Suppose masters of surveillance know exactly what emails have been
scrubbed from Hillary Clinton's private server? Suppose they've had a
complete collection of all her emails all along?
Suppose masters
of surveillance have an enormous database of emails and phone calls from
every current presidential candidate and his/her staff?
Suppose
the actual details of Benghazi, Fast&Furious, the IRS-Tea Party
scandal, and numerous other events are in the hands of these
surveillance masters?
Suppose the secret negotiations surrounding
several trade treaties, including the TPP, are known, in great detail,
by the masters of surveillance?
Suppose this is not science fiction.
Suppose
some of this information can (or has been) turned into blackmail
operations; or conversely, has been concealed to protect the guilty?
Suppose,
for example, the hundreds of millions of emails and phone calls
generated within the European Union bureaucracy are in the hands of
these surveillance masters.
The old saw,
"Information is power," takes on new meaning.
So does,
"We're not in Kansas anymore."It's
an open secret that propaganda ops contain the component of analyzing
the reactions of the population to the propaganda messages. That has
been true for a very long time. But now, the ability to judge and parse
those reactions is increased a thousand-fold, because of surveillance.
This is a new age.
The
Surveillance State has created an apparatus whose implications are
staggering. It's a different world now. And sometimes it takes a writer
of fiction to flesh out the larger landscape.
Brad Thor's novel,
Black List,
posits the existence of a monster corporation, ATS, that stands along
side the NSA in collecting information on every move we make. ATS'
intelligence-gathering capability is unmatched anywhere in the world.
On pages 117-118 of Black List, Thor makes a stunning inference that, on reflection, is as obvious as the fingers on your hand:
"For
years ATS had been using its technological superiority to conduct
massive insider trading. Since the early 1980s, the company had spied on
anyone and everyone in the financial world. They listened in on phone
calls, intercepted faxes, and evolved right along with the technology,
hacking internal computer networks and e-mail accounts. They created
mountains of 'black dollars' for themselves, which they washed through
various programs they were running under secret contract, far from the
prying eyes of financial regulators."Those black
dollars were invested into hard assets around the world, as well as in
the stock market, through sham, offshore corporations. They also
funneled the money into reams of promising R&D projects, which
eventually would be turned around and sold to the Pentagon or the CIA."In short, ATS had created its own license to print money and had assured itself a place beyond examination or reproach."In
real life, whether the prime criminal source is one monster corporation
or a consortium of companies, or elite banks, or the NSA itself, the
outcome would be the same.
It would be as Thor describes it.
We
think about total surveillance as being directed at private citizens,
but the capability has unlimited payoffs when it targets financial
markets and the people who have intimate knowledge of them.
"Total
security awareness" programs of surveillance are ideal spying ops in
the financial arena, designed to suck up millions of bits of inside
information, then utilizing them to make investments and suck up
billions (trillions?) of dollars.
It gives new meaning to "the rich get richer."
Taking
the overall scheme to another level, consider this: those same heavy
hitters who have unfettered access to financial information can also
choose, at opportune moments, to expose certain scandals and crimes (not
their own, of course).
In this way, they can, at their whim,
cripple governments, banks, and corporations. They can cripple
investment houses, insurance companies, and hedge funds. Or,
alternatively, they can merely blackmail these organizations.
We
think we know how scandals are exposed by the press, but actually we
don't. Tips are given to people who give them to other people. Usually,
the first clue that starts the ball rolling comes from a source who
remains in the shadows.
What we are talking about here is the
creation and managing of realities on all sides, including the choice of
when and where and how to provide a glimpse of a crime or scandal.
It's
likely that the probe Ron Paul had been pushing---audit the Federal
Reserve---has already been done by those who control unlimited global
surveillance. They already know far more than any Congressional
investigation will uncover. If they know the deepest truths, they can
use them to blackmail, manipulate, and control the Fed itself.
The
information matrix can be tapped into and plumbed, and it can also be
used to dispense choice clusters of data that end up constituting the
media reality of painted pictures which, every day, tell billions of
people "what's news."
In this global-surveillance world, we need to ask new questions and think along different lines now.
For
example, how long before the mortgage-derivative crisis hit did the
Masters of Surveillance know, from spying on bank records, that
insupportable debt was accumulating at a lethal pace? What did they do
with that information?
When did they know that at least a
trillion dollars was missing from Pentagon accounting books (as Donald
Rumsfeld eventually publicly admitted on September 10, 2001), and what
did they do with that information?
Did they discover where billions of dollars, in cash, shipped to post-war Iraq, disappeared to?
When
did they know the details of the Libor rate-fixing scandal? Press
reports indicate that Barclays was trying to rig interest rates as early
as January 2005.
Have they tracked, in detail, the men
responsible for recruiting hired mercenaries and terrorists, who
eventually wound up in Syria pretending to be an authentic rebel force?
Have they discovered the truth about how close or how far away Iran is from producing a nuclear weapon?
Have they collected detailed accounts of the most private plans of Bilderberg, CFR, and Trilateral Commission leaders?
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