Best of the Web:


Stop

Best of the Web: Losers! Twitter censors Joe Biden meme Trump made go viral


RT
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:14 UTC

Comment: What a bunch of illiberal authoritarian nutjobs. The thing had already gone viral, so it can't be unseen or undone! And yet they bleached it anyway. In real time!

Aren't these people supposed to be LIBERALS??


man with Biden photo
© Twitter / Donald Trump Jr.
Twitter has yanked a clip featuring a photo of Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and a Ukrainian gas exec set to a Nickelback song after the meme was tweeted by US President Donald Trump and went viral.

The platform cited copyright in its decision to remove the video, which opens with Biden denying he had ever spoken to Hunter about his "overseas business dealings," then segues through just a few seconds of the Nickelback video before zeroing in on a framed photo of the two Bidens with a "Ukrainian gas exec" and unidentified fourth man. Hearts appear drawn around their faces.

Read More...
Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Ukraine Burisma story is massive - involves BILLIONS of IMF and US funds looted, lost, and buried!

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:03 UTC
Burisma
The Biden (and now Kerry) scandal in the Ukraine is much more than about the money paid to Hunter Biden for being a Board member at the largest gas producer in the Ukraine, Burisma Holdings. The real scandal involves billions in funds from the IMF and US in aid that has gone missing.

Burisma (Ukraine's largest oil and gas provider) has been the subject of many recent news articles because of its scandalous close-knit ties with President Obama's Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Kerry. (Yes, Kerry is involved here too)

Comment: Further reading:

Read More...
Eagle

Best of the Web: Guns for hire: No, the US government should not be using the military to police the globe

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
Team America
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." — James Madison
Eventually, all military empires fall and fail by spreading themselves too thin and spending themselves to death.

It happened in Rome.

It's happening again.

At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts:
The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democratic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.
Read More...
Binoculars

Best of the Web: Stephen F. Cohen interview with Aaron Maté: The emerging cracks in NATO's confrontation with Russia

Aaron Maté
The Grey Zone
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Russia part of West

Comment: Cohen is not only one of the very few voices in the Western world who has a deep and broad historical understanding of Russia - as it pertains to contemporary geopolitical realities - but he also has the guts and conscience to speak out about the West's very destructive foreign policy approach towards it.


Stephen F. Cohen argues that cracks are emerging within the NATO-led consensus that has pushed Moscow from the West.

Guest: Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, contributing editor at The Nation, and author of several "War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate."

Read More...
Propaganda

Best of the Web: CIA, climate and conspiracy: more notes from the edge of the narrative matrix

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC
CIA emblem
Take off the revolutionary's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the terrorist's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the news man's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the filmmaker's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the professor's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the billionaire's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the whistleblower's mask, and it's the motherfucking CIA.
These monsters are raping our sensemaking faculties.

Never call anyone from the CIA a "whistleblower" unless they are actually whistleblowing on the CIA, without the CIA's permission, in a way that inconveniences the CIA.

The deployment of a bomb or missile doesn't begin when a pilot pushes a button, it begins when propaganda narratives used to promote those operations start circulating in public attention. If you help circulate war propaganda, you're as complicit as the one who pushes the button.
Read More...
Red Flag

Best of the Web: 'No force can stop China': Beijing shows off new technology at massive military parade marking 70th anniversary of People's Republic


RT
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 20:45 UTC
china 70th anniversay parade
© Reuters / Thomas Peter
Beijing has unveiled its nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle and showed off other latest military tech at a grand parade at Tiananmen Square, marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Following a flag raising ceremony, President Xi Jinping addressed the nation, hailing the country's achievements over seven decades, and spoke with optimism about China's future.

"The Chinese people managed to stand up on their feet and embark on a great journey of national rejuvenation," he said. "No force can stop the Chinese people and the Chinese nation forging ahead. "

Comment: What Trump said!



