#MorningMonarchy: October 2, 2018
Hacked accounts, policing algorithms and the rise of the restaurant robots + this day in history w/the birth of 'Kid A' and our song of the day by The Prodigy on your Morning Monarchy for October 2, 2018.
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The Salisbury Poisoning Saga Goes On: And Makes Less and Less Sense…
The Salisbury poisoning saga has gotten more and more confusing and uncertain as it has dragged on. I don’t particularly even care: I’m just watching with baffled curiosity. In the first instance, I expressed doubts about the story, on account of both the timing and the fact that Salisbury (and later Amesbury, where the secondary […]
UK nerve agent case against Russia collapses (Video)
Prosecutors in the UK last week claimed that Russian tourists, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, were responsible for poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March.
UK authorities stated that the two men were using aliases during their travels to the UK.
‘Our empire is coming to an end,’ says Ron Paul
Former Congressman Ron Paul weighed in on the actions of the United States as it struggles to preserve its empire, and how Russia gets scapegoated in this process [some textual corrections made]:
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The US effort to preserve its global dominance is a costly endeavor based on threats and keeping the American people in the dark about what is going on, former US congressman and libertarian politician Ron Paul told RT.
Skripal poisoning hoax takes strange turn with RT’s exclusive interview of UK “suspects” (Video)
The two men named by UK authorities (and one hysterical Theresa May) as suspects in the Sergei and Yulia Skripal case reached out to RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan to tell their side of story.
Simonyan does an excellent job of questioning the two men about many unanswered questions regarding their bizarre implication in the ‘Novichok hoax’ that has seriously damaged UK relations with Russia.
Taking a look at the exclusive interview, it is clear that things have gone from weird, to a lot weirder, in the Skripal storyline.
RT Says U.S. Prepares New Bombing Raid to Topple Assad in Syria
A report from Russian Television asserts that the U.S. Government is positioning weaponry for yet another bombing-raid to punish Syria for having Bashar al-Assad as its President.
Alex Jones was an Easy Censorship Precedent – Predictably Other Dissent is Following
FACEBOOK, THE PUBLIC COMMONS — On August 11, Facebook suddenly took down the Facebook page of teleSUR English for allegedly failing to comply with Facebook’s Terms of Use.
Is the Washington Post Biased?
The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter:
July 18, 2018
Dear Mr. Birnbaum,
You write Trump “made no mention of Russia’s adventures in Ukraine”. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America’s adventures in the Ukraine, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014, which led to the justified Russian adventure. Therefore …?
Steve Bannon takes on George Soros and the radical left in Europe (Video)
President Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has announced plans to start a conservative-right foundation in Europe.
Bannon wants to create a new foundation, promoting the conservative values and ideology, that will rival the impact of radical left Open Society Foundations, set up by George Soros.
Bannon’s idea take on Soros in Europe with his very own NGO to support Europe’s conservative-right parties has caused quite shock and fear among liberals left politicians.