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I've noticed an interesting phenomenon in my 12 years of watching the news headlines for a living: Stories often pop up in mirror image pairs.

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.

Arrow Down

Obama says women are 'indisputably better' leaders than men, including Tulsi Gabbard or just Hillary Clinton & Liz Warren?

Obama
© Global Look Press / Matthias Balk
Just two short months after calling out woke culture and expressing that "the world is messy," Mr. Obama changed course, and is now offering the simplified view that women should manage everything.

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.

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


Light Sabers

'Fix your mistakes': Beijing fumes at US' reported expulsion of Chinese diplomats for 1st time in 30 years

China US flag
© Global Look Press / Ringo Chiu
FILE PHOTO
Beijing has demanded that Washington stop "distorting the facts" after the US accused two Chinese diplomats of spying on a US military base in Norfolk, Virginia, and expelled them, the first such case in decades.

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:


Light Saber

Former FBI Chief Says Sorry for 'Sloppy' Russia Investigation, But Media Interview Exposes Him as a Liar

comey testimony intelligence committee
© Reuters / Jim Bourg
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
A report by the Justice Department's Inspector General published on Monday report found 17 irregularities, inaccuracies and omissions in the FBI's FISA warrant application, used to obtain permission to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

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.


Oil Well

The Israel lobby's hidden hand in the theft of Iraqi and Syrian oil

The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the implementation of policies that favor Israel.
iraq's and syria's oil
© Claudio Cabrera
"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,


MIB

Former CIA officer: Eric Holder just revealed that the "deep state is running scared"

Eric Holder

Eric Holder
Former CIA officer and counter-intelligence expert Kevin Shipp says that former Obama Administration Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder gave a big Deep State panic signal when he wrote in an Op-Ed last week in the Washington Post trashing current AG William Barr and his top prosecutor John Durham. Shipp explains,
"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:


Light Sabers

'Terrorism comes at a cost': Ex-Indian Air Force chief says about Balakot strikes

Balakot was message to Pakistan that terror attacks come at a cost': Ex-IAF chief BS DhanoaBS Dhanoa said that Balakot strikes happened because of decisive national leadership and the fact all three armed forces wing were at the ready.
Indian Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa (retd)
© PTI
Pointing towards the poor fiscal health of Pakistan, Dhanoa said that in February, the neighbouring country was reeling under severe financial crisis.
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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.

Russian Flag

'Unprecedented brazenness': Trump and Lavrov in the Oval Office sends US media into hysterics

lavrov trump oval office white house
© Twitter / @realDonaldTrump
'OMG, two Russians in the White House!' Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Donald Trump
'Something is rotten with the state of Denmark', or if not Denmark then certainly the United States of America. It's the only conclusion one can draw from the way the absolutely normal is nowadays treated as the most extraordinary drama.

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.


Quenelle

First Minister warns Johnson: Scotland 'cannot be imprisoned' in UK

Nicola Sturgeon
© Russell Cheyne / Reuters
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party
Scotland "cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will" by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

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."

Scotland held an independence referendum in 2014, but the motion was rejected by voters.
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.


Magic Hat

Corbyn's defeat has destroyed the left's last illusion

This was an election of two illusions.

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
© Charles Fearn/Channel 4
Eton toffs: young Boris Johnson and David Cameron in their supper club clobbery.
The extent to which such illusions now dominate our political life was highlighted two days ago with a jaw-dropping comment from a Grimsby fish market worker. He said he would vote Tory for the first time because "Boris seems like a normal working class guy."

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.