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Best of the Web: Caitlin Johnstone: Nobody who gets Gaza wrong is worth listening to

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I saw a comment from an Israel defender saying "You just lack the intellect to comprehend the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!"

Just in the last few days we learned that Israeli snipers have been deliberately picking off children in Gaza by shooting them in the head, that Israeli troops summarily executed a prisoner in handcuffs after sending him into a hospital to deliver a message to evacuate, and that Egypt has begun constructing refugee camps in the Sinai Desert to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of Gazans.

"Complexities". This isn't complex.

Comment: Also, anyone who doesn't at least understand why the Houthis of Yemen are attacking American, British and Israeli shipping in the Red Sea, probably isn't worth listening to. Sure, it's destructive, but there's apparently no other way to apply counter-pressure to stop the genocide in Gaza.

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Best of the Web: UN says that allegations of Israeli rape of Palestinian women and girls in prisons must be investigated

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© UN Photo/Rick BajornasReem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was among the human rights experts who issued the statement.
Alleged rights violations against Palestinian women and girls in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank must be investigated, a group of experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Monday.

Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information they have received.

Killed while fleeing

Comment: Yet again, Israel has been accusing Hamas of crimes of which they are guilty of.

And, considering some of the sadistic and unfathomable imaginings Israel has concocted up in its propaganda against Hamas, one shudders to think of what other crimes against humanity Israel has committed, that it instead projected onto others, that has yet to come to light:





Snowflake Cold

Best of the Web: Temperatures plummet to all-time record lows in China's Xinjiang

Police officers help a car stuck in the snow in Fuyun county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China February 18, 2024.
Police officers help a car stuck in the snow in Fuyun county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China February 18, 2024.
Temperatures broke a 64-year-old record in China's far western region of Xinjiang, plunging to a bone-chilling minus 52.3 degrees Celsius (minus 63.4 degrees Farenheit) amid a cold spell and traffic disruptions following the Lunar New Year holiday.

Several parts of China are battling another deep freeze as people return from week-long celebrations of the year's biggest holiday. Just before it started, blizzards and icy rain had stranded travellers on railways and roads.

State media said Sunday's milestone in the Tuerhong township of Fuyun county was the lowest since records began in Xinjiang, surpassing a temperature of minus 51.5 C (minus 60.7 F) set on Jan. 21, 1960.

The figure was just shy of the lowest national temperature of minus 53 C (minus 63.4 F) in Mohe, a city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang on Jan. 22 last year.


Comment: Two record cold winters in succession then. "Global boiling!"



Biohazard

Best of the Web: British NHS - Trans 'milk' as good as the real thing


Comment: Demented.


The makers of a drug used off-label to induce lactation in men warn it could adversely affect a baby's heart.
Breast Feeding

The drug-induced nipple secretions of trans women are as good as mothers' breast milk for babies, the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust claimed in a letter to campaigners made public in a report by British think tank the Policy Exchange on Sunday.

The healthcare trust's medical director, Rachel James, argued that the off-label prescription drug cocktail men transitioning to female take in order to produce milk was "similar to the natural hormones which encourage lactation to develop when the baby is newly born."

"The evidence which is available demonstrates that the milk is comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby," James wrote in the letter, sent to Children of Transitioners last August.

Biological men who wish to lactate must first take hormones to grow milk glands and then take high doses of either domperidone or metoclopramide to stimulate milk production. Neither drug is approved for this use, though they are occasionally prescribed off-label to biological women who have trouble lactating.

Comment:
apocalypse now sheen



Propaganda

Best of the Web: In blow to Trump, judge disallows potentially damning text messages about Fani Willis-Nathan Wade affair as evidence


Comment: This particular development might be a 'blow to Trump', but he need not fear the overall direction this showtrial is taking: The Fulton County DA is self-owning her own case against him...


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© Associated PressDistrict Attorney Fani Willis launches into one of several tirades during her trial.
Potentially damning text messages detailing when Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' affair with Nathan Wade began won't be considered by a judge when he rules on whether the top prosecutor should be thrown off the Trump election fraud case — in a blow to former president's case.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Friday text messages between Wade's former divorce attorney Terrence Bradley and another defense lawyer couldn't be admitted as evidence because Bradley spilled information that was covered under attorney-client privilege.

