Puppet Masters
Soon after having been fired from his post as secretary of the treasury in December 2002, after a policy clash with the president, Paul O'Neill became a trustee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Despite having just worked under and clashed with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, it wasn't until O'Neill began answering to UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff as a member of the Center's board that he chose to publicly denounce a superior as "evil."
"He wants to destroy competition. He wants to be the only game in town," O'Neill would later state of Romoff, adding that "after 18 months I quit [the UPMC board] in disgust" due to Romoff's "absolute control" over the board's actions. O'Neill subsequently noted that UPMC "board members who have wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars are not willing to take this guy on." When pressed by a local reporter, O'Neill further elaborated that he had been told by other board members that they were "afraid" of Romoff because Romoff might "harm them in some way."
"I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night. Naturally, I will agree to take one also," the president said in a Twitter post. "His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly. Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???," he said.
The president has been pressing the Democratic presidential nominee for months about taking a drug test, questioning his uneven debate performances during the Democratic primary with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Trump said earlier this month in an interview on Fox & Friends:
"Well I don't know which Biden is going to show up because I watched him during the debates where they had 20 people on the stage ... and he was a disaster, you don't get worse. He was grossly incompetent. Then I watched him against Bernie and he was okay."The president said he wondered if Biden's performances were enhanced in some way.
Proposed draft legislation sent to Congress by the Justice Department on Wednesday takes aim at social media platforms by modifying Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, seeking to narrow the scope of the liability protections granted by the act and eliminate the protection altogether for platforms that facilitate illegal activities.
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement:
"For too long Section 230 has provided a shield for online platforms to operate with impunity. Ensuring that the internet is a safe, but also vibrant, open and competitive environment is vitally important to America. We therefore urge Congress to make these necessary reforms to Section 230 and begin to hold online platforms accountable both when they unlawfully censor speech and when they knowingly facilitate criminal activity online."The Justice Department argued that online platforms have used the immunity from liability to censor certain types of lawful speech, and its proposal would revise and clarify the existing language while also providing greater guidance to platforms, users, and courts. In particular, the Trump administration seeks to add the statutory definition of "good faith" with regard to the way platforms will censor their users. The Justice Department also proposed changing language from "otherwise objectionable" content to "unlawful" and "promotes terrorism," which the agency argued would prevent platforms from removing content that they simply dislike.
Asked by MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle about voters believing Trump's frequent accusations that Biden will push a socialist agenda as president, the former vice-president said he wasn't sure if there was anyone voting for Trump who hadn't already made up their mind.
"But who knows. He's sort of like Goebbels. You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge," he said, arguing that Trump was using the "socialist" attacks to "scare and distract" voters. He also accused him of "embracing dictators around the world" and then compared him to the late Fidel Castro.
"He's more Castro than Churchill," Biden declared.
Election experts have said it might take several days after the Nov. 3 election until a winner is known as officials will need time to count mail ballots that arrive after election day.
Speaking at a rally in Newport News, Virginia, Trump said he would prefer to find out quickly whether he won or lost, rather than wait for the mail ballots to come in.
"I like watching television and have, 'The winner is', right? You might not hear it for months, because this is a mess. It's very unlikely that you're going to hear a winner that night. I could be leading and then they'll just keep getting ballots, and ballots, and ballots and ballots. Because now they're saying the ballots can come in late."
To date, it is known that the Azerbaijani side has lost four helicopters, ten tanks and fourteen unmanned aerial vehicles.
Comment: That number is up to 30 armored vehicles and 20 UAVs. Baku was still denying losses after these videos were shared, calling them 'lies and disinformation'.
Baku reported the destruction of 12 Armenian Osa anti-aircraft missile systems. There are casualties on both sides.
The Armenian military continues to shoot down Azerbaijani military equipment, the Armenian Defense Ministry reports. Another video with the destruction of enemy equipment is being published by the press secretary of the department Shushan Stepanyan.
Comment: So far at least 16 are dead and over a hundred injured, according to Armenia's defense ministry. Azeri prosecutors say five members of the same family were killed in Armenian shelling on the village Gashalti.
NKR President Harutyunyan has declared martial law and announced a military conscription call for all males over 18. Azerbaijan followed suit shortly after in announcing martial law. Turkey has expressed their support for Azerbaijan and blamed Armenia, citing Azerbaijan's right to self-defense (taking a playbook from the IDF, are we?). Erdogan called on Armenians to stand against their government - the 'biggest threat to peace' in the region - and for the whole world to stand with Azerbaijan. To which Armenian PM Pashinyan responded by urging Turkey not to meddle. Russia vowed to continue mediation efforts and urged a halt to the fighting - Lavrov also spoke to his Turkish colleague about the need for a ceasefire. Putin has told Pashinyan that all military action needs to stop.
Armenia says it is considering recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh independence. It has also turned to the European human rights court to stop the Azeri attack.
Now, remember this from previous weeks:
Biden leads Trump 54 percent to 44 percent in a head-to-head match-up, but his lead drops to 49 percent to 43 percent when the Libertarian and Green Party candidates are included.
The survey found the president's overall approval at a relatively steady 44 percent. A majority of voters, 52 percent, continue to approve of Trump's handling of the economy. Forty percent approve of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic versus 58 percent who disapprove. Biden leads on who voters trust to handle the pandemic. However, his wider lead over the summer has contracted, from 54 percent to 34 percent in mid-July to 51 percent to 40 percent in September.
Comment: The Hill, in tandem with the rest of the MSM is punting this farce right down to the wire. Let's check in with reality as of September 23rd, via the much more reliable Rassmussen Reports :
Democratic nominee Joe Biden is back in the lead, just barely, in the latest Rasmussen Reports' weekly White House Watch survey.Hardly a ten-point lead, and liable to vanish in a heartbeat. The upcoming debates ought to settle the matter, should they actually come off.
The new national telephone and online survey finds Biden leading President Trump 48% to 47% among Likely U.S. Voters. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate. Just two percent (2%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The race has narrowed over the past three weeks and is now reminiscent of the closing weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign when Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton seesawed up and down within one or two points of each other in Rasmussen Reports polling.
Trump took his first lead last week, 47% to 46%, after Biden was ahead by two the week before. Three weeks ago marked the first time Trump had cleared the 45% mark since the weekly White House Watch began at the beginning of July.
The new survey finds Trump with 83% support among Republicans and a six-point lead among voters not affiliated with either major party. Biden has 83% of the Democrat vote.
- Democrats urge Biden not to debate Trump
- 'Why bother?': Pelosi repeats that Biden should skip debatesA worried New York Times lays out conditions for Biden-Trump debate or loophole to save Joe from live sparring
- 'He'll be there' - Jill Biden says slow Joe will show up to the three scheduled debates
As I've had cause to note in my work in the past, the 2013 Atlantic Wire article, republished by Yahoo! News under the headline "What is a 'False Flag' Attack — and Was Boston One?" was, for me, a clear sign that the 9/11 Truth movement had accomplished at least one extremely important thing. Namely, it inserted the term "false flag" into the public conversation about terrorism so effectively that the mainstream was forced to address it.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, The Atlantic Wire's answer to that headline question was a resounding "No." But that's not important. What matters is that they had to address the topic at all. No longer could the establishment press feign ignorance of the very concept ("buT wHy wOuLd thE goVernMEnt AttAcK iTseLf?"), nor could they pretend that the idea of false flag terrorism was so outlandish and so confined to the fringes of mainstream discourse that it could be safely ignored. No, by 2013 any spectacular terrorist incident was quickly followed by an establishment denial that the event had been staged.
That is a major step. An important tool of control, used to pull the wool over the eyes of the public for centuries, had gone from a laughable fringe "conspiracy theory" to an openly acknowledged (and vigorously denied) conspiracy reality within the space of a decade.
But have we really learnt the lessons of history about false flag terrorism? Do we even really know what that term means? And would we recognize it if that trick was employed again in a different context?
Let's explore these questions with a quick overview of the history of false flag terrorism, its use in the present day, and what we can expect to see as we move into the age of biosecurity.
Comment: For months now, we're supposedly the conspiracy theorists, while they're all 'the sane ones'. And yet, throughout, Western media has promoted literal conspiracy theories in an attempt to inflate hysteria and panic, thereby justifying the WHO's phony BS about a 'killer virus' and Western governments' tyrannical power grabs.
Let's see what the kooks are saying now...
As the world continues to grapple with coronavirus and the economic catastrophe of lockdown, a disturbing new theory has emerged.