Read More...
No Entry

Best of the Web: 'Shut him up!' Biden wants Giuliani kicked off TV news, after Trump lawyer lays out Biden's crimes

Gregg Re
Fox News
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:18 UTC
Biden Giuliani
© Florida Politics/Mark Reinstein/ShutterstockFormer VP Joe Biden (L) Lawyer Rudi Giuliani (R)
Joe Biden's presidential campaign requested in a letter on Sunday that major news networks not invite President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani anymore, after Giuliani spent the morning on a series of talk shows aggressively highlighting what he called Biden's apparently corrupt dealings in Ukraine and China.

The Biden campaign wrote to NBC News, CBS News, Fox News and CNN to voice "grave concern that you continue to book Rudy Giuliani on your air to spread false, debunked conspiracy theories on behalf of Donald Trump," according to The Daily Beast, which first reported the existence of the letter.

The memo, drafted by Biden aides Kate Bedingfield and Anita Dunn, continued: "While you often fact check his statements in real time during your discussions, that is no longer enough. By giving him your air time, you are allowing him to introduce increasingly unhinged, unfounded and desperate lies into the national conversation."


Comment: Have the Dems finally overreached themselves?



Read More...
Headphones

Best of the Web: Julian Assange's lawyers were placed under surveillance. But that's not the whole story

Tom Coburg
The Canary
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:49 UTC
assange
© Flickr/Cancillería del EcuadorJulian Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador, London
A private security company organised 24/7 surveillance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. This included confidential meetings between Assange and members of his legal team. The surveillance was provided directly to the CIA. These revelations could possibly jeopardise the viability of the US extradition case.

But within this story there lies another that raises serious questions about the establishment media and allegiances.

CIA streaming

According to El Pais, Spanish security firm UC Global was responsible for the surveillance of Assange when he was a guest of the Ecuadorian government at their London embassy. UC Global, a firm with an address in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), was hired by Senain, the former Ecuadorian intelligence service, ostensibly to provide protection for Assange.

Comment:

Read More...
MIB

Best of the Web: Our man on Twitter: Senior Twitter exec Gordon MacMillan outed as British Army information warrior

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:50 UTC
gordan macmillan 77th brigade twitter psyops
Gordon MacMillan, a senior Twitter staffer with editorial responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, joined the social media giant's UK office in April 2013 - however it's unclear when he was recruited to 77th Brigade, the British army's shadowy psychological warfare unit.

Nonetheless, an official army notice published July 2018 notes Gordon MacMillan was appointed "Second Lieutenant (on probation)" in Reserve Group 'A' in February 2016 - and somewhat ironically given 77th Brigade's undercover nature, MacMillan for some time made no secret of his involvement, openly advertising on his LinkedIn that he was "a reserve officer in the British Army serving in 77th Brigade, which specialises in non-lethal engagement". Since his very public exposure by Middle East Eye, all references to the Brigade have been expunged from his profile - although 'Royal Military Academy Sandhurst' is still listed under 'Education'.

Comment: More on Gordan MacMillan and the activities of the 77th Brigade psyops.

Read More...
Bullseye

Best of the Web: Israel is the origin of modern terrorism - Malaysia's PM delivers scathing UN speech

Joseph Raj
Malaysia Mail
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:30 UTC
Mahathir Mohamad
© Bernama picPrime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad delivering his statement at the General Debate of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York September 28, 2019.
The creation of Israel by seizing Palestinian land and expelling its 90 per cent Arab population is the root cause of terrorism, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

"Since then, wars have been fought in many countries, many related to the creation of Israel. And now we have terrorism when there was none before, or at least none on the present scale.

"Military action against acts of terrorism will not succeed. We need to identify the cause and remove it. But the great powers refuse to deal with the root cause," he said in his statement at the General Debate of the 74th UN General Assembly here.

Comment: You can watch the full speech below. It starts at the part relevant to the above:


See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

Read More...