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1)
US
politics are relatively simple. The Democratic and Republican parties are
simulations of a unitary ‘Establishment,’ a ruling cartel centered in the CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations) and other powerful think tanks. Every single
time, regardless of who ‘wins,’ this cartel determines US policy (Part 4). 2)
Cartel
policy, meant to fuel citizen demand for greater State powers (‘to protect
us’), has been—since long before Barack Obama—to promote jihadi terrorism,
while pretending to confront it (Part 2). 3)
Consistent
with that, the US cartel has undermined the security of the State of Israel,
which lies on the front-line of the jihadi onslaught, while pretending to
support it (Part 3). 4)
Donald
Trump is wholly owned by the cartel. A good scientific model is predictive
but also productive. It will
account for stuff that, intuitively, seemed outside of its purview. Here, for
example, is our fifth claim: 5)
The US ruling cartel’s pro-jihadi and
anti-Israeli thrust is what explains Trump’s bullying of Mexico. I know what you’re thinking: I’ve
misplaced my map (and lost my marbles). Mexico is far from Israel, and hardly
a major player in Middle-Eastern politics. Yes, but the map that counts here is
the identity field. If you can
shape it, you can render certain moves on
the physical map possible or impossible. It is the essence of psychological
warfare
and requires a grasp of ‘political
grammar.’ The anti-Mexico onslaught is
calculated to make Trump look like a racist, which then closes the ears of
‘leftists’ to anything else he says, and to what their fellow citizens on the
‘right’—who cannot help but cheer the anti-jihadi speeches—may tell them. In
this manner, the citizenry is divided, and the cartel gains maneuvering room
in which to continue its policies. We will put together this fifth claim
step by step, for it is an interesting, sophisticated game. But let us first
briefly get our bearings by reviewing how HIR’s first four claims are doing
against those of a rival model. HIR’s
‘cartel’ model against the competition The rival model sees US politics as
relatively complex: a genuine ‘free market’ of (well… two) independent parties. In this model, Trump is a real
challenger, and his anti-Establishment rants, his loud denunciations of
Barack Obama’s pro-jihadi and anti-Israeli policies, and his campaign promise
to “drain the swamp” in Washington were all sincere. This model predicts that
Trump’s and Obama’s policies will be dramatically different. To decide which model best matches
reality we need diagnostic evidence,
such that one model can explain it and the other cannot. For example, take Trump’s choices for
top foreign-policy positions. These, it turns out, are all ‘swamp creatures’:
former Obama stalwarts and CFR Establishment types with a history of
promoting jihad and undermining Israel (Part 5). This evidence agrees nicely with
the ‘cartel’ and not at all with the ‘free market’ model. It’s diagnostic.
Now consider Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia. Though it was widely celebrated by
his supporters for its harsh language against terrorism, this is not diagnostic evidence. For if Trump
is sincere, this is anti-jihadism; and if he’s a fraud, it’s just a
pretense—a ‘grammatically’ forced move. Either model can explain mere words;
they cost nothing, so they’re worth nothing. By contrast, Trump’s $100 billion in
weapons to Saudi Arabia, announced in the same trip, are worth… $100 billion.[1] Context is everything, so let’s fill
it in. Feast your eyes on over 2 million pilgrims who travel every year to
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to circle the Ka’bah, a black cube at the literal center
of Muslim devotion worldwide. As they worship, gorge your ears on their
voices, harking to the amplified prayers of Saudi government clerics: “May God set Himself upon the Christian oppressors
and over the criminal Jews and over their tyrant brothers. May God give them misery and pain on
their paths. May God dress them up in suffering and mourning garb and
reprimand them with pain and sickness. May god give them pain and suffering
in their lives and prepare for them a violent death. May god give punishment,
martyrdom, and anguish to the Christian oppressors and the criminal Jews.
¡May God hear our supplication and give them what they deserve!”[2]
Let’s see, then… Candidate
Trump affected a counter-jihad pose and, consistent with that, promised to
disappoint Saudi Arabia,[3] which, all over the world, “plays the
lead role in financing contemporary Islamist movements” that terrorize the
innocent.[4] So then President Trump makes Saudi Arabia his first official destination
and pledges gun sales worth $100 billion. You follow? Candidate
Trump also “vowed to ‘knock the hell out of ISIS’ ” and accused that “
‘…President Obama… is the founder of ISIS…’ ”[5] Indeed, among
other policies,
Obama, “whose arms sales to Saudi Arabia totaled $115 billion”[6], had the Saudis send some of those
weapons to his favorite ‘Syrian rebels,’
who then promptly joined ISIS.[7] So then President Trump rushes to sell $100 billion in guns to the same
Saudis. You follow? If not, then perhaps we can have
ourselves a little ‘Qatar crisis’ right after Trump comes home. To Trump’s
applause, Saudi Arabia can call ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood ‘terrorists,’
accuse Qatar of supporting both, and break diplomatic relations with Qatar.
