Deep state

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A deep state is a network of individuals and groups which are in de facto charge of a national government, and which use the democratically elected government as a front, providing plausible deniability and allowing covert control. On matters of deep political importance, the public machinery of government is routinely subverted on the say so of deep politicians.

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Groups with covert de facto control of a nation state. Just as monarchies often had a "power behind the throne", so democracies similarly have an unacknowledged secret hand with a greater or lesser degree of control over decisions taken. This website uses the phrase "Deep State" (with capitals) as a shorthand to refer to the Supranational Deep State, the global alliance of deep states which was fused by 9/11.

Not to be confused with the Supranational Deep State, the de facto coalition of deep states.

A deep state (loosely synonymous with the shadow government, or more rarely permanent government or permanent state) is made up of people and networks that influence (up to a high degree) a state's political leadership and [[intelligence agencies. They instigate deep events, in contrast to the public structures (shallow politics) which appear to be in charge of nation states. It is an intensely secretive, informal, fluid network of deep politicians whose deep state factions effectively amplify their influence over national governments.

Etymology and usage

The phrase "deep state" derives from the Turkish "derin devlet". It emerged after the 1996 Susurluk car crash unmasked the Turkish deep state. Back in the 2000s and early 2010s, it was used by only a few commentators, sometimes within quotation marks. It experienced a surge of use in 2017, often not in keeping with the meaning attributed by the diplomat who coined the phrase.

Official Narrative

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The 1996 Susurluk car crash, the deep event which lead to the coining of the phrase "deep state".

The official narrative of deep states used to be that they were "conspiracy theory". This position was modified in the last few years to the claim that they don't exist here. In 2013 the New York Times defined the deep state as "a hard-to-perceive level of government or super-control that exists regardless of elections and that may thwart popular movements or radical change. Some have said that Egypt is being manipulated by its deep state." Since the Times (like the rest of the commercially-controlled media) is more or less a under the control of the deep state, such a mention is very interesting. The implication of the second half of their definition is clear:- countries other than Egypt are not being manipulated by a deep state. A 2012 blog post at the World Bank is clearer still:- "You think your country has undergone a transition to democracy... You realize that there are powerful elite formations bequeathed by years, even decades, of authoritarian rule still able to block progressive change and protect their interests." The statement that "deep states that exist in many youngish ‘democracies’" avoids discussion of nation states which have long claimed to be democracies.. A 2013 book entitled "Deep State" would soften the term, making no mention of false flag attacks and bemoaning 9-11 "conspiracy theorists".

2017 Popularisation

Full article: Deep state/2017 Popularisation

The phrase "deep state" experienced a huge rise in usage after the election of Donald Trump. Trump's 2016 promise, and campaign rally cry was "Drain the Swamp!" However, once elected appointed 65 members of the deep state, unelected Council on Foreign Relations and Bilderberg attendees, to all key roles in his administration, including national security directors, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, FBI Director Chris Wray, key members of his cabinet including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Attorney General William Barr, Federal Reserve Chairman Jeremy Powell, ambassadors, and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. In March 2017, in particular, corporate media outlets all seemed to be offering contradictory ideas about what the term might mean, some denying its applicability to the US (arguing that "There is no American Deep State... it just looks like there is") others suggesting that it's synonymous with "civil service", or even contradicting the original meaning by suggesting it was politically partisan. This is an interesting development given the mound of evidence that the deep state controls corporate media. Running for reelection in 2020, President Trump took credit for draining the swamp, with his base of support being none-the-wiser, due to ignorance exactly what constitutes the deep state, which still remains widely misunderstood. Vivek Ramaswamy 2024 campaign features a promise to curtail the deep state, further confusing it with the civil service by promising to have a 75% headcount reduction "for all of the people that weren't elected in Washington DC", without ever mentioning the role of the Council on Foreign Relations selection of its members in each president's administration, regardless of political party.

