Trump's Declassification Bomb: Breaking with the Empire?
Channel: The Society for the New Humanist Paradigm
Date: 2018-09-27

STRATEGIC UPDATE:

    On Monday Donald Trump ordered the declassification of all documents related to the Russia probe and the surveillance of Trump.  The enormity of the potential consequences of this cannot be understated.  As Frank Montoya, Jr., a recently retired FBI special agent and admirer of Mueller/Comey pointed out Business Insider's "The Hour" column, that "the FISA process is secret for a reason, to protect sources and methods...which could risk the US's relationship with its partners in the intelligence community."  "No question, we are crossing a major red line if we do that.  We cannot do our work without those sources."   (Yes, indeed!  And those "sources" are?  You guessed it, Britain and the English speaking Commonwealth nations, or "five eyes.").  This declassification could be the beginning of the explosive expose that ends the many decades incestuous relations between British intelligence and the U.S. security and intelligence establishment.  This would be the greatest scandal in U.S. history.  This would also be a massive blow to the offshore City of London global financial system, as MI-6 agents, their counterparts in the FBI, and the CIA all have a revolving door employment relationship with the major banks and trans-national corporations, whose power in large part, rests on this intelligence partnership.

        At the same time as the order to declassify, Vladimir Putin has successfully engineered bringing Turkey into Idlib province in Syria to jointly police the demilitarized zone being set up between the Syrian Army and the terrorist formations.  This completely upstages the plan to have a false chemical attack or another U.S. bombing of Syria.  It also effectively isolates and contains the terrorists in their positions, defeating the terrorists in effect, letting them sort themselves out without the carnage of an all out military assault.  How Putin managed to get Erdogan to agree to this is not clear, but this completely, for now outflanks the plan to pressure Trump into a ruinous military action in Syria.  All the while the Belt and Road Initiative is going forward.

CANADA UPDATE: 

          All of this has huge implications for Canada.  Chrystia Freeland  has placed herself publicly in the center of a trans-national cheering section for Trump's removal at the same time she is the lead negotiator with the Trump administration on NAFTA.  Then there is the coming 2019 election.  All three parties are in disarray in one way or another.  Trudeau as the leader of the Liberals has all but disappeared and seems happy to let Freeland, the minister of everything, run the country as she sees fit.  There was also a recent bi-election which the Liberals lost in Quebec by a wide margin, and are polling poorly as we start the run up to the coming Federal election. The NDP have not even got their new leader a seat in Parliament yet, and he must get elected if he is to survive as leader.  On top of that the NDP fund raising and finances are in disarray.  The Conservatives are the best organized at this point, and started campaigning 6 months ago.  However, they have serious factional issues and are somewhat fractured with Maxine Bernier leaving to start a new party.  This was evidenced by the fact that Andrew Scheer only became Conservative party leader after more than a dozen ballots.  Though Scheer seems to only represent the extreme right wing of his party, he appears to be the strongest at this time in the run-up to the 2019 election.   Unless Maxine Bernier can get something going, the whole situation in Canada looks rather bleak.  It is clear, however, that all the parties recognize that NAFTA and trade issues in general are going to main election issues.