I got through the first couple of minutes, but when it came to the water part, all I could think about was the situation in Flint, MI. There's a new video on Flint, better watch that instead. https://flintfatigue.com
Have you thought about enabling chat during the livestream? That can be a fun way for the audience to interact with you during the show, but you're not obliged to engage if you dont want to.
The NYT are such disingenuous fucks. I doubt anyone here cares at all about bureaucrats in NASA or the EPA. By "the deep state" - a term coined by a left-leaning academic Mike Lofgren, BTW - we mean assholes like Nuland, Bolton, Abrams, Mueller, Fauci, Brennan, Yellen, and that other NSA dude who perjured himself in Congress, FISA court judges, DOJ functionaries, lobbyists who move back and forth through the revolving door to government, etc. who seem to hang around from administration to administration wreaking havoc at home and in the rest of the world. Ya know, liars, warmongers and agents of the MIC, Big Pharma, Wall Street, and foreign countries like Israel and Ukraine. THAT is who we mean by the deep state. But the NYT and its PMC liberal laptop class readers have the collective memory of a goldfish and seem to forget that not so long ago, well before Trump was running for prez, liberal outlets themselves were the ones publicizing this crap!
President Obama can liquidate American citizens without due processes, detain prisoners indefinitely without charge, conduct dragnet surveillance on the American people without judicial warrant and engage in unprecedented — at least since the McCarthy era — witch hunts against federal employees (the so-called “Insider Threat Program”). Within the United States, this power is characterized by massive displays of intimidating force by militarized federal, state and local law enforcement. Abroad, President Obama can start wars at will and engage in virtually any other activity whatsoever without so much as a by-your-leave from Congress, such as arranging the forced landing of a plane carrying a sovereign head of state over foreign territory. Despite the habitual cant of congressional Republicans about executive overreach by Obama, the would-be dictator, we have until recently heard very little from them about these actions — with the minor exception of comments from gadfly Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Democrats, save a few mavericks such as Ron Wyden of Oregon, are not unduly troubled, either — even to the extent of permitting seemingly perjured congressional testimony under oath by executive branch officials on the subject of illegal surveillance.
These are not isolated instances of a contradiction; they have been so pervasive that they tend to be disregarded as background noise. During the time in 2011 when political warfare over the debt ceiling was beginning to paralyze the business of governance in Washington, the United States government somehow summoned the resources to overthrow Muammar Ghaddafi’s regime in Libya, and, when the instability created by that coup spilled over into Mali, provide overt and covert assistance to French intervention there. At a time when there was heated debate about continuing meat inspections and civilian air traffic control because of the budget crisis, our government was somehow able to commit $115 million to keeping a civil war going in Syria and to pay at least £100m to the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters to buy influence over and access to that country’s intelligence. Since 2007, two bridges carrying interstate highways have collapsed due to inadequate maintenance of infrastructure, one killing 13 people. During that same period of time, the government spent $1.7 billion constructing a building in Utah that is the size of 17 football fields. This mammoth structure is intended to allow the National Security Agency to store a yottabyte of information, the largest numerical designator computer scientists have coined. A yottabyte is equal to 500 quintillion pages of text. They need that much storage to archive every single trace of your electronic life.
Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose. My analysis of this phenomenon is not an exposé of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day. Nor can this other government be accurately termed an “establishment.” All complex societies have an establishment, a social network committed to its own enrichment and perpetuation. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by itself. That said, it is neither omniscient nor invincible. The institution is not so much sinister (although it has highly sinister aspects) as it is relentlessly well entrenched. Far from being invincible, its failures, such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, are routine enough that it is only the Deep State’s protectiveness towards its higher-ranking personnel that allows them to escape the consequences of their frequent ineptitude.
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How did I come to write an analysis of the Deep State, and why am I equipped to write it? As a congressional staff member for 28 years specializing in national security and possessing a top secret security clearance, I was at least on the fringes of the world I am describing, if neither totally in it by virtue of full membership nor of it by psychological disposition. But, like virtually every employed person, I became, to some extent, assimilated into the culture of the institution I worked for, and only by slow degrees, starting before the invasion of Iraq, did I begin fundamentally to question the reasons of state that motivate the people who are, to quote George W. Bush, “the deciders.”
