Puppet Masters
Take these two recent stories, for example.
One from the Department of (in)Justice: "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of United States Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions."
And the other courtesy of the Pentagon . . . uhhh, I mean, the MIT Technology Review: "China may be just about to launch its digital currency in two cities."
Just glancing at the headlines, it would seem that these are two completely unrelated stories. But once we look at the details, we will see how these two tales represent a fork in the path. Down one path we can see the promise of currency decentralization and the real threat that it poses to the existing establishment. Down the other path lies a future in which all transactions are centralized once and for all, a nightmare of constant and total surveillance from which there will be no escape.
Once we recognize this fork in the road for what it is, we can make an informed decision about which path we wish to follow. But we don't have long before this window of opportunity closes and the elitists choose our path for us.
The problem, as usual, is that most people are unaware we are even at this fork in the path, let alone that we have a decision to make. So let's examine these stories and see what they tell us about where humanity is heading in the next decade.
While speaking at a private event in Singapore, the former president of the United States told those in attendance that women are "indisputably" better than men. He then went on and said he's confident that every nation would see "significant improvement" if women had control for two years, especially as he believes that if one looks at the problems of the world, it's usually due to old men "not getting out of the way."
Clearly the man is not paying much attention to US politics as he travels the world raking in vast amounts of money from his speaking fees, because if he was, he'd see that the current lineup of women competing on the Democratic side to be our next president are hardly free from scandal and controversy themselves.
Elizabeth Warren pretended to be Native American for much of her career as a means of getting ahead. Before recently ending her campaign bid, Kamala Harris was under fire for her record as a prosecutor in San Francisco. She's even claimed to regret unintended consequences of some of her policies. Marianne Williamson just last week told an astoundingly blatant lie when she claimed Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Charles Manson. And then you have multiple female politicians and DNC officials coming out and calling fellow candidate and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard a Russian asset.
The two unnamed Chinese diplomats had been told to leave the US earlier in September, but the demarche came to light after the New York Times reported it on Sunday. The officials in question allegedly drove onto the Norfolk base, breached its perimeter, and stopped only after fire trucks blocked their way.
A day after the piece was published, Beijing voiced unease over the whole affair. "This is a serious distortion of facts, the Chinese side has reprimanded the United States by lodging a protest," Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a Monday press briefing, as quoted by TASS.
Comment: It seems the tit-for-tat measures are ramping up, and this is happening just as the US and China were beginning to talk about easing some of the trade restrictions. Although we've seen these hints of sabotage a number of times before which leads one to wonder whether a faction within the US is seriously against good relations between the two countries:
- Henry Kissinger gets it... US 'exceptionalism' is over
- 'It's a lovefest!' Trump announces 'substantial' US-China trade deal on agriculture, intellectual property, & finance
- Trump and Xi underscore desire to sign initial trade deal and defuse tariff war
- US-China trade war may become a currency war within two years - Strategist

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
The warrant application was built heavily on a dossier of salacious and unproven gossip collected by former British spy Christopher Steele.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that the FBI's "basic, fundamental, and serious errors" amounted to a "failure" by the "entire chain of command."
Comey himself apologized to Fox News' Christopher Wallace on Sunday, saying "I'm sorry" for misrepresenting the role of the Steele Dossier in kickstarting the investigation. "I was wrong" to say that the FISA process was followed correctly, he continued, admitting to "real sloppiness" in his agency.
Comment: Comey still believes in his choirboy image, when all evidence seems to be against him. Now it's all coming out in the mainstream media, as they have no choice but to report on the tsunami of information breaking loose.
- Comey admits he was aware that Steele dossier was financed by Dems before signing off on FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page
- Comey admits FBI failed to verify Steele Dossier it used to obtain a spy warrant on Carter Page, Trump says Comey told 245 lies
- In Comey's own words he suggests FBI, DOJ hid dossier funding from FISA judge
- Carter Page testimony confirms Trump dossier was the basis of Russiagate
- Trump on Giuliani trip to Ukraine: Plenty of good information he wants to report to Congress and AG
- Giuliani: European officials tried to get spygate info to the FBI; they have been thwarted, ignored for over a year
"We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we're keeping the oil," President Trump stated on November 3, before adding, "I like oil. We're keeping the oil."
Though he had promised a withdrawal of U.S. troops from their illegal occupation of Syria, Trump shocked many with his blunt admission that troops were being left behind to prevent Syrian oil resources from being developed by the Syrian government and, instead, kept in the hands of whomever the U.S. deemed fit to control them, in this case, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-majority militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Though Trump himself received all of the credit — and the scorn — for this controversial new policy, what has been left out of the media coverage is the fact that key players in the U.S.' pro-Israel lobby played a major role in its creation with the purpose of selling Syrian oil to the state of Israel. While recent developments in the Syrian conflict may have hindered such a plan from becoming reality, it nonetheless offers a telling example of the covert role often played by the U.S.' pro-Israel lobby in shaping key elements of U.S. foreign policy and closed-door deals with major regional implications.
Indeed, the Israel lobby-led effort to have the U.S. facilitate the sale of Syrian oil to Israel is not an isolated incident given that, just a few years ago, other individuals connected to the same pro-Israel lobby groups and Zionist neoconservatives manipulated both U.S. policy and Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in order to allow Iraqi oil to be sold to Israel without the approval of the Iraqi government. These designs, not unlike those that continue to unfold in Syria, were in service to longstanding neoconservative and Zionist efforts to balkanize Iraq by strengthening the KRG and weakening Baghdad.
Comment: See also,
- Syria is not the only country where the US is occupying oil fields - Remember Libya?
- U.S. Didn't 'Withdraw' From Syria - It Redeployed, And Now Controls 75% of The Country's Oil
- Russian Foreign Ministry: US is smuggling $30mn of crude monthly from occupied Syrian oil fields, violating its OWN sanctions
"This is very significant. We all remember that Holder was Obama's right hand man. Eric Holder was Barack Obama's enforcer. The fact that Holder comes out this quickly after the Inspector General (IG) Horowitz Report comes out... and makes this veiled threat against Durham's reputation. The fact that Eric Holder came out and made this statement is a clear indication to me they are running scared.
We have to understand it was Eric Holder that Barack Obama used to target the heads of corporations that spoke out publicly about Barack Obama. We know Holder was held in 'Contempt of Congress.' He spied on AP reporters, ran guns to drug cartels and blacked out the information. He spied on over a hundred journalists, and on and on we go...
They (Deep State) are convinced there are going to be indictments. Secondly, there is AG Barr's outrage over (IG) Horowitz's report and what it did not do. He made statements that there was spying and actions by government officials that need to be criminally looked into. Barr's outrage over this shows me that there are going to be indictments, and that he is taking this seriously. Again, when Holder comes out and puts out this bombshell in the Washington Post, which is another indication that indictments are coming. John Brennan, former Obama Administration CIA Director, is going to be at the top of the list."
Comment: Deep state consigliere Holder has been deflecting, obscuring and executing a whole bevy of high crimes for the political and monied interests in Washington for many years. It would be nice to see him get his comeuppance - as well as Brennan, Clapper, Obama, Rice and many others. But we're not holding our breath here. The political warfare we're witnessing seems to be a battle to the death - and the crew Holder represents are not going down without a dirty drag-down fight.
See also:
- The wretched, despicable tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder
- Obama's enforcer: Eric Holder's tenure
- Holder: Yep, Obama could kill Americans on U.S. soil
- Dept. of Justice announces 'Fast and Furious' docs withheld by Eric Holder will be released
- Fomenting revolution? Former AG Holder urges Americans to take to the streets if Trump fires Mueller
- FBI sources: Awan investigation might have been rigged to protect Obama, Lynch, Holder, Wasserman and Congressional Democrats
- The Department of Injustice's new policy is a brutal admission of Eric Holder's corruption
- Eric Holder, wall street double agent, comes in from the cold