Democratic façade

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Since the early 19^th and particularly in the 20^th century, deep states in many nation states have worked to maintain a cover of party politics, focusing on personalities of individual politicians or issue of identity politics. {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Deep state |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Ivo Mosley|+sep=, |Has text=“Although elected representatives are supposed to be the ruling power we see them coming and going while the true powers in our lives — political parties, bureaucracies, business corporations, the media, institutions of law and justice, quangos, international treaty agreements, financial systems, regulators etcetera — get on with business.” |Is about=Deep state,deep state, elections, politics, the establishment|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=2013 |Sourced from=In The Name Of The People |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=In The Name Of The People |Has sourceURL=http://ivomosley.com/in-the-name-of-the-people/

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“Although elected representatives are supposed to be the ruling power we see them coming and going while the true powers in our lives — political parties, bureaucracies, business corporations, the media, institutions of law and justice, quangos, international treaty agreements, financial systems, regulators etcetera — get on with business.”
Ivo Mosley (2013) 

This façade was by and large successful at hiding the real business of deep politics from public scrutiny. In the 21^st century, in spite of massive consolidation of corporate media, this veil is proving increasingly thin as deep state milieux, formerly only the stuff of rumour, are now increasingly well documented with photos, videos and leaked documents all online.

Organisation

The core of deep state groups and deep state milieu could be summarised by Dwight Eisenhower's "Military-industrial-congressional complex", although intelligence agencies are essential to their functioning. They are made up of the real leadership - note that an organisation's de facto leaders may well different from its de jure leaders (especially a regards spooks where compartmentalization and a culture of secrecy facilitate such duplicity, and high ranking officials may be retained as patsies,

• intelligence agencies
• deep politicians and their henchmen, i.e. individuals who control deep state factions and who broker agreements between other members of the deep state.
• Some senior or long-standing non-elected officials within government (e.g. top civil servants);
• Selected individuals with effective control of key commercial, military and/or criminal groups in:
  • The "defence" and "counter-terrorism" industries;
  • The financial sector;
  • The Corporate media, although technological change is rapidly eroding the importance of this sector, which is losing its role to the tech giants such as Google and Facebook.

Supranational Nature

Full article: Supranational Deep State

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Deep states often evolved as secret cabals to control particular nation states. However, although originating in particular localities, the corruption of governments has globalised as have other enterprises, resulting in an ever wider interlocking of deep state factions in the 21^st century. A 2010 paper by Peter Dale Scott refers to "A Supranational Deep State", noting how their international integration effectively allows deep states to evade even the limited control national governments had in the early 20^th century. Post 9-11, most deep state groups are members of an informal alliance known on this website as the Supranational Deep State. The need for secrecy has lead to extreme compartmentalisation, promotes infighting and hampers its effective control any of the deep state groups which make it up, possibly driving the 2020 lurch towards a global control grid with strict technological controls on freedom of speech and freedom of movement.

Deep state milieux

Full article: Deep state milieu

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The 2016 Washington DC meeting of Le Cercle, a highly secret deep state milieux started in the early 1950s

Deep state milieux, such as the (formerly very secret) Bilderberg group are organs of the deep state, places where deep state operatives can meet up, away from public scrutiny, and make plans. This is not to say that all visitors to such groups are members of, or even cognisant of, deep state operations; such groups also provide a place where potential members can be subject to evaluation — of the visitors to the Bilderberg only visited once.

Fluid nature

Power relations between deep politicians remain fluid, so deep states should not be be seen as alternative power structures to the visible organisational structures which they dominate. Relationships between Mafia families offer a suitable parallel, combining an often uneasy cooperation with occasional violent and sudden change. All deep state groups share share a common interest in preventing exposure of the real goings on behind the facade of electoral politics, so even violently opposed factions can cooperate to hide the true nature of deep events.