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The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street. All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted. The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and intelligence committees. The rest of Congress, normally so fractious and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and when required usually submits to a few well-chosen words from the State’s emissaries.
I saw this submissiveness on many occasions. One memorable incident was passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008. This legislation retroactively legalized the Bush administration’s illegal and unconstitutional surveillance first revealed by The New York Times in 2005 and indemnified the telecommunications companies for their cooperation in these acts. The bill passed easily: All that was required was the invocation of the word “terrorism” and most members of Congress responded like iron filings obeying a magnet. One who responded in that fashion was Senator Barack Obama, soon to be coronated as the presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. He had already won the most delegates by campaigning to the left of his main opponent, Hillary Clinton, on the excesses of the global war on terror and the erosion of constitutional liberties.
As the indemnification vote showed, the Deep State does not consist only of government agencies. What is euphemistically called “private enterprise” is an integral part of its operations. In a special series in The Washington Post called “Top Secret America,” Dana Priest and William K. Arkin described the scope of the privatized Deep State and the degree to which it has metastasized after the September 11 attacks. There are now 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances — a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian employees of the government. While they work throughout the country and the world, their heavy concentration in and around the Washington suburbs is unmistakable: Since 9/11, 33 facilities for top-secret intelligence have been built or are under construction. Combined, they occupy the floor space of almost three Pentagons — about 17 million square feet. Seventy percent of the intelligence community’s budget goes to paying contracts. And the membrane between government and industry is highly permeable: The Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, is a former executive of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the government’s largest intelligence contractors. His predecessor as director, Admiral Mike McConnell, is the current vice chairman of the same company; Booz Allen is 99 percent dependent on government business. These contractors now set the political and social tone of Washington, just as they are increasingly setting the direction of the country, but they are doing it quietly, their doings unrecorded in the Congressional Record or the Federal Register, and are rarely subject to congressional hearings.
This makes me think of the first time I watched "This is Spinal Tap" in 1985 and the first time I watched the Ramones documentary "End of the Century" in September 2004. To this day I still can't tell which band is more absurd.
My age has taught me to temper excitement for an event with realistic expectations. But I am having a hard time doing so for this event. I am so glad it is only a day away. Thank you for deciding to do this on a livestream
Brilliant! This will be more fun than the Oscars!
Although a root canal is more fun than the Oscars these days. I’ll have to think of a better comparison. 🤣
Sorry I've had 2 root canals. They suck. Although I did think that the smell of my own burning teeth would have made a great incense cone.
Oscar banality always comes with something none of my root canals offered which is an off switch.
Once Dr. Giggles starting grinding I was in for the duration.
On the other hand I haven't seen an Oscar airing in about...well, actually, I've never seen the Oscars.
This is going to make me sound old, but Once Upon a Time the oscars was mildly fun and entertaining. The failure of this entertainment venue is down entirely to the obliviouslness of the people running the AMPAS.
I actually loved the Oscars when I was a kid in the 80s. So I guess that makes us both old! 🤣👊
No, you have another 30 years to go before you can claim that title, sorry honey (showing you just how old I am); besides haven’t you heard 60 is the new 50 or something like that.
Not really an awards show kind of guy.
I've never cared about "best of" lists because many of the things that I love would never make anyone's "best of" list.
I've seen Oscar winning films that have literally put me to sleep.
I presume you mean 6 pm EDT, not EST. 6 pm EST would be 7 pm EDT.
I'm an engineer. I can't help it.
Ugh. I mean 6 ET, sorry?
Is there a Rumble link yet?
Philip, you made me laugh out loud with that last comment
My brother had a slide rule. It was really cool looking, but there was no way I was gonna ever try to figure out how that shit worked.
Slide rules were at best an approximation. Imagine a pocket calculator that had a different answer depending on how you held it.
So they required a bit more interpretation than punching numbers into a calculator or computer. Not a bad thing!
Don't worry Phil-- engineers are essential!!
Lol
I got a few seconds into the NYT video before I felt the need to vomit and turned it off.
The smugness and sense of superiority were nauseating.
Wish I had had time to participate in this! First, I would have had to learn some skills :-)
I'm hoping you do more of this in the future as we need to build a culture around sanity, and every small step towards that matters.