Pointing towards the poor fiscal health of Pakistan, Dhanoa said that in February, the neighbouring country was reeling under severe financial crisis.
Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa (retd) on Saturday said Pakistan was anticipating retaliation after the Pulwama attack in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel died.
"There were only two questions — when does the retaliation take place, and where," he said in a brainstorming session on 'Understanding the Message of Balakot' on the second day of the third Military Literature Festival at the Lake Club, Sector 1, in Chandigarh.

'OMG, two Russians in the White House!' Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Donald Trump
On Monday, US President Donald Trump met Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. It's about as normal a diplomatic event as one could possibly imagine, but it caused much of the American commentariat to go into a collective meltdown.
'Trump welcoming Russia's top diplomat to the Oval Office is one of his most brazen moves yet,' declared the Washington Post, which makes you think that Trump really needs to step up his game on the brazenness front. The Post isn't alone in thinking this way, however. What one might call the 'liberal' TV channels leapt on the story too, dragging in some representatives of the American security apparatus to ram home the point (there was a time when liberals regarded the FBI and CIA with suspicion, but such days are apparently long gone).
Comment: Morons, we're ruled by utter morons.

Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party
The Scottish first minister says the SNP's success in the general election gives her a mandate to hold a new referendum on independence.
However, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be "respected".
Ms Sturgeon told the BBC that if the UK was to continue as a union, "it can only be by consent".
She told The Andrew Marr Show that the UK government would be "completely wrong" to think saying no to a referendum would be the end of the matter, adding: "It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will."
Comment: RT adds
Johnson and his Tory government have stated that they will not permit another vote on Scotland leaving the union, but Sturgeon - whose Scottish National Party (SNP) won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in the UK parliament in the recent snap general election - said that the matter isn't up to the prime minister. The pro-independence first minister argued that if Johnson is so sure that preserving the union is the best course of action, "he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide."Actually, there were some serious questions around the the vote, with many reports of irregularities. Ms. Sturgeon may well be right in her call for another referendum.
Scotland held an independence referendum in 2014, but the motion was rejected by voters.
- Scottish independence is winning over uncommitted, says SNP
- Sources warn of vote rigging in Scotland's independence vote
- Thousands gather in cities across Scotland to protest vote rigging and rally for independence
- One year on, still YES: Tens of thousands rally for Scottish independence from London
- Ensuring Scottish sovereignty
- Brexit fallout: Scottish government considers 2nd independence referendum
The first helped persuade much of the British public to vote for the very epitome of an Eton toff, a man who not only has shown utter contempt for most of those who voted for him but has spent a lifetime barely bothering to conceal that contempt. For him, politics is an ego-trip, a game in which others always pay the price and suffer, a job he is entitled to through birth and superior breeding.

Eton toffs: young Boris Johnson and David Cameron in their supper club clobbery.
Johnson is precisely as working class, and "normal", as the billionaire-owned Sun and the billionaire-owned Mail. The Sun isn't produced by a bunch of working-class lads down the pub having a laugh, nor is the Mail produced by conscientious middle managers keen to uphold "British values" and a sense of fair play and decency. Like the rest of the British media, these outlets are machines, owned by globe-spanning corporations that sell us the illusions - carefully packaged and marketed to our sectoral interest - needed to make sure nothing impedes the corporate world's ability to make enormous profits at our, and the planet's, expense.










Comment: See also: FISA Report: Clinton meddled in 2016 election, who would have thought!