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Best of the Web: The Truth Behind Eastern Europe's Migrant Crisis

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© Ministry of Defense PolandMigrants swarm the Polish border with Belarus
These deeper strategic dimensions show just how complicated the Eastern European Migrant Crisis is.

Eastern Europe's Migrant Crisis has taken the continent by storm and unexpectedly become its top security concern. Poland accuses Belarus of waging "hybrid warfare" through "Weapons of Mass Migration" as an asymmetrical response to the West's regime change campaign against President Lukashenko since last year's elections. The Belarusian leader denies the accusations, as does Russia, which Warsaw also accused of supposedly being involved in its neighbor's "hybrid warfare" plot.

Tensions dramatically escalated on Monday after an unprecedentedly massive migrant caravan attempted to violently storm the Polish border, leading to claims from each country of the other violating those people's human rights and engaging in dangerous military provocations. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov laid the blame squarely at the West's feet for destroying Muslim countries and thus being the ultimate cause behind the migrant waves that periodically emanate from there.

He's right, but there's more to it than just that. RT reminded its audience that Lukashenko threatened over the summer to stop protecting the EU from smuggling (implied to also mean illegal immigration). This is a sensible stance from his perspective since there's no reason for this sanctioned country to continue investing its increasingly limited financial resources in ensuring its neighbor's security from such transnational non-state threats while they're literally trying to overthrow its government.

Passport

Best of the Web: Capitol 'rioter' Evan Neumann applies for asylum in Belarus, local media says

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© TV Belarus-1A videograb from Evan Neumann's interview with Belarusian state TV, which was broadcast on November 7.
An alleged Capitol rioter on the FBI's Most Wanted List has fled to the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus - known as Europe's last dictatorship - where he is being portrayed on state-run media as a 'simple American' fleeing 'political persecution.'

Evan Neumann, 48, was charged in July on six separate criminal charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as for assaulting, resisting and obstructing law enforcement at the Capitol insurrection on January 6.

Shortly after the charges were filed, Neumann sold his house in California's Bay Area for $1.3 million and fled. He is listed by the FBI as a 'defendant at large'.

Comment: Previously "attended" the Ukie Orange Revolution??!

Hmmm...


Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: England's govt estimates it may lose 123,000 health and social care staff over Covid vaccine mandate

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© (PA) / PA ArchiveA nurse administers a coronavirus vaccine to a health and social care worker
More than 120,000 frontline health and social care staff in England could lose their jobs next spring after refusing to have Covid-19 vaccinations, according to Government estimates.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced that frontline NHS workers and social care staff in England will need to be jabbed to continue in their jobs from April 1 next year, unless they are exempt.


Comment: The government was going to sack workers this winter but it appears that on realising the coercion hasn't worked and losing up to 10% of staff would likely cause so much preventable harm and death that they've had to reconsider postponing it till April. Considering how pathological those pushing these mandates are, it's a surprise that, at least in this instance, the establishment have been so realistic. That said, in some hospitals they'd lose - or, more correctly, fire - as much as 20% of the staff; interestingly, lower uptake is seen more often in communities with more minorities.

Taking the above into account, the delay reveals just how unnecessary the vaccine is.


But the Government has conceded that the policy could have a "significant impact" on the health and care workforce, with estimates suggesting that as many as 123,000 could leave their jobs as a result.

Comment: Since we know the experimental jabs don't prevent transmission, nor do they prevent infection - and tens of thousands of doctors and nurses seem to agree - these mandates clearly aren't about health, and whatever is motivating the establishment to enforce them clearly takes precedence over human life: RNA Vaccines, Obedience and Eugenics

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Vaccination of Children and Young Adults Correlates With Increase in Deaths




Bad Guys

Best of the Web: FBI Raids Project Veritas Writers... Over a Missing Biden Diary?

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Ashley Biden
There is a curious story out this weekend on reported FBI raids of writers or associates of Project Veritas, the conservative investigative journalism outfit. Project Veritas has been described variously as "Gonzo" or "guerilla" journalism and some insist it is more of a political than a press organization. However, it fits the definition of journalism, in my view, and that makes the raids troubling. All the more troubling is the cause: the missing diary of President Biden's daughter Ashley. [Update: The FBI reportedly also raided O'Keefe's home]

The New York Times reported that the FBI searched two locations in New York in search of the "stolen" diary that went missing days before the 2020 presidential election. Project founder James O'Keefe questioned how the Times received the story within an hour of the first raid.


