Anatomy of the Shallow State
The state is a transformer that takes on different appearances in different ages, depending on resources, traditions, technologies, and geography. History chronicles theocratic despotisms, feudal lords, exploitative slavocracies, imperial autocracies, peaceful republics, small-scale democracies, divine-right monarchies, murderous party dictatorships, and many more besides.
What is the 21st-century form of the state? There are plenty of opinions on this and the reality and change are still unfolding before us with dramatic upheavals and great resets. But it seems to be some form of omnipotent managerial technocracy, as if to fulfill the most pessimistic predictions of 20th-century thinkers who saw this form developing after the second world war.
In this system, the elected representatives of the people are reduced to bit players on the scene, marionettes whose main job is to keep up appearances that the systems of the past are still operating and that the voice of the people still matters.
In reality, the state consists of three distinct layers, which we can call deep, middle, and shallow. All three play crucial roles to exercise and retain hegemony over the population domestically and globally.
The deepest layers are those that operate mostly out of the public eye thanks to legal protections for classified information. They are the security and intelligence agencies that overlap closely with what is centralized law enforcement. In the US, this is inclusive of many agencies, including the FBI, DHS, CIA, NSA, NSC, CISA, and many more besides including all their cut-outs in the foundation world and private sector, some known and unknown. The term deep refers precisely to the clandestine manner in which they operate.
Next we have the layer of the middle state, mostly called the administrative state. In the US this consists of 400-plus civilian agencies with two million and more employees with positions that are protected by union rules and federal legislation. The elected president can appoint several hundred positions to head these agencies but all power and institutional knowledge belongs to the permanent bureaucracy, which knows that it wins all struggles. Political appointees come and go.
The most intriguing and least-discussed layer is the shallow state. This is the sector that is more consumer-facing, largely private in ownership often with publicly traded stocks, and mostly enjoys a trusted reputation among the general population. They both comply with edicts but also have a huge voice in shaping them. The shallow state consists of name brands and lobbies in every industry including medicine, pharmaceuticals, media, digital technology, energy production, transportation, and national defense.
Some sectors of the shallow state are fairly obvious: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. Less obvious are other direct beneficiaries of government largess and legal protection that engage in ubiquitous advertising such as Pfizer and Moderna and many other pharmaceutical companies. Their gigantic advertising budgets keep their possible critics in mainstream media and the arts venues at bay.
A company like Amazon, which everyone loves, benefits from many billions in government contracts. For example, in July 2021, Amazon Web Services was awarded an estimated $10 billion contract by the National Security Agency. Six months later, the company won a $724 million contract with the U.S. Navy’s Commercial Cloud Environment. At the same time, the company was chosen as the main host for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract with a possible value of $9 billion.
It’s not just the contracts; it’s the benefits obtained by coercive controls of the population. Amazon and all streaming services, in addition to online learning platforms, benefited mightily from the closures of millions of small businesses from 2020 onward. These closures, and the division of the entire workforce into essential and nonessential, in addition to vaccine mandates, were implemented by the Human Resources division within all medium and large companies. HR serves as a shallow-state enforcement arm of medium-state and deep-state policies.
Many media venues should be considered part of the deep state, essential to the manufacturing of consent. On February 25, 2020, Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the CDC (sister of the FBI’s Rod Rosenstein, whom Trump pressed to fire the director) called a press conference with top reporters at the New York Times, Washington Post, and so on, and let them know that lockdowns were coming (details here). All these venues hopped to it and reported exactly this with breathless hysteria about the coming virus.
No one at the CDC asked the Trump administration; it simply barrelled ahead as if the elected layer doesn’t matter. The country flew into a frenzy, and all major media venues promptly got into the information-censoring business, first with the topic of the lab leak, then with masking, then with social distancing, and finally with the vaccines. They might as well have acted from start to finish as government agencies, and the same goes for Facebook, the old Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on.
This is all emblematic of shallow-state behavior.
But it hardly stops there. It includes seemingly innocuous and important sellers of products like milk, which is baked by the dairy lobby which works closely with the Department of Agriculture. In recent months, the feds have worked with state-level departments to crack down on organic farms that sell raw milk and other raw dairy products. They raid the places, take their stuff, and issue cease and desist letters. The mainstream dairy lobby has backed this consistently for years as a means of monopolizing the market and clearing out the competition.
One would never think of an innocent gallon of milk as a product or participant in shallow-state activities but there we are. And these actors are routinely backed by shallow-state press outfits like the NYT, which recently tried to convince readers that drinking and advocating for the right to sell raw milk is necessarily “right-wing,” even though decades of history of this issue are solidly identified with the left.
We might also consider your family doctor, who, we now know, is paid bounties on the number of vaccines pushed on patients, in addition to other pharmaceutical products, many funded by the NIH and approved by a pharma-captured FDA. This is a reflection of state policies, and the final point of sale is the most trusted source, the nice person in the white coat you pay to see. Is this part of the shallow state too? Under some conditions, this would be a correct assumption.