Ashleigh Merchant — representing Trump co-defendant Mike Roman who's been spearheading the effort to oust Willis from the case — tried to bring her texts with Bradley into evidence as he testified Friday.

Comment: Clips from the clown show:






Explosion

Best of the Web: New York Times: Israel behind attacks on Iranian gas pipelines


Comment: Cyber-attacks, industrial sabotage, assassinations and outright terrorist attacks against civilians, Israel has committed them all against Iran, dozens of times each, over the years. The rationale for it is 'national security', which essentially amounts to preventing Iran from developing economically and becoming a strong regional power. The same reason the US blew up the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines...


Gas pipeline sabotage in Iran
Israel conducted clandestine strikes against two key natural gas pipelines in Iran this week, marking an escalation in the years-long standoff between the two states, the New York Times has reported.

"Israel has long targeted military and nuclear sites inside Iran," but this week's attacks on the energy infrastructure "marked an escalation in the covert war and appeared to open a new frontier," the NYT wrote, citing Western officials.

The newspaper's anonymous sources also attributed a separate incident to Israeli sabotage - an explosion that rocked a chemical factory on the outskirts of Tehran on Thursday, which local officials ruled an accident.

The two gas pipelines run for more than 1,000 kilometers and carry around 2 billion cubic feet (57 million cubic meters). The blasts temporarily took out around a sixth of Iran's daily natural gas production, causing local outages.


Comment: The attack occurred in the middle of winter in Iran, so the sabotage could potentially have severe consequences for millions of Iranians.


Comment: So Israel within a few months committed acts of war against, Syria, Lebanon and Iran on top of the genocide against the Palestinian population. Does Israel have a death wish or are they getting desperate as if time is of essence in all this?

At the same time, the US has bombed Yemen, Syria and Iraq while providing all the bombs for Israel's genocidal war. Does anyone really believe they are interested in peace?

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Best of the Web: Over a Million Palestinians Are About to be Forced Into Egypt at Gunpoint

Palestinians Are About to be Forced Into Egypt
It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples.... If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us.... The only solution is a Land of Israel...without Arabs. There is no room here for compromises... Yosef Weitz (1890-1972) former director of the Jewish National Fund's Land Settlement Department
The IDF's recent airstrikes on civilian areas in Rafah mark the beginning of the final phase of Israel's massive ethnic cleansing project. On Monday, Israel bombed a number of locations where Palestinian refugees were huddled in tents after fleeing Israel's onslaught in the North. Videos of the destruction appeared on a number of Twitter-sites which showed a deeply-cratered wasteland in the middle of makeshift encampments. Not surprisingly, women and children made up the bulk of the casualties with no evidence of Hamas to be found anywhere. According to a witness at the site, body parts and carnage were strewn across the landscape. This is from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:

Biohazard

Best of the Web: Big Pharma tested 'secret bioweapon targeting Slavic DNA in Mariupol, Ukraine', video tour shows biowarfare laboratory

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© AFP 2023 / ANDREY BORODULINMariupol, Ukraine
It is no surprise the city of Mariupol became the destination of choice for Big Pharma's tests on psychiatric ward patients as such testing is forbidden in Western countries, experts told Sputnik.

Major Western pharmaceutical companies tested rheumatological drugs on patients, including infants, in a psychiatric ward of a hospital in the city of Mariupol alongside Ukrainian officials for several years, according to documents obtained by Sputnik.

The tests were carried out when Mariupol was under Kiev's jurisdiction - until May 2022, when Russia seized control of the city.

Comment: RT reports:
RT tours secretive former Ukrainian medical research lab

The Russian city of Mariupol was a testbed for large-scale medical research on local civilians while under Ukrainian rule, a trove of recently discovered documents suggests.

RT's Steve Sweeney visited a disused psychiatric ward in the city, which has been undergoing rapid reconstruction after being incorporated into Russia following a referendum in late 2022.

