Puppet MastersS


Rocket

Russia showcases new anti-ship missiles immune from defense measures

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:59 UTC
Kh-35U anti-ship missiles
Russia has conducted a dramatic and what appears to be successful test of new anti-ship missiles by blowing up a fleet of warships in a training exercise.

Footage released by Russia's defense ministry demonstrated the capabilities of the Kh-35U anti-ship missiles, which the military vaunts as a ship killer immune from enemy defense mechanisms.

Russia's Ministry of Defense announced this week: "Su-34 multifunctional fighter-bombers carried out practical launches of the newest guided anti-ship missiles Kh-35U."
Read More...
Vader

5 things we learned from Trump's UN speech: America is the best, Iran is the worst, globalism is bad


RT
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:02 UTC
trump
© Reuters
US President Donald Trump praised Israel and Saudi Arabia, and attacked Iran, Venezuela and the International Criminal Court in his second annual speech to the UN General Assembly, in which he reshuffled his greatest hits.

The comment was so outlandish to some in the hall, it earned an involuntary laugh. But while Trump acknowledged the reaction, his whole opening passage - in which he reeled off stat-based boasts about Wall Street, record low minority unemployment and highest-ever military funding - is reflective of the current White House. It doesn't just believe it is trying to do the right thing, it believes it is "winning," and so any editorials at home or caustic comments from other world leaders in the room are to be disregarded.

In signaling Washington's place in the world, Trump stuck to his two pillars: America is special, and no one else can tell it what to do.
Read More...
Network

The EU turns away from US and toward Russia, China to renegotiate Iran deal

Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:49 UTC
Lavrov EU affairs chief
© Alexander Shcherbak/TASSRussian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov with EU external affairs chief Federica Mogherini in New York on Tuesday.
The European Union, Iran, China and Russia have set out a plan to sidestep unilateral US sanctions designed to cripple the Iranian economy and force the Iranians to renegotiate the nuclear deal signed in 2015.

European diplomats hope the proposed measure - known as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) - will help persuade an increasingly reluctant Iran to stay inside the deal in the hope of rescuing its economy.

Speaking on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York, Federica Mogherini, the EU external affairs chief, said the SPV was designed to facilitate payments related to Iran's exports - including oil - and imports, so long as the firms involved were carrying out legitimate business under EU law.
Read More...
Bulb

Iran tells Trump to stop 'disruptive interference' in Middle East if he wants cheaper oil


RT
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:52 UTC
oil tanker
© Hamad I Mohammed / Reuters
US sanctions against Tehran are pushing up oil prices, according to Iran's oil minister. If Donald Trump wants cheaper crude like he declares, America should stop interfering in Middle East affairs, he said.

"Mr Trump is trying to seriously reduce exports of Iran's oil and also ensure the price of oil does not go up, but these two cannot happen together," Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency, as quoted by Reuters.

"If he wants the price of oil not to go up and the market not to get destabilized, he should stop unwarranted and disruptive interference in the Middle East and not be an obstacle to the production and export of Iran's oil."
Read More...
Chess

Twitter suspends Venezuelan government's Presidential Press account


RT
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:44 UTC
twitter censorship
© Alexander Pohl / Global Look Press
Twitter has suspended the official account of the Venezuelan government's press team, reportedly without giving any explanation. The suspension is the latest in a series of social media strikes against Venezuelan media outlets.

"They blocked our Twitter account of the Presidential Press, they flagrantly violate our right to inform, we demand immediate reinstatement," Minister for Communication Jorge Rodriguez tweeted on Tuesday.

The Presidential Press profile has more than one million followers. Monday's suspension is not the first such event: in October 2017, President Maduro denounced an apparent campaign to limit the reach of his posts on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, TeleSUR reported.
Read More...
Video

'Al-Qaeda Goes to Hollywood': Mini-documentary pulls back the veil on western Syrian war propaganda


Sputnik
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:27 UTC
white helmets
© Agence France-Presse/Amer AlmohibanyMembers of the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, take a selfie with their certificates after taking part in a training session in the rebel-held eastern Ghouta area, east of the capital Damascus, on November 22, 2016
A new mini-documentary aims to tackle the tall challenge of exposing swaths of propaganda crafted by Hollywood producers and distributed through mass-market channels like Netflix.

