Puppet Masters
In particular, the Iranian Foreign Minister said that Twitter was shutting down accounts of real Iranians, while ignoring anti-government accounts he claims are backed by the United States.
Earlier, Iranian media outlets accused Israel, Saudi Arabia and exiled opposition groups, including the Mujahideen Khalq which has members based in Albania, of being behind social media campaigns calling for the overthrow of the regime in the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused Washington and Tel Aviv of waging a full-scale media war to discourage simple Iranians, as the country faces intense economic and political pressure after US withdrawal from Iranian JCPOA nuclear deal.
The cases of Maria Butina detained in the US, and that of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, the two men who traveled to Salisbury in England, are illustrative of a totally irrational anti-Russian mindset that has run amok.
All have been accused of being Russian agents. Butina is facing five years in an American jail if she is convicted of spying. Her lawyer maintains she broke no laws while in the US. The only thing she seems "guilty" of is networking with various social and political groups - and of being Russian.
The two men mentioned, fortunately, made it back to Russia before British authorities incarcerated them too on false charges.
Petrov and Boshirov have been charged in absentia by British police in connection with the apparent poison-attack on a former Russian spy living in Salisbury. The British government accused the two men of being assassins belonging to Russian military intelligence, GRU. The basis for accusation is the pair were filmed by public CCTV cameras being in Salisbury town on the weekend that ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were allegedly poisoned with a nerve agent.
Comment: See also:
- Swiss lab spy games support the theory that Novichok WASN'T used in Salisbury
- The ulterior reasons behind the Anglo-American war on Russia
- Salisbury plot thickens as questions without answers multiply
- Latest Skripal development adds fuel to existing anti-Russia fever in London's politicos

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (seated) chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 15, 2018
"Killing, expanding settlement[s], destruction, and the uprooting of the Palestinian population will not bring peace or security," President Abbas said in a meeting with former Israeli left-wing lawmakers on Sunday, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
"This (Israeli) government's policies and the biased US decisions contradict the international resolutions and are harming the chances of making just peace based on the two-state solution along 1967 borders," the president said.
The emergency communications drill will begin at 2:18 p.m. EDT through 2:20 p.m. EDT. Every cell phone in the US will receive a text message from President Trump.
All US wireless firms and more than 100 mobile carriers are participating in the exercise that allows for presidential alerts, FEMA wrote in a Thursday press release.
"The EAS [Emergency Alert System] is a national public warning system that provides the president with the communications capability to address the nation during a national emergency," FEMA said in a statement.
Comment: Being that the Emergency Alert System is hackable and prone to spoof alerts like this one, one wonders if any message coming from the President would really be him. And then there's always operator error.
The statement comes a day after a Syrian military source told Sputnik that the Arab republic's air defenses had repelled Israel's missile attack targeting the area close to Damascus International Airport.
Shortly after the report, a spokeswoman for the Israeli army declined the Sputnik request for comments, which is the country's established practice.
Comment: Unprecedented 'transparency', from the only 'democracy' in the Middle East.
"Israel is constantly working to prevent our enemies from arming themselves with advanced weaponry. Our red lines are as sharp as ever and our determination to enforce them is stronger than ever," Netanyahu said in the run-up to the weekly cabinet meeting, as quoted by his press service.
Comment: Just look at Israel's 'enemies', the Palestinians. Israel has made sure they only have stones and fireworks with which to fight. But even then, they regularly use such primitive weapons as the excuse to murder children, medics, journalists... At least Netanyahu is clear about his overall, demonic worldview:
The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong...Perhaps he drew inspiration from another famous adherent of the same worldview, who said:
But our enemies know very well what Israel is capable of doing. They are familiar with our policy. Whoever tries to hurt us - we hurt them
The whole of nature is a mighty struggle between strength and weakness, an eternal victory of the strong over the weak.
Last week, Booker violated rules of the U.S. Senate during confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Booker admitted his wrongdoing because he was trying to look like a hero for leftists. He said at the time that he would accept the consequences for doing so. Well, here you go Senator Spartacus.
