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FTAC – Fast Note on Journalism in the Feudal Mode

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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The problem is the plan — public business — appears to have been worked out in private and the results misrepresented, obscured, or staged (recall: I think Daesh influenced, possibly unknowingly, by Khamenei — bribery and disinformation would do that), and that [implied activity] partially transitions a democratic nation into a feudal (and infantilized) state.

Alternatively, the Administration has set out to please and play all by refusing “hot wars” (as with Syria) and letting “Red Brown Green” cook, corrupt, and infiltrate while obtaining greater North American energy independence, breaking “RBG” at the wellheads, rebuilding an economy to meet the expenses of direct intercession in violent conflict.

What I have found repeated in the Islamic Small Wars and in western politics is the tendency for attitudes (accumulated beliefs plus feelings about them) to lead the development and perception of factual data (so we see what we have been prepared or programmed to see). That noted, the “keys” — conversations, deals, decisions, moments — to many issues appear out of the reach of journalists. As headlines relay news about the news — there’s some back-and-forth today on Israel spying on U.S. negotiations with Iran (Israel admits more to spying on the Iranian side of those negotiations and denies spying on an allie). The allegation by the U.S. demonizes Israel (!), and journalists appear to have little way, if any, of getting to the truth. The pack appears reduced to passing along press releases.

Q: The plan?

A: Give Iran everything it wants — i.e., a nuclear deal favorable to the continuing development of nuclear material, weapons, and delivery systems; the delivery of Iraq to an expanded Iranian Shiite enterprise (and the promotion of Iran’s match with Daesh as genuine history (as opposed to Khamenei-arranged political theater); the delivery of Yemen into the Khamenei sphere of influence.

Are there journalists Out There (or in Washington or Tehran) who can prove these perception true or false?

Whatever it is, Big Government — Big Brother, Big Daddy, The Experts — will take care of it while the general constituency (or readership) gets on with the more serious business — the great distraction — of making money and investing or spending it.

The removal of serious public business and concerns into private domains may suffice for the insertion of the feudal mode (Authority –> Newest Nobility –> Treasury : Military –> Subjugated Populace) into democratic and open processes.

Putin-Khamenei-(Obama)?

Considering the gains obtained by the despotic against western interests (in Hungary, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen, for a start) and accompanying inroads into government and intellectual assets (on-campus anti-Semitism would seem to signal agitation by fascistic forces via specific academic placements — just check the BDS lists), the question begs that “transparency” bragged by the Obama Administration in fact be met with investigation and examinable disclosure.

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FTAC – Note About 21 C. Feudalism

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Everybody wants money!
And so they — and Obama — are racing to acquire income any which way. The 21st Century Feudalism involves tying up that wealth in concentration in as few hands as as possible — “Putin’s Way”.
This is politics too much about money.
Re. Obama — he’s emphasized the American economy in his effort! Others, perhaps, have emphasized themselves as controlling vast wealth.

Examination of the American economy, “America Inc.”  and its distributions opens on to a broad and multidimensional field of study.  However, it may be fair to suggest at this lightest and most superficial level that despite issues available to the rabble rousing far left, earnings and distribution overall have recovered from the real estate crash of 2006-7 and the dollar has been strong, perhaps too strong.  Still, compared to the “state capitalism” shepherded into Russia by Putin, Obama’s America retains its more broadly open character.

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FTAC – Iraq – Obama – 21st Century Neo-Feudalism

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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The coalition may need “buy-in”.

Obama may be misguided or misled or in cahoots with what I guess I’ll call the “Newest Global Nobility” — very wealthy people who cooperate with one another in various ways while maintaining a popular screen of differences in their ideological or political rhetoric.

Khamenei — and his brother — appear themselves to be without boundaries, and perhaps unwittingly, the U.S. / NATO have opened the gates to Iranian power in Iraq — and, bear with the writer, Iran-manipulated ISIS (that’s the story I feel I’ve seen) provides both key and lever for that condition. Khamenei with ISIS has the leverage to convince Iraq’s Shiite community that it needs him in their defense, when, probably, he helped open the way for ISIS into Iraq and influenced the stall of the ISIS summer 2014 campaign north of Baghdad.

Complicated?

Putting on a show in “political theater” has been the Soviet way / post-Soviet neo-feudal KGB / FSB way, and Iran has been part of that all the way. The sanitizing and prettying up of the Camp Liberty crowd may signal Obama’s own complicity in this developing arrangement between emerging 21st Century neo-feudal politicians.

