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Best of the Web: The CIA's plan to poison Assange wasn't needed. The US found a 'lawful' way to disappear him

Jonathan Cook
.jonathan-cook.net
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:48 UTC
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© The InterceptJulian Assange
A Yahoo News' investigation reveals that, through much of 2017, the CIA weighed up whether to use wholly extrajudicial means to deal with the supposed threat posed by Julian Assange and his whistleblowers' platform Wikileaks. The agency plotted either to kidnap or assassinate him.

Shocking as the revelations are - exposing the entirely lawless approach of the main US intelligence agency - the Yahoo investigation nonetheless tends to obscure rather than shine a light on the bigger picture.

Assange has not been deprived of his freedom for more than a decade because of an unimplemented rogue operation by the CIA. Rather, he has been held in various forms of captivity - disappeared - through the collaborations of various national governments and their intelligence agencies, aided by legal systems and the media, that have systematically violated his rights and legal due process.

Comment: The Grayzone's Aaron Mate interviews one of the Yahoo News reporters who broke the story, Michael Isikoff.

What is so strange about the whole situation, is that Isikoff was also one of the champions of the Russian Hacking/Collusion fairytale. Why he is now breaking a story that is at least marginally favorable to Assange's case?
The story builds on previous disclosures including a May 2020 exposé by The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, which revealed that the CIA was working with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and the Spanish security firm UC Global to target and surveil Assange in London's Ecuadorian embassy.

Isikoff and Aaron Maté also debate Russia's role in the Assange controversy, particularly the allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails in 2016 and gave them to Wikileaks.

Some vintage Isikoff: Bonus material: Assad destroys US reporter Michael Isikoff in interview

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Best of the Web: Lockdowns cause largest cargo delivery backlog EVER - inflation, unemployment and food shortages expected to worsen

Alex Hammer
Daily Mail
Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:01 UTC
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The traffic-jams at ports on the California and Atlantic coasts have reached alarming heights in the past 18 months, and the buildup of cargo along the coasts is hindering the US' supply-chain system of railways and trucking routes
Dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of Los Angeles and New York face shocking wait times of up to four weeks and railyards and trucking routes are hopelessly clogged due to the lack of manpower to unload goods - with an expert warning that the government needs to intervene or face spiraling inflation and unemployment.

The backlog of billions of dollars of toys, clothing, electronics, vehicles, and furniture comes as the demand for consumer goods hit its highest point in history as consumers stay home instead of spending money on travel and entertainment.

Supply chains have lagged far behind consumer demand due to a lack of manpower at American ports and the restrictions that came with the COVID-19 outbreak early last year. These constraints, which include social distancing and mandatory quarantines, have severely limited the number and ability of port workers to do their jobs.


Comment: Initially the media blamed the shortages and backlogs on a sudden 'lack of workers' - '100,000 lorry drivers', '15,000 butchers' - however, as we can see above, there are a number of factors converging, and government lockdowns are almost solely to blame. Lockdowns have meant that for about 18 months ports (like hospitals) are still working at restricted capacity. Meanwhile the lifting of some restrictions has resulted in increased demand, plus there's a backlog to clear out, which is also causing further disruption along the line, and, finally, because of all that, more workers than usual are needed.

However, there does appear to be some truth to the claim that lockdowns have also had an impact on the availability of employees, because furlough, layoffs, home working, unemployment benefits, and so on, has resulted in a significant reduction in the number workers available: Where Did All The People Go?


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



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Best of the Web: UK farmers face cull of 150,000 pigs after lockdown creates backlog of 'disastrous' proportions

James Gant
Daily Mail
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: The Yorkshire stockman, who has not been named, took the drastic measure because they were not killing the animals fast enough
Farmers face having to shoot dead hundreds of thousands of pigs because staff shortages at abattoirs have left too many packed in sheds on farms.

The National Farmers' Union warned as many as 150,000 animals are under threat of being culled in the next ten days.

It said a shortage of butchers means farmers are having to 'throw pigs in a skip' because they cannot be slaughtered and carved.

Nick Allen, from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), told the BBC that abattoirs are unable to process pigs at the usual rate because of a shortage of workers.