The capture of the tech industry by government agencies (or the reverse) has been astounding to watch. When Microsoft started getting contracts for public school computing in the 1990s, no one thought anything about it. Fast forward thirty years and the same company has a close partnership with the Department of Defense including a $10 billion contract for cloud computers and a $21.9 billion one to produce augmented reality devices for the U.S. Army. So when it came time for Microsoft to step up and push lockdowns, very much a biodefense operation, it was all in on its platforms, including of course LinkedIn. So it is throughout the industry.
Let’s talk about finance. If you think of the Federal Reserve’s secretive side as the deep state, the financial and monetary regulators at Treasury as the middle state, can we think of banks and financial institutions like BlackRock and even Goldman Sachs as part of the shallow state? Most certainly. That’s how the system works, with every company drafted into the comprehensive system of compulsion and coercion.
When comprehensive controls of the population come about through financial cancellation based on politics, it will happen most directly via these shallow-state institutions that are merely following orders coming from below. The consumer will never know who gave the order or why.
Consider finally the universities. Academia was not only silent as the total state seized control in 2020 and following. It was actively participating, treating paying students like inmates with room confinements, forcing masking, and then forcing shots no one needed. Two graduating classes were robbed of normal experiences. The professors and administrators who spoke out experienced derision, exclusion, and even termination.
Some private liberal arts colleges resisted heroically, but the high-status institutions both public and private were thoroughly complicit. Shallow state? Certainly.
Think about this from the point of view of the planning apparatus of a technocratic managerial state. What is the most viable path to comprehensive and sustainable control of the population? Ideally, you want to move all political priorities up the chain of production from the deep state through the middle state and finally deployed by the shallow state and directly to the consumer in a market-driven economic structure. This helps disguise the compulsion and makes it possible to present every egregious cartelization policy as nothing other than an extension of human choice and therefore entirely voluntary.
Note too how incapable are traditional ideological structures at comprehending the fullness of the corruption much less how the system operates.
The left thinks of government and public institutions as serving the people rather than serving the rich and well-connected but the opposite is true: they depend on and ultimately serve the most well-heeled corporations.
The right thinks of the private sector as scrappy and independent but the reality of vast amounts of enterprise is that it depends on, celebrates, and manages government control.
The libertarians continue to imagine market/state binaries that exist in theory but not in reality.
We really do need a more realistic understanding of how the system works if we aspire to reform and end it. It starts with understanding that the vast number of sectors we think of as serving society are really serving mainly narrow interests at the expense of everyone else. Deep, middle, and shallow layers: that’s the structure of the system that is at war with freedom. It’s a system designed to be impenetrable, permanent, and ever more invasive.
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Louisiana Lawmakers Pass Bill Allowing Surgical Castration Of Convicted Pedophiles
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Cyber Polygon 2024 To Simulate ‘Targeted Attack on a Tech Company’
The Russian government is teaming up with the globalist police force INTERPOL in a simulation exercise where a group or nation hacks a major tech company so global governments can prepare how to react.
Cyber Polygon returns to stage ‘sophisticated targeted attack on a tech company’ https://t.co/3U5bIQMva1 @thesociable @TimHinchliffe
— The Sociable (@thesociable) June 4, 2024
Back for the first time since 2021 when the Russian government teamed up with the World Economic Forum to prepare for a hypothetical supply-chain “cyberpandemic,” Cyber Polygon 2024 will specifically focus on hack attacks targeting industrial infrastructure.
The 2021 simulation was run by Russia’s state-owned bank Sberbank, and this year’s event is being hosted by BI.ZONE CERT, which is a global cybersecurity entity that provides services for the bank.
The event will be hosted online, but a physical booth will also be in operation at the MENA Information Security Conference (ISC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in September.
While the World Economic Forum previously sponsored the event and its founder Klaus Schwab appeared as a keynote speaker in 2021, the Sociable reports, “the WEF has scrubbed every mention of Cyber Polygon from its website except for two random instances.”
The global elite may be preparing for a massive “cyberpandemic” which Schwab spoke about following the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Pay insufficient attention, to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyber attack,” Schwab eerily predicted in 2021.
The Cyber Polygon exercises are often compared with Event 201, a WEF and Bill Gates-backed exercise that simulated a devastating coronavirus pandemic that disrupted the entire global economy, launched just months before the COVID-19 outbreak — which bore out exactly as the exercise predicted.
Alex Jones has been urging Americans to prepare for potential cyberattacks since the 1990s!
Also, don’t forget a recent Netflix movie created with the help of Barack Obama portrayed a society suffering through a massive cyberattack in what many called an example of predictive programming.
With the 2024 U.S. presidential election looming, there’s no limit to what the globalists might pull to prevent Donald Trump from retaking power, including a massive false flag cyberattack.
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Watch: Doctor-Turned-Congressman CENSORED During Pandemic OBLITERATES Fauci on Covid Policies
A former physician who now serves as a US representative for Georgia grilled Anthony Fauci during congressional testimony Monday, pressing the former NIAID director on the censorship of medical professionals during the pandemic.
