Posted on 03/11/2016 4:09:07 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Over the long weekend before the Mississippi and Michigan primaries, the sky above Sea Island was black with corporate jets.
Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Napster’s Sean Parker, Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, and other members of the super-rich were jetting in to the exclusive Georgia resort, ostensibly to participate in the annual World Forum of the American Enterprise Institute.
Among the advertised topics of discussion: “Millennials: How Much Do They Matter and What Do They Want?”
That was the cover story.
As revealed by the Huffington Post, Sea Island last weekend was host to a secret conclave at the Cloisters where oligarchs colluded with Beltway elites to reverse the democratic decisions of millions of voters and abort the candidacy of Donald Trump.
Among the journalists at Sea Island were Rich Lowry of National Review, which just devoted an entire issue to the topic: “Against Trump,” and Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the Trumphobic New York Times.
Bush guru Karl Rove of FOX News was on hand, as were Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham, dispatched by Trump in New Hampshire and a berserker on the subject of the Donald.
So, too, was William Kristol, editor of the rabidly anti-Trump Weekly Standard, who reported back to comrades: “The key task now, to … paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him.”
Kristol earlier tweeted that the Sea Island conclave is “off the record, so please do consider my tweets from there off the record.”
Redeeming itself for relegating Trump to its entertainment pages, the Huffington Post did the nation a service in lifting the rug on “something rotten in the state.”
What we see at Sea Island is that, despite all their babble about bringing the blessings of “democracy” to the world’s benighted, AEI, Neocon Central, believes less in democracy than in perpetual control of the American nation by the ruling Beltway elites.
If an outsider like Trump imperils that control, democracy be damned. The elites will come together to bring him down, because, behind party ties, they are soul brothers in the pursuit of power.
Something else was revealed by the Huffington Post — a deeply embedded corruption that permeates this capital city.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a 501(c)(3) under IRS rules, an organization exempt from U.S. taxation.
Million-dollar corporate contributions to AEI are tax-deductible.
This special privilege, this freedom from taxation, is accorded to organizations established for purposes such as “religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary … or the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.”
What the co-conspirators of Sea Island were up at the Cloisters was about as religious as what the Bolsheviks at that girls school known as the Smolny Institute were up to in Petrograd in 1917.
From what has been reported, it would not be extreme to say this was a conspiracy of oligarchs, War Party neocons, and face-card Republicans to reverse the results of the primaries and impose upon the party, against its expressed will, a nominee responsive to the elites’ agenda.
And this taxpayer-subsidized “Dump Trump” camarilla raises even larger issues.
Now America is not Russia or Egypt or China.
But all those countries are now moving purposefully to expose U.S. ties to nongovernmental organizations set up and operating in their capital cities.
Many of those NGOs have had funds funneled to them from U.S. agencies such as the National Endowment for Democracy, which has backed “color-coded revolutions” credited with dumping over regimes in Serbia, Ukraine and Georgia.
In the early 1950s, in Iran and Guatemala, the CIA of the Dulles brothers did this work.
Whatever ones thinks of Vladimir Putin, can anyone blame him for not wanting U.S. agencies backing NGOs in Moscow, whose unstated goal is to see him and his regime overthrown?
And whatever one thinks of NED and its subsidiaries, it is time Americans took a hard look at the tax-exempt foundations, think tanks and public policy institutes operating in our capital city.
How many are like AEI, scheming to predetermine the outcome of presidential elections while enjoying tax exemptions and posturing as benign assemblages of disinterested scholars and seekers of truth?
How many of these tax-exempt think tanks are fronts and propaganda organs of transnational corporations that are sustained with tax-deductible dollars, until their “resident scholars” can move into government offices and do the work for which they have been paid handsomely in advance?
How many of these think tanks take foreign money to advance the interests of foreign regimes in America’s capital?
We talk about the “deep state” in Turkey and Egypt, the unseen regimes that exist beneath the public regime and rule the nation no matter the president or prime minister.
What about the “deep state” that rules us, of which we caught a glimpse at Sea Island?
A diligent legislature of a democratic republic would have long since dragged America’s deep state out into the sunlight.
Looks like Bill Kristol is going back to his political roots. No wonder most of his friends and allies will be backing Hillary in the general election.
This election has also revealed how so much of the so-called conservative media (Fox News, “conservative” talk radio hosts) is propping up the oligarchy too. Just this morning Guy Benson and Katie Pavlich (filling in for Bill Bennett) were scaremongering regarding Donald Trump.
I wouldn't rule out Soros or anyone else interesting attending via media link.
It's easy to have attendees who aren't attendees of record, so to speak, which means you can paint any picture you want with the public guest list and those who the media see arriving.
JMHo
bkmk
Belated ping!
Fitting to add this here ...
FACEBOOK turning into massive digital graveyard...
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead
Cruz should have gotten executive experience before running. Now he’s so wrapped up with impatience to lead that I doubt he ever will.
AND ITS TRUE---Donald is associated w/ The Mob....
but he regrets every dollar he ever donated to politicians.
Organized crime headquarters.
“Rush Limbaugh mentioned this meeting a few days ago.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rush had been an attendee, too. He’s in their group now, and he wasn’t on air that day.
Or KAOS.
The thing is, leading requires people skills. Think Reagan.
I think it is a sign of our times, that all of the heroes have been torn down and replaced with anti-heroes. As a result, we now look up to snarky losers, or barely contained psychopaths instead of the virtuous. Then we wonder why we are having problems.
.its time Americans took a hard look at the tax-exempt foundations, think tanks and public policy institutes operating in our capital city......scheming here to predetermine presidential elections while enjoying tax exemptions. How many of these tax-exempts are propaganda organs of transnational corporations, sustained with tax-deductible dollars, until their resident scholars can move into government offices and do the work for which they have been paid handsomely in advance?...............
The just embed themselves deeper and deeper into places they do not belong.
The list below has many of these anti American thugs in it.
Trump against the evil world of open borders pimps like BUSHCO! Levin? Rush? National Review/Lowry/Compost, the BLM and Sanders Thugs at Chicago! Including the thugs trying to attack him in Ohio/ Kansas City! Now the hysterical puppies at the Compost, Karen Tumulty, Jenna Johnson and Jose A. DelReal, LA Slimes, SF Gayrhonical w/ Thomas Beaumont and Jill Colvin. The liars like Michelle Fields, Ben Terris, Jabin Botsford, Lloyd Grove, Ben Sharpiro.
“Bush guru Karl Rove of FOX News was on hand, as were Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham, dispatched by Trump in New Hampshire and a berserker on the subject of the Donald.
So, too, was William Kristol, editor of the rabidly anti-Trump Weekly Standard, who reported back to comrades: The key task now, to paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him.”
” The March of the PUKEneos”
Coming soon, to a theater near you!
“... berzerkers...”. Perfect.
Surreal, that the USA suffers such an entrenched web of mobsters, who despise this Republic.
What a pain in the neck we must be to them.
We have got to get Paul Ryan out of office and McConnell out.
The Bill Kristols of the media and the Karl Rove donor solicitors, and the donor class all together support these two nabobs.
They must be defeated and the donor billions brought to heel, from buying elections through McCain’s Citizens United law that allows it all.
I agree with your every word, Rita.
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