Comment: See also:


Pumpkin

Best of the Web: US Navy ship named after first ever openly homosexual elected official... christened by transgender Navy veteran

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The United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk - named after the assassinated gay rights activist and politician - was christened on Saturday by a transgender veteran, to both praise and cries of "vile nonsense."

The USNS Harvey Milk was christened in San Diego, California in a traditional Navy ceremony, with Milk's nephew, Stuart Milk, in attendance.

Milk, who became an American LGBT icon as the first openly gay official elected in the state of California, served in the US Navy in the 1950s before being discharged over his sexuality. Less than a year after he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Advisers, Milk was assassinated in November 1978 by fellow board member Dan White, who had clashed with Milk over city policy.

A bottle of champagne was smashed on the USNS Harvey Milk on Saturday in the traditional manner by transgender Navy veteran Paula M. Neira, who currently works as a director for the John Hopkins Center for Transgender Health and as an assistant professor for plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Comment: So much Modern Murica!


NPC

Best of the Web: Bill Gates renews warnings over 'small pox terror' threat, FDA approved drug in May for disease that was 'eradicated' in 1980

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© Associated PressMicrosoft founder Bill Gates is calling for investment to fight bioterrorism
Bill Gates has warned governments to prepare for smallpox terror attacks and future pandemics by investing billions into research and development.

Mr Gates made the comments in a Policy Exchange interview with the chair of the health select committee Jeremy Hunt.

He said that countries like the US and the UK must spend "tens of billions" to fund the research adding that while it may be expensive, it could lead to the eradication of the flu and common cold.

Comment: Although Gates has been threatening the planet over the risks of small pox for years now, in May of this year the FDA approved another drug for the disease; a disease which the WHO declared eradicated (in the natural world) back in 1980.

The FDA release, published June 4th 2021:
FDA approves drug to treat smallpox

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Tembexa (brincidofovir) to treat smallpox. Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.
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Before its eradication in 1980, the variola virus mainly spread by direct contact among people. Symptoms typically began 10 to 14 days after infection and included fever, exhaustion, headache, and backache. A rash consisting of small, pink bumps progressed to pus-filled sores before it crusted over and scarred. Complications of smallpox included encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), corneal ulcerations (an open sore on the clear, front surface of the eye), and blindness.


Bearing in mind the description above, some researchers believe that it's the small pox virus that is responsible for the plague outbreaks reported throughout history, such as the Black Death. From the article New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection by Dr Segura we read:
No known virus existing today is responsible for the Black Death, although the symptoms resemble those of Ebola, Marburg and the viral hemorrhagic fevers - diseases caused by filoviruses. They have a high mortality rate and tend to occur in explosive epidemics driven by person-to-person transmission. Outbreaks occur unpredictably and, as of yet, no animal reservoir is known.

Similar plagues have been described in antiquity, i.e. the devastating epidemic that struck Athens in 430 BC and which Joseph and Wickramasinghe suggest the causative agent of which to be cometary as well.[9] As with the Black Death, the epidemic in Athens was localized geographically, it declined and disappeared as abruptly as it had started, and no known current disease fits its description by the historian Thucydides.

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A scene showing monks, disfigured by the plague, being blessed by a priest. England, 1360โ€“75.
Where did these diseases go? Did the Black Death virus mutate, causing other fearsome diseases? What we do know is that a more virulent form of smallpox came to the fore in the 1630s and, just as the Black Death disappeared from the stage of history, smallpox took its place as the most feared of human diseases. We can only speculate. Smallpox virus, as opposed to the causative agent of the Black death, is very resistant to cold temperatures, making it a more viable virus. According to the data collected by Scott and Duncan which describe the disease process of the Black Death, hemorrhagic smallpox is almost virtually identical to the Black Death.

But were there cometary impacts at the time of the Black Death?

If you read the special feature of The Dot Connector Magazine issue 11, (see also The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction) you probably know the answer to be positive. Plague outbreaks often coincided against a background of food shortages, famines, flooding, peasant uprisings and religious wars. In certain countries, there were volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and famines. And not only did the plague outbreaks coincide with cometary impacts, but earthquakes themselves may well have been indications of cometary impacts. Dendrochronologist Mike Baillie of Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland makes this case in his book New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection. [10]



Although naturally occurring smallpox no longer exists, concerns about potential uses of variola virus as a bioweapon has made smallpox drug development an important component of the U.S. medical countermeasures response.