I was thinking the same thing then remembered I knew less than zero about editing videos, graphics and writing satire. Other than that, my video would have been fantastic.
There's no doubt that these videos are going to be awesome. Hopefully Orf is DQ'd from submitting. That'd be like Lebron playing in a college game.
OMG, that video is unwatchable. I got through the first couple of minutes, but when it came to the water part, all I could think about was the situation in Flint, MI. There's a new video on Flint, better watch that instead. https://flintfatigue.com
Have you thought about enabling chat during the livestream? That can be a fun way for the audience to interact with you during the show, but you're not obliged to engage if you dont want to.
We’ll try absolutely
You guys gonna wear tuxes and make it official?
Lol.
The NYT are such disingenuous fucks. I doubt anyone here cares at all about bureaucrats in NASA or the EPA. By "the deep state" - a term coined by a left-leaning academic Mike Lofgren, BTW - we mean assholes like Nuland, Bolton, Abrams, Mueller, Fauci, Brennan, Yellen, and that other NSA dude who perjured himself in Congress, FISA court judges, DOJ functionaries, lobbyists who move back and forth through the revolving door to government, etc. who seem to hang around from administration to administration wreaking havoc at home and in the rest of the world. Ya know, liars, warmongers and agents of the MIC, Big Pharma, Wall Street, and foreign countries like Israel and Ukraine. THAT is who we mean by the deep state. But the NYT and its PMC liberal laptop class readers have the collective memory of a goldfish and seem to forget that not so long ago, well before Trump was running for prez, liberal outlets themselves were the ones publicizing this crap!
https://billmoyers.com/episode/the-deep-state-hiding-in-plain-sight/
Hmm. I wonder if the NYT watched ^^^THAT^^^ video about the Deep State?
Do note the date on this article: 2014. https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
Excerpt from the essay:
President Obama can liquidate American citizens without due processes, detain prisoners indefinitely without charge, conduct dragnet surveillance on the American people without judicial warrant and engage in unprecedented — at least since the McCarthy era — witch hunts against federal employees (the so-called “Insider Threat Program”). Within the United States, this power is characterized by massive displays of intimidating force by militarized federal, state and local law enforcement. Abroad, President Obama can start wars at will and engage in virtually any other activity whatsoever without so much as a by-your-leave from Congress, such as arranging the forced landing of a plane carrying a sovereign head of state over foreign territory. Despite the habitual cant of congressional Republicans about executive overreach by Obama, the would-be dictator, we have until recently heard very little from them about these actions — with the minor exception of comments from gadfly Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Democrats, save a few mavericks such as Ron Wyden of Oregon, are not unduly troubled, either — even to the extent of permitting seemingly perjured congressional testimony under oath by executive branch officials on the subject of illegal surveillance.
These are not isolated instances of a contradiction; they have been so pervasive that they tend to be disregarded as background noise. During the time in 2011 when political warfare over the debt ceiling was beginning to paralyze the business of governance in Washington, the United States government somehow summoned the resources to overthrow Muammar Ghaddafi’s regime in Libya, and, when the instability created by that coup spilled over into Mali, provide overt and covert assistance to French intervention there. At a time when there was heated debate about continuing meat inspections and civilian air traffic control because of the budget crisis, our government was somehow able to commit $115 million to keeping a civil war going in Syria and to pay at least £100m to the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters to buy influence over and access to that country’s intelligence. Since 2007, two bridges carrying interstate highways have collapsed due to inadequate maintenance of infrastructure, one killing 13 people. During that same period of time, the government spent $1.7 billion constructing a building in Utah that is the size of 17 football fields. This mammoth structure is intended to allow the National Security Agency to store a yottabyte of information, the largest numerical designator computer scientists have coined. A yottabyte is equal to 500 quintillion pages of text. They need that much storage to archive every single trace of your electronic life.
Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose. My analysis of this phenomenon is not an exposé of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day. Nor can this other government be accurately termed an “establishment.” All complex societies have an establishment, a social network committed to its own enrichment and perpetuation. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by itself. That said, it is neither omniscient nor invincible. The institution is not so much sinister (although it has highly sinister aspects) as it is relentlessly well entrenched. Far from being invincible, its failures, such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, are routine enough that it is only the Deep State’s protectiveness towards its higher-ranking personnel that allows them to escape the consequences of their frequent ineptitude.
