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Best of the Web: Pfizer's business model is actual fascism

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The corporate media and their Antifa footsoldiers bandy about the term "fascism" quite freely. Somehow, through magnificent logic-pretzel contortions, they claim that resistance to government mandates to inject yourself with experimental drugs is not resistance to fascism, but fascism itself.

Truly, they have a wondrous capacity to invert reality.

But, for all the revisionism, fascism as a governing ideology actually means something very specific.

Progenitor of the ideology, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, infamously defined fascism - or, alternatively, corporatism — as the "merger of corporate and state power."

Let's examine true 21st-century techno-fascism, and how it works in the real world:

Snowflake Cold

Best of the Web: Arctic blast sweeps through US north-east with record-breaking temperatures

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© Joseph PreziosoSteam rises from Boston Harbor as temperatures reach -7F (-14C) in Massachusetts, on 4 February.
An Arctic blast has swept through numerous parts of the north-east, leaving millions of people under wind chill warnings and cities and states issuing emergency warnings.

Record-breaking temperatures will be 10 to 30 degrees below average over parts of the north-east and into the coastal mid-Atlantic, the National Weather Service announced on Saturday, with wind gusts potentially reaching up to 40 to 55mph (64 to 88km/h).

The wind chills from the blast have the potential to be once-in-a-generation cold, the agency added.

The cold, which is expected to last throughout the weekend, has prompted officials across multiple states to issue emergency orders and warnings that urge residents to remain indoors.


Arrow Down

Best of the Web: Lose-Lose

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"The White House has taken the entire West in such a direction and speed of triumphalism, arrogance and 'egregious' imbecility that there is no going back or reversal possible without a total defeat of the official narrative and the consequent eternal shame." — Hugo Dionisio
The New York Times — indicted this week as a chronic purveyor of untruths by no less than their supposed ally, The Columbia Journalism Review — is lying to you again this morning.
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This whopper is an artful diversion from the reality on-the-ground that Ukraine is just about finished in this tragic and idiotic conflict staged by the geniuses behind their play-thing President 'Joe Biden'. By the way, it's not a coincidence that Ukraine and 'JB' are going down at the same time. The two organisms are symbionts: a matched pair of mutual parasites feeding off each other, swapping each other's toxic exudations, and growing delirious on their glide path to a late winter crash.

Black Magic

Best of the Web: The twisted logic behind the terror: Ukraine continuously shells civilian areas in Donetsk City

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Rockets have hit peaceful neighborhoods once again. Why does Kiev continue its policy, if not purely out of hate?

At least ten rockets hit central areas of Donetsk on Saturday morning, damaging three residential buildings, a local Russian official has reported in his Telegram channel.

One of the projectiles fired by Ukrainian forces hit an apartment building in the Kievsky district. While rescuers continue to search for survivors under the rubble, preliminary information suggests that there were three people in one of the apartments.

There was no information on casualties at the time of writing, but the absence of victims would be unusual; indeed, Ukrainian shelling of the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic intensified weeks before the Russian attack in February 2022, and has taken a heavy toll ever since.

Comment: It's a safe bet that there is strategy to their actions. But the Ukies are largely just rage-machines, the 'orcs' they project onto Russians. The real strategists with 'cooler heads' are their American and British NATO and intelligence commanders discretely directing operations.


Snowflake

Best of the Web: Snow turns Australian Alps into winter wonderland in the middle of summer

Up to 5cm of snow fell at Perisher and Thredbo.
© Valhalla PerisherUp to 5cm of snow fell at Perisher and Thredbo.
Parts of Victoria and New South Wales have shivered through the morning with snow falling in alpine areas while their northern counterparts in Queensland continue to endure a heatwave.

The overnight wintry blast left a light dusting of snow across the Victorian Alps including at Mount Hotham.

Chamber of Commerce president Steve Belli said while it was an incredible sight, it was not too unusual for snow to fall in February.

"[The weather] is a little bit unpredictable these days. You never know what's going to happen ... but it's Mother Nature, you've just got to work in with it," he said.


Snowflake Cold

Best of the Web: Endless winter? Quebec groundhog 'Fred la marmotte' found dead hours before traditional winter prediction


Comment: Sign of the Times?! Has Canada entered the coming Ice Age?!


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© CBCRIP 'Fred la marmotte', who was found dead overnight Thursday, hours before he was set to make his prediction about spring's arrival
Quebec's beloved groundhog, Fred la Marmotte, died just before he could predict when winter will end at a Canadian city's Groundhog Day celebration, according to multiple reports.