Comment: One does not simply become a New Jersey politician. You have to be a special kind of corrupt to gain that dishonor. See: See also:
- 'The system's not working' is just liberal-speak for 'we're not getting what we want'
- Hillary Clinton makes a fool of herself by bashing Kavanaugh with debunked fake news claim
- The 5 dumbest moments of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing
Russia has become the latest victim of the blame game hysteria, which the US and its western allies engage in to justify their ever-increasing military spending, Maguire wrote in an opinion piece. "All armies must have an enemy to deem them necessary," she said, adding that people "must be convinced that there is need for action to safeguard the freedom of their country."
What also apparently drives the Western elites mad is the prospect of losing their perceived superiority and global hegemony in the view of the new rising powers such as Russia and China, the peace activist said. "Do we honestly believe that the Western allies are going to give up their power? My suggestion is: not easily," Maguire wrote.
Comment: The sad thing is that they've already lost these things. They just don't want to accept it and are lashing out in denial.
"The old dying empires will fight tooth and nail to protect their financial interests such as the petrol dollar and the many benefits that come through their power over poverty-stricken countries," she warned.
"The demonization of Russia is, I believe, one of the most dangerous things that is happening in our world today," Maguire said as she denounced the "scapegoating of Russia" as an "inexcusable game" while saying the amount of propaganda spread by the western media is literally "a throwback to the Cold War era." She also called on people to wake up to the real results of the West's self-declared fight for freedom, which left millions in despair but greatly benefited the elites that "financially gained from war."
Earlier this year, Japanese media revealed that the United States government had tested crop-killing bioweapons in Okinawa as well as on Taiwanese and American soil during the 1960s and early 1970s. Despite the multilateral Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention that came into effect in 1975, many countries such as the US and Israel continue to operate bioweapon programs, the China National Defence report said.
The newspaper claims the US military is developing a genetic weapon through a secret R&D; project, with alleged participants claiming that the genes of Chinese, European Caucasians and Arabs are all part of the research. A large number of non-military organizations are also said to be participating in the US gene battle project in the hope of developing drugs and food that will mutate the genetic structure of certain people groups, the paper added.
Comment: Since this report surfaced then disappeared down the memory hole, it has emerged that the Americans are considering the same thing for Russians: a 'Russian-specific virus' that will kill them and leave Americans victorious in the 'Great Game'.
Putin claims someone is harvesting Russian bio samples for obscure purposes - US Air Force admits to collecting genetic data for "research"
People's Liberation Army Sr. Col. Dai Xu said the United States released the H7N9 bird flu virus into China in an act of biological warfare, according to a posting on his blog on Saturday.
The charge was first reported in the state-run Guangzhou newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily and then picked up by several news outlets in Asia.
State Department spokesman Jason Rebholz dismissed the claim. "There is absolutely no truth to these allegations," he told the Washington Free Beacon.
Seven deaths from the bird flu outbreak were reported as of Tuesday in state-run Chinese media. As many as 24 people reportedly were infected by the disease in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui.
UK authorities are looking for a medic, nicknamed Dr. Novichok, and a fourth individual who allegedly helped Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov perpetrate the attack on former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March, the Sunday Mirror reported.
"It's believed they could have met a handler who was working at the embassy and a fourth, the medic, might have had oversight of the whole thing to make sure they didn't risk ruining the operation by getting themselves contaminated," the Sunday Mirror cited an unnamed government source as saying.
The insider claims that the duo could have met with the two other suspects after checking into the City Stay Hotel in East London.
Comment: "Dr. Novichok"? Seriously? The Brits are starting so sound like they are living a bad spy novel.
- 'We're Not Agents': UK's Suspects in Skripal Case Interviewed by RT's Editor-in-chief
- Analysts weigh in on Skripal poisoning accusations: 'UK cornered itself claiming Petrov & Boshirov were perpetrators'
- Vladmir Putin: We know who people named as suspects in Skripal case are, they are civilians
- Backing up Salisbury suspects Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov's alibi
- Moscow slams Bellingcat for spreading misinformation on Salisbury 'suspects'
- Salisbury suspects Petrov & Boshirov: The burden of proof is on the UK govt, not them
- The plot thins: How a gel became a liquid and the whole Novichok affair began to smell to high heaven















Comment: See also: Facebook, Twitter ban Iran-linked 'disinfo' accounts, MSM blames Russia