Hillary Clinton, Queen of Chaos, Queen of
War, Golden Goldman Girl, for all practical purposes, is now the official
bipartisan candidate of US neocons and neoliberalcons alike.
Certified add-ons include Wall Street;
selected hedge funds; TPP cheerleaders; CFR(Council
on Foreign Relations) interventionists; media barons; multinational
corporate hustlers; in fact virtually the whole exceptionalist US
establishment, duly underwritten by the bipartisan, mega-wealthy 0.0001%.
That does leave Donald J. Trump in the
astonishing position of egomaniac billionaire outsider who somehow dreams
he can game the whole system on his own, moved by his inexhaustible
chutzpah.
It’s under this dynamic that Trump
has been demonized with medieval fervor by US corporate media. His
non-stop motormouth – and motortweet – certainly does not help, conveying the
impression he’s in the business of antagonizing multitudes non-stop.
For the establishment, his billions mean nothing; he’s treated like a bum.
He may be impervious to empathy; on the other hand that kind
of treatment keeps earning him widespread sympathy among the angry,
semi-destitute, non-college educated white masses.
A US industrial renaissance?
Underneath all this sound and fury,
something else is (quietly) going on. Powerful business interests discreetly
supporting Trump – and away from the media circus — are convinced
he’s got the road map to victory. The question is whether he may be able
to tame his erratic behavior to seal the deal.
His key
message, according to these backers, must revolve around the
destruction of US industries by rigged currencies, and the
“destruction of the wages of American workers by importing
illegal cheap labor from dollar-a-day wage nations.”
And that comes with an all-important
military angle as a surefire selling point. As Trump’s backers outline it,
“the Pacific Ocean cannot be used for transporting the vital and essential
components of our military industrial complex, for in the event
of war with Russia or China
their advanced silent submarines equipped with advanced anti-ship weapons
will block all of our ocean transport, collapsing our military industrial
production in any war with catastrophic consequences. These component
factories for Intel and others must be repatriated at once
through currency adjustments or tariffs.”
So Trump should hammer the message that all
new bank credit must be tied to rebuilding destroyed US industries,
“either by ending currency rigging or applying tariffs.” Bank credit,
Trump backers argue, “should not be used for currency manipulation, or
for cash settlement market rigging. There should be no bank credit
for speculation and absolutely none of hedge funds. Let’s wipe these
speculative vehicles out by huge taxes on short-term trading profits,
ending tax concessions on borrowing, and ending all bank credit
for speculation. Let these people go to do real work.”
That, in a nutshell, explains Wall
Street’s visceral aversion to Trump – from the Bloombergs to the
Lloyd Blankfeins. Anyone familiar with Wall Street knows every market,
commodity and indexes are rigged by cash settlement manipulations. As a
New York-based Trump backer puts it, “This alone is sufficient reason
to support Donald J. Trump. We should make the Carl Icahans and George
Soroses do real work by taxing away their speculative profits. We need
Henry Fords in this nation who create and build industries, and not Wall
Street looters, where they rig everything as in 2008 then used their
political power overbought politicians for bailouts, after throwing
tens of millions of American out of their homes.”
According to this roadmap, which is
already on Trump’s desk – but no one knows whether he read it
in full, or will implement it – fighting illegal immigration and rigged
currencies side by side would create nothing less than an industrial
renaissance in the US to rebuild the devastated Detroit. Essentially,
the road map calls for replacing millions of illegal immigrants
with millions of unemployed US citizens; Trump’s backers consider the
real unemployment rate to be a whopping 23% today, based on the 1955
Bureau of Labor Statistical Methodology, “and not the rigged statistics
of today.”
The bottom line is this road map calls
for Trump if elected, to create a cross-party, or trans-party
coalition – as once happened in the House and Senate when Jesse Helms
on one side and John Conyers and Chuck Schumer on the other side
actually did real business.
This all implies Trump should become well
versed in the national economy ideas of Friedrich List – whose
tariff-protected Zollverein League was essentially the founding method
of Prussia to build the German nation.
Some of the above has already
filtered out in Trump’s announced
economic agenda. Now comes the hard part for a man with an
exceedingly short attention span who gets into the groove by tweets
and sound bites; to coherently sell the plan without picking
up unnecessary fights along the way.
But Vlad has already won it anyway
Polls at the moment seem to be
pointing to a Hillary landslide. Trump’s backers tough “would not rely
on the polls. Everything is rigged.”
And then there’s the all-enveloping
“Russian aggression” hysteria. Hillary went as far as equating
President Putin to Hitler. Trump insists he’s ready to do business
with Moscow – starting with a joint operation to end ISIS/ISIL/Daesh
for good.
Why bother? The Stupidity-o-Meter
as applied to US mainstream media has gone on interstellar
overdrive anyway – as the presidential election winner has already been
christened: it’s – who else? – the omniscient
Vladimir Putin.
A business source familiar with the
designs of the real Masters of the Universe cuts seriously
to the chase: “As far as Russia is concerned, the issue is decided
from above, and that is where the battle has been. The decision is
above Hillary and Donald, and Hillary will be ordered to create a
rapprochement if she is elected if that is what is decided. If Trump wins, it
is easy; and if he doesn’t, then the fact he brought it up will be used
as a catalyst for policy changes toward Russia. The fight is
behind the scenes now.”
As much as currency rigging “will be
ended, as we already saw Jack Lew give out the orders to Germany
and Japan”, a new geoeconomic map – possibly under Trump —
would swing towards the end of the oil price war as well. As a
Trump backer puts it, “this is a national objective of the United States,
as a higher price will make the United States energy independent. This is
part of the significance of the Trump revolution.”
According to a source close
to the House of Saud, Saudis and Russians are already involved
in tortuous pre-negotiations on the possibility of engineering
an oil price around
$100.00 a barrel; “There should be enough mutuality of interest
between the Saudis betrayed by the US under the neocons, and
to be destroyed by the neocons eventually, and the Russians who can
prevent that.”
An end
to the oil price war may be something the Pentagon won’t be able
to argue about. As a Trump backer notes, “it is in the vital interest
of the military-industrial complex to achieve complete energy
independence, and repatriate all its military industries to the shores
of the United States.”
Compared to the current, 24/7
mud-wrestling match, all this may seem straight from Alice
in Wonderland. There’s no evidence such an ambitious – and contentious –
agenda can be sold to movers and shakers from JP Morgan to the
Koch brothers. Trump creating a cross-party, trans-party or even post-party
movement will only succeed if substantial players in the Power Elite are
behind it, and there are no signs of this happening.
What proceeds relentlessly is a massive
disinformation campaign – a ghastly remix of those good ol’ Cold War
anti-USSR avalanches. The Clinton Media Machine is even vilifying Michael
Flynn, former head of the DIA, who supports Trump. Trump was conceptually
right when he said Obama and Hillary were the founder and co-founder
of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. That’s exactly what Flynn admitted in that notorious
interview when he stressed that the expansion of the phony
Caliphate was a “willful decision” taken in Washington.
The bottom
line, as it stands, is that Trump is not raising enough cash
to offset the formidable Clinton cash machine. Now comes the time when he
must really take no prisoners to gain maximum exposure – while trying
to sell the road map outlined above, one tweet at a time.
And of course there will be a surprise
– October and otherwise. Nothing has been decided – yet. Disraeli’s Coningsby
was never more appropriate; “So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is
governed by very different personages from what is imagined
by those who are not behind the scenes.”
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