A crowd of spectators gathered Thursday morning for the event in Val-d'Espoir, Quebec, when the organizer of the event, Roberto Blondin, came out to announce Fred's death, local outlet Global News reported.

"This year, things are going to happen completely differently. There's a famous saying that goes, 'In life, there's only one certainty: nothing's for certain,'" Blondin told the crowd, as reported by the CBC. "Well, this year, that has come true. It's true. It's unfortunate. I'm here to announce Fred's death."

Blondin said that when he went to wake Fred last night, the groundhog had no vital signs.

Comment: If the goundhog sees his shadow, it's 6 more weeks of winter. If the groundhog doesn't see his shadow, it's winter's end.

So if the groundhog is found dead on Groundhog Day... what does that mean??!

We're in completely new territory here people!


Bullseye

Best of the Web: How the "unvaccinated" got it right

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Scott Adams is the creator of the famous cartoon strip, Dilbert. It is a strip whose brilliance derives from close observation and understanding of human behavior. Some time ago, Scott turned those skills to commenting insightfully and with notable intellectual humility on the politics and culture of our country.

Like many other commentators, and based on his own analysis of evidence available to him, he opted to take the Covid "vaccine."

Recently, however, he posted a video on the topic that has been circulating on social media. It was a mea culpa in which he declared, "The unvaccinated were the winners," and, to his great credit, "I want to find out how so many of [my viewers] got the right answer about the "vaccine" and I didn't."

"Winners" was perhaps a little tongue-in-cheek: he seemingly means that the "unvaccinated" do not have to worry about the long-term consequences of having the "vaccine" in their bodies since enough data concerning the lack of safety of the "vaccines" have now appeared to demonstrate that, on the balance of risks, the choice not to be "vaccinated" has been vindicated for individuals without comorbidities.

What follows is a personal response to Scott, which explains how consideration of the information that was available at the time led one person - me - to decline the "vaccine." It is not meant to imply that all who accepted the "vaccine" made the wrong decision or, indeed, that everyone who declined it did so for good reasons.

Comment: The evidence has been out there since the beginning despite their attempts to censure. Unfortunately, the ability to critically think through a situation is rare nowadays.


Health

Best of the Web: Cochrane study shows that the debate is over: Masks do NOT work

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Executive summary

The new Cochrane Review on Masks proves beyond doubt that the misinformation spreaders were right and the ENTIRE mainstream medical community is now discredited (except for UCSF Professor Vinay Prasad who spoke out about masks).

So now we are down to just one credible mainstream scientist for advice on COVID mitigation strategies: Vinay Prasad.

Comment: See also:


Putin

Best of the Web: This Time It Is Different

Neither we nor our allies are prepared to fight all-out war with Russia, regionally or globally
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Until it decided to confront Moscow with an existential military threat in Ukraine, Washington confined the use of American military power to conflicts that Americans could afford to lose, wars with weak opponents in the developing world from Saigon to Baghdad that did not present an existential threat to U.S. forces or American territory. This time — a proxy war with Russia — is different.

Contrary to early Beltway hopes and expectations, Russia neither collapsed internally nor capitulated to the collective West's demands for regime change in Moscow. Washington underestimated Russia's societal cohesion, its latent military potential, and its relative immunity to Western economic sanctions.

As a result, Washington's proxy war against Russia is failing. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was unusually candid about the situation in Ukraine when he told the allies in Germany at Ramstein Air Base on January 20:
"We have a window of opportunity here, between now and the spring. That's not a long time."

Eggs Fried

Best of the Web: US egg shortage: Chicken keepers reporting their hens have stopped laying eggs, and the feed might be the reason

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What exactly is causing the egg shortage? Many people are reporting that there are issues with the commercial chicken feed, speculating that it has even prevented their hens from laying eggs.

The rising egg prices in America have affected millions of homes. The cost of eggs in California has risen 550% in the last month, going from roughly $1.34 a dozen to $7.37. The state blamed it on an outbreak of bird flu, but others are not so convinced. In fact, several people have come out to say that their chickens did not produce eggs for months - until they changed their feed.

One man (@urbanchickenfarmer) uploaded a video on TikTok and theorized that something must be wrong with the feed. "Something is wrong with the chicken food we're buying, seriously," he said. "My chickens have not laid an egg since July, and nothing's changed. Then I was thinking, maybe it's because my chickens getting older, or maybe it's a bad winter. But, according to a lot of people on TikTok, they're having the same exact problem. And people are saying once they switched the food, their chickens are starting to lay again."