“It’s been insinuated that politicians only politicians, only bloggers, only conspiracy theorists are disagreeing with you,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) told Fauci amid a House Select Subcommittee hearing.
“I want to point out that I’m probably the only member of Congress that actually treated patients during the pandemic from the very beginning.”
Wow. ?‼️‼️‼️Dr Rich McCormick was one of the doctors censored in 2020, ran for office, won, and is now grilling Dr Fauci over his covid policies???
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News ? (@unhealthytruth) June 4, 2024
Fauci committed #CrimesAgainstHumanity
He lied about jabs , masks, ivermectin and much more.
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McCormick went on to explain he worked as an emergency room doctor who ended up being censored online for revealing his beliefs on the pandemic.
“In 2020, I was censored. My medical license was threatened because I disagreed with bureaucrats. Literally taken off the internet as a person who is treating patients with leading-edge technologies. Developing theories but doing my very best but being censored by the United States government, but the first time stepping in and taking the place of medical professionals as the experts in healthcare.”
The congressman went on to describe he’d been part of a team treating Covid patients, before getting Fauci to admit he had no firsthand experience treating Covid patients.
“Why would I be criticized by a bureaucrat for doing my very best… Why would the government who’s never treated a patient for Covid — you can read all the things you want, but you’re not there. You’re not seeing patient not watching people die, intubating patients right there with that disease in your face. Watching it happen, watching the development of this disease and actually learning from it — but I’m being told by bureaucrats what’s right and wrong?”
“What’s funny is everything I was censored on, I was proven to be right. Pretty crazy, isn’t it?” McCormick added.
The GOP rep went on to play a recording of Fauci saying people will let go of their “ideological bullshit” and get vaccinated when pressured by things in their lives being made more difficult.
“Are all objections to Covid vaccinations ‘ideological bullshit,’ Dr. Pachi?” McCormick asked, to which Fauci responded, “No, they’re not and that’s not what I was referring to.”
McCormick proceeded to chastise Fauci for his role in the pandemic response, saying, “You affected people’s ability to work, travel, be educated, to actually flourish in American society, to self-determine, as we’re all given God-given rights. Shame on you, Dr. Fauci. You’ve become Dr. Fear.”
“This fear you created will continue to have ripple effects over generations to come and you have already seen its effects in education and the economy and everything else,” Rep. McCormick said. “I disagree with you because I disagree with fear.”
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Cartel Mountain and the Invasion of New Mexico
Immigration news outlet Border Hawk takes viewers to one of the most dangerous places along the U.S.-Mexico frontier: Sunland Park, New Mexico.
Sunland Park lies directly across the border from Puerto de Anapra, a ‘colonia’ in Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Anapra is one of the poorest communities in Juarez, a de facto squatter settlement where thousands of people live in self-built shelters lacking basic services or infrastructure.
Many U.S.-bound migrants pass through Anapra before illegally crossing the border, often climbing over the international barrier, walking through gaps where the wall is non-existent, or by hiking Mount Cristo Rey – referred to locally as ‘Cartel Mountain.’
Popular with outdoor enthusiasts and Catholic pilgrims, Mt. Cristo Rey has been transformed into a hotbed for criminal activity and human smuggling.
Signage in the mountain’s parking lot advises prospective hikers to notify Sunland Park police before embarking on a climb.
“Due to the proximity of Mexico on the Southern edge of the mountain, visitors are cautioned to not climb alone and always go in groups. Vandalism, assaults and robberies are still an ongoing problem and visitors are encouraged to visit on days when organized events are being held and security is on site,” an alert on the Mt. Cristo Rey website states.
Referring to criminal networks and illegal migrants taking control of the mountain, Border Patrol agents recently asserted, “It’s not ours. It’s theirs.”
Border Hawk climbed Cartel Mountain multiple times and witnessed an endless stream of illegals making their way into Sunland Park with the assistance of ‘coyotes’ and ‘falcones’ – cartel operatives who guide migrants on their journey into the U.S.
Local schools have been locked down on numerous occasions due to dangerous smuggling activity and illegal aliens storming the premises.
Border Hawk reporters spent days driving the desert in New Mexico and nearby El Paso, encountering group after group of illegals entering the U.S.
Because many of these incursions were undetected, Border Hawk alerted Border Patrol on multiple occasions, leading to the apprehension of some illegals while others managed to disappear before agents could locate them.
WATCH: Border Hawk Intercepts Would-Be Gotaways In New Mexico
— Border Hawk (@BorderHawkNews) April 18, 2024
We spotted a group of illegals running through the desert in Sunland Park, NM, and alerted Border Patrol
Agents tracked down and arrested 4 illegals wearing booties to avoid detectionhttps://t.co/necJTN3Vs5 pic.twitter.com/QpRnB1iwdO
As Texas continues to ramp up enforcement along its southern border, illegal migration flows are being redirected into neighboring New Mexico, where Border Patrol resources are stretched thin and local law enforcement does little to help.
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