Activities

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In 1977, deep state operative Edwin Wilson sold about 20,000 kg of plastic explosives to Libya, together with training in bomb making from US green berets. The report of the 1986 Bilderberg charged that "Libya is the principal sponsor of terrorism. It finances terrorist acts, it trains terrorist groups, it supplies arms, ammunition, passports and other documents to terrorists, and it uses its embassies, so-called peoples' bureaus, as weapons storehouses and sanctuaries for terrorists. Recently, Libya has been escalating its involvement in terrorism."

Deep states are probably dominated by psychopaths and sociopaths. To preserve their power, they must not only stay in the shadows, but frustrate radical and progressive social change. Control of corporate media is essential to the effective operation of the deep state. In the US this is effected through deep state control of the CIA, which has huge influence over big media. With the apparatus of nation states under their control, their subterfuges can be elaborate and complex. Like Mafia families, deep state groups have a common interest in hiding their existence at all costs, leading to cooperation in times of crisis. As a Turkish cartoon put it in 1997 "Deep state protects its own."

Deep Politics

Full article: Deep Politics

"Deep Politics" is a term coined by Peter Dale Scott to describe the activities and issues of importance to the agents of the deep state. These may be only indirectly seen as connected to "politics"; in most countries of the world today, party politics is more or less used as a veneer to obscure the real considerations. In contrast to multiple levels of publicly aired political considerations, deep political motives are sometimes much simpler; Charlotte Denett, for example, suggests that the deep politics of WW1 and WW2 actually centered on control of the Middle East's resources of oil and natural gas.

Deep Events

Full article: Deep Events

Deep Events are the footprints of the deep state. Peter Dale Scott specifies 3 levels:

1. Low level deep events, typically unnoticed at the time, are discovered only as part of later investigations.
2. Mid level deep events, typically accompanied by a set of cover stories to obscure their deep political significance.
3. Structural deep events, rare and ambitious, which to try to change entire societies, sometimes without them even knowing it.

The defining structural deep events of the late 20^th century was the JFK Assassination, a coup d'etat that radically changed the US political scene. which the establishment presented it to US citizens as the work of a "lone nut".

The defining structural deep event of the 21^st century was the 9/11 attacks, which the perpetual war known as the "War on Terror". Details such as Larry Silverstein's multi-billion dollar windfall and the insider trading are widely known, but evidence is accumulating that these were but minor parts of much larger suite of financial frauds carried out by deep political insiders who capitalised on the opportunity.

Alternate usage

In 2021 Peter Koenig headlined an article The Covid Deep State: Threats, Vaccine Injuries and Deaths Abound No Compensation. No Justice. He introduces the article by explaining that {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Deep state |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Peter Koenig|+sep=, |Has text=“What can now be called “Covid Deep State” – the same “superior and super-rich elite” buys practically all the corporate media – television, radio and print – in basically all the 193 UN member countries. Looks like there is no escape. That’s what they would like. That’s why the entire world had to be locked down for the virus at once on or around the 15^th of March 2020.” |Is about=Deep state,COVID-19/Lockdowns, Supranational Deep State|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=4 June 2021 |Sourced from=Global Research |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Global Research |Has sourceURL=https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-threats-vaccine-injuries-deaths-abound-no-compensation-no-justice/5746955 }}“What can now be called “Covid Deep State” – the same “superior and super-rich elite” buys practically all the corporate media – television, radio and print – in basically all the 193 UN member countries. Looks like there is no escape. That’s what they would like. That’s why the entire world had to be locked down for the virus at once on or around the 15^th of March 2020.”

Cultural references

The second series of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy concludes with the protagonists having finally located the ruler of the universe (a.k.a. the "man in the shack") who makes the real decisions that are ascribed to the President of The Galaxy. The posthumously produced series three of the radio series (produced after Adams' death) diffuses this plot by suggesting that this was a psychotic episode. In the (later) radio adaptation Trillian describes the idea of the secret ruler of the universe as a "conspiracy theory".

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