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Best of the Web: Israel's ultra-orthodox threaten to 'go abroad' if drafted, Sephardic Chief rejects conscription for Haredim

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
© Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.
The army says it needs additional manpower to prosecute the genocide in Gaza and drafting religious students is necessary

Speaking on 9 March, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared that Haredi (ultra-orthodox) religious students must not be drafted "under any circumstances, no matter what" and that if they are forcibly enlisted, the Haredim would "go abroad."

"Without the Torah, without the kollels, without the yeshivas, the army will have no success," he declared.

Comment: For such an allegedly patriotic and eschatologically enthusiastic people, Israeli officials, citizens, and settlers, have been rather quick to abandon ship:


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Best of the Web: Earth's interactions with Mars may drive deep-sea circulation, 'surprising' new study suggests

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© The University of SydneyLead author Dr. Adriana Dutkiewicz from the EarthByte Group in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming patterns and the speeding up of deep ocean circulation.

They discovered a surprising 2.4-million-year cycle where deep currents wax and wane, which in turn is linked to periods of increased solar energy and a warmer climate.

The study, published in Nature Communications, tackles the questions of how geological-timescale climate change affects ocean circulation and how this could help scientists model future climate outcomes. The researchers sought to find whether ocean-bottom currents become more vigorous or more sluggish in a warmer climate.

Comment: And so the scientists admit that these processes could have a significant impact on our climate; aren't they essentially admitting that the (readily debunked) models much touted by global warmists are missing a significant piece of data?

Could it be that it's not Mars that's impacting the deep-ocean dynamics and, instead, it's that both Mars and the Earth are being impacted by the same, greater force? Such as the influence of the Sun?

Either way, it's a timely, and fascinating, finding: Also check out SOTT radio's:





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Best of the Web: Boeing whistleblower found dead in carpark ahead of legal deposition against corporation's corrupt practices

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© John BarnettJohn Barnett was a former quality control manager at Boeing.
A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm's production standards has been found dead in the US.

John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

Comment: While the controversy around Boeing's lax production standards is being spun as a diversity issue, it seems there's little in Barnett's complaints about diversity-hires being the root of the problem. It more appears that the age-old issue of penny-pinching and corner-cutting.

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Best of the Web: Why the US is trying to imprison Assange: Report from inside the Court

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© Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by A. MakkiThe prospect of the United States- a foreign government- imposing its laws on British soil to snatch a foreign journalist should scare anyone who is serious about press freedoms
Richard Medhurst is a British journalist who has covered Julian Assange's extradition case from inside the court since 2020. In this article, he explains what took place in the latest hearings, why the United States is trying to extradite the WikiLeaks founder, and why everyone should care.

Julian Assange is an Australian journalist in the United Kingdom, and the founder of WikiLeaks. He published documents that were given to him by a US soldier called Chelsea Manning, which showed US war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and much more.

The United States want to extradite Assange from the UK to America, and put him on trial for publishing these classified documents. They are threatening him with 175 years in prison.

The reason this case is so serious is because it essentially makes journalism illegal.

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Best of the Web: Malaysian PM slams West's hypocrisy over Israel's 'murderous rampage'

Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
© Getty Images / Annice Lyn / StringerPrime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has accused Western leaders of selectively applying international law when they condemn Russia's military operation in Ukraine but don't stand up for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war.

Addressing the Australian National University in Canberra on Thursday, Anwar said that, for six decades, the West has given "carte blanche" to Israel to continue its "murderous rampage on the Palestinians."

"Unfortunately, the gut-wrenching tragedy that continues to unfold in the Gaza Strip has laid bare the self-serving nature of much valued, the much-vaunted rules-based order," the PM argued.

The differing and inconsistent responses by the West towards the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza conflicts "defied reasoning," he stressed. It was a "fool's errand" to believe that other countries, including in the Indo-Pacific, would not notice inconsistencies in the application of international law.

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Best of the Web: Europe is wargaming a food crisis - Bloomberg

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© Centre for Systems SolutionsSlides of fictitious events from simulation videos shown to officials, food security experts and industry representatives at the 'Food Alert' event in Brussels on Feb. 1. A group of people came together last month to tackle the worst-case scenario for one of the best-fed regions in the world.
The combined forces of El Niño and La Niña have crippled Latin American soy output. Ukrainian and Russian grain farmers have gone to war. Indonesia has banned shipments of palm oil to Europe, while China is hungry for crops. The Mediterranean region is getting more like a desert.