In December of last year, a construction team made a shocking discovery at the disused ward, finding documents as well as medication and medical equipment related to secretive research conducted while the city was part of Ukraine.

The experiments took place for years in at least eight medical facilities across Mariupol, with leading Western biotech corporations allegedly benefiting from them, according to the documents.

"We've found documents that suggested thousands of people have been involved in the experiments, with the trials carried out for major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, and others. Blood and other samples were collected and then sent to labs and clinics in Europe and the US for testing. The results of which are unknown," Sweeny explained.

The research was not only conducted on adults, but also on children and babies, the documents suggest. As well as being ethically questionable, the experiments on minors likely made the clinical trials illegal, a Russian doctor told RT on condition of anonymity.


While it's difficult to track all the participants of the experiments, witnesses are now coming forward with their testimonies about the research. A local man whose mother took part in the trials claimed the research was not safe.

"My mother got sick, they gave her drugs. I asked her what medication she was taking, but she did not give me a clear answer. She said that the drugs were simply given from a white box. Her condition worsened over the course of a month and then she died," the man told Sweeney.
Note that Putin sounded the alarm back in 2017 that genetic data of Slav's was being harvested, and in 2023 China called for an investigation into the known plans that the US was developing a bioweapon intended to target those with particular genetics.

In light of this, and amidst the contrived coronavirus crisis - with Covid itself being a bioweapon - Russia announced it would construct 14 biosafety facilities on its borders.

Furthermore, this exposè comes alongside reports that Ukraine is now the organ harvesting, child trafficking, and surrogacy, capital of the world: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

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Mail

Best of the Web: Mail-in ballot fraud study finds Trump 'almost certainly' won in 2020

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© unknownVoter ballots by mail
A new study examining the likely impact that fraudulent mail-in ballots had in the 2020 election concludes that the outcome would "almost certainly" have been different without the massive expansion of voting by mail.

The Heartland Institute study tried to gauge the probable impact that fraudulent mail-in ballots cast for both then-candidate Joe Biden and his opponent, President Donald Trump, would have had on the overall 2020 election results.

The study was based on data obtained from a Heartland/Rasmussen survey in December that revealed that roughly one in five mail-in voters admitted to potentially fraudulent actions in the presidential election.

After the researchers carried out additional analyses of the data, they concluded that mail-in ballot fraud "significantly" impacted the 2020 presidential election.

They also found that, absent the huge expansion of mail-in ballots during the pandemic, which was often done without legislative approval, President Trump would most likely have won. The report's authors wrote:
"Had the 2020 election been conducted like every national election has been over the past two centuries, wherein the vast majority of voters cast ballots in-person rather than by mail, Donald Trump would have almost certainly been re-elected."
Over 43 percent of 2020 votes were cast by mail, the highest percentage in U.S. history.

Comment: The current election protocol requires critical examination and crucial changes to the vote and verification process. As that will most surely fail, requirements will change: Want to vote? Get chipped.


Cruise Missle

Best of the Web: A tale of two breadline massacres

Ukraine shells bakery Lysyschansk
© Associated PressRussia says Ukrainian shelling of bakery in Lysyschansk on February 4, 2024, killed at least 28
The collective West has displayed a hypocrisy breath-taking in scope as it shamelessly and publicly adheres to double standards motivated entirely by utilitarian considerations and political favouritism.

All breadline massacres are equal, Orwell might have written, whilst adding that some breadline massacres are more equal than others. Such a thought comes to mind after February 4, 2024, when a Ukrainian armed forces projectile killed 28 residents in the city of Lysychansk, Lugansk region, and wounded several dozen. The civilian victims were standing in line in front of a local bakery, intending to buy bread.

Those with a memory that goes back longer than fifteen minutes (unfortunately neither the majority nor even a significant minority nowadays) may recall that a similar incident took place in Sarajevo, during the war in Bosnia, on May 27, 1992. The victims of that incident were also waiting in line to buy bread when a projectile landed nearby and killed several dozen of them.