Posted on 10/29/2018 9:16:58 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The last time, of course, was when WaPo used the unfortunate fact that Nixon took $100,000 bribe from Howard Hughes to bring down a popularly elected government, Deep State was directly involved in the person of Mark Feldt, #2 at the FBI who was angry at being passed over after Hoover.
The key principle is, which players are involved, or rather, which sectors. Our saving grace is the fact that the Military have never been complicit, (though the 3rd time before last, the dark powers tried to use the Military as a pawn, but a Great American Hero, Marine General Smedley Darlington Butler, proved true-blue.)
The hinge principle is, which sector is trying to bring our government down? It is the Disinformation Sector, 1) professional intelligence and 2) the Press. (The 3rd disinformation region, organized crime, appears not to have any involvement, the incompetent Russians notwithstanding. However, future historical accounts may have something to say about the Chinese.)
The 2nd to the last time was when Edward R. Murrow used the press to accomplish the work of his Frankfurt School masters. Murrow brought the New Left's Herbert Marcuse into the OSS, before he used Sen. Joseph McCarthy's monumental perosnal unattractiveness as a lever, the same as today's Disinformation Sector is trying to leverage against President Trump.
The Third to Last prior Coup Attempt against the American Government, is called "The Business Plot", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot. The reporter of that, Jules Archer, was on the left. Interpolate his "Plot to Seize the White House" https://www.wanttoknow.info/plottoseizethewhitehouse with the mother ship of tell-alls, Carroll Quigley's "Tragedy & Hope" https://tragedyandhope.com/, and you get a curious fact that points to the Orwellian Socials as the true home of contemporary left-fascism:
Fascism is the political manifestation of the period of economic history known as Monopoly Capitalism. Standard Oil cartelized petroleum railcar transport. IG Farben, "The Devil's Chemists", cartelized world-leading German chemical R&D, Bayer, Hoeschst & BASF. Today's equivalent: Facebook, Twitter and Google are a disinformation Cartel.
Maybe I need more coffee. This seems like word salad to me.
I’m pretty sure there is a point hiding in there somewhere . . .
“Maybe I need more coffee. This seems like word salad to me.”
Agree. Just enough familiar stuff to look edible, but some of those other things.....maybe, maybe not. All arranged to cloud a point terribly described in a sketchy title.
More reading maybe, but looks like too much is presumed as existing background.
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YMMV
KYPD
“...Butler proved ‘true blue’...”. Hmmmm. Not so certain about that.
BOOM! You beat me to it. :>)
I generally understood it, but some background would have been helpful.
I agree, the author is assuming the reader can follow his musings.
Needs to be filled out.
There’s a conspiracy about conspiracies- Got it!
Who dun it? Mr Plum in the Conservatory with the lead pipe?
Envelope please.
Well that is the charge of leftists at any rate. Following is yet a different account, which I find to be more likely what really happened:
The money went through Las Vegas resident Robert Maheu, who for 17 years was Hughes' right-hand man. Maheu said there was nothing nefarious -- it was a campaign donation.
He told "60 Minutes" that he went to Rebozo's home and gave him $50,000 cash in an envelope -- a "big envelope."
Maheu, who never saw Hughes in the 17 years he worked for him, told the Sun that the money "was not a bribe. In those days, cash contributions were legal."
Maheu told the Sun that Hughes contributed to both Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate.
Each candidate received a $50,000 check from Hughes through the election committees, Maheu said. Each also received $50,000 in cash.
Once Nixon took office, Hughes ordered Maheu through phone calls and memos to give a sizeable sum of money to Rebozo, Maheu told the Sun.
Half of the money was for Nixon's campaign, Maheu said. The other half "was to help congressional campaigns in which Nixon might be interested in," he said. "
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