....
How did I come to write an analysis of the Deep State, and why am I equipped to write it? As a congressional staff member for 28 years specializing in national security and possessing a top secret security clearance, I was at least on the fringes of the world I am describing, if neither totally in it by virtue of full membership nor of it by psychological disposition. But, like virtually every employed person, I became, to some extent, assimilated into the culture of the institution I worked for, and only by slow degrees, starting before the invasion of Iraq, did I begin fundamentally to question the reasons of state that motivate the people who are, to quote George W. Bush, “the deciders.”
....
The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street. All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted. The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and intelligence committees. The rest of Congress, normally so fractious and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and when required usually submits to a few well-chosen words from the State’s emissaries.
I saw this submissiveness on many occasions. One memorable incident was passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008. This legislation retroactively legalized the Bush administration’s illegal and unconstitutional surveillance first revealed by The New York Times in 2005 and indemnified the telecommunications companies for their cooperation in these acts. The bill passed easily: All that was required was the invocation of the word “terrorism” and most members of Congress responded like iron filings obeying a magnet. One who responded in that fashion was Senator Barack Obama, soon to be coronated as the presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. He had already won the most delegates by campaigning to the left of his main opponent, Hillary Clinton, on the excesses of the global war on terror and the erosion of constitutional liberties.
As the indemnification vote showed, the Deep State does not consist only of government agencies. What is euphemistically called “private enterprise” is an integral part of its operations. In a special series in The Washington Post called “Top Secret America,” Dana Priest and William K. Arkin described the scope of the privatized Deep State and the degree to which it has metastasized after the September 11 attacks. There are now 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances — a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian employees of the government. While they work throughout the country and the world, their heavy concentration in and around the Washington suburbs is unmistakable: Since 9/11, 33 facilities for top-secret intelligence have been built or are under construction. Combined, they occupy the floor space of almost three Pentagons — about 17 million square feet. Seventy percent of the intelligence community’s budget goes to paying contracts. And the membrane between government and industry is highly permeable: The Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, is a former executive of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the government’s largest intelligence contractors. His predecessor as director, Admiral Mike McConnell, is the current vice chairman of the same company; Booz Allen is 99 percent dependent on government business. These contractors now set the political and social tone of Washington, just as they are increasingly setting the direction of the country, but they are doing it quietly, their doings unrecorded in the Congressional Record or the Federal Register, and are rarely subject to congressional hearings.
The only group I think you have missed is the WEF.
Really appreciate the Moyers love. He did some nice work.
Also, environmental lawyers in EPA have gotten pretty much out of hand.
NYTimes threw down the gauntlet, I'm looking forward to the challengers.
This makes me think of the first time I watched "This is Spinal Tap" in 1985 and the first time I watched the Ramones documentary "End of the Century" in September 2004. To this day I still can't tell which band is more absurd.
Just turn them both on up to 11
How about doing an interview with an expert on producing propaganda? That NYT video could set the stage.
Might AI be used for detecting it?
Maybe there should be a propaganda index and each mainstream outlet gets measured.
We desperately need an AI Hunter Thompson.
Joe & BO begging for money at the start of your embedded NYT Trump video was far beyond anyone's recommended daily intake of Joe & BO.
I may have to detox with a cup of coffee ground enema to go with my cup of Morning Joe.
You should warn people that there will be a Biden/Obama hazard ahead.
Or least put up a blinking orange light gif.
Racketeers, please consider watching on Rumble. This is a plug for Rumble.
My age has taught me to temper excitement for an event with realistic expectations. But I am having a hard time doing so for this event. I am so glad it is only a day away. Thank you for deciding to do this on a livestream
My theory is that the NYT doesn't merely support the CIA, it IS the CIA, as in funded and operated by the agency.
Ditto for Slate, Salon, Rolling Stone, Google and Meta and Microsoft.
It would explain a lot.
that sounds an awful lot like CHYna
Yes.
It would explain how the financial fortunes of the NYT suddenly and dramatically improved after the paper nearly shut down.