This means live animals are mounting up on farms and some farmers were 'quietly starting to cull.'

Comment: For more on the issue, check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?



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Flashback Best of the Web: When will we realize Bill Gates is dangerously insane?

Jeff Crouere
The Hayride
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:16 UTC
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Bill Gates
This isn't an overreaction to Gates' latest foray into the news cycle. It's an observation based on a long pattern of statements and behavior by the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men who has ever lived which, were any of us normal people guilty of them, would result in our being institutionalized.

Bill Gates is crazy. And he's dangerous, because he's willing to put untold sums of money toward making the insane things he believes a reality - and all of those insane things hurt people.

The most recent idiocy? Impossible Burgers for all the white people.

Comment: There is no end to Gates meddling. But is he just a (possibly unwitting) frontman for larger forces?

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Best of the Web: The Spartacus covid letter that's going viral


The Spartacus Letter
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:55 UTC
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Comment: On September 24, 2021, an anonymous group published the following document about COVID-19 which was shared on Twitter by Dr. Robert Malone and is now doing the rounds on social media. It outlines complete disease function, treatment (and mistreatment), and goes on to show how the subsequent handling of the outbreak is not just criminal but a criminal conspiracy of enormous magnitude.


This document has since been scrubbed from the original source but can now be found here:

It has since been updated with additional references (over 500 citations now) and presents a fairly good compendium which one could use a springboard into further research. Below is the letter:


The Spartacus Letter - Rev. 2 (2021-09-28) | Spartacus

Hello,

My name is Spartacus, and I've had enough.

We have been forced to watch America and the Free World spin into inexorable decline due to a biowarfare attack. We, along with countless others, have been victimized and gaslit by propaganda and psychological warfare operations being conducted by an unelected, unaccountable Elite against the American people and our allies.

Our mental and physical health have suffered immensely over the course of the past year and a half. We have felt the sting of isolation, lockdown, masking, quarantines, and other completely nonsensical acts of healthcare theater that have done absolutely nothing to protect the health or wellbeing of the public from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, we are watching the medical establishment inject literal poison into millions of our fellow Americans without so much as a fight.

We have been told that we will be fired and denied our livelihoods if we refuse to vaccinate. This was the last straw.

We have spent thousands of hours analyzing leaked footage from Wuhan, scientific papers from primary sources, as well as the paper trails left by the medical establishment.
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Best of the Web: If YouTube's block of RT's German channels is about 'misinformation', when will MSNBC & CNN be banned for Russiagate conspiracies?

Glenn Diesen
RT
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:46 UTC
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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic; (inset) RT DE
Russia is locked into yet another standoff with an American tech company. This time, it's YouTube, which has taken down two of RT's German-language news channels and provoked a furious response from Moscow's most senior officials.

The decision, understood to have been taken over allegations the broadcaster tried to circumvent a 'community standards strike' handed down over 'medical misinformation', has seen Russia's regulators rally round RT DE and its sister account, Der Fehlende Part.

Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal executive agency responsible for overseeing the media, warned Google it would be fined if did not end the suspension. At the same time, RT's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, cautioned that this was "a declaration of media war against Russia by Germany," and argued in favour of retaliatory restrictions against German media in Russia.

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: Biden Build Back Better Bill: $700,000 fines for companies that don't mandate vaccines included in $3.5trillion 'reconciliation' package

David Averre
Daily Mail
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 23:24 UTC
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The Biden administration has included a vaccine enforcement mechanism in the $3.5 trillion, 2,465-page 'Build Back Better Bill' which will enable the government to enforce fines on employers whose employees do not get the vaccine.

The mechanism, buried on page 168 of the Democrats' 'reconciliation' spending bill, will allow a tenfold increase in fines for businesses with 100 or more employees that 'wilfully and repeatedly,' violate a section of labor law that deals with workplace hazards, of which Covid-19 is now a part.

The increased fines on employers could go as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for wilful or repeated violations - a sum which can be applied to each instance of a violation rather than a total limit.

If enacted into law, the fines could rapidly bankrupt companies whose employees are not vaccinated, in effect forcing businesses to comply with Biden's inoculation drive.