Because smallpox is eradicated, the effectiveness of Tembexa was studied in animals infected with viruses that are closely related to the variola virus. Effectiveness was determined by measuring animals' survival at the end of the studies. More animals treated with Tembexa survived compared to the animals treated with placebo. FDA approved Tembexa under the agency's Animal Rule, which allows findings from adequate and well-controlled animal efficacy studies to serve as the basis of an approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct efficacy trials in humans.


So it's not proven to be effective or safe in humans. Much like the experimental coronavirus injections that were railroaded through using 'emergency' approval powers.


Safety information to support approval of Tembexa was derived from clinical trials of the drug for a non-smallpox indication, primarily from patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplants. An increased risk of death was seen in another disease (Cytomegalovirus disease - a viral infection) when Tembexa was used for a longer-than-recommended duration (longer than once a week for two weeks on days 1 and 8). Tembexa is only approved for the treatment of smallpox.

The most common side effects when using Tembexa are diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

Tembexa received priority review, fast track and orphan drug designations. Priority review directs overall attention and resources to the evaluation of applications for drugs that, if approved, would be significant improvements in the safety or effectiveness of the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of serious conditions when compared to standard applications. Fast track is designed to facilitate the development and expedite the review of drugs to treat serious conditions and fill an unmet medical need. Orphan drug designation provides incentives to assist and encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases.

Tembexa was developed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). FDA granted approval of Tembexa to Chimerix Inc.
Judy Stone MD at WebMD reported on the drug's approval on June 10th 2021:
The FDA has approved a new drug to treat smallpox. Fearful of a possible bioweapon attack, the United States has been steadily preparing a defense through BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

Tecovirimat was the first drug for smallpox, approved in 2018. The FDA granted the new drug, brincidofovir, or BCV, fast track status and orphan drug designations in 2018. The new approval came under the FDA's Animal Rule.

Drug testing usually goes through several phases prior to approval. First, there is preclinical testing in test tubes and animal models. Phase I is the "first in human" testing, looking primarily for safety and toxicity. Phase II is where researchers look for the best dose to treat a specific condition. The drug being tested is generally given to people who are relatively healthy otherwise.

Phase III broadens the population that receives the drug, including older people and those with underlying diseases (like diabetes or mild kidney disease). After this, the pharmaceutical company seeks FDA approval. Then phase IV, or post-marketing, studies are done, continuing to monitor for side effects. Rare side effects will often not appear until Phase IV, which is why drugs are sometimes recalled after initial approval.

But that's not how it worked for brincidofovir. The Animal Rule recognizes that some investigational treatments cannot be tested for a specific indication in people. This happens for infections where it is dangerous and unethical to expose people to an agent. Smallpox is one such infection; plague is another. Levaquin and Cipro, two quinolone antibiotics, are approved and often used for various infections but required this specific approval under the FDA's Animal Rule for use against plague.

BCV also received priority review, fast track, and orphan drug designations. The first two mean that the FDA believes the drug is likely to provide a significant advantage over current therapy. This speeds approval. An orphan drug designation is intended to support the development of drugs for rare diseases, but it has been abused by a number of pharmaceutical companies because the status is lucrative.

BCV is neither a new nor unknown drug. It is a version of a drug used to treat certain patients with AIDS.

Smallpox is a deadly disease that kills about 30% of those infected and maims many of its victims. Smallpox also used to be a leading cause of blindness, Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD, senior scholar atJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, says. Natural smallpox was eliminated in the 1979, but both the United States and Russia (and perhaps other countries) have maintained stocks of the virus that could be used as bioterrorism.

Related to BCV's pre-approval studies, Gronvall says that "it was nice to see that some more naturally, relevant poxviruses were used as a standard instead" of using primates. The current studies used rabbitpox and mousepox (ectromelia virus) models, which have, she said, "a lot of relatedness to human smallpox" and are more like a natural infection.

The major defense against smallpox has been an old vaccine (ACAM2000) which has been stockpiled for emergency use. Routine administration of that vaccine was discontinued in the 1970s because it had so many side effects. There is a newer vaccine, modified vaccinia Ankara or MVA, which is less effective but safer.


That's one reason brincidofovir is important, Gronvall says. In the event of a smallpox attack, "if you are not able to give somebody a vaccine within a few days of exposure, they're not going to benefit from the vaccine. So, having a treatment is important."

Gronvall concluded: "It's another success for BARDA that, with not as much resources [due to COVID-19], they were able ... to get this approved. That should be something we think about more in the future, especially with new advances in vaccine technologies and how that could be applied to some of the bioterrorism agents."