What a great show. And that’ll make it ok for Saudi Arabia to get 100 billion
in US weapons. Never mind that it was together with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood that the
Saudis, at Obama’s behest, sent US weapons to ISIS.[7]
Never mind that Qatar does not have its own foreign policy, for this tiny
speck is the largest US military base in the Middle East. Never mind… And let’s not forget Israel. At his
next stop, Jerusalem, Trump peddled the
Saudi ‘peace’ plan: “[J]ust a couple of hours after he
landed in Israel… [w]ith the gusto of a salesman pushing a limited-time
offer, [Trump] cast the Saudi monarch in a leading role and invoked his name
to push Mr. Netanyahu toward progress with the Palestinians.”[8] These behaviors are diagnostic
evidence. For whereas the ‘free market’ model, which accepts Trump’s
presentation of self, cannot easily explain them, the ‘cartel’ model in fact
predicted, before Trump took office, that his counter-jihad and pro-Israeli
speeches would be followed, in policy, by just the opposite (Part 1). So
where does Mexico fit in? These policies have a consequence. As
jihadi explosions, shootings, stabbings, rapes, and murders-by-car-ramming
become ever more frequent and bloody in the West, more Westerners are willing
to accept that individual liberties must be reduced in exchange for the
protection that a more powerful State promises. This feeling must be
politically channeled, so the cartel fields a candidate marketed as
counter-jihadi: Donald Trump. But a danger lurks. If US citizens tip
too strongly, too fast, and too collectively against jihadism, US pro-jihadi
policies will become impossible. And then, as the jihadi threat quickly
wanes, Western rights and liberties will have to be reinstated—and with them,
citizen control of the system. Oops. To avoid this outcome, the cartel must
ensure that leftists never join the counter-jihad movement. Solution: make Trump an anti-Mexican
racist! It works beautifully. When Trump bullies Mexico,
‘left-liberals’ all over the West see a racist, and they hate Trump. In
consequence, they hate anything he says. This is power—the power to direct
minds. Watch: “Trump hates Mexicans. He is a racist. I hate him. What he says
about Islam is just more racism.” See? Of course, Trump can also be used to
manipulate the ‘right.’ Watch: “Trump said the truth about Islam. He is a
truth-teller. I love him. He must be right that US violence is
made-in-Mexico.” See? And then ‘left-liberals’ and
‘right-wingers’ each see a confirmation of their worst fears in the opposite
camp, and they stay divided. Which is too bad. If Western
‘right-wingers’ wave a patriotic flag to support a more powerful State
because they think that State is fighting jihadist oppression; and if Western
‘left-wingers’ apologize for Islam because they think they are defending the
downtrodden, the West—as we know it—will vanish. A more powerful State, or the
growth of Islam in the West, or both simultaneously, will bring about the
destruction of Western rights and liberties. We need the ‘Left’ to confront rather
than apologize for Islam, because Islam makes us all victims—beginning with Muslims, of course, whom we must help
liberate. And we need the ‘Right’ to confront rather than defend the growth
of the State because the State is supporting, not fighting, Islam. In other
words, ‘Left’ or ‘Right,’ we must together defend the legacy of the European
Enlightenment from its current major threat and preserve the modern
democratic Republic, a place where we can all be free in our multifarious
diversity. To this end, we must understand the
con, expose the con, and unite. For to remain confused and divided is to
allow the con artists who rule us to continue with their pro-jihadi and
anti-Israeli policies, which will destroy our rights and liberties.
The ‘anti-Mexico’ con works because
you don’t understand it. But I shall explain it. I have briefly laid out its
structure here, but much more remains to be explained and exposed. In what
follows, I will carefully demonstrate how and why you’ve been conned. My
demonstration has four more stages. First (Part 7), I show that—aside from style—there
is nothing new in Trump’s bullying of Mexico. In fact, in recent history, US
policy towards Mexico was never so violent as during the Bush Jr.-Obama
period. And now Obama II—better known as ‘Donald Trump’—carries it forward. Second (Part 8), I show that Trump is a career con
artist. In fact, this is not the first time that the US power elite have
deceived us by having Trump make an
issue of Mexicans.
