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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

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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!




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

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© 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?




Headphones

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

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© 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.

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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.

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

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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.


Bullseye

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

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© 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:


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MIB

Best of the Web: Why social media is FULL of sockpuppets: Twitter EXECUTIVE for Middle East is British army PSYOPS soldier

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The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army's psychological warfare unit, Middle East Eye has established.

Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social media company's UK office six years ago, has for several years also served with the 77th Brigade, a unit formed in 2015 in order to develop "non-lethal" ways of waging war.

The 77th Brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, as well as podcasts, data analysis and audience research to wage what the head of the UK military, General Nick Carter, describes as "information warfare".

Carter says the 77th Brigade is giving the British military "the capability to compete in the war of narratives at the tactical level"; to shape perceptions of conflict. Some soldiers who have served with the unit say they have been engaged in operations intended to change the behaviour of target audiences.

Comment: We reported that trolls, bots and sockpuppets were swarming the net a decade ago. At this point, those 'hundreds of thousands of likes' swamp creatures like Comey and Brennan get are probably something in the region of 95% fake. Deep State agents like the above critter are there to rig the numbers.


Sherlock

Best of the Web: The dirt Trump wants on the Bidens, and why Zelensky doesn't want him to have it

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© CNN.com/UnknownUS President Donald Trump • Candidate Former VP Joe Biden
In order to understand why Ukraine's President Voldomyr Zelensky doesn't want the dirt about Joe Biden to become public, one needs to know that Hunter Biden's boss and benefactor at Burisma Holdings was, at least partly, Zelensky's boss and benefactor until Zelensky became Ukraine's President, and that revealing this would open up a can of worms which could place that former boss and benefactor of both men into prison at lots of places.

First, the falsehoods in the press have to be documented here, since this article will go up against virtually all U.S.-and-allied reporting on these events. And, in order to do such a thing, the bona fides of my main sources need to be presented:

Naked Capitalism is, as the article about it at Wikipedia, says, the blog of Susan Webber, pen-named "Yves Smith," who "graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. She had 20 years of experience in the financial services industry with Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Co., and Sumitomo Bank.[3] She has written articles for the New York Times, Bloomberg, and the Roosevelt Institute.[4][5]" "The site has had over 60 million visitors since 2007, and was cited as among CNBC's 2012 top 25 'Best Alternative Financial Blogs', calling Smith 'a harsh critic of Wall Street who believes that fraud was at the center of the financial crisis'.[2]" "The New York Times financial reporter Gretchen Morgenson cited Naked Capitalism as one of the 'must-read financial blogs' she reads regularly.[9]"

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Meteor

Flashback Best of the Web: NASA chief: Risk of asteroid impact not being taken seriously, international cooperation needed to meet cosmic threat

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Meteors that could destroy an entire U.S. state are a real threat to Earth, NASA's chief warned on Monday.

Speaking at the Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C., NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine warned that the risk posed by meteor crashes was not being taken seriously.

"This is not about Hollywood, this is not about movies, this is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know right now to host life," he said.

Bridenstine pointed to the meteorite that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013, which had "30 times the energy of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima" and injured around 1,500 people. Just 16 hours after the crash, NASA detected an even larger object that approached the earth but did not land on it, he revealed.

Comment: It's so obvious, NASA is saying it outright. But instead trillion$ are wasted on geopolitical power games and social engineering...


Black Magic

Best of the Web: Joe Biden and Ukraine: A Quick Reminder

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© Screenshot Fox NewsFormer VP Joe Biden • Hunter Biden.
A quick reminder of what Joe Biden did during the collective West's 2014 coup in Kiev...
Biden insisted on capturing governmental and administrative buildings in the most violent way, preferably with victims. In order to do this, there had to already be some "symbolic" deaths. He cooked up and coordinated a scenario with other foreign embassies. In addition, Maidan was dying and it needed extra fuel in order to remain alive. The scenario involved "protestors" being shot by snipers. Biden's guys (Parubiy, Pashinsky, Parasyuk) organised the massacre.

The Ukrainian Security Service forced the Ukrainian blogger Artur Senko to delete this very damning investigation. It's in Russian only, sadly. Part 1 is above, part 2 is below.

In his memoirs Biden says:

"I called the then President of Ukraine Yanukovych and ordered him to leave his post. I made the last of many urgent calls to Yanukovych in late February of 2014, when his snipers were assassinating Ukrainian citizens".

Spot the lie(s).

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: 'Revolution' in Ukraine: A history of manufactured chaos


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Best of the Web: Hong Kong protests: Fading foreign tantrum, not genuine revolution

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Hong Kong rioters
Just as unfolded in 2014 during the so-called "Umbrella protests" or "Occupy Central" movement, a growing backlash has begun across Hong Kong against US-funded protests that have attempted to disrupt governance and commerce as part of a floundering movement to maintain Western influence in the region.

The Sydney Morning Herald in its article, "Triads linked to violent pro-China gangs as Hong Kong protests enter dangerous new phase," ignored weeks of violence carried out by US-backed protests in Hong Kong, and portrayed locals retaliating as "violent pro-China gangs." It should be pointed out that Hong Kong is in China.

The article claims:

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