The above graphic was made earlier this year to go with content accusing China of DOWNPLAYING the extent and fatality of Covid-19. But, claims an MSM conspiracy theorist, that turns out to have been diabolically clever double reverse psychology by the Chinese govt...
As the global community continues to grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic - and the economic catastrophe caused by the associated "lockdowns" imposed by governments around the world - a chilling new theory has emerged.
It goes like this - China, in an enormous disinformation campaign spread via social media and through compromised voices in Western politics, science and medicine, aggressively pushed for other nations to follow its lead, with the goal of intentionally destroying their economies.
Comment: By intentionally risking its own first?
That's according to Michael Senger, a lawyer and researcher based in Atlanta, Georgia. In an article for Tablet Magazine, Senger has laid out a disturbing timeline of evidence that, if true, hints at what could be the most effective and devastating psy-op ever carried out by a world government.
Comment: The "most effective and devastating psy-op ever carried out by a world government" is certainly underway, but it's being carried out by the largely WESTERN-controlled World Government.
"By promoting fraudulent data, aggressively deploying disinformation, and flexing its institutional clout, Beijing transformed the snake oil of lockdowns into 'science', crippling rival economies, expanding its influence and sowing authoritarian values," Senger writes on Twitter.
Comment: So China made us do it, huh. Wow. The Russians may have 'made us vote for their agent Trump', but the Chinese 'made us destroy Western civilization'. Without firing a single shot! They are then, presumably, vastly more intelligent than 'us'...
Comment: What a crooked theory. It's also funny though, if you follow through its implications: forget Russians being so cunning and deviant as to be able to rig US elections through handfuls of Facebook posts. Now China controls ALL Western leaders through handfuls of tweets!
As batsh*t crazy as this conspiracy theory is, with just a few tweaks here and there, you can see how it's a good fit for a homegrown "most effective and devastating psy-op ever carried out by a world government..."

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Aoun, left, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Mustapha Adib, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020.
Mustapha Adib, former ambassador to Berlin, was picked on Aug. 31 to form a cabinet.
He had tried to form a government of specialists in a nation where power is shared between Muslims and Christians and political loyalties tend to follow sectarian lines.













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