Third (Part 9), I explain how Trump’s current
‘anti-Mexico’ con works to divide Westerners into separate, antagonistic
identities that render us defenseless against the jihadi onslaught. And finally (Part 10), I explain the entire suite of
Trump’s foreign policies, from the vantage point of this unifying
perspective, to show you where the system is really going. I have bad news
for Israelis (and us all). Before I do all this, a disclosure: I
am a Mexican citizen, writing from Mexico City.
[1] “Senate Narrowly Backs Trump Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia”;
The New York Times; 13 June 2017;
By HELENE COOPER. [2]
The prayer may be seen on You Tube. It has a translation to Spanish. I
translated from that to English. Here
is another example, also from the Meccan Grand Mosque: “O
Allah, vanquish the unjust Christians and the criminal Jews, the unjust
traitors; strike them with your wrath; make their lives hostage to misery;
drape them with endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment;
fill their lives with sorrow and pain and end their lives in humiliation and
oppression; inflict your tortures and punishments upon the unjust Christians
and criminal Jews. This is our supplication; Allah, grant us our request!” SOURCE:
“Muslim
Prayers of Hate”; PJ Media;
7 November 2011; by Raymond Ibrahim. For a
more recent example, also from the Meccan Grand Mosque, there is this one is from 2016: “O Allah,
grant victory, dignity and empowerment to our brothers Mujahideen [jihadis]
in Yemen… Grant them victory over the treacherous Jews, and over the spiteful
Christians, and over the untrusted hypocrites…” [3]
During the campaign, Donald
Trump got into a public spat with Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who
expressed on Twitter that Trump was “a disgrace.” Trump replied, on Twitter,
that “Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with
daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected.” SOURCE:
“Donald Trump in spat with ‘dopey’ Saudi Prince as Muslim
row rumbles on”; The
Telegraph; 12 Dec 2015; By Rob Crilly, New York [4]
“Saudi Arabia plays the lead
role in financing contemporary Islamist movements, within the Arab-Muslim
world but also in Africa, Asia, and Europe.” SOURCE: Labevière, Richard. 2000. Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam. New York: Algora Publishing. (p.231) To
get a sense for the effect of Saudi Arabia’s dollars, consider Sweden. As Wikipedia
explains, “The governments of Saudi Arabia and Libya have financially
supported the constructions of some of the largest Mosques in Sweden.” What
Swedish Muslims hear in those mosques is consistent with the reigning
ideology in Saudi Arabia: Salafism or Wahhabism, which preaches the
application of totalitarian Muslim Sharia law and the murder of ‘infidels.’ According
to an article in the Swedish media (Dagens Nyheter), the number of ‘no go’
zones in that country, where even the Swedish police dare not tread (given
the levels of religious extremism and criminality), has been rising steeply.
In fact, there has been a 50% increase in such areas in just the last two
years. And they are getting larger. In some of these places, even the Post
Office no longer delivers, judging them too dangerous (read about this in
English here). [5] “Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that Barack Obama ‘founded’ ISIS, Hillary Clinton was ‘cofounder’ ”; Politifact; 11 August 2016; by Louis Jacobson & Amy Sherman [6] “$110 Billion Weapons Sale to Saudis Has Jared Kushner’s
Personal Touch”; The New York
Times; 18 May 2017; By MARK LANDLER, ERIC SCHMITT and MATT APUZZO. [7]
In June 2012, it became public
that Obama’s CIA was running a program to arm the—allegedly democratic—‘Syrian
opposition’ to Assad. “The arms themselves,” the report stated, “are coming from
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.” And how were these weapons
reaching their intended recipients? They were “being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of
a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood.”
As a Pentagon secret report confirmed two months later, the
‘Syrian opposition’ (except for the Rojavans) was entirely jihadi,
including the recipients of CIA-sponsored weapons. And yet, immediately after that report, Obama
gave his favorite ‘Syrian rebels’ more weapons and military training, after
which they joined ISIS en
masse. [8] “Trump’s Saudi Arabia Trip Figures Into Plan for
Palestinian Deal”; The New
York Times; The New York Times;
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