Moyers: Deep State: Hybrid of Corporate America & Sational Security State, which is “Out of Control”

[KoKo]

http://vimeo.com/87243281#t=92

February 21, 2014

Everyone knows about the military-industrial complex, which, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned had the potential to “endanger our liberties or democratic process” but have you heard of the “Deep State?”

Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member with the powerful House and Senate Budget Committees, joins Bill to talk about what he calls the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is “out of control” and “unconstrained.” In it, Lofgren says, elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. “It is … the red thread that runs through the history of the last three decades. It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war,” Lofgren tells Bill.

Lofgren says the Deep State’s heart lies in Washington, DC, but its tentacles reach out to Wall Street, which Lofgren describes as “the ultimate backstop to the whole operation,” Silicon Valley and over 400,000 contractors, private citizens who have top-secret security clearances. Like any other bureaucracy, it’s groupthink that drives the Deep State.

TRANSCRIPT AT SITE:


http://billmoyers.com/episode/the-deep-state-hiding-in-plain-sight/

[cantbeserious]

1. Thank You For Sharing

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[bvar22]

2. Bill Moyers needs to stay out of small planes.

He is one of the very few "Journalists" we have left,
and he is pissing off all the right people.

Thank You, Bill Moyers.


DURec

[lunasun]

4. By presenting facts he is pissing off people big time

NO exaggerations of news events, or sensationalism,
lies ,inflammatory remarks or bowing to corp sponsors fluff stuff
You would think any of those things would rattle, but not researched facts.
Presenting the facts is the real shit stirrer
He is a great journalist

[lunasun]

3. K&R! take the time folks to view I posted this yesterday keep it going and there is the essay too

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
everyone this is a good view and/or read !

[Enthusiast]

5. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch.....nt

[fasttense]

6. Getting huge bonuses to take regulatory jobs in government

Bonuses that are bigger than they get for staying in the corporate world. Then they go and regulate the exact same corporations that have given them their bonuses and retirement pay. Yeah, right regulate???

But don't worry we have the brand new food safety modernization act that regulates how, if and when small farmers can sell to you. Now don't you feel safer?