Epstein and the Explosive Crisis of the Deep State

deep stateCharles Hugh Smith – Speculations by outsiders must give Deep State insiders many opportunities to chuckle, “if only they knew.” We don’t know, of course, and public leaks are engineered to misdirect our attention from what’s actually going on or “frame” our understanding in a positive way.

Decades later, history reveals a very ordinary mix of great successes and horrific failure in secret operations, caused by errors of judgment, faulty intelligence, poor planning and so on. In other words, life isn’t tidy, either inside or outside the Deep State.

Nonetheless we can postulate a few things with some certainty. One is that the Deep State– the unelected, permanent government which includes not just the intelligence community but a vast array of agencies and institutions as well as the top-level structures of diplomacy, finance and geopolitics–is not monolithic. There are different views and competing camps, but the disagreements and bureaucratic wars are kept out of sight. Continue reading

A New letter by Archbishop Viganò demonstrates the Pope is covering up sex crimes

popeLeo Zagami – The Vatican crisis deepens, as Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has issued a new letter where he addresses his allegations against Pope Francis and other senior prelates that have been complicit in covering up the sex abuse by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. Headed with Archbishop Viganò’s episcopal motto, Scio Cui credidi (I know whom I have believed), the letter, dated Sept. 29, was released yesterday, September 27, 2018.

At the moment, the focus of the US media’s attention is, of course, on the circus surrounding the false accusations of sex abuse against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, while, in reality, the real monsters remain untouched. Archbishop Viganò noted that Pope Francis’ response to his 11-page testimony was, “I will not say a word,”adding that “he has compared his silence to that of Jesus in Nazareth and before Pilate, and compared me to the great accuser, Satan, who sows scandal and division in the Church — though without ever uttering my name.” Continue reading