The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The systems disruption prize for Monday goes to the operative who Rickrolled Melania Trump's speech. Wow. Amazing.
Melania Trump’s Speech was Intentionally Sabotaged
Adding the rickroll to a sabotaged speech is a calling card. A signature for a hack. It's very, very cool.
Donald Trump and the Revolt of the Proles
It’s about the elites. It’s about the 1%. It’s about the fact that your parties, have sold you down the river.” . . . Elites understand what’s going on. They know they got too greedy and went overboard. . . . Instead of acknowledging and addressing the fundamental flaws within themselves, they are devoting their energies to demonizing the victims of their corruption, all in order to de-legitimize those grievances and thus relieve themselves of responsibility to meaningfully address them. That reaction only serves to bolster, if not vindicate, the animating perceptions that these elite institutions are hopelessly self-interested, toxic, and destructive and thus cannot be reformed but rather must be destroyed.
How technology disrupted the truth
It seemed that journalists were no longer required to believe their own stories to be true, nor, apparently, did they need to provide evidence. Instead it was up to the reader – who does not even know the identity of the source – to make up their own mind. But based on what? Gut instinct, intuition, mood? Does the truth matter any more?
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To many among Vatican insiders, Egypt could be the key for a Middle East renaissance. Fr. Paolo Asolan, a Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, saw this “Egyptian opportunity” during a recent trip he made to the land of pyramids. “When I was there – he said – I thought of what Cardinal Casaroli said about Poland after he had visited the countries beyond the Iron Curtain: if Communism will fall, it will fall starting from Poland.” As an analogy, Asolan would say that if Middle Eastern and African extremism will fall, it will fall starting from Egypt.
Surging “Intercommunity Confrontations” In France Mean “Civil War Is Inevitable”
“We are on the verge of a civil war.” That quote did not come from a fanatic or a lunatic. No, it came from head of France's homeland security, the DGSI (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure), Patrick Calvar. He has, in fact, spoken of the risk of a civil war many times. On July 12th, he warned a commission of members of parliament, in charge of a survey about the terrorist attacks of 2015, about it.
Guccifer 2.0 releases new DNC docs
Admiral Fabuloso: Hillary, Syria and the Destructive Career of James G. Stavridis
Hillary Clinton meanwhile is reportedly pondering the selection of retired Admiral James G. Stavridis, a former Rumsfeld lickspittle who helped destroy Libya and thinks it would be a fine idea to hook up with Al Qaeda in Syria. Clinton’s putative defense secretary, Michelle Flournoy, herself an ardent proponent of escalation in Syria and elsewhere, acclaims him as “one of the finest military officers of his generation.”