It goes without saying that US media has propagandized in its war reporting for years. The Afghan Mujahedeen fighters trained by the US in the 1980s were hailed as freedom fighters by the president and the press alike. But when it comes to Syria, from shady Western-funded groups like the White Helmets to manufactured claims of a Sunni genocide, the level of deception is potentially unprecedented.

In a war where social media videos have spurred bombing campaigns and CNN anchors have cried over children who were alleged victims of the government (whose parents, in reality, support the government), it is outstandingly difficult for the US populace to get good information.

Comment:

Read More...
Light Sabers

Corbyn challenges May to run-off should her Brexit plans go awry


RT
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:03 UTC
corbyn and may
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has declared that UK PM Theresa May should call a general election if parliament votes down a Tory Brexit deal based on the Chequers plan, or a "No deal," which he says would be "a national disaster."

Corbyn warned May that Labour will vote against her Chequers proposal if it forms the backbone of any final deal with the EU's 27 member states, and claimed that the prime minister would be forced to call a general election if she could not get it through parliament.

Fine tuning the party's Brexit position, Corbyn told delegates assembled in Liverpool: "As it stands, Labour will vote against the Chequers plan - or whatever is left of it - and oppose leaving the EU with no deal."
Read More...
Magnify

Project Veritas Deep State exposé Part 4: IRS officials - 'You should give increased scrutiny to conservative groups.. I don't give a s**t if that's a crime'


Project Veritas
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Project Veritas IRS officials
© Project Veritas / YouTube

UPDATE: Sep 25, 2018, 2:36 PM | Project Veritas attorney Ben Barr submitted this complaint to the Department of Justice regarding the findings of this investigation.

Project Veritas has released the fourth story in a series of undercover reports which unmask the Deep State. This report features two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials who candidly discuss the IRS's unfair treatment of conservative non-profit groups. The two officials in the report are Thomas Sheehy, an IRS tax examiner and member of the Austin Democratic Socialists of America in Texas, and Jerry Semasek, an IRS attorney in Washington, DC.

The Austin Democratic Socialists of America is a socialist group that works to advance 'progressive issues' in Austin, Texas.


Comment: Earlier installments in the Deep State exposé:

Read More...
Snakes in Suits

Rosenstein's Resistance

Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:55 UTC
Rosenstein
© UnknownFormer Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
Weasel words, weasel moves from an emotionally overwrought deputy AG eager to ingratiate himself with Democrats.

Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general's non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:
The New York Times's story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. . . . I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Let's parse this.

Comment: The NYT has lived up to its biased and fading reputation. McCarthy's analysis, of Rosenstein's motives and actions, as well as the colorations and conclusions in the NYT article, has teeth - a primer for discovery and scrutiny.

See also:

Read More...
Pirates

Craig Murray: Importing Jihadi terror to the UK - Cui Bono?

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
WHelmet/Jihadi
© SouthFrontWhite Helmets by day, terrorists by night.
If Osama Bin Laden was not sufficient warning that decades of money, arms and other support from the Western security services does not render a jihadi a friend of the West, then the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi, should have opened British eyes forever to the danger. In collaboration with MI5, Abedi had been fighting in the ongoing proxy war for Western oil interests in Libya, before being rescued by the Royal Navy. Back home in Manchester, he carried out an attack of appalling violence against a primarily young and female target group.

So it would be very foolish indeed to rely on the fact that the jihadi logistic support and propaganda group the White Helmets is largely British government funded, to expect its members who are now, like Abedi, being brought into the UK, to behave as quiet citizens. The links of the White Helmets to Al-Nusra and Al-Shams and other jihadi groups are deep - they chose to be evacuated to Idlib together from numerous sites. The reason there is no substantial corpus of independently filmed evidence of the White Helmets' work is that they co-operate with people who would chop off western journalists' heads on sight. In many well-attested cases, they are the same people.

Comment: The White Helmets/Jihadis are an expensive resource able to be repurposed. Duality has its usefulness - a militant two-for-one benefit, funded in the millions by many gullible Western countries. In the UK: A Freedom of Information Act request revealed that, as of March 2018, the UK government has funded the White Helmets to the tune of £38,425,591.23 (approximately $51,148,535).

See also:

Read More...