While “Red Brown Green” may be defined by the revanch skeleton of the Soviet Union in the form of a “Newest Nobility” — Putin-Khamenei as anchors, Assad, Orban, and Erdogan as lesser lords — the American and NATO roles in making adjustments on behalf of Really Big Money seems much less visible.

Is The Money Democratic or Republican?

Or is The Money just concerned with itself and include to manipulate whatever suits its accumulation best?

Are we watching the invention of a true-to-life (and politics) Global Monopoly Board?

BackChannels doesn’t know the answer to that question yet, but it’s coming to know how ruthless Soviet / post-Soviet and KGB-derived politics may be, and that to the extent that “false flag operations” and manipulated horrors like ISIL are possible in the cause of the acquisition of human but inhuman and psychologically disturbed (and disturbing) power.

Whether that “Moscow Apartment Bombing” kind of behavior (KGB false flag, according to Karen Dawisha) has found a place in the west remains to be verified (by some preponderance of evidence), but that Obama has been giving Khamenei a hand — Yemen ceded to the Houthis, apparently; the western coalition response to Daesh slowed before being made to response to atrocity (e.g., the enslavement and slaughter of the Yezidis; the intervention on behalf of the Kurdish community in Kobani) with some plans seemingly leaked — seems plain.  In Obama’s world, inaction appears to have become as good as action as regards enabling and encouraging the development of increasingly bad news.

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Link – Re. Red Brown Green Syndicate – Ref. The Spectator

27 Friday Feb 2015

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The Kremlin doesn’t invent anti-European or anti-establishment ideas, it simply supports them in whatever form they exist, customising their tactics to suit each country. They’ll support the far left or the far right — in Greece they support both. Despite its economic plight, the new Greek government’s first act was not a protest against European economic policy but a protest against sanctions on Russia. Only then did it tell its European creditors that it might not pay them back.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9447782/how-vladimir-putin-is-waging-war-on-the-west-and-winning/ – 2/21/2015.

The following section has appeared already once on BackChannels but it bears repeating and may be seen in several locations as the fray between the neo-feudal dictatorships and the democratic open societies becomes more obvious and pressing.

Red Brown Green

Red = Soviet, post-Soviet, Putinesque neo-feudal Russia.

Brown = New Nationalist Movements — an allusion to the drifts of Orban’s Hungary and a part of the mix involved in Erdogan’s Turkey.

Green = Islamofascism generally with Ayatollah Khamenei possibly the most central element in driving the form worldwide, from Daesh in Iraq to Hezbollah in Argentina.

Elementary Anatomy

Khamenei

Putin-Assad-Khamenei

Putin-Orban

Putin-Erdogan

Khemenei-Kirchner*

Is it too soon to add Nicolás Maduro?

*If ever a head of state has experienced an “Oh F***” moment, it has to be Cristina Kirchner who has found herself and her government in the glare of intense global scrutiny in the wake of the death of of Alberto Nisman.  The world has gotten the sense of what would inform her motivation to have Nisman out of the way, and now — as I read the news — it appears the global “Red Brown Green” aspect of a revanch post-Soviet neo-feudal Russia (revanch for those who enjoy privilege at any cost to others, including their own greater constituencies) has become clear as well.

News from Yemen (from back in the USSR/RF) —

During the meeting, the Houthi delegation promised an array of lucrative contracts in exchange for Moscow’s recognition of the Ansarullah’s authority.

The delegation assured that the Houthis will soon take control of oil-rich Marib Province, which they say will yield billions of dollars per day.

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150225/1018721857.html#ixzz3Sy2nA1BY – 2/25/2015.

Let’s not forget Mikhail Bogdanov’s meeting with the PFLP back in the first week of November 2014.

The abandonment of principle characterizes the geopolitical space operated by The New Gang of Bad Little Boys (and Perhaps One Girl).  No doubt, however, these play hard among themselves as well, but before the press approaches internecine differences, it’s just as well to note the cooperation between “political absolutists” disregarding the ideological and state interests that would be otherwise ascribed to them.  As malignant narcissists — every one of them — what they have in common is the possession and want of immense power and wealth in service to their securing boundless “narcissistic supply” — they would be in their own halls of mirrors eternally glorious — and some day to be remembered as such (or else!).

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Link – Hanson – Obama – Putin

24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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 . . . As the ruble crashes, as Russia’s oil income dives, and as sanctions start biting the man in the street, Putin, in counterintuitive fashion, is apparently more popular than ever.

Why? Because he has become an easy mechanism for ordinary Russians to vent frustration and anger over what they perceive as a too-powerful and bullying West.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414270/how-empower-violent-extremism-victor-davis-hanson – 2/24/2015.