The year is 2024. "Food shortage in Europe? The only question is when, but they don't listen," says an unidentified voice in a video broadcast. The audience sits quietly — listening.

The dramatic collision of events, of course, hasn't yet come to pass. But over two days in central Brussels last month, some 60 European Union and government officials, food security experts, industry representatives and a few journalists gathered to confront the possibility of something barely on the radar a few years ago: a full-blown food crisis.

Comment: Bearing in mind that there is sufficient evidence that a food crisis is upon us, and officials from across the planet have been warning the public of its approach for at least the last few years. Furthermore, there's also reason to believe that factions within the establishment have been actively working to ensure that the crisis is particularly dire; recall the spike in fires and explosions at energy and food suppliers.

And so, taken together, as revealed in the wargame, it's not a question of 'if' it's going to happen, but when; and what follows threatens to be unfathomably dire for anyone not prepared:


Fireball

Best of the Web: 'Strange' connection between plagues and changes in Earth's atmosphere discovered

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© Thomas BauskaAir bubbles in Antarctic ice, akin to ice cores.
Scientists have discovered in Antarctic ice a strange link between past levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and centuries-long global pandemics, reminding us of just how easily humans - or the lack thereof - can shape planet Earth.

Bubbles of air encased in ancient ice are like teensy time capsules, trapping tiny samples of gases from atmospheres thousands or even millions of years ago.

The best records for the past 2,000 years come from just two ice cores that have greatly influenced modeling studies of climate and carbon cycles in the Common Era: the Law Dome, an Antarctic ice 'hill'; and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice cores.

Comment: It seems likely that the drivers of this 'feedback' are the solar cycle, as well as increased cometary and fireball activity, both of which have been shown to cause significant shifts to Earth's climate, and correlate with the deadliest outbreaks of plague; and which are of particular note in our own time, considering how we appear to be at a similar point on the cycle:


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Best of the Web: "Treason!" Bombshell report reveals Biden regime has secretly flown 320,000 illegals INTO the United States

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© UnknownMigrant flight in progress.
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote:
"The program at the center of the FOIA litigation is perhaps the most enigmatic and least-known of the Biden administration's uses of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app, even though it is responsible for almost invisibly importing by air 320,000 aliens with no legal right to enter the United States since it got underway in late 2022."
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had initially refused to disclose information about the flights, which use a cell phone app, CBP One, to arrange.

Bensman continues:
"Under these legally dubious parole programs, aliens who cannot legally enter the country use the CBP One app to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports. The parole program allows for two-year periods of legal status during which adults are eligible for work authorization."
The flights resulted in illegal immigrants being placed in at least 43 American cities from January through December 2023.

Yoda

Best of the Web: Vladimir Putin and Tucker Carlson: The Geopolitics of Dialogue

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© The Postil Magazine
Why is Tucker Carlson's interview momentous for both the West and Russia?

Let us start with the simpler part — Russia. Here, Tucker Carlson has become a focal point of convergence for two different — polar — segments of Russian society: the ideological patriots and the elite Westernizers who nevertheless remain loyal to Putin and the Special Military Operation (SMO). For the patriots, Tucker Carlson is simply ours. He is a traditionalist, a right-wing conservative, a staunch opponent of liberalism. This is what walking to the Russian Tsar looks like in the 21st century.

Putin does not often interact with the brightest representatives of the fundamentally conservative camp. And the attention that the Kremlin pays him kindles the heart of a patriot, inspiring him to continue the conservative-traditionalist course in Russia itself. Now it is possible and necessary to do so: the Russian authorities have decided on an ideology. We have taken this path and we will not turn away from it. But patriots are always afraid that we will turn back. No.

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Best of the Web: Supreme Court rules states can't kick Trump off the ballot

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The Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping win to former President Donald Trump by ruling that states cannot kick him off the ballot over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — bringing a swift end to a case with huge implications for the 2024 election.

In an unsigned ruling with no dissents, the court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court, which had determined that Trump could not serve again as president under Section 3 of the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

The provision prohibits those who previously held government positions but later "engaged in insurrection" from running for various offices.

The court said the Colorado Supreme Court had wrongly assumed that states can determine whether a presidential candidate or other candidate for federal office is ineligible.