The Shallow Nature of the Deep State's Plans.

The Whirled Cup

The neocons will not stop wanting not just a preemptive strike against Iran, but a US preemptive strike against Iran; they've welcomed and cashed in on the fresh opportunity this new administration's base base has afforded them to push their case for regime change. 

The theocons are just as anxiously awaiting the overturn of Roe v. Wade as well as other assaults on the Warren-era decision on criminal and civil procedure the appointment of the next federal Supreme court judge will hand to them.

And although the radical anti-taxation zealots, who supposedly find the federal government too large, its regulations too onerous, its income and capital gains taxes too high, their hatred of social security unquenched, the important question of how this Republican president, who has promised to fulfill their most fervent desires, governs (basically as he wishes, even going so far as to abase himself in front of the nation's most outspoken and slyest foe), matters to them not a whit. And he knows it. The rest can bloviate 'til their as Red in the face as the GOP is in its politics, but there is no reason to expect that Trump will defy his base, nor that those few Republicans, outside the faction that put him in office, will abandon him now simply because he has abandoned his country: neither he nor they believe the country in its current form is their country anyway; it's certainly not their government.

 As the central, one might even say single, accomplishment of the Obama legacy remains his passive relinquishment of executive power to the Deep State that the Bush Regime had left holding all the reins of power he'd held until it ripped them out of his hands, imposing Austerity by sabotaging the global financial system they weren't about to let fall into the hands of the Democratic President they knew the feckless reign of Bush had made inevitable, was the overt, yet barely noticed, manipulation of the Federal Treasury via the defalcations of the Fed, in order to funnel enormous, as in unprecedented Central Government-created trillions of dollars, directly into energy production in the form of fracking, with the result that the USA once again became an Oil Power. An Energy State. A Fossil Fooled Empire. The legacy Halliburton's Cheney planned for Bush's Republican successor, but that fell instead into the hands of Obama, who felt he had no recourse but to let it ride.

This is so assiduously ignored for the same reason everything is, to avoid the public's following the money trail and asking the question, "Since these were Federally-created dollars, why are the returns from their investment and the risk rewards going to such a paltry number of already-rich "investors", while the rest of the polity is left with SNAP, and bereft, quite intentionally, of even Health insurance?"

The Oiligarchs know why, and so should you. Having lost the ability to control the price of oil, OPEC is even now being derided as NOPEC (whatever that's supposed to mean) and the new CARtel, consisting of Russia, the US, and Saudi Arabia, have already replaced it in everything but name.

Together these three countries alone produce more than a third of total global oil supply (far more than OPEC ever did), each one ponying up to the table with an excess of 10 million bbl's each (the world burns through `85 mln/day), and can now control the pricing, and, 'A Lot of Money Can be Made if Russia, US Work Together to fix oil Price at a profitable level." Which is precisely what they intend to do; have done already actually.

Everything the Trump has done is consistent with his plan to do this. Everything else is distraction, clowning and derision: The world over a barrel, one filled with Oil, is the desire these three nations have in common and the shutting in of Iran's oil industry, following faithfully in Bush's similar move to shut in Iraq's (which was spectacularly successful), was a major achievement toward this goal.

Germany as a "captive" of Russia, just 24 hours before demonstrating a cringing display of the US as a far more willing captive, had more to do with NORD Stream 2 than with NATO, which is grounded, useless without the requisite Oil from the three Petro States to power not only their moribund economies, but their firm grip around the throat of the rest of the globalized economy.

And the Fed. Making the dollar stronger while its energy exports are increasing, increases the price overseas, not only creating dollar surpluses to flow back to the States, but makes oil, which is priced in dollars, comparatively cheaper domestically. What's a little inflation when you can drive? ... even if it is to nowhere.

Which is important because, although some people find the production of  92,000 EV's in 2017 as "a clean energy production surge" (lol, it has absolutely nothing to do with "clean energy" as the EV's could all be recharged via electricity from coal-fired power plants ... in fact, considering the dearth of renewable energy power plants, it's an impossibility that most of them won't be recharged using fossil-fuel-derived electricity), the number of ICE machines put on the road in that same time frame is an overwhelming 81.6 million vehicles: an exponential advantage of almost 1000 ICE machines rolling off the assembly line for every one EV: It'll take a little more than a production "surge" to even approach that level of output. A level that has exactly doubled since the decade in which the Kyoto protocols were signed. And if you were to include EV's, that number would increase to total Auto sales of 81.7 ... barely a blip. and this is closing in on the end of the 2'nd decade of the 21'st Century, so most of those vehicles could still  be operable by mid-century (Although the failure of a match-up in proven reserves and  three decades of ~ 31billion/yr, times 10= 310 billion bblls/decade, which times 3 = almost a thousand,so that puts us into the trillion bbls range, begs the question of what they'll be running on).

Then there's Venezuela. Libya. Nigeria. Iraq (still a wild card).

But the one thing you can depend on the car-addled, Capitalist-mesmerized American public to have nary a clue, nor a care, about is the price of oil on the world market nor its supplies. As though gasoline were made by magic or created by fairy dust, conjured by the Goldilocks economy to be just the right amount as they buy bigger homes to heat/cool, and mostly bigger transportation modules, the lightest, being close to three tons, the heaviest approximately double that. So in terms of energy usage, it is close to silly to refer to the passenger in the vehicle at all, as the vast majority of fuel is burned to move the vehicle, as it weighs some twenty times more than its (almost always) lone passenger. A 150 pound driver piloting a 3 ton vehicle is transporting 40X's their weight ... not counting themselves, which in terms of energy usage, becomes a mere rounding factor.

Do you see why EV's are a moronic "solution"? No matter what the energy source, the driver is performing the same physical feat of moving a vehicle through space that is several orders of magnitude heavier than the actual weight of the cargo they desire to move. Their own puny self. It's like UPS drivers using a big rig to make their deliveries, a pizza delivery man pulling up in a Mack Truck: the equation just doesn't work. They would go out of business. And it doesn't work for us either. And that's why so many of us are going out of business. It's why we can't afford health insurance: we spend everything we earn to get to and from work. And it's not just individual businesses or drivers: the nation as a whole relies on this untenable physics conundrum as its transportation system. Every single driver is forced to subsidize their employer who would give them not a red cent to get them to the office (And then once the behemoth on wheels gets there, it's then their problem as to what to do with it).

Everything else is a distraction from this impossible fact. That's what the "stupid", to his oh-so-smart detractors, Trump knows full well. Oil well even. So as Trump finishes the job the now "low-energy" Bushes started, while everyone laughs at him and calls him names, since that worked so well in the election (ie they learned NOTHING), Trump and his Deep State buddies are positioning the US, and their personal investments, to reflect that advantage they will enjoy as a member of the new Cartel .... (Oprah'll announce, "A new CARtel! Everyone gets a NEW CARtel!"), to be in the early 21'st Century what Standard Oil was in the first half of the 20'th ... until the US reached peak oil in the seventies ... the controller of the price of oil . Because the basic formula that avatar of Deep State Realpolitik, Henry Kissinger, worked out: "Whoever controls the oil  controls the world", has not changed. Only the public's inexplicably complete unawareness of that fact, even as their lives become more and more constrained by it, has changed: they believe it has nothing to do with their life.

But it has everything to do with it ... even unto survival itself.