{"id":372215,"date":"2018-08-05T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-at-npr\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T14:16:09","slug":"the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-at-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-at-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardians of the Galaxy at NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-9.30.03-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-686967 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-9.30.03-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-9.30.03-AM.png 662w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-9.30.03-AM-150x87.png 150w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-9.30.03-AM-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-9.30.03-AM-620x360.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Guardians of the Galaxy at National Public Radio were beside themselves Wednesday night reporting that \u201cthe lights are blinking red for a 2018 election attack by Russia.\u201d Well, isn\u2019t that an interesting set-up? In effect, NPR is preparing its listeners in advance to reject and dispute the coming midterm election if they\u2019re not happy with the results. Thus continues America\u2019s institutional self-sabotage, with the help of a news media that\u2019s become the errand boy of the Deep State.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean by the Deep State? The vested permanent bureaucracy of Washington DC, and especially its vastly overgrown and redundant \u201cIntel Community,\u201d which has achieved critical mass to take on a life of its own within the larger government, makes up its own rules of conduct, not necessarily within the rule of law, and devotes too much of its budget and influence defending its own prerogatives rather than the interests of the nation.<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Jungle-Tale-Greenaway-Tales\/dp\/1987706242?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1987706242\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31CYpsNsyuL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Jungle-Tale-Greenaway-Tales\/dp\/1987706242?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1987706242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Law of the Jungle:&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">James Howard Kunstler<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$74.80<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$7.50<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 05:20 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=1987706242&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I doubt that President Putin of Russia is dumb enough to allow, let alone direct, his intel services to lift a finger \u201cmeddling\u201d in the coming US midterm election, with this American intel behemoth vacuuming every digital electron on earth into the NSA\u2019s bottomless maw of intercepted secrets. Mr. Putin must have also observed by now that the US Intel Community is capable of generating mass public hallucinations, to the beat of war-drums, and determined not to give it anything to work with. That\u2019s my theory about what Russia is up to. If you have a better one, let\u2019s hear it?<\/p>\n<p>Another curious incident played out on CNN earlier this week when Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations (the Deep&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/james-howard-kunstler\/light-it-up-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardians of the Galaxy at National Public Radio were beside themselves Wednesday night reporting that \u201cthe lights are blinking red for a 2018 election attack by Russia.\u201d Well, isn\u2019t that an interesting set-up? In effect, NPR is preparing its listeners in advance to reject and dispute the coming midterm election if they\u2019re not happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}