In biodefense labs, she added, "There are populations of people who actually do work with some of these agents and some of these vaccines would be very helpful for them. And so maybe I'm hopeful that ... BARDA can take this up."
Considering the US' involvement in bioweapon research, and the well founded suspicions that the coronavirus actually escaped from its Fort Detrick's lab, as well as Bill Gates' & co's use of the current manufactured crisis to roll out the WEF's agenda of the 'Great Reset', one could be forgiven for thinking that any outbreak of smallpox will be equally leveraged for the benefit of the establishment and its nefarious schemes: That said, it's worth bearing in mind that, whilst the establishment like to think that they're on par with God, there are other, greater, forces at work on our planet, and it's thought that the plague outbreaks that cyclically seem to strike our planet, amidst periods of upheaval - much like our planet today - actually have a cosmic origin: Also check out SOTT radio's:




Pirates

Best of the Web: The latest offensive & defensive developments in the US' hybrid war on Ethiopia

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Everything has suddenly intensified in Ethiopia due to the strategically timed convergence of the various components connected to the US' Hybrid War against that country.

Military Offensives

Ethiopia is facing an unprecedented Hybrid War onslaught comprised of military, political, economic, and information components which requires a comprehensive strategy for countering. Everyone is bracing for a large-scale battle sometime in the coming future due to the Tigray People's Liberation Front's (TPLF) advance towards the capital of Addis Ababa over the past few days and the federal government's subsequent promulgation of a state of emergency. This terrorist-designated group is tacitly supported by the US through indirect means via the provisioning of material assistance to it through corrupt UN forces and Washington's equating of the TPLF with the internationally recognized Ethiopian government on the political front. This backing emboldened them to invade the neighboring Afar and Amhara Regions over the summer following the military's withdrawal from the Tigray Region that was carried out in support of the government's unilateral ceasefire declaration at the time, continue committing war crimes with scant international criticism, and thus threaten the very existence of the Ethiopian state.

Comment: Images from a mass rally against TPLF in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today:





Judging by the mainstream media reports and commentary coming out of the Western establishment, it is indeed looking like regime change efforts are afoot: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'




Eye 1

Best of the Web: WaPo provides 'eyebrow-raising details' surrounding Jan. 6th pipe bomb scare

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Several storylines related to the events of January 6 have crumbled under closer scrutiny over the past 10 months: the "fire extinguisher" murder of Officer Brian Sicknick; the notion it was an "armed" insurrection and a grand "conspiracy" concocted by right-wing militias; claims that the building sustained $30 million in damages, and so on.

In the meantime, the Biden regime has attempted to cover up key aspects of that day, including the name of the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, which was only recently revealed. Justice Department lawyers continue to resist the release of 14,000 hours of surveillance video and the U.S. Capitol Police refuse to publish an 800-page internal investigation on officer misconduct as well as internal communications before and after the Capitol breach.

But a deep dive by the Washington Post, published last weekend, raises new questions about the alleged "pipe bombs" discovered just before Congress met on January 6 to certify the results of the 2020 Electoral College vote. Like so many supporting scenes, the veracity of the pipe bomb tale is in doubt after the Post revealed eyebrow-raising details about those involved.

Stock Up

Best of the Web: 'Unprecedented shock': Bank of England 'very sorry' as cost of living soars

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The Bank of England governor has said he is "very sorry" that UK inflation is rising amid forecasts the cost of living could reach as much as 5%.


Comment: That's the 'official' rate. In real terms, it's at around 30%.


Andrew Bailey told the BBC that households were already feeling the impact of rising prices.

"I'm very sorry that's happening," he said. "None of us want to see that happen."

On Thursday, the Bank surprised financial markets by voting to keep the interest rate unchanged.

Comment: Then what bleeding use are you?

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?




Stop

Best of the Web: Federal court freezes Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses as 27 (TWENTY-SEVEN!) states file lawsuits

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© AP/Susan WalshUS President Joe Biden
A US federal appeals court has issued a stay on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers, freezing the requirement over constitutional concerns.

Biden's mandate says companies with 100 or more employees must require their workers to either get the Covid-19 vaccine or be tested weekly. Numerous Republican states and companies, such as conservative outlet Daily Wire, have already presented legal challenges to Biden's controversial mandate before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stepped in.

The court put a hold on the mandate on Saturday before its January deadline over "grave statutory and constitutional concerns."


Comment: Perhaps resistance is not futile.

The courts had to respond because more than half of US states are challenging the Feds' vaxx mandate, citing government overreach.