Remember that caravan that the mainstream media - and Mexican officials - said was no longer heading to the U.S.-Mexico border?

Yeah, they arrived at the border.

The story of the marching caravan - 1,500 refugees strong - was all over the news for a week, with the MSM breathlessly covering the plight of the poor refugees who surely deserved free entry into the United States. But the story disappeared as outlets reported that the caravan was no longer heading to the border.

Indonesian ISIS supporters circulated posters online warning that Satan is behind the American financial system as well as media and entertainment, threatening to attack a handful of entities.

The first poster, telling adherents to "think smart," shows a devilish figure looming over several icons in flames: the United Nations, the Federal Reserve, Universal Studios Hollywood, CNN, NATO Allied Command Transformation and NASA, along with the reverse of the Great Seal on the U.S. dollar bill.

An ISIS jihadist fires a gun up at the seals, with the words "Allahu Akbar!" above his head.

Most of us would like to think that we're individuals, that we are above the influence of group pressure and that we view the world objectively. In reality, we are often under the influence of powerful people that we do not know for reasons that we do not understand. As long as civilization has stratified us into this hierarchal system, the people at the top have used information warfare to keep us under their control. Sometimes they are unable to control us, but often they are successful.

Lately, we've seen the media throw around terms like "fake news" and government do investigations into whether or not Russia influenced our election. This seems like a desperate attempt by the elites to maintain control of their narrative that has been damaged by the internet. The internet has decentralized the flow of information for the very first time in media history. In other words, news has always been fake to a large extent, and controlled by the elites.

An interview with a prolific Twitter user accused by the British government of being a "Russian Bot" quickly turned heated as challenged their arguments, particularly their claim that by not toeing the UK government line, he was "anti-Britain" - and perhaps even a Kremlin agent.


It all started with a blog post from the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the DC-based, Gulf-funded think tank Atlantic Council, which said that some of the conversations about the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal "appear to involve organized activity, including possibly fake accounts masquerading as English users, in the well-known pattern of the 'troll factory' in St. Petersburg." The post devotes a substantial portion of space to Twitter user @Ian56789, cited as an "unusual account" that was "especially active" on the subject.


​The British government claimed on Thursday to have concluded that there was a 4,000 percent increase in activity from Russian trolls following the Skripal poisoning and the West's attack on Syria on April 14, naming @Ian56789, hereinafter 'Ian,' as one of the Kremlin's accounts.

The US government, for its part, claimed there was a "2,000 percent increase in Russian trolls," as opposed to activity therefrom, although that was just in reference to Syria, not the poisoning in Salisbury.

Twitter banned Kaspersky Lab ads from its platform and, two months on, has failed to explain the decision. The head of the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm is now demanding public answers about an apparent act of censorship.

On Friday, Eugene Kaspersky, the head of Kaspersky Lab, revealed in a blog post that Twitter has banned the adverts of the Russian company. The decision was taken in January, when Kaspersky Lab received a brief email stating that Twitter has made "a determination that Kaspersky Lab operates using a business model that inherently conflicts with acceptable Twitter Ads business practices," according to a screenshot of the message.

Kaspersky says he was baffled by the justification because Kaspersky Lab's business model is essentially the same as that of any other reputable cybersecurity firm: It provides protection from malware for money. "We didn't violate any written or unwritten rules," he said. "The ban, I believe, violates Twitter's declared commitment to freedom of expression." After all, just a few years ago Twitter declared itself "the free speech wing of the free speech party."

Why do so many People find Jordan Peterson so threatening? I think a clue can be found in the bitter argument between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud that led to their parting of ways, way back in in the early 20th Century. Freud was looking for a rational, causal explanation for the subconscious world, which he reduced to taboos, family romance, sex and death drives. Being a hard-nosed 19th Century empiricist, he was skeptical, or perhaps even terrified, of esoteric phenomena; he told Jung to beware what he saw as a 'black tide of mud' in mysticism. But Jung was a mystic, and his interest lay precisely in the world of the unseen and occult.

The etymology of the word 'occult' is something like: 'what is hidden, concealed, or covered over'. Being so apparently rational, Freud had no room for occult speculation: he seemed to view mysticism as a neurotic disease, or at least something that should be understood in scientific terms. My sense is that this same Freudian fear and loathing of mysticism - a certain terror of the irrational, the dark, and the unknown - is what people fear in Jordan Peterson, who is a scientist but also a Jungian mystic. It is therefore no surprise that Pankaj Mishra's recent hit piece is entitled: 'Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism'.

This fear of 'the black tide of mud' continues on in the culture wars. The 'hard-nosed rationalists' are at war with the 'mystics'. People like Sam Harris, whose view is that 'intelligence is a matter of information processing in physical systems[i]' seems similarly worried about mysticism. Neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Iain McGilchrist, on the other hand, believes that this is a reductive view: "Is consciousness a product of the brain?', he wrote. 'The only certainty here is that anyone who thinks they can answer this question with certainty has to be wrong[ii]'. Freud and Jung fought this same eternal war between reason and mystery, and the conflict rages on.

Certainly, fear of fascist mysticism is not unfounded: after all mysticism, the occult, and the 'collective unconsciousness' are terrifying because we don't understand that much about them - and some doors are best left shut. Nazism, for example could be thought of as a kind of pre-rational mysticism, and Hitler a kind of negative mystic monster. However, was Jung a Nazi, as Pankaj Mishra seems to suggest? Actually, such rumors have since been proved unfounded: Jung actually risked his life in a conspiracy to bring down Hitler[iii].

On April 14, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies liberated the town of Douma and thus the entire region of Eastern Ghouta, near the Syrian capital of Damacus. Government forces also captured all the infrastructure created by Jaish al-Islam in Douma.

A Syrian photographer, Wassim Essa, has released a big photo report showing Jaish al-Islam's key HQ in Douma.

Dozens of gang members, some of whom belonged to the notorious MS-13, were shielded from deportation and released due to "sanctuary" policies last year, according to newly released stats from the Department of Homeland Security.

The revelation could jolt the escalating "sanctuary" debate, especially in California where many of those gang members were located.

"Two-thirds of the releases occurred in California, which has had a strict sanctuary policy in effect since January 2014," the Center for Immigration Studies said in a post on the data, pointing to "obvious public safety problems."

One more Syrian boy, 10-year-old Mustafa, who was portrayed as a victim in a video of the alleged chemical attack's aftermath in the city of Douma, told Sputnik that the kids had been given cookies and bags of potatoes for their featuring in the staged filming.

Mustafa, thereby, entirely confirmed the account of the events shared by another minor participant of the footage, which was used to justify the Western countries' military action against Damascus.

Earlier in the week, 11-year-old Syrian boy, Hasan Diab, and his father told the Rossiya 24 TV channel that the kids got dates, cookies and rice for featuring in the video. The boy said that he was in a basement in Douma with his mother when someone shouted to go to the hospital. When they came, somebody grabbed him, poured water on him and put him on a bed with other people in order to shoot a video. The man added that there was no chemical attack in the city.

For weeks, British Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have insisted that there is "no alternative explanation" to Russian government responsibility for the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last month.

But in fact the British government is well aware that such an alternative explanation does exist. It is based on the well-documented fact that the "Novichok" nerve agent synthesized by Soviet scientist in the 1980s had been sold by the scientist - who led the development of the nerve agent - to individuals linked to Russian criminal organizations as long ago as 1994 and was used to kill a Russian banker in 1995.

The connection between the Novichok nerve agent and a previous murder linked to the murky Russian criminal underworld would account for the facts of the Salisbury poisoning far better than the official line that it was a Russian government assassination attempt.