Yeah it's like drug trafficking, for 1 ton intercepted, 10 went in, when it's not 100 And just like drug trafficking... At the highest level you'll find that some government officials and institutions are compromised/actively participating
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade
The Susurluk incident is worth investigating for anyone who is interested in state approved drug trafficking, and also for anyone seeking evidence for the existence of a hidden nexus of high level politicians, drug traffickers, arms dealers and intelligence agency operatives - the Turkish term provided the English phrase "deep state". Another character worth looking up is Willem Matser, a Dutch spook and deep state functionary who was "one of NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson's top policy experts". In 2004 he was found guilty of forgery and fraud in connection with a $200m (£120m) money laundering operation between Colombia and Romania.[8]
The disinterest of authorities in investigating massive money laundering by large banks,[9] the scale of drug smuggling operations and the apparently inability of the authorities to prevent it would seem to support the accusations of a lot of whistleblowers:- that the resources of nation states are being marshaled, not to hinder the global drug trade, but to actively promote and carry it out.
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The majority of the world's heroin is produced from opium grown in Afghanistan. Sibel Edmonds has stated that deep state interests move most of it to Turkey for refinement before it is shipped to Europe or North America. Harvests are much greater now than before the US lead invasion.
Alfred McCoy wrote in 1972 that the SDECE financed all of its covert operations during the Indochina War from its control of the Indochina drug trade.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Finders_Keepers https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Franklin_Scandal https://www.wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Franklin_Cover-up
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_Pedophocracy
The main witness in the Dutroux affair explains the inner workings of this network:
“Contracts between the business milieu and the political world, contracts between businessmen amongst each other, fraud with subsidies or licenses, setting up fake firms, criminal contracts like arms trade... everything was possible. And it always ended with sex and children... Pictures were taken, in jest, to keep both parties to their contracts...
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Step by step customers, who first went to bed with me cautiously, were stimulated to rougher sex. I was forced to help them with that... They became complicit and at the same time their mutual connections became tighter. Not one of these people was still inclined to sign contracts with individuals outside the network. If that happened one could make them pay dearly for that...” Regina Louf (1998) [3]
There is a large body of information available on the internet for those with the stomach for it. The deeper the investigation, the greater the unpleasant realisation that the phenomenon is fundamentally ingrained in Western Establishment power structures.
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Generally speaking, institution that have access to children, tend to attract pedophiles. Schools, CPS... UNESCO probably has a ton also, for obvious reasons. The courts, because it's handy to remain protected and to protect the network...
So much good info here. Saved for later study & reference. I never thought about it but even 'deep state' must have had its origins somewhere. Its origins should at least serve to get a bunch of NPC's to stop believing the 'conspiracy theorist' narrative Thanks for the info.
If you want a "mainstream" source of analysis of what is the deep state and how it works, in order to defuse the "conspiracy theory" label, you have this "classic" https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State February 21, 2014 by Mike Lofgren
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Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose. My analysis of this phenomenon is not an exposé of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day. Nor can this other government be accurately termed an “establishment.” All complex societies have an establishment, a social network committed to its own enrichment and perpetuation. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by itself. That said, it is neither omniscient nor invincible. The institution is not so much sinister (although it has highly sinister aspects) as it is relentlessly well entrenched. Far from being invincible, its failures, such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, are routine enough that it is only the Deep State’s protectiveness towards its higher-ranking personnel that allows them to escape the consequences of their frequent ineptitude. [2]
How did I come to write an analysis of the Deep State, and why am I equipped to write it? As a congressional staff member for 28 years specializing in national security and possessing a top secret security clearance, I was at least on the fringes of the world I am describing, if neither totally in it by virtue of full membership nor of it by psychological disposition. But, like virtually every employed person, I became, to some extent, assimilated into the culture of the institution I worked for, and only by slow degrees, starting before the invasion of Iraq, did I begin fundamentally to question the reasons of state that motivate the people who are, to quote George W. Bush, “the deciders.”
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