It comes after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an emergency Covid-19 rule in the Federal Register this summer, which added Covid-19 to a list of possible workplace hazards for healthcare employment.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not yet announced when the House will vote on the reconciliation bill that includes the new vaccine enforcement mechanism.
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Best of the Web: God's work? Francis Vatican to mandate vaccines for employees

Brie Stimson
Yahoo! News
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:11 UTC
Pope Francis wearing a face mask
© REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/FilePope Francis wearing a face mask attends an inter-religious prayer service in Rome, Italy, Oct. 20, 2020.
The Vatican will begin requiring employees to get vaccinated or submit to regular coronavirus testing starting this Friday, the city-state announced Tuesday, according to reports.

There is no exemption at the moment and those without proof of vaccination or a negative test will be considered "unjustly absent" and won't be paid, the Washington Post reported.

Pope Francis was vaccinated in January and has advocated for Roman Catholics to get it, calling it a "moral duty."

Comment: Francis again shows his NWO creds.

The man is an abomination.



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Best of the Web: Megacomet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade, here's why

Meghan Bartels
Space.com
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:40 UTC
Bernardinelli-Bernstein
© Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli & G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab)/M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)/J. Miller (NSF’s NOIRLab)An image taken by the Dark Energy Survey shows Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein in October 2017.
The scientists that found Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein are an unlikely pair.

Even Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein admit they're an unlikely pair of scientists to end up with a record-breaking comet named in their honor.

Scientists briefly estimated that Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, as it's now known, was the largest such icy body identified to date, perhaps more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) across. Additional observations have cast that into doubt, but given the "megacomet" a new distinction: it sprouted a tail remarkably far from the sun, suggesting more revelations to come. All told, the object offers astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to watch the antics of a comet.


Comment: The reason the comet's corona and tail has surprised scientists is because the mainstream paradigm doesn't account for the electrical activity involved in the formation of its corona and tail. In Pierre Lescaudron's book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection he summarises it as follows:
The fundamental difference between asteroids and comets is not their chemical composition, i.e. dirty, fluffy icy comets vs. rocky asteroids. Rather, as has long been put forward by plasma theorists, what differentiates 'comets' from 'asteroids' is their electric activity.

When the electric potential difference between an asteroid and the surrounding plasma is not too high, the asteroid exhibits a dark discharge mode1 or no discharge at all. But when the potential difference is high enough, the asteroid switches to a glowing discharge mode.2 At this point the asteroid is a comet. From this perspective, a comet is simply a glowing asteroid and an asteroid is a non-glowing comet. Thus the very same body can, successively, be a comet, then an asteroid, then a comet, etc., depending on variation in the ambient electric field it is subjected to.3
2) An intense circulation of ions and electrons occurs between the asteroid and the surrounding space. The energy provided by this intense transfer 'excites' electrons which generate photons, hence the glow of the asteroid. See: Meichsner, J. Nonthermal Plasma Chemistry and Physics, p.117


Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Best of the Web: 30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 06:46 UTC
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We get a lot of e-mails and private messages along these lines "do you have a source for X?" or "can you point me to mask studies?" or "I know I saw a graph for mortality, but I can't find it anymore". And we understand, it's been a long 18 months, and there are so many statistics and numbers to try and keep straight in your head.

So, to deal with all these requests, we decided to make a bullet-pointed and sourced list for all the key points. A one-stop-shop.

Here are key facts and sources about the alleged "pandemic", that will help you get a grasp on what has happened to the world since January 2020, and help you enlighten any of your friends who might be still trapped in the New Normal fog (click links to skip):

"Covid deaths" - Lockdowns - PCR Tests - "asymptomatic infection" - Ventilators - Masks - Vaccines - Deception & Foreknowledge

Part I: "Covid deaths" & mortality

1. The survival rate of "Covid" is over 99%. Government medical experts went out of their way to underline, from the beginning of the pandemic, that the vast majority of the population are not in any danger from Covid.


Almost all studies on the infection-fatality ratio (IFR) of Covid have returned results between 0.04% and 0.5%. Meaning Covid's survival rate is at least 99.5%.

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